1m euro worth Of computer games consoles stolen

Greystones Garda reported yesterday that thieves have stolen
computer games and game consoles worth almost 1 million euro from a
warehouse owned by the Smyth’s
toystore chain. They have advised the public to be suspicious of anyone
offering low priced GameCubes, GameCube games and Playstation 2 games.

They include games like the GameCube versions of ‘Medal of Honour’,
‘Stronghold Crusader’ and ‘Lego Drum Racer’ and 2,500 copies of the PS2
versions of EA’s ‘007 Night Fire’ along with ‘TY The Tasmanian Tiger’,
‘LMA Manager’, ‘Spiderman The Movie Game’, Tony Hawk’ and Harry Potter
games.

If you have any information on the theft or have been offered under priced games you can contact Greystones Garda at 01-6665800.

Source: Irish Independent

Cian Ginty

Republic: The Revolution

Cian Ginty, GamesToaster.com
00.00 GMT, Sunday December 01, 2002

Republic:
The Revolution is set to be a revolutionary strategy game. Its
publishers Eidos Interactive boast that it has “the most advanced
graphic engine ever seen”.

The game is currently being developed by London based Elixir Studios and is due for release in autumn of this year.

The Republic in this game is a past Soviet Union country called
Novistrana. You are a small time faction leader starting with nothing
but a single loyal supporter and a tiny secret HQ. The aim is to build
a nation-wide faction and overthrow the government. In order to achieve
these aims you can persuade, hire, recruit, brainwash or blackmail
specialist characters from army generals to films stars to archbishops.

Eidos also boasts about using “Revolutionary AI techniques”
which will create individual citizens to live in the towns and cities
in Novistrana. The citizens will follow detailed daily routines,
working, shopping, voting etc, with each person having individual
beliefs, emotions, skills and loyalties. Eidos says, “This is a
thousand times more complex than anyone has ever achieved before or is
working on currently.”