Things And Stuff: Thursday News Roundup
(Updated throughout the day.) The Adventure Company unveils Return to Mysterious Island, O~3 announces World Championship Tennis for PC, Joint Ops patched.
The Adventure Company has announced plans to release Return to Mysterious Island, developed by Kheops Studio for the PC and inspired by a Jules Verne novel. Due out in winter 2004, it's an unusual (surprise) adventure title, in which the player controls a lass called Mina, who arrives on an uninhabited island where she encounters the ghost of Captain Nemo, whose body is trapped in his ship the Nautilus deep below the island shore. In order to lay his spirit to rest, Mina has to piece together hints and clues, travel to the Nautilus and retrieve Nemo's body.
Recently formed publisher O~3 Entertainment has announced one of its first projects, World Championship Tennis, in development at Spanish firm Espaço Informática. "Just in time for Wimbledon," it says here, the PC tennis title is due out in America in late summer 2004. It features more than 16 customisable players, online multiplayer support, first and third-person views and strawberries and cream. But no Tim Henman, presumably, since he's out...
NovaLogic has released a 1.1.1.5 patch for Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, which came out last Friday in Europe. According to reports, the multiplayer first-person shooter benefits from several crash bug fixes, the eradication of a bug that kicked (or "punted", as the readme puts it) players out of co-operative mode, and a fix that stops emplaced weapons from detaching from vehicles. It does kind of make you shake your head. You can download the near-25MB patch here.