IBM Deep Thunder in 1996, where it ran for several months and produced multiple forecasts daily. After a few years of development, the team set up an implementation in New York City in 2001 to test the project. The group is currently working on establishing the Rio de Janeiro operations center. The name Deep Thunder arose after the IBM Deep Blue system played and defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov in May, 1997. In the following November, a journalist used the name Deep Thunder in an article, which stuck with the developers. Deep Thunder uses a 3D telescoping grid where data from
Computer Gaming World "Best Professional Adventure Gaming Magazine of 1987". "The New York Times" repeatedly praised CGW, placing it as one of the premier computer game publications of its time. In 1997 the newspaper called it "the leading computer game magazine", In 1999 "the bible of computer game purists", and in 2005 "one of the top computer game magazines". On August 2, 2006, Ziff Davis Media issued a press release detailing their plans to halt circulation of "Computer Gaming World". As part of a joint-venture project with Microsoft, Ziff Davis launched a new magazine dubbed "" in Fall of 2006. The new magazine