GP3 by Hasbro mentioned in PCGamer

This is probably old news, but the new PCGamer (Sept 99 US version) has a news brief about Geoff Grammond working on GP3 for Hasbro Interactive. Its on page 49a at the bottom. I have seen many posts claiming that there is going to be a GP3, but I just figured that its a lot of rumors. Hopefully PCGamer is not just spreading more rumors, though I would think that they would check their sources. It just seems to good to be true, that is if GP3 is as good as I expect it will be from Grammond. So how long do we have to wait, and will I need to upgrade again? Lutrell

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> This is probably old news, but the new PCGamer (Sept 99 US version) has a news brief about Geoff Grammond working on GP3 for Hasbro > Interactive. Its on page 49a at the bottom. > I have seen many posts claiming that there is going to be a GP3, but I just figured that its a lot of rumors. Hopefully PCGamer is > not just spreading more rumors, though I would think that they would check their sources. It just seems to good to be true, that is > if GP3 is as good as I expect it will be from Grammond. > So how long do we have to wait, and will I need to upgrade again? > Lutrell

And wasn't it the UK PCGamer which promised to have a preview of GP3 sometime last year? They still haven't had it... :-) Though I think it has pretty much been confirmed that GP3 is being developed now. -- Arne Martin

Hasbro made the blurb some time ago that they had bought the F1 rights and got Crammond under their wing. I guess the month or so lag is why us net gurus are so informed :) Apparantly 1st quarter 2000 is the target release window. Apparantly again Geoff wont be taking any ***and will say when, which means the engine will be less of a hog than the unoptimised gp2. Remember the first gp world circuit game he made threw around a lot of polygons at fair speed on the machines of the day so its not like he cant optimise given the chance! Looking forward to gp3 like u wont belive. -ilmroe >This is probably old news, but the new PCGamer (Sept 99 US version) has a news brief about Geoff Grammond working on GP3 for Hasbro figured that its a lot of rumors. Hopefully PCGamer is their sources. It just seems to good to be true, that is

October 1998 it was! The issue featuring the first GPL review :-) In the "next issue" section they wrote "we will *absolutely definitely* have the first screenshots of GP3".... And did they? No! -- Cheers! Graeme Nash http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk ICQ# 11257824