Well, just before I head off for my first out of the country holiday in 8 years, I want you guys to play around with something I have installed:

Anyway, talk to you people later.

Hello to all of you who vaguely remember me. In case you wondered why the lack of news updates for a while, what with the sterling efforts of Carlos'

Nico and Christy are hosting a new fan fiction contest. Details are available from their web site.

There are some cracking stories to be read, so everyone should visit Sidney to get upto speed on the details of what you should do.

Other things that fell into my inbox this week, include a mail from Heath about the selling off of GK2 Memorabilia! Go buy the castle!

IRC chats are occuring weekly now, so get all the information from Sidney's "Calling Conclave" section (neat title!) and join in the fun. Sometimes we're even on-topic!

Hi to all those who were able to make the chat. It was a good session with a good turnout by both web site owners, web site users, and the casual observer.

In what turned out to be a flurry of activity (including a very last minute improvised online fanfic) the IRC session held last Saturday turned into a very friendly forum of chat of all manner of subjects.

I have a copy of the majority of the logs taken that I made of that session available to read online, for those interested. Or just download the zip containing the IRC logs.

When there is another scheduled, I will advertise it here (as will most of the other GK site webmasters/webmistresses.

I am sure that many of you out there have visited Carlos' fantastic GK site, it is the place to go for the latest news, as the guy seems to have cloned himself and updates his site almost hourly!

St George's Website has now become an Allgames affiliate, with the added advantages of increased server resources.

All the best matey, you've done us all proud!

Some of you may have read about the massive drop in share price that recently happened to Sierra's parent company, Cendant. How this will affect any of the operations by Sierra is uncertain (and any of the other game houses under the same company umbrella such as Blizzard, makers of the stonking Diablo and Starcraft).

In the usenet group comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, there is quite a long thread discussing it (entitled "Sierra is going down!"), but the general consensus over there seems to be that there will be no impact over the operations of any of the subsidiary companies.

In GK related news, there has been a good GK feature made available on Gamecenter covering lots of new pictures of the game (including Grace), and how the develpoment is going. Its a nice article, so you should definately check it out.

Of particular interest are the details of the minimum specifications required to actually run the game, specifically a P133 with 32mb of ram. Of course regular readers of this site will already have read my predictions on this last year.

Also, Sierra recently announced details of their groovy sounding Sierra Studios, it promises to create some of the greatest games to be seen on the PC. Again, Gamecenter have the scoop and exclusive game screenshots of the latest titles in their Underground section (dated April 17th).

Cindy Vanous (one time web mistress of Sierra's web site) has contributed to an article about whether the use of Sex in games is getting out of control, or whether it is all harmless. There are some interesting opinions, which you should try to read if you can. Its been around for a while, but I only just noticed it!

I can't determine the exact date, but some new bits and pieces have been added to the GK3 site, including new biographies (including recently promoted Sierra webmaster Adam D. Bormann), and some reworked aesthetics on the site in general...

Miss me? Sorry for the lack of updates, but Livewire Pro coupled with Informix databases can be quite challenging at times. That, and being heavily involved in getting my company's new web site up and running (and fixing the myriad of problems which sprout from nowhere). Like the rendered spinny things? I did those! among other things...

ANYWAY, here some new news and stuff...

Thats that. More when I have it. If you are looking to obtain the very finest GK news on the internet at the moment, then I would suggest that you make a quick step over to Carlos's superb GK site. You will not be disappointed. But then, if you are a true GK fan, you will already know that!

Found this on Voodoo Extreme, a fine 3D gaming resource. Computer Games Online contains new screenshots of some unknown characters. Probably of most interest will be the one of the woman leaning against the tour bus. Alternatively, you can view them in the GK3 gallery.

Oh dear! It appears that PC Gamer have reported a lot more than what they should have, and consequently did something slightly short of giving away beta copies of GK3 off their cover CD

Here is the information that Sierra would like people to know at present:

For regular readers of these pages, they will already know that Rennes-le-Château was heavily hinted at way back in August last year. Just thought that I would mention it!

There have been a lot of new changes made on the GK3 site, so take a deep breath...

It is great to see so many high profile names being acquired in the production of this latest GK title. It is obvious that a great deal of effort has gone in to securing who will be voicing who in this game, and the results should be superb.

Previously on "News"...

New information will be posted (and credited) as and when I can get it. If you have some news related to anything Schattenjagery, contact me at raymond.chitolie@tesco.net.

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