Tribalwar

GarageGames unveils InstantAction.com

Submitted by: [Ms] iNsAnE @ 02:02 PM | Monday, March 10, 2008 | (url: http://www.instan...)

Currently in Beta. InstantAction.com will allow online playing of FREE 3D games. Including the Tribes(ish) "Fallen Empire: Legions"

Guitar Hero has some REAL competition

Submitted by: Shadow(of)Death @ 05:43 PM | Saturday, March 1, 2008 | (url: http://us.i1.yimg...)

On display in a packed booth at the recent Game Developer's Conference, Guitar Rising takes the basic concept of Guitar Hero -- players strum along to popular songs for points -- and turns it into a legitimate teaching tool by exchanging plastic game peripherals for bona fide wood and steel guitars.

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Best of all, there's no need to make room for yet another piece of bulky hardware: Using a small USB converter similar to the kind employed by everyday living room musicians, Guitar Rising can be played with any electric guitar. Simply plug a standard electric guitar cable into one end and plug the USB out into any USB port on your PC to be up and rocking.

Former Irrational Games employees now refuse to work with Ken Levine

Submitted by: FalseMyrmidon @ 01:53 PM | Monday, December 3, 2007 | (url: http://www.bit-te...)

"2K Boston is still recovering - a good chunk of the BioShock team did not want to work with Ken ever again, and 2K definitely understood the sentiment and let them set up a new studio so that they can make Bioshock 2, leaving Ken with Project X. A good chunk of the other senior 2K Boston people who were sick of Ken but didn't move to San Francisco ended up scattering to other AAA developers instead. In Quincy, they're essentially rebuilding a team from almost scratch again."

I wonder if KineticPoet is among the people that left.

NY TImes: EVE Online Still Expanding

Submitted by: NAT Mav @ 08:17 AM | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | (url: http://www.nytime...)

With its formidable depth, complexity and Kilimanjaro-like learning curve, Eve will never rival World of Warcraft and its nine million customers for mass-market appeal. But at a stage when most games have long since stagnated, Eve continues to grow, recently passing 200,000 subscribers. Today, CCP plans to announce a major graphics overhaul scheduled for Dec. 5. Just this past Sunday, Eve set a record for any game when it recorded 37,729 simultaneous players in its common virtual universe.

October NPD numbers

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 02:13 PM | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 | (url: http://www.next-g...)

GameDaily notes that the industry once again saw over $1 billion dollars leaving wallets at uncanny speeds, placing total sales for the year (through October) at $10.5 billion. At the same time last year, the amount had "just" reached $7 billion.


Nintendo Wii: 519K (5 million total)
Nintendo DS: 458K (13.6 million total)
Microsoft Xbox 360: 366K (7.1 million total)
Sony PSP: 286K (8.8 million total)
Sony PlayStation 2: 184K (39.4 million total)
Sony PlayStation 3: 121K (1.9 million total)

Multiplayer FPS confirmed by Garage Games for InstantAction

Submitted by: FalseMyrmidon @ 08:16 PM | Monday, November 19, 2007 | (url: http://www.tribal...)

Still not 100% confirmed (supposedly it could still randomly turn into Marble Blast Extreme) but it is from a GG employee. Also no confirmation on whether it has Jetpacks or not.

you probably saw some of those interviews Josh Williams did where he said we were doing a online FPS game for InstantAction. He is a jerk for that, but he was correct.

I'm working with a team of 5 core people, plus a few other employees part-time on this and other stuff, and a few external contractors. We aren't doing anything huge, just a fun online game, similar in size to something you might see on Steam. We plan on doing lots of open beta stuff as IA gives us a lot of cool upsides. We plan to make the game very open and mod-able once we have the core done, user content, etc.

Instant Action Q&A at Gamespot

Submitted by: FalseMyrmidon @ 07:06 AM | Thursday, November 8, 2007 | (url: http://www.gamesp...)

GS: So once people get into these games, how are they going to be paying?

JW: For some games, we might just stick with the unit sales thing where we're charging $10, $15, $20 or whatever it is for a title. If we're updating a game all the time, and it makes sense for that particular game, then we can do subscriptions.

GS: So with that rumor circulating of GarageGames working on a game in the vein of Starsiege Tribes, InstantAction is more geared toward these type of gamers. Have anything to say on that game, by the way?

JW: We're still sticking with our official "no comment" response for now. But, we are working on a FPS, and that's all I'll say for now.

Sony game division Q2 losses double

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 02:01 PM | Thursday, October 25, 2007 | (url: http://www.gamesp...)

The company has just reported that in the second fiscal quarter of the year, operating losses in the division rose to $841 million, more than double the $381 million in losses for the same period last year.

IGC: GarageGames On The Future Of InstantAction, Torque

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 07:44 PM | Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | (url: http://www.gamasu...)

Garage Games officials from the network and Torque engine development team explain the inner workings and aspirations of InstantAction, and where all Torque products and tools are heading in the future.

The World according to Barry Diller

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 01:40 PM | Saturday, September 22, 2007 | (url: http://www.portfo...)

He recently announced the acquisition of a majority stake in GarageGames-which Diller reveals to Portfolio.com, was a $50 million-plus investment to develop high-graphic videogames on the internet, without the need and expense of those pesky consoles...

Maybe he does like tribes... :)

5 Classic Games Available For Free Download

Submitted by: LouCypher @ 01:49 AM | Saturday, September 1, 2007 | (url: http://www.slickd...)

Command & Conquer Gold Edition
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Far Cry
Rayman Raving Rabbids

Ken Levine on BioShock

Submitted by: Beren @ 11:14 PM | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 | (url: http://www.shackn...)

Ken of 2k Games (formerly Irrational Games) speaks to ShackNews about the massive collective internet hysteria over BioShock, challenges and arguable missteps in development, how his design role has changed, exhibiting creative freedom in game development, how to sneak philosophy into action games, and much more.

Galactic Civilizations II expands again

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 11:52 PM | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | (url: http://www.gamesp...)

The new expansion, Twilight of Arnor, will add a great deal of new content to the game to complement the many gameplay-related enhancements made in Dark Avatar. Twilight of Arnor will offer new spaceship customization options and new technologies for each of the game's alien civilizations to explore, further helping distinguish each from the other.

The expansion is scheduled for release later this year.

World of Warcraft Hits 9 Million Subscribers

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 11:56 AM | Tuesday, July 24, 2007 | (url: http://www.gamasu...)

They don't call it WoW for nothing, talk about a goldmine. 9,000,000 X $14.99 a month = Roughly $135,000,000.00 per month in subscription fees alone, not counting monthly sales of the game. Mountains of cash!

Think they can reduce those fees a little...

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Public Beta Details

Submitted by: DudeofDeath @ 05:45 AM | Sunday, June 17, 2007 | (url: http://community....)

The Public Beta for Quake Wars is about to be released.

Fileplanet link is here:

Quake Wars @ FilePlanet

http://www.fileplanet.com/178186/170000/fileinfo/Enemy-Territory:-Quake-Wars---Beta-Client

The link should be active soon...