Afternoon Reading - briefly
(hx) 10:17 PM CET - Feb,06 2003
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- IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles Preview - Flight-sim news
has posted
a
preview of IL-2 Sturmovik: The Forgotten Battles which is expected
to ship to stores around February 27th.
- Enter the Matrix Previews -
GameSpy,
PC.IGN
and
Gamespot have posted a preview Enter the Matrix, of Shiny Entertainment's
upcoming action title. In addition, Tiscali Games has
four DivX movies.
- Apolyton "MoO3" Preview, Part #5 - The fifth part of Apolyton
Civilization Site's continuing
"Master of Orion III" preview is now online.
- Etherlords 2 Interview - Adrenaline Vault have posted an
interview with members of Nival Interactive as they chat about Etherlords
2, their upcoming turn based strategy with RPG elements.
- 2 New 3DMark03 Screenies - Futuremark has posted
two new screenshots of 3DMark 2003.(thanks Matthias)
- Tropico 2 Dev Diary - PC.IGN has posted a
developer diary written by Frog City's Bill Spieth regarding their
upcoming strategy title, Tropico 2: Pirate Cove. He goes over the game design
and initial stages of planning in it.
- Star Wars Galaxies Chat Tonite -
Star Wars Galaxies website has an info that there will be
a
new developer chat tonight. On hand will be several developers from
the SWG team including Raph "Holocron" Koster, Rich "BoShek" Vogel and Kevin
"Q-3PO" O'Hara, Grant "Rogue_5" McDaniel and anyone else that shows up. The
chat will start at 9PM EST here.
- Ultimate Baseball Online Alpha Testing - Netamin announced today
that it is accepting
signups for the alpha test for its forthcoming online sports game,
Ultimate Baseball Online (UBO).
- Researcher Claims Unreal Engine Vulnerabilities -
In
a submission to a well-known website, a Security Researcher for PivX
Solutions charges that Epic Games has been aware of these vulnerabilities
without incorporating fixes in recent releases of the engine such as the 2166
patch for Unreal Tournament 2003. The vulnerabilities extend to Linux, MacOS,
and Win32. Blue, of
Blues News fame, contacted Epic Games VP Mark Rein directly. Mark's
response was, well, Epic. :" I won't sugar coat this. We fucked up on this.
Yes this is real and yes this was brought to our attention and yes we should
have fixed it by now. We are working on fixing this now and we will have this
fixed in an upcoming patch before too long."
- Blitzkrieg Demo on Friday, Feb. 14. - CDV Software announced today
that a playable demo for its WWII real-time strategy game,
Blitzkrieg, will
be released on February 14th. The demo will offer three single player missions
- one from the Germans, Allies and Russians.
- SÖLDNER - Secret Wars Goodies - JoWood has
updated the official site
for SÖLDNER - Secret Wars with some new details and visuals on several
vehicles found in the game including the Russian BTR-90 Armored Personnel
Carrier, the Chinese WZ-551 Infantry Fighting Vehicle, the Russian Mi-38
Transport Helicopter, and the Chinese Type 85 Battle Tank.
- American Conquest Ships -
American Conquest is released in the US today!
- POSTAL 2 is going Gold this quarter -
Running With
Scissors sent out a press release, announcing that their upcoming Unreal
engine powered first person shooter Postal 2 will be going gold sometime this
quarter.. The Official Postal 2 web site has now offers a new video showing
off people shooting guns (Gary Coleman + some female models) at a recent press
event for the game.
- Kakuto Chojin Pulled from store shelves -
GameSpot is reporting that Kakuto Chojin, DreamFactory's Xbox fighting
game, has been recalled from store shelves in Japan and North America.
Microsoft of Japan has told several news outlets that the reason for the
recall stems from religious references made throughout the game that could be
seen as offensive
- Nokia N-Gage: First Impressions -
It gets worse, too; games are distributed on postage-stamp sized MMC memory
cards, which is a bad choice in itself as MMC memory is flimsy and
expensive (expect to have to store your games in plastic cases for protection
outside the unit, a far cry from the near-indestructible robustness of GBA
cartridges), but worse again than this is the fact that the act of slipping in
a new game involves removing the back of the unit, taking out the battery and
sliding the game home into a SIM card style slot. This, needless to say, is a
stunningly bad piece of design and the need to juggle about five separate bits
of kit in order to play a new game isn't going to win the unit any fans.
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