Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
Gamespy reports that Infogrames are doing much better than last year, which bodes well for it's operations down under.
"Infogrames sent out its financial results covering the first quarter of 2003, ended September 30th, earlier this afternoon. The quarter saw Infogrames? revenues, including publishing and distribution, at $109.4 million, a 39 percent increase over the 78.5 million earned last year. Breaking it down, publishing revenue wat at $83.7 million, a 41 percent increase over the $59.3…
Just a note to Sumea members - there's a fair few of you who have had an account for months, but have not logged in at all, so I'll be posting an email to see if you're alive. Also, there are a lot of members who have logged in once or twice, but have left no news, or weblinks, or any details whatsoever on their profile. I don't mind members with only a link to their webpage, but when there's nothing there except a name, it's not serving anyones time visiting. Please put something up or I might…
Not much news to post recently, so here's a few things to check out. Terminator 105 pictures (from Terminator 3), BMX XXX is (surprise, surprise) apparantly crap, and Shenmue 3 pictures! Yes, it looks incredible.. :) :)
Doom 2 for the GameBoy Advance has been released in North America.
"The game was developed by Torus Games and executive produced by id. Gamers can do battle with evil alone, link with another player for co-operative action, or connect with up to three other players for classic deathmatch via the Game Boy Advance Game Link cable."
More info at The Adrenaline Vault, Yahoo.
Gamespy reports that the very popular FPS, Half Life, is 4 years old as of today. After many delays and push backs, it was finally declared finished on November 9th, 1998. Running on a modified Quake 2 engine, no one would ever have predicted it would still be used to run some of the most popular online games of today. Just as amazing is that Valve themselves haven't released a new game since. ;) ** I've been corrected.. Quake 1 engine!
It looks like we'll continue to miss certain games on our shelves, or have them dumbed down for our safety..
"VIDEO games rated higher than MA15+ will remain banned in Australia after a meeting of federal, state, and territory ministers rejected the proposal for an R rating.
The Standing Committee of Attorneys General, which is meeting in Perth, rejected the proposal this morning.
There was no formal vote on the issue because the proposal needed the unanimous support of all nine federal, state…
Gamespot has a preview of Blue Tongue's dino park-building strategy game, Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis. They give a run through of what to expect in terms of gameplay, and there are plenty of new screenshots too. Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis is expected to be released at first quarter of 2003. Head on this way for the preview.
Nokia unveiled their latest innovation in their line of Mobile phones. The N-Gage is a mobile phone with a sophisticated online gaming platform to compete with the Gameboy Advance.
Nokia has today announced that it will bring mobility to the games industry by offering console quality games for its new mobile game deck device category. Nokia will expand the gaming experience by bringing a wireless multiplay platform to the market for both local and remote gaming. Based on an established…
Found this on Slashdot..
"No, this was not leaked on purpose.
Yes, we are upset about it, and it will have some impact on how we deal with some companies in the future, but nothing drastic is going to change in terms of what support is going to be available.
Making any judgements from a snapshot intended for a non-interactive demo is ill advised.
John Carmack"
The company he MAY be referring to is ATI, which is rumoured to have leaked the E3 Doom 3 demo.
