Didn't know there were any soccer games beyond Fifa. After this announcement, doesn't look like there are!


Blur, Song 2 baby!

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Bugger.

Here's hoping that they all find new jobs.

Didn't Rage get bought by Microsoft a few months back for... oh, 350 million bucks or so?? To do exclusive Xbox content?

Creston

that's Rare, slight difference.

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Didn't Rage get bought by Microsoft a few months back for... oh, 350 million bucks or so?? To do exclusive Xbox content?

You're thinking of Rare...

edit: Beat to the punch by quickdraw Schnapple.

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That sucks, hope ex-employees get something out of the mess, hopefully another job somewhere else.

http://www.particle-systems.com/ looking for a very good artist if you're interested

Good luck guys.

another british dev bites the dust

i wonder how many british devs who started out on the c64/spectrum and amiga, still exist ?

> Didn't know there were any soccer games beyond Fifa.
> After this announcement, doesn't look like there are!

Yes there are a few other companies doing soccer games on the PC but mainly on consoles.

Some are just low-budget, you dont get to see them unless you dig the bargain bin...

Now Mobile Forces will never get fixed.

Hope some of that 85 are the teams working on Team SAS and the Lambo game...two really cool games

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering - Bruce Lee"

XEON
So can you talk about that patch rift for Mobile Forces yet? What was it they were complaining about?

@7: Most of the old giants of the 8-bit era are long gone...US Gold, Ocean, etc. Some just went bust...others were bought out and lost in mergers (eg. Microprose).

The only three "old school" Brit dev companies that I can think of offhand that are still going are Codemasters, Rare (formerly Ultimate of "Sabre Wulf", "KnightLore" etc fame), and System 3 (who announced some time ago that they were doing a new-gen Last Ninja game....not seen much seen then though...).

Rage has lost a lot of my respect for screwing up Incoming Forces.

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Hump m8,

The patch rift was over getting paid for the job, RtW the developer was happy to fix and improve Mobile Forces and stated repeatedly on the forum that this was the issue, but couldn't create a further patch without getting paid for it - whole heap of stuff went one, Essentially they did what they were paid for and I think MF is a good fun game, there are issues with the game and a further patch would have really sorted things out. (they released one patch update which addressed some issues)

RtW are a small developer (a startup, originally Rage Dundee) - creating a patch costs money in dev time and if no-one is going to pay for it i.e. the publisher then there wasn't much they could really do - sadly.

There is whole threads dedicated to the matter on the official MF community forums over @ www.mobileforces.org with posts from the dev team - shame for the game, but I can totally see where they are coming from.

FWIW - the community is pretty small, although cool & friendly. If ppl have the game they should check it out. One main member (a moderator) released a mutator addressing some of the weapon balancing issues and also released a Linux hack to run it on that OS (instead of its native Win32) so there is some community support if not from the publisher

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering - Bruce Lee"

teh mane mahn: I agree Incoming Forces coulda been something good. BTW did you ever check out Antaeus Rising (aka Hostile Waters) ? an action RTS - very cool gameplay, great production values ...well worth checking out

That was probably the best game they did bar the upcoming Team SAS and Lambo game

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering - Bruce Lee"

I've never heard of those other games that I hear Rage is developing. It is perhaps because I do not read the news as often as I used to.

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what old school C64/Amiga games did the Codemasters make?



- Dr. Del
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@17: Codemasters started out in the industry doing cheapo budget titles for C64, Amstrad, & Spectrum. They published a fair few now-almost-forgotten games like "Ghosthunters" and "3D Starfighter" before 'breaking out' with more 'popular' titles like the "Dizzy" platformer series and "BMX Simulator" (which spawned many more "-Simulator" titles). Some of these later appeared on the Amiga, but I think the original "Micro Machines" was their first hit on that platform.

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this just shows the kind of idiots in the computer game "industry"

for whats its worth I found Gunmetal for the Xbox pretty cool (I guess we can forget about the PC port )

Nothing incredibly deep mind you but it was just a nice looking blow-stuff-up-real-good-in-my-mech type of game.