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Archived News:
CDV and Deck 13 announce Jack Keane (working title), a "classic adventure
game for the PC" due in early 2007: December 16, 2005 – Cary, North
Carolina – CDV Software Entertainment AG and award-winning video game developer
Deck 13 Interactive GmbH are delighted to announce their joint publishing
agreement for Jack Keane (working title), a classical adventure game for the PC.
Slated for a Q1 2007 retail release, this game will highlight Deck 13’s newest
technology as the player guides hero Jack Keane to face some of his toughest
challenges yet.
Developer Deck 13 is best known for making high quality, creative classical
adventure games that immerse the player with their rich story-telling and fun
gameplay. Earlier this month the German Developer Awards 2005 recognized Deck
13’s adventure game Ankh with three prestigious awards: Best German Video Game
of 2005, Best Game Sound Track and Best In-Game Sound.
Beteo Software offers the release of
Acamar Rising, a first-person space shooter. The game is available as a trial
version that permits 60 minutes of play on the full game before unlocking
unlimited play will require the purchase of an activation key.
PCgamemods.com (thanks
Planet Doom
and Ant) has word on a Classic DOOM 3 Quick Fix. There are no specifics about
what it does for the DOOM 3 homage to the original DOOM, but it's safe to assume
it fixes something pretty darned quickly.
The Alien
Swarm Website now offers a new version 1.3 of this modification for Unreal
Tournament 2004 (thanks Ant). The update offers tweaks and fixes as well as
updated maps and changes for custom content. The update is required to run
The Telic Campaign, which is also
now available.
Man, it was a pretty sloppy bit of maintenance my ISP pulled off... my current
mail is starting to arrive on time, but the backlogged stuff that arrived while
they were messing around with stuff will apparently be trickling in for the next
12 hours or more... yeesh.
R.I.P.:
'West Wing' Actor John Spencer Dies at 58.
A new patch for Serious Sam 2 is now available, updating Croteam's first person
shooter sequel to version 2.066. The patch is available on the
2K Games Website where there is also a complete list of what is changed in
the new version, which includes dedicated server support.
A pair of demos are now available for Trainz Simulator 2006, offering the chance
to choo-choo-choose one or both of an unusual two-headed sample of Auran's
railroading simulation, a "Drivers Challenge" demo that begins in Tidewater and
the other with a scenario that starts off in Hawes Junction. The demos can be
found on
NVIDIA's nZone, and mirrored on
3D Downloads,
3D Gamers,
FileFront, and
Worthplaying.
City Interactive reveals plans for Tank Killer, an upcoming armored combat game
that will use the engine from T-72: Balkans on Fire, although with a more
action-oriented approach than that more hardcore simulation: Warsaw,
December 16, 2005 -- Ambitious publisher of computer games City Interactive has
signed an agreement with the Ukrainian developer Crazy House to publish World
War 2 PC action game “Tank Killer”.
The title is scheduled for launch in Q2 2006 and will be translated into various
languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and
Polish.
“Tank Killer” is developed internally by the experienced team of around 20
people at Crazy House and from now on will be solely produced and financed by
City Interactive.
Marek Tyminski, CEO of City Interactive, said: “This is a strategic step for our
company. With "Tank Killer" we are launching a new chapter: developing games by
external studios in Eastern Europe. Crazy House’s “T-72 Balkans on Fire” proved
to be a quality title that received good rating from special interest media.
"Tank Killer" is the natural direction for the developer, however to achieve
commercial success, it will be also need to be aimed at action-oriented gamers,
not only to pure sim fans.”
Yuriy Likhota, President of Crazy House: “It is also a strategic step for our
company to cooperate with City Interactive. We are going to produce a
spectacular game on the base of the T-72 engine that already proved itself in
the world market.
City Interactive is in talks with a number of developers to further expand its
portfolio.
New products will be announced soon.
A demo version of V8 Supercars 3 is now available, offering the chance to sample
the Australian edition of TOCA Race Driver 3. The 580 MB V-8 powered demo is
available on Atari
Australia and mirrored on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
FileFront,
Filerush (BitTorrent),
GameArena (registration required), Gameguru Mania,
VGPro, and
Worthplaying.
A new Heroes of Might
and Magic V product section (Heroes V of Might and Magic?) is online, though
it does not offer anything new related to the upcoming installment in the HoMM
series. Thanks Frans.
AMDZone reports on efforts to pinpoint a problem with the recently released
beta version of Quake 4 and some server performance issues in a multi-threading
environment. They have word from NVIDIA that this is possibly due to a bug in
multithreading support in their 80 series drivers. Here's more: From
reports we have seen around the web this seems to be an issue with Intel and AMD
systems alike. Also it is possible that any other game with multithreading
support could also have performance issues. We have not seen any reports as of
yet with ATI's Catalyst 5.12 drivers which also support dual core having similar
results. Stay tuned as we continue our Quake 4 testing to bring you more
information.
Roma Victor
Pre-order Today is the promised ( story) announcement that
pre-orders for the MMORPG are underway, which also permit access to the game's
beta testing. They offer a broken link to the pre-order page, that is
actually located here, but
that will deny access unless you create a forum account first (perhaps all meant
as a puzzle game to gauge your worthiness). Word is: "We're looking
forward to opening up our virtual world gradually, and to an ever wider
audience," said Kerry Fraser-Robinson, Managing Director of RedBedlam. "We do
stress that Roma Victor is still being tested and pre-order customers shouldn't
expect a finished game just yet. But we are sure they'll love the features on
offer: once they've learned the basic skills, combat and navigation systems,
players can quickly learn different crafts and skills to produce everything in
the game by themselves, from knives and spears to their houses, workshops and
stables."
Evolution Vault now offers an updated demo for Galactic Dream, as well as a
patch for the demo released yesterday to bring it up to the same version
1.01.02. The
patch notes outline what's new and different. Thanks Frans.
Now incorporating the section formerly known as Help Wanted:
A little scheduled maintenance by my ISP has gone a little longer than
scheduled, leaving my email from the last 12 hours slowing trickling in. A
hearty thanks to Frans for helping track down some of today's stories that I was
missing as a result. In the meantime, mail you may have sent me may still be in
the pipe, but hopefully this will continue to work itself out.
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