Name your child Turok
by VGLN Staff

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

...for $10,000 says Acclaim representative.

Video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment Inc. said on Tuesday it will give $10,000 in savings bonds to the first family to have a child on September 1 and name it "Turok," after Acclaim's new game of the same name to be released on that day.

In the straight-forward shooter game, Turok must battle his way through "reptilian hordes" in a place called the Lost Land, according to the game's Web site.

"People for generations have been naming their children for sports celebrities, movie star, musicians," said Acclaim spokesman Allan Lewis. "It's a natural evolution ... people are going to start naming their children for video games."

The game, "Turok: Evolution," is Acclaim's biggest title of the year; it will be released simultaneously on all major game platforms September 1, which the company has taken to calling "Turok Bloody Sunday."

--- VGLN Staff