Previous attempts by Valve Software with the Half-Life series, Ritual Entertainment with SiN Episodes and Telltale Games themselves with Bone were for a variety of reasons not considered successful implementations of the distribution model.

With this acquisition, Ritual's focus on traditional action-oriented games was changed to casual games, essentially " stalling " Ritual's latest game series, SiN Episodes, after releasing only one episode out of a planned nine.

* SiN Episodes: Emergence – ( 2006 ) ( PC )

The game was later released over Valve Software's Steam Platform on April 5, 2006, either as a standalone product, or bundled together with its sequel, SiN Episodes.

A sequel, SiN Episodes, was made by Ritual and was intended to be released episodically over Valve's Steam network.

An alternate reality game based in the SiN universe was launched in 2005 to promote the announcement of SiN Episodes.

SiN was also re-released on the Steam platform on April 5, 2006 bundled together with SiN Episodes: Emergence.

Several textures have been modified in this release apparently due to copyright issues ( the original images of many being replaced with SiN Episodes artwork ) and all instances of nudity and drug references in the game have been censored.

The character has since evolved into a PC game industry in-joke, making appearances in games from Apogee's 1994 Wacky Wheels as well as titles as recent as the 2006 SiN Episodes: Emergence and 2007 Chili Con Carnage and more recently including 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

One of Ritual's main design goals with SiN Episodes was to offer interactivity, character-driven gameplay, emergent AI, and a plot reflecting the choices made by players through an opt-in statistics system that aggregates play data to a database: the intention that future episodes would thus depend on the choices that are made by each player.

SiN Episodes is built on the Source engine with additional technology added by Ritual.

* Dynamic difficulty: Dubbed the Personal Challenge System, SiN Episodes adapts itself to the player's skill level and varies the skill, numbers and toughness of enemies faced in accordance the player's performance to ensure a suitable level of challenge as well as to help pace the player through the game, ensuring an even game length across all skill levels.

SiN Episodes: Emergence Soundtrack album art

SiN Episodes: Emergence received generally favorable reviews and currently holds the score of 75 on MetaCritic.

* SiN Episodes: Emergence at MobyGames

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* The 1998 computer game SiN is set in 2037.

SiN is a first-person shooter video game based on a modified version of the Quake II engine developed by Ritual Entertainment and published by Activision in late 1998.

One major difference in the world of SiN is the lack of a police force.

As long as robust SiN tips are used, there is no need for complicated feedback electronics, no need for lasers, no need for quad photo-diodes, and no need for an AFM.

Wages of Sin is an expansion pack ( a mission pack ) for the computer game SiN from late 1998.

SiN also contained many Easter eggs, more so than most other games, ranging from some fairly obvious signs and graffiti, through to entire secret hidden rooms.

SiN also featured three different types of body armor-for the legs, for the torso and for the head, with each of them depleting separately according to where the player was getting hit.

Critical reception for SiN was mixed.

A mission pack was released for the game in 1999 by 2015, Inc., entitled SiN: Wages of Sin.

This version of SiN ( version 1. 12 ) includes fixes for audio and video playback problems as well as integration with the Steam multiplayer server browser.

These level designers include: John Romero, responsible for a great deal of the level design for Doom, and Richard " Levelord " Gray, creator of a number of levels for Duke Nukem 3D and SiN.

In partnership with her website and Ritual Entertainment, she portrayed the character Elexis Sinclaire for the video game, SiN Episodes.

* SiN – ( 1998 ) ( PC ( Windows and Linux ), Linux on PowerPC ) both Linux versions ported by Hyperion Entertainment

* SiN II publisher demo – ( 2003 ) ( PC ) Ritual Entertainment made a game demo to show potential publishers.

On their official website, Hyperion also claimed to have acquired the license to port Worms Armageddon, but it was never released by Hyperion, as neither was an Amiga port of SiN they also claimed to have been working on.

These shortcomings, coupled with the great success of Half-Life, resulted in SiN not achieving as much success as the developers had hoped, although it did attain a moderate amount of sales during the 1998 Christmas period.

In October 1998, a demo version of the Activision game SiN was infected by one of its mirror sites.

Based in Dallas, Texas, Ritual was formerly known as Hipnotic Interactive, during which period they began development of their signature video game SiN.

The patch was exceptionally large ; at the time it was normal to expect a game patch file to be up to 5 MB in size, whereas SiN first patch was over 31 MB.

Hyperion's game ports include ( but may not be limited to ): Heretic II, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, Gorky 17, Quake II, SiN and Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War.

Although Elexis Sinclaire never appears in Wages of Sin, there are lots of references to her ( in serious and humorous ways ) throughout the game and the ending leaves a big hint towards her return ( which happens in Sin's official sequel, SiN Episodes ).