FUN AND GAMES IN CYBERSPACE

WHY EVERYBODY IS RACING TO BRING DOOM, DUKE NUKEM AND QUAKE TO THE INTERNET

You're alive again, and eager to see Grrrl die. She has been abusing you for a while now; last time she blew you away with a fusillade from her nail gun. And as you glide along the blue gray corridors of this ghostly computer-generated world, finger itchy at the trigger, it's Grrrl you're after. The fact that in real life Grrrl is a pretty twentysomething who rudely shooed you out of her office just before the game started has nothing to do with it, you tell yourself. This is war--or its virtual equivalent.

It certainly looks like war, as you turn...

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