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Archive for August 2006

August 14th, 2006

Cell Factor: Full Game

A while back Aegia (I always spell it wrong) released their PhysX card that supposedly allowed tons of objects and blah blah. Along with the card came the tech demo of Cell Factor, a single multiplayer level where you could blow shit up (in excess). Anyways, the guys behind the demo finally decided to release […]

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August 11th, 2006

Halo Movie

This has been circulating for a while so the fact that they’re making the movie isn’t unknown but they have just finally announced the director for it. Worthplaying has the heads up on this one. Apparently somewhat of an unknown but still good Neill Blomkamp was chosen to lead the charge and deliver unto us […]

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August 9th, 2006

F.E.A.R. : Combat

Can I get a Hell yeah?!
From Fearfans.com
08-08-2006 - Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™ (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.
F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component […]

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August 8th, 2006

Zombie Master

Every once in a while I come across some news about a game that seems like it’d be a ton of fun to play. Zombie Master is one of those. Boys over at Evil Avatar managed to score an interview with the makers of the HL2 mod. They talk back and forth about the development […]

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August 8th, 2006

System Shock 3

And from the rumor mill comes Joystiq’s post about the possibility of System Shock 3 with news of the same team who did Scarface heading up the development on this one. Which is a little strange since the team who did System Shock 2 has moved on to the spirtual successor, Bioshock. Now you have […]

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August 7th, 2006

Essence of the First Person Shooter

Team Warfare has a post where one of their news staff wrote up this big long article about how all FPS games are the same.
I read through it and my only thoughts were “Well yeah.” Basically he claims that when you boil it down, all games in the FPS genre follow the basic motions and […]

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August 7th, 2006

Screenshots

Evil Avatar has some screenshots for the “new” Call of Duty 3 and our delayed Quake Wars. Both look really good. And sadly this has been the only real FPS “news” lately. Or maybe I’ve just been too lazy to look really deep. Tell ya what. I’ll go look again. You go drool over the […]

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August 3rd, 2006

Video Game Slayings Cont

During my perusings. I came across this article on Forbes. It’s a follow up to the “Xbox” Murders story that I posted about a few days ago. Basically the sentencing was life for one of the guys and death penalty recommendations for the other two. Here’s a blurb of how it all went down.
Prosecutors said […]

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August 2nd, 2006

Rainbow Six Producer Interview

For those of you interested in Tom Clancy’s continuing saga of Rainbow Six and counter-terrorism, their official site has an interview with RS: Vegas’ Producer Alexander Parizeau.
he talks all about the new areas of the game, new features, new graphical enhancements, and lots more.
They promise over two and a half minutes of goodness. Alexander Parizeau […]

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