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Interplays licenses Messiah Engine

Interplay Productions announced today that it will license the state of the art "MessiahTM character engine." Shiny Entertainment, a subsidiary of Interplay Productions, is employing the engine in its next action release, Messiah.

Interplays licenses Messiah Engine is the story today, and it fits right into the fast-moving PC gaming pileup of June 1998. Interplay Productions announced today that it will license the state of the art “MessiahTM character engine.” Shiny Entertainment, a subsidiary of Interplay Productions, is employing the engine in its next action release, Messiah. The formal name for this technology is Real-Time Tessellation and Deformation or RT-DAT. RT-DAT technology will be available in the Interplay Productions/Shiny Entertainment release, Messiah. For players keeping one eye on patches, demos, hardware, and whatever the big studios are cooking up next, this is exactly the kind of update that can disappear in a day and matter a month later. Welcome to PC gaming, where the news moves faster than most download mirrors.