ARC: Attack, Retreat, Capture Now Live on WON.net

 

ARC:
ATTACK, RETREAT, CAPTURE™

SIMPLE
GAMEPLAY, FIERCE COMPETITION,
NOW LIVE ON
WON.NET

 

Highly
popular with infectious gameplay, ARC offers players great diversion
to
blow off a little steam

 

Bellevue,
WA (February 28, 2000) – Attack, Retrieve, Capture – otherwise
known
as ARC™ – is now live at www.won.net. The second most popular game on

the TEN gaming site, this top-down arcade-style
game offers players a simple
game with
infectious playability and fierce competition, in a no-nonsense
style.
Armed with only four weapons, ARC is the game for players with an
arsenal
of wits looking to blow off a little steam. Accommodating up to an
awesome
64-players per server, players can access the game by tapping the
"ARC"
link at www.won.net.

 

"ARC
is the perfect outlet for meeting your buddies on-line at 4pm for a
20-minute
free-for-all," said Scott Fasser, product manager for Won.net.
"The
pure and simple, infectious gameplay will undoubtedly keep people
coming
back for more – particularly, during quarter-earnings week."

 

ARC
is no newcomer to Internet gamers. The game was originally available on

the TEN gaming site where it was the number two
game in minutes played for
more than four
months. When the games’ creator, John Vechey, went to work
for
Won.net, the company purchased the game from TEN, and enhanced it with
new,
never-before-played maps.

 

"ARC
was one of the most wildly popular downloads when it was with TEN,"

said Vechey. "Now the game will gain a much
broader audience because Won.net
has been
so successful in penetrating both the hard-core and the
general-consumer
gaming audience."

 

ARC’s
three games include Capture the Flag, Bait-and-Switch, and Death Match
where
the gameplay is simple and the competition fierce. Navigating their
way
through various scrolling environments, players can use their radar to
pilot
a hovercraft-style saucer to fight off the enemy and achieve the
ultimate
objective: victory, at any cost. At hand, players have up to four
weapons,
each inflicting a graduated level of damage: two types of lasers,
rockets,
or grenades. Players can also use the ICQ communication protocol
for
strategizing with their teammates, or for the simple pleasure of
taunting
their opponents. On-line and available now, players can access ARC:
Attack,
Retrieve, Capture™ by tapping the ARC link at www.won.net

 

WON.net(tm),
dedicated to integrating the Internet into gaming, is one of
the
largest aggregators of Internet enabled games, with over 40 live and
playable
choices, including 22 free online-only games from seven major
developers.
Some of the site’s highlights include YOU DON’T KNOW JACK® the
netshow,
HOYLE® card and board games, Homeworld, Half-Life™, TRIBES™,
Wordox,
Soldier of Fortune and Vampire: The Masquerade–Redemption,
Acrophobia,
Silencer and ARC. WON.net also develops proprietary technology
tools
for games including WONswap™, the easiest way to download and install

user-created content; Game Detector™, offering
players the easiest way to
find and join a
server-based game on the web; and GameSearch.net, the best,
most
complete Internet search engine focused solely on games. WON.net is an
autonomous
business unit incorporated within Havas Interactive, the largest
publisher
of consumer PC software in the world.

 

CONTACTS:

Kirk
Green

Green
Communications

(949)
459.2165

[email protected]