WildTangent Press Release

In an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Report: "Growing Proliferation of Racist Video Games Target Youth on the Internet," there is reference to "an anti-Semitic and racist game created using the powerful open-source game engine Genesis 3D...." We at WildTangent would like to make our relationship to the Genesis3D open source project clear to any interested parties.

In October 1999, WildTangent acquired the technology assets of Eclipse Entertainment, the maker of Genesis3D game engine. Before the acquisition, Eclipse made the source code for the Genesis3D engine available to the open source development community. After the acquisition WildTangent turned ownership of the open source effort over to the community and ceased to have further involvement with that effort.

The Genesis3D technology is a general-purpose game engine used by tens of thousands of amateur and professional game developers. We have no more association with the content that is produced on this engine than Microsoft has with the content posted on the Internet that uses Internet Explorer, or a CD manufacturer has with the content distributed on their media.

Any 'game engine' enables independent third parties to author any game of their choosing, no matter how objectionable its content is to us at WildTangent or to the public at large. We at WildTangent regret any association, no matter how distant with the game engine highlighted in the Anti-Defamation League report and certainly do not support nor condone the use of our technologies to sponsor hatred or to recruit individuals to hate groups. - Alex St. John, co-founder and CEO of WildTangent