Archived News:
GA-Source interviews
Levelord talking to Ritual's own beerf*ck a bit about his work as a level designer,
and mostly about games and outside interests.
Raven's Eric Biessman updated his .plan with word to expect weekly updates in the future to help
share more of what their upcoming Quake II-engine game, Soldier of Fortune, will be like,
promising screenshots and in-game movies along the way.
There's a new Paul Jaquays
interview on Pels Interactive
playing finish the sentence with the id level designer talking about Quake III Arena, Star
Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.
There's an interview
with Stevie "KillCreek" Case on GA-Source talking to this ION Storm level
designer about her work on Daikatana, gaming in general, and some personal stuff as well.
The GamesCon site has the announcement that
the first public showing of Mortyr, Interactive Magic's upcoming World War II game, will be at
GamesCon's upcoming event at the end of the month in Toronto.
An new version 0.7 of the AirQuake II mod
is now available. AirQuake offers a flying action mod for Quake II putting you behind the
stick of a jet fighter. The new release offers a whole list of features, which can be
found on their page, along with a poll asking your favorite mod, offering a choice between
"Some junky TC not worth mentioning, another one, same here, and AirQuake
2."
The BotJohnny Home Page has a new version 2.2 of the
BotJohnny front-end that offers support for well over a dozen Quake II bots.
PlanetBlood has posted some detailed info on
what will be included in the upcoming mission pack for Monolith's Blood2. Thanks Billy at Voodoo Extreme.
Gangland.org interviews
Drew Markham, CEO of Xatrix Entertainment, about their upcoming Quake II-engine game,
Kingpin, discussing the inspirations for the game, what to expect from Kingpin, and a bit
about the realities of the game business.
Team Reaction Home Page has posted version
1.0e of their Gloom mod for Quake II. This is "mostly a bug fix release which
prevents player lameness." This is a server-only update, and the new version also
fixes a bug that would crash Linux. A new client "should be out in a week" with
new levels and sounds.
The Coven website has news of their new Napalm II mod for Quake
II that adds a second firing mode to all of the game's weapons. New actions include
fireballs, incendiary rounds, napalm rockets, flame-throwers, firestorms, and an
anti-matter gun. The new weapons are available in single-player and deathmatch.
FvF QW Headquarters has a new version 4.7 of
Future versus Fantasy for QuakeWorld, the "cult-favorite TC." Also, there are
some new FvF Redemption screenshots on the FvF Redemption site that show off the
development of the AI in the upcoming Genesis3D sequel to the Quake version.
Boardwatch Magazine's
February1999 Cover Story talks about Internet gaming and factors that influence
gameplay over the 'net. It's an informed discussion of the topic that tells ISPs how to
gain extra revenue by proving good service to gamers and can also help gamers know what to
look for in an ISP. Thanks David Ross.
A contest on the Sanctum offers a
first prize of a Diamond MX300 soundcard, and a second prize of a copy of Half-Life. PQL is a Quake one-on-one league in Portugal.
More birthday madness, today is id Software texture artist Kenneth Scott's birthday. It
seems the traffic caused by the link to the SyGate home
yesterday busted their bandwidth pretty quickly (I debated about making that a link again,
but decided to chance it), links on the page that went up in place of their homepage still
had download links to get the program. As mentioned here before, connecting multiple
machines through the same 'net connection is a native feature in Linux, and I'm told by
several folks that this is a recently announced feature to be added to the Windows 98
service pack.
I guess Blammo! is officially out of beta, as the news page has relocated back to its
traditional home at /news/news.shtml. I spent all day locked in the BlueLab with the
Voodoo3, but managed to hook up with furn to work through some Blammo! enhancements, one
of which is the new headline section up top. By the way, if I haven't stressed it yet, the
news database is searchable (woowoo!). Until we perform a conversion to get older HTML
news in, there's only a bit more than a week's news in the archive, but it's a start.
There's a search from on the News Archive (there's a link at the bottom of this page), and I've got
to work out a handy spot for a version of the search dealie like this:
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