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Archived News:
Fansite OperationFlashpoint.com has posted a Q&A on the game of their affection, Operation Flashpoint, quizzing Bohemia Interactive developer Jan Hovora about their upcoming 3D tactical action game. As fansite interviews go, the questions deal with rather specific topics, and Jan talks about the number of players in multiplayer games, cheat prevention measures, and a few more multiplayer and other topics. And in related news, OpFlash.com has posted a new screenshots gallery with nearly four dozen images from the game.
- GameSpy
GameSpy's E3 coverage rolls on with looks at Republic: the Revolution, Command & Conquer: Renegade, Master of Orion III, Mafia, Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, Stronghold, World War II Online, and Fishtank interactive's E3 line-up.
- Miscellaneous
There is a Myth III: The Wolf Age report on MythWolfAge.com, a Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix report on HomeLan Fed, a detailed Diablo II: Lord of Destruction report on Diabloii.net, five new Freelancer screenshots on Lancers Reactor and, if you think you missed any of the screenshots released at the show, check GameSpot's comprehensive screenshots archive.
The first release of NewHexen is now available at its official site. NewHexen is described as an "engine source port for Hexen II by Jacques 'Korax' Krige. It fixes many of the things left from the original that the HexenWorld community has requested, and adds many next generation features that gamers everywhere today really require." The initial version 1.13 takes 8.5 MB to download and includes fog, colored light, sky shaders, model interpolation and more, as well as the tools for level designers to apply these features to their own maps.
The EAGames E3 site offers the E3 trailer for Medal of Honor: Allied Assault for download, showing off this WWII-based first-person shooter under construction at 2015. The movie comes in 18.0 MB and 6.3 MB QuickTime formats and sports nearly three minutes of mostly pre-rendered footage setting the story and premise to the game. Thanks AlliedAssault.com, who have mirrors of both movies here. And just in case you're in the mood for some Bond, James Bond, the E3 trailer for the Playstation 2 game James Bond: Agent Under Fire is also available, highlighting this 3D action game (that started out as The World Is Not Enough) in a round minute of footage.
The official Myth III: the Wolf Age E3 trailer is now available for download from evihcra: The Mill, offering the first in-game footage from the 3D real-time strategy game in development at Mumbo Jumbo Games. The trailer runs for a minute and a half in MPEG format and takes 18.2 MB to download. Thanks MythWolfAge.com.
- PC.IGN.Com
PC.IGN.com's E3 coverage
rolls on with looks at Civilization III,
Command & Conquer: Renegade,
MechCommander 2, Rogue
Spear: Black Thorn, Ghost Recon,
Aquanox, Star
Trek: Armada II, Star
Trek: Bridge Commander, and a story called Lionhead’s next project named
gives word that Peter Molyneux' next project is codenamed "Dimitri."
- GameSpot
GameSpot E3 2001
coverage continues with previews from the floor of Motor City Online,
Earth and Beyond,
The Sims Online,
National
Resistance: Days of Fate, Tabula Rasa,
and Ghost Recon.
- Gamer's Pulse
E3 Command
on Gamer's Pulse now offers previews of Fellowship,
Neverwinter Nights,
TORN,
World War II Online,
C&C: Renegade,
and an
Empire Earth/Age of Mythology Comparison.
- Warcraft III
WarcraftIII.Net's
E3 Coverage features an E3 Q&A Part 1
talking with producer Rob Pardo about the game, including info on the mysterious figures in the E3 movie trailer,
their
Show report Part 2, and new shots from the show
floor (including the first shot of World Builder). If you are afraid you
missed anything on W3 from the show, this
page on War3.com has links to all the coverage of the game they have
found.
- Miscellaneous
AquaNox
on eUniverseGames.com, Halo
on eUniverseGames.com, Intelgamer.com's
E3 Report Day 3, HomeLan's
Hands-On With Wolfenstein at E3, RPGDot@E3 -
Day 3, there's coverage (with photos) on
MyEntireAss.Com, which, if it wasn't obvious from the domain, is partly
the responsibility of our old pal Wanker, from back in the QuakeCast days,
and finally, some photos
of the monitor during a demonstration of EverQuest: Shadows
of Luclin on PlanetEverQuest (sort ShakyCam stills... FuzzyCam,
or something).
- Photos
There are E3 photos featuring booth babes, swag,
monitors, displays, and did we mention booth babes(?), up on Shacknews,
E3 Command
on Gamer's Pulse, RPGDot,
and Voodoo
Extreme.
Like Tinker to Evers to Chance, volume
III of GameSpy.com's Nexagon: The Pit Developer Diary is three-way collaboration
between Guy English (apparently his real
name), James di Vito, and Alex O'Hara, which is 75% of the four-person team at
work on Nexagon: The Pit, the upcoming genre-bending tactical action game from Strategy First.
The article features four new screenshots, some details on the game's
development, and also offers a feel for the game, as demonstrated by the
following amusing quote from Guy English: One of the questions I'm asked
the most is, "So… what's yer game about?" There's a lot of good
answers to that, but for me Nexagon is about blowing stuff up. According
to our design bible, all our meetings and even the bulk of the code, it's about
a lot of other things, but recently all I do is blow stuff up!
Weapons Factory Unreal Tournament
page has a new servers side version 106.1 patch for download to address
issues that popped up with the recent 106 release. The new server files are
backwards compatible with the version 106 clients.
- Well Rounded Entertainment
has a report up that one of the few things known about plans for Baldur's
Gate III is that it will use a fully 3D engine, rather than be 2D like its predecessors...
- Ubi Soft sends along
this "beatiful" press release announcing that they have signed
a worldwide co-publishing deal for Battle Realms with Crave Entertainment...
Well E3 has come and gone, today is the day when many of the regrets from not
actually attending the show melt away as one remembers trying to make one's way
onto an overbooked flight full of geeks trying to convince the flight attendants
that the extra bagful of t-shirts you are lugging does not put you over the
limit for carry-on baggage. Running the server for only a short time without the
messageboards proved very quickly that they were at least partly to blame for
the load problems that were killing the server, so they will remain disabled
while a bug hunt ensues. On the brighter side, you will likely notice that other
scripted elements of the site, like news archive searches and accessing .plan
updates, are ticking like Pittsburgh now (presuming that's a good thing).
Link of the Day: All
Your Smurf Are Belong to Us (Requires Flash). Okay, so 'all your base' is
kind of old, but it's still the newest reference in a clip that includes the
$10,000 Pyramid, Smurfs, Charro, and more. Thanks WM|Lunatic.
Story of the Day: Woman takes bite out of crime suspect
(Chicago Sun-Times). I can't imagine a funnier article on the completely
non-humorous topics of sexual assault and castration, but the line that reads
"Police 'put two and two together,'" almost made me bust a gut. Thanks
Secret Agent SP.
Follow-up: Beware Monkey-Man, Scourge of the Gullible
(NY Times-free subscription required). Thanks Jonathan C. Forster.
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