On Monday a lawsuit was filed in federal court by 12 video game companies accusing four men of offering unauthorized copies of everything from Pac-Man to Donkey Kong over the Internet. The complaint seeks injunctions to shut down the Web sites run by Dasheill Ponce De Leon of Houston, John Sterling of Beaumont, Texas, Byron Beck of Monrovia, Calif., and Kuei Lin Lo of Amherst, Mass. The suit also seeks monetary damages that could reach $150,000 for each copyrighted work infringed. The men are accused of illegally distributing hundreds of digital entertainment products. Plaintiffs in the case seeking damages include Activision Inc., LucasArts, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Midway Amusement Games and Capcom Entertainment. Those companies allege that copies of their products are being given away by the defendants over the Internet. The defendants are accused of operating Web sites where computer file versions of games, commonly known as "warez and roms," are freely available. The Web site operated by Sterling proudly touts itself as "The Ultimate Sanity in Anarchy."
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The year 1941 was a time the world was in turmoil and chaos. The Master General was in rule of his master plan of destruction and world dominance. LippieSoft has taken the war and made it an action 3D suspense shoot em up thriller. Battle your way through intense scenarios as you destroy and seek out your enemies, and attempt to defend yourself to gain control of your missions quest. [Download: DemoNews]
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In the Forum Frag we take several of the most popular, insightful, and even the controversial threads and present them to you for easy digestion. Engaging topics this week include "What Is Your Favorite PC Game," discussions about "DAWN" and "ONI is... Crap?!" plus an amusing chat about "Life would be Great If I had all the money that I could want," and "What's at the end of the universe?"
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Flight combat sim fans everywhere are being offered the chance to get their first taste of the globally acclaimed title in development, IL-2 Sturmovik from BlueByte Software. After all of the hype, gamers can now sample the real thing and decide for themselves if this product is as good as the press has been claiming it is - across the board! 200 entrants will be chosen using their PC specs and an element of random chance, but people only stand a chance of succeeding if they head over to the IL-2 Sturmovik Beta Test Sign-Up page!
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id Software has released Quake III: Team Arena Map Pak 1, which is now available as a free download. Working together with id, some of the most talented mapmakers in the Quake community have created four team-style maps that have been polished and balanced for the Team Arena game modes. The pak, which weighs in at 15.8 meg, can be downloaded from: BluesNews, XGR, FilePlanet.
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Sentica, the global leader in wireless convergence, announced today it has signed an agreement with Electronic Arts to enable the delivery of mixed media content and notifications to wireless and wired devices of owners of its interactive entertainment software and registered members of the company's leading online gaming destination, EA.com. Under terms of the agreement, Sentica's signature wireless platform software, SenticaXchange, will be the communications software for Electronic Arts' Internet-based suspense thriller game, Majestic. In addition, Sentica's technology will allow Electronic Arts to send an array of mixed media through both wireless and wired devices to registered users of its interactive entertainment site, www.ea.com.
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Sammy Suricate is a 3D Jump and Run game. The hero 'Sammy' is a suricate and he has to make his way through the dangerous Lion-Land. As the name says, his main enemies are lions, but not just any lions! There are Rasta-lions, Rocker-lions and some more. Pretty dangerous folks... The object of the game is to collect a certain number of gems to leave the level, but of course there is more to explore. You have to find magic gems which open magic doors, you can use elevators to reach higher places, wasp weapons and more. [Download: DemoNews]
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