News from September 1999

Alive Mediasoft Update. Alive have been rather quiet lately, however, they have just come up with an informative update on how their forthcoming releases are progressing. This includes Cedric, Goal 2000, Whales Voyage 2, Extreme and Putty Squad. Read the full story for all the news. - 21st September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Pagan Games Update. Just a little bit of info from the Pagan Games camp. Heres what they have got to say:- All projects are carrying on as planned despite the rumours/situation surrounding Amiga Inc/Gateway. Pagan has always stated that it will develop quality games the Amiga. With that in mind, Bloodline will be our last 68k production with Magick and Scavengers being our first PPC games. We will reassess the Amiga situation after Christmas, but we will stick with the Amiga so long as there is a userbase. Please check our website for further info. In a move to increase productivity, Pagan Games are looking a 2D artists to join the Bloodline team. We are looking for people able to create and understand the mechanics behind creating repeatable map blocks for levels. We are also looking for 2D animators to continue work carried out on our full game Manga animation's. For more detailed information, please go to: http://www.pagan-games.com/News/September/Jobs.html Thats it for now. - 21st September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Digital Images Changes. Digital Images have just changed both there website and email addresses, below are the new addresses. info@di-games.co.uk - Information technical@di-games.co.uk - Technical Support webmaster@di-games.co.uk - Webmaster Stuart.Walker@di-games.co.uk -E-mail Stuart Walker directly The new website can be found at http://www.di-games.co.uk - 21st September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Payback. First look at a new Grand Auto Theft type game that is in development by a team called Apex Designs. - 15th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Heretic & Shogo Pre-ordering. I have just been informed that in a recent issue of the German magazine, Amiga Plus there was aa full-page advert for the forthcoming Hyperion games Shogo & Heretic 2 by Titan Software. The games were being advertised at 89DM for pre-orders with this going up by 20DM at release time. Heretic 2 should be out in November with Shogo coming at the end of November. - 15th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Wipeout2097 Pre-orders Being Taken. While on the subject of pre-ordering of games, I have recently been informed that Blittersoft are now taking pre-orders for Digital Images game, Wipeout 2097. Just to catch you up with some of the features this game will boast, as well as the original features of the game that have been fully incorperated it will also have the ability to run in a window on the workbench (incl. resizing), support triple buffering for max. performance, will have increased maximal view distance during the race, fogging effect, Mmipmapping/trilinear filtering (if supported by hardware), gamma correction and optional frame rate limitation. As you probably know, the game will be PPC only and requires a 3D gfx card. The game costs £29.95 to pre-order whicgh you can do at http://www.blittersoft.com - 15th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Small Gilbert Goodmate Update. Taken directly from the page of Prelusion, a small update on their forthcoming game Gilbert Goodmate. Just got back from the voice recording to continue work on the rest of the game. Lorne is still in Stockholm to finish up the recording which is estimated to about 3-4 weeks. Production on the other areas of the game is running great. The majority of the people in the crew is close to finished with their work, which means only a small part of the work in all areas of the game remains. The beta version has been somewhat delayed due to the unreal amount of work to be taken care of. It's still starting to shape up though, and with all the stuff being close to finished it's an undescribable feeling to finally see it all start to come together into a playable game :-) Until the beta version has been finished, the Beta Tester positions are still open. - 15th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

MSP Producing New Game. A development team called MSP have recently re-started work on a Hypersports like game that they started sometime last year, details on the actual game itself are low at the moment, however, this is more of a request then to tell you about the game. You see, they are currently after a 3D artist to help with the development of the game, preferbly someone who can use Lightwave. Anyone who thinks they are upto the job and are interested in helping please email them at dcaparros@readysoft.es - 15th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Darkage Software Update. Darkage Software have just announced on their webpage that they will not be supporting the AmigaNG until certain things are done.....Heres the announcement. This space is usually for our PR, but I (Paolo D'Urso, managing director and main programmer) have an important announcement to do: We won't support AmigaNG until they decide to give us technical specs and developer machines. Yes, we're working on a new, secret title, and there would be no problems to do an AmigaNG version as the code is very portable, but after the Bill Mc Ewen and Jim Collas' departure, we're sorry to say that the only Amiga we support is the "classic" one. We will finish our current titles and then see what the market will offer us. It's hard for a small company to survive developing software for Amiga, and if we don't receive support from Amiga Inc., we can't think anymore to write games and programs for this machine. - 6th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Digital Images Cancel AmigaNG Support.....and then Re-consider.. In the space of 3 days Digital Images have said that they will no longer be supporting AmigaNG and that they have changed their minds and will continue as previously planned. Read the full story for full details. - 6th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Pagan Games Update. A small update from Pagan Games mainly concentrating on the job positions that have been filled, heres what they have to say.:- A Big thank you to everyone who applied for a job with us at Pagan. We've made our decision and hired 4 new people. Greg New, Andrew Bell, Ken Heslip and Lee Crawford. We have a huge response but just because we never hired you, does not mean your work was of low quality. We hired people who fitted the projects. You can find more information on our website. We have also finally opened up our public discussion boards. These boards a full of topics for discussions ranging from our games, to programming, to the Amiga NG. Please come and join the conversations. You must register yourself first form our website. This will give you a password and identity for the discussions. You will NOT receive any junk mail from Pagan via registration. Check their webpage out at:- http://www.pagan-games.com - 6th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW

Between the Lines. A new 3D realtime action RPG from Dreamworlds Development, read the full story for full details. - 6th September 1999 - Full story Source:- WWW