Archived News:
The GameSpy 3D page has version 2.08 of the
shareware GameSpy shareware which offers support for Starsiege TRIBES and Accolade's Redline.
PlanetBlood has posted a Q&A with Monolith's
Jay "Shade" Wilson on the upcoming Blood II add-on, talking about the story line,
weapons, monsters, and more, as well as word the Blood II patch (AKA the "point
release"), would be out this week sometime (we have a guarantee backed by Shade's
Mazda).
Saw on Voodoo Extreme that GameSpot's Tomb Raider III Demo
download page has an updated version of the Tomb Raider III demo that offers part of
the South Pacific level for your vacationing enjoyment, be there, aloha.
There are six new exclusive screenshots of Shiny's upcoming Messiah on Messiah Press. They are high resolution shots,
each weighing in at over 100 KB.
There's an Anachronox
development update on The Adrenaline Vault that give a status report on the game from
ION's Tom Hall. Thanks Voodoo Extreme.
New beta version 1.02 Diamond
Monster Sound MX300 drivers have been posted, they're dated the 11th, but they're new.
Thanks David T. Dao.
Frag Fortune interviews' Chia Chin Lee,
sound designer for Raven software about Raven's upcoming Quake II-engine game of mercenary
action, Soldier of Fortune, talking about gameplay as well as sound issues.
ZDNNews News
Bursts and Rootshell each have
stories up about the cracking of the id Software Website
this morning. Thanks Conan Ford. For some time the site contained a message in support
of Kevin Mitnick, currently serving jail time awaiting trial for computer crimes.
Another screenshot from
the Starsiege beta has surfaced, this one on PlanetStarSiege
showing a mech's eye view of a convoy trotting along.
A Turok 2: Seeds of
Evil Multiplayer Server has been posted on Turok
Dot Com for ISP's and others who would like to run a Turok2 dedicated Rtime
multi-player server. The server archive is a 13 MB download containing four flavors of
dedicated server for WIN32 (Win 95/98/NT), Linux, Sun, and SGI.
There's a new Starsiege screenshot on Bad Karma showing off a mecha from
this upcoming prequel to TRIBES walking on the Moon (one small step for mecha, one giant
leap for mecha-kind). Thanks Datumplane::Starsiege.
Interplay's Kingpin Website
has posted some sample music
performed by Cypress Hill from the soundtrack
of the upcoming Quake II-engine gangsta extravaganza, Kingpin: Life of Crime.
Virgin and Interplay sign agreement is
the announcement that these two companies will be working together to combine efforts on
future distribution deals capitalizing on Virgin's establishment in the European market
and Interplay's in the US.
Version 0.6a of the Insomniax Mod for TRIBES is
now available, offering a new item, the cloaking pack, as well as several options that
affect administration of the server. Thanks PlanetStarSiege.
tAng at PlanetStarSiege sends word of an
updated version of TRIBES Axis commander (I've already made a Rommel reference on this
one, haven't I?). Here's the word:
Tribes Axis Commander(TAC) version 1.2 has been released for TRIBES. This is a
handy program that helps with configuring a players controller. It is available for download here.
The GameGirlz Course In Level Design is now
accepting sign-ups for these IRC classes that will be conducted by Dolomite of the D-Team. Here's the
skinny:
Run as an online course, people who sign up will be asked to take part in IRC
classes and forum discussions. Even if you know nothing about creating levels, by the end
of olomite's course... you will! This editing course will include topics such as: Getting
Started, Planning, Grids, Geometry, Textures, Light Entities, Speed, Advanced Geometry,
Geometric Abuse, Working with Mods and Their Authors, Teamwork, Online Presence,
Dispositions, and Hard Stuff.
Billy has posted six new screenshots (five of them are similar-like frames in a sequence),
showing off Activision's upcoming Heavy Gear II on Voodoo
Extreme.
There's a new Intel CPU
Roadmap for 1999 on Sharky Extreme giving
the latest intelligence on what the Big I has planned for the coming year gleaned from
"several conversations and meetings with key sources close to Intel."
A new walkthrough of chapter one of Blood2 is now up on PlanetBlood, covering the first 11 levels of the
game.
PlanetBlood has posted two new screenshots as
well as a sample of some of the music from Revelations, the upcoming
official Blood2 add-on from Tequila software.
The current issue of loonygames (great cover this
week, BTW) is off and running. Here are your crib notes on what will be posted all through
the week, there will be a test:
Yeah, it's issue twenty five...who knew? Creeping you out this week:
- The Unreal Cliffy B!: Jason "loonyboi" Bergman sits down with the guy behind
Unreal and Jazz Jackrabbit 2 to try and figure out how the heck he did both games
simultaneously! [Tuesday]
- From the Mouth of Madness: The ten most underrated games of all time! [Tuesday]
- Penny Arcade: A very special Penny Arcade! Trust us, you WON'T want to miss this one. :)
[Wednesday]
- PLUS: Fargloads of User Friendly [DAILY], Penny Arcade does TNT [Friday], our look at
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 first in Pixel Obscura [Wednesday], and then in The Bargain Bin
[Thursday], Code on the Cob returns, along with a new Graphic Content [Wednesday] and
more! And then some more, because we don't sleep. Got that?
- NOTE: loonygames is starting the week a day late in honor of President's Day, the day
that celebrates a bunch of presidents who didn't have affairs with their interns, but did
own slaves, grow hemp, and abused their wives. Actually, it's really because of
Valentine's Day. In order for us to update on Monday, our editor-in-chief would have had
to work on Valentine's Day...and that just wasn't happening. :)
The Faith CTF page has a new mod for Quake II
called Psyclass which allows the server-op total control over classes included in the game
with up to ten classes and over 50 variables for each class, hundreds of variations are
possible making each server unique.
There's a problem with the current release of BattleCruiser
3000AD with corrupted screens when going into the configure screen in the Glide
version, so there is an interim patch on the BC downloads page that addresses this until
version 2.05 is released.
Happy Chinese New Year. Day three of the beta test of the news database here, and it's
tough to continue to consider it a beta, since I can't seem to find any bugs in the
system. It is still uncertain how much of the old news can be added to the database how
quickly, but there are hopeful signs, so I've got my fingers crossed.
I received a correction on my explanation of President's Day here in the US saying it's
really just for George Washington, and a contradictory explanation that the holiday is
meant to honor all US Presidents not just Lincoln and Washington. I believe the latter is
the correct explanation, and it appeals to me, since it made my Warren G. Harding tribute
more appropriate (an anonymous writer queried: "How could you forget to honor Millard
Filmore? Traitor!").
Link of the day: This SANYO USA
Bread-Slicer. In spite of the designation BS-1, this is apparently not BS, but check
out the selling point in the logo in the lower right. Thanks esses.
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