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April 2004 Archives

GGz Isn't Dead... - Saturday 4/17/2004 by CaliGirl
Believe it or not, GameGirlz is back in the front seat with all of us who love games! Are they active as ever? I would think so. They have recently released a few features. Enjoy.

  • Women Spotlight Interview profiles Meridith Braun, the PR Director over at Digital Extremes. Meridith talks about how she became involved in the gaming industry, and details what it is like to work at Digital Extremes.  In case you didnt know.. Pariah is one HOT looking upcoming game.
  • Girl-Gamer.org Interview profiles Tanya Short (aka Hotaru) about the website and what she does when not playing games and reviewing them.

 

Gaming News - Thursday 4/15/2004 by CLIMaX
 

  • Who Dunnit? The Adventure Company has announced it will develop PC games based on the novels of Agatha Christie. This is the first time that Agatha Christie Ltd. has granted a license to a games developer for role-playing mystery games. The Adventure Company plans to release five Agatha Christie-inspired PC games over the next six years. More info at Gamespot.
     
  • World of Warcraft Beta Update Blizzard Entertainment has launched the next phase of its beta test for World of Warcraft. The new version of the beta includes all the game's playable races, including the races of the "Alliance" (humans, night elves, gnomes, and dwarves) and the races of the "Horde" (orcs, trolls, tauren, and undead). Check out Blizzard.com for full details.
  • Atten'HUT! Ubisoft will bring America's Army to consoles in 2005. Under the terms of the deal between the U.S. Army and Ubisoft, the Army will continue to develop the PC version of America's Army, while Ubisoft will develop versions of the game for consoles. No word yet on which consoles will be selected. March over to AmericasArmy.com for more information.
     
  • Play "Tag" with Canadians to Win an Xbox If you're Canadian and have a lot of friends online you could qualify to win some cool prizes including special edition Xbox consoles and game packages. All you have to do is sign up for the contest sponsored by Microsoft and "tag" up to 10 friends per day. What does tagging mean? It could mean spam them with advertisments, but we're not sure, just highly suspicious. What is known are some of the prizes being offered. For more info and a list of the initial prize packages checkout TheGate.ca.com. You can directly sign up for the contest here.
     
  • Star Wars Gallaxies Fan Fest June 4-5 Attention Bothans and Zabraks, and Wookies, too. It's almost Fan Fest time and Lucas Arts has set up a website to make the transition from Tatooine to Anniheim, California easy. In addition to mingling with players, game devs and some really bizarre looking fans in full costume, Fan Fest discussion forums will include topics that true fans will really appreciate, like:
     
    - Galactic Civil War Discussion
    - SWG Fitness: Healing and Health
    - Understanding Hybrid Professions
    - Galactic Wilderness
    - Melee Combat in Star Wars Galaxies
    - A good blaster at your side

    This event promises to be tastier than a jar of foraged fungus! More info and sign up here.

 

Gold Pile - Tuesday 4/13/2004 by CaliGirl
 

 

Gamer Personal Ads - Monday 4/12/2004 by CLIMaX
Wouldn't it be great to meet a fellow gamer and fall head over heels in love? Maybe move in together to split the cost of a 768k DSL line or share games and serial numbers. What an awesome 2 vs 2 CTF team you'd make sitting next to each other. Best of all the words "are you playing that damn game again?" would never be heard again. Well, the Personals advertised at RottenTomatoes.com might just be the best opportunity we've seen to hook up with a gamer as geeky as you. Search thousands of profiles of people who want to flirt, date, do the serious relationship thing, or just hang out. Best of all you get to pre-screen the dude in a private, annonymous voice chat room before meeting for real.

XGDX Event - Monday 4/12/2004 by CaliGirl
Looks like there's going to be a nifty event in Mountain View, California in Fall 2004. Xtreme Game Developers' Xpo will take place on October 9-10, 2004 for all of you who would love to share your passion for games! Don't miss this opportunity to exchange ideas with other developers, programmers, and designers, and to gather tips from the experts at this premier gaming conference. Mountain View is one great place to be, I worked there when I was with Mplayer for those few years.

Starsiege & Tribes 2 Deal - Monday 4/12/2004 by CaliGirl
Vivendi Universal Games announced that it will distribute the videogames Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2 for free on a special-edition DVD-ROM bundled with the newsstand edition of the June issue of Computer Gaming World magazine (available May 4, 2004) and online via FilePlanet.com. The giveaway is a celebration for the fourth-quarter release of Tribes: Vengeance, the next installment in the venerable Tribes franchise of PC action games.

United Offensive Announced - Monday 4/12/2004 by CaliGirl
Activision has announced Call of Duty: United Offensive which will include an all new single player campaign filled with new weapons, character abilities and other expanded features by Infinity Ward. There will introduce new maps and modes of play. United Offensive expands the popular multiplayer experience of Call of Duty, offering new multiplayer maps that set the stage for tank combat, as well as tank-and-foot-soldier combined arms action, providing the ultimate battle of Axis vs. Allies. The three new multiplayer gameplay modes include; Tank Battle, Capture the Flag and Domination – where squads must take control of key locations while preventing enemy troops from advancing.

Half-Life Trailers - Friday 4/9/2004 by CaliGirl
Worthplaying has mentioned news about a couple of Half-Life 2 trailers. Pick up the crowbar of the research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling. Freeman is thrust into the unenviable role of rescuing the world from the wrong he unleashed back at Black Mesa.

New Settlers Announced - Wednesday 4/7/2004 by CaliGirl
Ubisoft announced its development of the latest game in the Settlers series that is set for release at the end of the year. The new Settlers will feature fully animated 3D environments powered by Criterion's next-generation RenderWare technology. Players will design and develop detailed communities featuring skilled inhabitants with a number of different abilities. In addition, the multiplayer mode is being perfected by Ubisoft's Montreal studio, producer of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Q3 Urban Terror v3.4 - Saturday 4/3/2004 by CaliGirl
Urban Terror version 3.4 was recently released, which is rumored to be the final version of the mod for Quake 3. There are a few different installer version for this upgrade. For those of you who aren't familiar with Q3UT, its a realism style total conversion.

UT2k4 Bonus Pack - Friday 4/2/2004 by CaliGirl
This was something I kept thiking about, we need more Onslaught maps! Gamespot recently annouced that they will host the premiere of two new maps for Unreal Tournament 2004 Onslaught mode today - April 2nd. The bonus pack is being released as a part of Microsoft's Windows XP Extras program. ONS-Ascendancy takes the action to the surface of a sprawling alien mining planet with glowing Tarydium crystal formations, while ONS-Aridoom is a medium-sized battles among age-old mesas. Both maps were created by Epic. [Screens]

 

 

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