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The Bungie Weekly Update backtracks from lead network engineer David Aldridge's GDC comment earlier this week saying their next project is a massively multiplayer action game (thanks Big Download). They are now claiming this is a joke, invoking endless Charlie Sheen references in their explanation: Tired of pretending that he’s not a -blam!-in’ rock star from Mars, David Aldridge inhaled a huge hit of David Aldridge at GDC yesterday. Subsequently, his face melted off and children wept over his exploded body. After the childish tears, gelatinous gibs, and acrid smoke cleared, an industrious journalist noticed the final slide from David’s GDC deck which apparently proclaimed that we were hiring for a "massively…multiplayer action game." Ruh oh.
Now, in rehearsal Aldridge was convinced that everybody got the joke. It was all in the delivery, he assured us, and he was certain it was clear that he was playfully riffing off of the recent rumors. Unfortunately, most people can’t figure David out – they can’t process him. And we don’t expect them to. You can’t process David Aldridge with a normal brain. You’d need tiger blood and Adonis DNA.
Valve's just announced Steam Guard system is now in beta. Word is: "As a Steam account holder, you can now take advantage of this additional level of account security, further prohibiting others from gaining access to your account. As a beta participant, once you've verified your email address with Steam, Steam Guard becomes available for your use and is enabled for your Steam account by default." To demonstrate the security this provides, Gabe Newell gives out his username and password at Cebit (thanks VG247 via Reddit).
Eurogamer reports Double Fine's Ron Gilbert told GDC attendees he would "love" to see LucasArts rerelease Maniac Mansion, saying "I would love for them to re-release Maniac Mansion the same way they did the Monkey Island games. I think that would be really neat." The original Maniac Mansion was released by LucasFilm Games for Commodore 64 and Apple II back in 1987. "I've often thought it would be fun to go through the game and fix a lot of the problems I mentioned and get the puzzle structure more like we did in Monkey Island," he said. "But then other times I think 'do I really want to do that?' Maybe the game really needs to have those flaws. Isn't that a little bit like George Lucas going back and fixing all those problems with Star Wars? Maybe the game really needs to be what it is back then."
The Technology of Dragon Age II – Part 2 on the BioWare Blog offers an illustrated look at advancements in the role-playing sequel. Here's an overview of their goals: One of the major goals of the team was to make the game look great on all platforms. Having accomplished that, we started researching what additional features we can offer to our users that have invested on higher end PC hardware. The latest PC GPUs that have been recently released on the market are very powerful. DirectX 11 technology is a great way for us to target this advanced GPU hardware, as DirectX 11 is fully backwards compatible with DirectX 10. So if you have a video card that supports DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 or DirectX 11, and Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7, you’ll be able to benefit from additional technology features as described in this post.
THQ TV now offers a "Multiplayer Carnage" trailer from Homefront, which shows just that in Kaos Studios' upcoming first-person shooter. The clip shows airstrikes, armored combat, gunfights, hand-to-hand combat, ground-to-air combat, and enough explosions for a Michael Bay movie.
A new Crysis 2 Multiplayer Progression trailer part 2 shows off the weapon and weapon mode customizations you can acquire in multiplayer play in Crysis 2, Crytek's upcoming multiplayer shooter. These include weapons, weapon enhancements, scopes, suppressors, and even the game's version of the Holoduke. Here's the embedded clip. Continue here to read the full story.
The Alice: Madness Returns GDC demonstration is available for viewing on IGN, offering a first look at gameplay from Spicy Horse's upcoming Alice sequel. The clip shows some platforming, combat, and Alice getting small, which would please Steve Martin, though Jefferson Airplane would be disappointed to note that at no time does she seem to be ten feet tall. Thanks VG247.
Hunted co-op interview on Bethesda Blog hears from Chris Keenan, design director on Hunted: Demon's Forge, Bethesda's upcoming third-person action game. The focus here is cooperative multiplayer play, and Chris explains how players connect to play, what happened if one player drops out, split-screen support for local co-op, swapping characters, and matchmaking.
A Pirates of Black Cove video interview from GDC discusses this real-time strategy/role-playing game in the works at Nitro Games. The clip features the game's producer Brendon Neuwerth invoking Monte Python in saying players should be prepared for "something completely different." He talks about the game's setting and storyline, characters, role-playing elements, its non-traditional skills and abilities, factions, naval combat, land battles, and more. The clip features a brief look at gameplay as well as a bunch of concept art.
The DCS Website now offers a new patch for the English edition of DCS: A-10C Warthog, updating the combat flight simulator to version 1.1.0.6, which "includes a number of critical updates to improve the stability of the simulation" (thanks Matt). The patch adds "several enhancements" in addition to fixing bugs. The change list follows. Continue here to read the full story.
An updated version of The Dark Mod was released last week, bringing this DOOM 3 modification based on the stealthy Thief series to version 1.04. The DarkMod Wiki outlines all the changes in detail, and here's an overview: "This update provides a number of new assets for mappers, including mage and thief characters, new vocal sets, and an improved LOD system. Players will also benefit from smaller saved game sizes, more intelligent AI pathfinding, and greebo's brand new mission preview screen (see image). Players can now see details and screenshots of missions before choosing whether or not to download them." Thanks Ant via Planet Doom.
A new LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars 'Delimbing' Trailer offers a cinematic for the upcoming brixillated action game. Word is: "Outnumbered and out-limbed, a resourceful Clone trooper does his best to keep his enemies at “arm’s” length in this hilarious video." Below is the embedded version. Continue here to read the full story.
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