| newsid | userid | timestamp | news | headline | newstype | gameid |
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| 525 | 2 | 1999-07-28 09:27:10 | <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki's</a> new website is up. Go check it out. If you're into that sort of thing, you can read <a href="/html/loki_07-28-1999.html">a press release about it</a> too. <p> You can now pre-order <i>Myth II:Soulblighter</i> at the new site as well. You need this game. Go order it. | New Loki website, Myth II preorders | default | |
| 526 | 2 | 1999-07-28 11:46:27 | <img src="/images/thumbs/archon.gif" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Action<br> <em>Description:</em> Originally released by Electronic Arts (back when they were a development house and not yet a Giant Evil Corporation) in the early 1980's for 8 bit platforms like the Apple II, Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64, Archon remains one of the Best Games Ever. It successfully blended action and strategy in a way I've never seen since. <p> This is a remake of that classic game. The game is completely playable in two-player mode, but the AI for the computer opponent is still under development. The graphics, which don't match my recollection of the game, could use some work, too. <p> Action takes place on 9x9 black and white grid, and each piece has chess-ish restrictions on how it can move. Pieces are stronger or weaker according to the color of the square they're on, and some squares constantly change color from black to white and back. When one piece lands on a square occupied by an opposing piece, the game switches into action mode, where the units duke it out in a realtime battle, each using their unique battle powers.<p> <i>(this game has been temporarily removed from the Game Tome at the author's request)</i> | XArchon 0.02 | new | |
| 527 | -1 | 1999-07-29 09:11:36 | <em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <font color=#ffff80 size="-1">(not yet rated)</font><p> <em>Description:</em> A multiplayer, portable, french tetris clone<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Two seg. fault removed <li>English home page <li>Corrected team selection. </ul> | twinTRIS 0.55 | updated | |
| 528 | 2 | 1999-07-29 17:09:01 | <em>Category:</em> Under development - not yet playable<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="3"><p> <em>Description:</em> Pingus is a Lemmings-like game for Linux.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>A bogus main menu (disabled by default) <li>Some changes in the particle handling <li>Some more error catching <li>Rewrote the plf reader <li>Changed the level file format <li>Much more error checking while reading the level file <li>Some bugfixes <li>Colmap are now loaded from pcx files <li>Automatic colmap generation on bitmap maps <li>Some internal changes <li>An Armageddon button <li>Some changes in the Armageddon function <li>A level description screen </ul> | Pingus 0.1.2 | updated | |
| 529 | 2 | 1999-07-30 10:16:44 | Xarchon has been temporarily removed from the Game Tome at the author's request. | Xarchon | default | |
| 530 | 2 | 1999-07-30 22:52:12 | <img src="/images/thumbs/myth2-a.jpg" align=right width=100 height=75><em>Category:</em> Strategy<br> <em>Description:</em> This is a playable demo of the soon-to-be-released Myth II:Soulblighter. This demo does not support 3D acceleration (although the full commercial version does), and only includes two maps: one for solo play and one for multiplayer.<p> | Myth II: Soulblighter demo 1.3 | new | |
| 531 | 2 | 1999-07-31 10:58:10 | Beta-testing of <a href="http://www.lokigames.com">Loki Entertainment Software's</a> latest port, <a href="http://209.223.115.151/products/rt2/">Railroad Tycoon II</a>, has officially begun, and <a href="http://loki.linuxgames.com">the Loki Portal Page</a> already has some <a href="http://www.revie.com/rrt2">screenshots</a> up. I'll post a mini-preview of the game here when Real Life lets up enough for me to spend some time with it. | Railroad Tycoon II testing begins | default | |
| 532 | 2 | 1999-07-31 11:25:53 | <em>Category:</em> Code Library<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> A free, portable 3D engine with a ton of features.<p> <em>Changelog:</em> This is old news if you visit <a href="http://linuxgames.com">Linuxgames.com</a>, but I just spotted it. A pre-release of the next "stable beta" is available, as are some really cool <a href="http://crystal.linuxgames.com/scrshots.html">new screenshots</a>. Grab this pre-release and submit bug reports so the CS developers can turn this into an "official" release. | Crystal Space 0.14 pre1 | updated | |
| 533 | -1 | 1999-07-31 13:14:21 | <img src="/images/thumbs/xracer.gif" align=right width=200 height=150><em>Category:</em> Arcade<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> A clone of the 3D racing game WipeOut<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Sound <li>fixed high-res backdrops <li>LAN play (experimental) <li>wireframe mode <li>laps <li>lap times <li>ranking <li>faster anti-aliased text <li>updated configure script <li>numerous bug fixes. </ul> | XRacer 0.82 | updated | |
| 534 | 2 | 1999-07-31 16:33:39 | <em>Category:</em> Game-related Utility<br> <em>Avg. Rating:</em> <img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><img src="http://happypenguin.org/images/star.gif" alt="5"><p> <em>Description:</em> An excellent X-based Quake/Quakeworld/Quake2 server browser<p> <em>Changelog:</em> <ul> <li>Major code clean-up. <li>Redesigned Preferences -> Games dialog to include all the supported games. <li>Option "client should grab mouse" is dropped. If someone needs it, I'll undo the changes. <li>Added Q3A statistics. <li>A lot of bugs are fixed. </ul> | XQF 0.9 | updated |