Doom 2 for the GameBoy Advance has been released in North America.
"The game was developed by Torus Games and executive produced by id. Gamers can do battle with evil alone, link with another player for co-operative action, or connect with up to three other players for classic deathmatch via the Game Boy Advance Game Link cable."
More info at The Adrenaline Vault, Yahoo.
Gamespy reports that the very popular FPS, Half Life, is 4 years old as of today. After many delays and push backs, it was finally declared finished on November 9th, 1998. Running on a modified Quake 2 engine, no one would ever have predicted it would still be used to run some of the most popular online games of today. Just as amazing is that Valve themselves haven't released a new game since. ;) ** I've been corrected.. Quake 1 engine!
It looks like we'll continue to miss certain games on our shelves, or have them dumbed down for our safety..
"VIDEO games rated higher than MA15+ will remain banned in Australia after a meeting of federal, state, and territory ministers rejected the proposal for an R rating.
The Standing Committee of Attorneys General, which is meeting in Perth, rejected the proposal this morning.
There was no formal vote on the issue because the proposal needed the unanimous support of all nine federal, state…
Gamespot has a preview of Blue Tongue's dino park-building strategy game, Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis. They give a run through of what to expect in terms of gameplay, and there are plenty of new screenshots too. Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis is expected to be released at first quarter of 2003. Head on this way for the preview.
Nokia unveiled their latest innovation in their line of Mobile phones. The N-Gage is a mobile phone with a sophisticated online gaming platform to compete with the Gameboy Advance.
Nokia has today announced that it will bring mobility to the games industry by offering console quality games for its new mobile game deck device category. Nokia will expand the gaming experience by bringing a wireless multiplay platform to the market for both local and remote gaming. Based on an established…
Found this on Slashdot..
"No, this was not leaked on purpose.
Yes, we are upset about it, and it will have some impact on how we deal with some companies in the future, but nothing drastic is going to change in terms of what support is going to be available.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.
John Carmack"
The company he MAY be referring to is ATI, which is rumoured to have leaked the E3 Doom 3 demo.
Side effects have made their Houdini software package available for free in an apprentice version.
The Apprentice Program gives you access to the same creative power used by the best animation professionals in the industry and provides a look at the latest Houdini work of companies like Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Disney Feature Animation, among others.
Equipped with a non-commercial edition, a CD full of documentation, easy-to-follow tutorials, online videos and sample files…
There's an interesting article on why games and their studios fail. The author gives a fair few case studies on some games that have flopped, and where they went wrong. Read the article here. Slashdot has it covered.
John Passfield, co-owner of Krome Studios, and recent interviewee on Sumea, has made available a few games on his website.
"In 1999, Steve Stamatiadis and I developed a type of software that we coined ?Screen Opera?. The first one we developed was ?The Chronicles of Jaruu Tenk? and was my attempt at creating a living, persistent world similar to the one I experienced when I first played David Crane?s Little Computer People on the Commodore 64."
I loved Little Computer People! Also available for…
