Harvey Entertainment Company has inked a deal with San Francisco-based
Spunky Productions, Inc., a digital media company, to produce and
distribute Richie Rich Web cartoons. The new toons will be available on
both SpunkyTown.com and the Harvey site. Spunky will adapt early comic book
adventures of the world's richest kid into 2 - 5 minute episodes to start
airing during the holiday season. Product tie-ins will be developed by both
companies to be sold on both of their Web sites. Dan March, Director of New

"Spike & Mike" fest organizers, Mellow Manor Prods. has teamed up with
Netcaster IFilm to bring its twisted toon vault exclusively to Cyberspace.
The two year deal will allow Net surfers the chances to see animation
shorts only previously showcased at the "Spike & Mike's Classic Festival of
Animation" and "Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation."
BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD-creator Mike Judge, SOUTH PARK's Trey Parker and Matt
Stone, TOY STORY's John Lasseter, and the NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS'

The Downtown Athletic Club (DAC), presenters of the Heisman Memorial Trophy
for the year's outstanding U.S. college American football player, have
contracted with Lemon Custard Comics, the San Francisco-based computer
animation production house, to produce a Flash-animated comic strip for the
Web to tell the story of the trophy and football in general. The first
installment, "The John W. Heisman Story," will run simultaneously on
HeismanMemorialTrophy.com and LemonCustard.com. DAC plans to use the Web to

Shockwave.com has announced that they have signed Trey Parker and Matt
Stone, the creators of SOUTH PARK, to concoct 39 new works. The new shows
will first air on shockwave.com beginning in March. Stone and Parker's new
disfunctional toons will range from 2 to 5 minutes and could be one-off
shorts or pieces of an on-going series. In the L.A. Times on December 8,
1999, Stone was quoted as saying that "the real allure of [the deal] is
that we get to create another TV series but on a much smaller scale. We

Sega Dreamcast, the most advanced videogame system to date, has gone platinum.
Sega of America, Inc. announced that the 128-bit, Internet-ready videogame
system has sold one million units in North America since its launch on
September
9, 1999. This milestone came six weeks ahead of corporate predictions and
before
the after-Thanksgiving holiday shopping frenzy. The platinum mark for
Dreamcast has broken sales records by other high-profile consumer and
electronic products.

The Reed Midem Organization, organizers of Milia 2000, have entered into a
far-reaching agreement with the Interactive Software Federation of Europe
(ISFE)
-- who include members from interactive industry organizations like AISI in
Italy, ELSPA in the UK, NVPI in the Netherlands, SELL in France and VUD in
Germany -- to co-produce the Interactive Entertainment and Online Games
conference for the THINK.TANK Summit. THINK.TANK will be a new two-day
conference and networking event for the interactive content industry held in

AtomFilms, a pioneer in next-generation media, has added Bill Plympton to
their animation roster. The newly created Pymptonia fan site will be run by

TheThreshold.com, a leading on-line entertainment network for branded
entertainment, has announced the premiere of its newest show, POKEMON MUST BE
DESTROYED. Daily, the series will feature a new POKEMON character being
destroyed in a delightfully merciless way. Web-surfers and haters of the
"pocket things" will be able to vote on the next day's method of destruction. After the
complete genocide of the little creatures, the network shall remain open should
anything else need to be permanently eliminated. TheThreshold.com

Iwerks Entertainment, Inc., an international leader in location-based
entertainment attractions, and Stan Lee Media, Inc., comic book icon Stan
Lee's Internet entertainment company, are making Web history by molding the first
theme park and specialty attraction experiences for the out-of-home market,
based on Stan Lee's Internet entertainment material. Lee's Web-based super
heroes will be brought to ride simulations, 3D/4D FX attractions and large
screen venues by Iwerks. Lee, in the first quarter of 2000, will launch his

Watch for Hidden Evil Trekers! Activision, Inc. will beam Captain Picard
and crew into stores the week of November 22, 1999 with their new release
STAR TREK: HIDDEN EVIL. The new game takes place nine months after the
feature film STAR TREK: INSURRECTION, featuring story driven missions that
warp players into an adventure of combat, stealth and exploration. As
Ensign Sovok, a young officer serving on board the Enterprise, game-players
will battle the Romulans to save the Ba'ku planet.