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PR: Red Storm Entertainment and IBM Team on Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Mon Jun 16 22:57:28 1997
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Date: 16 Jun 1997 21:11:00 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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RED STORM ENTERTAINMENT AND IBM TEAM ON JAVA-BASED COLLABORATIVE GAMES
FOR THE INTERNET
Companies Cooperate to Enable New Levels of Response, Reliability
CARY, N.C., June 11, 1997 . . . Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. and IBM today
announced a technology development agreement that the companies expect will
enable significant breakthroughs in the performance of online gaming
applications over the Internet.
Under the terms of the agreement, Red Storm will use IBM Java**-based software
technology, code named InVerse, in the development of future collaborative
games for the Internet. Red Storm will help IBM evolve the InVerse technology
for use in Web applications that require large-scale, real-time collaboration.
The first Red Storm game to use this technology, Tom Clancy's POLITIKA, will
preview at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta June 19 -21 and is
planned to ship this fall. The InVerse technology is ideally suited to gaming
applications as it can host a variety of interactive, multi-user Web sites --
from simple chat rooms to elaborate virtual communities.
InVerse fosters collaboration over the Internet by providing a versatile
communications interface that can adapt to many styles of applications while
dynamically coping with the complexities of the Internet.
Doug Littlejohns, president and chief executive officer of Red Storm
Entertainment,said, "Red Storm's strategy is to develop products that raise
game-playing to a level never possible before, where literally thousands of
people anywhere can game-play together and build their own stories and
outcomes. We made a thorough search for the technology that would help Red
Storm achieve our ambitious goal of breaking the mold in online game-playing.
As a proven technology leader, IBM is an ideal partner to help us address
critical issues of Internet response time and reliability."
Richard Redpath, Red Storm project manager and senior architect for IBM, said,"
Red Storm is on the cutting-edge of developing products that enable fully
dependable, real-time, massive collaboration on the Internet. While this joint
project focuses on delivering a highly reliable, interactive solution for
online game-playing, the technology it uses is also well suited to support the
needs of banks, insurance companies, universities and other customers seeking
to deploy multi-user interactive applications on the Web."
About Red Storm Entertainment
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Red Storm Entertainment, based in Cary, North Carolina, was founded by
best-selling author Tom Clancy and Virtus Corporation, the leader in 3D
multimedia authoring tools, to create and market a new generation of
interactive computer games focused on the exploding online and CD-ROM-based,
multi-player gaming market. Red Storm will release its first games, Tom
Clancy's POLITIKA and Planet Texas, in Fall 1997 and early 1998, respectively.
The company will market and distribute its products through a combination of
partnerships, distributor relationships and via the Internet. For more
information, call Red Storm at (919) 460-1776 or visit the company's Web site,
http://www.redstorm.com.
About IBM
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IBM, the world's largest software company, creates, develops and manufactures
advanced information technology products and services, including computer
systems, software, networking systems, storage devices and microelectronics.
IBM has been a leader in the development of the Internet since this technology
began and is dedicated to helping customers and developers exploit the
potential of Java. For more information about IBM's Java efforts, visit the
Web site http://www.ibm.com/java.
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