AT&T WorldNet Service Launches GameHub, Online Gaming At Great Prices.BASKING RIDGE, NJ--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 1998-- AT&T WorldNet Service Teams With MPG-Net to Bring High-Speed Fun and Games to the Web AT&T WorldNet(R) Service, the nation's largest direct Internet access See how to access the Internet. service, today launched GameHub, an online community that features the industry's most popular games and offers Web users a place to meet and compete in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . The new premium gaming service, available exclusively to AT&T WorldNet Service members at a discount price, features a high-speed, dedicated connection from the AT&T WorldNet Service backbone directly to the action-packed GameHub community. MPG-Net, the developer and publisher of award-winning Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , online and PC games, created GameHub to provide subscribers of AT&T WorldNet Service with easy access to a high-speed, value-added gaming environment. It can be reached at www.gamehub.net. Subscribers to AT&T WorldNet Service can get to GameHub's premium content for the low monthly price of $4.95 -- a 50% savings off GameHub's standard price. GameHub is available to non-AT&T WorldNet Service subscribers at $9.95 a month. Additionally, some GameHub content - including popular games such as Drakkar, Empire Builder This train inspired the popular Empire Builder board game and computer version. Empire Builder was also a nickname for James J. Hill The Empire Builder is a passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Northwestern United States. , Operation Market Garden, Bingo and others - will be available free of charge to all AT&T WorldNet Service members. "With GameHub, AT&T and MPG-Net are offering a full spectrum of games and services, ranging from exciting action adventures to persistent games that let people play in an ongoing, multi-player environment," said Michael Chaplo, vice president of marketing for AT&T WorldNet Service. "Now, AT&T WorldNet Service customers can experience a reliable high-speed backbone that meets the needs of today's most demanding online gamers." The GameHub Service has many features important to today's community-oriented users. It includes a player matching capability that will eventually integrate a player ranking system, and features character-creation tools that enable users to visually define who they are within the GameHub universe. Popular games are available in every category; Adventure: Drakkar II; Real-time strategy A real-time strategy (RTS) video game is one that is distinctly not turn-based. The phrase real-time is used to distinguish such games within the broader genre of strategic wargames, which has a longer history both inside and outside of video gaming. games: Total Annihilation Total Annihilation (abbr. TA) is a futuristic RTS (real-time strategy) PC game, created by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment and released on September 30, 1997<ref name="Gamespot Total Annihilation" /> by GT Interactive. ; and fast-action shooting games: Unreal and Forsaken for·sake tr.v. for·sook , for·sak·en , for·sak·ing, for·sakes 1. To give up (something formerly held dear); renounce: forsook liquor. 2. . GameHub also features an IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. allowing use of most IPX LAN-based games, support for DirectPlay gaming, chat rooms, forums, and shopping areas that will feature software and other game-oriented items. Additional board, card and children's games will be added to GameHub on an on-going basis. GameHub provides users with T45 speed via a direct connection over the AT&T WorldNet Service network backbone to GameHub. This offers a reliable, fast connection that is superior to the slower process created with multiple connections to a series of switching stations. "This state-of-the-art service is made available at an extremely competitive monthly rate," added Chaplo. "We realize that online gamers want high-speed and high quality at a price that's right, and these are the key ingredients of GameHub." GameHub is powered by Internet Content Network System (ICONS), a robust graphical interface See GUI. and client server system developed by MPG-Net, Inc., a leader in online multi-player gaming. The ICONS infrastructure includes game development, management, and launch software, as well as all the back-office functionality required to enter the billion dollar online games industry. AT&T WorldNet Service (www.att.net) is the largest direct Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. in the U.S., serving more than 1.3 million subscribers. It provides reliable, easy Internet access with 452 local dial-up points-of-presence across the nation, and offers each subscriber a free, 5-megabyte personal Web page. AT&T WorldNet Service enables subscribers to consolidate their Internet access, AT&T Long Distance and AT&T Wireless charges on a single bill, and offers them a special 9 cents a minute rate for calls dialed from home, at no monthly fee, with AT&T One Rate(R) Online. AT&T WorldNet and AT&T One Rate are registered service marks of AT&T. |
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