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'Termite Games' Pulled Under Project3 Umbrella

by Rainier on Aug. 20, 2003 @ 11:14 p.m. PDT

Dutch publisher Project Three Interactive today announced that its development studio Termite Games has changed its name to Project Three Interactive Studios AB and is now fully integrated in the Project Three Group. The Swedish outfit became known for its revolutionary new game-engine known as DVA, which was used for the development of the tactical FPS game “NEW WORLD ORDER” for PC, released during winter 2002/spring 2003. Termite kept updating the game and has concluded its work by delivering the very stable and smooth version 1.42 last month (on sale in the UK, France and Germany by the end of August ­ distributed by Bigben Interactive).

The DVA engine has been set up to be as generic, versatile and dynamic as possible. It has been designed in such a way that the base technologies - DVA, real time per-pixel lighting, shadowing, bump-mapping, advanced physics - are extendable and capable of handling the vast amounts of geometry and detail that the games of the future will rely on.

The newborn Project Three Interactive Studios will focus on expanding the DVA technology, so that it will function as a tech platform for next-gen shootergames that feature vast environments, extra options such as driving vehicles and - we feel most importantly - lots of freedom for the player in the gameworld. In the coming weeks Project Three will be announcing a new project based on DVA, while a spokesman said it is also planning to license the technology to independent developers.

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