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A screen shot from Disney Interactive's
Hades
Challenge. © The Walt Disney Company.
Quick Bytes. The Vrml Consortium announced that Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
has been adopted as an international standard by the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrochemical Organization
(IEC), which will promote content compatibility among developers producing
3-D content for the Internet. . . . CUC Interactive, parent company
of Sierra On-line, Knowledge Adventure, Davidson & Associates and Blizzard
Entertainment, has been renamed Cendant Software, a result of the
company's December, 1997 merger with HFS Incorporated. . . . Marvel
Interactive and Macsoft recently released X-Men: Ravages
of the Apocalypse, a Quake-inspired CD-Rom game for Macintosh
featuring characters from the "X-MEN" property, which is also
a comic and animated series. . . . . On February 3, Disney Interactive
released a new Windows/Mac hybrid CD-Rom game based on the animated feature,
Hercules. The film was also released on video on February 3. . .
. Software Sculptors will release a new Windows/Mac hybrid CD-Rom
game, Takeru: Letter of the Law on March 3, 1998. The game is based
on manga/anime characters by Buichi Terasawa.
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