by Rainier on Oct. 18, 2002 @ 2:54 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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In American Conquest, the latest title from the GSC GAME WORLD stable - makers of the blockbuster Cossacks, you enter the New World in the year 1492! Together with Christopher Columbus there you'll remain. During the following centuries you'll fight for supremacy on the new found American continent! Check the 4 new screens ...
by Rainier on Oct. 18, 2002 @ 2:45 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Tour the globe and play on the 9 faithfully reproduced Masters Series tournaments. Travel to the hard courts of Indian Wells, Miami, Toronto and Cincinnati. Visit the luxurious clay courts of Monte Carlo, Rome and Hamburg. Compete on the indoor courts of Madrid and Paris.Try to qualify for the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai and become the world's best player! Check out the 15 days trial version limiting you to exhibition and career mode. Read more for links where to get it before it expires..
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 9:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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The official Grand Theft Auto: Vice City web site has posted up a new trailer in its movies section showing off more gameplay from the upcoming Rockstar Games PS2 crime action game follow up that's due out in stores late this month. Of course we had to snag it and make it all nice and small for you all, read more for links where to grab it! (Thanks HomeLan)
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 7:03 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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TimeSplitters 2 is the sequel to the hugely successful and critically acclaimed TimeSplitters and has been developed by Free Radical Design. TimeSplitters 2 improves on the original in every conceivable way. The game offers a more involving story mode, featuring a complex narrative set across nine different time periods, from twentieth century Siberia to the Wild West to Futuristic Neo Tokyo.
If you fancy a TimeSplitters 2 screensaver, get it here...by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 6:22 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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It may be hard to believe, but pole-dancing has just achieved PC status with the announcement that Kaboom Studios is to launch Private Dancer, a state-of-the-art game for Windows computers, endorsed by the Spearmint Rhino chain of gentlemen's clubs. The game features 21 beautiful digital girls performing increasingly exotic dances in astonishingly lifelike 3D style. Read more for some stripper filled screens, njoy!
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 6:10 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Acclaim Entertainment, Inc. today responded to the widespread controversy surrounding the launch of its forthcoming mature rated release, BMX XXX.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 5:44 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Serious Sam is a high-adrenaline arcade-action 3D-shooter heavily focused on frantic arcade-style action. In a world where cyberpunk meets fantasy-fiction and advanced technology is mixed with black magic and psychic-powers, Sam travels from the beautiful world of ancient Egypt through many diverse planets, confronting Mental's hideous minions on his way to the final showdown at Notorious Mental's lair. Check out the 27 fresh screens ...
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 9:46 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Extinction is a Real Time Strategy Game of Adventure and Survival. The game begins with a small tribe that has simple skills and limited resources. Using a dynamic technology tree, players learn new skills and discover new technologies to help their tribe advance and survive. Explore diverse geographic regions, adapt to environmental conditions, capture new species, and try to avoid erupting volcanoes, meteor strikes and the advance of ice-age glaciers. Dinosaurs are captured and used as powerful weapons against enemy tribes. Man and dinosaur fight side by side as tribes compete for territory, resources and survival from Extinction! Read more about this quite interesting game in our interview with Jim Omer from Rival Interactive. A few exclusive screenshots are also included ..
by Thomas on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 8:38 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Thirty-five tracks of high-octane music will fuel big air tricks in Activision, Inc.’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4, the sequel to the #1 action sports video game of 2001. The game, which allows players to experience the ultimate skating challenge, features tracks from rock royalty and hot new artists. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 will be available October 23, 2002 on the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox video game system from Microsoft, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation game console and Game Boy Advance. Read more for a list of artists and tracks.
by Thomas on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 7:20 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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BMT sees the player take command of an 18-wheel rig, trucking from city to city, wheeling and dealing and upping the stakes as they battle to build up a personal fortune. Along the way players will run into the local biker gangs, corrupt sheriffs and even their own redneck siblings, who are also out to amass their own fortune – even if it's at the player's expense! Big Mutha Truckers will be released on November 29th. Read more for four MP3s from Yeehaw FM, the in-game radio station. Possibly a bit rude, so don't let your granny hear.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 4:41 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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The MoH AA Spearhead expansion pack will allow owners of Medal of Honor Allied Assault to assume the role of Sergeant Jack Barnes and continue their fight from behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day to the Battle of the Bulge to the Fall of Berlin and the defeat of the thousand year Reich. The game will include nine new single-player levels and over twelve new multi-player levels. Players will also have the opportunity to play as British, American, German and Soviet troops in an enhanced multi-player mode. The official MoH AA Spearhead Website now offers downloads of a four part movie showing off gameplay from the MoH AA Spearhead which we merged and covnerted into .wmv for your convenience. Read more for links where to grab the new trailer.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 1:54 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Today Global Star Software announced that they have gone gold with their upcoming Roller Coaster Simulator for the PC platform, World's Greatest Coasters. This exciting new 3D simulation will feature 5 of the greatest roller coasters on the planet, as well as a virtual coaster workshop in which players can build and experience their very own thrill rides, and challenge themselves in the scenario-based game mode.
by Rainier on Oct. 17, 2002 @ 12:40 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Shadowbane is much more than a game. It is the culmination of years of work and sacrifice by the developers, fans, and publishers who believe in the same vision of a dynamic and evolving world, an environment where everyone who touches the world changes it, and is changed by it. Read more to check some One-on-One Shadowbane video interviews with the people and personalities behind the Shadowbane phenomenon. These are the men and women of the Shadowbane revolution. Also check out some brand new screenshots ...
by Rainier on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 7:32 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Take the wheel of a flying car and don't be late for a second term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! Based on J.K. Rowling's second book in the worldwide best-selling series, players face a magical multitude of new challenges and mysteries as the famous "Boy Who Lived". Today we serve up some fresh screens from the Gameboy Advance, Xbox and Gamecube versions .. Njoy!
by Rainier on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 7:20 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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PC gamers can sign up today to participate in the Ubi.com Ghost Recon Island Thunder Tournament. Beginning October 15, players will be competing to win CamelBak ThermoBak bags, Xbox gaming consoles, and copies of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell--one of the hottest games on Xbox for the holidays--and Ghost Recon for the Xbox, the game that pushes Xbox Live to the limit. Register for the tournament from the Official
Ghost Recon site. This tournament is brought to you in conjunction with
The Clan World Network. Read more for details ...
by Thomas on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 7:00 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Right Hemisphere, a creator of 3D graphic production solutions for games, film and broadcast, web content, and industrial design today announced that Electronic Arts has selected Right Hemisphere's Deep Character technology as the basis for The Sims Creator, a full-featured customization utility included in The Sims Deluxe Edition.
by Rainier on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 6:38 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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TimeSplitters 2 is the sequel to the hugely successful and critically acclaimed TimeSplitters and has been developed by Free Radical Design. TimeSplitters 2 improves on the original in every conceivable way. The game offers a more involving story mode, featuring a complex narrative set across nine different time periods, from twentieth century Siberia to the Wild West to Futuristic Neo Tokyo. Today we have some more TimeSplitters 2 character bios, part 4 in the series. This week it's the turn of the Robot Factory and Siberia.
by Rainier on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 6:24 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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TDK Mediactive Europe announced today a short development pit stop for its highly anticipated 3D racing-simulation game. 'WorldRacing' (developed in cooperation with Mercedes-Benz) for the acclaimed Xbox video game system from Microsoft will now speed into retail in January 2003. We recevied a few new screens to soften the blow...
by Rainier on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 5:35 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Publisher Strategy First and Developer Third Wire are pleased to announce that Strike Fighters: Project 1, the flight simulation that will have people lighting the fires under their PCs, has gone gold for a full North American release.
by Thomas on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 11:52 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Hang on for your life in Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboarder as you get ripped across a lake by a high-powered speedboat and trick through dangerous terrain. Feel the rush as you crash into houseboats and catch huge air in nine exotic levels with seven world-class wakeboarders. Tired already? Then drive the boat and help your friend pull off challenging technical tricks on the most realistic looking water ever.
by Thomas on Oct. 16, 2002 @ 11:49 a.m. PDT | Filed under
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Ulp. More from the
FairPlay campaign - this time a chat with Lionhead's boss 'Peter Molyneux'. (Includes naughty words.)
Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios has been used as a stick to beat the FairPlay campaign with since the campaign's earliest days, on account of a dated but accurate quote about game prices - which he has, in fact, never retracted.
by Rainier on Oct. 15, 2002 @ 10:45 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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In "Söldner: Secret Wars" the player takes command of one of these special teams. As Commander he leads the small high tech army consisting of soldiers, light armoured vehicles, helicopters and VTOLs to fulfill a wide variety of mission. The Simulation of a highly complex political system creates a dynamic campaign: each decision has direct impact on the flow of the game.
by Rainier on Oct. 15, 2002 @ 10:14 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Robin Hood, a new game of tactics and action, thrusts players into an amazing and realistic medieval environment where they are hauled from the depths of Sherwood Forest to the ramparts of Nottingham Castle. A few new screens below.. njoy!
Update: Tiscali Games have posted the first video from the tactical strategy
Robin Hood: Legend of Sherwood, which contains 2 minutes of gameplay footage - attack style previews like brutal & close combat, pre choice action & arrow shoot and smart & knock out. It's available in two resolutions (720x540 4,5 MB and 360x270 2,5 MB) in DivX format.
by Rainier on Oct. 15, 2002 @ 9:59 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Bioware has once again released a new patch for their RPG Neverwinter Nights, bringing the game up to v1.26. You can download the patch through the game's auto-updater or read more for a detailed fix list and links where to get the goodies (including the dedicated linux server).
by Rainier on Oct. 15, 2002 @ 9:18 p.m. PDT | Filed under
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Ravensoft just let us know that they have released an update to the Single Player SOF2 SDK which includes animatEd and sklview. Read more for details and links where to download the goodies