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Posts Tagged release
Firefox 3 beta 1 released
Nov 21
Well, it looks like the release of Team Fortress 2 after being initially announced in 1997, is upon us. I am pre-loading as we speak, and the beta release will be on Monday. It looks to be a hell of a game, and a worthy successor to the original mod.
In retrospect, I think fondly on my most favorite Quake mod and what it has become today. And this video will show what most of you never experienced in the glory of the original Team Fortress. (Please please do not say that you thought TFC was the first Team Fortress!)
The dream pack of Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal has a new confirmed release date: October 9, 2007. Of course, we all know Valve’s track record with release dates, including these titles. And c’mon, TF2 was on the Vaporware list for years!
But anyways, this is the official word Shacknews wrangled out of them.
Spored
May 9
As if no one saw this coming. Spore will most likely be delayed until next year, or later.
Electronic Arts said it taken out “Spore,” a game where players build organisms from scratch, from its financial projections for the fiscal year ending in March 2008, adding that the game could be delayed until fiscal 2009.
Sure, many can say they never delayed a release date before, but that’s because they never really officially posted one. Hinting counts!
Red Orchestra was born a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004. I played it quite a bit back then, when the total numbers of people playing per night was less than a hundred. But, as I’ve said before, I’m a glutton for obscure mods.
The game came out of obscurity somewhat when they worked a deal with Valve to develop a standalone version. The new game was called Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. I didn’t purchase it when it was released, but I did participate in the beta before. The addition of vehicles, and improved physics were nice, and the gameplay only got better. I can’t remember exactly why I wasn’t interested enough to purchase it, so I will blame it on a random MMORPG.
About a year ago I was goaded into finally picking up the game by some CoFRs. While my heart belongs more to PRMM, I have varied my gaming diet with influxes of RO.
As usual, I don’t get to the point of the post right away. Here it is: The Red Orchestra team hosted a contest for custom maps, and the result is a new map pack of 32 maps approved and released. I got mine from fileplanet but the main Red Orchestra site lists some alternative download sites. Fileplanet does have a great writeup on each of the maps in the pack.
These maps look great and the fact that there are so many probably means I will spend time that I should be using to study or code to play all of them.
Wordpress 2.1 released
Jan 22
Wordpress 2.1 codename “Ella” is out.
I usually upgrade right away, but this is a pretty major change, so I’m still trying to gauge whether all my plugins will work before I switch drzy over. Especially since I have slightly modified some of the files by hand.
edit: I took the plunge anyways. After all, backups are pretty easy to restore. The category-link merging has slightly messed up my left sidebar layout and the way I imagine the site to work. Also, pages are no longer connected to posts, so the “About” page keywords do not work. Otherwise, everything else seems to function.
Once again, let me know if you find otherwise.
Nintendo said they wanted two million Wii sales in North America the first year of release. The shocker is that they are now saying they will have one million of those at launch.
I think they may still be slightly hard to get because of the pricepoint, but for one million consoles, anyone should be able to easily get one the first week. At least it won’t be the same crunch as the XBOX360 had. Sony still says they will have around 300K PS3’s at launch, but with their price (even after the 20% decrease announced a week aggo) the demand will not be as high. And their hype is in the crapper.
Nintendo announced today the price and release date for it’s hyped-to-the-breaking-point system, the Wii. It will be $250 MSRP in the US and will hit the shelves November 19. With the launch package you get one multi-game called Wii Sports, which features Tennis, Ping Pong, Baseball, Golf, and Flying.
Also, the official Wii website was launched today.
If even someone such as I (a lover of PC gaming) am tempted to pre-order, this thing is going to be huge.
I must have had a premonition about this yesterday, because I signed up for another free hardware site, for, of course the Wii. If you love me, you will sign up. Really!
Wii, Austin-style
Aug 17
While this could go the way of elitist hobnobbing, it also has some great potential.
Details are emerging of Nintendo doing their own viral marketing just before the release of the Wii console. They will be having private parties in select major cities. In fact, Austin is one of the only four cities rumored. The others are LA, Chicago, and Denver. Nintendo chooses several people as hosts and those luckies invite 30 of their closest friends. Little is known about the content of the parties beyond messing with the new console and guests being whisked there in secret. The parties will start in mid-October.
The quality of the parties will be in the hosts. Who are how they are picking them is anyone’s guess at this point. Will they pick local celebs, hardcore Nintendo geeks, General gamer types, or regular people wandering down SoCo? I doubt it will be entirely random.
Seems that they are trying to make it sorta trendy, so I would bet they are going for the 4th-6th street crowd or possibly even focus on University of Texas students.
A bit ago I reported that Nintendo was going to be promoting the Nintendo Wii grassroots style by using a series of private sessions with regular gamers and non-gamers across the country.
Nintendo is going to use some mysterious formula to calculate buzz and cool and then select a few people as “hosts” for this private Wii parties. The plan, it sounds like, is for Nintendo to select a few of these hosts for each city.
Then the host gets to invite a couple dozen friends, family and the like. The hope, I hear, is that it won’t be just a Wii and 30 Nintendo fanboys. What Nintendo really wants is a nice mix of soccer moms, dads, grandmas, worker bees, technophiles and, yes, some hardcore gamers.
The event will feature a number of Wii games, but the only two I’ve been able to nail down are Wii Sports and WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
The bird is now a fox
Feb 11
The web browser I have been using the past few months as my first replacement for IE in forever, has changed names and released a new version simultaneously.
Mozilla Firebird is now Mozilla Firefox.
As I was converting the site from tabled mess into CSS/No tables, I made sure it was Firebird compatible, and it seems to be running just fine under the fox as well.
