News: 30-August-2000: Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment join forces.

Snoqualmie, WA. Aug 30, 2000

Amiga Inc. and Hyperion Entertainment are pleased to announce a long-term alliance to bring Hyperion's impressive list of award winning games to the Amiverse.

"Hyperion's games are a testament to the high standard set by the Amiga community. Much like the New Amiga, Hyperion has raised the bar to a higher level. We are proud to include Hyperion in our future. We are equally pleased to see such a steady stream of notable developers validating our platform." said Randy Hughes, Vice President Sales and Strategic Alliances at Amiga Inc.

The initial list of titles being developed for the Amiverse include:

Heretic II

Which is already available!

SiN

A super realistic ego shooter in a not distant future with a plot to solve and many levels to " clean-up" which is due in Q3 2000.

Shogo

Fight with your Mobile Armor Division "Mech" through futuristic cities and natural sites. Face a civil war in "Mech" mode or Soldier mode in this award winning ego shooter, written with the famous LithTech 3D Engine by Monolith. Shogo is also slated for Q3 2000.

Freespace

Development has already begun and is to be completed in Q4 2000. Freespace offers many space flights combats and mission for this space opera among stars and nebulas. A great simulation for a great story of space war.

Alien Nations

Development is just under way. In the style of Age of Empires II, Alien Nations will allow you to lead your people to survive attacks from your enemies. Live long and prosper in the levels of this great Real Time Strategy game.

Soldier of Fortune

The highly acclaimed ego shooter of the year will come to the Amiga. Designed with the help of SEAL people, SOF is one of the most realistic ego shooter. Experience fights against terrorists and criminals, train to be better and always remember to shoot first, otherwise…

"Hyperion will announce new games in the near future, as we negotiate deals with new licensors including some of the industry's biggest names. We want to bring the Amiga the hottest and most recent games, as it was the case in the great Amiga gaming times. With the arrival of new hardware such as faster graphics cards, the Amiga will enjoy a new level of performance allowing the Amiga to keep up with bigger and better games. Keep your Amiga updated, stay tuned and roll on the Amiga One!" said Ben Yoris, PR Manager of Hyperion.

Hyperion Entertainment is a privately held Belgian company founded in April of 1999. Hyperion aims to bring top-class entertainment software to leading alternative platforms including Amiga. Hyperion Entertainment has license agreements with many of the top names in the industry including Interplay, Activision and Monolith with more deals to be made public soon.

Whilst Hyperion's primary expertise is in the field of 3D engines (LithTech, Quake 2), the company has recently been working with its publisher Titan (www.titan-computer.com) on expanding its line-up with strategy and RTS games as well as RPG's and simulators. The results of these efforts will be announced over the course of the next few months. Hyperion Entertainment is also investigating the possibility of applying its expertise in the field of 3D graphics to non-entertainment related areas.

Amiga Inc. provides technology to developers for writing and porting applications to the new hardware-agnostic multimedia Amiga OS. Amiga-based applications can run unchanged on x86, PowerPC, M Core, ARM, StrongARM, MIPS R3000, R4000, R5000, SH 3, SH4, and NEC V850 processors. The Amiga OS can run hosted on Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, CE and QNX 4. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, 28 miles east of Seattle and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or on the web at www.amiga.com.