Archived News:
There are PlanetSide Core Combat
Details on GameSpot filling in some of the blanks on the newly announced
Core Combat expansion for PlanetSide. The update says the add-on is due in
October, and provides some details about what will be included, as in this
excerpt: "Core Combat will add six new caverns to the game, each with its
own look and feel. The caverns will be accessible via new warpgates, and these
gates will live on Amerish, Hossin, Ceryshen, Oshur, Forseral, and Solsar. The
Amerish cavern will feature a river, Hossin will have a somewhat swampish look,
Ceryshen will feature slippery and frozen lakes, Oshur will be a maze of
canyons, Forseral will have a crystalline area with a large energy beam in the
middle, and Solsar's cavern will feature lava and other volcanic features. New
alien technology will be introduced, including a new hover buggy called the
switchblade, a new support vehicle that creates neutral teleporters known as the
router, and a mobile artillery unit called the flail." Likewise, the PlanetSide: Core Combat
Website is online with preliminary information and the promise of more to
come (including a schedule of when to expect it).
Atari Brings Heroism, Sorcery and...Cows to the PC
is the announcement of Once Upon a Knight, the U.S. version of KnightShift,
Reality Pump's medieval RTS/RPG hybrid (thanks HomeLAN
Fed). The U.S. release date for the game is September. In other previously announced
announcement news, Atari Announces
"Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark" (thanks Frans)
restates plans for the second NWN expansion, due this November.
There's an Exclusive Call of Duty Gameplay Video
on FilePlanet (registration required) from QuakeCon 2003 showing off gameplay in Call of
Duty, Infinity Ward's upcoming World War II shooter (thanks Frans). Also,
This Sierra FTP
Directory (thanks Frans) now offers a bunch of new gameplay movies from The
Hobbit in a variety of resolutions and formats. Normally they eventually also
link such clips on this
downloads page, but I guess they've decided not to make a hobbit of it.
Also, a Middle Earth Online trailer is now available from IGN.
Loadedinc's
Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour Q&A talks with EA producer
Harvard Bonin about plans for the upcoming C&C Generals expansion. Also, the
NVIDIA Drivers Page now offers a tease that their site will be hosting
exclusive downloads of the C&C Generals demo on August 20 (this Wednesday)
at Noon PST (which is incorrect, it's actually PDT, or 3:00 p.m. EDT). Thanks
Ant and Frans.
Elixir Studios sends along updated Republic: the Revolution release dates,
including a U.S. date of August 29, which turns out to be the date for all
listed territories except Germany and Spain, which carry a release date of
September 5. This means the original U.K. release date of September 5 ( story)
has been moved up about a week.
3DO games finding new homes
on GameSpot describes the outcome of the sale of some of 3DO's assets,
reporting: "Street Racing Syndicate was bought by Namco for a little over
$1.5 million, the rights to the High Heat baseball series went to Microsoft for
an undisclosed sum, and the assets of Might and Magic and Heroes of Might and
Magic were sold to Ubi Soft for $1.3 million."
There's a Medal of Honor for
Linux beta on icculus.org with a self-described
"not-ready-for-primetime" version of the Linux edition of the World
War II shooter. The update is being made available in spite of wonky sound and
other problems due to the demands (and threats) from the community. Thanks Linuxgaming.
Aspyr Media Inc. Ships Activision's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 For The PC and Macintosh.
Here's the thumbnail: "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 lets players take on the
role of legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk and 13 other professional skateboarders
as they skate through enormous free roaming levels, choose from 190
progressively harder goals and build their skills to perform 14 of the greatest
skateboarding stunts of all time."
In addition to game-specific previews, some more generalized content is springing
forth from the gaming fest: There are more Keynote
impressions on PlanetQuake3
(along with a
video) and in GameSpy's
QuakeCon Coverage, where there's also a Tim
Willits/Todd Hollenshead Interview and a Rick Johnson Quake IV Interview.
Also, Sphinx's Sanitarium
(thanks JLF) has general impressions and HomeLAN Fed's QuakeCon 2003 Booth Babe Pics
and Case Mod Photos
are online.
The Big Huge Games
Website has info on how to sign up for beta testing of the next patch for
Rise of Nations. Here's the full
list of planned changes for patch 3.
Infinium Labs Selects Gigex as Exclusive Distribution Partner for Unveiling of the Phantom Game
Console. You have been warned. Also, VU Games sends along the following: "To
help voice its upcoming space
shooter, Battlestar Galactica, Vivendi
Universal Games (VU Games) announced today an all-star cast of actor
[sic]. The talent
signed to lend voices to the highly-anticipated game includes Dirk Benedict and
Richard Hatch, who starred as hotshot Viper pilots Starbuck and Apollo in the
original television series, as well as Dwight Schultz, known for his roles as
'Howling Mad' Murdock on the A-Team and Lieutenant Barclay on Star
Trek: The Next Generation®, and Kristanna Loken, who plays the T-X in the theatrical release,
Terminator
3: Rise of the Machines. The actors will have
multiple rolls in the anticipated action title which allows the players to take
control of the hottest fighters in the galaxy, and tangle with dozens of
swarming Cylon fighters in massive space battles. The game will be
available this winter for the PlayStation®2
computer entertainment system from Sony Computer Entertainment America and the
Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft."
The Chaotic Dreams Website now
offers a new version 1.02 patch for the Chaotic Dreams modification for Unreal
Tournament 2003.
Battlefield Central
now offers downloads of a new map called Eclipse for the Eve of Destruction mod
for Battlefield 1942. Thanks Ant.
James
Monroe's .plan file has word from the Raven programmer to expect a
disruption in Jedi Knight 2 multiplayer play as a DNS switch they've made to the
game's master server propagates. The switch may take as little as 24 hours for
some, but may take as long as a week in some cases. Either way servers saved to
a favorites list should still be accessible throughout the transition.
HomeLAN Fed's Galactic Conquest
Q&A talks with PwR about the impressive Galactic conquest modification
that brings Star Wars to Battlefield 1942.
The power returned here late yesterday, followed a few hours later by the
resumption of my e-mail. It looks like everything's pretty much back to what
passes for normal around here. I think I'm pretty well caught up on the backlog,
thanks for any patience you've been able to muster during the blackout.
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