Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...phenomenally popular shoot-'em-ups Doom and Doom II, Quake was released late last month and quickly shot to the top of the game charts. More intriguing, though, was last month's roll-out of Quake World, Quake's "networked" cousin, which can bring together in simultaneous mortal combat as many as eight players--players who may be sitting, like Grrrl, in adjoining cubicles, or on opposite sides of the world. The game stands at the vanguard of a new breed of software designed to combine the enduring fascination of interactive computer games with the explosive growth of the Internet...
Then there's the competition. AOL, for instance, with more than 6 million subscribers, is revamping its popular Games Channel, which already offers scores of multiplayer games, from strategy and combat games like Air Warriors to classics like chess and Trivial Pursuit, and recently purchased inn to add to its gaming roster. "We're focusing on games that are designed specifically for an online environment," says Lawrence Schick, AOL's general manager for games. "We're really developing a community...
...lack of zest for exploration to my mother on the phone the night before, and the cab ride solidified in my mind how embarrassed I was not to have gotten to know the city after all these years. My mother, though, in her wisdom, had suggested I try to combat this problem by stopping by the Kennedy library and museum after the test, which was right on the campus...
Johnson abhors ostentation. Not surprisingly, Fidelity has no corporate jet or limousine. No Fidelity tower looms over the Boston skyline. He walks to work. Like all true Yankees, he has a visceral hatred of waste. Beneath his gentility is a steely confidence tempered by years of business combat. He has learned to trust his instincts. He loves to tack against conventional wisdom, as he did when he pioneered check-writing privileges for money-market funds...
...Friday night, and Alexis Rosen was about to leave work when one of his computers sent him a piece of E-mail. If this had been the movies, the message would have been presaged by something dramatic--the woo-ga sound of a submarine diving into combat, say. But of course it wasn't. This was a line of dry text automatically generated by one of the machines that guard his network. It said simply, "The mail servers are down." The alert told Rosen that his 6,000 clients were now unable to receive E-mail...