December 2002 Archives

MONDAY - DECEMBER 16, 2002

The Women of OGL - Q&A - Jube
In The Women of OGL Interviews I chat it up a bit with the hard working gals currently on the staff of the Online Gaming League, the largest and one of the longest running action gaming leagues in town! Q2, Q3A, Half-Life, RtCW, MoH:AA and more, they've seen and done it all. Find out what makes today's Women of OGL tick and see which game's community they all seem to agree is the most difficult to deal with in The Women of the Online Gaming League.

Action Community Bits - CaliGirl

• Wolfensteinx.com Surface Mapping has been updated with bump mapping and caulk hull for all of you map creators.
• Natural Selection has been relaunched with an all new design that's more visually appealing.

Team Arena Celebration Lingers! - CaliGirl
From all of the hype in Quake3World's forums, they have now decided to have a 64 player server on 2 Saturdays in a row - December 21st and 28th
- osp ctf with kineterra1. Further details can be found at Jolt Quake 3 site.

SUNDAY - DECEMBER 15, 2002

Happy Birthday Team Arena! - CaliGirl
On December 15th of 2000, Team Arena was born. We'd like to celebrate Team Arena turning two years today! Thanks again id Software for creating those awesome games over the years. We loved it when you pushed yourself one extra mile to create Quake III - Team Arena!

Enter Quake3World -or- LadyGamers Discussion Forums to celebrate!

Official Related Sites:

• id Software's Team Arena
• Quake3world TeamArena Info

Community Strike - CaliGirl

• Female Domination at Challenge-CS has a new interview with dEUSA, the female skin fanatic.
• Stacey's Video Games is a simple webpage dedicated to a hardcore console female gamer.

Latest Downloads - Jube

• Vietcong Multiplayer Demo is available for download (71MB). The demo for Pterodon's upcoming first person shooter includes support for up to 32 players, and brings us a taste of Deathmatch, CTF and their Protect the Pilot game modes.
• Impossible Creatures Multiplayer Stress Test goes public once again! Get it while the gettin's good, they're only serving up the first 20,000 downloads.

SATURDAY - DECEMBER 14, 2002

LucasFiles Launches - CaliGirl
LucasArts & LFNetwork recently announced the official launch of LucasFiles.com. Creators of interactive games and game modifications (mods) based upon characters and elements in titles by LucasArts can now post their works on the Internet at LucasFiles. The new site was created by Lucas Fan Network, an independent collection of web sites dedicated to LucasArts and its games. The LucasFiles database hosts unique fan produced content, levels, and an array of other media as well. Further details can be found at LucasArts in this Press Release.

LG Site Updates - CaliGirl

• Birthday & Anniversary: Added 5 Clan Birthdays and Clan Remembrances.
• Homepages: CatBits, Lightbringer, NiceLegs and TheLady.tk have been added.
• Interests: Added Gamer/IRC Lingo and Orisinal Games.

FRIDAY - DECEMBER 13, 2002

Bikini Hangout Server - CaliGirl
Gamergirls announced their Bikini Hangout CS Server located @ 66.232.22.196:27015. Sponsored by Bikinihangout.com and Phxx.Net.

Community Bundle - CaliGirl

• Female Nation's Cup, an intensive Counter Strike league is in it's 3rd week. Check out the site for all of the news.
• 155 & Rising recently updated her column at UKGamer with information on Q3Promode and how time nudges does not help your aim. Keep in mind we have a wonderful world 155 & Rising section in LadyHunt if you would like to read further into other talk she has done.
• Lady Kysanth's Darkhalf.net now has a message to all of you who used to visit frequently.
• Cat Bits is a nifty site that features some art in her gallery. Although it is just art, a lot of the material is not suitable for kids viewing.

FFD Post - CaliGirl
Since LadyGamers.com has such dedication to Action and Strategy games, every Friday we give you a breather to read about other genre related news. Here's this week's Friday Fun Day.

• Christmas Blessing Interactive Card
• Santa Claus in Trouble - Free Game
• Gamers Click Home For Holidays: Some gamers are taking a break from the killing, and are hitting the party circuit online. It's a very virtual Yuletide. (thx WG!)
• Karting Race Download: Race at speeds in the neighborhood of 50mph, with your body no more than 10 centimeters from the ground.
• Earth & Beyond 5 Day Demo released from Westwood Studios.
• 1 Stop Gaming has some cute Card & Arcade games worth downloading.
• Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake Review at 4Fatchicks.
• A Trailer Park Tycoon Demo is available from FilePlanet today. (I have a sick fascination with the title -Jube)

C&C Generals Chat - Jube
Last night over 470 people joined in for GameSpy Arcade's C&C Generals Chat with EA's Chris Rubyor and Producer Harvard Bonin. Stop by PlanetCNC for the full transcripts. You can also catch a summary of the chat session on GameSpyDaily.

THURSDAY - DECEMBER 12, 2002

Shooter Scoops - Jube

• Tribes 3 in the works is the big scoop of the day! Alex Rodberg from Sierra dropped some very promising sounding hints on TribalWar. Apparently an official announcement will be made some time next year.
• WildStar's RtCW Maps debuts on PlanetWolfenstein, bringing the Wolf community a much needed easy to browse RtCW map depot. I also feel compelled to mention that WildStar is a fellow game gal, drop by and check out her site!
• VALVe has released a new Half-Life Primary Server Beta for Windows and Linux. The latest release fixes a flashbang grenade bug in Counter-Strike. More details can be found in the included readme file.
• GameSpy Previews PlanetSide, a massively multiplayer FPS in the works by Sony Online. PlanetSide is described as sort of an EverQuest / Quake hybrid, with gameplay kind of resembling that of Tribes, Battlefield 1942 and even C&C: Renegade. Confused and aroused at the same time? Read more!

id's Sound Designer Search - CaliGirl
id Software is looking to contract a sound designer to work on weapon sounds, impact sounds, monster sounds, world ambience, machinery for their upcoming game, DOOM 3. Basically, you will be responsible for creating a lot of sounds that will be used in the game. Please check out Christian Antkow's .plan for further details on what they are looking for.

WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 11, 2002

Action News Update - Jube

• PunkBuster for Q3A has been updated and downgraded in the course of 24 hours. The most recent update had some unpleasant side effects, so they decided to roll 'er back. Watch for a new PB Client to be released over the next few days. Read more.
• GameSpy's Gamers' Choice Awards offer up a chance to place your votes for the best games of 2002. Categories include best action game, best strategy game, consoles and more.
• Digtal Extremes' James Schmalz is in the spotlight on Gaming Invasion where they have the first part of an interview with the company's founder and creative director. Topics of discussion include the success of Unreal Tournament and more.
• Shacknews Game of the Year Voting is open, awarding the best PC and Console games of 2002. Categories and games included differ slightly from that of the GameSpy Gamers' Choice Awards mentioned above.
• Spacial Fear for Unreal Tournament has been released. The single player total conversion is set in the future at a time when humans have perfected the use of wormhole technology. Elsewhere there's a war brewing, and as per usual the humans need to jump into the middle of things! Find out more.

Community Clusters - CaliGirl

• Marry A Geek Survival Guide at MonsterHardware. (thx Jube!)
• LadyDragon Ultimate nYko Sweepstakes: Grand prizes are some console platforms.w00t!
• Firingsquad/Tyan Christmas Giveaway: For those of you that haven't entered, you can win one of 17 remaining prizes, including two Tachyon G9700Pro.

C&C Swoonage - CaliGirl
Gamespy Arcade will be having a chat with producer of C&C: Generals tomorrow - Thursday December 12th at 4:30PM PST. Ten openings in the Generals Multiplayer Test will given away. Keep in mind you must have Gamespy Arcade installed to join this chat.

More Newsbits:

• Skwerl's Generals Comic Strip at CNCDen.
• Harvard Bonin Generals Producer Interview at CNC Universe.
• AusGamers Contest awards 10 GMPT slots as prizes. To enter you must answer a question and be Australian.
• Renegade Alert has been updated to version 600. Anyone who beta testers the mode will get their updates soon.
• C&C Elite has a new Renegade Skin that makes the Nod Nuke look like a blacky pattern color with text going around the nuke saying "Have a nice day". This skin was created by: LTCBob.
• Funky RA2 Map Released at CNCBunker. It includes oil derrick, airports, nuke power plants, S.A.T and a lot of room for base expansion

TUESDAY - DECEMBER 10, 2002

Today's Shooter Bits - Jube

• Happy Birthday Doom! According to Blue's News Doom turns nine years old today. Boy time sure flies when you're having fun!
• The CPL will debut a 20-minute sneak preview of an upcoming documentary called "Gamers" this Friday. Gamers traces the history of CounterStrike, exploring the community and the way the game has changed the gaming world. More information about the film can be found here.
• Australian Game Developers Conference coverage at GameSpy. covers the fourth annual , which includes (among several other pieces) an interview with Lars Gustavsson on Battlefield 1942.
• Bombardiers.org chats with Digital Extremes' lead designer, Juan Pancho Eekels about UT2003, Bombing Run and the upcoming Digital Extremes Bonus Pack for UT2003. Sounds like the bonus pack should be released before Christmas! (Thanks PU)
• The Battlefield 1942 Linux Beta Server has been released. The beta will expire in 30 days but a new version should be released in the meantime. You can read more at Intel-42.

Rise of Nations Official Site - CaliGirl
Microsoft recently announced an official site opening for their upcoming game, Rise of Nations.  Speaking of RoN, HeavenGames has an article from Fragapalooza 2002.

FPS News Roundup - Jube

• Unreal Ops has scored a picture of the nearly completed box art design for Unreal II: The Awakening. It's also mentioned that Mattias Worch recently stopped by IRC to comment that they were pretty much done with the game. (Thanks PU)
• Tenebrae 1.03 has been released, bringing a number of new features such as fog and decals to the popular graphical Quake engine modification.
• SÖLDNER: Secret Wars screenshots are available on GameSpyDaily, where they also mention that the official site has released more weapons information from the upcoming military shooter.

Community Clusters - CaliGirl

• CS Female Nations Cup has a lot of news about the event! Be sure to check out this one.
• Michiko.com has some funny talk about XBoyfriend dolls and Pet Caricature Throwpillows
• What do you do when you're alone? at dev0n.com.
• Ping Size Does Matter in LG Forums: Talk about your ping stories here.
• Indigoblur.com: For those of you who were fans of QWF, the creator of that site has had her own other personal site for a while now. She currently talks about classic pin-up girls.

Mini LG Site Updates - CaliGirl

• Homepages has been updated with Delicious Juice and Merowr.
• Chat IRC has been updated with a new general channel on female gamers who love Wolfenstein.

MONDAY - DECEMBER 9, 2002

C&C Generals Screenshots - Jube
XGR has posted ten new screenshots from Westwood's upcoming Command & Conquer: Generals real-time strategy. The screenshots were taken from the limited online beta, grab a look here!

Impossible Creatures Demo Released - Jube
If you've ever thought it'd be rather cool to play Doctor Moreau and build your own army of crossbred animals, then now's your chance! A demo has been released for Relic's Impossible Creatures real-time strategy. The 258MB demo includes three single-player missions, a tutorial and two player versus CPU maps. Included is the Sigma Combiner which features 14 animals to allow you to mix 'n match critters to creature your own fearsome soldiers. You can grab the demo from the Microsoft IC Downloads

007 Nightfire Patch Soon? - CaliGirl
James Bond 007: NightFire was released for the PC a few week ago. Electronic Arts is currently working on a patch to better enhance your gaming experience. They've also included a new FAQ on the official site.

Action TidBits - CaliGirl

• Doom III Monster Shots at Tech Critic.
• SOF2 Map Files: Check out Ravengames for some maps on Soldier of Fortune II.
• Renegade 'Mod' Video shows the idea of recreating Red Alert through Renegade engine.
• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon PS2 Ships: UbiSoft announced that Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon for the PlayStation 2 has shipped and will arrive on store shelves soon.
• Aquanox 2 Revelations: JoWooD Productions has announced the official details of the Artificial Intelligence of this underwater action game.

Strategy Roundup - CaliGirl

• Blitzkrieg Screenshots at Avault
• American Conquest Interview at Homeland.
• Robin Hood- The Legend of Sherwood by ActionTrip
• No Name War Update at Avault: There's news screenshots and more.
• Chris Tayler Interview, creator of Total Annhilation and Dungeon Siege talks over at Gamespy.
• O.R.B. (Off-World Resource Base) Review at GGMania. A real time strategy space game.
• Rise of Nations Article on the RTS by Big Huge Games. Today they look at the Roman and Mongol races over at GSI.

SATURDAY - DECEMBER 7, 2002

Community Clusters - CaliGirl

• Female Domination at Challenge-CS has a new interview with Jennie, a Sweden gamer.
• DeeAy's Delicious Juice has news about the Christmas Baking Season.

LG Site Updates - CaliGirl
Events Update: Thanks to aNouC I was able to get rid of some confusion on a few Europe tournaments. The CPL Cologne 2000 event had some changes done to the page.  I also added new events like CPL Holland, Female Nations Cup and CPL Cologne 2001. Other link additions include Dragoncon w/WomenGamers.com and Quakecon 99 w/GameGirlz.

Chat Update: About 14 MIRC channels have been added that are general games & clan related. As for forums, there's 4 general, 10 clans and 1 League added.

LadyGamer Section Run Around

• LadyGamer Zoomed-In: aNouC's Realm has been updated with a SoGamed Interview.
• Interviews now has GirlzClan and Challenge CS Girl focus.
• LadyHunt Articles has been updated with some fluffy articles that Women Gamers allowed us to link to!
• Resources: Ladies Lounge added.
• Interests now has 15 things you should know.

No Man's Land Official Site Launched - CaliGirl
CDV has notified us about the official website launch for No Man’s Land, an upcoming 3D Real Time Strategy game. The site features brand new screenshots and a nifty first 3 minutes long teaser video. The video gives you a glimpse of the detailed world and features a soundtrack. Be sure to add this new official site to your bookmarks! http://www.nomans-land.de

In other CDV news, check out their other official RTS game sites such as;

• American Conquest: Your tactical orders heavily influence the morale of your soldiers.
• Blitzkrieg: Where they take a look at a soviet TM-1-180 gun.

MOH:AA Spearhead Patch - Jube
The retail version of the Medal of Honor: Spearhead expansion has been updated to version 2.11. Amongst the many bug fixes, the 55MB file includes the Malta map as well as a new German weapon and new skins. Download mirrors are available below:

• FileShack
• 3D Gamers
• FilePlanet

Action Previews - Jube

• GameSpy Previews Devastation, a new FPS in the works by Digitalo, due out in the first quarter of 2003. Post-apocalyptic mayhem in the year 2075 is the backdrop for this Unreal Tech-powered action game.
• Unreal II: The Awakening is in the spotlight on Gamers.com, where they were lucky enough to snag some hands-on preview action! According tot he preview, Unreal II could just be shooter to beat in 2003.

Shooter Bits - Jube

• Weapons Factory Arena v3.5 for Q3A is imminent, and to prep us for today's release PlanetQuake's Pappy-R dishes out an interview with WFA PR guy V3N0M and tops it off with some sweet new screenshots from the mod.
• Pocketeers Inc. have released new screenshots and videos from the Start level of their Game Boy Advance version of Quake.

Game & Clan Anniversaries - CaliGirl
CaliGirl.net (which is down from changing servers this weekend) has been pretty well known for the gamer and developer birthdays. From this site being dedicated to the community, we have decided to open up an Anniversary section for when some hot games were been born and when the clans were founded. Head on over to the forums to chit chat or check out the new section for further details.

FRIDAY - DECEMBER 6, 2002

FPS News Briefs - Jube

• Weapons Factory 2003 has been announced. The UT2K3 mod is still in the early development stages but there are a few screenshots available from the map Bring It 2003. (Thanks PU)
• Weapons Factory Arena v3.5 for Q3A will be released on Saturday December 7th. Stop by for their latest Daily Paper, they've been putting out a wallpaper a day leading up to tomorrow's big release!
• The Next Unreal Tournament 2003 Patch is currently in testing and Unreality has the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop, give 'em a visit for the latest changelog.
• The 2002 eSports Awards on ShackES are now taking nominations for all your favourite clan related eSports categories such as most sportsmanlike player, best event, match of the year plus more. Get your votes in!
• C&C Generals Beta site has been updated with news of the latest fixes for the next test patch. The beta period has also apparently been extended past its previous deadline of Dec. 15th. (Thanks GSDaily)

Age of Mythology Hype - CaliGirl
The official Age of Mythology has news about their December is Hel's month. The Artists Herb Ellwood and Dave "Ice_Kube" Kubalak created this monthly desktop wallpaper calendar. Hot Reviews on this game include
Next Level Gaming, In the Mix and The Entertainment Depot.

FFD Post - CaliGirl
Since LadyGamers.com has such dedication to Action and Strategy games, we decided to give everyone a breather on Fridays for other genre related news. Here's this week's Friday Fun Day.

• Neverwinter Nights Demo Released
• IceWind Dale 2 Review at RPG Vault.
• Female Guild in the Works: Some of you girls love Ultima Online, right? Ever join a guild for the game? An all-girls guild on Ultima Online Baja shard. Check out the site for further details.

Community Tidbits - CaliGirl

• Clan Talk in LG Forum: Post what clan you are in! BadGirls Clan is curious to know. Also the clan is in the works of spreading to the West Coast.
• PlanetPonytail's GirlTalk section has been updated with and Editorials by Battle Angel entitled "Why women feel a site like this is necessary". Check out the front page of site, it's all dedicated to HalfLife topics.
• Best FPS in 2002? What do you feel is the greatest one for this year?! Remember, it has to have been released this year to be included.
• -xXx- Xtreme & NERV clans are on the hunt for new female gamers.

LG Site Updates - CaliGirl

• LadyGamers Forum has been pretty active lately. Feel free to join in on the excitement.
• Interests section has been updated. Sorry about some of the broken links.
• Search for Quake Women Legacy section has been updated with Ditto, previously known as Shrimp from New Zealand in the Quake Team Fortress days. I have removed her from the Lost List.
• Team Section has been updated with two clans. Clan Brats is an all female clan that plays Counter-strike. NERV is a coed clan that seems to focus on Unreal Tournament and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. TeamBlow is an all female Half Life clan.

THURSDAY - DECEMBER 5, 2002

RTCW v1.41 Released - Jube
Version 1.41 of Return to Castle Wolfenstein is now available for download. Here's what's new:

Fixed bug in Anti-lag weapon prediction code where Player's body remains present, animated with Medic icon - Even when player has "tapped out". Fixed miscellaneous issues in anti-lag code that generated unpredictable results.

This update brings RtCW 1.33 and 1.40 up to version 1.41. Win32, Linux and source code files are available below:

• PlanetWolfenstein
• Shacknews
• 3D Gamers

Action Roundup - Jube

• RTCW: Enemy Territory Screenshots are available for viewing on PC, PS2 and Xbox versions at GameSpyDaily today. Fact sheets for both versions of RtCW are also posted.
• System Shock 2 is in the spotlight today as HomeLAN continue their Cult Action Game Series. The article includes quotes from Irrational Game's co-founder and President, Ken Levine. Read up.
• Carbon6's American McGee Interview at Computer & Video Games. They to talk about Oz, an action game based on Frank L. Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Oz is currently scheduled for a 2004 release.
• Savage Glimpse: GameSpy looks at the upcoming multiplayer Action/RTS by S2 Games. Apparently Savage combines genres, bringing us an RTS and First Person Shooter that will support up to 64 players. In one particular quote the preview describes the game as resembling "the bastard child of Tribes and WarCraft III".
• Purge Beta Testing: Phase 5: FPS/RPG hybrid. Unlimited seats are available so they will be accepting all users. If you'd like to participate in the beta then you must sign-up on the Purge Forums to automatically receive further instructions. Testers will be bound by NDA.

WEDNESDAY - DECEMBER 4, 2002

UT2003 Pro Patch - Jube
Avault eSports is reporting that Epic Games is preparing to release their Unreal Tournament 2003 Pro Patch. The patch is said to include a "pro interface" and demo recording abilities. Apparently we can expect to see this out within the next few days.

LG Site Updates - CaliGirl
The Search for Quake Women Legacy section has been updated with Gemstone and Atari. Community has been updated with a History of Female Gaming section. There's a lot of information to soak in there with Quake history so be prepared.

Tribe Estrogen, a clan dedicated to Tribes 1 & 2, has been updated in the Teams section. The clan hosts a community event called Gender Wars which is a type of boys vs. girls competition. Here's a clip from Jupe (not to get mixed up with our very own news queen, Jubilee) said about her clan:

"My goal is to bring the female gamers out into the community and to support them; in the Tribes community."

FPS News Bits - CaliGirl
That handsome Christian 'Xian' Antkow has updated his Wolfenstein Server Stats website with a little news. Here is the full post:

As some of you have probably noticed, stats haven't been running for a while now. The latest version of Wolfstat is causing me nothing but problems. I've emailed the author, and hopefully we'll get a resolution sometime soon.

Here's some more news bites for you to swallow:

• BANDITS - Phoenix Rising Reviews at Gamersclick and GGMania
• Powerhouse is in the works to create a martial arts related game with Jennifer Lopez.
• Jediknight: Promod Version 3.0 was recently released. Choose between a Jedi, a Gunner, or a custom Hybrid class that allow you to mix the abilities of both.

Getting Girls into Gaming Tips - CaliGirl
GameGirlz' Gemstone posted an article about ways for you lovin' guys to get a non-gaming girl into games. Most guys think it’s cool to have a girlfriend who plays FPS-type games and even more guys just wish their girlfriends would take an interest in their online gaming life. Gemmy has collected some tips and thrown in some observations from a woman’s perspective.

TUESDAY - DECEMBER 3, 2002

Impossible Creatures Clamped - CaliGirl
ActionTrip has a hands on preview for Relic's upcoming game, Impossible Creatures. From the screenshots it looks pretty intriguing. Here's an excerpt from the introductory:

Relic Entertainment has in many ways proven that they are and have always been the industry's trend-setters rather than followers, and their latest game, Impossible Creatures, is another example that their reputation isn't unfounded. From a company that "invented" the space 3D RTS genre in Homeworld comes this latest 3D RTS set on a cluster of islands in the South Pacific, (which are in a way similar to those of certain Dr. Moreau).

Female Domination Interview - CaliGirl
The ongoing female domination series at Challenge-CS is on a roll. Over the next couple of weeks they plan to interview a total of 15 female gamers that enjoy playing Counterstrike. Check out the following interview that currently features: missgunst, Bieke, Vildkatten and Misshyper. Those talented girls talk about their gaming background and other personal information.

Quake Women Search - CaliGirl
In case you skipped over the hot news yesterday the Search for Quake Women Legacy has been launched. With over 50 girls, you can take a look at their history in a time they cherished the most in the Quake community. Discover where they are today, what games they play now (if they still play them) and possibly a way to contact your old gamer buddy. Enjoy!