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Archived News:
PC.IGN.com serves up ten new screenshots of Treasure Planet as well as a movie trailer of this 3D real-time strategy game in the works at Barking Dog. The movie requires a 4.5 MB download in QuickTime format and offers around a minute of fast-paced gameplay footage of the game, which apparently now goes by the subtitle of Battle At Procyon.
- Raven Shield
The official Rainbow Six: Raven Shield site offers another three new screenshots of the squad-based tactical shooter in development at Ubi Soft Montreal.
- The Thing
Computer Artworks has issued a new weekly (or monthly, lately) screenshot of The Thing, showing off their third-person horror action adventure that went gold today (story).
- Hitman 2
Another 15 new screenshots of Hitman 2: Silent Assassin are up at Computer and Video Games, captured from the ubiquitous press build of the third-person action game being created at IO Interactive.
- Robin Hood
Four new Robin Hood screenshots have been added atop the Freelancer gallery for this isometric tactical combat game by Spellbound Studios.
- Rise of Nations
There is a Rise of Nations units feature on PC.IGN.com that includes two new screenshots and, indeed, a batch of unit images of the era-spanning isometric RTS by Big Huge Games.
Publisher Global Star Software has launched its official site for Privateer's Bounty: Age of Sail II, showcasing the recently completed 3D naval-based RTS by Akella (thanks Gamer's Hell). The noisy and Flash-only site offers game information, ten new screenshots, a wallpaper, and more.
- Galleon
The Galleon
Q&A on Computer and Video Games talks with Confounding Factor's Toby
Gard about Galleon, the Tomb Raider creator's upcoming seafaring
action/adventure. They reveal that the game's eventual PC release is in doubt,
discuss its delays, recent changes they've implemented, how this game will
be what he wanted Tomb Raider to be, and more.
- Medieval: Total War
There's a
Medieval: Total War Q&A on GameAxis talking with Mike Simpson,
development director at The Creative Assembly about their upcoming Shogun
sequel. They discuss the story, how close they are to completion, playable
countries, differences from shogun, multiplayer support, and more.
- City of Heroes
City
of Heroes Developer Profile on the official site asks CEO Cameron Petty
about his work before Cryptic, how he got his job, what his work is like,
his education, his favorite games, and more. Thanks RPGForums.net.
Larian Studios has issued a patch for Divine Divinity, bringing the newly released German edition of their isometric role-playing game to version 1.26 (thanks RPGForums.net). The 29.3 MB download applies numerous improvements and bug fixes as detailed (in German) on the download page, which also explains under which circumstances your save games will be preserved. Also, a German update for Neverwinter Nights is available via the auto-updater to bring this language edition of BioWare's 3D RPG to version 1.21, mysteriously still trailing the current English version 1.22 (thanks YiYas).
A post on Gone Gold has word that The
Thing, Computer Artworks' horror/survival game based on the film of the same
name, has gone gold. According to the report, the game is expected on store
shelves August 21.
Take 2 UK has issued a new patch for Tropico: Paradise Island and Tropico Gold, upgrading the US and UK editions of PopTop's island management strategy game to version 1.53, in sync with the recent Mucho Macho update ( story). It's a 5.7 MB download that applies to both the Gold and Paradise Island releases, while Take 2 Germany offers separate patches in that language for the two products. Finally, their ftp server also offers Paradise Island patches in French, Spanish and Italian flavors (but no Gold edition patches).
Firefly Studios and Take Two Interactive have released a playable demo of Stronghold: Crusader, available for download from Gigex (here's a direct link if the Gigex client doesn't work for you). The 79.0 MB demo allows you to try out this isometric castle building strategy sequel, and it offers a tutorial and three skirmish levels.
There's a TRON 2.0
Preview on PC.IGN.Com after getting to check out Monolith's upcoming movie
tie-in game during a meeting with the folks from that Mickey Mouse outfit,
Disney. They discuss the new things they saw in the pre-alpha build of the game
that was demonstrated for them, the cinematics, the story, the tutorial,
locations, weapons, system requirements, and more. On a related note, HomeLan Fed's
Tron 2.0 Q&A talks with Cliff Kamida, Disney Interactive's producer on
the project, discussing the pressure they are under to live up to this property's
cult following, the story, featured locations, enemies, combat, features of the
LithTech Triton engine, mod support, and more.
- Sum of All Fears
There's a Sum of all Fears
Q&A on GamerzBrain talking with Red Storm artist Thomas Devries
about their recently released squad-based shooter. They talk about how he
got his job, his role on the project, his favorite aspect of the game, where
he sees the future of computer graphics heading, and more.
- EVE Online
There's an
Eve Online: The Second Genesis Q&A on WORTHPLAYING chatting with
CCP's Hrafnkell Oskarsson about progress on their upcoming MMORPG. Topics
include his role on the team, whether a mega-guild will be able to control
their game world, deterrents to camping, purchasing planets, currency,
dealing with twinking, GMs, where combat will take place, and more.
- Tribes Fast Attack
There's a
Tribes Fast Attack Q&A on Gamersclick briefly talking with Sierra's
Alex Rodberg discussing the reasons behind the recent announcement that this
project was cancelled, when the cancellation actually occurred (months ago),
the timing of the announcement, and more.
- KnightShift
The KnightShift
Q&A on Gamer's Hell chats with Dirk P. Hassinger, producer of
KnightShift, ZUXXEZ' upcoming RTS/RPG. They discuss his role in development,
the story, standing out from other RTS games, their role-playing elements,
the engine, the solo campaign, multiplayer support, and more.
- Grom
The Grom
Q&A on Belgisch Gaming Nieuws is the English-language version of
their Q&A (also available
in Dutch) discussing Rebelmind's upcoming action/adventure game. They
talk about the game's inspiration, the role of humor, locations, the lack of
multiplayer support, the possibility of console ports, and more.
- CPL Euro Champ
There's an Ivan “Mikes” Gladyshev
Q&A on Cyberfight.ru talking with the winner of the recent European
CPL championship.
GameSpot's
Gen Con 2002 coverage is underway, based on making the annual trek to exotic
Milwaukee Wisconsin to experience the joys of this annual RPG gathering. Amid
the folk in costume and the 900 sided dice salesman they manage to sniff out the
computer and video games on display, and have posted impressions of Cyberlore's MW4
Mercenaries, Digital Anvil's Freelancer
(okay, so they're not all RPGs), Relic's Impossible
Creatures, Big Huge Games' Rise
of Nations, Turbine's Asheron's
Call 2, Sony Online Entertainment's EverQuest: The Planes of Power,
and their
Sigil Games update catches up on the latest at the company started up
EverQuest veterans Braid McQuaid and Jeff Butler. They also got to check out
some console games, and have posted Dungeons
& Dragons Heroes impressions of the upcoming Xbox game and EverQuest
Online Adventures impressions of the upcoming PS2 game. Also, GameSpy's
GenCon coverage is underway, with their pre-show
coverage and their day
one impressions. Finally, concerning themselves with their namesake game, AC2 Warcry's
Asheron's Call 2 impressions from the show are online.
PC.IGN.com serves up no fewer than eight new Hegemonia: Legions of Iron movies, showing this space-based real-time strategy game by Digital Reality in motion. The movies range from 2.8 to 7.2 MB to download and feature between 20 and 54 seconds of gameplay footage in soundless QuickTime format.
The Ghost
Recon Preview on Computer and Video Games takes a look at Red Storm's
upcoming PS2 version of this Tom Clancy shooter. The set of Dragons
Lair 3D screenshots on GameSpyDaily show off Dirks adventures on the Xbox
using HDTV output, and there's also a
preview of the PS2 version of Dragon's Lair 3D on XenGamers including a
gameplay movie. There's a Hands-on Resident Evil 0
Preview on GameSpot based on playing with a recently released Japanese demo
of the GameCube title. Finally, with Microsoft's X02 Xbox promotional
extravaganza underway, there is X02 coverage on GameSpot
and IGN with the
former's coverage offering loads of screenshots and the latter's featuring a lot
of content locked off from non-subscribers.
Console Reviews
A new version 2.5b of QStat, the real-time game
server status utility has been released, quickly addressing an error that broke XQF
support due to a tweak to the -raw output option. This option has been restored
to its previous behavior, with a new option to produce the enhanced -raw output.
A new version 0.36 of Quake2maX,
the OpenGL-only modification for Quake II, is now available. The new release
adds RScript shaders, new sorting routines for entities and particles, menu
mouse support, texture compression, and vertex lighting for transparent
surfaces.
A new ENIGMA Rising Tide FAQ is
online, dedicated to Tesseraction Games' upcoming game of massively multiplayer
naval combat.
Polycount has word that
Ritual character artist BobotheSeal
will be conducting a skinning workshop at QuakeCon
next Friday at 10:00 AM CDT.
- Incoming Forces Invading PCs
is the press release announcing that the sequel to the arcade shooter
Incoming will go on sale in North America this fall at a price of $19.99...
- E3Expo 2003 To be Held May 14-16
is the press release with the dates for the next E3...
- The fourth and final chapter in the Matrix 4x1
Half-Life-engine machinima movie has been released...
I hate dog stories, just give me the nutty
links. Hudson-Hater™ technology brought to you by PETsMART.
Sadly Chucky, the Alaskan Malamute that lived next door, passed away last
week. Actually, while this is indeed sad, he was at the quite advanced age of
18, and it seemed obvious he was in some form of discomfort because near the end
he had taken to plaintively barking a good deal of the time (as in just about
all the time, including all night-I don't know if he even took sleep breaks).
What's interesting is that since Chucky's passing, Hudson the wonder dog has
suddenly gone from being a dog who barks on occasion, to quite the vigorous
yapper... in the yard, out the windows... nothing to the degree of Chucky's
constant barrage, but a remarkable increase nonetheless. What's worse (but also
another interesting aspect of this situation) is that Huddy's friend Molly, a
spaniel that lives across the street, has taken up the exact same behavior, and
to even more of an extreme, including a three-hour yapping session at 4:00 AM
this morning (I'm sure Molly's family was ecstatic about that). What I'm trying
to figure out here (like there's any real way to investigate) is whether they
are communicating with each other, declaring their supremacy over the
neighborhood now that the king is gone, filling the void of the silence
the king left behind, mourning his passing, or what? Maybe we need a visitation
from the creepy pet psychic from Animal Planet to work this out.
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