Cavedog Entertainment's Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Expected to Hit Retail Stores June 25

Business Wire, June 23, 1999

Boneyards Online Gaming: Support for Cavedog Entertainment's Boneyards online gaming community is included with Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Personalized and scalable arenas for chatting, opportunities to challenge opponents and initiate multiplayer battles, a deep ladder and ranking system, company-sponsored tournaments and custom user profiles are some of its many features.

The Darien Crusades(TM): Boneyards will also feature a cooperative multiplayer game designed specifically for Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Players will choose a moral ethic and claim allegiance to like-minded factions, form houses and fight for control of Darien with thousands of other players online at the same time. The Darien Crusades will become available in a few months. Specific details will be announced at a later date.

Free Downloads: Owners of Total Annihilation: Kingdoms will be able to regularly download new, fully functional battle units from www.cavedog.com absolutely free. These units will seamlessly integrate into the game and provide virtually unlimited variation to the strategic gameplay experience.

Make Your Own Maps: Cavedog Entertainment's own powerful map, mission and scripting editor, Cartographer, is included with Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Players will be able to create an infinite variety of maps and missions as well as utilize the new scripting language to greatly customize their gameplay experience.

Even More Stuff: Such as new units with the ability to heal or drain; fortifications designed to halt early game rushes; greatly enhanced line-of-sight abilities; a new full-screen radar; streamlined unit build menus; and, yes, even more...

Price, Platform and Availability

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms PC CD-ROM is scheduled to be available in stores nationwide starting June 25 for an estimated street price of $44.99. It can also be purchased through secure online transactions at www.cavedog.com, or by calling toll-free 888/477-9369. Minimum system requirements are a 233MHz Pentium PC system with 32 MB of RAM, Windows 95 or 98, a Direct Sound compatible sound card, a quad-speed CD-ROM, 80 MB of hard drive space and a VGA 16-bit color monitor or better.

Cavedog Entertainment

Cavedog Entertainment, based in the Seattle area, was created in 1995 by Ron Gilbert, Shelley Day, and a team of the game industry's leading designers, programmers and artists to explore interactive gaming and create new standards of fun. Cavedog Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of GT Interactive Software Corp. (Nasdaq:GTIS), can be found on the Internet at www.cavedog.com.

GT Interactive

Headquartered in New York, with 1997 calendar year revenues of $531 million, GT Interactive Software Corp. (Nasdaq:GTIS) is a leading global interactive entertainment software company that develops, markets and distributes consumer software. The company has seven internal development studios: Humongous Entertainment, Cavedog Entertainment, SingleTrac, Oddworld Inhabitants, Bootprint Entertainment, Legend Entertainment and Reflections. The company also has five software labels: GT Interactive, Wizard Works, CompuWorks, MacSoft and Slash. GT Interactive's e-commerce system provides secure online transactions through each studio's Web site and www.gtstore.com. GT Interactive also owns the subsidiary OneZero Media that operates a specialized entertainment portal, www.getwild.com, which acts as the Entertainment Zone on AltaVista; and produces the nationally syndicated television program "Wild Wild Web." GT Interactive can be found on the Internet at www.gtinteractive.com.