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Archived News:
The
Axis & Allies Designer Diary #2 on GameSpot is already online, as the
imminent release of TimeGate Studios' WW2 strategy game inspires an accelerated
release schedule to keep this series of journals timely. Today's installment
discusses the effort that went into designing maps to capture the accurate feel
of some of the most famous battles of World War II. Also, the
Time of Defiance
Wrap Report on RTS RPG Vault offers a postmortem on Time of
Defiance, Nicely Crafted Entertainment's MMO RTS game, as Mark Ashton and Ben
Simpson discuss what went right and wrong during development of the project.
- Pariah
Interview
with a Pariah on IGN chats up James Schmalz of Digital Extremes to learn
more about plans for Pariah, their upcoming first-person shooter: "Well, one
definition of 'Pariah' is an outcast from society. That fits the theme of
the game in a number of ways: The main character is a bit of a loner at a
low point in his medical career. The female lead character has been a
prisoner for a long time and many of the enemies are prisoners or escaped
prisoners. So, Pariah is a word that fits nicely on a number of levels."
- Painkiller
Migraine
Headaches Getting You Down? Don’t Take Aspirin – Play "Painkiller Battle out
of Hell" and Call Me in the Morning on GameZone is the stretch of a
title of the Q&A with Adrian Chmielarz of people Can Fly about their
first-person shooter expansion. Likewise, there's an edited chat log from
the recent Painkiller: Battle out of Hell IRC Chat on
Filefront.
- Scrapland
The
American McGee
Presents Scrapland Q&A on IGN talks with Enric Alvarez and American
McGee about Mercury Steam Entertainment's now-gold action game: "MSE was
born two years ago. Initially it was formed with people from Rebel Act
Studios. We had just released Blade of Darkness worldwide and a sequel for
PS2 and an Xbox port were on the way. But Rebel Act closed its doors and we
lost our jobs. A few of us remained together, determined to stay in
business, and we made it. Six months later we founded MSE and began
Scrapland development."
- BloodRayne Movie
FilmForce's
Uwe Boll Interview Part One talks with the gamesploitation (remember
where that one was coined when it's all over the 'net soon) director about
progress on the film adaptation of the BloodRayne games: "...Billy Zane
played a part also. We got [Zane] one and a half week's ago, so this info
[might not have] reached the fans so far. And then we got, as like a vampire
crack house leader, we have Meatloaf. He's playing it like in the Rocky
Horror Picture Show, a really cool scene with tons of prostitutes in a
big crack house. It's a great scene."
A new official Star
Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords Website is online
(thanks Frans) offering a home to the upcoming Star Wars RPG sequel. The site is
divided into your choice of Dark and Light sections, though the use of Flash
for both seems to indicate the Dark side has the upper hand here. Likewise, the
official Pariah Website has
re-launched, another Flash-y affair, dedicated to Digital Extremes' upcoming
first-person shooter. The re-launched site offers nine new low resolution
screenshots.
Polish developer revoltage announces
plans for a new turn-based RPG called Soul Quest: CRACOW, POLAND (October
27, 2004) – revoltage proudly presents Soul Quest (working title), game which
takes standard turn-based role-playing strategy into new dimension.
Prepare for an unforgettable experience in the fantasy world of Soul Quest.
Delight in an epic story of six races. Find out the reason the balance has been
broken between them, control vast cities, conquer new lands, and take care of
your team. When the time comes they may be your only hope.
Game features:
- 3D Soul Engine, DirectX 9 and pixel/vertex shaders up to version 3.0
supported.
- Six races: humans, undeads, elves, dwarfs, orcs, chaos.
- Advanced city economy.
- Battles on detailed tactical maps.
- Hundreds of NPCs.
- LOTS of items to collect.
- Detailed team characteristics.
- Powerful magic system.
- Intuitive map editor.
Please visit www.revoltage.pl for online
teaser-trailer, news, screenshots and wallpapers.
The Transport Gigant
Website, the German home for Transport Giant, now offers downloads of a pair
of patches for the German edition of the Teamsters sim. There is aversion 1.30
patch for the original game, and a version 2.10 patch for those who also have
the Down Under add-on. Thanks Frans.
OdB Productions has posted a new
movie that they created to highlight their attendance of Invexcup 2004, a recent
world class tournament conducted in the Czech Republic.
The chUmbaLum sOft wEbSitE
now offers downloads of version 1.7 of the MilkShape 3D SDK (thanks Frans). Word
is: "This updated version contains the new code for the ASCII importer and
exporter and adds to new functions to set and get the camera position and
orientation for the 3d viewport. This can be useful for exporters for a ray
tracer for example."
- ATI HDTV Wonder Video CardRemote Control Edition on
SystemCooling.
- Epson Perfection 3170-4180 Scanner on
X-bit labs.
- Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 DDR Dual Channel Memory (video) on
3dGameMan.
- Mushkin PC2-4200 DDR-2 Memory on
PCStats.
- NVIDIA SLI Performance Preview with MSI's nForce4 SLI Motherboard
on AnandTech.
Thanks Mike Martinez.
- Saitek PZ09A Notebook Subwoofer on
TrustedReviews.
- Silverstone TJ06 Case on
Bjorn3d.
- Thermalright XP-120 Heatsink on
PC Perspective.
After years of discussion, we have decided to take the plunge and become a
two-dog household. As I have mentioned in the past, we have to consider
MrsBlue's allergies in this regard, which originally helped us settle on Hudson
the wonder dog, our allergy-friendly (if not strictly hypoallergenic) Airedale
Terrier. This has helped MrsBlue make the case for a breed she has long favored,
the Standard Poodle. In addition to not further aggravating MrsBlue's allergies,
this breed will also be a great match for us an many other ways... A large
standard will be a bit taller than Hudson (helping him withstand the rigors of
playing with the energizer bunny of high energy dogs), he should be as smart as
she is (to help avoid becoming the household doormat), and he should be a bit
generally mellower that Hudson (who is not the terror that some terriers can be,
but she has been known to get a bit worked up at times).
Going through all this lead to the conclusion that we wanted a male Standard
Poodle, hopefully black. It was about a day later that I ran into someone
joining the morning pack that Hudson runs a local trail with who had a black
standard poodle puppy. It turns out her breeder, whom she adores, only breeds
black standards, and when we spoke, it turned out he had a litter on the way,
and that all the females were spoken for, but he could promise us the largest
male in the group (do you know that the opposite of bitch in canine parlance is
dog? -- Creepy). Anyway, it's just all come together like it was meant to be, so
we are heading up to visit the breeder today to see the expecting mom and the
pending pups' sire, and if all goes well, we should be bringing home our new
friend during Christmas week!
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