Ubi Soft has also issued the E3 2003 trailer for The Matrix Online, offering 1 minute and a half of CGI and gameplay footage for this upcoming MMORPG developed by Monolith. “Set in a virtual, persistent online universe in which millions of players around the globe can participate, The Matrix Online will feature cutting-edge graphics,…
Daily Archives: May 16, 2003
Greyhawk Site
The official The Temple of Elemental Evil website is now online, offering info and media from this Greyhawk D&D RPG in development at Troika Games. Tweet
New Enter the Matrix Patch
This Atari Support Page has a newer patch for Enter the Matrix than yesterday’s (story), updating Shiny’s simulation simulation to version 1.52. This update offers cleaner graphics, a new “Matrix Options Screen,” Alt-Tab switching has been enabled, and EAX now works properly. Source Tweet
TV On Your Mobile Phone?
For all the hype and tests about interactive TV over the years, it appears the best way to do interactive TV completely crept up on TV producers: using mobile phones and text messaging as a way to interact with televsion programming has been a huge success. This is true even in the US (American Idol)…
Pentium at 10–software can’t keep up
The Pentium will soon be ten. Announced in March 1993 and shipped in June, it’s made Intel a brand synonymous with home computing. Not that today’s Pentium 4 is anything like the original hardware. The Pentium’s decade has been one of design improvements seasoned with a couple of dead ends. Intel shouldn’t forget the Pentium…
Is the PC fading as a gaming platform?
The lowly PC is becoming passe among many video gamers. With the appearance of powerful but simple-to-use new systems such as Microsoft’s Xbox, Nintendo’s GameCube and Sony’s PlayStation, sales of games for consoles and handheld devices rose more than 6 percent in this year’s first quarter, according to research firm NPD Group Inc. Sales of…
Matrix 3: Revolutions trailer download
Are you stuck at work, and haven’t had time to go see Matrix 2? Are you one that doesn’t want to have to sit through the credits to see the trailer for Matrix 3? That is ok, you can check out the trailer online: Download (13.01Mb) Mirror Mirror Tweet
New ATI Catalyst Drivers
ATI’s reference driver download page is now offering the latest Catalyst 3.4 videocard drivers, for WinXP/2K and Win9X/ME. This page lists a whole lot of fixes included in this new release. Source Tweet
Judge: Kazaa Must Reveal Investors, Officers
Late last year there were a bunch of articles discussing the convoluted corporate structure of Shaman Networks the owners of file sharing software Kazaa. Much of the structure was designed to make it much more difficult for the music industry to track them down and sue them. Of course, the industry’s lawyers should never be…
Atari Matrix game offers unseen movie footage.
Game publisher Atari Inc. has a message for fans of the “Matrix” movies: there is a secret sequel out there. It’s locked away inside the biggest-budget video game ever. Atari on Thursday released “Enter the Matrix,” the video game companion to “The Matrix Reloaded” movie opening on the same day. The $50 game features a…
