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Press Release

Eugene, OR - (July 12, 1999) - Think you've got the TRIBES™ Mission Editor down pat and you've created that fast-paced mission with awesome gameplay? Here's your chance to put your hard work to the test. The TRIBES™ Development Team at Dynamix is geared up and ready to collect entries in the first ever TRIBES™ "Open Call". To help get the creative juices flowing, the TRIBES™ Team has reserved a few positions for those high quality user-created missions to appear in the upcoming release of TRIBES™ Extreme. The superior user-created missions selected will get game credit for their mission in TRIBES™ Extreme plus other additional prizes to be named at a later date.

While TRIBES™ Extreme significantly enhances the multiplayer online experience, it also adds "whatever you need to know" about how to play TRIBES in its entirely new single-player campaign against computer opponents. Jeff Tunnell, executive director of TRIBES™ Extreme and founder of Dynamix said it best, "TRIBES has taken the online world by storm, but many action gamers hesitate to jump online without perfecting their skills. TRIBES™ Extreme gives them an incredibly fun campaign to cut their teeth on - and team missions so they can form a squad and practice their match skills. We want everyone to see how fun and easy it is to be an online warrior."

The TRIBES™ Development Team will begin taking submissions on July 12, 1999. All submissions must meet the following mission entry and art specifications. Users may also enter their own skin sets. Each of the 17 bitmaps, including armor skins, team logos for buildings and doors, flags, and so forth must be modified, sized appropriately, and remapped to the correct palettes - in other words, everything should be ready to just drop into the game. Users who have their skins used in the game will be given credit for them. All submissions must be zipped and available to us at the player's own site. Mission files and skin-related art files should be in separate zip files. A SHORT text file that may point out a neat mission feature may be appropriate in certain circumstances. For more information on the TRIBES™ Extreme Open Call or to submit an entry, go to www.tribesplayers.com.

Mission Entry Specifications: · A maximum of two (2) entries per person. One of the missions must be a Capture The Flag (CTF) mission and the other will be the user's choice. · Only things found in the current build of TRIBES™ will be accepted (i.e. no new buildings or art). No mods or scripts. · Missions that are inappropriate to the public will not be considered. · Only those missions that provide fast-paced, balanced and exciting gameplay will be considered. · Dynamix™ may and will modify submitted missions to improve gameplay, appearance or performance. · ALL entries become the property of Dynamix™.

Art Entry Specifications: · One texture set entry per person. · Textures must be appropriate for the general public. Skins containing excessive nudity, profanity, and so on will probably not make it. Use your judgement and save us some time. · Textures should be a substantial change from the original skins - do NOT take the diamond sword skin set, change it to blue, and send it back to us. · No entry may use copyrighted material or that which resembles copyrighted material. That includes pro sports teams, company symbols, music groups, comic book characters, etc. · Dynamix™ reserves the right to make changes to whatever is sent in. · ALL entries become the property of Dynamix™.

Dynamix™, leading developer of entertainment software, delivers some of the industry's best in Action and Simulation gaming. Critically acclaimed Dynamix™ games include A-10 Tank Killer™, Starsiege™ TRIBES™, Starsiege™. Pro Pilot '99™, Red Baron 3D™, and the upcoming TRIBES™ Extreme.

Sierra On-Line, Inc. is one of the original developers and largest worldwide publishers of interactive entertainment and productivity software. Sierra, a division of Havas Interactive, is comprised of a family of brands: Sierra Attractions™, SierraHome™, Sierra Sports™, Sierra Studios™, and Dynamix™, a Sierra Company. Havas Interactive holdings also include Knowledge Adventure®, Blizzard Entertainment® and WON.net™.