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| 08-30-05 / 11:30 PM : The Age of Ilathid : a free Myst like (cjed) |
| Game The Age of Ilathid is an opensource project (developped by some french people) that uses the Myst concept to create 9 new "Ages" to explore. Cyan Myst editor approved this project, as for as they don't make money with it. From the new trailer, the realization seems even better than in original Myst games. In fact it is far more better than the two Rhem episodes (commercial) also derived from Myst. There was another game in this category, Alida, that was high rated.s |
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| 08-29-05 / 11:54 PM : Myth I & II revival on OSX (cjed) |
| Projectmagma allows fans to play again Myth (revolutionnary game from Bungie, like was Halo some years later in another category) and Myth II on MacOSX. Some explanations on this article from macobserver. |
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| 08-29-05 / 11:46 PM : First reviews of SW Battlefront (cjed) |
| StarWars battlefront, that led to high expectations on mac, is shipping. Primary tests are very encouraging. Let's start with a short article from Macworld, and continue with a more detailed review from jeuxmac.com. |
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| 08-29-05 / 09:04 PM : Interview of Brad Oliver (cjed) |
| MacGamer offers a (short) interview of Brad Oliver, famous programmer responsible for the MAME port on the mac. He now works for Westlake Interactive. He says MacMAME is good at benching computers. This emulator has been developped for 10 years, and brings more than 6000 arcade games to the macs and pcs. These games from 80's and early 90's mostly used Motorola 6x00 (and later 68k) processors. Here is the perfect companion for this kind of game. |
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| 08-21-05 / 01:31 AM : Unreal Engine 4 in progress (cjed) |
| Computerandvideogames publishs an interview of Epic VP, about the development of the Unreal Engine 4. Despites the recent licencing of the UE 3, Epic says they already started the project two years ago, and that the next generation engine will widen the gap with its competitors. Already, the UE3 is fabulous (see recent news). |
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| 08-20-05 / 12:39 AM : Myst V : beyond that, the demo (cjed) |
| What a pleasure to discover the availibility of a Myst V demo today, following the recent preview. This one takes 475 Mo (15 mn download time with my rate of 460 ko/s tonight, that is close to 4 mbits/s) ! The night might be short... |
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| 08-18-05 / 12:56 AM : Myst V preview (cjed) |
 Gamespot published a preview of the forthcoming Myst V end of the Ages, expected for september on PC and mac (see also the new screenshots).Is is probably the last article before the whole review. |
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| 08-18-05 / 12:52 AM : Last Quake IV's news (cjed) |
 Worthplaying.com published this week two articles on the forthcoming Quake IV (expected Q4 2005 on PC et Xbox) : the former upon new functionnalities (details on singleplayer and multiplayer modes, various new screenshots), and the later, an interview of Tim Willits, from Id Software. I never played Doom III, however the screenshots show some inspiration from that game. Perhaps there will be a true scenario this time (see PC gamers critics) ! |
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| 08-17-05 / 12:11 AM : Quake 3 engine source code soon (cjed) |
| In his keynote at the QuakeCon 2005, John Carmack revealed that the Quake 3 engine's source code will be released under GPL within a week. He wishes that commercial games using it would do the same, although it is highly improbable for past games. Hence for 3D engines fans like me (developped a whole 3D engine from scratch five years ago when i was student, that implemented Z buffering, Gouraud and Phong's shading...) it is a great news. However recent 3D engines make a lot of use of 3D graphic cards (for Z buffering for example) and frameworks (such as OpenGL), therefore the interesting stuff can be hidden. |
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| 08-04-05 / 11:30 PM : Black & White 2 screenshots (cjed) |
 Lionhead has posted various screenshots of Black & White 2, the sequel of the famous strategy game where the player plays as...God ! As usual we found a personnal and original design mark. The game should be out at the end of the year. No demo annouced yet but trial version will be available late august at the Leipzig Games Convention 2005. [Update] A video is also available. |
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