The following has been posted on the news page at the official LO-MAC website
The interactive demo for Lock On has been completed and will be made available online in October of 2003. The demo will allow players to try their hand at flying the A-10A "Warthog" and the MiG-29A "Fulcrum." In addition to being available on the official Lock On website and several mirrors, it will also be available in December issues of several popular magazines like Computer Gaming Magazine, Computer Gaming World, and PC Gamer.
While we very first considered releasing the Lock On demo earlier, given the postponement of the game's release, it has been decided it would be best to release the demo in October to ensure a better support to the project.
I have just read over at the Ubi Soft forums that the LOMAC demo is *hopefully* going to be released sometime next week. Here's what Carl Norman (Executive Producer) had to say! After some consideration by Matt Wagner, Igor Tishin, and me, based on the enthusiasm and demand by all of you for the Demo to be released, we have made a decision: It is better to release this Demo as soon as possible, despite some minor inaccuracies, than to try and make it perfect and delay its release further. Therefore, the current version of the Demo, with a few minor tweaks, will be the release version....
...So, Matt is making the final adjustments to the current version of the Demo and will be submitting it to the Ubi.com and PR staffs so that it can be put online and distributed to other sources. This means the Demo will most likely be available to you by next week AT THE LATEST.
I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT IF WE RUN INTO ANY PROBLEMS THAT ARE MORE SEVERE THAN THE ONES I HAVE MENTIONED, THEN ALL BETS ARE OFF AND IT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN NEXT WEEK.
For those of you who are unlucky enough to have contracted the Blaster Virus (which seems to be a fair few people, Ive been busy cleaning friends and family's PC's all week), the link below connects to an article that describes how to remove the virus, and ensure it doesnt get back on to your system.
Aspect Simulations have updated the official Knights over Europe Site. They have updated the Screen and Dev shots...the Product Info and News will be updated very soon.
BBall has updated his column with a piece entitled "Cold Blue Steel...or How Lucky Can You Get?". Here's a snippet:
Here's the reason life for me is so damned good...three years ago today, I was a dead man. Dead, done, fini, "dirt nap", the big "SEEYA", turn out the lights-the party's over!, piss on his grave dead. More precisely, I was 72 hours away from being terminal. That's kind of a strange thing to say, for I guess we're all "terminal". The moment we take that first breath, we start down the long road (hopefully) to our last gasp. We're all dying, only 99% of us don't know when the ol' grim reaper is gonna show up and ask to punch our ticket....thus ending this strange ride we call life. I got real close to his little ticket puncher thingy, only I didn't know it. With my luck, I'll head off to my nirvana awaiting my 72 virgins...and they'll tell that times are tough, and I get one 72 year old virgin! Go figure.
The US Army has released the latest version of its free multiplayer game - Americas Army. Heres the info from there page: Here's what you'll find in v1.9: the introduction of a new MOS: the Combat Medic (and, of course, the requisite medical training consisting of 4 separate courses); new higher-resolution character models; a brand-spanking-new interface (and theme song); new high-detailed textures; character shadows; lip syncing; new team selection pages; new scoreboard; PunkBuster anti-cheating software..and much more! Check it out
HERE.
The latest public version of the Operation Desert Storm theater for Falcon4 has been released. Heres a quote from KG:
Operation Desert Storm theater beta 512 available
A new beta of the Desert Storm theater is out featureing all new high resolution textures (512x512!) made in the last 6 months out of satellite images and featuring 9 different campaigns.
