September 2003
15 posts
Halo PC = Gold
Shacknews News Story
Finally this game belongs on the PC, stupid consoles.
NVidia Responds to HL2 Numbers
Shacknews News Story
Quake III Arena AMD Optimization
Blue’s News: Message Board
checkout this link for some news on AMD, 3DNow! and SSE. The new AMD dll will make your Q3 run with SSE instead of 3DNow! giving signifigant FPS boostage. Awesome.
Shacknews News Story
Shacknews News Story:
“The Steam Beta has delivered several Valve games and popular Half-Life MODs to over 300,000 gamers, and will come to a close Tuesday evening (Pacific Daylight Time). The first full version of Steam, Valve’s broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital content, will launch at 11 am PDT on Wednesday. Set up installers for the full version, which...
WoW updates
Blizzard Entertainment - World of Warcraft
There are a number of new updates on the WoW site including eight new screenshots that look really good. This game is going to knock your socks off!
DAoC: Atlantis Beta Sign-Up
The Camelot Herald
Sign-up if you like that sort of thing.
suweeeeeeeeeeet
Slashdot | Sony’s Linux DVR Can Record Two Weeks of TV
I cant wait until this comes to America.
Nokia's N-Gage Getting Slack?
Wired News: Nokia’s N-Gage Gets Second Look:
“Unlike other cell-phone makers that offer games on their devices, Nokia is stressing deeper, richer games of up to 8 MB that will be sold on swappable memory cards, typically for $29, through traditional game retailers such as Electronics Boutique and Game Stop.
In addition, the company is breaking many of the established rules of...
Half-Life 2 Pricing Plans
Shacknews News Story:
Got this from ShackNews.com- looks good.
1: Retail box, singleplayer, no multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
2: Retail box, singleplayer and multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
3: Retail box, singleplayer, multiplayer and other unknown cool stuff (collectors edition) - ONE TIME FEE!
4: STEAM, singleplayer and multiplayer - ONE TIME FEE!
5: STEAM, subscription model. Pay a montly fee...
Max Payne 2
Max Payne 2 is slated to ship October 15th 2003.
p.s. Japan
BBC NEWS | Technology | Japan leads mobile game craze
Laura Fryer: Make Games More Fun
BBC NEWS | Technology | Games suffer from ‘geek stereotype’:
Laura Fryer, director of the XBox Advanced Technology Group, said “You want a game that is challenging but never frustrating” to a group of game developers meeting in London. She also had to say: “Video games are never going to be as popular as films or music unless the people who make them concentrate on...
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
FINAL FANTASY TACTICS ADVANCE
FFTA is awesome. The story is awesome, the gameplay is awesome. It’s like they took the gameplay of tactics for PS1 and put in a way better story. Get this game.
Stratics Interview with Horizons Creative Director
Stratics Central - Horizons - Log of Second Horizons House of Commons, August 29, 2003
Havent gotten a chance to read, skimmed, looks good.
Half-Life 2 Interview: Part Two
Computer and Video Games
I’ve skimmed the interview and highlighted on misogame the important stuff. Enjoy.
About limited inventory Actually, in Condition Zero we really looked at the idea of limiting the amount of weapons that you have and making choices, and that’s really something that seems like it will be interesting, but turns out to be not a lot of fun. Some choices are cool,...