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Ambrosia recently announced it would be publishing the hacker game Uplink by Introversion, that is currently being ported to the Mac by Contraband. Uplink is a unique game in which players play hackers hired by corporations to hack into competing company’s databases to steal research, for sabotage, and to hack into the stock market and police systems.

Here's the description from Ambrosia's Website:

You play an Uplink Agent who makes a living by performing jobs for major corporations. Your tasks involve hacking into rival computer systems, stealing research data, sabotaging other companies, laundering money, erasing evidence, or framing innocent people.

You use the money you earn to upgrade your computer systems, and to buy new software and tools. As your experience level increases you find more dangerous and profitable missions become available. You can speculate on a fully working stock market (and even influence its outcome). You can modify people’s academic or criminal records. You can divert money from bank transfers into your own accounts. You can even take part in the construction of the most deadly computer virus ever designed.

Ambrosia Publishing Uplink for OS X

Ambrosia Software

Contraband Entertainment

Uplink

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