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10-31-0 Happy Halloween to all. The Orange Smoothie Productions site has been updated with version 0.99k of the OSP mod for Quake III Arena A new beta 20 of Qtracker version 2.3 has been released at the Qtracker homepage, 10-30-0 Today is the second anniversary of Ritual's Sin going gold, and the fifth anniversary of the release of Hexen: Beyond Heretic. iXBT Labs has posted what they claim are the leaked specs for NVIDIA's NV20 processor. According to their sources, it will be unveiled at next month's Comdex expo, and cards utilizing it will retail for about $800. Activewin.com has conducted an interview with Graham Palmer of Intel, talking to him about their upcoming processors (specifically the Pentium III 1GHz and Pentium 4). Tweeking Device 2 on Extreme Overclocking. 10-29-0 FragLan has announced that they will be holding a qualifying event for the $100,000 Babbage's/CPL tournament on December 14th - 17th at the Hyatt-Regency in Dallas, TX. More details are available on their site. Ensemble Studios has released their weekly random map script for Age of Empires II: The Conquerors. This week's map is called "Graveyards" (just in time for Halloween) and features a cemetery-themed battlefield. Microsoft Sidewinder Game Voice on Heaven Games. Slot CPU Cooler roundup on Speedy 3D. 10-28-0 Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software, announces a new id Technology Licensing Program. The team evolve news page has word of the release of the first public beta version of PainKeep Arena, the Quake III Arena variation on the popular PainKeep deathmatch modification. The Eternal Arena website has the release of version 2.9 of the Eternal Arena mod for Quake III Arena. The new version adds remote detonation pipe bomb and sticky bombs. 10-27-0 Multiplayer Quake also specializes in reviewing third-party Quake III Arena maps, so if you are interested in seeing some opinions on such maps before you download, you should check it out. 10-26-0 The new version 2.0 of Weapons Factory Arena for Quake III Arena has been released on its official site. This version includes 16 "awe inspiring CTF style WFA maps" and many enhancements and bug fixes, and the whopping 85 MB download is available in Windows and Linux/Mac editions. As with all mods, this release is not compatible with the version 1.25 beta patches for Quake III Arena. 10-25-0 Hellhound specializes in reviewing third-party Quake III Arena maps, so if you are interested in seeing some opinions on such maps before you download, you should check it out. GameSpy.com has posted a pair of new, high-res screenshots of MechWarrior 4: Vengeance, showing off the future of mechanized combat. 10-24-0 Court halts Indiana's violent video game ruling is a story I found on CNN. Crimson Skies is reviewed on Digital Web 3D, GameRaiders, A Matrix 4x1 release on machinima.com offers the first part of a four part Half-Life engine movie that is inspired by the Matrix. A report on Well Rounded Entertainment says: "The Oct. 30 issue of Business Week magazine is reporting that graphics giant nVidia might be looking into buying 3dfx. The magazine quotes an unnamed analyst, but was unable to get comment from either company." Likewise, NVIDIA Grabs Market Share from ATI Technologies is an audio Real Player required report that quotes an unnamed analyst saying that NVIDIA may be looking to capitalize on their #1 spot in the market by acquiring arch-rival ATI. Beta 3 of the ChaosUT mod for Unreal Tournament has been released. This new version adds more customization features, a grappling hook with full swinging physics, and an anti-gravity belt n addition to other fixes and tweaks. 10-23-0 The Skull Tag homepage has a new beta 8 of this Doom2 modification based on the popular ZDoom source code port. 10-22-0 Excusing the update saying, "Sorry, I just couldn't resist releasing another beta," the Qtracker Homepage has a new beta 19 of version 2.3 of Qtracker, rather than the expected full version. The beta status of the latest release of this server-browsing program is attributed to the need to sort through a knotty multi-threaded sorting problem as well as working out the confusion resulting from the proliferation of two different versions of Quake III Arena (1.17 and 1.25). After a long two days of work, version 0.10 beta of glDuke for MacOS has been released. Like its PC counterpart, it requires Duke Nukem 3D to work, and adds 3D acceleration to the game. The official site has also been updated with a brief FAQ dealing with some common issues that have been reported. 10-21-0 QuakeIII.Com interviews PitchBlende talking about the Navy Seals: Covert Operations mod for Quake III Arena. Accompanying the Q&A are a page of new screenshots. A new version 434 patch for Unreal Tournament is currently in beta testing, and as usual the list of changes has popped up, with Unreal Universe doing the honors today. The list includes a bunch of mostly minor fixes, and a version 434 dedicated server is also in testing. Both are expected to be released by Epic in the near future. As noted by this press release, Blair Witch Volume 2: The Legend of Coffin Rock, the Nocturne-engine title from Rune developers Human Head has gone gold. CPU Stability Test version 6.0 is now available on My Humble Homepage 10-20-0 As noted in Todd Hollenshead's .plan, this Amazon.com page offer the chance to participate in an action to benefit "A Night to Unite for Kids." Word is the primary beneficiaries for this year's event are the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Among the items offered is a day at id Software. A new version of the CPUCooL utility is now available. 10-19-0 The Quake EnigMod website has beta 2 of the EnigMod for Quake (1). The author says that this mod can be summed up in two words: "Exploding," and "Pokemon." Deus-Ex.Org's Deus-Ex mission 13 Walkthrough is online, the final installment in their complete walkthrough for ION Storm's RPG. 10-18-0 GameSlice interviews Chris Vrenna talking to the one-time drummer for Nine Inch Nails about his work composing the music for American McGee's Alice, as they continue their week-long look at this upcoming game that uses Ritual's FAKK2 technology and the Quake III engine to recreate the dark environs of wonderland. Well-Rounded Entertainment is reporting that Hasbro is considering selling off their gaming division. This Soundblaster.com drivers page has Windows ME drivers for the Soundbaster Live! 10-17-0 Violent game ban upheld in Indianapolis reports MSNBC. 10-16-0 Microsoft has released a new compatibility update package for Windows 2000. This month's update has fixes for Descent II, Soul Reaver: Legacy of Kain, Dungeon Keeper Gold and other titles, and also includes the previous updates. It's available as a direct download, or via Windows Update. 10-15-0 Daily Radar has gotten a hold of 3D Realm's Scott Miller to talk about Duke Nukem Forever, their seemingly elusive first-person shooter. Scott discusses the game's progress and the absence of a release date, why Texas is such a hotbed of action games developers, the Duke Nukem franchise, and a few other topics. 10-14-0 If you're an Unreal engine mod author looking for work in the industry, things are looking pretty good for you, as two developers at Legend Entertainment updated their .plans today with details on open positions on the Unreal 2 development team. Mark Poesch updated his with word that they are still looking for one or two programmers with UnrealScript experience, and animator Hugh Riley's .plan has the news that they are hiring a 3D character specialist. There's a TNT2 Drivers Guide on RIVA Station that offers suggestions about driver choices, even offering a mix and match "what driver for which card" chart. 10-13-0 The homepage of the Invasion Quake III Arena Mod has an update that addresses some missing textures from the recently released beta 2.22 of the conversion. The original release presumes the user has the MapMedia.pk3 file from the Q3Radiant level editor, and if they don't, the result is some missing textures. The missing textures are now available in a separate 3.6 MB download which fixes the problem. 10-12-0 PC.IGN has posted an American McGee's Alice interview, which unlike most such interviews is not with American McGee, but rather with R.J. Berg, the game's producer. R.J. provides a status report on the game, and explains the connections to Lewis Carroll's Alice works, the challenges they've faced throughout their development cycle and more. 10-11-0 Seems NVIDIA drivers, in particular, are no fun unless they are leaked, so on the heels of the newest official release, RIVA 3D has posted some new 6.34 Detonator drivers. Tweak3D.net's Simple Quicker Speed Picker Uppers offers general speed tweaks to speed up your system. Also, a new version 5.3 of the BIOS Optimization Guide on Adrian's Rojak Pot. 10-10-0 A new version 0.8a of the PakRat Macintosh OpenSource Quake model viewer, map viewer, and pak file browser is now available. 10-9-0 Happy Columbus Day... Beta 1.0 of glDuke has been released, and is available for download at its official site. glDuke is an OpenGL version of Duke Nukem 3D, and naturally the game is required in order to actually use it. 10-8-0 Ritual sends along these nine new screenshots from Blair Witch Volume 3: The Elly Kedward Tale, their Nocturne-engine title that will be released later this year. The shots show off four different locations, including the interior of a church and a corpse-ridden graveyard. 10-7-0 Version 1.0 of the RTS Quake mod for Quake III Arena is now available. RTS Quake is a mod that adds strategy game elements like resource collection and unit upgrading to Q3A. 10-6-0 The QuakeForge Project website has the first release of their modified Quakeworld server program, and a newer beta 2 of their modified version of the Quakeworld client, both based on the publicly-available Quake source code. 10-5-0 Italian gaming site Nextgame.it has posted a new interview with Jonathan Knight, Activision's producer on Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Jonathan talks briefly about what they've added to the Quake III Arena engine, how action-oriented the gameplay is and the possibility of a co-op multiplayer mode (which is very unlikely). The official Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr site now features a support section for this just-released horror adventure, offering a technical support FAQ, discussion forums, and more. Also, Walkthrough Online has posted their complete Deus Ex walkthrough. 10-4-0 ION Storm's official Daikatana page has posted a new version 1.0 to 1.2 patch for the game. 10-3-0 Electronic Arts' official Alice site has been updated with a new movie featuring cinematic footage from American McGee's Alice. The movie is available as either a high or low resolution QuickTime movie, and contains 2:01 minutes of impressive pre-rendered cinematic sequences. The files are also being mirrored over at 3DGamers.com. The Frag 4 gets underway this weekend, and there's already a good deal of coverage. Here's a run down: Hellhound kicks off their coverage with an interview with CPL head Angel Munoz and pre-show pictures from the event. Also, AVault's coverage has already started, and they will be updating it live from the show throughout the weekend. 10-2-0 3dfx Gamers has released new Voodoo 4/5 AGP/PCI 1.03.00 WHQL drivers for Windows 2000. Like the Windows 95/98/ME drivers early this week, these non-beta drivers now include Voodoo4 support and several general fixes, as well as game specific fixes for Quake III Arena, Half-Life, Serious Sam, Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2, and others. 10-1-0 GameGirlz has posted a Q&A with American McGee, the creator, as is fairly obvious, of American McGee's Alice. The questions focus on the lead character, with American giving some back story on Alice, as well as commenting on her objectives in the game, and how he developed the character. 9-30-0 Orange Smoothie Productions has released beta version 0.99i of their OSP mod for Quake III Arena. The OSP mod includes new voting and stats systems, and this latest release contains mostly bug fixes and minor improvements. A small patch for Unreal Gold, the recently released version of the original Unreal that also contains the Return to Na Pali mission pack, is now available at its official site. The patch is all of 478k, and brings it up to version 226b. 9-29-0 Quake3World has unveiled the Team Arena section of their site, which contains a rundown of information about the add-on for Quake III Arena, including details on all the new game modes, power-ups and models, as well as four new screenshots. 3D Realms' George Broussard made a post to their official message boards answering some questions about the various weapons in Duke Nukem Forever. While extremely brief, George does say that most weapons will use an alt-fire, that the rocket launcher will "more than fire like in Duke 3D" and that it will "probably" be possible to lop off limbs (or heads) with the chainsaw. With so little, if any information being released about Duke Nukem Forever, these factoids are all you're going to get for awhile. 9-28-0 The ICQ Download page has a new Beta v4.56 Build #3264 of ICQ 2000b. 9-27-0 Zindahsh sends word of a little treat in the new version 1.25 of Quake III Arena, a preview of three new weapons from the upcoming Quake III: Team Arena expansion:
9-26-0 Word from the CPL is that they will not be upgrading to the new version of Quake III Arena for the upcoming Frag 4 team tournament. Here's the story:
9-25-0 Version 1.0 of the Classic CTF mod for Quake III Arena has been released. 9-24-0 In a surprise release, there is a new version 1.25 point release patch for Quake III Arena for download on id's ftp server. The 17.3 MB patch is significantly larger than previous releases because it brings "the original Quake III Arena operation up to date with many of the improvements to be found in Quake III: Team Arena," and requires the previous version 1.17 patch to be installed 9-23-0 Version 0.9.4 beta of the RTS Quake mod for Quake III Arena has been released. 9-22-0 NVIDIA has announced the MCPX, a second processor that they are providing for Microsoft's Xbox console, and in the future will be released for PCs and set-top boxes as well, signifying NVIDIA's expansion into non-video hardware. The MCPX handles audio, multimedia and broadband for the Xbox, and is capable of 4 billion operations per second. Here's an excerpt from the press release with the few details released about the chip:
9-21-0 Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is reviewed on Gamezilla. 2-20-0 Official NetHack Home Page has a new version 3.3.1. 9-19-0 Today is the fourth anniversary of the QuakeWorld launch in New York City. 9-18-0 Quake3Mods.Net has word release of version 2 beta 1 of the Alive modification for Quake III Arena, which, in a similar vein to the plane crash story of the same name, forces players to victimize each other in order to stay alive. There are no health power-ups in the mod, and players are constantly drained of health, which can only be replenished at each other's expense, while scoring for matches is based on the amount of time you remain alive, rather than by frag count. Voyetra Turtle Beach has released Windows Me drivers for their Santa Cruz sound card. 9-17-0 A new preview of the Dreamcast port of Quake III Arena is up at Dreamcast.IGN. 9-16-0 Today I have an 18 - 20 hour day planned at work so sorry for no updates today... OH WAIT, this is an update. Hehehe. 9-15-0 The Quake Done Quick team has released Quake Done Quick With a Vengeance, a new demo movie in which the team manages to run through Quake 1's nightmare mode in 12 minutes, 23 seconds. It's available as a standard ZIP file, or their own DZip method, which offers better compression for demo files, and of course, requires Quake 1 to view. A new version of the Jailbreak mod for Quake III Arena is now available, the Q3A version of the popular team play mod is now at version 1.0, as it officially leaves beta. Offered for download are two versions of the mod, one with bot support, and the other without (for online only play), and also now available for the first time is the source code for the mod. 9-14-0 There's a new preview of the Diablo II Expansion Set on GameSpot, looking ahead to the add-on that will bring a new act with six quests to the amazingly popular isometric action RPG by Blizzard. 9-13-0 Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr has gone gold, and is expected in stores on September 27. Blair Witch 1 is the first of three horror adventure games tieing in to last year's surprise hit movie that will be released this Fall, and was created by Terminal Reality. 9-12-0 Adrian's Rojak Pot has posted several pages of questions and answers related to their BIOS Optimization Guide and their Swapfile Optimization Guide. Sharky Extreme's Intel Celeron FC-PGA Overclocking Guide shows how to overclock the crap out of your Celeron CPU. 9-11-0 Deus-Ex.Org's mission 9 walkthrough and their mission 10 walkthrough are both online. 9-10-0 The 3D Spotlight Unreal tweak guide has been revised, and is now considered to be "complete." 9-9-0 Ensemble Studios has released "Capricious" the first in a series of random map downloads available for The Conquerors, the recently released add-on Age of Empires II. This new level "randomly decides whether food, gold and stone are in double normal levels, at normal levels, or at one-half normal levels" and more levels by Conquerors designer Greg Street will be released on a biweekly basis. The shareware version 2.22 of GameSpy 3D has been released, and is available for download on FilePlanet. Like the registered-users only version that proceeded it, this release adds support for KISS: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child (as well as eight other games). The Alice fan page alice.trintee.net has conducted a Q&A with American McGee, talking with him about his twisted game American McGee's Alice. American talks about the game's relation to the original Alice books, the original soundtrack (which is by former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna) and the evolution of the Alice character model (which looks different in the game than the first sketches that were released). This press release at HalfLife.net announces the split of the Matrix Half-life team, half of which has spun off to create the new Existence mod. 9-8-0 Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is reviewed on CheckOut.com. 9-7-0 GameSpot UK has written a preview of 3dfx' mammoth Voodoo 5 6000 video card. 9-6-0 FantastiCon previews the SiN anime movie, complete with clips in QuickTime format. 9-5-0 NewDoom.com's New Doom Frequently Asked Questions offers their FAQ on the subject of id's upcoming follow-up to Doom, now updated to version 0.2. There's a Paul Jaquays interview on Hellhound that talks with the multitalented designer about various aspects of his life in the game industry, starting with his past and running all the way through his present work at id Software. 9-4-0 A new version 1.07 of Quake 3 Menu, the front-end for Quake III Arena, is now available. In addition to bug fixes, the new version offers new Rocket Arena 3-specific commands. 9-3-0 Reactive Software, the developers of the Q3COMP mod, have released Titanium, a new mod for Quake III Arena. The mod features giant metal battlesuits with even bigger weapons, as well as new maps, sounds, graphics and more. 9-2-0 Gone Gold, which is something of an authority on the subject, has recieved word from Mattel Interactive that their 3D strategy game Panzer General III: Scorched Earth has gone gold. The game will be available on store shelves the week of September 26th. 9-1-0 Ensemble Studios has posted a version 2.0a patch for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. The 2.52 MB download is for the English version only and contains a number of bug fixes (including stability improvements), gameplay tweaks and enhancements, such as a new feature that limits pauses per player in multiplayer games, and improved performance on low-end machines. |
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