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^ "The greatest defunct Web sites and dotcom disasters".

CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) Archived from the original on 7 December 2000.

^ "GAME YOUR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE! HEATCIGL KICKS OFF SCHOOL YEAR WITH MORE CASH, CONTENT AND PRIZES THAN EVER BEFORE".

Archived from the original on 11 December 2000.

^ "Teen Gamers Can Now Purchase Online Without Credit Cards: HEAT.NET Frequent Player Points are as Good as Cash at Partner sites".

^ "HEAT.NET Celebrates First Anniversary With 12-Hour Online Bash".

^ a b c d Svensson, Christian (June 1997).

^ a b c d Dan Elektro (September 1997).

^ "Sega Soft Plans PlayStation Titles".

^ "Sega to Publish Games on PlayStation".

Partial list of games supported on Heat.Net In June 2008, CNET hailed as one of the greatest defunct websites in history. In September 2000, it was announced that and HeatCIGL would be shutting down on October 31, 2000. The league also gave away a $5,000 "Excellence in Gaming" College Scholarship. Students from 1,100 registered schools would play Quake II or Unreal Tournament in teams representing their colleges, with play-offs at the end of the season. was also the home a collegiate gaming league called HeatCIGL (College Internet Game League). had a loyalty program, in which members, known as "Foot Soldiers", received shirts and dog tags. Other features included tracking of user rankings on individual profile pages. established "parking police" to discover these servers but players discovered other ways to falsely earn points. Rooms were established for idle players to sit and earn degrees. The degree system was highly flawed and non-active players could leave their PCs logged into servers and earn degrees. On May 6, 1999, SEGA announced it had partnered with Chips & Bits' online game superstore which allowed players a vast selection of games, hardware and even magazine subscriptions. Degrees could be spent, but only by premium members, at 's online store, the Black Market, which had computer games and related merchandise. It featured a currency system where the player earned "degrees" through playing games, trivia contests (both game-related and general), viewing ads, or other actions. branded itself as a peaceful alternative to real-world violence with advertising slogans such as "Total peace through cyberviolence" and "Kill pixels not people."

#Segasoft lose your marbles software

However, the client software eliminated the Voxware voice features, as SegaSoft's engineers found that most bugs in the MPlayer software were in the voice module.

essentially combined the network, client, and protocol technologies of the MPlayer system (obtained under license) with the IPX tunneling package Kahn. In addition, players could add friends and chat privately with them. Each supported game had its own chat lobby and game creation options. Much like Kali, it also allowed users to play any IPX network-compatible game, regardless of whether or not it was designed for the Internet. hosted both Sega-published first- and second-party games, as well as popular third-party games of the era, such as Quake II and Baldur's Gate.

#Segasoft lose your marbles Pc

, stylized HEAT.NET, was an online PC gaming system produced by SegaSoft.

Unreal Tournament's game page and a private chat window SegaSoft was responsible for, among other things, the multiplayer game system and publishing the last few titles made by Rocket Science Games. SegaSoft disbanded in 2000 and many of the staff members were merged into, a new company established to handle Sega's online presence in the United States. This, however, never came to fruition, as in January 1997 SegaSoft restructured to focus on the PC and online gaming. In 1996, SegaSoft announced that they would be publishing games for all viable platforms, not just Saturn and PC. SegaSoft, originally headquartered in Redwood City, California and later San Francisco, was a joint venture by Sega and CSK (Sega's majority stockholder at the time ), created in 1995 to develop and publish games for the PC and Sega Saturn, primarily in the North American market.