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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 times 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…console manufacturer marketing shills….game developers taking part in possibly nude poker game…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..
Sony’s recent advertising campaign is hitting the airwaves and it’s how should I say, hmm, oh yeah, arrogant. I’m probably just reading too much into it, but, it seems to me that Sony is basically saying that we’re all little consumer sheep sitting and waiting anxiously to throw several month’s rent at them in exchange for their next gaming system. But that’s ok, Sony always has some top notch marketing and they’ve made up for my perceived insult by including a brilliant track by Brian Eno in a recent-ish Canadian commercial. The track is “An Ending (Ascent)” from the album “Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtrack” (Playthrough’s #1 Eno favorite album) by Brian Eno, his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois, which has also been featured in many movies in recent years.
CABAL Online, the huge massive multiplayer RPG from South Korea, has gone live in Europe, bringing it’s unique brand of Eastern fantasy to the EU territory, a hard market to crack for any MMORPG without the word “Warcraft” in it’s name. CABAL’s edge is it’s intuitive console-style hack and slash combat and stunning good looks, though preliminary reviews from the US beta event has mentioned the problems with it’s small game world. CABAL Online is currently offering a 7 day free trial, allowing players to try before they buy as well as several other offers allowing players to refer friends in exchange for free credit.
Watch video of CABAL Online combat after the jump..
Gothic 3, the revered RPG from European developer Piranha Bytes and publisher JoWooD is finally out and from all I’ve been hearing, is selling like hotcakes. Nevermind that it was a totally rushed release, is buggy as hell and JoWooD’s marketing department still writes their press releases like a 14 year old kid at a LAN party hopped up on Red Bull. No no, we jest, we like the look of Gothic 3 and we really hope it helps JoWooD out of the hole it continually digs for itself. One of my favorite scenes so far from Gothic 3 though has to be the already infamous boars from hell. These little guys are brutal, sometimes causing the player to fall into an infinite death loop, or wreaking havoc on multiple NPCs at one time.
Watch Gothic 3′s boars from hell after the jump (for as long as the YouTube link lasts)..
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