Morning Reading - briefly
(hx) 12:51 PM CET - Jan,05 2002
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- Allied Assault SP Demo - Now Officially - if you didn't grab the
leaked demo earlier this week you can now grab it again.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty Demo - Follow SpongeBob
and his friends trought the most sea-riffic adventure yet :) If you have a kids...leech it! :) (44.3MB) Mirror: Tiscali.Games
- Strayfire Demo - Gradient Studios have released a playable demo
(9MB) of Strayfire, an arcade-style shoot'em up game that features 3D accelerated
graphics, loads of firepower, hordes of alien enemies to blast, and special effects
galore,
- The Thing Movie - a new trailer showing off gameplay from The Thing is now available for viewing at Computer
Artworks
- Unreal II movie - mirror & short version - Both movies (14
MB or 4 MB) are available at Tiscali.Games.
- Earth And Beyond Online Preview - GameSpy has posted a preview
of Earth and Beyond Online, the upcoming space-based MMORPG.
- Global Operations Preview - pc.ign has written a preview of Global
Operations, Barking Dog Studio's upcoming first person team action game.
- NVIDIA Interview - GameSpot has conducted an
interview with NVIDIA chief scientist David Kirk, he talked about the future of game
graphics.
- C&C: Renegade Interview - Westwood Infiltration has posted an
interview with Westwood Studios's Dan Cermak about their upcoming FPS Command and
Conquer: Renegade.
- Rune Co-Op Interview - HomeLAN chats with Rick
Francis of the Rune Co-op mod team to find out more about their efforts to add cooperative
play to Human Head's third person Viking action game.
- Republic: The Revolution Interview - m3dia online has posted an interview
with folks from Elixir Studios
who talk about the progression of the Republic: The Revolution.
- Unreal Tournament II Confirmed - Infogrames confirms Unreal
Tournament 2 in the making by Digital Extremes. As rumored all week online, the
co-creators of Unreal and Unreal Tournament are currently working on the sequel to the
infamous 1999 Game of the Year. (press kit at jim.be)
- Tropico Patch - TalonSoft has a new patch v1.06
for Tropico (743kb). The patch fixes a rare crash bug in software mode.
- Arcanum Mods - FilePlanet received six new Arcanum
modules all made from the Troika folks for our extended gaming pleasure.
- Gothic Goodies - GothicDot has been updated with 4 new maps, 3 updated maps, a
quickstart savegame (you save approximately 15 hours), FAQ, 2 walktroughs etc.
- Sims: Vacation? - Although Electronic Arts hasn't
made any official announcement, other sources have indicated that a new add-on for The
Sims, EA's wildly popular virtual life game, is heading to stores in March. The new
expansion, The Sims: Vacation, will let players take their sims to a number of different
locations, including a beach, a mountain setting, and a wilderness camping area.
- Final Fantasy XI - not free - SquareSoft has announced that its
PlayOnline service will no longer incur a monthly fee. However, some of the products that
will use the service, like the online RPG Final Fantasy XI, will still have its own
monthly fees. Square's PlayOnline service is scheduled to begin this spring in Japan. The
online network service lets registered users access e-mail, chat rooms, and games such as
Final Fantasy XI and Tetra Master. The company plans to announce further details sometime
next month.
- Heroes IV and Might & Magic IX on March 29th - 3DO Europe updated its release list today, and confirmed that both Heroes
of Might IV and Might and Magic IX should be available on March 29th.
- PlayStation Pirates Apprehended - The
ELSPA Crime Unit, in cooperation with UK authorities have recently nabbed two software
pirates dealing illegally copied PlayStation software. Keith Quarterman and John Heath
were sentenced to 12 and 30 months in prison respectively in separate cases stemming from
selling counterfeit PlayStation games. Both men forfeited a substantial amount of
equipment and software as a result of the indictments. Mr. Heath had in his posession 600
PlayStation titles which he was using to mass produce counterfeit PlayStation software.
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