Background:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/cpnc1oj27 … erials.pdf

or

http://www.mediafire.com/download/cpnc1 … erials.pdf

Planetside 2 is a free to play (and NOT pay2win) "MMOFPS". Servers support up to something like 1000 players at once per instance, spread out across 3 factions.  You can get some really awesome fights when you end up in a 3 way battle over a base, I think Planetside has given me "OMG THIS IS AWESOME" moments more than any other game I've played.

It's like First Strike in that it's incredibly Teamplay oriented. If you don't work as a group you just won't win. A single person in a 100+ person fight isn't going to do much. Working as a squad though, if you play well you can really change the course of a battle. It's quite arcady too, it's quite nice to step away from the constant booming, screaming, swearing and blood spatters and stuff from the newer Battlefields.

For DUKE, one of the classes has a jetpack, unfortnately it doesn't have walkers, but it does have heavy-armoured infantry units which are strong and stuff, that may hit the spot for you. For the rest of us, the guns for the faction we play with feel a lot like FS guns - Fire a lot of bullets, generally inaccurate unless bursting while crouched.

It's a good game, it's available for free on Steam, although once it's downloaded make sure to launch it and run thru some more patches. Steam doesn't get all of the patches unfortuantely, it just updates to major versions and the launcher handles the rest.

If you want to play, I'll be on on Sunday from 8PM UK.  I'm also considering doing some kind of introductary session on Friday at the same time. We'll see if people turn up.  Once you're launcher, we play as the Terran Republic faction on the Miller server. Once you're on, find the social tab and add Gwynzer to your friends list.

Alternatively add me on Steam (Who doesn't have steam these days?), my name on it is Gwynzer. You can join BI teamspeak too for a chat at ts3.blackintel.org. Clicking that link should launch your TS to our server if it's installed.  We have a few BI old faces who still play fairly regularly, and I know that there's a lot of people in this community who we'd love to get back in touch with <3

However this new indie Star Trek movie project he's working on is insane. First you've got the premise, which unlike a lot of indie Trek shows isn't simply a continuation of a favourite series or era, but breaks new ground by detailing the Federation Klingon War, taking place I guess somewhere between Enterprise and TOS. In addition to that they have given it a unique history documentary style with the key players detailing their roles in the conflict. Even from this short trailer it makes for intriguing stuff, I'll let you watch it now and judge for yourself...

http://www.scifi-meshes.com/forums/show … -to-Axanar

In addition to how cool the visual effects are (nice one Tobias ), and the cool concept for the show, you have this insane cast that are involved with it. I almost had a geekasm, Richard Hatch? Tony Todd? J.G. Herztler (Out of Klingon makeup for a change)? Gary Graham? Kate Vernon? Well from the look of this lot this show is not going to suffer the same weak link most indie/fan films do, that of substandard acting.

Keep your eye on this one, definitely looking forward to seeing more.

http://gc.1942mods.com/

Additionally, Django has been working separately on a stand-alone singleplayer focused version of Galactic Conquest, with new maps to include  the first ever Jedi map with kits that include light sabres, throwing sabres and force powers.  At long last, the Jedi is coming to Galactic Conquest.

I ask because I am working with a few others to create a mod for Freespace 2 Open called Star Wars: The Original Trilogy. Here is teh website if anyone is interested: http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-the … ilogy-mod.

Anyway I just wanted to see if such assets like cockpit models were available, if not then thanks anyway!

So what are everyone else's thoughts on this? Mourning this loss of an iconic games developer and publisher? Or feeling pretty Meh about the whole affair?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk1nz7CdCY

Just wanted to say hi.

Here's a 5 minute video showing the game in action. Mind you, that's ingame graphics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIWJlz6-Eg&hd=1

And here's a 10 minute long video where he goes more into detail what he has planned for his game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhsgiliheP0&hd=1

Star Wars mod incoming? Hell yes ;-)

He's also trying to stay away from big publishers. For that he needs pledges from the community. If you've got something to spare for this awesomeness you can do so on
www.robertsspaceindustries.com
(under heavy load at the moment)

Diaspora Shattered Armistice has been released.
It's a free, fan made Space Shooter based on the improved Freespace 2 Engine.

Release 1 is full voice acted and features some nice rendered Intros / Cutscenes.
If you like the Starfighter Battles in First Strike, I strongly recommend to try it out.

What is Diaspora?

After four long years in the making we are proud to release Diaspora: Shattered Armistice. Diaspora is an episodic-release single and multiplayer space fighter combat game set in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica universe. Diaspora is a standalone freeware game based on the FreeSpace Open Engine, everything needed to play is in the download. The project is not-for-profit and not associated with NBC Universal or Bigpoint's Battlestar Galactica Online.

Our team opted for episodic releases, each involving short plots surrounding different Colonial or Cylon ships and characters. The first Release, Shattered Armistice, tells the story of the Battlestar Theseus and her crew during the attack on the colonies. Many ships seen in the show are part of the first release but some such as the Viper MK2 and the Battlestar Galactica are going to be seen in later releases where they are part of the main story.

Shattered Armistice has a fully-voice acted 8 mission campaign with an original score and cinematics. Several ships never before seen in the Battlestar Galactica universe such as the Sobek class battlestar and Assault Vipers make an appearance.

If there is continued fan interest and support, future episodic releases will see ships such as Pegasus and Galactica from the show. You'll also see more ships not from the show that flesh out the Cylon and Colonial fleets.

http://www.diasporagame.com

The Release Thread

After more than 4 years of development, the Diaspora Development team are proud to release our game.

Background
It has been 40 years since the devastating war between the Colonials and the Cylons. 40 years where no one has seen or heard of the Cylons. 40 years where the armistice has held.

Game Features

• Fly the MK VII Viper, the Raptor or the new MK VIIe strike variant.

• Take part in furious battles against Cylon forces.

• Play multiplayer missions against your friends as Colonial or Cylon forces.

• Completely voice acted throughout.

• Original soundtrack inspired by the show

• Create your own missions and share them with the included mission editor.

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum Recommended Specifications:

Operating System: Windows® XP/Vista/Windows 7
CPU:  Core 2 Duo, i3 or similar
Memory: 2GB Ram
Graphics Card: ATI 9600 or comparable nVidia with 256MB Ram
Sound Card: Windows® compatible sound card
Input Device: Windows® compatible mouse and keyboard
Installation: 3GB free HD space

Mac OS X

(Coming soon, but you can guess them from the PC specs!)

Linux

CPU:  Core 2 Duo, i3 or similar
Memory: 2GB Ram
Graphics Card: OpenGL 3/GLSL 1.5 compatible graphics card.
Sound Card: OpenAL compatible sound card.
Input Device: Mouse and keyboard.
Installation: 3GB free HD space

Known Issues

• Due to the size of the installer it may take a long time for the installer to actually start. This may last several minutes (up to five minutes in some instances). There are reports that virus checkers may extend this delay so you may wish to turn them off during the installation process.

• Multiplayer is currently very much in beta. Also, in order to enhance the eventual multiplayer experience, the team decided not to finalise the balance between ships. Feedback from players is very welcome. The true multiplayer experience will be available in the next release. Till then, if you wish to experiment, here's how to get started.

Installation

Windows

Simply download the installer and run it. The Installer will guide you through installing the game.

Mac OS X

• Mount Diaspora.dmg, and follow instructions within to copy Diaspora to the Applications folder.

• Note: Before you play for the first time (only need to do this once), please double click on RUN_ME_ONCE.command to install the most appropriate graphics settings.

• Double click on wxlauncher, and press Play, located in the bottom right corner.

Linux (Source Only)

(At the moment the team doesn't have the time or expertise to make proper packages for Linux. We're hoping someone will be willing to help us out there).

First, open a terminal and change to the directory where you downloaded Diaspora.

Then open the archive by typing

tar --lzma -xf Diaspora_R1_Linux.tar.lzma

or if that command doesn't work, the following two commands instead:

unlzma -z -k Diaspora_R1_linux.tar.lzma

tar -xf Diaspora_R1_Linux.tar

Then follow the instructions in Diaspora_R1_Linux/Diaspora/README.txt, with one correction: after you start the launcher in step 5, select your screen resolution from the drop down box in the Basic Settings tab before you press Play. Otherwise, you'll be running in 1024x768.

Downloads

Torrents

Simply download the torrent file for your platform and open in any compatible torrent program. If you don't have a torrent program, you can try µTorrent for Windows and Mac, or Transmission for Mac and Linux. After downloading, please leave your torrent program running so that others can also download from you.

Windows Torrent
Mac Torrent
Linux Torrent

Download links

Windows  -  [ShackNews] - [FSDownloads] - [FreespaceMods]

Mac  -  [ShackNews] - [FSDownloads] - [FreespaceMods]

Linux  -  [ShackNews] - [FSDownloads] - [FreespaceMods]

Soundtrack

During the time we've spent developing Diaspora, we have frequently been asked which songs from the show we've used in our trailers. The fact is that almost all the music in the game or trailers has been original. So for that reason, we're also releasing the soundtrack. You can find details on it here.

www.haroldwithers.co.uk

(I know, imaginative title yes? ; P ) gets a much overdue update. I hadn't updated it for over 4 years which is just criminal. My copy of Dreamweaver went the way of the Dodo which kinda scuppered any efforts to update it, but getting a new copy recently gave me the chance to do a bit of a clear out and spruce up, and now she's ready to set sail on the interwebs again with stacks of brand new content.

The site now features a games work specific section featuring all of my officially released game titles, which is now bang up to date with such releases as Sonic & Sega All-stars Racing and Virtua Tennis 2009. There is also a new gameography page within the about me section, and plenty of new work to check out in the miscellaneous 3d and 2d sections. And of course there is a section dedicated to the mod First Strike which features plenty of behind the scenes work in progress images and in game screenshots.

Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think.

Regards,

TALON

Neil Arden Armstrong

(August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012)

One of the last great pioneers of our time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmWk2BVt9fs

You can see more information, including entry and prize details at the BlackIntel forums Here. The thread says that entries have to be PMed to me, if you don't want to register to the BI forums, you can PM me here and I'll enter the design.