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Combat Mission - Screens

by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2001 @ 6:41 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord takes you from Normandy 1944 to Germany 1945 on World War Two's Western Front. Play as Allied or Axis, ranging from US Airborne to German Volkssturm. Battle across the blockage, tackle a village or two, drive through the plains, push into the woods, and slog it out in cities. We have four new screnshots from the Front Line.

PacMan Reigns All Game Characters!

by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2001 @ 5:04 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Forget Sonic, Mario, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and Harry Potter, it’s that ghost munching yellow ball that’s still the favourite, as Pac Man tops the Gameplay poll to find the greatest video game character of all time.

Mobile Forces - Facts & Screens

by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2001 @ 5:01 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Mobile Forces offers all you'd expect from a 1st person shooter and more, the player takes a control of a wide range of vehicles, armed to the teeth with special weapons across a range of contemporary, military styled city locations. Crafty tactics need to be combined with a quick trigger finger if you're going to survive. Find out if you do… Njoy the screens!

Atari And Billabong Ride The Same Wave!

by Rainier on Dec. 19, 2001 @ 12:44 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Infogrames has announced today its partnership with the Australian surfwear brand, Billabong, to support the forthcoming European launch of the long awaited "Transworld Surf" video game - one title of Infogrames' Atari-branded range of extreme sports video games carrying the official Transworld* licence.

'Soldier of Fortune Gold' on PlayStation 2 - Facts & Screens

by Rainier on Dec. 18, 2001 @ 7:11 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Hired to hunt, paid to kill - Soldier of Fortune - Gold, the best-selling first-person shooter, is coming to PlayStation 2. Codemasters has secured from Majesco Sales Inc the European publishing rights to Raven Software's 18-rated classic.

This Winter’s Essentials For Operation Flashpoint

by Rainier on Dec. 18, 2001 @ 6:59 p.m. PST | Filed under News

Codemasters has released a wealth of resources to support its military blockbuster Operation Flashpoint over the winter holidays. A new multiplayer demo, a new Upgrade and Gold Upgrade now available to buy as a download.

AVP 2 Map Pack and Patch

by Rainier on Dec. 18, 2001 @ 7:11 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Monolith today released a 5 Mb big patch that fix a lot of multiplayer improvements for Aliens vs Predator 2, at the same time they release a new 12 Mb map pack that includes 10 new maps.

Jazz and Faust Announced

by Rainier on Dec. 18, 2001 @ 7:03 a.m. PST | Filed under News

Russian video game developer and publisher, 1C, is gearing up to make its debut in the North American market with the PC 3D adventure game Jazz and Faust. Set for release in the second quarter of 2002, Jazz and Faust will feature a rich, innovative storyline and beautiful 3D graphics, which will satisfy game fans that are looking for both qualities in a game rather than just one at the expense of the other.

New CS Map Pack

by Rainier on Dec. 17, 2001 @ 10:34 p.m. PST | Filed under News

CSCentral today released a new CounterStrike map pack and it contains 8 high quality maps of wich 4 are exclusively released within the pack. The pack also contains PODbot waypoints for all maps. Sounds interesting? Well find out more, check screens and download it from the official site.

Divine Divinity Developer Profile #5

by Rainier on Dec. 17, 2001 @ 9:49 p.m. PST | Filed under News

RPGDot today tossed up Divine Divinity Developer Profile #5. This fifth edition, features independent graphic artist, Wouter de Winter. Here is a part of the article:

1) Tell us about yourself. Who are you and what do you do at Larian Studios.

Wouter De Winter is my name, but what does this tell you? Nothing much, apart from that it doesn't sound German. Which is convenient, because that is one of the many things I'm not. I'm also not gay (contrary to popular belief ;) ) Bring it on!