It may still be that Shenmue 3 is the 'secret title' AM2 are revealing some time this month, but it's launching in 2004 so it's not on the AM2 release list for this year.
Or at least, that's the reading if you're a hopeless Shenmue optimist. We'll have to see.
The Slashdot editor (myself) who wrote the post is English. Hence you will occasionally see Anglicizations (Anglicisations?) in my posts. This was actually one I wasn't aware of, and I'm going to try to viciously staunch it, as I have those poor 'U' characters - sentenced to death to save frenzied typing from Slashdot pedants the world over. Slashdot is, indeed, meant to be an American English zone, and I'll be doing all I can to strive for this important goal.
Actually, the Internet Archive's main Wayback Machine servers are located in a co-location center in San Francisco, so it's not correct to say they're located outside the US. There is a mirror of the Archive's web content at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, however - maybe that's what you're thinking of?
In any case, the Archive's work with the Library Of Congress and, increasingly, national libraries who want to archive the Web content of their countries, proves that the establishment also thinks Web archiving is a vital thing to do for posterity. But the rights issues are definitely tricky.
Thanks for the heads up, guys, hadn't heard of it, and it wasn't mentioned on the Mythic games page on their site, but on closer inspection, I found the press release on their site - I must have missed the announcement last year.
I'm pretty sure that Eidos will release this title in Europe as well, providing they're confirmed as publishing it, since I checked on GameFAQs, and all the Fresh Games titles so far have been released in Europe and the US more or less simultaneously. Which is nice.
Are there many/any major games that come out in Europe and not Australia, or is that simply a question of distribution?
I'd heard that it was the pre-rendered intro on DoA:XBV that made the ESRB slap the more restrictive rating on the game - not sure if anyone knows that for sure, but there was allegedly a last-minute ratings change on the title.
It's certainly true that one of the characters is naked for a fair few seconds as she dives from the cliff-top in the intro, not that you can see anything much. But the game itself, odd as it is, doesn't seem as seditious and evil as, well, blowing the heads off things. Anyhow, I bought the game to.. yes, research volleyball physics, that's right.
I think that's a very good point. The interesting thing is that, despite their track record, they got signed with Microsoft to do a first-party title. It's a little mystifying, considering their background.
Actually, here's a preview of Citizen Zero, which is the former PC title that their Xbox game is likely to be at least partially based on.
Looks like Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance was mentioned quite a bit in the good co-operative games thread, so it's cool to see another potentially fun co-op title announced.
It _is_ a little confusing right now, but here's what you can do to either receive the Slashdot Games section-only stories, which is most of them, on your front page, or remove them entirely.
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FWIW, it appears that only programs up to approximately 2mb in size can be transfered by this method (which works by utilizing the Gamecube broadband adaptor and have the user fake being the PSO patch server?) - so it won't be possible to download and run games, which is _good_ - piracy can and will kill entire formats.
I think it's worth mentioning that this 'games going up in price!' theory is courtesy of one games analyst in particular. Even _he_ says most other analysts probably don't agree with him. So I think it's a slightly crackpot notion - but still definitely worth discussing.
Ohdear:( There's a bug that sometimes makes earlier versions of the story appear on the main index page. Apparently it surfaced its ugly head with reference to this story. The post is fixed now, anyhow, doh.
Unfortunately, if you're a developer and are receiving milestone payments from your publisher at regular intervals, then your last milestone payment will probably be at the gold master of the game.
At that point, you'd have to wait a few months to even _possibly_ get royalty payments from that title, through. So if Ritual didn't have a lot of money in the bank to pay developers until a new project came through.. issue. I think the same type of thing happened with the Myth III development team (scroll down) a coupla years ago, who were, oddly enough, ex-Ritual people, although the inside scoop on that may be a little different, and blatant speculation abounds, etc.
Heh:) Definitely not saying they're the best, but it actually seems to be quite difficult to find reviews of FFXI Japanese from an English-speaking reviewer, still - can anyone point out some good review links?
I was _really_ enjoying Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast up to the point I started playing alongside players who 'suspiciously' had the best weapons on the game, despite not being _THAT_ levelled up. When asked where they got them, they mumbled something about 'a friend' giving it to them. Just say no to item cloning, kids - it really does ruin the user experience:(
It _is_ odd - I'd be inclined to dismiss the whole thing if it was just opinion - but the fact is, it appears to be a quote from a product manager at Microsoft saying that Half-Life 2 on Xbox isn't happening right now.
So I guess they may still be negotiating, and the Microsoft guy has phrased in badly, but unless the quote is made up or otherwise mangled, it seems the deal is less done that everybody thought. We'll see.
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It may still be that Shenmue 3 is the 'secret title' AM2 are revealing some time this month, but it's launching in 2004 so it's not on the AM2 release list for this year.
Or at least, that's the reading if you're a hopeless Shenmue optimist. We'll have to see.
As far as I know, the only English-language demo version was the one handed out on CD-ROM at E3 in 2001 - the GIA article talks about it.
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I don't think it's ever been made available online, because there's never been an English-language publisher for the game
Ohboy.
The Slashdot editor (myself) who wrote the post is English. Hence you will occasionally see Anglicizations (Anglicisations?) in my posts. This was actually one I wasn't aware of, and I'm going to try to viciously staunch it, as I have those poor 'U' characters - sentenced to death to save frenzied typing from Slashdot pedants the world over. Slashdot is, indeed, meant to be an American English zone, and I'll be doing all I can to strive for this important goal.
It's 'lorry', btw.
Actually, the Internet Archive's main Wayback Machine servers are located in a co-location center in San Francisco, so it's not correct to say they're located outside the US. There is a mirror of the Archive's web content at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, however - maybe that's what you're thinking of?
In any case, the Archive's work with the Library Of Congress and, increasingly, national libraries who want to archive the Web content of their countries, proves that the establishment also thinks Web archiving is a vital thing to do for posterity. But the rights issues are definitely tricky.
Thanks for the heads up, guys, hadn't heard of it, and it wasn't mentioned on the Mythic games page on their site, but on closer inspection, I found the press release on their site - I must have missed the announcement last year.
I'm pretty sure that Eidos will release this title in Europe as well, providing they're confirmed as publishing it, since I checked on GameFAQs, and all the Fresh Games titles so far have been released in Europe and the US more or less simultaneously. Which is nice.
Are there many/any major games that come out in Europe and not Australia, or is that simply a question of distribution?
I'd heard that it was the pre-rendered intro on DoA:XBV that made the ESRB slap the more restrictive rating on the game - not sure if anyone knows that for sure, but there was allegedly a last-minute ratings change on the title.
It's certainly true that one of the characters is naked for a fair few seconds as she dives from the cliff-top in the intro, not that you can see anything much. But the game itself, odd as it is, doesn't seem as seditious and evil as, well, blowing the heads off things. Anyhow, I bought the game to.. yes, research volleyball physics, that's right.
I think that's a very good point. The interesting thing is that, despite their track record, they got signed with Microsoft to do a first-party title. It's a little mystifying, considering their background.
Actually, here's a preview of Citizen Zero, which is the former PC title that their Xbox game is likely to be at least partially based on.
..aren't immediately obvious, and there may be more hidden away, but here are the tree catwalk ones Cowboyneal referenced.
Looks like Baldur's Gate:Dark Alliance was mentioned quite a bit in the good co-operative games thread, so it's cool to see another potentially fun co-op title announced.
It _is_ a little confusing right now, but here's what you can do to either receive the Slashdot Games section-only stories, which is most of them, on your front page, or remove them entirely.
If you want to see Slashdot Games (and other subpage posts) on your main page, go to the Homepage part of your Preferences - here, and tick the Collapse Sections tickbox.
If you're fed up with Slashdot Games appearing on your main page all the time, you must already have Collapse Sections ticked. In that case, tick the Exclude Stories From The Homepage - Sections - Games tickbox in the same menu screen.
FWIW, it appears that only programs up to approximately 2mb in size can be transfered by this method (which works by utilizing the Gamecube broadband adaptor and have the user fake being the PSO patch server?) - so it won't be possible to download and run games, which is _good_ - piracy can and will kill entire formats.
I think it's worth mentioning that this 'games going up in price!' theory is courtesy of one games analyst in particular. Even _he_ says most other analysts probably don't agree with him. So I think it's a slightly crackpot notion - but still definitely worth discussing.
It's working for me? The same images are here at Shacknews if anyone else is having trouble.
Ohdear :( There's a bug that sometimes makes earlier versions of the story appear on the main index page. Apparently it surfaced its ugly head with reference to this story. The post is fixed now, anyhow, doh.
Unfortunately, if you're a developer and are receiving milestone payments from your publisher at regular intervals, then your last milestone payment will probably be at the gold master of the game.
At that point, you'd have to wait a few months to even _possibly_ get royalty payments from that title, through. So if Ritual didn't have a lot of money in the bank to pay developers until a new project came through.. issue. I think the same type of thing happened with the Myth III development team (scroll down) a coupla years ago, who were, oddly enough, ex-Ritual people, although the inside scoop on that may be a little different, and blatant speculation abounds, etc.
Heh :) I guess I knew that, but he'll always be long-haired in my heart.. *swoon*.
GameTab also have BitTorrent links to the WMV and MOV versions on their BitTorrent Files page - useful to know if the other mirrors get clogged up.
Heh :) Definitely not saying they're the best, but it actually seems to be quite difficult to find reviews of FFXI Japanese from an English-speaking reviewer, still - can anyone point out some good review links?
The screenshot seems to be.. a screenshot to me? Did they switch it to something else and then switch it back again? This is highly confusing.
I was _really_ enjoying Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast up to the point I started playing alongside players who 'suspiciously' had the best weapons on the game, despite not being _THAT_ levelled up. When asked where they got them, they mumbled something about 'a friend' giving it to them. Just say no to item cloning, kids - it really does ruin the user experience :(
It _is_ odd - I'd be inclined to dismiss the whole thing if it was just opinion - but the fact is, it appears to be a quote from a product manager at Microsoft saying that Half-Life 2 on Xbox isn't happening right now.
So I guess they may still be negotiating, and the Microsoft guy has phrased in badly, but unless the quote is made up or otherwise mangled, it seems the deal is less done that everybody thought. We'll see.
Hah, you wacky guys :) You're right though, I switched my sentence around so it doesn't sound like Crimson Skies is inciting Xbox-related riots. :)
OK, the title bar problem should be fixed now, for this post at least (though it may take a minute or two to propagate?) Please yell if it isn't.