Spiderweb Software has released new details on its upcoming fantasy role-playing game for the Mac and PC, Geneforge. The game's tentative release window is Winter 2001 to Spring 2002.

You are a Shaper. You are a member of the most powerful and secretive of the magical guilds, with the power to create life and mold it to serve your own needs. For millenia, everyone feared and respected the Shapers above all others. Their creations could go everywhere, do anything, all according to the wishes of the Shapers, and no others.

If you need a servant, you have but to create it, and it will gladly die for you.

But now your secrets are at risk. Someone dares to try to steal the power of the Shapers and take them for his own. He has committed the ultimate crime. He has captured you, and he will do anything to get you to surrender their secrets.

He would use the power of the Shapers to remake the world. The question is a simple one. Will you fight him? Or join him?

by MacNN Staff