(Read the following in a 40's style announcer's voice, please.) The news keeps Marching on! They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, well, given the fact that the bad news seems to be escalating, Joe America is really hoping that adage is true and April signals the return of the salad days of yestermonth. In this edition we hear about the GeForce3, Doom III and a whole lot of announcements, cancellations and other fun stuff, including another crack at that contest! Come in from the cold and laugh your economic troubles away!
Game Quote: "We do good things here! All will remember the heroes that are Minsc, and Boo, and You!" ~ Minsc, Baldur's Gate II
The Immortal Saint John Carmack, aka the "Wizard of Id," joined Steve Jobs at a Japanese Mac-related expo thingy to unveil the power of the Nvidia GeForce3 by showing what looks like the world's very first Doom III footage. Needless to say, people were very excited.
Exclusive Doom III shot!
Doom III looks fantastic. Real-time shading, bump mapping, mips and belzer curves all extrapolating at 60 fraps per second (or something like that). Believe me, there's no way anything could ever look this good on a mere $300 graphics card. In fact, after watching the news conference I joined thousands of gamers in burning my copy of Quake III in shame. Mine eyes have seen the light and it is Doom III on a GeForce3. Let me know where I can spend the money, I'd be happy to mortgage my child.
G-Force! Fighting evil in the universe!
The bad news is that this extremely powerful graphics card (it costs $600, that's double the GeForce 2, so it's doubly good!) won't be available for the PC for a while. But Steve Jobs announced that it will be packaged in the new Apple Power Mac G4 computer, and for a while that will be the only way you can get one. Look at it this way, you can wait a few months and blow $600 for the card when it becomes available (those bragging rights are sooo important I know) or, you can blow a couple thousand more and you'll get a Power Mac G4 as a pack-in. Hey, buyers of the Power Mac G4 bundle can always give the computer portion of the product to their grandma or something.