Archived News:
This Cliff Bleszinski
interview on UTWorld talks with the lead designer at Epic games answering a
range of questions on subjects ranging from Unreal Tournament gameplay to
"industry jobs."
The Qtracker Homepage has a new beta
16 of Qtracker, the latest version of this Win32 server browser (which now also
offers an .mp3 streaming audio browser, and an HTML server list generator) that
can scour the Internet to locate servers for a bunch of different action games.
The new release adds "ICMP pings, super-fast server finding, wizard-based
server finding, new auto-installer, and Quake III IPX support. Basically, it
boils down to: Qtracker's even easier AND faster to use." A complete list
of what's new can be
found here.
AMD Athlon
Processor Rockets to 1GHz on AMDZone is the first look at a press release
that will apparently hit the wires tomorrow morning announcing the commencement
of shipments of 1 GHz Athlon processors.
- The Wargamer's
Metal Fatigue preview offers screenshots snapped from a beta of the
game they've received.
- The Camelot Vault's front page
has a pair of new shots from Dark Age of Camelot, Mythic Entertainment's
upcoming "massively multiplayer" RPG, and their Camelot Screenshots
section offers more new shots, as well, while GA-Source's
Dark Age of Camelot Details and Screenshots offers that same set of
images as well as more details on the game's 3D engine, shared with Prince
of Persia 3D among others, which is also the subject of this Adrenaline Vault
interview with John Austin of Numerical Design, talking about the
NetImmerse 3D Engine.
- Also, GA-RPG's Siege-of-Avalon Details and Screenshots
show off "Digital Tome’s RPG Siege-of-Avalon,
the industry’s first RPG Episodic Computer Game Novel scheduled for launch
April 27, 2000, will feature more than 140 supporting characters and
hundreds of "extras" through the use of new proprietary technology
the company developed."
- Finally, more on GA-Source, as their Martian
Gothic: Unification Screenshots and Features offers some brand new 3D action/adventure from Take 2 Interactive.
There's an
interview with Peter Binazeski on Glide Underground talking with the
publicity director at Simon & Schuster about progress on Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine-The Fallen, the upcoming Unreal-engine trekkie action game.
A new version 2.8 of TeamSound, the free
"Internet phone and voice conferencing for game players" program is
now available on their new homepage. According to the description, "In
addition to clear voice, TeamSound contains multiple channel support, command
& control for hotkey customization, computer generated text-to-speech for
sequencing actions on the battlefield and much more." The new version
includes an NT service for dedicated operation.
Version 1.0 of Reactive Software's
Hulk mod for Quake III Arena is now available. Like the namesake comic book
series, this mod pits a lone powerful Hulk (randomly selected at game start)
against a group of "puny humans," who attempt to gang up on him. The
player who kills the Hulk takes the next turn in his place, while doing damage
to the Hulk will earn frags for players, with the Hulk increasing his score by
fragging the players persecuting him. Thanks Timothy J. Agen.
The El Niño Quake Extensions page
has a new version 2.1.5 of Viz for Quake III Arena, written by Quake II VWep
author Hentai. This release fixes a few problems with picking up/dropping the
ball in rugby mode, and causes the ball to respawn after sitting still too long. A new release that adds more new gameplay features is expected
shortly (as Hentai says: "but first I gotta take a shower.").
A public beta (Rev. 430) of the Quake 3 System Management Server
offers a replacement for the Quake III Arena default server console. "It
allows you to choose which server you want to monitor (if you have multiple
servers running on one box), and offers a lot of features that the default
console doesn't."
The new version 0.3 of Quake2 Relay
is now available, promising "demos on steroids," and basically
delivering just that, as this utility overcomes some of the limitations of Quake
II demo recording, allowing the recording and playback of entire Q2 matches from
any perspective, rather than just the recording player's viewpoint. The new
release adds Linux support and a tool to convert relay demos to regular Quake II
demo format.
A new beta 0.86 of the QBind
advanced script editor for Quake-engine games is now available (thanks FileClicks).
Included in the new version is enhanced support for the latest versions of Quake
III Arena, as well as improved Win2K support.
AvP FragFinder is an
online server browser program available from Aliens Versus Predator dot Com
to allow you to find Aliens versus Predator multiplayer servers on the Internet.
If you are running a server, there's also a simple form to fill out to get
yourself listed.
Nope, nothing wrong with any demos today (that we know of), but a correction to
a reference that's appeared a couple of times to the 3D engine used in Gore, the
upcoming shooter from 4D Rulers. A couple of recent updates have referred to
this as a proprietary engine, when in fact Gore is being developed using the
Slam engine from Slam Software.
Naturally, we regret the error, and any confusion it may have caused.
There's a contest on Quake3zone.net
offering the chance to win one of a pair of those cool id Software hockey jersey
to the winners of a random drawing. GA-Strategy's Build-a-Bot Giveaway
offers a Sony DVD player, Diamond Multimedia cards, and Metal Fatigue gadgets to
the winners of their Metal Fatigue Build-a-Bot contest. Stomped @ E3's
Win the Future contest offers a copy of each of Diablo II, Halo, and Team
Fortress II for the authors of the best essays on why they deserve to win, for
those who'd rather do homework than pay cash.
There was a little follow-up activity on yesterday's Link of the Day after it
was posted, I added a note after a few folks noticed that the blurb on the site
said that "victims" of the phone smash dealie were not
compensated for the damage (thanks Simon Medisch), while the note we posted with
the link originally indicated they were. More significant, however, is the
reason they could get away with such vandalism, as the results of some look-ups
determining the ownership of the site seem to indicate the whole thing is
probably staged (thanks Rob Heiser and John Fraser), much to the relief of phone
wielders and dismay of anarchists everywhere.
Link of the Day: What Breed of Dog Are You?
Apparently I'm a German Shepard. Thanks Ant
(a Chihuahua).
Bonus Link: Hidden
DVD Features (computer required for some). Thanks again Ant.
Story of the Day: Who Owns the Internet?
Thanks yet again Ant.
Bonus Story: Is
Your Computer Possesed (sic) by a Demon? Thanks Godzilla.
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