DOOM-ONIC CONVERGENCE ON DEVIL'S NIGHT -- GT INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE SUMMONS TRIO OF TERROR! Unholy Horror Unleashed on Unsuspecting Microsoft Campus: GT Unveils DOOM II, The Ultimate DOOM & HEXEN For Windows 95."Judgment Day" Party, Evil holds the upper hand as through the portals of Hell come three new members of the Windows(R) 95 gaming coven cov·en n. An assembly of 13 witches. [Perhaps from Middle English covent, assembly, convent; see convent. : DOOM II, The Ultimate DOOM and HEXEN. In an evening demonically designed to celebrate this eerie unveiling, the unholy trinity of GT Interactive Software, id Software, and Microsoft Corp. have conjured a grotesque rock group called GWAR GWAR God What an Awful Racket (band) GWAR Gay Women Against Rape (common, but probably apocryphal name origin of the band) GWAR Generic Waste Acceptance Requirements , recruited blood-thirsty gamers from around the globe, and erected a fearsome haunted house A haunted house is defined as building that is believed to be a center for supernatural occurrences or paranormal phenomena.[1] A haunted house may contain ghosts, poltergeists, or even malevolent entities. . On "Judgment Day" this year, all shall be revealed. "It's a match made in...well, you know," said Allan Blum, GT Interactive Software's vice-president of marketing. "The look and play of these titles on Windows 95 take the game -- and the gamers -- to levels they have never imagined!" "It's now official. We are, literally, leading Microsoft down the highway to Hell," said Mike Wilson Mike Wilson could refer to the following people:
"The message is this: not only do these high-performance action games work with Windows 95, they work better," says Jason Robar, Microsoft's game technology evangelist Not to be confused with televangelist. A technical or technology evangelist is a person whose job or role is to promote technologies, usually new technologies. . "Gamers can rely on such features as enhanced resolution See interpolated resolution. , higher fidelity sound, easier networking, and an absence of installation or configuration problems." Among the unspeakable acts of depravity to grace Microsoft's "Judgment Day" Party will be Deathmatch T95, the bloodletting bloodletting, also called bleeding, practice of drawing blood from the body in the treatment of disease. General bloodletting consists of the abstraction of blood by incision into an artery (arteriotomy) or vein (venesection, or phlebotomy). culmination of two weeks of global competition involving DOOM II, Heretic and The Ultimate DOOM. The remaining top 25 gaming contenders have been flown to Redmond to bravely enter the final elimination round. The climax arrives at the stroke of midnight, when the last two survivors will face-off in a to-the-death battle on id Software and Raven Software's never-before-seen HEXEN - Beyond Heretic, the most immersive, real-world, combat-action game to date. HEXEN - Beyond Heretic stands on the new frontier of first person, 3-D action games. A quantum leap in realism, playability and interactivity, HEXEN is a spellbinding spell·bind tr.v. spell·bound , spell·bind·ing, spell·binds To hold under or as if under a spell; enchant or fascinate. [Back-formation from spellbound. , action-packed blast-fest allowing players to become one of three classes of heroes on a nightmarish quest to destroy the evil rulers who once controlled them. Of special note, id fans will be able to purchase special merchandise and titles available by typing "id stuff" at the MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. (R) prompt. "YYYYAAAARRRRRGGGHHH" explained Odorus Urungus, leader of GWAR, which roughly translates to, "We are extremely proud to have been asked to invade this elegant function. We are all great fans of DOOM and are looking forward to a splendidly splatterific time on `Judgment Day.' Thank you." More a performance troupe than just another heavy metal band, GWAR is notorious for its outrageous theatrics the·at·rics n. 1. (used with a sing. verb) The art of the theater. 2. (used with a pl. verb) Theatrical effects or mannerisms; histrionics. : hideous costumes (including a monstrous emcee and an obese Elvis); hacked-off body parts; a high-energy, parodic mix of metal, rock and pop music; and a particularly generous approach to stage blood and other fluids. Headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , GT Interactive Software is a leading global publisher of interactive entertainment, education and reference software titles. GT publishes its titles for IBM compatible and Macintosh computers as well as 32/64 bit gaming platforms. DOOM II, Mortal Kombat 3 and Just Me and My Dad are among GT's hottest titles. GT can be found on the World Wide Web, at www.gtinteractive.com. id Software, founded in 1991, is a software development company located in Mesquite, Texas. id's team of talented developers continue to make gaming history by creating and publishing one sensational action game after another. Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM, its sequel DOOM II and Heretic have created a frenzied demand worldwide and have managed to consistently break shareware and retail sales records at home and abroad. -0- All brands, products and service names mentioned are trademarks or registered service marks of their respective owners. Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. CONTACT: Audrey Mann, Laurie Rubenstein Technology Solutions, Inc./PR (212) 696-2000 or amann@tsipr.com |
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