I wish it weren't so, but this year's E3 is expected to be lacking the luster it once did now that an old rule is to be enforced. A policy for the expo has been that:

Material, including live models, conduct that is sexually explicitand/or sexually provocative, including but not limited to nudity,partial nudity and bathing suit bottoms, are prohibited on the showfloor, all common areas, and at any access points to the show.

This year, the show'... [ There's more ]

Word on the net is that Stargate SG1 has been cancelled again. First we had JoWood step up last year and state the the game was cancelled. Then Perception announced that they are the actual license owners of the game and that it was not cancelled. Then Namco was heard to be on the development of the game. Now we have a rumor that MGM and/or Perception will be making an offici... [ There's more ]

SiN Episodes' Ritual Entertainment talks about the creation of a Dynamic Difficulty system in their coming game. During play, the system checks in with the player to see how they are performing. If the player dies alot, the enemies will drop more health kits upon death. Other dynamic adjustments will include damage, ammo, accuracy, etc.

In Ritual's own playte... [ There's more ]

Buzzscope has an article by David Rodriquez that discusses the over abundance of cutscenes in games. He is disgusted that the time spent playing a game is nothing more than a means to get from one cutscene to another.

...We’re supposed to bemaking games, and instead we are making ridiculous, half-assed movies.

Movies are linear, passive entertainment. You sit there and watch th... [ There's more ]

For some of those long timeModsonline members, you will remember the sucess of Modsonline MappersWeekend Server Party. This was great fun for everyone and I'm sure alotof people left happy. I am now confirming that 'Modsonline MappersWeekend - Server Party - #2' is definatly going to happen. Here are thedates:

Friday 20th January 2006: 8.00 GMT *Start*
Saturday 21st January 2006: *All Day*
Sunday 22nd January 2006: 6.00pm GMT... [ There's more ]

We are almost done uploading all of the downloads to the new server. 12Gb of file data really takes a long time to upload over the internet, so I do appreiciate your patience while we get them there.

Since the uploading is nearly complete, I estimate that they will be come available for download again tonight. Perhaps about 4 more hours and it will be open again for business.

Again, thanks for waiting.

Last Man Standing Coop has been selected as a Finalist for the IGF ModCompetition! You can read the full Gamasutra story here.As a note the IGF is a part of the GDC in San Jose, CA, which you canfind more information about at gdconf.com Both AO and I at the veryleast will be attending so look for us there! If you are interestedin meeting up with us get in contact.

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The mod team for 2049: Unbound Forces is making great strides with their CoD2 Mod. They've been building levels in preparation of the new modding tools release, modeling weapons and preparing the story. You can find out the details at CoD2 Headquaters.

Also... they are still looking for help with the mod. They are in need of people that can map, mo... [ There's more ]

Whew. What a weekend. Here I was looking at the server getting slower and slower. I thought perhaps a bad program was running. So, the best solution in those cases is to restart the server. Lo and behold... the hard drive on the server crashes on boot and we lose everything.

After banging the keys for two days (with my fingers and head) the website is now back up and we only lost 14 hours of data. Not bad.

The downloads are going to take a little longer to get back online so pleas... [ There's more ]