ClaimsDemis Hassabis

“So far it's been a great deal of fun making this game, and we are confident that when you get your hands on it this fall you'll have at least as much fun playing it!”

Demis Hassabis, executive designer, Elixir Studios 2004 Evil Genius Designer Diary #1 (GameSpot)

Promise Other

Hassabis said Elixir was confident that players would get their hands on Evil Genius in fall 2004.

Delivered on time The record shows it happened or was so.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

Deadline: fall 2004, taken as up to about 21 December 2004. True: Evil Genius (Elixir Studios, published by Vivendi Universal Games/Sierra) went on retail sale or became available to buy in at least one major market by then. Mostly true: it was released in that window, but only in some regions, while others came later. Mostly false: the release slipped beyond fall 2004, even if only slightly. False: the game was cancelled, or was not released until well after 2004.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Evil Genius (video game) - Wikipedia Wikipedia Own record

    “It was released on 28 September 2004.”

  2. E2 Evil Genius (video game) - Wikipedia Wikipedia Own record

    “"Evil Genius". Gameplanet. Archived from the original on 16 February 2005. Retrieved 22 July 2024. Release date: 14th October, 2004”

  3. E3 Review: 'Evil Genius' amuses with strategy, satire CNN (Gannett News Service) · 15 October 2004

    “If you subscribe to the '80s duo Tears for Fears' classic lyric, "everybody wants to rule the world," and you like computer games, check out "Evil Genius," a new strategy game where you assume the role of a criminal mastermind bent on world domination.”

  4. E4 Evil Genius Review - IGN IGN · 29 September 2004

    “In the end, Evil Genius is a fun, yet frustrating game.”

Reasoning

E1 gives Evil Genius's release date as 28 September 2004, which falls within fall 2004. E2 cites a Gameplanet listing with a release date of 14 October 2004. Two independent outlets back this up: IGN published a review on 29 September 2004 (E4), and a CNN/Gannett review dated 15 October 2004 calls it "a new strategy game" for readers to check out (E3). Together these show the game was on sale well before the deadline of about 21 December 2004.

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Demis Hassabis, “Hassabis said Elixir was confident that players would get their hands on Evil Genius in fall 2004.” (said 2004). Verdict: delivered on time. Reliability API, claim c_609b2bd1e71d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_609b2bd1e71d

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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