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Absolutely the best controller for games like Descent. Too bad it didn't take off more.

You need to download the official patch for System Shock 2:

http://www.3dgamers.com/games/systemshock2/

You'll need the file shkpatch.exe, it fixes issues with Windows XP.

Also to install System Shock under XP you'll need to add
"-lgntforce" to the setup instruction e.g. -- if that doesn't work try it with "-ntforce"

d:\setup.exe -lgntforce (or d:\setup.exe -ntforce)

If you are getting lockups or having problems getting it to run, try these additional steps:

Add the line "safe_texture_manager", without quotes to the Shock.cfg file.

Start System Shock 2 and while still on the main menu, goto Task Manager.

Right-click on the Shock2.exe application and goto Set Affinity. Uncheck everything except for CPU 0.

Then go here - http://shtup.home.att.net/files/shtup_beta5.zip - and downlaod the graphics upgrade package which will increase polygon counts on models to make things look better.

Good luck, and enjoy!

SiN is a blood-soaked five hour jaunt you can download from Steam for about twenty bucks. At that price and that length, this Aeon Fluxian gorefest may just be a happy start for the age of episodic content.

I'll second that. Try the IL-2 demo at 3DGamers. Be very sure to try the naval strike missions for the Sturmovik itself, attacking convoys in a thunderstorm is not to be missed. The graphics on that have been updated at least once since then in the major overhaul that was Forgotten Battles. Online play through Hyperlobby does rock, with online campaign play supported and lots of servers up. A whole new sim (Battle of Britain) is due in 07 or 08 from the same developer, curent patchlevels are using a development BoB flight model.

If you love combat flying and don't have this yet, there's a Platinum edition alredy out for download and the first of 3 expansion packs due this year just came out (we're still due Manchuria '38 and a 1946 expansion). It's a good time to get into the game.

I'm just pimpin' it 'cause I want to see more people online.

WarGames (PC)
By: MGM Interactive, Interactive Std.
Genre: Strategy
Release Date: Jul 31, 1998

Difficulty: Hard
Learning Curve: About a half hour
Stability: Stable

Score: 7.1 (Good)

Summary: WarGames is a decent RTS game in the Command & Conquer vein. If you're hoping for a game that captures the feel of the movie or that can compete with the likes of Total Annihilation, Starcraft, or Myth, you will be sorely disappointed. But if you just can't get enough of building bases and solving puzzles disguised as battlefields, you will probably get a kick out of WarGames.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/wargames/revie w.html?q=wargames

Demo: http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/wargames/wg demo.zip.html

+++++++++

WarGames: Defcon 1 (PS)
By: MGM Interactive, Interactive Std.
Genre: Action
Release Date: Jun 30, 1998

Difficulty: Easy
Learning Curve: About a half hour

Score: 7.6 (Good)

Summary: While WarGames: Defcon 1 may not have allowed me to relive one of my favorite films, it is still a solid game with a fairly good back story. Dabney Coleman may be nowhere to be found here, but once you get past this slight oversight (all games should feature at least one picture of Dabney), you'll discover a great shooter.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps/action/wargamesdefcon1/ review.html?q=wargames

The story behind Quarantine was that a chemical added to a city's water supply to make people docile had backfired due to bacteria already present in the reservoir. The city was now full of aggressive psychopaths, and was sealed off in order to "burn itself out".

You play a taxi driver in the quarantined city, splitting your time between carrying fare-paying passengers, running over pedestrians, launching missiles, and carving up other vehicles with the giant sawblade on your front bumper.

The logo was a stylized biohazard logo, with an inner circle to resemble a steering wheel, and a little asymmetric tail for the letter "Q". Find the logo at 3dgamers.

I used the torrent from 3dgamers!

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/fear/ fear_spdemo_en.exe.html

Even then, it didn't hit the shelves until November 1995, just barely making it!

I remember at the time this game was released being impressed, both at the fact that they had taken Quake source and done so much with it (added a whole lot of features, it was probably a Quake 2-level engine or better now) and with the fact that at the time the traditional logic was to go license some expensive game engine, but that they probably got a good deal on the Quake engine.

But I also remember at the time reading about a lot a flak they recieved - their developers had followed a lot of those "tutorials" people had assembled on the Internet and through binary comparison, these sites figured out that Trainwreck had followed their tutorials. Trainwreck admitted to following the tutorials but did not admit to doing anything wrong. This led to the practice of designating that the tutorials were under GPL as well. Trainwreck could indeed have avoided the problems and saved money had they used the GPL for Laser Arena.

The one argument I can see for keeping the source closed is to limit or eliminate cheating. Granted, a budget title with limited popularity isn't really all that prone to cheating but even today the commercial release of Quake 3: Arena has Punkbuster to keep it "safe", which I imagine is outside the realm of most online game developers.

Any ideas on how to prevent this sort of thing in a GPL'd game?

I remember at the time this game was released being impressed, both at the fact that they had taken Quake source and done so much with it (added a whole lot of features, it was probably a Quake 2-level engine or better now) and with the fact that at the time the traditional logic was to go license some expensive game engine, but that they probably got a good deal on the Quake engine.

But I also remember at the time reading about a lot a flak they recieved - their developers had followed a lot of those "tutorials" people had assembled on the Internet and through binary comparison, these sites figured out that Trainwreck had followed their tutorials. Trainwreck admitted to following the tutorials but did not admit to doing anything wrong. This led to the practice of designating that the tutorials were under GPL as well. Trainwreck could indeed have avoided the problems and saved money had they used the GPL for Laser Arena.

The one argument I can see for keeping the source closed is to limit or eliminate cheating. Granted, a budget title with limited popularity isn't really all that prone to cheating but even today the commercial release of Quake 3: Arena has Punkbuster to keep it "safe", which I imagine is outside the realm of most online game developers.

Any ideas on how to prevent this sort of thing in a GPL'd game?

Here you go: http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/quake3arena /Thirdparty/quake3-1.32b-source.zip.html

This already exists at 3dgamers.com

The torrent links aren't very popular because gamers stop seeding as soon as they are done. So you end up with 1 seeder (the 3dgamers server) at 60K/s, instead of the 300K/s that you would get from the other download sites (even if you have to queue up).

A bigger issue is what happened to valve, last fall when millions of HL2 users were trying to activate (can't P2P that).

I don't know what you're talking about when you say ET is not free... From the Official Web Page (sorry, it is Flash-based), to the FAQ at the previously mentioned 4players site; It's free to download and play. Modding of the game is encouraged, and there are several mods, maps and skins for it. Getting ahold of the code for the game is possible, for the purposes of making mods.

However, since it uses the Quake 3 engine, it may not be as free as you'd like it to be. (I'm not sure whether the source code for that is out there and available now - but given iD's past releases of the Quake and Quake 2 engines, it will be soon). Feel free to pick some nits about the definition of the word "free".

Thanks for pointing out the other games as well though, the more the merrier.

3dgamer download link

If you are a 3D gamer, you must try the controller at least once. You might never go back to keyboard and mouse!

I've included the top links for info on its drivers, use, and interface.

I'd also mention Far Cry, which is visually stunning and neither dark nor claustrophobic like Doom 3 and its likely sequel Quake 4. More screenshots here.

http://www.3dgamers.com/ get in before the line starts

No need to guess whether SWAT 4 will be a problem: the demo has been out for a month. It looks great to me.

You can get japanese H games in the US legally, though not at any retailers that I know of. There are cute little animal games where your cute little animal takes cute little turds, but not on anybody. There is a webgame version of Puyo Puyo where your special attack is throwing up on your opponent. There were a few games in the 80's where birds would poo on you, though those weren't very good games. There's the 7 sins, where the point is to try to have sex with as many people as possible. There is, of course a PS2 version.

There are a lot of bad games out there. But then, there are millions of games out there. By the same token, I don't have anything morally against making parents come in and buy games for their kids if they want them to have them. I've known far too many people in the retail sector who have told kids no, and been yelled at by the parent for stopping their kid from buying, say, Manslaughter. Inevitably, the parent then comes back the following day and freaks out on the poor underpaid associate for selling such filth to their kid.

I think the generation which preceeded ours has certain expectations about cartoons and videogames which ours does not. To them, more mature cartoons or videogames is like Jack Daniels flavored breastmilk. Or black leather studded diapers. In exactly the same way that movies were seen as kid's stuff at the turn of the century, so too is videogames the realm of kids. And therefore anything that gets released in a videogame is marketed at kids, and all of that stuff that you see in videogames is people trying to mess up your children.

It's a different perspective. While I don't disagree with the idea of restricting the sale of certain videogames to minors, I do disagree with the perspective.

I played through it yesturday. Really well made. However it cuts before you meet Jar Jar.

I downloaded the fairly recent Unreal Tournament patch yesterday from 3D Gamers here and their "World" download is a .torrent. When download sites like these start using BitTorrent, I really think it has become a mainstream technology.

I also downloaded the Linux version of the same patch.

Needless to say, the Windows version downloaded at 200+ KB / sec, and the Linux version was restricted by their slightly loaded server at ~80 KB / sec.

Here is a mirror for the trailers, so you can avoid the lines and registration of Fileplanet. No torrent, sorry.

Haven't found a torrent of the beta, either. Hopefully someone can dredge one up.

There is a HTTP download here if the Darwinia site is too slow and you can't torrent.

The demo torrent can be found on 3dgamers here

3DGamers.com FileRush.com Those are two BitTorrent-supporting legal download sites that I know of. Anyone want to add to the list?

If you could not find anywhere to buy it you can get a .torrent of System Shock II from
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3924

you can also get the multiplayer patch (cooperative only) from here
http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/systemshock2/shkp atch.exe.html

The ECE torrent is available, alongside direct downloads provided by BeyondUnreal.

Not clear enough? How about this from Blue's News?

The pack is an 84 MB download, available on 3D Gamers, FileFront, and GameSpot DLX (registration required), Gameguru Mania, Gamer's Hell, Game's Fusion, Tiscali Games, and Worthplaying.

As seen on Blues News a new demo for UT2k4 has also been released, basically the same as the old one with some engine updates and a few extra maps.

FYI 3d Gamers always has a torrent up of the files it mirrors.

Here's a link to the torrent.

Check for instance the Restaurant empire patch ChangeLog the 'StarForce fixes' were in fact 2 BSODs as soon as you launched the game - only because you had upgraded to Windows SP4.

They left Rare.
Most talented ex-Rare people now word at Free Radical Design. They are likely the best known developer of ex-Rare people. They released the ego shooters Time Splitters (PS2) and Time Splitters 2 (PS2, CG, XB). Now they are working on Time Slitters 3 and an action adventure called Second Sight (both games are for PS2, CG, & XB).

There's also a small team called Zoonami. They have two games in development. One is a music game called Funkydilla (PS2, CG, XB). The other one had the codename Game Zero in the past. Almost nothing is known about it.

Another ex-Rare team is Third Wave Games. They are developing a PC game called War World.

This was a singularly bad example to use as "legal" P2P. A better example might be 3dgamers.com who use bittorrent as one of many download options for content they have been given to redistribute.

Also, the "default" state of copyright seems to be lost on many Slashdotters-- thanks for clearing up that in the absence of a EULA, "default" copyright law applies, which does not allow redistribution.

Here is a very extensive list of mirrors courtesy of Blue's News.

3D Gamers, ActionTrip, Computer Games Online, Doom3.de, Doom3Maps.de, FilePlanet (registration required), FileShack (registration required), Fragland.net, Gamer's Depot, Gamer's Hell, GameSpot (streaming for free), GameSpot DLX (registration required), Gamehelper, Gaming Horizon, GenGamers, OzForces,, Yahoo! Games Domain

Couldn't post as a list because "Your comment has too few characters per line"

Here's a torrent at 3dgamers. Incidentally, 3dgamers.com has consistently fast servers for downloading games patches, movies, etc. And there's no registration hassles. Ever. Highly recommended.

The Florida mirror seems quite fast on this page: http://www.3dgamers.com/dl/games/doom3/d3pcdownloa dfinal.zip.html

http://www.3dgamers.com/torrents/games/doom3/g4_ic ons_doom3-hi.zip.torrent

as well :)

Anyone else remember this from Logitech a while back? I remember Sierra Online was trying to hawk it in their product catalog (disguised as a games magazine) bundled with their games back in the mid-90s, when FPS games were just starting to take off.

Found a review of it here.

Apparently, Logitech even made a second, newer version, as seen here. I had the original, I thought it sucked.

Something like the SpaceOrb 360 would be ideal if integrated into a hand rest and it replaced the mouse. Six degrees of freedom without holding anything up in the air.

For me the best way to test these new drivers is to play Enemy Territory

One of the best online FPS games and it's free-as-in-beer.

Keep up the good work NVIDIA.

Get the full Linux from a torrent here

FYI, this mod requires the latest patch.

Before DOOM, there was Spectre VR, which was all about multiplayer gaming...

By that first line it sounds as if Doom 1 was REVOLUTIONARY (and it was to be honest).

Yeah. I distinctly remember there being other multiplayer deathmatch games around at that time... such as SpectreVR, for example ...

DOOM was a great game, for sure, but it was more an evolutionary step, which everyone wanted and had a demand for, than it was a Revolutionary jump. What made DOOM 'special' in those days was that it was legal and expected that you could download it and copy it with your friends; in those days, Shareware Floppies was all the Internet a lot of people had ...

And just so I don't look like a total idiot (if that's possible), here are some links with more info:

• http://www.autoassault.com/
• http://www.3dgamers.com/games/autoassault/
• http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/auto-assault/516265p1.htm l

Tried any PC racing games? How about LFS, or the upcoming GTR. I dunno. Console racing games just don't cut the mustard for me generally. Not enough depth, not as fun online.

Apparently Tuxgames is sold out of the letfover Linux versions from Loki's firesale, and there's nothing on ebay. Looks like T2 won't work in WineX as well.

Sometimes you just don't get a break being a Linux gamer. Maybe if every third Linux gamer hadn't pirated the Linux version in the first place (since everything in Linux has to be "free", right?) things would be different. But there's so much legal detritus floating around, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to see a free Linux version.

-B

When I first began writing shareware games for Palm OS, I created a number of small puzzle games, among other things, and found that it was pretty difficult to come up with an interesting concept every week or so. So, I can't begrudge BestGameEver if some of their new games build on their previous efforts. Besides, sometimes the most enjoyable games come about as refinements of previous (and possibly less-commercially-successful) ones.

But along those lines, Ludum Dare hosts 24- and 48-hour competitions to investigate innovative gameplay; folks who are interested in BGE's offerings for that reason might like to check them out.

HD space is nothing. Head over to 3dgamers.com and check out the download sizes for the latest demos: 300-400 MB are *normal*.

Ouch. (I wonder how often 90% of the download isn't even used in the demo)

This isn't exactly new in a game... I remember that Bullfrog's Magic Carpet had this feature way back in 1994. It was virtually impossible to actually play while in this mode, of course, but it was kind of neat for a few seconds. But it was nothing more than a gimmick: certainly not a major feature.

While Quake II would be even neater, I don't think anything's changed now... Hell, text-mode Quake II would be more playable.