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Gobs Of Gaming Goodies

Posted by timothy on from the gather-giddily-gamebots dept.

Warrior-GS writes "The final part of the Future of PC Gaming is up at GameSpy. This one deals with the future of user-created games and talks to developers and mod makers, as well as identifying tools that can assist them. There is also a Q&A with Warren Spector on where he thinks PC gaming is headed in the next several years." John Scabadone points to a "nice article featuring an update on the state of the handheld gaming industry along with a roundtable of some of the premier developers." Read on below for several more gaming updates, too.

pandrew writes "Square has openly admitted to doing something people have been asking for for many years now: a sequel! Though not what most people have asked for (i.e. Final Fantasy 7) this is still a very big step in the Final Fantasy line, since no game in the series has ever had a follow up with a connecting storyline."

k-hell writes "The Mother of All Games, Scorched Earth has been updated to allow for playing on Internet. Rendered in OpenGL, Scorched 3D now features a 3D island environment and LAN and Internet play. See screenshots here. You can download a Windows binary package and/or Windows source package here. At the same time, you should also grab the excellent server browser The All-Seeing Eye."

Lucifer writes "'Sega announced a list of new Sega AGES game titles for PlayStation 2, remakes of their classic Master System, Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn titles. Each game will retail for 2500 yen, and the first four titles are scheduled to release in Japan in summer 2003.' 15 years later and I'm going to start playing Phantasy Star again! ;-)"

Finally, bredroll writes "Attention fellow Geeks! Ever wanted to live 100ft underground in a ex British gov't nuclear bunker for three days and do nothing but geek at extreme levels and play LAN games? Well, we can help, This year's event includes food and bunks as well,

In-Bunker Events

  • Battle Royale (Robot Wars-type event)
  • Underground Noise Fest (see site)
  • High-speed switched LAN
  • Various LAN game tournaments
  • NTK will be there
  • + more ....
Users of all systems welcome, Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac, anything, the more diverse the better. The bunker is located in Essex (UK) near the town of Brentwood. Details about booking places and prices are on our site."

4 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. Scorched Earth 2k by e8johan · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just had to recommend this. Great gameplay over network.

  2. Re:Digger.... by cameleon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try this. Digger remade to play as the original, but run on modern pc's.

  3. Serious Sam for Linux by pyr0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    In other gaming news, I just read over at Linuxgames that there is now a Linux version public beta of Serious Sam the First Encounter. It will even install the game from the cd for you. I tried it, and it runs with no hitches on my AthlonXP 1800+ with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200.

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    Project Steve
  4. A lot of possibilities for creative gamers by matvei · · Score: 2, Informative
    The great thing is that extending console games is becoming possible with the new generation consoles. For example, Timesplitters 2 (available for XBOX, PS2 and GameCube) includes a fully functional (and truly intuitive) map maker with which players can create single player missions and multiplayer levels.

    IMHO this is very cool, I didn't care much about Half-Life but spent many hours messing with it's level editor :)

    For "creative gamers" on nearly any computer platform there is Blender, which is licenced under the GPL. You can find both standalone and browser plugin based games at www.blender3d.org