Archived News:
MeccaWorld sent word of a Black & White movie that features Lionhead's Peter Molyneux being interviewed and giving a demo of this upcoming 3D strategy/god-game. The 42 MB download runs close to six minutes in length, and comes highly recommended as a way to give you a good idea what the game is about.
As promised, Lanced.net has posted their second new Starlancer image, showing off a detailed CGI cutscene. Not to be outdone, GameRush updated their Starlancer Weekly Shots page with not one or two, but four new screenshots from this upcoming space combat title.
Tactical Planet continues their countdown to the release of Delta Force 2 with a brief Q&A session with lead programmer Daniele Gaetano, as well as two new screenshots. Saw that on SpecForce.net. Among the topics covered is the game's built-in Voice-Over-Net tech:
TP: Did adding Voice-Over-Net technology increase the
lag for modem users?
Daniele Gaetano: Only if your modem's bandwidth is already maxed out -- and only for the people using it. If you're not currently speaking or listening to someone speak, you're not affected at all. If you have a fast connection, you should have enough bandwidth that you probably won't notice the difference.
Hakeem just took home first place at the FRAG3 Q3Test tournament by overcoming stx-wombat in a thrilling match 10-9 in sudden-death overtime. Hakeem takes home $10,000 US for his efforts, while reigning CPL champ wombat earned $5,000 for second place, and finishes the year as this year's CPL champion, as well. Third place goes to nB.fatality. The match had one of the most dramatic endings you could imagine, as wombat picked up the frag to tie the match with just five seconds remaining to force the overtime, which Hakeem won in sudden death. And in first-person shooters, it's really sudden death. Congrats to all of the participants (except for the REALLY nasty campers ![=]](/miscimages/smiley4.gif) ) for some great matches.
AVault's Frag 3 coverage page
has posted a Q&A with Gearbox Software's Randy Pitchford, talking to the
designer about his work on their official Half-Life add-on pack, Opposing Force.
There are four new screenshots up as well (thanks beN).
Gathering of Developer's Mike Wilson sent along a correction to an incorrect correction to
the story about the upcoming Blair Witch project game. It turns out that contrary to the
clarification that said the game would be a mission pack ( story), the original story calling the project a standalone Nocturne-engine
game was indeed accurate. Here's the scoop:
Whoever wrote that update for the Spookhouse about the Blair Witch game(s) must
have interviewed someone on too many "crushers" (the house drink of choice at
the party).
The Blair Witch games will not be mission packs for Nocturne with 'a Blair Witch mission'.
They will all be standalone games... more details to come in early 2000... but didn't want
the Spookhouse's misconception to be the 'word' till then.
There are a
bunch of new Soldier of Fortune screenshots on The Adrenaline Vault News to give a
feel for what's being shown off of Raven's upcoming mercenary action game at the FRAG3.
There is a new screenshot from Starlancer on Lanced.Net
showing off a large battle with a planet in the background. They plan on releasing another
new shot from Digital Anvil's upcoming space sim tomorrow afternoon.
There's an Unreal Tournament Demo
patch on Westlake Interactive to fix a problem some users have with the just-released
Mac version of the UT demo that causes it to crash immediately upon startup. The patch is
about 1 MB, but, of course, requires the 50 MD Mac UT demo. Thanks Davis Lentz.
There was a big announcement at the FRAG3 today about plans for big cash prizes for the
next CPL event, dubbed the Razer * CPL Championship after sponsor that's ponying up
$100,000 cash, with $40,000 in line for the first place winner. Here's the deal:
LOS ANGELES * October 30, 1999 * Razer, makers of the extraordinarily responsive
Boomslang line of gaming mice, and the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) have today
announced a new spring championship tournament scheduled to take place in Los Angeles,
California in March 2000. The tournament, dubbed the Razer * CPL Championship, will offer
total cash prizes of $100,000, the largest cash prize to date for a computer game
tournament.
"This is the biggest event of its kind in the history of the sport," said Robert
Krakoff, general manager of Razer. "We shook-up the gaming world with the launch of
the Razer and we're going to do it again with the size and scope of the Razer * CPL
Championship."
The four-day event is estimated to attract 1,500 people from all over the world and will
have LAN support for 1,000 computers. The official CPL one-on-one tournament will allow up
to 512 people to compete for total cash prizes of $100,000
The exact location and date of the event will be announced early December and the online
registration site is located at www.razercpl.com.
There's an interview with Robert "Robs"
Siletto on American McGee's Alice Webring giving the Rogue level designer a brief
grilling on his opinions about deathmatch, level design, and Q3Test.
The Coven Napalm II Downloads page has
newly-released ports of this open source Quake II deathmatch mod for Irix and BeOS. Napalm
II, adds secondary fire modes to all of Quake II's weapons adding flamethrowers, fire
storms, and incendiary bullets.
The debut release of the Monkey
LAN game server browser (not to be confused with the similarly named Internet server
browser MonkeySPI) is now available. This utility can locate and connect to servers on you
LAN for the following games: Quake, QuakeWorld, Quake II, Q3Test, Half-Life, Starsiege
TRIBES, and the Unreal Tournament Demo.
The brackets have been posted for the -AA- Sniper Tournament, a
TeamFortress Classic competition that's now set to get underway.
Delta-Force2.com is holding a
giveaway of five copies of Delta Force 2, NovaLogic's new tactical shooter, autographed by
the development team. Likewise, TacticalPlanet
is having a countdown to Delta Force 2, a five day long DF2 extravaganza of screenshots
and interviews that will culminate in the giveaway of a copy of the game. Finally, Win Septerra Core on Gamer's Voice
will be giving way three copies of this RPG from Monolith.
So we made it to our final stop before returning home late tomorrow, as we're now here in
deep in the heart of Texas (Dallas). Our flight with a stop over was canceled, and the
flight we got to replace it was non-stop, ruining what would have ended up a streak where
loony and I would have been in three different cities each day for four days straight, but
the slight ease in travel nuttiness eases the pain of losing the right to lay claim to
such a non-distinction. As Mark Dochtermann's .plan reminds us, yesterday marked the first
anniversary of the completion of Sin. Thanks again to Cool
for the Halloween logo he sent last year, making its second appearance in honor of the
spookiest day o' the year (aside from the day your tax return is due).
Link of the Day: Welcome
to my home page ! Kiss you ! Interests "I like sex." Thanks Rich Matthews
Image of the Day: The new MS keyboard? Thanks .f00Dave.
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