Ymgve at 20:17, 18 June 2007

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CP VERLAG will be selling some of their
titles to the American company LOADSTAR.
LOADSTAR is producing a diskbased mag-
azine monthly, with some 3OOO subscrib-
ers in the United states. LOADSTAR will
most definately be launching 6-7 titles
a year from the German company, in ord-
er not to overfeed the market and leave
room for others as well.

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NEMESIS PRODUCTIONS is a new gamelabel
born in Sweden focusing mainly on

budgetsoftware selling through various
channels on the field. They are also
involved in the fullprice production
FUTURE WORLD for the CHERRY SOFTWARE-
corporation, due to appear during this
fall.

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GAMETEK, a Brittishbased company who
has not yet been too involved in pro-
ducing software for the 64, but for
our 16-bit brothers, are picking up
production again, now that ESCOM de-
clared relauncing the Commodore 64.
Rumour has it more companies will
follow.

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COMMODORE FORMAT, the Brittish magazine
who took the crown from the ceased
ZZAP 64 has just one more issue to go
before the magazine will vanish from
the shelves. Various companies are
looking into sponsoring, to keep the
magazine alive. Another Brittish mag-
azine from the PD-library BINARY ZONE
called COMMODORE ZONE is will still be
available in United Kingdom.

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TRIBUTE 1996 will be arranged by the
TRIBUTE ASSOCIATION, an association
with people from various groups on the
field today. Most likely the party will
be held in June, not to run against the
much awaited X'96 in Holland.

PHUTURE is a gamelabel sticking out
from BAD BYTES, organized by RRR. They
have been trying to do business with
LOADSTAR and other companies are nego-
tiating with them for fullprice and
budgetproductions as well.

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LK AVALON are ordering their programmers
to move quickly on the Commodore 64,
knowing the machine has had its best
years already. LK AVALON are moving
to bigger and more popular formats,
but will stay with the C64 for some
time to come. Support the Polish
scene.

Brittish company VISUALIZE, latest
production being the splendid DEADLINE
will continue their activity on the C64
in the future. New budget games are to
appear later this year.

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BATMAN III, JURASSIC PARK and MEGATWINS
are titles that are ready for the C64,
but never saw light of day due to a
small market. It is now rumoured that
a German company has bought the rights
for the 8-bit versions, planning to
release them along with ESCOM'S launch
of the C64 in November.

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People from FAIRLIGHT are close to
finishing their game called LEGOLAND,
a much awaited and talked about game,
whose preview could be seen in the
selftitled demo some years back.

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BOB/CENSOR has left the Commodore 64
behind working for Electronic Arts, but
is still planning to sell his coder-
utilities for gameprogrammers, letting
them optimize their software to the
maximum. It is still uncertain who
will be stocking this utility.

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American THRESHOLD PRODUCTIONS are

launching their first productions in
the not too far distant. One of the
games features one of the last pic-
tures ever drawn by SCOPE/F4CG.

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|IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF PROPAGANDA WE |
|WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE ADDRESSES |
|OF ALL 64 SOFTWARE COMPANYS AROUND! |
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Ymgve at 20:17, 18 June 2007