Black Isle Studios Announces Add-On for Worldwide Hit, ``Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast'' Expansion Hosts All New Adventures.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999--Black Isle Studios(TM), the role-playing game (RPG (Report Program Generator) One of the first program generators designed for business reports, introduced in 1964 by IBM. In 1970, RPG II added enhancements that made it a mainstay programming language for business applications on IBM's System/3x midrange computers. ) division of Interplay Entertainment Corp. (Nasdaq: IPLY) Tuesday announced the plan to release an add-on adventure pack for their worldwide hit, Baldur's Gate(TM). Titled "Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast"(TM), the add-on expands the gameplay area by offering new quests and challenges to the main game. "Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast" will be available on 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). for Windows(R) 95/98 computers this spring, and gamers will need the original "Baldur's Gate" in order to play. Named Game of the Year by Imagine Games Network and Role-Playing Game of the Year by both GameSpot and Vault Network, "Baldur's Gate" has been the no. 1 selling PC game in many countries, including France, Germany and the United Kingdom since its release in late December 1998. Developed by the Canada-based software company, BioWare Corp.(TM), "Baldur's Gate" is an epic role-playing game that utilizes TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) Refers to a program that remains in memory when the user exits it in order that it be immediately available at the press of a hotkey. (R)'s Advanced Dungeons & Dragons(R) Second Edition Rules set. It is available on five CDs which feature an enormous game world filled with nearly 10,000 unique pre-rendered scrolling screens and herald over 100 hours of gameplay. "Tales of the Sword Coast" takes the player through additional areas filled with intriguing new characters, items and quests. A large island beckons just off the Sword Coast region of the Forgotten Realms(R), where "Baldur's Gate" is set. The player's band of adventurers must reach the island, explore it and attempt to unravel its secrets before yet another evil is unleashed upon the Sword Coast. Another adventure takes place in and around Durlag's Tower, the decrepit keep whose traps, illusions and denizens have thwarted adventurers for centuries. Tricks, traps and possibly treasure await those who survive. Black Isle Studios Black Isle Studios was a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment, created specifically for the development of computer role-playing games. It was based in Orange County, California, USA. is a division of Interplay Entertainment Corp., a leading developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment software for both core gamers and the mass market. Interplay currently balances its development efforts by publishing for personal computers and current generation video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. . Interplay, a proud member of the IDSA IDSA Infectious Diseases Society of America IDSA Industrial Designers Society of America IDSA Interactive Digital Software Association IDSA Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (India) IDSA International Dark Sky Association and Consumer Product Council, releases products through Interplay, Shiny Entertainment, Tantrum tan·trum n. A fit of bad temper. tantrum, n a sudden outburst or violent display of rage, frustration, and bad temper, usually occurring in a maladjusted child or immature or disturbed adult. , Black Isle Studios, Interplay Sports, Flat Cat, its affiliated labels and its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. Interplay OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. 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Important factors that may cause such a difference for Interplay include, but are not limited to, sell-through of product, risks of delays in development and introduction of new products, dependence on new product and add-on disk introductions which achieve significant market acceptance and the uncertainties of consumer preferences, dependence on third party software developers for a significant portion of new products, risks of rapid technological change and platform change, intense competition, seasonality, risks of product defects, risks of product returns or unfulfilled pre-sales, risks that pre-sales or sales immediately after release do not reflect actual or prolonged consumer appeal, dependence upon licenses from third parties, risks associated with future capital requirements, dependence upon third party distribution, dependence upon key personnel and risks associated with international business, intellectual property disputes and other factors discussed in the company's filings from time to time with the Securities Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 as amended (Registration Number 333-48473) and Final Prospectus dated June 19, 1998 and the company's subsequent quarterly filings on Form 10Q. 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