989 Studios Offers Free Weekend of Online Gaming for Hit Online Game Tanarus.FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1998--989 Studios, a Sony Computer Entertainment Group Company, announced today that the company is offering a free weekend of online gaming See gaming. access to the hit PC game Tanarus, a futuristic, multiplayer, online tank combat game. Currently located on The Station@sony.com and on Microsoft's(R) Internet Gaming Zone (www.zone.com), Tanarus provides an entirely new online gaming experience. Full access to Tanarus will now be available to consumers free of charge from 12:00 p.m. (PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ) on Friday, October 16th to 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Sunday, October 18th. Consumers can download the shareware version of Tanarus at no cost from www.Tanarus.com. "Offering a free weekend of Tanarus is a two-fold proposition," said Jefferey Fox, vice president marketing, 989 Studios. "First it is our way of saying `thank you' to the online gamers who have made Tanarus one of the most popular online combat games and second, the Tanarus free weekend provides an opportunity for the casual and novice gamer to experience action-packed, Internet-based mutliplayer gaming at no cost." Tanarus pits up to 10,000 players from around the world against each other on a virtual battlefield A virtual battlefield is the digital simulation of a war, generally accomplished by the combination of differing simulators into a digital environment. Each soldier, or vehicle in the environment is controlled by a human being. . To survive, online gamers must develop strategies that permit tank commanders to set up offensive and defensive positions, and organize strikes without using artificial intelligence. Fighting in ever-changing, dynamic battlefields ranging from post-apocalyptic cities to industrial wastelands, players can choose from five futuristic tanks, with more than 30 different weapons and modules. In addition, Tanarus gameplay is enhanced through a simultaneous chat feature on The Station@sony.com. A CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). version of Tanarus, which is used in conjunction with online play, is available online at The Station Store and at retail outlets, with a manufacturers suggested priced of $19.95. The CD-ROM adds three bonus features that enhance online gameplay: a city editor, which offers players the ability to create and submit original cityscapes; a single player training mode; and CD quality music by multimedia musician The FatMan. At retail, consumers will also receive one free month of online gameplay with purchase of the CD-ROM. The Tanarus subscription rate is $9.95 a month. System requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. for Tanarus include: Windows 95; Pentium 120 or greater (recommended); 1 MB Video RAM Also called "VRAM," it is the type of memory used in a display adapter. Video RAM is designed with dual ports so that it can simultaneously refresh the screen while text and images are drawn in memory. It is faster than the common DRAM or SDRAM chips used as main memory in the computer. ; 16 MB RAM; 30MB of free hard drive space; 32-bit Internet connection; and DirectX 5.0. 989 Studios, a Sony Computer Entertainment Group Company, is a wholly-owned division of Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. and the third-largest PlayStation(R) software publisher in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Headquartered in Foster City, California
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