Sierra has announced that TRIBES 2, Dynamix's sequel to the 1999 StarSiege TRIBES, has gone gold. Offering PC gamers massive and breathtaking worlds for exploration and battle, as well as unprecedented innovations in team-based, tactical gameplay, TRIBES 2 is set to take over store shelves around the world first week of April. The most innovative first person action franchise takes team-based warfare to new heights with TRIBES 2, where only superior teamwork and cunning tactics will ensure a Tribe's survival.
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Gangsters 2 - Vendetta brings to life the organized crime world of Prohibition America, a time when violence and greed ruled in the pursuit to become the boss of bosses. Use your skills and cunning to build a team of mobsters including specialists such as Card-Sharps, Hit-Men, Arsonists, and Safe-Crackers in the attempt to dominate the cities in the state of New Temperance.
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Westwood Studios has updated the Emperor: Battle for Dune website with six new character bios, three new music tracks. The Atreides unit of the week, three new Atreides screen shots, and a video of Westwood s general manager and co-founder, Louis Castle, giving a demo of Emperor. There are also new Emperor theme packs for your desktop.
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voyd LAN Demo EnkiSoftware Limited has announced the release of the version 1.1 of the Avoyd LAN Demo. New in this release:
- Weapon Settings - configurable damage and energy cost.
- Invert Mouse - invert X and Y axis independently.
- Improved Fonts - better looking fonts.
- Fixes - fixed the lag with low frame rate, disappearing Avatar, and long duration server freeze.
AVOYD is a novel multiplayer first person shooter (FPS), set in a unique dynamic world in which you can create and destroy your environment. Added to this is the freedom of movement in zero gravity turning FPS gaming on it's head - literally. Avoyd requires a good OpenGL compatible 3D card (NVidia TNT or better), and a decent CPU (Celeron 450MHz or better). The game is optimized for graphics accelerators with on-chip transform and lighting, such as the NVidia Geforce.
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The message that developers Rebel Act apparently want to get across with Severance is pretty clear - this is one game where the only way to get past the enemy hordes is by cutting a bloody swathe through them. With no guns in sight and only a weak short bow available for shooting enemies with from afar, the best way to take them out is up close using anything hard or sharp, or ideally a brutal combination of the two. Groovy. Check out our review of Severance: Blade of Darkness here at SharkyGames.
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Empire Interactive, the UK based computer games developer and publisher, and LSP, the French videogame publisher today announced that they will be co-publishing Antz Racing across Sony Playstation 2, Xbox, Gameboy Advance and PC formats. Antz Racing features the characters from the DreamWorks hit animated film Antz. The film was the first CGI animated feature from DreamWorks Pictures. The movie captured the hearts of audiences with it's antz-eye view into the world of insects, a world brought to life by the technical wizards of PDI/DreamWorks, the company's Palo Alto-based computer animation division. Antz established a new standard of animation with excitement, humour, and superb visual quality.
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GameSpy Industries has launched GameSpy.net, the global online gaming infrastructure. GameSpy.net enables game developers and publishers to offer critical online and multiplayer functionality in their games. It provides easy-to-implement cross-platform tools and back-end services that support the features that gamers have come to expect in their games - matchmaking, chat, online competition, and game persistence.
GameSpy.net is an infrastructure of software, back-end servers, bandwidth, and network operations personnel that keep games with online features up and running. GameSpy.net provides game publishers and developers access to its powerful functionality, thereby allowing developers and publishers to avoid the expense and headache of creating and running these back-end services themselves.
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Screenshots: Interviews: - GameGirlz interviews Jamie Barber to find out more on the upcoming Z: Steel Soldiers game
- Stomped has posted a Real War Interview
- VoodooExtreme has a new Bridge Commander Q&A
Reviews (and previews): - Avault has posted a review of Insane
- CGO has an Undying review
- FiringSquad has a hands-on preview of Tropico
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