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INFORMATION ABOUT IBGAMESABOUT THE COMPANY Interactive Broadcasting Ltd is an Isle of Man (UK) company, founded in 1989 to develop and market the multiplayer game Federation. Since then the game has appeared in many incarnations around the world, in many cases out living the online services it has appeared on. Federation's role of honour of on-line services includes: Compunet (UK), Compulink (Greece), Microlink (UK), Matrix (UK), GEnie (USA), On-line (UK), Minitel (France), Delphi (USA), Cris (USA) and AOL (USA). Language specific enhancement in the AOL version allowed German, French and UK players to use their own languages while playing the same game as US players. Now Interactive Broadcasting's games are available from the company's own web site http://www.ibgames.net. In 1991, Federation was awarded the GEnieMakers Best New Product award by General Electric's GEnie consumer network. In December 1996, Federation won an America Online Members' Choice award for being one of the most popular products on the system. Over its lifetime Federation's peak player usage has risen from a dozen simultaneous players in the early days to over 800 simultaneous players. Interactive Broadcasting has also designed the game Iron Wolves, a multiplayer graphical submarine simulation, for On-line Entertainment Ltd in the UK. Interactive Broadcasting's latest game - Age of Adventure - is currently in development. The game is a graphical massively multiplayer role-playing game set in Victorian times. Players take the role of adventurers and investigators extending the map of the known world. Like Federation, Age of Adventure is set in an extensible world to allow for continued enhancement and upgrading. Interactive Broadcasting is also developing a multiplayer strategy game, Barbarossa, based on the German invasion of Russia in 1941. The game allows players to take the role of corps, army, army group and front commanders on either side of the conflict, and the turn-based mechanism allows them to run the game as fast or as slow as is convenient for them. Interactive Broadcasting's new servers have enough power to allow it to run multiple copies of this game simultaneously, allowing players to pick and choose who they wish to play with and against. The game allows for as many as 60 simultaneous players, and as few as two. Interactive Broadcasting is virtually unique in its market, in that its principals and senior staff have been involved in on-line games since before there was a real market for the games. They have all been instrumental in creating and defining the market, and were the first to create a commercially successful multi-player game not based on the Dungeons & Dragons type scenario.
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