shockwave.com, One Infinity and Madlab Creative have produced Why2k@large which uses Flash 4 animation and MP3 streaming audio technologies to present an animated, multimedia series focusing on the approach of the year 2000. Live interviews were collected on the streets of New York City, New Orleans and San Francisco featuring what the American public thinks about the approaching Millennium.

shockwave.com, a leading Internet entertainment site, announced new holiday additions to its award-winning site. The additions include new creative applications Toonmaker and Puzzlemaker; new festive greeting cards; and an improved Shockmachine experience. These free on-line gifts can be sent to friends and family. Toonmaker enables users to create personal cards and cartoons using well known characters such as the kids from South Park. Puzzlemaker allows users to turn their own photos into puzzles, add messages and then send them to friends.

Brazil's Justice Ministry has banned six video games it considers too

violent for the public. This ruling comes on the heals of last month's

deadly shooting rampage in a movie theater by a medical student. "The games

are considered violent and [are] affecting people who play them,

particularly children," a ministry spokeswoman said. "As for DUKE NUKEM,

the ministry regulation says its virtual world may have motivated Mateus da

Costa Meira to stage the cinema shooting on November 3 in Sao Paulo." All

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.

In deal between Midway Games Inc. and shockwave.com, the companies will
bring classic Midway arcade games to the Net. Using Shockmachine, a virtual
device, players will be able to download, save and play full-screen,
Shockwave versions of games like: Defender, Joust, Spy Hunter, Moon Patrol
and Marble Madness. The games will remain exclusively on shockwave.com for
three months then they will also be available on Midway's home site and
other major Web sites. The partnership will allow each company to link to

Eidos Interactive, an interactive software company, will release their hit
game, LEGACY OF KAIN: SOUL REAVER, for Sega Dreamcast. The game was
released for PlayStation and PC in August and has appeared on the cover of
every major U.S. electronic gaming industry magazine. "The ongoing success
and industry praise for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver coupled with the
impressive sales figures of Sega Dreamcast make this a great fit," said Rob
Dyer, President, Eidos Interactive. The action adventure game allows

Emerging from the jungles in January 2000, Activision, Inc., in collaboration with Disney Interactive, Inc.,
will release Disney's TARZAN for Nintendo 64. This release will coincide
with the video release of the Disney summer blockbuster. Players will be
able to surf the trees and swing from vines either as Tarzan, Jane, Terk or
Tantor. As you progress through 13-levels of game play, you can help save a
family of apes from the evil clutches of Sabor the leopard or Clayton the
hunter.

Disney Interactive, ESPN and
Konami have announced that they will produce a full line-up of ESPN sports
titles for video game consoles and personal computers. The multi-platform
sports brand will combine the full power of ESPN, a leading provider of
sports programming, ESPN Magazine and ESPN.com, with Konami's expertise in
technology and game development. Approximately 10 titles are expected to
launch in 2000. The first titles, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and NBA BASKETBALL,
both for Sega Dreamcast, and MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER on Sony PlayStation, will

Shockwave.com, owned and operated by
Macromedia Inc., and Stan Lee, Inc. have teamed up to bring Stan Lee's
first episodic Web animation series to life. Stan Lee, the genius behind
classic comic characters like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Incredible
Hulk, will create his new 5-minute "Web-isodes" using Macromedia Flash
technology. According to Lee this new venture will allow the whole world to
be part of his new creations without limitations. This exclusive deal
includes Macromedia, Inc.'s $5 million purchase of Stan Lee Media Inc.

Digital Leisure has released SPACE ACE DVD-ROM, the sequel to DRAGON'S
LAIR. As one of the first animated video games in history, Space Ace
features non-stop video entertainment. The evil Commander Borf has
kidnapped Ace's girlfriend, the beautiful Kimberly, and is plotting to
enslave the Earth using his dreaded "Infanto Ray," a weapon that changes
everyone it blasts into a helpless baby. Game enthusiasts can choose to
guide Ace, or his weak alter-ego Dexter, through Borf's strongholds to

Spumco (THE REN AND STIMPY SHOW, RANGER SMITH) has begun a serialized Web
Comic called GEORGE LIQUOR'S FISHING SHOW, based on comics first seen in
Spumco's COMIC BOOK, which was published initially by Marvel, then by Dark
Horse. The Web version is like a comic book that talks, so when you click
on the dialogue balloons, George hollers at you, and there are also many
hidden sound effects waiting to be found. A new page or two will be added
every weekday at www.spumco.com/entertainment/gfs/index.html.