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Archived News:
NovaLogic sends word that the Team Sabre expansion for Delta Force: Black Hawk
Down has shipped, and is expected in stores tomorrow: CALABASAS, CA
(January 20th 2004) – Entertainment software developer and publisher NovaLogic,
Inc. is delighted to announce that the expansion pack for Delta Force - Black
Hawk Down has shipped and will be in stores on January 21st, 2004.
Developed by Texas based Ritual Entertainment, Delta Force - Black Hawk Down:
Team Sabre features two new single player campaigns that take Delta Force deep
into the jungles of Colombia in search of drug lords, then on to battle
terrorist factions in and around Iran’s island oilfields. Team Sabre also
contains new vehicles and weapons, as well as new multiplayer maps.
Following the success of Delta Force – Black Hawk Down, NovaLogic has once again
teamed up with the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. A portion of the
proceeds from Team Sabre will be donated to the foundation. The SOWF provides
college scholarship grants, along with financial aid and educational counseling
to the children of Special Operations personnel who were killed in an
operational mission or training accident.
Activision passes along word for those itching for info about the promised Call
of Duty patch: We wanted to let you all know that we're listening to your
questions about the Call of Duty patch. I've spoken to the team and thought it
might help to let you know that updates are definitely coming. Infinity Ward is
working now to complete the first update meant to address several issues like
bunny hopping, etc.. We also know that you're very concerned about cheat
protection. The guys at Infinity Ward are currently considering the best way to
address cheat protection. The guys are working really hard and as soon as I have
more info, I'll pass it along.
Codemasters' Dragon Empires FAQ has been updated to reflect a new release
date for the upcoming MMORPG, which had previously been targeted at a Spring
availability. The new update pushes his back to Fall: "Dragon Empires is
currently scheduled to be released Autumn 2004 with testing currently taking
place with a small number of testers. Throughout 2004 we will increase this
number by inviting people on our beta test list." Thanks Frans.
Silent Storm
Ships To Retail is the press release from Encore, announcing that the World
War II strategy/RPG is now available in North America. Here's a bit from their
description of what's being offered: Gamers choose to play on the side of
the Axis or Allied forces, select their squad, and customize their characters
from over 40 male or female operatives. Each squad member can be created from a
variety of nationalities, and will possess a unique personality, background and
in-game dialog. Player units will also benefit from a rich character development
system, with 9 preset skills for each character, and over 50 skills that can be
developed throughout the course of the game. This enables players to use their
own game style, from brute force to cunning stealth. With over 75 authentic WWII
weapons, the path to victory unfolds through a campaign of 24 non-linear daytime
and night missions, and includes randomly generated encounters of varying styles
and difficulty.
The Official Unreal II Expanded Multiplayer
Resource now offers downloads of a new version 7710 patch for the expanded
multiplayer edition of Unreal II. The new version reduces server CPU usage,
fixes a bunch of bugs, and adds new features, all detailed in the
changelog. The
downloads page lists mirrors of
the dedicated server, a full new XMP installer, and incremental update, as well
as a small patch that must be applied by owners of the Unreal II Special Edition
in advance of the XMP update. Thanks Frans and
Voodoo Extreme.
A demo of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is now available
on Ubisoft's French
FTP (direct link), allowing a sample of the PC version of the acrobatic (and
now time-traveling) prince's latest adventures. The demo is a 241 MB download,
mirrored on 3D Gamers,
ActionTrip,
Boomtown (registration required),
Computer Games Online,
FileFront,
Filerush, FileShack
(registration required),
Gamer's Hell, IGN,
and Worthplaying.
A new movie trailer is now available showing off the action in Alpha Black Zero:
Intrepid Protocol, the upcoming action-oriented shooter. The 40 MB movie, in
Windows Media Player format, can be found on
Seriously!,
and mirrored on 3D
Gamers,
Filerush, and
Gamer's
Hell.
A post to the
BeyondUnreal Forums (thanks nvmax) has a
revelation that Epic's Tim Sweeney made to the Unreal Mods mailing list:
Networking won't work between UT2003 and UT2004. We had initially planned
to support that, but the network code has changed so much in order to reduce
bandwidth, support vehicles, and increase performance, that we couldn't keep the
two games network-compatible.
The official Lineage II: The Chaotic
Chronicle Website (thanks Frans and
GameSpyDaily) now offers
Lineage II Beta
Sign-ups for those interested in testing the upcoming MMOG follow-up. The
site also offers four new screenshots from the game, and there's also another
new shot on
Lineage II Warcry.
A new patch is now available for Savage: Battle for Newerth is now available via
the in-game automatic updater for the RTS/FPS hybrid (thanks Talon Toth). The
update includes a new medic unit, updated netcode, and more. Links to
downloadable versions of the Windows and Linux patches can be
found here, along with details on all that's new or different in this
update.
- Serious Sam & ABZ
Serious
Sam cross-interviews Alpha Black Zero Musician on Seriously! features
John "booger" Dick, voice of Serious Sam, and Erik "oswald" Tinberg,
musician on Alpha Black Zero, interviewing each other about their respective
games.
- Psychotoxic
The
Psychotoxic Q&A on GenGamers talks with Nuclearvision art director Tim
Bruns about Psychotoxic, their upcoming first-person shooter. The
conversation covers the game in general, and is accompanied by some
new screenshots.
- Savage Eden
HomeLAN
Fed's Savage Eden Q&A chats with "LadyGM" (played by Cameron Diaz in
that Oliver Stone movie) of iEntertainment about their recent North American
launch of Savage Eden, the popular Korean MMORPG.
- Frontier 1859
Gamemethod's
Frontier 1859 Q&A discusses PvP combat in the MMORPG, kicking off a
discussion on the topic with various MMO teams.
- Trash
DIY
Games' Sitdown With Mark Currie follows up with the Inhuman Games
developer talking about Trash, their upcoming RTS game, actually
following-up on his offer a year ago to answer some of their questions in a
year.
576 Media announces plans for Road to
Fame, a PC racing game that "combines the main features of the arcade and rally
games, using realistic physics."
This page
offers screenshots and a movie from the game, which is due in stores in Q2 2004.
The InterActive Vision Games
Downloads Page now offers a new patch for Search and Rescue 4 and a new
patch for Vietnam Med Evac. Thanks Frans.
Halo.Bungie.Org has
word that the version 1.03 patch for the Macintosh edition of Halo is now
available. Thanks Frans.
The Empires Mod Page offers a new
version 0.11 of this modification that adds true real-time strategy elements to
Battlefield 1942. The update improves stability, but adds no gameplay changes.
The site is down at the moment, but the update is mirrored on
FileFront,
Gamer's
Hell, and
Worthplaying.
The Kanonball Website now
offers a new version 1.1 of the Kanonball modification for Half-Life. In addition to calming down the shaky third-person camera bug
introduced in the previous update, the new version adds four new maps to support
the mod's futuristic sporting event.
A
note on BF42.com announces that the partnership between the Merciless
Creations and the Forgotten Hope Modifications has broken off, and that a new
patch is now available for Merciless to allow the proper skins to be used on the
proper maps. There's more on
the change here. Thanks Ant.
- Pitfall: Lost Expedition preview on
EDBIS.
The Cyberathlete
Professional League announces "it has added Call of Duty, as an official
tournament game for the Extreme World Championships. This tournament will offer
$50,000 in cash prizes sponsored by the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT
Technology Extreme Edition." The EWC is slated for July 28 to August 1. Also,
the Toronto Fun League
is now accepting sign-ups for their tourneys in WarCraft III : The Frozen
Throne, Starcraft : Broodwar, Command & Conquer : Zero Hour and Gunbound.
-
Wired's Annual Vaporware Awards are out (thanks Devster), presenting a
lifetime achievement award to Duke Nukem Forever...
- HomeLAN Fed
announces that they are now hosting and administrating the official Halo PC
servers...
- LucasArts has launched
livethesaga.com, a new site dedicated to Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire
Divided...
Before I got our walk cleared here, we were actually visited by a couple of
young men looking to earn a couple of bucks by shoveling for us. I cannot
believe it, but I believe this is the first time this has actually happened to
us here, and this is our fourth winter in this house. When I was a kid we would
race out with our shovels looking to pick up some work as soon as the snow
started sticking. I wonder how kids today can even afford their first piercings!
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