RE: UKNM: iTV and games sites

[Lorraine Eaton]

Bit of inside info:


Gameplay games area is in redevelopment - look out for the most fantastic

entertainment channel - of a games site. I've seen the plans and it has been

reseached for usability - too often overlooked by the need to do things

quickly.


There will be all types of games really suited to real internet behaviour -

not just someones grand ideas.




-----Original Message-----

From: lgrayson [

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Sent: 20 September 2000 23:26

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Subject: Re: UKNM: iTV and games sites



Unable to keep my mouth shut any longer (a problem faced by most of the

Grayson clan), I feel compelled to throw my entirely biased and one-sided

commentary into the fray.


I saw it mentioned earlier that www.won.net was a US site. That's partly

true, but if your browser has UK settings, then this will re-route you to

http://uk.won.net, the UK-run arm of the organisation, where you can access

a range of online single- and multi-player games that are both free and

CD-based (like Q3A, Unreal Tournament, etc)


That's all about to change. Vivendi (the company that owns us, half our

water supply, Havas Interactive, a lot of telecoms companies and, most

recently, Universal Pictures) has bought PrizeCentral.com and amalgamated

the loyalty and prize redemption elements of this property into a new

brand - Flipside.com


The US Flipside.com has gone live already, but the Europeans have no

intention of following the style, presentation or editorial content of this

new site. Mainly because it looks really bad and does a lot of things we'd

rather it didn't.

Which is why we've been working our collectives off on the UK version. We go

live with the Beta of Flipside UK at the end of this month. It will be

hosted on European servers, it will provide localised game content, and

it'll have UK-specific editorial.


It's really looking quite good so far. But don't take my word for it, take a

look for yourselves at the beginning of October. Just as before, the servers

will check your browser settings and re-route you to the UK site when you

type in www.flipside.com


Er. That's it for now. Thanks for listening.


Laurence Grayson

Associate Editor

Flipside UK


[Sam says: msg chopped]



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