We've Got More Links Than The Legend of Zelda ...

by: Randy - posted: 8/2/2006 9:00:00 PM

Demos, Previews, Interviews

• Mixed class racing is rFactor's calling card.  Gentlemen, start your demos.
• Roleplayers in search of a hero need to check out this trailer for Pompolic: Call for Heroes.  (City of Heroes, Heroes of Might and Magic, Company of Heroes, Gods and Heroes: Rome Rising, Vanguard: Saga of Heroes -- okay, we get it already.)
• Cel-shading afficionados will like these new screenshots for Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles.
• Here's an interview with Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas producer, Alexander Parizeau.
• The technological envelope is getting pushed further.  Download these Crysis trailers (both 1 and 2).  Do it and do it now.
• MMORPG.com has an interview with Dae Hwan Kim, Design Team Head for ArchLord.  And another with Chris Sherman, Executive Director of the Austin Game Conference, regarding the industry's hot-button issue: the death of E3.
  

Patches & Add-ons

• Two new patches out for Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War, bringing them up to 1.14.
• Age of Empires 1.08 patch is available in all of its English, German, French, Italian, Brazilian, and Spanish glory.  Que?
  
• Here's the Central Industrial Quake 4 map for you fraggers.
• The buggy expansion, Universal Combat: A World Apart, is due for this patch.
  

Thank the Atomic Gamer for (nearly) all of these great links.