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Sony Online Entertainment Unveils Latest Video Games at 2003 E3 Tuesday, May 13 2003
Sony Online Entertainment Inc. (SOE), a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online gaming, introduced several new video games and provided details on soon-to-be-released titles during the 2003 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The new games announced include Lords of EverQuest(tm), a real-time strategy (RTS) game for the PC and EverQuest(r) Online Adventures: Frontiers(tm), an expansion for North America's only massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the PlayStation(r)2 computer entertainment system. Additionally, SOE provided new information for upcoming titles PlanetSide, the first massively multiplayer action game set in a persistent world and EverQuest II, the parallel universe to the original EverQuest PC MMO role-playing game (RPG).
"The coming year is going to be huge for us," said John Smedley, president, Sony Online Entertainment. "The launch of PlanetSide is happening within days of E3 and the reactions to the game during Beta have been incredibly strong. EverQuest II will be happening later this year, with a whole new universe for both those new to MMOGs and hardcore EQ fans to explore. We're also taking the EQ brand in new directions, both on the PlayStation 2 and on the PC." Sony Online Entertainment is located at Booth 846 in the South Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center during E3 from May 14-16.
A brief synopsis of each title follows:
PlanetSide
Release: May 19, 2003 Platform: PC Genre: MMO Action Game
PlanetSide(tm) will make history when it launches on May 19, as the world's first massively multiplayer online first-person action game. The groundbreaking game will allow hundreds of thousands of players to fight online in an all-hours-of-the-day massive war. Characters gain experience with every conflict, and can become one of the best in more than 30 combat specialties, including infantry, sniper, stealth commando, engineer, hacker, medic, pilot, driver and more. The company also announced that it will partner with Team Sound to add squad-based voice chat functionality to PlanetSide, further enhancing the experience of fighting together with your squad and growing as a team.
EverQuest II
Release: Winter 2003 Platform: PC Genre: MMORPG
Scheduled to launch in Winter 2003, EverQuest II is a parallel online universe to the hugely successful gaming phenomenon EverQuest. Featuring breathtaking graphics and a vast, beautiful game world to explore, EverQuest II sets new standards in graphical realism as players are immersed in the game's powerful epic storyline with thousands of players online. Not only will current EQ fans enjoy the new game, but players new to both the world of Norrath and MMO games will find the game much easier to navigate and play. Based 500 years after EverQuest, EverQuest II is a new and different game experience in a changed world marred by a fantastic life changing event. Players enter this world by creating their own unique character from 16 races and 48 classes and using a powerful facial customization system for unprecedented player individuality.
Lords of EverQuest
Release: Fall '03 Platform: PC Genre: Real-Time Strategy
(RTS)
Lords of EverQuest is the next-generation of real-time strategy game. Inspired by the lore of the online gaming phenomenon EverQuest, Lords of EverQuest features an enthralling storyline drawing you into the world of Norrath to change the fate of the world. Take command of one of 15 Lords from the dawn of Norrath and lead an army against your enemies in a race to claim a lost artifact. featuring three different unique factions with which to do battle, and a beautiful game world filled with reathtaking environments, you are able to command more than a hundred troops comprised of Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Fiends and even Dragons! After the story is over, the game has just begun as players take the game online and play via SOE's upcoming matchmaking service.
EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers
Release: Fall '03 Platform: PlayStation(r)2 Genre:
MMORPG
EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers expands the rich, vibrant fantasy world of Norrath with uncharted territories to explore, new items and spells to acquire, fierce creatures to battle, and a new playable race, ogres. The game also adds graphically enhanced player models and armor, allowing for greater character customization than ever before. Using the Network Adaptor for the PlayStation 2, EverQuest Online Adventures: Frontiers connects seamlessly via modem or broadband to the Internet, directing players to dedicated EverQuest Online Adventures servers. Gamers simply insert the disc and the adventures of Tunaria are just a few button pushes away.
EverQuest: Evolution
Release: Fall '03 Platform: PC Genre: MMORPG
EverQuest: Evolution is the perfect starting point for players new to the world of EverQuest. This boxed collection gathers everything a gamer needs to enter the world of Norrath in a single package. The original EverQuest and the first five expansions, The Ruins of Kunark, The Scars of Velious, The Shadows of Luclin, The Planes of Power, and The Legacy of Ykesha, are gathered together, along with two maps of the various continents.
Source: Sony Online Entertainment
TextMaker for Linux/Windows Now Shipping Tuesday, May 13 2003
Imagine Microsoft porting Microsoft Office to Linux. Imagine installing Microsoft Word on your Pocket PC or your Handheld PC.
Nice dream... only thing is, this is not going to happen. Microsoft Office is tied to Microsoft Windows and will remain so. Furthermore, it is too large and bloated for small portable devices, and this will not change either.
There are other word processors and office suites for Linux, but they are either too slow and bulky and complicated to use or do not provide an adequate feature set or acceptable import and export filters for Microsoft Word's .DOC files.
SoftMaker, a German software manufacturer that has been developing office productivity software since 1987, is bent on changing the status quo in the office suite market. It is starting with word processing, with the remaining office suite components following soon.
TextMaker, SoftMaker's flagship word processor, has just been released in two new versions: TextMaker for Linux and TextMaker for Windows, complementing the already available versions of TextMaker for Pocket PCs and Handheld PCs.
The major design goals for TextMaker were: Make it fast and compact. Make it easy-to-use. And make it Microsoft Word-compatible.
The result: TextMaker for Linux and Windows. A multi-platform word processor that launches lightning-fast, needs little memory and has the rich feature set of a modern high-end word processor. A word processor that reads and writes Microsoft Word 6/95/97/2000/XP files seamlessly.
TextMaker for Linux and TextMaker for Linux retail for US$49.95 (EUR 49.95) each; a Windows and Linux combo pack is available for US$69.95 (EUR 69.95).
TextMaker is the first component of SoftMaker Office anywhere, an office suite for Windows, Linux, and Windows CE which also includes a Microsoft Excel-compatible spreadsheet, a database package, and a PIM/groupware combo. SoftMaker Office anywhere will be available in "regular" desktop and mobile editions as well as an ASP-style edition running over the LAN or Internet.
For additional information visit: www.softmaker.com
or contact: info@softmaker.de
Phone +49-911-936 386 0
Fax +49-911-30 37 96
Source: SoftMaker
Greenlight Wireless Corporation Announces Release of Skweezer Monday, May 5 2003
Greenlight Wireless Corporation today announced the release of Skweezer™, a service that allows PDA and SmartPhone users to dynamically reformat large-screen web content for use on their small-screen displays.
Web content optimized with Skweezer is intelligently “stacked”, so that side-to-side scrolling is greatly reduced or altogether eliminated, making web pages easier to view and navigate. “Skweezed” pages also have a substantially reduced file size, which translates into faster page-loading speeds and lower “per-kilobit” wireless data service charges.
Skweezer allows users to choose between three different “View Modes” while browsing the Internet, including a Text-only Mode that drastically improves both speed and value, while maintaining the essential content of the visited site. Skweezer is bundled with smartMail™, an integrated mobile e-mail solution that provides easy and efficient management of POP3 mail accounts. Skweezer incorporates 128-bit browsing security, doesn’t require installation or hard-drive space, and works on any handheld device that can load a standard web page regardless of platform or operating system. For more information about Skweezer and its features, please visit www.greenlightwireless.net/services/skweezer.asp.
Skweezer is available for purchase online at www.greenlightwireless.net/signup for the special introductory rate of US$9.99 for one year of service, which includes a no-obligation 30-day trial period. A Skweezer demo is also available on the Greenlight Wireless web site at www.greenlightwireless.net/demo.
Source: Greenlight Wireless
Red Mercury Declares Share Your Addiction Month Monday, May 5 2003
The developers of the most addicting Palm OS software invite you to Share Your Addiction or start a new one with Red Mercury’s AcidSolitaire, AcidFreecell, Atom Smash and AcidImage.
To kick off Share Your Addiction Month, Red Mercury is offering a 15% discount on all its products (http://www.red-mercury.com) Share your favorite Red Mercury software with friends and family or buy something new for you – everyone receives 15% off. Act fast, this special offer ends May 7th.
Red Mercury started making handheld games to help people kill time waiting in lines, traveling or whenever they have a few minutes to spare. Now Red Mercury addicts can't put their games down! People are missing their train, forgetting meetings and ignoring their spouse.
Red Mercury created Share Your Addiction Month to help customers admit they are addicted and get them to share their addiction with friends and family.
During Share Your Addiction Month, customers can earn points towards free Red Mercury products with every purchase they inspire. Promotion details are available here: http://www.red-mercury.com/promotion0503.html
All Red Mercury software, including AcidSolitaire, AcidFreecell, Atom Smash and AcidImage, is free to try. Demos are available at: http://www.red-mercury.com.
Source: Red Mercury, LLC
UTrackSys.com, LLC released Weight Tracking Plug-in for Universal Tracking System Monday, May 5 2003
UTS Weight for Palm OS helps you track body weight and BMI (Body Mass Index). It offers various weight loss/gain plans, interactive charts, reports, and abilities to export data to UTS database and to MS Excel through UTS conduit.
Details: http://www.utracksys.com/plugins/weight/
Screenshot: http://www.utracksys.com/img/wt_screen_a.gif
How UTS Weight differs from other weight trackers?
UTS Weight offers you an outstanding set of features to track your weight change:
- Several types of weight loss/gain plan.
- Ability to set the goal weight and BMI.
- New unique interface to enter weight readings with
two taps of stylus.
- Shoe and clothes weight specification.
- Notes for entered values.
- Importance marks for the readings.
- Colored records for weight loss and gain.
- Body Mass Index (BMI) calculation.
- Interactive charts: Diagrams and Histograms.
- Summarized reports with Min, Max and Averages.
- Export to the Universal Tracking System.
- Windows conduit to export your data to desktop PC
into MS Excel.
To lose or to gain the weight you must carefully track and monitor your weight readings. UTS Weight for Palm OS is a powerful tool to help you keep tracks of your body weight and BMI easily, accurately, and effectively.
A free trial copy of UTS Weight 1.0 is available at http://www.utracksys.com/download/getfile.php?product=utswt
Source: UTrackSys.com, LLC
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