Quake Con 08 - Wolfenstein Trailer

The new Quake Con Wolfenstein trailer contains a fair amount of footage from the E3 trailer and gives a little bit of a better glimpse of the new Wolfenstein.

Click here to view the trailer.

Welcome to the new Reich!

PlayXpert Open Beta - Initial Impressions

I found out that PlayXpert was available again today and so I was keen to install and test this out on my XP rig - I ended up a little disappointed. This could have been avoided had I read the PlayXpert FAQ properly, but alas I did not.

The Open Beta has Open GL support turned off, a situation that is, for now, 'temporary' - so you won't be able to see PlayXpert once you launch ET.

The software itself looks quite nice and when you run it you get a snazy looking (customizable) widget bar.

I added four of the seven available chat "gateways" without any problems whatsoever - xfire, msn, yahoo and gtalk.

The xfire functionality does not yet match the functionality that you get with xfire itself so it will be interesting to see how this develops.

The chat window is what you would expect with a small selection of smileys.

Once you get into the settings you can configure hot keys to control PlayXpert - Crtl + Shift + B is the default to launch the web browser for example. Other hot keys with bring up the widget bar, or "dock" and you can specify if you want to use Winamp or iTunes to play your mp3s.

There is already some VOIP functionality is built in but I looked in vain for the TeamSpeak widget to be able to test that out.

Unfortunatley all of this is a bit mute for me because without the Open GL support that is needed for ET, I can't (yet) use this with my favourite game.

Still, being a gamer you would have thought that I would have learned some patience by now ... hopefully I will be revisting PlayXpert soon once Open GL is supported.

Either way, once PlayXpert is ready for prime time it looks like it will replace my current xfire installation quite nicely!.

Update: the Teamspeak widget should be available for download again soon.

Game Informer scans at Pro Gamer

Looks like someone has been naughty and uploaded Game Informer scans to the Pro Gamer site. I'm waiting to hear back from Game Informer on their forums ...

Competition for Xfire?

PlayXpert is a "next-generation in-game community management toolset" that lets you multi-task while gaming.

This means being able to chat on MSN, AIM, ICQ, GTalk, Yahoo, Xfire, and even Sony Station Friends, play mp3s and even open up a browser, surf the web and toggle transparency without leaving your game!

It looks like there will be compatibility with TeamSpeak 3 (whenever that comes out) - and there is an existing TeamSpeak widget for the current version of TeamSpeak.

So I am just waiting for the next build to be made available so that I can download it - I can't wait to try it out and see who is on TeamSpeak without having to Alt Z to the desktop!

Wolfenstein in next months PC Gamer Magazine

It's due out July 31st.

Wolfenstein Screens at kotaku

Only half of the screens seem to be working for me right now on the kotaku site but the particle cannon looks like fun!

Check the screenshots out here.

Wolfenstein - E3 2008 - Activision Press Conference

Well the main points from this video are that there will be a mixture of realistic and new sci-fi / supernatural (Shroud) weapons available in the game.

The best news (as far as I am concerned) is that there will be a multiplayer that will retain the WolfMP / ET team based objective gameplay that I have come to love! And the Shroud weapons will be available in the multiplayer.

More details should be forthcoming in a couple of weeks at QuakeCon.

August Game Informer Wolfenstein Exclusive

Apparently there is a 10 page exclusive on the new Wolfenstein game in the August Game Informer.

Bet there is no release date though!

Should be worth a look ...

Enemy Territory - Video Review of Radar Summer 1.3

Radar Summer is a conversion (by 2Bit) of the orginal Wurzburg Radar map for ET. There's a lot more to this conversion than summer skies and lush green vistas ...



I learned a bit more about video editing making this review - the quality of the colours is better now that I am using WeGame to record the footage and I have also learned to how adjust the brightness and contrast before uploading it to YouTube. It takes me much longer to edit the video when I use WeGame for video capture and I couldn't get it to record the game sound ... hopefully the end result is good enough though!

You should be able to see my first video review - Battery Recharged 1.3 in the video bar for this blog.

New Wolfenstein

Id Software plans to release a new Wolfenstein game for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is being developed by Raven.

The E3 trailer is quite brief and does not give much away however.

Apparently the game will be set in a free roaming city with new areas opening up as missions are completed.

The game also promises some decent AI in the form of AI players that will accompany the player throughout the story. We'll have to wait and see how good that actually is ... I wonder if this means that the gameplay with be reminiscent of Call of Duty in this respect?

There is aslo something new called the "Shroud" which will give the player the ability to interact with the darker, alternate version of the city. The Nazi's are trying to open the shroud and it's your job to stop them from accomplishing this madness!

In the E3 trailer I think that this is alluded to via a fade between normal reality and Shroud reality. Doesn't the Shroud screenshot (below) look scary?

Well the screenshots look good and the E3 trailer is a bit short for my liking but there it is ... the most important question for me though is, what will the multiplayer be like, assuming that there is one? I can only pray that it will end up being the "Enemy Territory 2" that I and so many of my clan mates have been waiting for! I won't mind paying for that one little bit!