Action Vault's
Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy Q&A chats with Kenn Hoekstra of Raven
Software about their upcoming installment in the Star Wars shooter series.
Here's a bit contrasting the new game with its predecessors:
There are a
lot more acrobatics and special moves available in Jedi Academy than there were
in Jedi Outcast, in addition to the ability to fight with two lightsabers and/or
the double bladed lightsaber. The ability to combine Force powers, acrobatics
and lightsaber combat give the player an unrivalled arsenal of fighting options.
Jedi Academy is primarily an action game, and while there are some puzzles, they
aren't as complex as those found in Jedi Outcast. Stealth isn't really part of
the gameplay, but there are instances where using the Jedi Mind Trick to get
through an area might be easier than going in guns blazing.
RPG Vault's World of Warcraft
Q&A #2 talks with Mark Kern, producer on Blizzard's upcoming MMORPG.
They go into detail about the project, discussing general goals for gameplay,
balancing races, the advantages of "instancing," how internal alpha
testing is progressing, and more.
The Desert Combat Website has word to
expect version 0.39 alpha of this popular Battlefield 1942 modification on
August 15 (thanks
Ant). Also,
HomeLAN
Fed's Monkeystrike Q&A chats with Friedrich "FrieChamp" B. of
the
Monkeystrike modification for
Half-Life, the class-based mod where all the players end up as monkeys (actually
most of them are apes, and there's a prosimian thrown in for good measure). They
discuss gameplay, the response of those who've played it, and plans for the
future.
This Blizzard Entertainment Employment Opportunities
Page has details about an opening they are looking to fill for a Human
Resources Representative.
We're off to celebrate our little niece Jenna's first birthday today. We're
actually a week late here, as her actual birthday was last weekend. At first I
thought of this as an inconsequential delay, and it is probably correct to think
that the birthday girl will not actually notice the difference. On the other
hand, the week actually represents almost 2% of the time since she was born, so
if this was a trend that were to continue, by the time she's 52, these parties
will be a full year late. I guess we ought to nip this in the bud.
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