Archived News:
The Darwinia News Page has word on
plans for an updated demo for Introversion Software's upcoming evolutionary
action/strategy game. Expressing some mystification at the mystification the
first demo ( story) has inspired, they admit "we've obviously
misjudged the amount of help that games players need," going on to announce: "We
are working on a new demo that will include a detailed tutorial that explains
the concepts of Darwinia." In the meantime, thy have posted a new
tutorial section
that can help with the first demo. Thanks Frans.
A new Battlefield 2 gameplay trailer is now available in the latest
BF2 newsletter (thanks Total Battlefield
2), along with a video interview with Battlefield 2 executive producer Scott
Evans. The clips are mirrored on
3D Gamers,
Filerush (torrent), and
Worthplaying.
Also, the
Worms 4: Mayhem Website now features a new gameplay movie with the first
footage from Worms 4: Mayhem, the next installment in Team17's
invertebrate strategy series. The 8 MB download is mirrored on
3D Gamers and
Worthplaying.
Also, a new MotoGP 3 trailer shows off more bike racing from Climax'
upcoming motorcycle simulation. This movie can be found on
GameSpot
((registration required) to download, steaming is free) and mirrored on
Worthplaying.
Meanwhile, a pair of new Universal Combat: A World Apart movies are now
available, showing off more of 3000AD's next U.C. game, the pair of clips add up
to close to 350 MB worth of downloads, the movies can be found on
Gamer's Hell. Finally,
the Splinter Cell
Website has a goofy live-action mega64 movie with folks acting out
Splinter Cell scenes in real life.
Sam & Max back from the dead? on GameSpot reports on rumors that startup German developer bad brain entertainment might be
announcing that they have taken up the abandoned development of Sam & Max
Freelance Police. Unfortunately, according to a statement on the bad brain website by the company's CEO:
"I didn't tell Gamespot anything like what they
wrote. They called me at night and asked me about the news posted on
Aventuraycia. I told them that there will be an offical [sic] statement on
monday [sic]. Well after that call I decided to post the statement earlier
(saturday) [sic]." This is to explain the confusion between that report
and the actual news they have posted: Negotiations
with Lucas Arts failed. We won't get Sam & Max 2 (not the code, the artwork or
anything else)
- Pariah
The
Anvil's Digital Extremes Q&A (thanks
HomeLAN Fed)
offers a new Q&A with the team behind Pariah, DE's upcoming first-person
shooter: "We're putting the Xbox demo together this week and over the next
2-3 weeks we'll be putting the PC demo together. The Xbox demo will be the
featured demo in the Official Xbox Magazine. We hope to release the demos
before the release date of the full version but it's up to Groove Games."
- Empire Earth II
Empire
Earth Heaven has an Empire Earth II interview movie talking with Dr. Ian
Davis of Mad Doc Software about the upcoming strategy sequel.
- Perimeter Expansion
Experience
Gaming's Perimeter: Emperor's Testament Q&A talks with Mikhail
Piskounov, scenario and dialog writer for the upcoming Perimeter expansion
and K-D Lab PR manager Elena Khudenko: "It was an extremely difficult
decision. Our scenario and dialog writers have generated tons of possible
names like “Perimeter: the Temptation of Mechanical Messiah” or “Perimeter:
the Rise of Mechanical Messiah”. So we had plenty of material to choose
from. But in the end we’ve decided that the name “Perimeter: Emperor’s
Testament” would be both attractive and understandable for the players and
also easy to remember, which is also important."
A new version 1.1 patch for Hunting Unlimited 3 is now available on
the ValuSoft
Technical Support Web Site (thanks The Patches Scrolls).
Also,
This JoWooD Productions Webpage now features a new "VDFS" patch to update
the German edition of Gothic II Gold. Thanks Frans. Finally,
Captain Zedo's Hardwar Community now offers a new unofficial UIM 0.5
patch for Hardwar, continuing the community support for The Software
Refinery's abandoned Elite-inspired space game. Thanks Frans and
A Talent for War.
- Cold Fear on
Gamebiz.
- Psychotoxic on
IGN.
The Weapons of Psychotoxic.
- Restricted Area on
Worthplaying.
- Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on
IGN. Sam Fisher:
Bad Ass Mofo #5.
- Star Wars: Empire at War on
GameSpy.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords on
IGN.
A new version 1.16.1 is now available for Vavoom, the DOOM
source port that also encompasses Heretic, HEXEN, and Strife. The new release
offers a handful of bug-fixes. Thanks Frans.
We had an odd wildlife encounter yesterday, as at some
point during the morning MrsBlue noticed we had a bird in our basement;
apparently he managed to fly in during the brief window (or door in this case)
of opportunity while the garbage was being taken out. After failing to coax him
out ourselves (there's a decrepit hung ceiling down there from a previous
resident's half-assed renovation that provided a great refuge for
him), we tried a few of the animal control places in the local phone book, only
to get no return calls. We finally called our exterminator (long story - hired
by the previous owners to prevent termites that we don't have in our brick
house), something we were hesitant to do because we were just seeking an
eviction, rather than an execution. We got an actual response from them, since
we are customers, and a couple of hours later our guy was down there on a bird
hunt, promising to do his best to take the little flapper alive. After seeking
permission to do a little demolition on some horrible warped paneling (the
perfect complement to the hung ceiling), he busted a hole in the wall where the
little fellow was trapped, got a hold of him, and set him free.
Thanks to the speculation in the forums yesterday, I sought out, and discovered,
a second fuse box under the hood of the BlueTruck... unfortunately, I found no
burnt fuses there either, so I have a service appointment this afternoon. After
getting off light on the bird thing (just a standard $65 house call, since we
are customers), I can only hope that what seems like a simple fix for the dead
dash lights won't end up costing me an arm and a leg.
R.I.P.:
Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi dead at 60. Thanks Mike Martinez.
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