SIERRA STUDIOS™ ANNOUNCES ARCANUM™
Role-Playing Game Due to Ship Summer 2000
Bellevue, WA (October 4, 1999) - Sierra Studios today announced Arcanum: Of Steamworks
and Magick Obscura, the RPG due to ship next summer from the core team that brought the
gaming world the award-winning RPG Fallout™ in 1997. This game marks the first project
from that core team with their newly formed company, Troika Games, based in Irvine,
California. Named for the world it is set in, Arcanum is staged in the late 1800s
in an industrial revolution environment filled with magic, sorcery and magnificent
machinery. The first chapter of ongoing Arcanum-based fiction for this epic game
is being published exclusively on CNET's Gamecenter today at www.gamecenter.com.
The official Web site was also launched earlier today at
http://www.sierrastudios.com/games/arcanum/
"We chose our partners Sierra Studios because of their great experience
in publishing great games and their superior support of developers," said Tim
Cain of Troika Games. "Arcanum is the game I've been waiting to make for 15 years
and it's exciting for me to be able to tell people about the incredible world we've created."
"Arcanum is easily one of the most impressive game designs I've ever seen," said Jim Veevaert
vice president of marketing for Sierra Studios. "We're thrilled to be working with Troika to
define the next level of RPGs with Arcanum and bring a new quality to the genre."
Troika Games LLC was founded in April 1998 by Timothy Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, and
Jason Anderson, the creators of Fallout - the 1997 winner of OGR's Game of the Year,
and winner of RPG of the Year from PC Gamer, Computer Gaming World, GameSpot, Adrenaline
Vault, Games Domain, Gamesmania among others. The goal of Troika Games is to develop
the highest-quality games available for the home computer.
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