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- news@mac-gamer.com
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- 06-17-00
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- Mac 4 x 4 preview site:
- 4 x 4 Evolution is an off road driving sim coming out for
Mac soon. It boasts impressive graphical realizm and nice game
play. One of our friends in the internet Mac gaming community
has recently uploaded a 4 x 4 Evolution preview site. Here are
the details that I received:
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- Yeah, all mac users out there. I've got a 4x4 Evolution
preview page! Come on over and take a look. I've got discussions
going and information on the game coming out for the macintosh.
So, if you want or like 4x4 Evolution, and your a mac user, come
by my preview page and take a look. I've got a discussion going
on the forum, and I've got screenshots and info on the game.
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- 4 x 4 Evolution promises to be an awesome game! Anyone interested
in off road driving sims should check out this site for more
details.
- 4
x 4 Evolution
- Mac
Gaming Freaks
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- 06-16-00
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- New HALO movie and release date!!!
- Whoa there, clam down Jake. Ok then, thdisld sad;lksfhsadf;lsa
fsdhsdlksdh... errrr! I'm too excited about this! I can't type!
:p hehe! Alright, Daily Radar has just posted a new HALO movie
that totally kicks ass! It's beyond kick ass! It totally kicks
the ass of the ass kicker! (ok, that kind of made sense) This
new movie shows all new footage from this almost complete game.
The release date is now projected to be this September!
Ahhhh! It's only 3 months away! Oh yeah, one more thing, can
we all say "hybrid release!" That's right PC users!
The most anticipated game of the year is going to be cross platform
from the start! To sum this up - YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THIS MOVIE
IF IT'S THE ONLY THING YOU DO TODAY! It's that awesome!
- High res movie (26MB)
- Low res movie (13MB)
- Daily
Radar
- Bungie
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- Flat panel on the iMac?
- Recently a customer came into CompUSA (where I work) and
was telling me about his tour of the Elk Grove, CA Apple plant.
During the tour he saw an iMac with a flat panel display behind
a glass case. He asked the tour guide what it was and she said
it was a beta prototype that was still being worked on. A flat
panel display on an iMac? It would definately be better than
a tube monitor. However, it would undoubtedly up the price of
the iMac. Also, an unfortunate side effect of flat panel displays
is that they have to dither pixels to display at lower resolutions
than their standard set of pixels; dithered pixels always means
a fuzzy image which is not good for gaming. Granted it was a
beta prototype meaning that absolutely nothing is certain as
far as actual implementation of this design, but it makes you
wonder...
- Apple Computer
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- Over 160 members in the Diablo 2
Clan!
- I'm absolutely stuned at how many people are joining this
clan. This game isn't even released yet! I got 90 new sign ups
just yesterday! Now we are around 160-170 members (I'm too lazy
to count)! There's no question anymore! Our M.A.C. Diablo 2 Clan
is not only the ONLY Mac Diablo 2 Clan out there, we're also
the largest and fastest growing Mac Diablo (1 or 2) clan out
there! No more excuses! Come and join up today!
- M.A.C.
Diablo 2 Clan
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- 06-11-00
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- TONS of new clan members!
- I recently sent word to IMG about our Diablo 2 Clan and we ended up
getting 35 new members (so far)! We're up to 42 now and I'm expecting
many more. Once again, our Diablo 2 clan is a Mac only clan.
To recap, we also have a Warcraft 3 clan going. If you plan on
playing lots of either one of these games when they are released
then you may want to join one or both of our clans.
- Diablo
2 Clan
- Warcraft
3 Clan
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- 06-07-00
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- Diablo II goes gold!
- This morning on Blizzard's web site they announced that Diablo
II has gone gold! Of course, there was no mention on the status
of the Mac version. All available info indicates that it will
not be a hybrid release. But if the PC version has gone gold
that means the Mac version is that much closer! Here's an excerpt
from the press release regarding the Mac version:
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- Diablo II is being developed by the Blizzard North design
team and is expected to release on three CD-ROMs by the end of
June in Windows®95/98/2000/NT format. A Macintosh version
of the game will be available during the third quarter 2000.
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- Once again, if you plan on playing a lot of Diablo II when
it comes out for Mac, you may want to join our Diablo 2 Clan.
It's just like any other Diablo 2 clan except it's Mac only!
- Blizzard
Entertainment
- Press
Release
- Diablo
2 Clan
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- 06-05-00
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- Steve Jobs:
- I recently came accross this video clip of a younger Steve
Jobs giving one of his inspirational speeches. The movie was
posted on the Mac OS Daily site. I don't know about you, but
I think he makes a lot of sense in this video. I know I certainly
feel that way about my Mac. : )
- Steve Jobs Movie (936KB)
- Mac OS
Daily
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- Coldstone Game Engine:
- I must say I am very impressed with this little piece of
work. Beenox Inc has recently sent me an update on their RPG
creation software. It's called "Coldstone Game Engine."
I'll spare you my interpretation and just let you read their
summary:
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- We are the developers of the Coldstone Game Engine, an awesome
role-playing
game creation software (currently only) for the Macintosh. This
product
has been perfectly rated everywhere (macgamefiles.com, tucows,
versiontracker,etc.).
Our product will also be MacOSX compliant and I am working for
cross-platform
possibility (a screenshot of a early win32 alpha version of the
editor
is available on the web site). That way, the users will develop
on Macintosh
and be able to compile their game on either or both platforms.
We are also
working on other game projects.
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- The screenshots they sent me were very impressive! But don't
take my word for it, see for yourself. Any Mac people out there
that are interested in developing RPGs for your platform of choice
should definately take a look. The best part is that you don't
even have to know anything about programming!
- Beenox Inc.
- Screenshot 1
- Screenshot 2
- Screenshot 3
- Screenshot 4
- Screenshot 5
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- New gaming technologies on the horizon:
- I've been reading about some very exciting new technologies
coming to us Mac gamers very soon! I'm talking about both hardware
and software. Let's start with the hardware.
- Hardware: All the rumor sites have been throwing in
bits and pieces of info on this one, mostly centered around revisions
to the G4 line. At present it looks as though September is a
likely release date. Possibily announced around Seybold beginning
in late August? These are the rumored specs of the revised G4
at present:
- -G4e processor (two Altivec units, and deeper pipelines resulting
in a 2x performance increase over existing G4s at equal MHz).
- -133MHz system bus (more system bandwidth, a necessity for
pushing those high polygon rates and insane textures in both
current and future 3D games).
- -4x 266MHz AGP graphics (currently the best graphics bus
out there for gaming, lots of data bandwidth).
- -DDR RAM (faster access to RAM storage).
- -UltraDMA 100 storage bus (faster read/write to the HD).
- -ATI Radeon GPU (ATI's newest graphics card that boasts some
impressive fill rates and new rendering technologies that greatly
increase character skinning realism).
- Software: On the software side we have the Mac port
of what I call the future of 3D rendering engines. It's called
the Lithtech Engine. This 3D engine blows everything else out
of the water, and it's being ported to the Mac in the form of
the game Shogo. Lithtech supports over 15 million polygons per
second, detailed textures on everything, bump-mapped textures,
huge outdoor environments, huge indoor environments, seemless
transitions between indoor and outdoor, time of day lighting
effects, world light sourcing, and much more! It's very capable
of making games similar to HALO, except with much more detail
where graphics are concerned. 15 million polygons per second
is insane! I have an MPEG movie that shows what the Lithtech
engine is capable of, but it's over 50MB. I can't find the site
that I got it from so I can't post a link. I could upload it
to my server but it would take up all of my space. If you are
interested in getting this movie then you can e-mail me and I'll
see what I can work out. : )
- Summary: Obviously you would need a freakin' awesome
machine to exercise all the features of Lithtech. That's where
the new G4s come in. The future of Mac gaming looks very exciting
indeed! With better hardware coming our way, along with gaming
technologies like Lithtech, Macs are going to hold their own
in the computer gaming industry for some time to come!
- Lithtech Screenshot 1
- Lithtech Screenshot 2
- Lithtech Screenshot 3
- Lithtech Screenshot 4