In a welcome move for the industry, the newly-formed ZUXXEZ Entertainment AG has purchased the rights to all TopWare Interactive AG's game projects, including finished titles and those still under development. The company, based in the famous German town of Worms, has also acquired TopWare's stake in various development studios, as well as all brand holdings, copyrights, patents, Internet domains, movable inventory and a staff of 10 former TopWare employees. Among the studios involved in the deal is the award-winning game factory TopWare Programmy Spzoo. The Cracow-based development studio, with its team of 35 top-quality designers, artists and programmers is best known for such chart-toppers as Earth 2150 and The Moon Project. ZUXXEZ will take over TopWare's 51% stake, the rest remaining in the hands of Hemming AG. Zuxxez has also become sole owner of TopWare Poland Spzoo, whose staff of ten handles Polish localization and distribution. The Zuxxez team is working feverishly on the most important project currently in the pipeline - World War III: Black Gold, which the Cracow team should have ready in June. The company plans to announce a worldwide publisher for this anxiously-awaited title shortly. According to Dirk P. Hassinger, member of ZUXXEZ's Board of Directors and former CEO of TopWare AG: "Our new company had the good fortune to hold on to the best of the former TopWare crew. This means we can tap into a tremendous know-how and hit the ground running from the start. Our plans are simple. Develop some highly innovative, top quality games, then license them to the right worldwide publishers. We already have 7 titles under development here, of which 6 should be ready this year. One upcoming highlight is Knights & Merchants Gold, which offers some challenging enhancements to the core product. We're also working on "Earth 2150: Lost Souls" and four other interesting projects, details of which will be released when the time is right."