January 6, 2008
Impressions, Previews
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Soon the time will come for pirates and sailors alike to hoist their sails and get to fighting! Pirates of the Burning Sea, an 18th century seafaring MMO developed by Flying Labs Entertainment, will open up for pre-orders tomorrow and everyone else gets to join in as of the 22nd. But wait, what is this Pirates of the Burning Sea game you ask? A mighty fine question indeed!
Fortunately for you landlubbers, I spent some time with this game during the open beta test. So rather than just whisking you off to some obscure official website with mere tidbits of information - I can provide you with the information that you really want to know: ‘is this game worth my hard-earned cash?’
So let’s get to it shall we?
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December 24, 2007
Media, Previews
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InstantAction.com is the name of a browser-based gaming service set to launch some time in 2008. Initial impressions seemed to point to a mostly casual gamer site that tries to combined services like Steam with sites like Youtube. Not particularly interesting for the ‘hardcore’ PC gamer.
That all changed yesterday with a newspost up over at Shacknews, which features a video and snapshots demonstrating a Tribes-like game, in development at GarageGames, for the browser-based InstantAction service. According to comments from one of the developers on the project this is leaked footage featuring their current alpha build, which has only been in production for a mere 3 months. In fact, it only hit alpha status last Thursday!
More inside.
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November 21, 2007
Rants, Impressions, Previews, Articles
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If there’s one thing that’s important for a fast-paced multiplayer-based first person shooter, then it’s good quality maps. Unreal Tournament certainly featured plenty of those, but it’s sequels tended to disappoint greatly on this front. Now with Unreal Tournament 3’s European release only days away and the beta demo proving to be surprisingly fun, there is only one question on the minds of Capture the Flag and DeathMatch players worldwide: what will the maps be like!?
Fortunately there has been a fair bit of news on exactly this front, and it’s looking good! But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Further in I’ll be covering some of the maps that have been unveiled in short gameplay videos and a bunch of benchmarking tests. Interestingly it looks as though the demo maps were amongst the most demanding in the entire game, so we can expect better performance than DM-Shangrila and vCTF-Suspense on average! Once again it seems the UT3 engine isn’t just pretty, but amazingly scaleable as well…
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October 25, 2007
Impressions, Previews
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Last week I reviewed the DeathMatch portion of the recently released Unreal Tournament 3 beta demo. Needless to say I’m absolutely in love with UT3 DeathMatch gameplay and have spent a fair few hours at it as of late. In fact, I’ll even be competing in a 2v2 tournament this weekend. But DeathMatch is not all there is to this beta demo.
The other game mode available in this demo is Vehicle Capture the Flag. While ‘introduced’ in Unreal Tournament 2004, this is the first time it will be a fully supported game mode. In all honesty I expected this game mode to be an utter and complete failure. I’ve never been much of a fan of vehicles in online shooters and this looked to be no different. Strangely, the beta demo changed my mind…
How? Why? Read on to find out!
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October 24, 2007
Free Games, Impressions, Previews
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After the Call of Duty 4 demo, Half Life 2’s Orange Box and Unreal Tournament 3 Demo… it’s not hard to miss the freshly released Hellgate London demo. As a new action/RPG in development by Flagship Studios, mostly comprised of the guys who did Diablo, 
it’s certainly been met with an air of eager anticipation by many fans of Blizzards’ old hack & slash games.
Personally I’ve never actually played any of the Diablo games, and in light of the fairly mediocre trailers I was expecting to be thoroughly disappointed by this demo. Particularly with two great, genuine, RPGs releasing at the same time (NWN 2’s Mask of the Betrayer and The Witcher) this game certainly hasn’t been prominent on my games radar. So did this demo manage to sway me into the camp of believers, or would it prove to be the final nail in the coffin for my Hellgate London experience?
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