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Archived News:
NVIDIA sends news that their hardware has been designated
the ideal platform for DOOM 3 (a distinction that will presumably continue even
after the game is released). Here's the announcement: NVIDIA is pleased to
announce that id Software recommends the GeForce FX family of graphics
processing units for DOOM 3. This week, many of our add-in card and system
builder partners have begun to display a special sticker on their retail
packaging and company Websites to promote this recommendation to consumers.
This marks a great achievement for GeForce FX GPUs. Look for this sticker on
video cards equipped with a GeForce FX GPU and witness the mind-blowing detail
of the DOOM 3 experience - the way it's meant to be played.
To have a look at the sticker, please visit our DOOM 3 page on NVIDIA nZone,
located at
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nzone_doom3_home.html.
A new patch is now available for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic,
updating LucasArts' and BioWare's force-imbued role-playing game to version
1.03. The 25 MB update can be found on
this LucasArts Webpage,
and mirrored on 3D
Gamers and
Worthplaying.
We had a problem with a server there for a bit, but it seems to have been
cleared up now. Apologies for the down-time, and thanks to the folks at UGO for
getting this straightened out.
This
press release (thanks Frans) announces that Ubisoft has acquired Wolfpack
Studios: "Ubisoft, one of the world's largest videogame publishers, today
announced the acquisition of Austin-based Wolfpack Studios, the developer of
Shadowbane. The critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for
the PC and Mac platforms and its recently launched expansion pack, Shadowbane:
The Rise of Chaos, are operated and supported by Ubisoft's online gaming
division, ubi.com, which is among the top five gaming portals in the world." On
a related note there's a
Ubisoft Acquires Wolfpack Q&A on IGN talking with Ubi.com's Jason Rubinstein
about the move.
The BRAT News Page (thanks
Frans) offers news of another new game in the works at this independent
developer. Titled Toon Army,
the game is described as "a gritty, foul mouthed, wise cracking, cartoon, FPS."
The announcement is accompanied by a DivX-format clip of the game in action.
Here's a portion of the description: 'Toon Army' is a gritty, foul
mouthed, wise cracking, cartoon, World War 2, FPS, battlefield game allowing
both single player and multiplayer modes over a multitude of terrain's, with up
to 32 players in a game. Following the misadventures of GI John Doe the player
takes on the dreaded Axis powers across Africa and Europe.
At the players disposal are a wide range of weapons, devices and vehicles,
including tanks, field artillery, aircraft, gun posts and much more.
As with all our products buildings, bridges and trees are fully destructible
providing a constantly changing, tactical landscape.
Directed at both PC and console platforms and utilizing the Mercury II engine;
Toon Army is the latest FPS IP from Brat Designs.
The BRAT News Page also now
offers a new movie showing off gameplay from SOLAR, their recently announced
multiplayer science-fiction game. The clip is 19 MB, in DivX format. Thanks
Frans.
As promised ( story), the Syberia II demo is now available on the
Microïds Website, offering the chance to sample the adventure game sequel in
your choice of languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, or German. Thanks
Frans.
The Stalingrad press release on
GAMES.1C.RU announces plans for an Eastern-front World War II-themed
real-time strategy using a modified version of the Blitzkrieg engine (thanks
Frans). Here's a bit on the game, not to be confused with the first-person shooter of the same name in the
works at French developer 4X Studio that
hasn't been heard from in well over a year ( story): Stalingrad is a real-time strategy (developed by DTF Games) based on the
modified Blitzkrieg engine. The game tells a story of one of the most dramatic
periods of World War II and covers all major events from June 1942 till January
1943.
The game consists out of two campaigns. During the first one players will lead
the advancing German forces and after that will assume the role of a Soviet
commander, whose aim is to liberate the city and smash the 6th Army of
Wehrmacht.
Unlike many other WWII RTS games Stalingrad renders every event taking into
account all historical peculiarities and demonstrates a high level of accuracy.
Moreover the missions in every single battle scenario are the same as they were
in reality.
" G2 Interactive is
partnering with GenAvSimulations, a privately owned development corporation that
is experienced in high fidelity simulations, to announce a Q4 2004 release of
Air Combat Command, Fighter Ops (working title) a new and extensive product that
introduces single player, co-op multiplayer and dynamic game play modes that
will make it the number-one online / offline combat flight simulation on the
planet." Also, a note on
Frugal's World of Simulations Forums has word that the Falcon IV: Infinite
Resolve project has been grounded: "G2Interactive, Inc. has determined that it
is in the best interest of G2Interactive and that of the Community to decline
the contract amendment proposal offered by Atari. All effort to further develop
any product based on the intellectual property owned by Atari has been
discontinued." Thanks Frans.
Global Star Software now offers downloads of a new version 1.01 patch for
Jet Fighter V. The update adds a keyboard configuration menu, a mission
generator save function, support for multiplayer play over the internet, a new
free for all mode, a new chat feature, and new on-screen messages. Thanks
The Patches Scrolls.
Sign-ups for
the CPM League are now underway, a Quake III Arena league using the
ProMode modification. The competition gets
underway on March 12.
Hatchee matchee! And it's March! As John Belushi once pointed out, March
sometimes comes in like a lion and goes out like another lion (one has a mane
and one doesn't have a mane), but here's hoping the whole lion/lamb transition
is in order (though I'll willingly accept a lamb/lamb scenario). A little poking
around reveals that there's more than just the coming spring to celebrate here,
as March is National Women's History Month,
National Youth
Art Month,
National Nutrition Month,
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month,
National
Craft Month, and heavens to Jimmy Carter, it's also
National Peanut Month.
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