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Sunday, Feb 02, 2003 Happy Groundhog Day

  

Restricted Area Q&A

HomeLan Fed's Restricted Area Q&A chats with Jan Beuck of German developer Master Creating about Restricted Area, their just-announced action RPG. Topics include the idea behind the game, skills, character advancement, locations and settings, weapons and items, quests, enemies, UGFs, the game engine, multiplayer support, and more.

Massive Assault Q&A

There's a Massive Assault Q&A on B-F Total Gaming Network talking with someone from Wargaming.net about Massive Assault, their upcoming turn-based strategy game. The detailed conversation summarizes the project and outlines gameplay, the project's board game roots, features they had to omit along the way, advantages of turn-based gameplay, units, the graphics engine, and much more.

IL2 Forgotten Battles Preview

Part two of the Forgotten Battles preview on IL-2 Sturmovik Planes Database is the second in a three-part series discussing the upcoming Forgotten Battles add-on to IL-2 Sturmovik, 1C Maddox Games' WW2 flying combat game. Today's installment discusses the game's dynamic campaign, describing the process of embarking on the campaign and how things progress from there.

Tech Bits

The Mod Squads

The Unreal Q&A on The Gaming Element chats with the author of the para_kraftstoff map for the Half-Life Day of Defeat modification.

Game Development & Mods

The Unreal Technology Website now offers downloads of the latest .UC source for the new 2186 patch for UT2003 as well as precompiled .U's for 2186 (compiled in Debug mode). Thanks HomeLan Fed.

Game Reviews

Hardware Reviews

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  • The sixth issue of the online Galaxies Fan Newsletter has been posted, with the latest collection of new information about the upcoming Star Wars MMORPG...
  • The fourth part of Anachronox: The Movie on Machinima.com is available for download, continuing the serial release of this game cinematic...
  • Making a Virtue of Vice City. Thanks devilbunny. Also, Gang of killers stopped, Oakland police say (thanks R.) reports: "When investigators caught up with them, they boasted of having been influenced by a violent video game called 'Grand Theft Auto.'"...
  • Utopia 2.0 (thanks Mike Martinez). "What happens when people with different political beliefs are given the chance to shape the future of their communities with a click of a mouse? The answer, surprisingly, is that they seek the same things."...

Out of the Blue

Happy Groundhog Day! In spite of that article yesterday suggesting the annual emergence from his hole is actually based on the need to breed, rather than to act as some feral Al Roker, I think I continue to consider him a harbinger of the coming change of seasons. Unfortunately it's so sunny around here today that not only did he see his shadow, but I doubt we could pressure him to change his story. Six more weeks until spring is not great news, as this has been one freaky-cold winter in these parts, and the sooner we can bid it a fond fondue, the better.

Links of the Day: Groundhog .org.
Daily Photo Project. Thanks LordALF.
Stories of the Day: Columbia collectibles soar on eBay. Thanks Reed Bergam.
Texas towns signing up for $1 police cars with ads. Thanks VonZipper.
Paul butts out on new Abbey Road. Thanks Mike Martinez.
Wild Science: Longer Chromosomes, Longer Life? Thanks Mike Martinez.
Auction of the Day: COLUMBIA SHUTTLE VULTURES - LOOK HERE!.



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