The
Natural Selection 2 Website shows off the Hydra, revealing the first of the alien structures in the action/strategy sequel in development at Unknown Worlds. They offer a complete description, a piece of concept art, some model renders, and a
Gorge Hydra trailer with gameplay footage showing the Hydra in action.
The
Interstellar Marines Website has an article on the audio in Zero Point Software's upcoming first-person shooter, discussing the attention they have paid to reverb and creating proper echo effects for the game using the Unity engine, which does not have any native reverb support. They also offer
a (direct) link to download the main theme from their recent
Running Man demo. Thanks joao.
GoGamer's 4th of July 48 Hour Madness offers scads of games on sale, following a topical cookout theme. Included are
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for 30% off and
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for 33% off. Thanks TheWeaponeer. Speaking of sales, indie side-scrolling shooter
SHMUP is on sale over the extended weekend for all of $1.49 USD. A playable demo is available if you don't want to risk that kind of cash indiscriminately.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Rules For Games- Do & Don’t #1. Thanks Morris.
Don’t: leave diary entries by one person scattered over miles of corridors, buildings and countries. That’s not how a diary works. A diary tends to be all in one place. Most people, when journaling their lives, don’t tend to scribble it out on the nearest scrap of paper and then leave it wherever the wrote it. Because that would be utterly insane.
The Independence Day weekend is in full swing around these parts. We have some places to be today, and will be trying to be extra careful on the roads, with those kooky holiday drivers, and if you have to be somewhere, here's hoping you are similarly cautious, as we need all the readers we can get.
R.I.P.:
Ilene Woods, Voice of Cinderella, Dead at 81. Thanks Mike Martinez.
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