Animation World
Magazine, Issue 3.4, July 1998
Internet & Interactive
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| Reader Rabbit's Kindergarten. © The Learning Company. |
Quick Bytes. The
Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the world's largest event dedicated
to showcasing interactive entertainment and educational software and related
products, took place May 28-30 at the Georgia World Congress Center in
Atlanta, Georgia. Exihibitors included Microsoft and Sega
who gave a sneak peek at their collaborative new gaming console called
Dreamcast, slated for release in Japan in November, and in the rest of
the world in 1999. Microsoft and Sega have been developing this product
for nearly two years. It will utilize a version of the Windows operating
system, and will include a modem for networked gaming and Internet access.
. . . DIC Entertainment has signed an agreement to represent The
Learning Company's educational CD-Rom game character, Reader Rabbit,
for worldwide television, video and licensing. DIC will immediately begin
developing the property for domestic and international television programmers
and the direct-to-video market. . . . Electronic Arts announced
and is showing off its slate of upcoming 1998 games for various platforms,
including Small Soldiers, based on the upcoming DreamWorks film
of the same name which includes computer animation by ILM. . . . Meanwhile,
on the internet, Bristol, U.K.-based animation studio Fictitious Egg
and director Andy Wyatt have launched a Shockwave-viewable animated series
called Tommy Sausage at www.eggtoons.com. Warning: this is an adult
cartoon!. . . . Macromedia's Shockrave game site is featuring a new animated
game by Ezone Corporation called Lenny Loosejocks Goes Walkabout
[www.ezone.com/lennyworld]. The game follows the title character through
the virtual town of Pullyapantsup, Australia. . . . Goblin Entertainment
has launched The Joe Psycho & Moo Frog Cartoon Show, an Internet
cartoon series viewed with Macromedia Flash [www.goblinstudios.com]. .
. . Marvel Interactive is using RealFlash to bring its comic characters
to life in a new series of Internet "radio-plays" called Marvel's
Excelsior Theatre. The web site [www.marvelzone.com] became subscription-based
($34.95 per year) on June 15. . . . The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
(C.B.L.D.F.) is hosting an on-line auction, featuring original art
by artists such as Frank Miller. . . . Comedy Central recently redesigned
its South Park web site [www.comedycentral.com/southpark/] to include
a new "Behind the Scenes" section featuring storyboard samples,
an episode guide and Q & A with the show's creators. . . .
More animation-related gaming news is featured in Joseph Szadkowski's E3 review in this issue
of Animation World Magazine.
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