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Oh how I wait anxiously for a Battlestar Galactica MMORPG, but, until that highly unlikely day dawns, I’ll have to live with user-created machine in order to live those dreams out. Here, we’ve got the opening credits of the amazingly sci-nerd television show, recreated from within World of Warcraft. I especially love the multiple cyclon clones and the “Six” model.
Every Xbox 360 owner is anticipating the next version of Halo, coming soon(ish) from Bungie and Microsoft. Lately, MS and Bungie have been releasing teaser documentaries and behind the scenes looks into the ongoing development of the title, including it’s upcoming changes and storylines. This video shows the first ever gameplay footage of a pre-alpha build, in between interviews with artists and animators who are discussing the changes to the Brutes which will be coming to Halo 3. Cute, grumpy, fuzzy monsters no more, the Brutes are becoming full on, agile war machines!
I love Nintendo, I love the Torque engine and I only use Macs, so when I saw that someone had hacked the Wii controller into the Mac version of the Torque game engine I was ecstatic. Well, maybe just interested. But awesome nonetheless. Recently the creator has invented a home brew IR sensor for the Wii and is also offering the binary for download. Games hackers of the world unite and buy the Torque engine!
The nerdiness of this post is out of control! A recent video on YouTube shows Chris Barret and Efren Ramirez (Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite!) living it up on the set of 24 with a few rounds of boxing on the Nintendo Wii. I guess Kiefer was in his dressing room shredding it up on Guitar Hero.
EVE Online recently launched their much anticipated first-step into the Revelations story line, bringing all of the EVE factions one step closer to war and lots of nifty new ships and features. As is typical with most MMORPG expansions, there are quite a few bugs roaming around, but, CCP is hard at work clearing them up.
For now, enjoy the Revelations trailer after the jump..
GTtv recently trapped God of War creator David Jaffe at the Playboy mansion and hammered him with questions about the future of God of War, more specifically, when is part 3! Jaffe seemed to be hammered enough on his own, but he did let go some interesting tidbits of information. Like, he agrees that he fucked up God of War on the PSP and that he’s just started the design process for God of War 3, though he’s quick to point out that they aren’t in development yet. I particularly enjoy the many time Jaffe takes the EXTREMELY desperate Sony marketing shill to task as he tries to break into Jaffe’s interview and pimp-up Sony with terms he thinks will connect with the kids. Jaffe seems like quite the level-headed individual, I’m pleasantly surprised considering the bad rap he gets on all the gaming forums, but, video game designers….drunk at the Playboy mansion….where is this industry heading?
Favorite quote:
Jaffe to desperate marketing guy during one of his many attempts to break into the interview.
oh my god…go fuck your self in the grotto cause we no one else is going to fuck you in there…gogogo..
Total Annihilation was a great game for the hardcore RTS fan, a label I sometimes stamp on myself. Well, thanks to the Supreme Commander himself, Chris Taylor, we’re getting ready for the next-generation RTS title, Supreme Commander (see what I did there?). Supporting dual monitors (yay!), extremely nice graphics and AI, and sporting an art direction that looks like Terminator meets Battlestar Galactica, Supreme Commander is looking hot and I can’t wait to have this rolling on dual 20.1″ tft! Supreme Commander is currently in open beta and will be released early 2007.
Tasty Planet, a new release from indie developer Dingo Games, certainly wears it’s influences on it’s sleeve. In Tasty Planet, you play as a happy little ball of microscopic nanotechnology which is becoming aware of it’s surroundings and begins to devour the planet, starting with the body it’s implanted in all the way to devouring the entire galaxy. Not quite as cheery as Katamari I must say, but for what it is, an enjoyable indie developed casual game, it looks pretty interesting to me, especially since I can play it on my Mac (a rare treat).
Watch gameplay footage of Tasty Planet after the jump..
Leave it to kids today to take something as harmless as Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and turn it into something so cool that I actually want to buy it. A YouTube user recently had a little fun taking advantage of the AI of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3, by creating a simple and destructive construction whereby hundreds of Tycoon residents mistake a passage of death for one giving away free balloons.
Watch the video, complete with track from They Might Be Giants, after the jump..
January 2nd in Battlestar Galactica, Games, MMORPG, Machinima, Television, Video, World of Warcraft | Email this | Comment 
