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WHAT WAS NEW ON THE SITE

29.Dec Column #87; By Wes Whitaker
25.Dec Column #86; By Skorpion59
19.Dec German ToT Patch v1.1 posted
18.Dec Column #85; By Blackclove
12.Dec 4 new files in DB --- 336 total
11.Dec Column #84; By War4Ever
8.Dec Column #83; By Imran Siddiqui
6.Dec 58 new entries in the HOF!
4.Dec Column #82; By Toby Robison
1.Dec Column #81; By Markos Giannopoulos

4 NEW FILES FOR DOWNLOAD
(December 12, 1999) Sven Muencheberg, our forever zealous CivII File Database Manager, has added an additional 4 files now available for download. They are: Birdilization, Alternate Double Production 1+2, Units Sharpened, and last but not least Of Future Fears.

MICROPROSE DEAD? NOT EXACTLY
(December 9, 1999) Microprose is dead says GoneGold in one of today's news article. According to GG, an employee of Microprose has told them that the company is being shut down. As GG says "That's not like they absorbed the company and are going to publish everything under one label... they fired most of, if not all 2200 employees".

Still, GameSpot reports after a talk with Hasbro Interactive's (HI) director of public relations, Laura Tomasetti, that Hasbro is indeed closing down it's development studios in Alameda, Calif., Chapel Hill, NC and Chipping Sodbury in the UK. From the first two, a total of 95 employees are being fired. According to GameSpot, "Development of games at those studios will be moved over to HI's Hunt Valley, Md., studio.". Hasbro also confirmed that the Falcon series and other flight-simulation games are being stoped.

However, and that's a big "however" :), "Hasbro Interactive will maintain the MicroProse brand with its upcoming games, which include Civilization III, X-Com, Gunship, M1 Tank Platoon III, and other unannounced titles". So, no need for a red alarm...
By the way, John P posted on our forums that there are two X-Com games in the works. Thanks to Mike Casazza for the news tip on GG.

10 NEW MAPS
(December 9, 1999) Today was a "day of the maps" for our civ2 db manager, Sven. The following: Island World, Great Big River, Concentric, Great Seas, East and West, Squares, Landlocked, New Zealand, Nordic and Scandinavian Peninsula. If you're interested in numbers, we have reach 332 files in our database with a total of 71434 downloads. If you want to take part in the maintainance of one of the bigest file archives in the history of fan sites :) , mail Sven at svenm@apolyton.net

NEW PEOPLE AROUND
(December 8, 1999) Our call for a new HoF maintainer worked. reddawg is the new man, send him your saved games, show him what work really means! :) Check the instruction on our hof page first though. We would also like to welcome Adam M on the team, who will be doing html editing around the site. We hope they'll stay with us for a long time :) Finally, we might have some new faces in the civ2 db, we'll see...

APOLYTON HOF UPDATE
(December 6, 1999) Several.... months ago, we had our last Hall of Fame update. Well, Coug has come up with not a big, not a huge, but an Apolyton update :) From 36 entries, we now have 94! It takes sometime, but when we update.... :) So, do visit the HoF and compare your doings with others'. Beyond that, Coug feel like not seeing a civ2 saved game again for a long time so he will be doing other kind of things on Apolyton. This means that we need a new HoF maintainer, if you're interested mail us

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