Archived News:
The mod tools for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War are now available, offering the
chance to create custom scenarios for Relic's real-time strategy game. The 76 MB
download can be found on
3D Gamers,
FileFront,
FileShack (registration required), and
Worthplaying. Also, the
Battlefield Vietnam Website now offers an updated version of the Battlefield
Vietnam toolkit for modification authors (thanks Frans). Here's word on the
version 2.75 tools: "With this
package come several new tools to make your modding life a little easier and
Tutorials created by Lawrence Brown, Battlefield's own Mod Support Coordinator."
The Wish Homepage has word that beta
2 of Mutable Realms' upcoming MMORPG is now slated to begin on January 1, 2005,
rather than on December 1 as had been planned. Beta 2 is planned to run for a
month. Here's word: "There are no specific problems that can be singled out as
the reason for the delay. The core architecture of Wish is sound and stable. It
is simply the sheer number of small issues that still need modification or
testing that calls for this unfortunate delay."
- Guild Wars
Jeff
Strain and Cynn Q&A on Nudist Talk chats about ArenaNet's upcoming
MMORPG in an amazing rapid fire string of questions and answers: "It takes a
lot of time and effort to do these public events – we need time to
incorporate feedback and develop the game! If the event was every weekend we
would never get to see our families."
- S.C.O.U.R.G.E.
The
S.C.O.U.R.G.E. Q&A on
RPG Codex talks with Gabor Torok, developer of S.C.O.U.R.G.E., an indie
RPG: "The goals of making the game is to create an off-beat, interesting,
dungeon crawler that may eventually become a full-blown rpg (with non-random
outside areas.) I found that my projects were often bogged down in details,
so I focused on a feature set that enables fast development while skipping
over (for now) areas that may take a long time to complete. A lot of the
features commonly associated with roguelikes work for my advantage. For
example, using random dungeons instead of having to write a "dungeon editor"
or using md2 (quake) models instead of creating custom animations saved me a
lot of time."
- City of Heroes
A View from Atlas Park: Interview with Rick Dakan, Part 2 on City of Heroes
Warcry continues this conversation with for Cryptic employee about Blue
King, their City of Heroes comics, and what their future holds.
- Battle for Middle-Earth on
IGN.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords on
GameSpot. Based on the Xbox version.
Apsyr Media, Inc. Ships
`MTX Mototrax' for Mac and PC announces that these ports of the motocross
game are now available: "MTX: Mototrax(TM)" delivers thrilling
mud-slinging, fast-paced racing action at 60 frames per second. Players become
further involved in their quest for track domination with authentic
environmental effects, realistic sound engines and a pulsating rock soundtrack
developed for the game. Slipknot, Dope or Pennywise, among others, blare from
your sound system as you race through such locales as the Hawaiian Islands, the
Bayou and the Australian Outback.
A multiplayer-only test demo for rFactor is now available, offering a dedicated
server and the chance to test drive any of three car variants on one of the
tracks from Image Space's upcoming realistic racer. The 69 MB download can be
found on 3D Gamers,
FileFront, FileShack
(registration required), and
Worthplaying.
A demo of Die Siedler Das Erbe der Könige is now avaialble, allowing the chance
to sample the German edition of The Settlers: Heritage of Kings, the upcoming
fifth installment in Blue Byte's long-running strategy series. The 381 MB
download can be found on the
Ubisoft Website,
and mirrored on 3D
Gamers,
4Players.de,
JustGamers, Gamer's Hell,
and Worthplaying.
This
DreamCatcher Download Page features a new patch for SuperPower 2, updating
the global domination sequel to version 1.2. The update includes a bunch of
bug-fixes and tweaks, all detailed in the accompanying patch notes.
The BioWare Store is now open for
business, offering the first three Premium Neverwinter Nights Modules for
download. Word is: "These modules are new professionally developed adventures
that expand an already extensive Neverwinter Nights library."
The Third Wire
Project 1 Patches Page now offers a Service Pack 3 to update Strike Fighters
and Strike Fighters Gold GMX Edition, which "updates the game to make it more
compatible with the latest video cards, and adds host of new features for
third-party expansions." Also, the
Wings Over Vietnam
Patches Page offers "a maintenance patch to bring Wings Over Vietnam up to
the Strike Fighters: Project 1 Service Pack 3 standard." Thanks Frans.
A Q&A with LucasArts President Jim Ward on Yahoo! News (thanks Frans and
Voodoo
Extreme) reveals plans for a previously unannounced Star Wars RTS game in
the works at Petroglyph, a developer composed of ex-Westwood employees:
As a result, we will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the
next few years, and I think there's a bright future there for games based on
these new properties as well as original "Star Wars" games like a new real-time
strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year. This game will
take the (real-time strategy) genre in a new direction and will balance gameplay
between the hard-core gamers who buy these games and the broader audience that's
familiar with the "Star Wars" brand.
This
ZOO Digital Publishing Product Page reveals plans to publish a PC port of
Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, saying the PC edition of the action game will
be released sometime this month. Likewise,
The Punisher Official Website has
re-launched (thanks Frans), dedicated to the upcoming game based on the violent
comic book character. The site offers some new screenshots, and reconfirms plans
for a PC port ( story).
- Mythic Blades
HomeLAN
Fed's Mythic Blades Q&A verbally fences with Eric Peterson of publisher
Cartel Games about Mythic Blades, the upcoming PC fighting game in the works
at Mexican developer Vermillion Entertainment: "In Mythic Blades, Ares wants
to rule the Olympus so he challenges his father to a battle. Zeus doesn't
agree and is then forced to by having half of the gods of Olympus backing up
Ares. As in the Iliad, the gods' problems are represented by mortal men, and
so, the fight between the gods is not fought between them but by humans and
monsters, led by Ares and Zeus. The Mythic Blades are then forged for the
combatants."
- Rome: Total War
Epic,
Cinematic Audio in Rome: Total War on SoundBlaster.com is a discussion
of the audio portion of Rome: Total War with Creative Assembly's sound
designer Richard Vaughan and music lead Jeff van Dyck.
This DICE press release offers interim financial results from the first nine
months of 2004. Thanks Frans. The announcement details the Swedish developer's
updated console ambitions.
The
Transport Giant Website now features downloads of the editor for the
Teamsters sim, offering the same ability to create and modify scenarios for the
game the original developers possessed. The editor is based on the Industry
Giant tools, and thus should be familiar to IG2 scenario authors. Thanks Frans.
Players
sought for $1m tournament (thanks Mike Martinez) has more on the chance
to participate in the tournament to add new members to the sponsored Four-Kings
clan.
I must admit that we had an unusual actual Autumn season around these parts this
year. That seems to be coming to a close however, as the cold has set in in a
big way... we have gotten our first frost, and I'm betting the first snow will
follow... time to tune up the sled.
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