Archived News:
There's a
new Project IGI Preview on Player Of Games that looks ahead at the shooter
also known as "I'm Going In" from Norwegian developer Innerloop
Studios, which they describe as allowing you to play "in a style
reminiscent of a James Bond movie." To help them in their quest to inform
us about this upcoming game, they enlisted the help of Andrew Wensley, the game's
project leader to answer some questions.
Saying it's like a level pack on its side, Avatar sends word he's released a
version of TargetQuake for
Quake III Arena. The side part comes from the fact that in addition to the three
maps in TargetQuake, there is also a mod that turns the game over to offer Quake
action side-scroller style.
Version 201 of Q3Radiant is up, hot on
the heels of the release of version 200, the new release fixing a texture menu
bug with an assist from MrElusive. Also, a new version 1.2.3 of the Java MD3 Model Viewer
is now available, offering a caffeinated way to view the models from Quake III
Arena. Finally, the folks at the Quake Info Pool send along an update so full of
info, I'll just pass the whole thing along: There you can find all about
Classic Quake including a huge list of known bugs in Quake and QuakeWorld. The
recent update informs about why there was such a huge time span between updates,
that a SVC/CLC network versioning was developed to extended parts of the network
protocol without (losing) backwards compatibility and that the maintainer joined
the QuakeForge team at http://www.quakeforge.net/
to include his fixes to this Quake port. An 'inofficially' GPLed version of the
QuakeC sourcecode v1.06 is available for download. Last but not least you can
find information about the new WorldCraft 3 and Nvidia detonators in relation to
Classic Quake. Unfortunately the Quake 3 section got closed because of time
constraints.
- Bang! Gunship Elite
Glide Underground's
Bang! Gunship Elite preview offers a look ahead at this upcoming space
sim, including a bunch of screenshots.
- Caeron3000
GA-RPG has
posted a new screenshot from Caeron3000, the science fiction MMORPG formerly
known as Infinium, currently in the works at Magique Productions.
- The Age of...
GA-Strategy
has some new EMBM (bump-mapping) enhanced screenshots from Aquarius, an
upcoming "strategy hybrid" from Jack in the Box Computing.
- 4x4 Evolution
Continuing the GA-Shots, GA-Sports
has posted a 4x4 Evolution Q&A with Terminal Reality's Jeff
"Smitty" Smith along with some screenshots of the upcoming
off-road racer.
The new screenshot of the week on LucasArts' frontpage is from Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth installment in the long-running adventure series. This shot depicts a harbor view with the game's main character Guybrush Threepwood.
More updates to the official American McGee's Alice site in addition to yesterday's new screenshots ( story): the new Icewand weapon is introduced properly (it was already revealed in one of the new shots), and another piece of the Wonderland map in the Queen's Domain is opened up, giving access to the Queen's Grounds.
There is a hands-on preview of Dark Reign 2 on Adrenaline Vault, looking ahead to the 3D action RTS by Pandemic Studios for the last time, as it is due to appear on store shelves next week. The article explores the various features of the game, and in particular commends the A.I. opponents. Also, there appear to be another three new screenshots in rotation on the official site, although the page date wasn't updated to reflect that.
PC.IGN.com has posted seven new screenshots of Metal Fatigue, snapped from a recent build of this 3D real-time strategy game by Zono that should be stomping into US stores soon now that it has found a new publisher in TalonSoft.
There are a bunch of new Soldier screenshots online at Gaming Age (thanks Robert), taken from a pre-alpha version of the third-person action game by Sinister Games that is based on the Kurt Russell action movie.
Also on PC.IGN.com are eight new screenshots of Zeus: Master of Olympus, a city building/economic/military strategy sim by Impressions Games that follows in the footsteps of Caesar III and Pharaoh.
Phoebus at Soldier-of-Fortune.com
sends word that a
post to Raven's Official SoF Forums by Raven's Rick Johnson has word he's
issuing a multiplayer test for Soldier of Fortune to try and isolate the cause
of some crashes: "I'm going to put out a test .exe which back-dates
out the latest code from WON to see if their stuff is what is causing all of the
crashes (which based on the crash addresses, I believe it is). I'll also release
a new eaxsnd.dll and eaxman.dll which have bugs fixed by creative as well."
Radiated.net's
Scott Miller Interview is online (thanks Stomped),
asking a bunch of questions of the 3D Realms president, as can be expected, many
of them related to Duke Nukem Forever. There are also some personal
questions, as well as some general questions about the industry, one of them
inspiring the Miller to share the following about id's newly announced Doom
plans: "My take is that Id will make a lot of money remaking DOOM for the
fifth time in a row (cannot count Q3A). ;-)"
Gamers Depot's
Chris Taylor interview talks with the founder of Gas Powered Games about
Dungeon Siege, the upcoming third-person action RPG. The conversation covers a
bunch of topics, including the inevitable question about Diablo II, and is
accompanied by a bunch of photos taken at the Gas Powered Games offices. To go
along with the interview, they've also posted a Dungeon
Siege Preview.
A Daily Radar Feature
called GOD games screenshots offers up screenshots taken from post-E3
versions of Heavy Metal: FAKK 2, The Blair Witch Projects, Rune, Tropico, and
The Blair Witch: Rustin Parr. While some of the shots have shown up elsewhere
before, a few from each group also look brand new.
PC.IGN.Com's Blade Interview
talks with Jose Raluy, a programmer on Blade, the upcoming hack-and-slash RPG
from Spanish developer Rebel Act Studios. The Q&A catches up with details on
what the game will be like, including a discussion of the third-person combat
system.
This edited
chat log on Relic News recounts the Homeworld X IRC session last night with
Plaz, one of the relics at Relic Entertainment, creators of Homeworld, to talk
about progress on Homeworld: Cataclysm, the upcoming follow-up to the space
strategy game.
PC.IGN.Com's Praetorians interview
is a Q&A with Jaime Cifuentes of Pyro discussing their upcoming
"semi-historical RTS." The article offers up a bunch of new
screenshots from this game that looks to recreate Julius Caesar's campaigns.
PC.IGN.Com's Resident Evil 3 Nemesis preview
is online, offering a look ahead at the upcoming installment in the Resident
Evil series that will be both a prequel and a sequel to RE2, taking place in the
24 hours before and after the previous game. Among other things, the preview
discusses what gameplay changes take place from the prior games.
Not to split hairs, but the sniper's crosshair was accidentally omitted from the
new Counter-Strike released yesterday ( story). Counter-Strike.net
has posted the replacement, a modest 1 KB download.
The Firearms Half-Life website has a
bunch of new screenshots from the upcoming maps in Firearms release candidate
2.1. Also, the Unreal Fortress
website has some new screenshots up, and there's an exclusive Unreal
Fortress interview on Unreal Tournament UK and another on UK Clanzone.
Computer Games Online's
Evolva tips keep evolving, they've now posted the third part of their Evolva
walkthrough, beginning with Land Seven.
A new version 1.4 of the Half-Life Compilation Controller
is now available on GracelessLand
offering features I don't understand, but presumably Half-Life editing types
will appreciate. Also, the official Motocross Madness 2
site has word of the availability of the Motocross Madness 2 terrain editor. The
program, nicknamed Armadillo, is compatible with 3D Studio Max.
Virtual Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Growing Sport of Professional Computer Gaming
on GameSpot is an article about the state of professional gaming, including
a history recounting the events since the launch of the CPL and PGL in 1997.
Speaking of the CPL, they send a reminder that the registration
fee for the Babbage's CPL $100,000 Tournament will increase from $30 to $40 on
July 1. Also, FragSquad has announced
the date for Fragsquad2 as September 2, 2000 in the Netherlands. Finally, the Descent 3 Community Ladder
is back in operation.
Howdy there, this is usually loony's shift, but he's off this evening seeing
Chicken Run, apparently something akin to a religious event for the lad, and
since I'm mostly feeling over my cold/flu dealie, I'm filling in. BTW, in case
you're curious, the question as to why Frans never does these morning
"rollover" updates came up recently on the messageboards again, so if
you ever wondered about it, Frans' reply is here. Meanwhile, a couple of required tweaks are finally in place here, the
popular (relatively speaking) threads listing atop the page now properly only
displays messageboard threads begun within the last week, and the .plan Summaries
listing finally properly displays .plans within the last 24 hours.
Link of the Day: 7 Deadly Sims - Sims Deathmatch.
Thanks Ant.
Story of the Day: Spiders From Outer Space.
Thanks again Ant (who obviously would
be glad to see them all go).
Bonus Story: Revenge On the One-Armed Bandit.
Thanks one more time to Ant.
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