News Archive - April 2005
even older news...
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Duke Nukem Forever aint dead yet -- check out this list of Q's and A's over at Voodoo Extreme gleaned from the 3D Realms message boards. This game is going to have to make a whoel lot of money to pay for what could be over a decade of development, scrapping, and redevelopment. |
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The official Quake 4 website is up, along with a Quake 4 Trailer featuring in-game video. I'm happy to report that Quake 4 is going to have plenty of bright red blood! Raven Software has had a good track record for first person shooters with games like Hexen and Star Trek Elite Force. Quake 4 should be good. |
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CounterFrag Downtime
Due to some technical issues unfortunately CounterFrag has been down for the last day and a half. We've switched hosts, everything looks good now. Don't worry, CounterFrag is not going anywhere! |
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Eurogamer is reporting that the Half Life 2 Expansion pack -- Half Life Aftermath should be out sometime around September of this year. Following the Valve vs Vivendi lawsuit Valve is currently shopping around for a new publisher. Of course, we are sure you'll be able to download Half Life 2 Aftermath from Steam anyway. |
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The dude that created Battlecruiser Millenium Edition has released it for free download on his website. Battlecruiser has a very long, and strange, history. The reason he is releasing the latest Battlecruiser for free is to help promote a new game that he is working on: Universal Combat - A World Apart. |
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Infinium Labs wasted millions of dollars at last years E3 to promote their Phantom gaming console. This year it they are no where to be seen -- " In a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Infinium Labs said there's a good chance it won't raise enough money to launch its key product in time, putting its existence at risk." Check out the full article at CNN. |
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GameGossip has posted some new Age Of Empires III screenshots. They are looking good -- the detail of this real time strategy game will really set a new bar for graphics in the genre. From the screen shots, Age of Empires III looks like it will be a very interesting game. |
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Nintendo has announced its new system: Nintendo Revolution. The system should be out sometime in 2006. Nintendo says more details about the Nintendo Revolution will be released at E3. The real question here is how will it stand up to the competition of Xbox 360 and PS3? |
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But a lot of other people did. Slashdot Games has a pretty comprehensive list of links to online news sources who saw it. Some of the games that will be released on Xbox 360 include Quake 4 and Ghost Recon 3. It is still uknown if there will be backwords compatibility with old Xbox games. |
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OmegaDrivers.net posted a bunch of Quake IV renders and concept art -- 37 of them to be precise. It is looking very good. This screenshot shows all of the detail on the character models. It was recently announced that Quake 4 will be coming out for Xbox 360. |
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Xbox 360 will be unvieled officially on MTV tonight. Is it even going to be worth watching with all of the details and pictures already leaked -- or will it be a big waste of long, drawn-out MTV-style hype? If you can't watch it cthen heck back later tommorow or tonight because we will be posting a summery of what we saw. |
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Check out pictures of the new Xbox 360 logo here. Take a look over at Kataku for some photographs of the box. The Xbox 360 premeires on MTV May 12th; however it appears that this event has already been taped as that is where the leaked logo and photos allegedly came from. |
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Some of the first shots from the Doom movie featuring The Rock have been posted on Gamespy. The environment and setting look simular to Doom 3 however this movie does not take place on Mars like the original Dooms. |
