Project Diary

Date of Release : Thursday, June 26, 1997

Fearless Leader is back from E³ with good things to report. Apparently interest in the 'Project was high, though naturally Flight Unimited II captured the lion's share of the hype, being much closer to shipping. On that topic, however, I should note that some of the promotional
material we had at the show was pretty far out of date, listing a release date of Summer 1997. In fact, our current projections are for Winter 1997-98. For those of you interested in why games slip their release dates, this has to do with some team reshuffling involved in shipping British
Open Championship Golf, plus some project redesign I might actually go into some day.

This week's been largely taken up in mopping-up from the demo frenzy, trying out the demo some more, and getting everyone back on track for longer-term goals. So, until there's another great leap forward to tell you about, why not do as we do and surf the Dark E³ buzz on the web?

cnet Gamecenter's article on The Dark Project
Next Gen Online's article calls us a "shooter" but likes our concept and level
architecture.
The guys from Computer Games Online have clearly been taking the mind control drugs we've been
sending them.

Finally, since next Friday is a holiday (that'd be Independence Day, for those of you outside the U.S. who didn't see the movie) we're going to skip another week of web page updates. Come back July 11^th; we'll still be here. -Tim