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Coming in December: WolfQuest
You'll have to indulge me in a little nostalgia here. Some of my earliest Apple memories are of crowding around an Apple II playing Oregon Trail. I couldn't help but think of that when I saw that our gaming blog brothers at Joystiq have uncovered an exciting new "edutaiment" title coming in December. Called WolfQuest, this wolf "simulator" is being created by the Minnesota Zoo to allow me (er, I mean, kids) to live out the dream of being a wolf on the great plains. If the pricelessly corny preview video is to be believed, the Minnesota Zoo and Eduweb will apparently achieve something beyond EA's capacity: cross-platform network play with simultaneous release on Mac and PC.Alas this lupine sim won't be out until December 2007, but now you really have something to look forward to this Christmas. And by the way, if you want to relive those Oregon Trail days, it's possible in a Dashboard widget.
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pepe said 6:43PM on 8-01-2007
Super. Yea, Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago and upgrading from StarWriter to copy-and-paste was fab!!
Moving to The Manhole, SimCity and HyperCard was quite the experience though too!!
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Hopkins said 7:38PM on 8-01-2007
Sounds a lot like - http://www.abandonia.com/games/531/5
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Steven Ledbetter said 11:52PM on 8-01-2007
First time I've seen peeing in a video game since Conker.
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Christy said 3:08AM on 8-02-2007
That is one cheese-tastic preview video. Hahaha
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Norman said 2:49AM on 8-02-2007
This game is made with Unity. So I guess it really will be available on mac and pc.
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Josh said 4:12PM on 8-02-2007
This game takes me back too...that is, the graphics take me back to 2001. Boo HDR lighting, hooray polygons.
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