Archived News:
Fansite Warrior Kings France offers a new movie of Warrior Kings ( Babel Fish), the 3D real-time strategy game that is approaching completion at Black Cactus. The movie comes as a mere 1.6 MB RealPlayer clip and sports a minute of in-game footage captured from the first campaign in a press build.
- Oblivion Lost
Italian site Nextgame.it has posted a new pair of Oblivion Lost screenshots, offering more scenes in the tactical first-person shooter being developed at GSC Game World.
- Galactic Battlegrounds Expansion
The official Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds site serves up the first concept images of Clone Campaigns, the recently announced isometric RTS expansion (story).
- BeamBreakers
Eight new screenshots of BeamBreakers illustrate a brief but hands-on German preview on GameCaptain of this sci-fi hover racing game by Similis (stick that Babel Fish in your ear, if you like).
- Dominion
Pharaoh Productions has released not the usual three but seven new screenshots of DOMINION, their upcoming all-caps multiplayer RPG for PC and Xbox.
Westwood has opened a page with tips for running the Command & Conquer Renegade demo, showing how to filter out non-dedicated servers, and emphasizing the amount of bandwidth required to run servers for various numbers of players. Adding to that, Jason "Liquid" Austgen sends along a tip for server administrators, suggesting to update the BandwidthUp variable in the game's server.ini file to 1.5 megabits per 16 players instead of the default 1 megabits (still adjusting the variable by ratio of the number of players that will be allowed). Last but not least, a post titled Update for 2/16/02 on the official forums (thanks dryhump) has word from Westwood's Dan Cermak on an imminent demo patch "that will autodetect whether you can host a game and also tell you the max number of people we recommend for your game. Each host will be required to be a dedicated server as well."
id Software's Graeme Devine updated
his .plan with word of problems on the Quake III Master Server, and some
temporary down time that it's causing: The Quake 3 Master Server
Due to an ongoing flood attack on the authorize server the master server got
super slow on responding. For a few weeks we've noticed that it was less than
solid, but it wasn't until investigation that the cause was found. Apologies for
this.
I'm working on the issue right now, so the master server may appear down today
for a few hours starting right about now.
Graeme.
- NVIDIA
Nvidia stock drops on news of SEC probe.
"Investors pushed the sell button on shares of Nvidia Corp. on Friday
after the graphics chip maker stirred up Enron-like jitters with news that
it was the subject of a federal accounting investigation." Thanks
Laten_C.
Microsoft gears up for Japanese Xbox launch
on GameSpot reflects upon the upcoming Japanese Xbox launch, discussing it
with Pat Ohura, managing director of Microsoft of Japan.
ShellShock's Crater is now
offering a new version 02.02.16.00 of the Q3Offline utility that eases the
process of starting games versus bots in various Quake III engine games. The
program offers full support for Quake III Arena, Quake III Team Arena, and Star
Trek Voyager Elite Force as well as multiplayer support for Return to Castle
Wolfenstein. The new release also adds multiplayer support for Medal of Honor:
Allied Assault.
A new version 2.1 of the ServerInfo
utility is now available. The new release offers improved master server dialog,
fixes a problem with Day of Defeat servers that are running the Admin Mod,
proper detection of retail Counter-Strike, adds a new copy to clipboard feature,
and more.
The Serious Boot
Website has a new version 0.2 of the kick ass Serious Boot mod for Serious
Sam, updated to work (only) with Second Encounter, now that Sam's follow-up
adventures are available.
The usual weekly update to the Star Wars Galaxies Official
FAQ has occurred, and in an unusual twist, rather than a sole entry, several
new questions and answers have been added.
The Game File Formats site
offers utilities to extract resources from Star Wars Starfighter and the C&C
Renegade MP demo. The tutorial section
on Skindom has several recent
additions beefing up their knowledge base on the art of creating skin art for
games. Also, in a blast from the past, there's a new Quark Map Making Tutorial
on Rizenet.com outlining how to get started building your own maps using the
venerable QuArK level editor.
HomeLan Fed's Half-Life The Opera Interview
chats with Ben Sinkwitz of the Opera
Modification team, discussing this Half-Life conversion that takes its
inspiration from Hong Kong action movies including it's history and future
plans. Also, GameSpy.com's Mod Developer Week
is complete, offering several profiles of various mods and mod teams hosted on
their network.
So I'm staring at this blank space waiting for something to write itself, and it
occurs to me the reason nothing is happening here is that my brain has taken the
day off, as it often does on weekends. This of course is a Catch-22 situation,
as without the benefit of a brain it's difficult to figure out why you are
failing to think properly.
Now I've got to figure out where that darn brain has gotten itself off to... I'm
guessing it's just lazing around watching TV.
Link of the Day: The British Lard Marketing Board.
Thanks EvilToast.
Story of the Day: Man Flies Over Building In SUV Crash.
Thanks Norman Chan.
Story of the Day II: Supermarket
Rage. Thanks theAntiELVIS.
Wild Science: Pet Cloners Get Success with Copy-Kitty.
Thanks SurlyBitch.
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