Unreal Tournament 3 Capture The Flag players rejoice! My clan, the X-Factor Project, has started a new Unreal Tournament 3 CTF Hosted Cup on ClanBase! Sign-ups have been open for less than 24 hours and we’ve already seen 11 full team sign-ups! You too can still participate - all you have to do is get your clan on ClanBase and sign up before the 18th of January! But Wait! If you don’t yet have a clan, or not enough members to compete, you can still participate in this cup!

This UT3 CTF Hosted Cup is a community driven event. This basically means that the cup organizers will help you out finding a team or team members to join up with and participate in the cup! What better way is there to get in on some fun UT3 CTF action!? So make haste, head on over to that cup page, and participate! Let’s get this CTF community rolling! Oh and join the European community’s IRC channel while you’re at it: #UT3.CTF on Quakenet!

PS: The following picture is the UT3 CTF Hosted Cup logo made by killer397. Enjoy!

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Yarr, it be 2008 now mateys! Another year to loot, pillage and game!

So yeah, happy new year everyone! I hope you all got to enjoy your final moments in 2007 last night, I know I did. As always, moving into yet another new year tends to make one reflect on the year past. Last year marked the start of The Game Drone on it’s new domain, along with an all new layout and new unique entries. The fresh start went together with a new posting methodology, which brought forth popular entries like 17 Tips for Beginning EVE Players. Unfortunately the posting rhythm kinda got warped after the first few weeks, so content has been pretty meager up until December.

In this new year The Game Drone will of course move forward. I’ll improve the posting rhythm by introducing more entries of the smaller variant and getting decent schedules in for recurring items like Screenshots of the Month. Meanwhile there are a couple of other ‘projects’ I’m working on, which you’ll probably start noticing somewhere in the coming months. Hopefully game developers will also prove generous and provide us with a wealth of quality games and news to talk about!

Anyway, have fun gaming for now. If you press the read the rest link you’ll find this month’s Screenshot of the Week. I hope you’ll like it.

Read the rest…

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This year was one of many an amazing title and clearly showed that PC gaming is still where it’s at. In fact, there have been so many great games that many a PC gamer will likely still be buying some of these titles one year from now - and playing through them all seems like a task that will take centuries. We’ve had sequels in franchises long thought lost: BioShock, Command & Conquer 3, Sam & Max Season 1, Supreme Commander. Excellent new games: Crysis, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, The Witcher, World in Conflict. And just all around great games/sequels/expasion packs.

In light of all these impressive games, I’ve done my best to include the most popular and impressive amongst them in a new poll… where you get to vote for your favorite game of 2007! If you’re still missing a game, leave a comment, or contact me, and I’ll add it to the list. Now go ahead and vote for your favorite. I’ll leave it up for a couple of weeks and share the results with you afterwards!

As for the previous, somewhat similar, poll which asked what game you’d be playing on a winter’s day. Let’s just Unreal Tournament 3 raked in a landslide victory with 5 out of 15 votes, which is perhaps not particularly surprising considering almost 50% of the content on this blog has been UT related as of late. The Witcher came in second with 3 votes, leaving Call of Duty 4 tailing that with 2 votes. Lastly BioShock, Crysis and The Orange Box all received 1 vote, rounding out the list.

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As you may know the low playercounts have been one of the main concerns for Unreal Tournament 3 (PC) players as of late. Fortunately this Christmas has been quite Unreal for many people it seems, as player counts have risen dramatically over the past couple of days. New players have been streaming in by the hundreds, as servers keep on filling up - and activity mounts worldwide!

It’s great news for UT3 players who were concerned for the game’s health! Things are starting to look up as player counts rise and rumors are creeping in of Midway actually starting to get advertising going in some parts. Why Midway chose to waste it’s advertising budget on mediocre games like Blacksite Area 51 and Stranglehold is likely to remain a mystery for many years to come, but at least it looks like they’re coming to their senses and starting to promote their star title!

Meanwhile a couple of mappers have created a “Hardcore Oldskool Low-Poly” map pack, featuring a collection of excellent DeathMatch and Capture the Flag maps based on old classics. Definitely not the prettiest of maps, but they’re awesome fun to play! So go on, head on over here and download the HOLP Map Pack!

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Yay, I got the F.E.A.R. Platinum Collection for Christmas from a relative! So I install the games and run into zero problems, until I insert the second DVD containing Perseus Mandate. What happened next was so silly, so stupid and so retarded - I still don’t believe any company could conceive a tiny, but major, screw up like this! Turns out Sierra fucked up big time on the installer and ensured it could only be installed on your C drive (even if you change drive, it will still try to install everything on C, it just ignores any alternative installation paths), which means only PCs with shitty formatting arrangements can install it without resorting to registry hacks.

Awesome job Sierra (or Timegate, the developers) - you guys just made me edit my registry to install a game. Definitely the most retarded (and obvious) screw up I’ve ever seen from a game company. Hell, this screw up even makes Epic Games’s royal screw over of anyone with a decent PC setup running Unreal Tournament 3 look like no big deal. Being forced to overrule game addressing lines just so you don’t have to install every map and mod on your C drive - seriously, who comes up with this stuff!? Let us decide where to put our game files… just dumping save files (BioShock, The Witcher) and even character files (Neverwinter Nights 2) on someone’s C drive is just plain wrong.

Ah well, here’s to hoping that at least the game is worth it.

Merry Christmas!

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