Archived News:
There are new Counter-Strike: Condition Zero details
on GameSpot based on getting to check out progress on Ritual's upcoming
single-player Counter-Strike game during the CPL's Winter Event, currently
underway. They offer the perspective that what's now in the works for this
project, how things differ from when they last checked out the game (while it
was still in production at Gearbox Software), and more. Also on the Condition
Zero front, there's a new movie showing off some gameplay on FileShack
(registration required) as a 24 MB download.
- Gas Powered Games
GameSpy.com's
Chris Taylor Q&A talks with the Gas Powered Games honcho about the
future, which includes an as-yet unannounced RTS game.
- The Movies
TotalVideoGames.com's
The Movies Q&A talks with Lionhead's Peter "Molynuex"
Molyneux to discuss plans for The Movies, their upcoming cinematic game.
- Dark Ages Medenia
RPG Vault Dark Ages Medenia
Q&A talks with Nexon game director Steven Huynh about the upcoming
expansion to its "online world of role-playing, politics and religion."
- ArenaNet
The ArenaNet
Q&A on GameSpyDaily talks with these ex-Blizzard employees about
their recent acquisition by Korean publisher/developer NCsoft.
- Orbz
There's an Orbz Q&A on GameSpyDaily talks with 21-6
Productions' president Justin Mette about Orbz,
their newly-released Torque engine action arcade game.
An update to the Carbon6 News Page
has news that Dave "ddt" Taylor, formerly of Crack dot com, Transmeta,
and id Software, is parting ways with Carbon6 Entertainment, the company he
co-founded with fellow id alumnus American McGee. Here's his succinct update:
"I am leaving Carbon6 to pursue my next adventures. Will continue producing
and designing games but in rather a different vein than Carbon6. My new e-mail
address is ddt@ddt.com.
Happy Holidays!"
Release Date
Announced on the Star Wars Galaxies Forums (thanks Ant) has word that
April 15, 2003 is now the official release date for Star Wars Galaxies,
LucasArts' and Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming MMORPG. The previous
official release date for Galaxies was "Winter 2002/post holiday"
( story).
A 101 MB Ultimate Trainz Collection Demo is available from Strategy First.
The file is mirrored on Gamer's
Hell and Worthplaying.
Also, HomeLan Fed is
playing exclusive host to the Marble Blast Demo, a sample of the Torque-engine
arcade action game which can be purchased from Garage Games. Finally, 3D Gamers
has figured out how to get Microids' recently released War and Peace demo to
operate, and have posted a local copy.
World of Gothic (German) now offers
downloads of a new patch for the German version of Gothic II, Piranha Bytes' RPG
sequel. One of the links on the page is not working, and performance on the
working one is not impressive, so the file has been mirrored over at 3D Gamers. Update: While both links on the original site are now working, it has also been pointed out that this is a beta patch.
The first public alpha of the Desert Combat
modification for Battlefield 1942 is now available (thanks Nuclear Days).
Desert Combat is set in the modern day, and focuses on the various conflicts in
the middle east over the last decade or so. This is the first of many planned
alpha and beta releases, with the focus this time out being to test new vehicles
being added for the Desert Storm campaign.
HomeLan Fed's MW 4 Mercenaries Co-op
Q&A talks with one of the members of the team that's created mods to add
cooperative multiplayer support to games like RUNE and the original MechWarrior
4 about their plans to do the same for Mercenaries, the new MechWarrior 4 game.
Also, there's a
War of Infamy Q&A on The Wargamer discussing this upcoming World War II
modification for Ghost Recon.
Microsoft Game Studios' Dungeon Siege Official Web Site
now offers downloads of an updated version 1.1a of the Dungeon Siege toolkit,
which "incorporates a number of helpful updates and workflow
enhancements to Siege Max, giving mod-makers the freedom to create new
creatures, items, terrain and animations that can be brought directly into
Dungeon Siege worlds. These enhancements work in conjunction with the
latest update of Discreet’s gmax software (version 1.2), and coincide
with the release of the all-new DSTK Art Packs."
Raven's Rob Gee updated
his .plan with word that they also have a couple of animator positions to
fill on their upcoming "triple-A console title."
Merry quasi-Christmas Eve (or perhaps that's pseudo-Christmas Eve?)! We
traditionally go to my dad's for the 24th, but this year for some reason he
needed to do like they do when they move a holiday to Monday to create a
three-day weekend, and switch the celebration to the Saturday before Christmas
(which would be tonight), so we're gearing up to load up our horse-drawn sleigh
and go over the river (via a toll bridge) and through the woods (via a parkway)
to join together. Otherwise merry Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve.
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