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JUST IN: X-Men TC Release Date
I just go this from Nate Birkholz of MacSoft: Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the X-Men TC for Quake will ship on January 9th. We have a hand-off date of next Friday, Dec. 19th, and the turn-around time is currently 3 weeks from duplication to shipping.

We will be previewing the X-Men TC at MacWorld. Anyone who is interested can stop by our booth and preview it and (of course) place pre-orders.

X-Men TC for Quake coming to the Mac
From Tikkabik, This is a press release from Westlake Interactive:

Westlake Interactive, the recently formed development company specializing in MacOS games, announced today their first project, X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse. Westlake will be adapting this Quake total conversion to the MacOS for leading game publisher MacSoft.

X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse is add-on for Quake that allows you to play as your favorite X-Men character, complete with special powers, new weapons, and unique character models and skins. X-Men: Ravages is designed for both single and multiplayer gameplay. There are special options and levels designed just for multiplayer games as well as a complete plot-driven single player game spanning multiple levels.

F-18 Hornet: Korea not quite done...
According to the Mac Gamer's Ledge, Graphic Simulations is not quite done Korea just yet, they appear to have run into some 3Dfx glitches but, they hope to have it done by the 15th

Deadlock Demo out!
MacSoft has released the demo of Deadlock which is 18 megs, the full version of Deadlock should be released around the end of December...

source MGL

Tomorow Never Dies for Quake
According to the MacGamersLedge, a Quake conversion based on the new James Bond movie, Tomorow Never Dies, is to be released on the official Tomorow Never Dies Web Site in the next week or so...

Tomorow never dies is the 18th James Bond film, it will be playing at a theatre near you Friday, December 19th

Harry Editor FAQ
Ben Spees has written a new FAQ for his Harry the Handsome Executive level editor.This FAQ is very useful if you want to make custom levels for Harry. If your question isn't in the FAQ, you can e-mail your question, you can read the FAQ here

source MGL

Yet Another Myth Updater
Bungie has released yet another BETA Myth updater, this one to 1.1b4, you can get it off their FTP site

source MGL

Westwood stopping Internet Play of C&C Mac?
According to the MGL, reportedly Westwood has phased out Mac Command and Conquer of Westwood chat, since updating to Windows Westwood Chat 4.0, Mac players can no longer play against Windows players...

No GT Interactive/Microprose Merger
At the 11th hour GT Interactive and Microprose have backed out of their merger but, don't worry, MacSoft will still be publising/distibuting all of Microprose's Mac products...

source MGL

Mac Final Fantasy ?
Tikkabik posted this quote from someone at Squaresoft:

"Square Soft does not currently have any plans to port Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 6 (Final Fantsy 3 in the US), Final Fantasy Tactics or Final Fantasy 5 (never released before in the US) to the Mac OS operating system. However, recent changes in the Mac OS gaming market (like more people buying more copies of games, better advertising, game demos) have been promising. If there was enough interest in Mac OS and Rhapsody users buying and wanting Final Fantasy 7 for the Mac OS and/or Rhapsody, we MAY seriously consider porting Final Fantasy 7 to the Mac OS and/or the Rhapsody operating systems."