Archive for April, 2003

Halo 2 Details

GamesAreFun have posted some details on Bungie’s anticipated FPS, Halo 2,, due early next year on Microsoft’s XBox console. Here’s a clip:
New to Halo 2 is the ability to utilize two weapons at the same time, commonly known as “John Woo-ing it” after the popular Hong Kong action director (and North American movie producer) who [...]

SWG Beta Report

The official Star Wars Galaxies website has been updated with new beta report, as they discuss stress testing the servers and the NDA being lifted in the not too distant future. Here’s a cut:
Since the main purpose of the event was to stress the servers, we only had the XP terminals online for a few [...]

EA TAKES IT TO THE STREETS WITH NEED FOR SPEED UNDERGROUND

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 30, 2003 - Enter the adrenaline-filled world of high performance street racers in the latest game from the award-winning Need for Speed™ franchise, Need for Speed™ Underground from Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS). The new EA GAMES™ title is under development by the award winning Need For Speed™ Hot Pursuit 2 team. [...]

THE BEST SUPERHERO FILM EVER MADE

That is according to CHUD who has posted this:
Those are some fighting words, aren’t they? Sure they are, for a good reason.
We’re protective of the films we love. Especially ones based on pulp we read during the years that shaped our personalities. Then there’s the fierce loyalty between the DC crowd and the Marvel [...]

LOTR

LOTR: Return of the King: Set photos from the last sequel are now up at TheOneRing.
LOTR: The Two Towers (DVD): The Aussie release is scheduled for August 26th and sometime in November.

The Hulk

ILM held a presentation on Saturday at the “WonderCon” convention in San Fransisco during which they premiered the new exclusive Final Domestic Trailer of the Hulk (not to be confused with the ‘International Trailer’ released last week), as well as giving a presentation on the effects used to create him and ‘Kailem’ delivered this in-depth [...]

SWG Team Letter

Thanks to VE3D, there’s a team comment letter from one of the quality assurance testers over at Sony Online Entertainment, discussing Star Wars Galaxies and how he got there.

X-Men 2

What the critics say:
Chris Hewitt, Empire: During shooting, Singer constantly referred to The Empire Strikes Back as his template - and, by jove, he’s made a movie that’s worthy of the comparison. On its own terms, though, it’s a truly great genre sequel.
Nev Pierce, BBC: X-Men 2 shares its predecessor’s problems of story and self-containment: [...]

PlanetSide Journal

Shacknews got a hold of this Elited site with a new PlanetSide journal, telling us a bit about the action and vehicles in this MMOFPS. In case you hadn’t seen enough screenshots yet, more of those are included as well.

Dell’s Gamer PC

Dell today introduced the Dimension XPS a new PC system geared towards individuals that enjoy 3D gaming, according to the company. The new consumer desktop system will come standard with a 460-watt power supply, Creative Audigy 2 sound card, 128MB ATI Radeon 9800 and 9800 Pro graphics cards, support for the latest Intel processors, and [...]