Latest Articles (Page 3642)

John Romero of ION Storm updated his .plan file with some solutions to a few technical issues with the recently released Daikatana demo. So I suggest that you read this update if multiplayer is laggy or extremely choppy for you or if you can't run Daikatana with a Voodoo 2.

QAPete of Planet Unreal has let us know that the first beta of the much anticipated Unreal Tournament mod, Strike Force will be released Wednesday, April 26th at 11:00 PM EST. To make us drool even more, Planet Unreal scored two brand new screenshots from this upcoming mod. Be sure to grab this file as soon as possible next week, the size will be between 50 - 80 MB.

Tom "Diabolic" McClure informed us that VRMagazine has a new look, along with a texturing tutorial for creating quality textures to use in mapping for games or other 3D applications. This tutorial should be useful for anyone with Photoshop, be sure to download the VR Texture Pack as well.

Mall of the Sims are giving away a shiny, sparkly, 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Video Card as well as Strategy Guides for "The SIMS" and Free memberships to their exclusive VIP Club.

Admittedly I was worried about this port. Having sat through an exhibition of how great the game was by my PSX-owning mate (that's as in "friend", not sexual in any way, you understand... erm...) several thousands of times, I wasn't entirely sure how the hugeness was going to fit into the little plastic thing. Still, wonders will never cease with this magic box of...magic...things. Anyway, all my fears were soon expelled (like a big Odour-Eater had come into the room and stamped gratuitously all over them) when I started up the console, jumped straight into the game and was mesmerised by what appeared to be a five minute long segment of FMV... on the Nintendo. FMV. Nintendo. Five minutes. This was superb, and I was amazed. Either I've been missing out on something, seeing as I was a late starter with the Nintendo and all, but I was truly astounded, I really didn't think this was possible. The short movie was the same as the one placed in the PSX version, and what the superbly rendered piece does is to set the scene perfectly, and before you even start to play the game the tentacles start to reach out of the screen and pull you into into the game's sick little world. But then I realised what Capcom had done to fit all this stuff in the cart, as I noticed quite heavy artefacting on the video, and that familiar mp3-style "warbling" on the audio samples, both the remnants of heavy compression techniques. But without getting into the piddling technicalities, I was still pretty excited by the time the opening in-game scene began and I was plopped into a flaming scene surrounded by the brain-craving living-dead.

File under "better late than never"... With GTA : London 1969 now out on budget re-release through "Sold Out Software" for just £9.99 here in the UK, we have posted our review of the British themed mission pack for DMA's classic isometric crime 'em up, Grand Theft Auto.

The original Grand Theft Auto was released back in early 1998 amidst a big cloud of controversy, battling the evil forces known to us all as The Censors!

Raven Software has released a brand new retail patch for their popular first-person shooter, Soldier of Fortune which have received some "rave" reviews lately (stay tuned for ours). This patch (1 Mb) fixes a lot of things, such as the CTF issue with force join and it also features a re-organized CD copy protection, head on over to 3D Files for a full list of what this patch fixes (be sure to grab it from them as well).

I just noticed over at VE that according to a news blurb on GameSpot, ION Storm's much anticipated and much delayed first-person shooter, Daikatana has gone gold (sent off for mass duplication). The game will be on store shelves all over the world during the second week of May.

Cédric 'Inoxx' Fiorentino, level designer at Epic Games has announced over at his page that he is currently working on a free Unreal Tournament level pack that will be released very soon. The level pack will contain two deathmatch levels and four CTF levels, one of them being the sequel to the very popular Unreal Tournament CTF level, Facing Worlds. There's a bunch of screenshots from all the levels over at Inoxx Industries.

The official Counter-Strike website has been updated with some new information of the next release (beta6.5) of this very popular Half-Life mod. They have also put together a zip file with all the first person weapon models that will help you convert any models to 6.5 when it's out. The reason they have to be converted is because all first person weapon models have to have a 2nd attachment point located at the place where the shell ejects from the gun. Grab that file here and visit CSnation for full information on this file.

Our partners over at ModGamer have posted a review of the Q3Fortress mod.

Having glanced through the plot of MoHo, it becomes fairly obvious that for all its development maestros, it's a bit of a rip off of a certain book. Yet I don't ever recall the idea being used in interactive media, so I'll give Lost Toys the benefit of the doubt, and hey! It makes good sense; a plot where you are a prisoner of the State and are forced to compete in gladiatorial events against your fellow hard-time-hotel occupants. And for what? For entertainment! As a prisoner, you're sentence is life behind bars, a somewhat depressing prospect for an ambitious felon like yourself, and your only hope is to work your way up the ziggurat to get a short at becoming the People's Champion - the prize being your freedom. If you can overcome the scum of the universe that you'll be pitted against, you can walk away a hero and a free man.

I noticed over at Blues that there's a litte note on Mucky Foot's web page regarding their next game, which will be announced at E3 but GameSpot UK posted an interview today, with Gary Carr of Mucky Foot who reveals that their next game will be called "Startopia", which is their new 3D RTS game. Expect more information of this game once E3 is over, but there's a bunch of spicy details on the game in GameSpot UK's interview, so be sure that you check it out.

Markus "Izn0" Sonermo of True Gamers has informed us that they have posted a bunch of photos from last weekend's Razer CPL $100,000 Tournament held in Dallas, Texas. I also suggest that you take a look at our comprehensive coverage of this event, filled with photos as well.

Today, Gamespy debuts a new column called Crunch mode where they look at the final weeks of production of a game at a particular development house. To kick it off, they visit Human Head and look at what they are up to with Rune, one of the games that I am really looking forward to.

Since its release last year, the Athlon processor has suffered from pretty poor motherboard support. Of course, for people blowing hundreds of pounds on an expensive processor, that's unacceptable and these consumers rightfully felt a bit upset. Thankfully though it looks as though this injustice could be at an end, with the release of the Epox 7KXA Athlon motherboard. Take a look at our review to find out what we think of it.

- EpoxPrice - about £120

I noticed over at 3D Files that 3dfx have released a new set of drivers (1.04.06 beta) for their Voodoo 3 2000/3000 cards in Windows 9X. New in 1.04.06 beta includes new driver installer, new edge tools (1.5.7.77), a Force Commander fix, and incorrect texture sizes reported from Glide fixed. Grab these drivers from 3D Files (7 Mb).

The official website for the new Battle Isle game from Blue Byte is now online, apparently due to "unprecedented demand from thousands of game hungry strategy fans". Ahem.

With the event over, our coverage of the Razer-CPL $100,000 Quake 3 tournament is now drawing to a close. We've got interviews with all three finalists as well as Angel Munoz of the CPL, and a big new photo gallery of pictures from the last day of the tournament, covering the matches, prize ceremony, and Sunday dinner with the European players. For a full index of our massive live coverage from the event over the last week, check here!

I noticed over at VE that Interplay's Official Baldurs Gate 2: Shadows of Amn website has been updated (by the Assistant Producer, Doug Avery of Black Isle Studios) with a short progress report on this much anticipated role-playing game. Doug mentions that things are coming along very nicely on both ends and real progress has been made to complete BG 2. Read more at the official website.

Stieg Hedlund, designer of Blizzard's much anticipated sequel to Diablo, announced today that upon conclusion of Diablo II's production he will be leaving Blizzard North to pursue game development at the newly formed Full-On Amusement Company. You can read the full announcement over at the official Full-On website.

George Broussard, head honcho at 3D Realms updated his .plan with some information about their E3 plans. They will not be showing Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) at E3, not as a video, nor in back room demos. Pretty bad news as I am really looking forward to this title and I wanted to see some fresh stuff, but they have their reasons, check his .plan for a little more in-depth explanation.

Graphically Re-Volt is very impressive. I played the PC version to death last year and the Dreamcast is a wonderfully complete conversion. The sense of scale is very precise and your surroundings feel as though they are the right shape and size. Unlike other titles of its ilk, the cars don't look out of place due to their size imbalance. You couldn't mistake them for real cars, they're definitely R/C. The radio aerial flaps in the wind and they zoom around with the remarkable acceleration found in real R/C engines. As the cars swish and swoosh through the various environments, they reflect perfectly on the buffed up wooden floor and project slight shadows on the way. The lighting is pre-rendered, and the graphics are hardly Soul Calibur, but Re-Volt is still one of the better looking Dreamcast titles.

Our Razer-CPL coverage is now over, with final results and analysis and an event overview posted, as well as a quick look at some of the tournaments coming up over the rest of the year that we'll be covering here on EuroGamer - your number one source for live event coverage!

The Firearms Mod Website have been updated with a release date for this anticipated Half-Life mod, we can expect to see it on April 29th. They have also posted 12 new screenshots from the mod, as well as some images of the weapons and models, GA-Source got four new shots as well.

Rod Fung (producer), has given GA-Strategy a detailed explanation of the new levels in the multi-player add-on to SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle. Looks like this add-on will be filled with goodies such as six new missions that will take place throughout the city of Los Angeles. Sierra Studios SWAT 3: Battle Plan, the multi-player add-on to SWAT 3: Close Quarters Battle is scheduled to ship Q3 2000. Battle Plan will allow gamers to experience the real world of L.A.P.D. SWAT by deploying actual SWAT weapons and tactics in new missions and multi-player modes. Thanks John.

Those kerrrazy Barrysworld people have written up their account of the PC Zone Awards, laughing along with cynicism at the irreverant and mildly insane choices in many categories. Unlike our own Gaming Globes, these awards were not publicly voted for, instead relying on the opinions of the journalists at the heart of the magazine itself to cast their views. At least, that's the impression given by the article.

PCGamer UK is playing the guessing game with regard to Epic Games' incessant registration of domain names. The unexplained registration of unrealwarfare.com, .org and .net remains so, as do the registrations of ascension.org and ascensionengine.com. A little detective work provides some interesting hypotheses, but I doubt we'll know for sure for a good few weeks, probably even months yet. Still, Epic are a very open company on the whole, and are friendly with a lot of the gaming press, so there's bound to be some sort of announcement, official or otherwise, sooner rather than later.