Santa Monica, California games publisher Activision Inc will publish the first three titles from Nihilistic Software Inc, a newly formed games developer. Under the terms of the agreement, the first title from Nihilistic will be a 3D role-playing game which Activision expects to release in autumn 1999. Nihilistic is headed by game industry veterans Ray Gresko, Robert Huebner and Steve Tietze, whose combined games developments include Dark Forces, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, Descent, Descent II and the Quake Mission Pack #2: Dissolution of Eternity.