Archived News:
The ETROM: The Astral Essence website
announces a new "neogothic" ("Techno-Fantasy Middle Age")
action/RPG in the works at Italian developer P.M. Studios (thanks Worthplaying),
and offers up the first screenshots of the game, along with a 26 MB DivX
trailer. Word on
the game is that it will feature: "Frequent and Bloody Fights: close
combat with Astral Axe, long range with Energy Weapons (heavy machine-guns and
bazookas) and amazing Quest Spells." No projected release date is being
offered yet.
More cinema: A pair of Call of Duty movies previously available as subscriber-only
content are now being more widely distributed, and can be found on 3D Gamers
and Worthplaying.
The Chaser
Website now offers a new trailer showing off Cauldron's upcoming shooter in
high and low quality versions. The Heaven & Hell
Website now offers a new trailer with two minutes of gameplay from this upcoming
game of good and evil. Thanks Frans.
There's a
Men of Valor: Vietnam Q&A on Computer and Video Games talking with
2015's John Whitmore about their upcoming Vietnam game. They discuss everything
from the reasons for this setting to the differences between the Xbox and PC
versions.
There's a Paradise Cracked Preview
on Games Domain (thanks Frans) with a look at Mistland's upcoming RPG.
Here's a bit on the cyberpunk setting: "Paradise Cracked is set some time
after humanity develops a huge, powerful computer, "Cyberbrain," to
solve all the world's problems. People spend most of their times online,
communicating, relating and entertaining themselves in virtual worlds, while
Cyberbrain's machines do all the work. Birth rates drop, and deprived of
real-life stimuli, mankind gets stupider."
Mistmare makes its North America
debut is the press release announcing that Sinister Systems' and Arxel
Tribe's "title that offers a unique blend of action, adventure and RPG
elements has shipped to retail stores nation wide." Here's a bit: "Mistmare
is an addictive mix of action, adventure and RPG elements, shrouded in a veil of
fog and excitement. Isador, a young monk, has been sent on a journey by the
Church to find the leader of the Harvesters, a radical sect that is threatening
the Church’s attempts at shielding Europe from the spread of the plague. Use
an incredible arsenal of weapons and tools to fight off monsters and enemies as
you search for the Harvesters and fight to protect Europe."
Halo: Truth and Reconciliation now offers
a new Halo for PC development update (thanks Frans), saying: "In the last 5
weeks or so, we’ve been focused on two main development challenges: unleashing
the full power of our sparkling new network architecture to kick-ass on the
Internet and making sure we deliver a solid experience on a wide range of
hardware configuration and systems." Also, Action Vault's
X² - The Threat Beta Report #9 offers more of Egosoft's Darren Astles
accounts of his close encounters of the first kind in the upcoming space game.
Finally, HomeLAN Fed's Homeplanet Backstory - Part 3
continues this series by 3 Map Games and Russobit-M about their upcoming outer
space game.
- Dungeon Lords
HomeLan Fed's Dungeon Lords
Q&A talks with Heuristic Park's D.W. Bradley about Dungeon Lords,
their upcoming RPG/fighting game, going into detail about what's planned for
the game.
- Pirates of the Caribbean
The Armchair Empire's
Pete Hines Q&A and the Pete
Hines Q&A on SubSim each talk with the Bethesda rep about Pirates of the
Caribbean, Akella's new pirate game.
- Pirates of the Burning Sea
More pirate lore can be found in SubSim's
Russell Williams Q&A, which offers a chat with the executive
producer at Flying Lab Software about Pirates of the Burning Sea, their
upcoming MMOG that does not actually feature fiery oceans (as far as we
know).
- Homeworld 2
Action Vault's
Homeworld 2 Team Q&A #1 asks the developers of the upcoming space
strategy sequel the following collective question: "Homeworld2 has been
described as an evolutionary real-time strategy title rather than a
revolutionary one. What do you think about this, and in your personal
opinion, what are some of the notable changes of either type?"
- RPG Roundtable
Another one-question group Q&A is online in RPG Vault's RPG Roundtable #1, Part 2
where their group of experts discusses the prevalence of the fantasy setting
in RPGs.
- TerraForge
The Exclusive TerraForge
Q&A on PC Gameworld is another conversation about their new
multiplatform middleware products, and more exclusive (?) conversations with TerraForge
CEO Adam Mateljan can be found on Games
First, the Junkyard,
and GameSpot.
- Gods: Lands of Infinity
RPGDot's
Gods: Lands of Infinity Q&A chats with Stefan Pavelka of Cypron
Studios to learn details about their upcoming fantasy RPG.
- Gamebryo
HomeLan Fed's Gamebryo Update
Q&A chats with Lars Bishop about their Gamebryo game development
technology.
Notes on Gamer's
Hell and The Adrenaline Vault
explain that the recently released Northland demo was not to be distributed
beyond the magazine CDs where it first appeared, with the AVault going so far as
to point out "GMX Media has decided that they will 'be taking legal action
against any site that has the Northland demo on there [sic] site.'" Thanks
Frans.
The Anarchy Online On Test Server
Page has details on the new content added in the version 14.9 update for
their MMORPG, saying: "We will try to provide a full explanation of all the
features and changes, so you know exactly what will be going onto the live
servers once the patch has been found to be bug-free."
The E3 movie showing off gameplay from Full Spectrum Warrior is now available,
the movie can be found various huge sizes (the clip runs 14 minutes) on FilePlanet
(registration required), GameSpot
(subscription required), Happy Puppy
(registration required), and Worthplaying.
There's an Interview with DISCover Interactive Systems about DISCover Gaming Console
on Hardware Accelerated discussing their planned "PC Game Console that
plays unmodified PC Games with a patented 'drop and play' technology on the
gamer’s big screen tv in a living room environment."
Capitolpunishment.org has details on
registering for Capitol Punishment 6, scheduled for the end of this month in the
Washington D.C. area. Also, the Raven Shield Platoon's Raven Shield Mapping Contest is underway. Finally, "The United Cyber
Games Association (UCGA) today announced that the U.S. semi-final rounds of the
third annual Samsung World Cyber Games (WCG) will kick off this weekend, July
6th. The winners of this next heat will advance to the U.S. Finals, which will
take place in Los Angeles at the Ultimate Gamers Expo, August 15-17."
The Natural Selection
Homepage has word that version 2.0 of this popular Half-Life mod is due at
the end of this month. Thanks Ant.
- Anarchy Online: the Notum Wars on netjak.
- Blitzkrieg on The
Gamers Temple.
- Chariots of War on ActionTrip.
- Colin McRae Rally 3 on Ferrago.co.uk.
- EVE Online: the Second Genesis on TechTV.
- Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide on ToTheGame,
ReadySetGamer
(thanks Neverwinter Vault), and GamerDad.
- Paradise Cracked on GameZone.
- Pirates of the Caribbean on Games
Domain.
- PlanetSide on EuroGamer,
Gamers
With Jobs, and (in German) on 4Players.de.
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 2: Wacky Worlds on GameZone.
- The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon on Gamezilla,
Game
Chronicles, Game
Industry, ESCMag,
and netjak.
- The Hulk on Game
Chronicles and Worthplaying.
- The Sims: Superstar on Khabal
Gaming.
- Tomb Raider: the Angel of Darkness on GameSpot.
- Tropico 2: Pirate Cove on Return
of the Game.
- WarCraft III: the Frozen Throne on PC.IGN.com,
GameSpot,
MyGamer, and Gamer
Play.
I'm struggling along with my temporary workspace on this aging flaky secondary
computer (not to be confused with my aging flaky primary computer). At least
what should be a fairly quiet holiday weekend is here, providing an opportunity
to rebuild one of them. I thought I'd get to see T3 at a matinee at some point
yesterday or today, but I guess my technical difficulties are going to make that
impossible. Damn the rise of these machines! You think SkyNet might be
responsible?
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