Sierra Sports, formerly known as Front Page Sports and also formerly known as a quality outfit has announced its new lineup. Sports fans are expected to roll over and die in response. The release schedule reads as follows: PGA Championship Golf, Field & Stream: Trophy Big Game Hunting, F&S Trophy Bass 4, F&S Professional Bull Rider 2, F&S Trophy Hunting and Maximum Pool. Aside from the PGA game they seem to be attempting to corner the crap market for now, a trend actually begun when they released Football Pro '99.

ID Software and Activision recently announced that there is a Quake III Arena Mission Pack in the works from ID Software. The pack will offer numerous levels that focus on team-play plus a couple of new games focusing on adding actual gameplay to the Quake III product.

"We've been waiting for a long time for the Quake community to make Quake III a better game. You know, like they did with Quake and Quake 2", remarked Director of Mad Mod-Marketing Tom Chack. "After all, actual players created Team Fortress, Rocket Arena, Jailbreak, hell... even that Capture the Flag thing wasn't ours! They did it free of charge too. Since everyone is now instead making new stuff for Unreal Tournament and Half-Life we thought 'damn, better hurry and make a game of this one quick'".

The mission pack will be released "when it's done" which ignores the fact that it should have been "done" last year.

Motley Crue joins other cutting edge bands like Devo and Yes by contributing a tune for Tribes 2. Since nobody in Motley Crue has mattered one iota since the late '80s (aside from the odd video release and domestic violence conviction) I can't imagine that they have what it takes to create a hooky tune for the massively multiplayer extravaganza Tribes 2 will likely be. Do you think of online 3D shooting when you hear Dr. Feelgood, Too Fast for Love or Home Sweet Home? How about Smoking in the Boys Room or Shout at the Devil -- well, that last one would have worked pretty well for Doom. Maybe Girls, Girls, Girls... well, that would be an entirely different game wouldn't it? Mr. Nukem? I have an idea for you sir.

On April 20th 2000, at 8:59am my wife Linda gave birth to 6lbs 10ozs of joy known as Maggie. Yes, the Beatdown News guy now has a daughter. Will this soften his take on the news? Will this tempt him to sell out and let publishers dictate how he mocks the industry? Yes.
PS: No, you can't date her. Ever. No daughter of mine is gonna date some filthy gamer!