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Ultima Online marks the megaplayer (as opposed to multiplayer) debut of ORIGIN's best-selling role-playing series, Ultima. This revolutionary product allows literally thousands of people to exist simultaneously in a persistent (around the clock), ever-changing 3D fantasy world over the Internet. It's a world where players can create their own custom game character and do virtually anything-take on perilous quests, form adventuring parties, manufacture their own items, purchase and dwell in their own home or castle, or just hang out at the local tavern and drink a virtual ale with friends on the other side of the world.
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Internet gaming

Play over the internet using an IPX internet server program, such as Kali (which has a demo version), Dwango, MPG-Net.

Kali
Kali is the world's largest Internet gaming network enabling Internet play of the most popular multiplayer games for over 130,000 players, on more than 600 servers in 56 countries.
The most popular games currently on Kali are: Warcraft 2, Descent 1 & 2, Command & Conquer, Diablo, Doom 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Links LS, Mechwarrior 2, Mercenaries, Red Alert and many more...
It's not as flashy as Mplayer or TEN, it doesn't handle the id Software action games as well as DWANGO, and it isn't a true online gaming service, at least not in the same sense as the others.
Kali is an Internet utility that emulates an IPX network connection over the Internet. Basically, it tricks your PC into thinking it is attached to a LAN. With Kali, you can set up and play any multiplayer game that supports IPX connections--which most of them do.
Kali client software is available for DOS, OS/2, and Windows 95. A Macintosh version is also in the works. The cost? A one-time fee of $20 (and your own ISP connection). That's it, and that's the main reason why Kali is such a compelling online gaming service.
The Kali clients can be downloaded as shareware from the Kali Web site (www.kali.net) and will run only for 15-minute intervals until registered. After you register and pay your $20, you can use Kali for as long as you like, as often as you like. Upgrades are free--and plentiful.

Total Entertainment Network
If you're a hard-core computer gaming fan, you've probably heard about TEN by now. Thanks to extensive media coverage, brochures and drink coasters (well, that's what they look like) stuffed into retail game packages, and a free, open beta test that garnered over 20,000 users, TEN quickly became one of the best-known online gaming services.
Like Mplayer, TEN is an Internet-based service currently available for Windows 95 only. TEN
users can play CivNet, Duke Nukem 3D (both retail and shareware versions), Terminal Velocity, Warcraft, and Dark Sun Online. Upcoming game support will include Blood, Command & Conquer, Deadlock, Falcon 4.0, and Necrodome.
 

Mplayer
Can the Web be a viable avenue for multiplayer action games? The folks at Mpath sure think so.
Mplayer is an Internet-based service currently available for Windows 95 only. Pricing is $9.95 per month plus $1.95 per hour. Supported games include Command & Conquer, MechWarrior 2 (for Windows 95 only), Terminal Velocity, and Warcraft. Upcoming titles include Deadlock, SimCity 2000, and--the big one--Quake.

DWANGO
DWANGO (short for Dial-up Wide Area Network Gaming Operation) offers the best, most reliable game performance.
DWANGO is a BBS-style service available for both DOS and Windows 95. DWANGO charges $7.95 per month (which includes unlimited time in the chat lobby and 5 hours of game time). Users can purchase additional time in 10-, 20, and 40-hour increments, which cost $19, $34, and $59, respectively.
Client software is available at the DWANGO Web site (www.dwango.com) and are very easy to configure.

Engage
Engage Games is another of the many up-and-coming online gaming services to make it out of beta testing, and is now fully online. Engage offers a nice mix of well-known, popular games and original games produced solely for Engage. Engage has only been out of beta testing (and charging for play) since late March.
Engage offers chat rooms for each of the games via an iChat plugin for your browser.There really isn't any point to the browser chat, though, since each of the games has its own chat facility once you launch the game.
Currently, Engage offers 11 games -- Castles II Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Splatterball, Descent Online, Darkness Falls, Virtual Pool, The Improv, Rolemaster: The Bladelands, Redneck Rampage and Billboard Live! Music Trivia.
Coming soon are US Chess Federation, Caesars Casino, Battle Chess 4000, Dragon Dice, Shattered Steel, Fragile Allegiance and two community-based "games": and Human Beans. Monolith's Blood should be online soon.

MPG-Net
While its hard to match Mplayer's free gaming zone or Kali's one-time $20 registration fee, MPG-Net comes close. With the first month priced at only $4.95 and subsequent months only $9.95 for unlimited access, MPG-Net has all the hallmarks of a bargain.

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Video Games

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