Paul “Locki” Wedgewood of Splash Damage updated the ET:QW development blog, announcing a new public beta release for QuakeCon.
The beta includes a host of features and updates as well as a new map: Valley. Here it is, straight from the blog:
The GDF need to destroy a Strogg Prionite Contaminator that’s poisoning a reservoir (the Strogg are attempting to render the local population defenseless to Stroggification). Our Level Design Team has been polishing Valley like crazy, plus it’s larger than Sewer, and features four additional GDF vehicles (the Anansi Attack ‘Copter, […]
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Uwe Boll is in the news again — actually, he’s being sued by the news.
That is, if you can call the New York Post “news.” It seems that after some back and forth between the paper and Boll, Boll launched a couple of parody Post sites promoting his new movie, POSTAL.
The New York Postal sites didn’t go over well with Rupert Murdoch’s employees, so Boll and the paper are going to court.
In a statement, Boll said:
The New York Post’s attempt to slander my character and my movie POSTAL by stating that the movie mocks and […]
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A Sony exec announced via PlayStation.Blog that Rockstar Games’ as-yet-unannounced franchise will be exclusive to the PS3.
This is Michael Shorrock. I’m the Director of 3rd Party Relations at SCEA. As you may have seen this morning/last night on GameHead with Geoff Keighley, we are announcing that a new franchise from Rockstar Games will be exclusive to PS3. As part of our long standing relationship with Rockstar, and the incredible success for both companies with the cultural icon that is Grand Theft Auto, we’ve agreed to the PlayStation exclusive rights of the next great franchise from the Rockstar […]
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Last Wednesday The Hollywood Reporter reported an overall $50 price drop for the Xbox 360 line, presumably in response to Sony’s recent discounts on the PlayStation 3. At that time, Microsoft refused to confirm or deny the story.
Since then, bloggers have uncovered that the unannounced price drop is real. First, both Toys “R” Us and Wal-Mart advertised a “price break” on the 20GB 360 “Premium,” with a list of $349.99.
Toys “R” Us (left), Walmart circulars.
Today, Joystiq found a Circuit City circular offering price cuts on the entire product line.
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On June 28, Rooster Teeth Productions published the final episode ever of the beloved Halo machinima series Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. Halo fans across the galaxy mourned as the 100th episode, with three alternate endings, brought an end to the hilarious adventures of Red and his inept crew of Spartans. According to creator Burnie Burns and his cohorts, there would be no more RvB.
They lied.
The cloying stench of filthy lucre has lured the Rooster Teeth guys back to the RvB trough. New episodes, created in Halo 3, will […]
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Kotaku reports on another cool DIY console mod: turn your Nintendo 64 rumble pack into a tattoo gun.
Anonymous Kotaku reader-slash-prison guard says:
It is actually pretty easy. There are no workshops in maximum security. They do it in their rooms with a battery (power) taped to a tube (could be a pen or a tightly wound piece of paper). The motor from the rumble pack is taken out and attached to the top of the tube. A needle or pin is run down the middle of […]
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On instructables.com, a thrifty gamer posts his instructions for manufacturing one’s own Guitar Hero controller, complete with a “proof of concept” video demonstration. The guitar doesn’t look great, but it seems to play perfectly.
The components:
a PS1 controller with analog sticks
trigger buttons of another PS1 controller
some other switches and plastic pieces
a whammy bar
some screws
a tilt sensor (with instructions on how to build your own!)
a flat cable consisting of 6 wires and a bunch of other shorter wires
2 pieces from a roll-top
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If you thought GameTap was nothing more than a service that charges you money to play old video games you can get for free on an emulator, you were wrong.
It’s a service that charges you money to play old video games you can get for free on an emulator, with a terrible interface.
But now GameTap is also a media site. This month, the Turner-owned video game portal premiered Tomb Raider Re/Visioned, a ten-episode animated Lara Croft story featuring Minnie Driver as the voice of the large-polygonned archaeologist. The first three episodes are written and directed by Aeon Flux […]
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After spending a little time with the Halo ActionClix collectible miniatures game, I found myself wishing there were some kind of computer program that could simulate these battles in real time. You know, maybe present them from the first-person point of view of a Spartan soldier.
That would be neat.
WizKids, the company that brought us collectible minis games based on Marvel, DC & indie comics (I love my Abbey Chase mini), Mechwarrior, Crimson Skies and Shadowrun, now brings the world of Halo to the tabletop. Hitting that crowded, poorly-stocked local games store in September, the Halo ActionClix Series One will […]
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Midway held a party in San Diego’s tony Gaslamp District Thursday night to celebrate the upcoming release of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am, a movie tie-in game that utterly failed to be released around the time of the movie.
Heck it even failed to make it out in time for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD, the two-disc set dropping on August 14.
Comic-Con attendees enjoy the ATHFZNPA demo. And free drinks.
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GGL Wire is sending seven brave men to QuakeCon to cover all aspects of the event. Expect interviews, VODs of the matches and as little Slasher on air as we can possibly have.
What exactly will we cover? You get a say in it. If you want to know something specific about the event or if you want to ask a question to a “fascinating individual,” then we want to know.
Consider this a prime opportunity to get a good interview out of any player attending, be that an Enemy Territory: Quake Wars competitor, or a Quake Quad Damage Tournament […]
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There is a pantheon of gods in the Comic-Con universe: George Lucas, Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Hiyao Miyazaki. But none of them, not even Lucas, garners the kind of devotion felt by fans of British fantasy writer Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman is the author of six novels, including Stardust (the basis for the film starring Robert DeNiro and Michelle Pfeiffer that opens August 10), four short story collections, and many other works. But he’s still best known for The Sandman, his 75-issue comic series that ended in […]
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