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FIRAXIS` FOUR YEARS OF FUN CONTEST! (18 July 2000, 9:52 EST/Misc)
We’re celebrating our fourth birthday here at FIRAXIS and as a special “thanks” to the fans who’ve been with us through four years of fun and four great games, we’re having a fun photo contest. The lucky Grand Prize winner will be immortalized in Civilization III by having their face appear somewhere in the game. That’s right...some clever person out there will live forever in what will be one of the greatest computer games ever made! For all of the contest details and rules go to our website at www.firaxis.com. Enter the contest now! -MarkG
 (19 July 2000, 19:50 EST)  Blow up the balloons and pass around the party hats! The staff and administration of Apolyton Civilization Site are very excited to be celebrating their 2nd birthday online, and in style! We would like to invite everyone to our week-long party wrapup on Saturday, July 29th @ 4PM EDT in the #apolyton channel on our IRC channel (irc.dreamnet.org). You can also access it via our JavaChat page.Keep your browsers pointed here for more party favours appearing the days to come. -DanQ
(19 July 2000, 22:33 EST) In the second part of GameSpy Industries' feature Tools of the Trade: Systems for Work, Big Huge Games' Brian Reynolds tells all about his personal computer systems and spending habits. "I'm an unabashed laptop addict", Reynolds admits, "because I really like to be able to work at home as well as at the office (I have a full docking station at home). For me a laptop isn't so much a 'laptop' as it is a 'portable hard drive' -- I like booting it up at home and having all my files in the right place, all my configurations right, all my e-mail records current, etc. I just yank it out of the dock at work, cart it home, boot it back up, and I'm off to the races". -DanQ
(11 July 2000, 14:04 EST/Civ2)  DarthVeda sent us a preview of his upcoming work, Kyokujitsu, a new scenario for CivII."Kyokujitsu, my next scenario project, will document the rise and fall of the Japanese empire in the Pacific", DV tells us. "It will begin with the Second Sino-Japanese war (1937) and continue on until one side or another achieves victory. The Japanese player will have to conquer resources and utilize them effeciently if there is to be any hope of victory. This is my biggest scenario undertaking to date and I expect to be finished by late August". To your right is your first look at of some of the new units you can expect to see in the scenario when it's released. If you have an upcoming CivII creation that you would like to see featured here, please get in touch with us today. We are looking for the creation's name, description, a preview pic, and the anticipated release date to post. -DanQ
(16 July 2000, 16:14 EST/About) If you remember reading about the February, 1999 cover story in the Russian gaming magazine GameEXE that featured both the Civilization series and Apolyton, you will remember how the article was entirely in Russian and that we did not have a translation available for viewing. As of today, an English translation is available for not only the parts of the article that pertain to Apolyton, but rather of the entire article for your reading pleasure! Head on over to our updated Recognition page for a link to download the 18K zipped file. Please recognize that while the translation is not perfect, it is an excellent representation of what the author wrote on the Civilization series a year and a half ago. Who is the mystery translator? It's not going to be a mystery for long: it was Nikita Filin of Oregon, USA. Thank you, Nikita! -DanQ
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