Latest Articles (Page 3628)

The official UK qualifier for the CPL-Europe "Scandinavian Open" event is taking place at The Playing Fields in London on Sunday, and word is that there are a couple of dozen spaces still open if you fancy your chances. Entry is £15, and there is £1000 in cash prizes up for grabs. The winner of the competition will be flown out to Stockholm to take part in the Scandinavian Open, and four runners up will win auto-berths for the competition, although they will have to pay their own way to get there. For more information, check the Playing Fields website.

This week's interview on EuroGamer is with Shane Gurno of Human Head, talking about the origins of the company, their early work on Daikatana 2, and of course their latest project - the Unreal engined third person Viking action game, "Rune". Shane also discusses how combat works in the game, what the company will be doing to support the online community and mod developers, and the possibility of a sequel. To find out more, read the interview!

Recently we got our first close-up look at Human Head's third person Viking action game, Rune, when Tim Gerritsen gave us a demonstration of the game as part of GOD's press tour of Europe.

Kalisto Entertainment have announced that they are working on a massively multiplayer game based on the cult movie "Highlander", and its numerous spin-offs and sequels. "For the first time, thousands of gamers will simultaneously experience the Highlander adventure on the Internet as they immerse themselves into an interactive mythical universe", says the press release in typical marketing talk.

The list of mergers and acquisions in the computer games world is never ending, every day I seem to be reporting someone bought or wants to buy someone else. Well today's story is that GameSpy is reporting that Infogrames Inc., formerly GT Interactive, is definitely in an acquisition mode, as the ever hungry Frenchmen have acquired Paradigm Entertainment, makers of popular Nintendo 64 titles. Infogrames officials said the company made the move because it is interested in acquiring a developer for the next generation console systems, specifically PS2, X-box, and Dolphin.

One of the more unusual massively multiplayer role-playing games in development at the moment is the Unreal Tournament powered "Shadows of Reality", which makes a refreshing break from the usual orcs and elves posse with its futuristic setting, complete with the Gibson-esque cyberspace of The Grid.

If you ask many gamers what game currently in development they would love to get their hands on you are bound to get hundreds of answers, but I guarantee that one answer that will crop up again and again is Peter Molyneux's Black and White. Those lucky people at Gameplay have bagged a world first play test of the much awaited game.

The news and hype surrounding American McGee's Alice continues to grow and grow. A second hardly seems to pass these days when we don't find someone else with news or views about the game somewhere. Well IGN PC have cut the messing and right to the top for an interview with president of Rogue Entertainment/Producer of Alice Jim Molinets. They have a chat about the games history and the future of the shooter genre.

Its amazing how many people you know who have simply been lost to role playing games. My first experience of knowing people who have lost their lives for months on end to the evil land of the RPG, was when Asheron's Call stole the best players from the UK Tribes community last year, and the top 3 clans in the UK folded in the space of a few months. Activewin grabbed Scott Herrington, the Lead Producer on Asheron's Call for a chat about tree hugging

FragPipe reviews Counter-Life for Half-Life

The folks at Gamers.de have spoken to Raaj Menon, the director of Ellipse Studios about their latest title in development Submarine Titans. The game Submarine Titans is a real-time strategy game set deep in the depths of the ocean. Based in the future after a cataclysm destroyed much of the surface world, humanity retreated into underwater enclaves. Now two rival civilisations have arisen and are seeking to dominate the planet, the aggressive White Sharks and the eco-friendly Black Octopi. However a strange alien race known as the Silicons has been discovered living deep in the seas and appears to have it's own agenda.

Dozens of people have been laid off from Probe by Acclaim this morning according to Computer and Video Games. In what Acclaim call, in typical 90's business speak, a "consolidation of development resources", Acclaim announced Extreme G developer Probe has been closed down, which kills the company along with two unannounced games.

There's nothing like a misspent Saturday afternoon, wandering the fairways of a golf course. The sun beating down on your back, a light breeze rustling the trees... A cool calm surrounds you as you eye up your first shot of the day. Dressed in a ghastly beach shirt and chequered trousers, you certainly look the part.

A patch for the recent Half-Life patch is now available, fixing a number of bugs and potential exploits, including the ability for players to take advantage of the new net code by faking lag, effectively entering Matrix style "bullet time" and letting them move and fire while their attacker sees them frozen solid. You can grab the patch in two flavours - a small patch for people who upgraded to the patch this patch is patching, and a big patch for people who didn't bother and are still running an earlier version of the game.

, who are currently working on a promising massively multiplayer RPG called Horizons, are on the verge of collapse after funding for the project fell through. In a news update on the Horizons website, Artifact CEO David Allen announced that "Horizons was supposed to be a privately funded project", but that "the funding has fallen through, and the project is now facing extinction".

There is no question as to the most popular PC computer game played on the internet, probably the most popular PC game ever in fact. Ever since the day Half Life was released back in 1998 the game has gone from strength to strength. The clever people at Valve (a company founded by 2 former Microsoft employees) keep making it bigger and bigger. They got Team Fortress Classic released free to the public with one of their patches; they are integrating their plans currently with the Counter Strike team. Counter Strike is easily the most played game on line at them moment, well ahead of Team Fortress Classic which is in second place. The newer big name games like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are miles behind.

One of the major players in the PC games industry, is Mark Rein of Epic. Developers of the Unreal series. Dailyradar got a hold of Mark and asked him about that popular subject these days, Xbox.

Intel today shocked the world with its chosen name for its next generation of processors. In a move that sends waves around the computing world, they have chosen the radical name 'Pentium 4' for the next line of processors (formerly code-named Willamette).

The gossip wheel keeps on turning, today, Well Rounded are reporting that UbiSoft may be interested in buying Eidos. They report that the shares of UbiSoft have been on the rise in recent days, climbing nearly 10 percent on the Paris Stock Exchange as investor whispers have grown. Havas (owner of Sierra) and Infogrames have also been named as possible suitors.

Today's review here on EuroGamer takes a closer look at "Shogun : Total War", a real time strategy game with a difference which was recently released by Electronic Arts. Set in feudal Japan, the game sees you taking control of a faction and striving to become the Shogun, Warlord over all of Japan. Featuring a mixture of gorgeous 3D battles and a Risk style strategy element, can Shogun live up to its promise of "Total War"? Read our review to find out!

The real time strategy genre is a big and successful one. Most game players at one time or another will spend hours upon hours building more tanks, and more infantry. Over time the substance of RTS games has not really changed that much. In reality what is the difference between Command and Conquer and Tiberian Sun. Besides graphics and sound the games are almost identical. Many people would say the first game is better. Gameslice.com have a look at the whole RTS genre on a whole and do some tough talking.

Trent Reznor, lead singer with the Nine Inch Nails is known, along with his whole band for their intense and visual live shows. Reznor's experience in movie making had already extended into working on soundtracks for some major motion pictures, and scoring music for a popular video game. "I did Natural Born Killers, and Lost Highway for David Lynch," says Reznor, "but I've really no interest in doing any more compilation albums. The only thing I'd want to do these days is actual scoring."

Space sims seems to be flavour of the day at the moment, since the success of Homeworld rejuvenated the genre. IGN PC have a hefty interview with programmer Vitomir Jevremovic, from the developer M.U.S.T. Corporation, on of the main minds behind the upcoming massively multiplayer space-sim - 3rd World. The likes of UO and Everquest have shown the gigantic popularity of of the massively multiplayer style of game. These two factors make 3rd world a contender to be a top game.

Anyone with even a passing interest in games of any nature has herd of Wolfinstien, most of those probably played it aswell. It was a pity really that no sequel ever happened. ID Software, the original developers moved on to another project and the Quake World weenie was born. Well a few months ago it became apparent that at long last that someone was doing a sequel to what many consider one of the greatest computer games of all time. The people with the burden of expectation is Activision. Gamespot TV interview Drew Markham the Producer of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

In the job as a news updater you see a lot of screen shots and read a lot about how great upcoming games are, of course its rare that a game fulfils expectation. One game that has gotten my attention is Hitman by IO Interactive. Gamer.NL have scooped a chat with Jens Peter Kurup, a designer on the game. He tackles a number of subjects, among them that tricky one about 1st versus 3rd person, "At the heart of it, Hitman The Game it's a story about a person evolving. This process and the story is much better shown in third person, than we could tell it in first person"

Twenty years ago most computer games were either text based, or used low resolution sprites and sound effects that consisted of various tones and lengths of bleeping.

Only a fool would go head to head with Diablo 2 and release a big game at the same time right, wrong. The folks at Black Isle believe in their product, the folks at Haven Games have a good long chat with Scott Warner of Black Isle Studios about that soon-to-be-released RPG, Icewind Dale. On the thorny subject of Diablo 2 he says, "Icewind Dale is a completely different role playing game. I think that gamers are aware of that and will purchase accordingly"

have an interview with James Jones about the upcoming 'MMORPG' (massively multiplayer online role playing game) Horizon, they introduce some of the more complex theories behind the game, "almost every item in the game can be player made or scavenged. Providing alternate means to survive and advance without predominantly living on a coin system. A major focus of the items is economic balance and trade. If money becomes too common in the realm it begins to drastically devalue"

Loki software is strange, they focus on Linux software, GameSpy agree with me, and caught up with them recently. They made their name with the title Civilizations: Call To Power, which was released over a year ago. Commercially developing Linux games, or ports for Windows games to Linux seems to be a risky business as far as I can tell, to that they answer, "We believe that Linux needs to be successful on the consumer desktop, and that games are a necessary part of that success. From that standpoint, our games contribute to the growth of Linux as a platform".

, luminary designer with Barking Dog Studios. Barking Dog Studios are the stellar developers of the amazing Counterstrike mod for Half-Life, and now an intense new title in the 3D real time strategy genre, the first addition or "episode" for Relic's Homeworld universe - called Homeworld: Cataclysm.