GSC Game World tweets about their plans to respond to
the rumors that the Ukrainian developer is shutting down. Here's the short and sweet tweet:
An official statement will be made on Monday.
The
Flatout 3: Chaos & Destruction Steam Page offers a 10% discount on the upcoming racing simulation, as well as PC specifications for the game (thanks joao). There's also a new
gameplay trailer showing off Flatout 3, which
DSOGaming notes is not using the recommended specs, which actually call for a top-of-the-line GeForce GTX 590 or Radeon HD 6970 accelerators. Here are the specs:
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The
Star Trek Online Videos Section now offers a new cinematic opening for
Star Trek Online, paving away for the upcoming free-to-play relaunch of the Trekkie MMORPG. Thanks
The RPG Reporter.
System Shock - The Cutting Room Floor offers a look at the items that never quite made it into the original System Shock, noting Origin's action/RPG "has a wide variety of unused, unfinished, or dummied-out items, textures, and enemies, as well as text, audio logs, and other miscellaneous graphics." Thanks
Ant via the
ttlg forums, where the site's creator explains that this is not 100% complete yet, but: "Seeing some of the unused object names in the string resources piqued my interest, so I started playing with various editing tools to see what I could find within the resource files."
Today is the anniversary of the release of the
DOOM shareware, a significant milestone in the history of video games. If you are sitting down and don't have any liquid in your mouth to spit on your monitor, I'll tell you it's the seminal shooter's 18th birthday today, as the release was December 10, 1993.
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