Doom Invitational Cup
- Posted by CaliGirl
Thurs July 31
Bitter_Ivy is at it once again. This time she faced an alien one on
one! Legion
of Doom Invitational Cup is a Tournament that uses the FIFA World
Cup soccer style to determine a champion. Ivy talks with
Legion of Doom's Alien about how
LiC was founded, Freeze Mods, and if Quake 3 is dying.
Are you ready
to be LIC'd once again?
[Interview]
Half-Life 2 Delay
- Posted by CaliGirl
Tue July 29
Valve originally mentioned that
Half-Life 2 would be released by the end of September. Vivendi
Universal has now announced that the game will be released at the end
of 2003. I don't know about you but I can't be too surprised
about this title being pushed back. It may be pushed back until late
2004 for all we know. Good games normally are pushed back a few
times... but when they get to a few years being pushed back, that's
when you know it may not be a success. The game name has been worn out
over and over again by then. The hype dies. I know that won't be the
case for Half-Life 2. In other related news, Valve released a
video called
Traptown.
Ms. QuakeCon
Tournament
- Posted by CaliGirl
Tue July 29
For those of you gals
who plan on attending Quakecon this year,
there's now a tournament for you. The
Organizers of MsQuakeCon would like to invite all quake'ing females attending
QuakeCon 2003 to sign up for the
tournament. This will be for women only and will be held on Friday,
August 15, 2003 in the BYOC area. If a player doesn't have a machine of her own
to play on, she can either borrow a friend's or ask a MsQuakeCon
administrator, who will do her best to find one. Please see
the official rules and
settings for all the
details. Visit Msquakecon.org for
updates on information on the prizes and sponsors!
You can also join the IRC channel at
#msquakecon
on ETG.
Cached.net also has a hefty post concerning the upcoming
tournament. Of course with any female gamer related news posts at
Cached comes the women bashin comments in the forum thread. They just
wont give it up and go with the flow. :/
Forever Worlds Movie
- Posted by CaliGirl
Fri July 25
Gameshark has a
divx movie
trailer
for the upcoming 1st perspective time travel adventure game, Forever Worlds by
Hexagon Entertainment. Transports
into a series of surreal and immersive worlds where magic and fantasy merge with
subtle humor and beautiful images in a fantastical and unique storyline.
Doom 3 DM Demo at Quakecon
- Posted by CaliGirl
Thu July 24
id Software will be displaying a
playable demo of Doom 3 at QuakeCon 2003. The Adam's Mark Hotel in
Dallas, Texas will show off this demo from August 14 - 17. [Further
Details]
World of Padman No.9
- Posted by CaliGirl Sat July
19
Worldofpadman.com
has been updated with information concerning 9! At the moment their
coder has done lots of grunt work. Some items includes screenshot powerups, Splasher weapon with zoom, weapon effects, alternative
skins, sprayrooms,
music to download and much more!
Game News
- Posted by CLIMaX Sat July
19
- Halo:
Combat Evolved Preview (PC) Halo The best
selling game on Xbox makes its move to the PC this Fall enhanced
for PC by Bungie and Gearbox Software. Halo is about first-person
combat and online gameplay. And vehicles! Check out the indepth
preview and screens at GameSpot.
- Classic
Gaming Expo Aug 9 & 10 Classic Gaming Expo enters its sixth
year as the world's first and largest event paying tribute to the
people, systems and games of yesteryear. The 2003 event is shaping
up to to be the biggest and best ever, with lots of surprises to
be announced as the show draws near.
- NOLF
2 for Mac Preview Inside Mac Games posted a hands-on preview
of MacPlay's upcoming first-person shooter, No One Lives Forever
2. The highly anticipated sequel to the original game, No One Lives
Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way is a humorous story-driven first
person shooter featuring deadly UNITY operative Cate Archer.
- Quakecon
FAQ Posted: Ultimate Event About to Begin The Quakecon FAQ tells
you everything you ever wanted to know about Quakecon but had too
much packet loss to ask. But seriously, folks, Quakecon,
the brainchild of id Software games fans, is the ultimate place
to meet online friends in real life, talk shop with aspiring and
veteran developers, play some of the world's best multiplayer games
over the best LAN possible with people from all over the gaming
community, and basically pretend you died and went to Quake Heaven.
First held in 1996, QuakeCon is the annual event of events for players
of Quake, Quake 2, and Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein,
and Enemy Territory. And it's going down with or without you August
14th through the 17th in Dallas, Texas, USA. Old skool and n00b
alike, find out now what you need to know.
- Unreal
II: The Awakening Coming to Xbox for Holiday 2003 Atari is bringing
Unreal II: The Awakening to the Xbox this Holiday season. Unreal
II: The Awakening is the follow-up to Epic Games' 1998 smash PC
hit, Unreal. More info at Yahoo Finance.
New Transformers Announced
- Posted by CaliGirl Fri July
18
Atari announced Transformers Armada: Prelude to
Energon, which is exclusively for PlayStation 2. This upcoming game is
a 3rd person action adventure game that allows players to enter the
world of Transformers. Become one of three AUTOBOT robots and control
your character's every move and decision. The massive robots can
explore numerous rich 3D environments on foot or convert to vehicle
mode for high-speed maneuvering. Battle Deception forces with an
arsenal of weapons including cluster rockets, homing missiles and
vortex cannons.
TRON 2.0 Gold
Plus Movie - Posted
by CaliGirl Fri July 18
Buena Vista Interactive announced that their first
person shooter has gone gold and will be in stores at the end of
August 2003. For those of you who have been keeping an alert eye on
TRON 2.0, IGN has released
five movies.
No More Chasing Female Gamers? huh!
- Posted
by CaliGirl Wed July 16
An article written by
Suneel Ratan at Wired entitled:
"Game
Makers Arent's Chasing Women"
I may be a little late reading into this
article but it had me quite surprised tonight. With the amount and hype
Wired.com has put into the women tournaments, and the female gamer
movement through out the years, this was an interesting change of view
article. There are things about how much women play puzzle games above
all other genre, even RPG. That has me pretty much spazzing out here as
I eat my chocolate pudding so late tonight. I know many many action and
strategy loving female gamers, I have only met a couple of puzzle
focused freaks, not to say that's a bad thing. I adored
Monkeystone's Congo Cube game.
It had me addicted when I beta tested it. Oh and Tetris has to be any
gamers old favorite game of all time.
There's one developer who focused on women
with a game called Purple Moon, which is said to be a big flop. I was
around playing games in the 90s, why didn't I ever hear of this game?
Maybe because it was a game done in PINK! Who knows. Overall, I have
seen more women in the isles of Walmart and Target than I have walking
into a game focused store like Electronic's boutique, Babbages and
Gamestop. Each time I have walked in there, guys look at me pretty funny
as if I am buying a game for someone else. When I talk about a game I am
into, and that I need a game guide for it, that's when I find out WHY
they looked at me so odd with there comments. I am not upset at all
about their desire to look at me oddly. I think its just funny they
havent been exposed enough to just RELAX! We arent going to bite, I
promise.
Patch 'Em Up! - Posted
by CaliGirl Tue July 15
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Focus
of the Month: Diffuze
What
does a 34 year old Swede who likes Bette Davis movies do to
kill time when she's not involved in a Linux project? Play Quake
3 Arena, of course. But you won't find Diffuze on European Quake
servers. She prefers fragging at Burial-Grounds in North America.
And, despite a transatlantic ping, she can definitely hang with
the locals. LadyGamers managed to catch Diffuze during a short
break from the action to get the inside scoop, the nitty-gritty
and the down and dirty on this Quaker from Gothenburg. Read
the interview with Diffuze now in our July Focus of the Month.
[Focus
of the Month]
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NARC Details - Posted
by CaliGirl Fri July
11
Midway announced development of another third-person shooter called
NARC. This game is a remake of the classic 1988 arcade and allows
you to become like a federal agent out to stop a druglord. NARC is
expected to ship in 2004 and will be available for all three major
consoles. [Further
Details]
Area
51 Announced - Posted by CaliGirl
Fri July 11
Midway Games announced development of a government conspiracy first-person
shooter called Area 51. Featuring online play for the PlayStation
2
and Xbox Live, players take on the role of Lt. Nick Cross, a hazardous
biological waste specialist sent to investigate. During his investigation,
Lt. Cross stumbles across alien creatures and becomes infected with
a biological mutagen that eventually transforms him into something
not quite human.
To save the earth and himself, Lt. Cross must fight to solve the enigma
of Area 51. [Press
Release]
Will
Rock Tournament - Posted by CaliGirl
Fri July 11
UbiSoft announced a team up with The Clan World Network as they host
a tournament for their action game, Will Rock. The tournament
will feature heated single elimination tournaments and will pit two
four-men/women teams against each other. The event begins on Monday
- July 21st. [Press
Release]
Breed Enhanced Screens
- Posted by CaliGirl Thu July
10
Brat Designs has been busy fine tuning BREED. Though they're still
working on the game's multiplayer mode, most of the models have already
been refurbished. But that's not all! BREED features nVidia's enhanced
rendering technology with special CG-shaders that are being used
for the new water shader in the game. BreedGame.de has some new
screenshots of how this looks, so check out the official site
or some eye candy!
Knights of the Old Republic Available
July 16
- Posted by CLIMaX
Thu July 10
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – July 9, 2003 – LucasArts today announced
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, a role playing game (RPG)
for the Xbox™ video game system from Microsoft, has gone gold
and will be available at retail throughout the United States and Canada
Wednesday, July 16.
One of this year's most eagerly anticipated titles,
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic was recently named the number
one game in Electronic Gaming Monthly's Top 20 Summer Games feature.
In addition, Official Xbox Magazine called Star Wars: Knights of the
Old Republic an "instant classic," and the game received
a perfect score in the forthcoming September issue of GMR.
LucasArts also announced that in Winter 2003 it expects
to make available to Xbox Live subscribers downloadable content for
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Featured will be a variety
of new weapons and other items to assist players on in-game quests.
Developed by BioWare, Star Wars: Knights of the Old
Republic features an original story set some 4,000 years prior to
the timeframe of the Star Wars films in an era dominated by an epic
conflict between the Jedi and the evil Sith.
