Archived News:
Red Faction
preview on GameSpot UK after some hands-on time with Volition's upcoming
high-tech shooter at the THQ booth at ECTS. Here's a bit of their impressions of
how the game is coming along: Visually, the game has progressed
considerably since its debut at E3. Alan Lawrence, the game's lead designer,
explained that the company had implemented 32-bit colour depth and resolutions
beyond 800x600 in this latest build - features that were missing from the E3
demo.
There's a new Half-Life For Dreamcast
preview on GameSpot UK with some hands-on impressions with an "85
percent complete" version of the upcoming Dreamcast port of Valve's
shooter, with a screenshot
gallery in accompaniment, and GameSpot UK's Half-Life For Dreamcast Blue Shift
Hands-on looks at the follow-up where you play a Barney. Also, there's a
newly-released Metal Gear Solid 2 Trailer
on GameSpot UK showing off gameplay from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of
Liberty, the upcoming PS2 installment in the series.
GameSpy.com's
interview with the Warcraft III Team is online, talking with one member of
the team at least, as they catch up with Rob Pardo, the game's lead designer to
catch up on the latest on the game. Also, Blizzard Entertainment's
Warcraft III Screenshot Archive has been updated with four new screenshots
from this upcoming installment in the Warcraft series in 800x600 resolution,
with your choice of 24-bit or 8-bit color.
PC.IGN.Com's Red Faction preview
is online after getting a chance to check the upcoming shooter at the THQ booth
at ECTS. Here's a portion of what they have to say: The game will be
comprised of 20 action-heavy levels, but they won’t be as detached from one
another as Quake III or Unreal Tournament. Instead, Red Faction favors a much
more story-driven plot and a continuous flow like Half-Life. In Red Faction,
you’ll assume the role of a miner for the Ultor Corporation on Mars. While
you’re stationed on the red planet, a mysterious plague breaks out in the
mining camp and it’s up to you and a few other rebellious miners to rise up
against Ultor security and find out exactly what’s happening.
The fourth in the four part series of MechWarrior 4 Character Studies
on GameSpy.Com written by the game's development team has now been posted,
offering profiles of the Dresari children and their cohorts, Ian and Johanna
Dresari, Major Elise Rathburne, and Technical Officer Karl Sonntag.
A new installment of GameSpy.com's
Undying Developer Diary is online, in which Brian Horton, Undying's lead
artist, "takes us through the art of character design" discussing the
creation process behind the 42 characters in this upcoming horror game.
There's a new Zeus
preview on FiringSquad with a look ahead at the upcoming city building game
in the works from Impressions Games.
In addition to the game info, which includes comparisons to the game's
predecessors, the Caesar/Pharaoh series, the preview also has several new
screenshots.
NVIDIA And Epic Games Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership
is a press release announcing just that. Here's a portion: Prior to this
announcement, Epic Games had already begun targeting major new Unreal Engine
features for NVIDIA's GeForce 256 and GeForce2 GTS(TM). One such example is the
engine's new high-polygon, large-scale terrain system. This feature specifically
exploits the hardware transform and lighting features of the NVIDIA GeForce
family of GPUs. Several additional features are planned that line up
strategically with current and future NVIDIA 3D graphics processors.
As part of their efforts to work more closely together, NVIDIA will provide Epic
with early versions of new hardware and drivers, as well as extensive testing of
those drivers with existing Unreal Engine products and new unreleased versions
of the engine. To facilitate this, the agreement calls for regular technical
reviews and exchanges between the two companies, so that each one has a clear
understanding of the inner workings of the other's software and hardware
technology.
A new beta version 1.4 of the Vavoom
Doom port is now available, updating the source port to a pure client-server architecture.
It is hoped that a full version 1.4 will be released next week sometime.
Terminus
tips part two on Computer Games Online offers more of their guide to
"flying without dying" in the intricate space simulation.
Version 3.1 of the NetImmerse
engine is now available, updating this "comprehensive set of 3D software
tools that can save approximately six months of game development time and a year
or more of engineering costs." The new version "provides new plug-ins,
increases performance, adds multi-texturing and animation features."
Well, I had hoped to have some form of bachelor debauchery to report, but there
was a failure to accomplish any such thing of such epic proportions, the mind
boggles. I imagine the more cynical among you think this is a cover story, since
MrsBlue will read this, but if I were going to make up a story for you, it would
be more worth her ire than how pathetic our bashlessness really was, but you can
believe what you want.
Frans is having some difficulties getting online, he tells me the kind Barrys
at BarrysWorld have been invaluable in
assisting him (thanks guys). Meanwhile, loonyboi should return tomorrow, and
Frans shortly thereafter, while I'll be back mid-week, when things will be
completely back to what passes for normal around these parts.
Link of the Day: The History of Labor Day.
Thanks Sean Malone.
Story of the Day: Why self-tickling is no giggle.
Thanks Ant.
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