Archived News:
There are a pair of new previews online discussing Praetorians, Pyro Studios' upcoming
strategy game set in the heyday of the Roman Empire. There is a preview on GameSpy
discussing the game's setting, missions, the focus on troop-based combat,
recruiting, unit demotion, specifics about various units, multiplayer
impressions, and more. The other preview is found on
IGN where they offer perspective on what's new since their last chance to
check the game out, and a rolling narrative of a gameplay experience.
Word on Worthplaying
is that American Conquest, CDV's strategy game set during the days between the discovery
of the New World and the American Revolution. Word on availability is the game
should be released on Valentine's Day, February 14.
Konami Makes PC FPS on
PC.IGN.Com is an article discussing the first scant details that have been
revealed about Apocalyptica, an
upcoming Quake III-engine game set in the apocalypse predicted in the Bible's
book of Revelation. They discuss the good versus evil theme, a little on the
forces involved and weaponry, as well as how this is actually a third-person
action game in spite of calling it an FPS in their headline.
- Breed
The Breed Q&A on GameSpyDaily talks with Brat Designs' Jason Gee about progress
on their upcoming FPS, touching on plans for an Xbox port, how the feature
list is holding up, progress on vehicles, mod support, progress on
development, and more.
- Call of Cthulhu
The Call of
Cthulhu Q&A on Gamer's Hell chats with Chris Gray, producer on
Headfirst Productions' upcoming horror game. They introduce the game from background,
through concept, and their plans for gameplay. There are also a couple of
new screenshots on the
official website (thanks Calling Cthulhu).
- SPECNAZ
The
SPECNAZ Q&A on Tactical Squad talks about this upcoming special
forces shooter with Martin Hornak in an unusually bilingual Q&A that
features French questions and English answers.
- Shadowbane
There's
a Shadowbane
Q&A on the Game's Official Website discussing details on the
just-revealed siege warfare system in this upcoming MMORPG.
- Spells of Gold
The Spells of Gold Q&A on RPG Codex talks with Jonquil Software about their company's
background and plans for their upcoming RPG, featuring an in-depth discussion
of the game's planned features.
- Imperial Wars
Imperial
Wars Q&A on Online Gaming talks with Scott Miller about plans
for this "episodic Metagame," explaining how it will be a "combination,
war-game, role-playing game, board game, PBM game with all the chatter and
fun of a Saturday night poker game or a Sunday afternoon Monopoly game."
RPG Vault's Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Diary #6
is online, in which BioWare designer Lukas Kristjanson discusses the light and
dark sides of The Force in the upcoming Star Wars RPG. Surprisingly, there is
also a Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Developer Diary
on PC.IGN.Com (a sister publication to RPG Vault), written by BioWare's
James Ohlen, as the project's lead designer eschews the actual diary concept to
offer a fairly complete overview of the game. Also, RPG Vault's Imperator Development Report
catches up with Mythic Entertainment president Mark Jacobs to learn the latest
about their next MMORPG. Finally, Action Vault's
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb Development Report is called "Building
a Better Indy" as art director Brian Horton discusses the effort going into
bringing the Indy Jones character to life in The Collective's upcoming game celebrating
his adventures.
Sega of America President Peter Moore Quits
(thanks the_culture). "The resignation is effective immediately, Sega said.
Tetsu Kayama, chief operating officer of Sega Corp., will assume the president
and chief executive officer positions at Sega of America, the company
said." Similarly, Acclaim to Trim Administrative Staff by 35 Percent
(thanks again the_culture) includes word of another shakeup at the top: "The
Glen Cove, New York company also said president and chief operating officer for
North America, Edmond Sanctis, had resigned. Rod Cousens, president and COO for
Acclaim's international unit, will assume the interim role of global COO and
president."
A new beta 5.6 version of Action Half-Life
is now available (thanks Gamer's
Hell). The new release offers some tweaks and updates, and should address a
crashing problem introduced with the last beta.
HomeLan Fed's The Specialists
Q&A talks with Filippo "Morfeo" De Luca and Lorenzo
"John_Matrix" Pasini about The Specialists, their Half-Life
modification. They discuss their development experience before embarking on this
project, reasons for choosing the Half-Life engine, features of the mod, their
recent update, future plans, and more.
Okay, now that the Internet is hip enough to threats from viruses and worms that
server-side virus protection is commonplace, which is useful for reducing
clutter and problems, how long will it be before those who create, install, and
configure these things will figure out that a majority of virus sender's
addresses are spoofed, so they can stop sending these "you may have sent us
a virus" notes back, which, of course, represent clutter themselves. Don't
you hate when the solution becomes part of the problem?
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