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 Thursday Reading - E3 Madness! - briefly
(hx) 02:03 PM CEST - May,13 2004
  • Tribes: Vengeance Multiplayer Impressions - HomeLAN has posted its multiplayer impressions with a build of Tribes: Vengeance, the upcoming next game in the multiplayer shooter series from Irrational Games and VUGames.
  • Half-Life 2 movie - ShakyCam movie (33MB) of the Half-Life 2 E3 presentation can be found at Tiscali Games, GH, CGO.ro, Eurogamer, Filerush (torrent). There is also a non-ShakyCam version of the Half-Life 2 trailer on FilePlanet, Tiscali Games (+664MB!)
  • Star Wars: Republic Commando movie - LucasArts has released their E3 trailers for Star Wars: Republic Commando and for Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed.
  • Sony E3 Press Conference Shakycam footage - File Rush has a mirror for the Sony E3 Press Conference Shakycam footage. They show off the upcoming Playstation 2 games and cover the PSP.
  • Auto Assault E3 movies - NCsoft has released the E3 movies for Auto Assault, showing off the massively multiplayer online vehicular combat game under construction at NetDevil.
  • E3 2004 Jowood trailers - GH has a mirror for Future Tactics (9 MB), Gorky Zero (4 MB), Gothic Addon (8 MB), Legend of Kay (10 MB / PS2), Neighbours from Hell (13 MB), Silent Storm Sentinels (5 MB), Spellforce Addon (15 MB), Torque (2 MB), Wildlife Park E3 2004 Trailer (6 MB).
  • Splinter Cell 3 E3 Shakycam footage - FileRush has a mirror for some shakey cam footage showing off the new Splinter Cell 3 E3 Presentation.
  • Korea: Forgotten Conflict Patch - Cenega has released a new patch for Korea: Forgotten Conflict, updating the U.K. edition of the game to version 1.27. The patch visualizes places available or not available for the player by different mouse cursor, visualizes the 'Line of Fire' when blocked, fixes a problem with a locked mouse cursor while pointing at some machines, fixes minor problems with medic's voice.
  • Seasons announced & demo - Sugar Games announced the release of Seasons (demo), a new incredibly addictive puzzle game. "There are four seasons a year that come and go in a cycle. The puzzle has the same "cycle" idea. You start with an intricate layout of chips that come in four types according to the number of seasons. Click a chip and it flips replacing one season icon with the following one. Your objective is to find a lucky chip to rotate and get a combination of three matching season icons. Once you have the three, it explodes and you score. Remember, one successful click may cause a cascade of
    explosions, so that you can score more! The more chips explode at one click, the more you score."
  • True Crime: Streets of L.A.Ships - Activision announced that True Crime: Streets of L.A  for the PC has shipped to retail stores nationwide. The PC version takes the driving, fighting and shooting action of the best-selling console game to a new level with sleek PC graphics, new weapons, unlockable characters, and an online multiplayer feature. Building on a slammin' soundtrack featuring original hip-hop music from Snoop Dogg, Westside Connection, and many others, the PC game adds an additional 32 tracks from rock artists such as Alice In Chains, Queensryche, and 2004 Grammy Award Nominees Spineshank and Stone Sour. True Crime: Streets of L.A. for the PC is rated "M"  by the ESRB and carries a suggested retail price of $49.99.
  • The Sims 2 on September 17th - According to GameSpot, The Sims 2 will hit PCs on September 17!
  • EA gets serious about NASCAR PC - GameSpot is reporting that EA has the exclusive rights to the NASCAR franchise--taking historical PC competitors out of the market--it will produce a separate PC driving game aimed at the tastes of the serious driving simulation crowd. NASCAR 2005 for the PC is getting a full 18-month development cycle, and the work has been moved in-house to EA Tiburon. EA plans to talk more about the game later in the year, and will release the PC version next February.
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Details - PS2.IGN has posted some details and media on Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
  • EverQuest Expansions Discounted - Sony Online Entertainment announced that three of its EverQuest expansions will now be available at a super-sparkly low, low price. Lost Dungeons of Norrath and Gates of Discord are now available for a suggested price of $19.99, and The Legacy of Ykesha has dropped to $14.99.
  • DS to have wireless game-sharing functionality - During an interview with GameSpot, Nintendo researchers Takashi Tezuka and Hideki Konno revealed that the DS will have a wireless version of the Game Boy Advance's game-sharing ability. With the original Nintendo portable, several titles, most prominently the Mario Advance series, allowed a group of GBAs to play a multiplayer game off a single cartridge. The various portables without the cartridge would download a limited version or single map via GBA connectors.
  • Alienware Announces Video Array and X2 - Alienware unveiled Video Array and X2 -  an exclusive, patent pending technology designed to significantly enhance the performance of graphics intensive applications including extreme gaming, professional design and engineering, real-time rendering and animation, and flight training and simulation modules.  Video Array is an accelerated graphics processing subsystem that will allow users to add multiple, off-the-shelf video cards to their Alienware computer systems and have both cards process graphic commands in parallel. Alienware's exclusive Video Array combined with X2, an Alienware designed motherboard which is currently based on Intel Corporation's next-generation chipset and will include dual PCI-Express high performance graphics card slots, will deliver significant performance gains over current graphic solutions. An intervierw on the announcement can be found at HomeLAN.

Comments from nvidiafanboyposted - 03:17 PM CEST - May,13 2004
hahahahahaha HL2 footage is shakey cos they use ATI. hahahahah

Comments from nutterposted - 03:21 PM CEST - May,13 2004
why did your parents allow such a retart do time?

Comments from El_Coyoteposted - 04:56 PM CEST - May,13 2004
Star Wars: Republic Commando movie - LucasArts has released their E3 trailers for Star Wars: Republic Commando and for Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed. Actually the second trailer linked to is Starwars Battlefront... and it looks awesome :)

Comments from R9600posted - 06:02 PM CEST - May,13 2004
yum, Tribes n starwars. I'm very happy with this &or next years upcoming titles. :D

Comments from xxxxposted - 09:46 PM CEST - May,13 2004
any guesses who nutter is? some illiterate kid skipping school is my first guess.

Comments from posted - 06:48 PM CEST - May,14 2004
i would have guessed 95% of the comments here were posted by people under the age of 12. all the fanboy-ism that goes on here is just a product of their immaturity

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