UltraVixen, the animated star of the eponymous videogame, will be a centerfold in Hustler publisher Larry Flynt's new magazine. The January issue of the strangely titled Gen-X porn magazine Rage will feature a photo spread and interview with the virtual "hypersexual" woman, which - no surprise - is being touted as a digital first.
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Condé Naste cooks up TV: Move over, Yan Can Cook - Epicurious will soon be competing for boob-tube eyeballs. Condé Nast announced today that its popular culinary Web site is being spun into a TV show for the Discovery Channel.
Just as the Epicurious site includes travel tips nestled next to recipes, the creators promise that the show will go beyond simple slicing and dicing to offer both cultural insights and culinary tours of food regions. The show will debut in late 1998. (10.Dec.97)
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ZDTV wants to see you: In an effort to demonstrate the need for a technology-centered TV network in a compelling, gee-whiz manner, Ziff-Davis' upcoming venture has a plan: putting viewers themselves on TV.
ZDTV announced today that it would distribute 10,000 desktop video cameras, free of charge, in the hopes that users will want to interact with the network's programming. ZDTV is scheduled to launch early in 1998.
The Bigpicture cameras manufactured by 3Com are designed to work at different scales, for different levels of user Net access. (10.Dec.97)
