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 Morning Reading - briefly
(hx) 12:04 PM CEST - Oct,11 2003
  • Breed Preview - Loadedinc have posted their full hands-on preview of CDV and Brat Design's squad based shooter Breed based on playing a preview build for the past month or so.
  • Max Payne 2 Impressions - GameSpot has posted their own hands-on impressions of Max Payne 2, the Remedy-Rockstar soon-to-be-available crime action sequel.
  • Knights Of The Old Republic PC Preview - PC.IGN has published a preview of the PC version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, the Bioware/LucasArts RPG that was originally released for the Xbox.
  • Secret Weapons Over Normandy Preview - PC.IGN has posted a preview of Secret Weapons Over Normandy, the upcoming Totally Games/LucasArts WWII flying action game.
  • Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Preview - CSNation has posted an exclusive hands-on preview of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, which just went gold.  According to article, Condition Zero has a new developer, Rogue, Gearbox and Ritual have all tried their hand at the game, and now a small up-start from Orange County, CA is trying to make a version of the title that's actually fun. Heh mess.
  • Tribes: Vengeance Interview + Trailer -  GameSpot has posted an interview with Irrational Games' Michael Johnston and Sierra' Alex Rodberg as they talk about Tribes: Vengeance, the upcoming next game in the multiplayer shooter series. Subjects like new vehicles and new weapons are covered.  GameSpot also posted a new Tribes: Vengeance trailer.
  • Organised Crime Interview - HomeLAN has posted an interview with Jelmer Boskma of the Organised Crime mod team as he talks about this upcoming 1930's crime action mod for Unreal Tournament 2003.
  • Quentin Tarantino Interview - IGN has conducted an interview (pretty extensive article - four pages) with Quentin Tarantino, the long-absent king of retro cool cinema.
  • Madden NFL 2004 Patch #2 - Electronic Arts has released another patch for Madden NFL 2004, the recent football sim.
  • Call of Duty Movie - A new gameplay movie from Call of Duty is now available, showing off more of Infinity Ward's upcoming World War II first-person shooter. Mirror: Tiscali Games
  • Red Orchestra UT2003  - A new version of the Red Orchestra modification for Unreal Tournament 2003 is now available.
  • Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Goes Gold - IGN is reporting that the Rings: The Return of the King is gold for all-platforms and is expected to be available "next month."
  • Rome: Total War Pushed Back - Activision announced that Rome: Total War, the latest installment in The Creative Assembly's Total War series, is now on schedule for a fall 2004 release.
  • Black9 Delayed to 2004 -  Majesco confirmed that the Taldren's sci-fi FPS/RPG is pushed back to some unspecified time in 2004. The Unreal-powered game was originally due for release this quarter.
  • Half-Life 2's source leak Editorial - TweakTown Gamer let us know they have posted an editorial on Half-Life 2's source leak, along with a summary of current events.
  • Is a virus or trojan hidden in the HL2 build being served up on the Internet? - While the Half-Life 2 source code story has quieted down a bit in the last few days one interesting thing surfaced that may make people thinking of downloading the compiled code think twice before doing so: According a report on HalfLifeSource the code may very well contain either a virus or a trojan. Anyone here got some experience? Let me know :)
  • PS2 Price Drop To $99 in November? - Sources from Target today told IGN they have received printed fliers with the price of the PlayStation 2 at $99. The change will allegedly happen in mid-November, right before Thanksgiving, the traditional starting gate for Christmas shopping in North America.
  • PS3 Chip in 2005 - Sony Corp. announced this week that it plans to begin manufacturing its next-generation Cell chips, destined for the PlayStation 3 and other consumer electronics products by late 2005. The Cell chip will be a thousand times more powerful than the PS2's processor and will be built using a 65-nanometre process and 300mm silicon wafers, according to Sony.
  • Multi-game archive resource extractor  - XeNTaX let us know that the main multi-game archive resource extractor in the world just moved to the open source community in two ways: 1. The original MultiEx Commander is now an open source project. Those interested may download the source code of the last XeNTaX' binary release from here and join the project by contacting Michael Zuurman, or download the binary first from www.xentax.com.  2. A brand new open source project has been started from scratch entitled OpenMex. OpenMex is a Python implementation of the MultiEx principle, aiming at overcoming the limitations of MultiEx Commander.

Comments from steve jobsposted - 01:17 PM CEST - Oct,11 2003
the HL2 source virus is actually the fact that the code requires Windows: hence you must install the "Windows virus" to compile it. :D

Comments from Stumpusposted - 02:50 PM CEST - Oct,11 2003
Rome: Total War Pushed Back .....:(( man i was looking forward to this after seeing it on the TV every week! Nothing worthwhile is being released this side of Xmas apart from *hopefully* Max Payne 2, what a bummer of a crap year this has been for games.

Comments from giGGlerposted - 06:52 AM CEST - Oct,12 2003
Anyone know when Rockstar is going to release The Warriors? Gotta have that one! "Warriors come out to play!"

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