Archived News:
A post by id Software's John Carmack to a thread called Doom 3 Alpha Leaked
on Slashdot has confirmation of the fact that an early build of DOOM III has
been leaked. Here's the post, which vaguely hints at the source of the release:
No, this was not leaked on purpose.
Yes, we are upset about it, and it will have some impact on how we deal with
some companies in the future, but nothing drastic is going to change in terms of
what support is going to be available.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill
advised.
John Carmack
GameSpot's Splinter Cell Media Index
now offers a video interview with seven of the developers at work on the upcoming
stealthy Tom Clancy game. There is a streaming version for free as well as
downloadable versions for subscribers as a 311 MB hi-resolution version or an
oh-so-economical 270 MB low-resolution version. The interview runs approximately 25
minutes.
There's a Hegemonia
Preview on Worthplaying based on getting to play with a preview build of
Digital Reality's now-gold outer-space RTS game. They describe the wide variety
of activities in which players can engage, the alternative approach to resource
gathering, doing battle, tech trees, the level of innovation they experienced,
and more.
There's a Cult
Q&A on Gamer's Hell talking with Peter Nag of 3D People about Cult, the
role-playing game they are in the midst of developing. They discuss what will
set Cult apart from the RPG crowd, community building, camera work, quests, the
plan to eventually add multiplayer support, community support, enemies, weather
effects, plans for a demo, and more.
This registration-free FilePlanet
Page offers downloads of the modeling tools from Starfleet Command III,
which have been released by Taldren in advance of the game's availability.
According to the accompanying post on Starfleet Universe,
a detailed instruction manual is included along with the utility to import ships
directly into the game. Thanks Trek Universe Network.
The Urban Terror Website has word that
beta 2.6 of this popular Quake III Arena modification should be released next
Saturday (November 9) as part of a grand IRC release party. Thanks SlayerAODsk.
- The Street Legal patch #1
(mirrored on Gamer's
Hell) offers fixes for this racing game, addressing, among other things,
random crashes and missing textures. The patch is a 29 MB download...
A good time was had by all at this wedding yesterday. Everything was quite
pleasant, the cocktails were flowing freely (for some reason a wedding is one of
the rare occasions on which I'll indulge), there was dancing, screaming kids,
the whole nine yards. I even willingly confessed my geekdom, and in return, got
turned to for expertise to figure out how to hunt down subhunt on someone's Palm to
help save one youngster from the ravages of terminal boredom. Luckily I was able
to come through and stave off humiliation in spite of having to use a salad fork
as a stylus.
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