Evil Empire Gaming

Some time ago I had a number of screenshots here from the best game ever: Codename Eagle.

I've now uploaded all of them to Flickr for your viewing pleasure.
Enjoy.

If you don't know about CE or want more memories, check out the Official Trailer or some stunt movies.

Never seen it? Bear in mind then that Codename Eagle was released over 2 years earlier than is descendant, Battlefield 1942.

Having started this thread over on the Atomic forums, I decided to record the results here.
The idea being that you make up a caption for this picture.

Read on for the results...

Atomic are having a competition to create new icons for the Forums.
So for a bit of fun... here's what I came up with.
There's one for Sticky, Lock and Poll.

UPDATE: I must have +20 Luck because I won!
Here's the original competition post, and the announcement.
The Sticky icon has been brightened a bit to make it stand out more. You can check them out here.
The prize: Sennheisers.

Last weekend was the GO3 Electronics Exhibition Lan... and I finally finished the Rig.

Here are some progress pics:

The air duct for the scoop (this took a long time to get right)

Inside the filter (so did this)

I redid the axles and added clear acrylic legs to support the weight. They're not in that pic and they're meant to be discreet anyway.

Some finished product pics: 1 2 3 4

Current specs:
Athlon X2 4200 with a Thermalright XP-90C, a Vantec Tornado and Dual Corsair CMX-4000's on an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe MB.
2 x 74G Raptors and 1 200G drive.

UPDATE: Nic has uploaded his interview with Keita

Read on and click on the links for the whole story!

There are a lot of crazy theories around about how blogging started. I think if you asked any ex-Quake clan member, they'd be able to tell you. Here are my thought's on the matter.

It must be 5 years since I started playing with the Serious Editor. At the time I made some DM maps which I will repost here for old times sake.
Since them my kids have grown up and during the school holidays we have been working on a new DM map together.
The result is Mt Fountain. Just unzip the files into your \Serious Sam\Levels folder.

The greatest joy I've ever experienced in relation to gaming was getting my first 3dfx card, a Diamond Monster 3D, and seeing transparent water in GLQuake at 640x480 resolution. WOW.

A close second was getting my first GeForce card, a 32MB Geforce256. This was the first Geforce model ever released and it heralded an era of performance 3D gaming in 32bit colour.

I bought it, second hand, in 2000. Well just the other day I sadly pulled it's lifeless corpse out of my Father-in-laws PC (yes, I hand down my crappy hardware to my family, don't you?). Long live the Geforce 256! You gave me 32bit colour @ 1024x768 with a decent framerate on a crappy PIII 500 system. I'll never forget you man, *sob*...

I love how lollies now have 99% Fat Free plastered all over the packet. As we all know, they're chock full of sugar which your body promptly stores as fat.
Can't wait to see cigarette packets advertising that they are 100% Cancer Free!!!

*tumble weeds...*

You are in a bunker with exits to the north and south. There is a
medical cabinet in the corner.

Do you
a) Go north
b) Go south
c) Cower near the medical supplies

>> go north

Your base is here. There are several small buildings to the south and
a hangar to the west. A flag waves happily in the wind. It is yours.
You wave back.
The enemy base is to the north east.

Do you
a) Go west and hijack a plane before anyone else gets in
b) Go south - that cabinet sounds more enticing after all.
c) Go north east and take on the some foes!

>> go north

The desert opens up before you in all directions. You hear the sounds
of battle to the east.
You see a UH60L Black Hawk on the horizon. There are two Hellfire
missiles to the north east. They are heading in your direction.

Do you
a) Switch to your stinger and take that thing down.
b) Aim for the fuel tank and fire your pistol like in the movies.
c) Take cover behind that stack of yellow drums.

>>fire stinger

I see no stinger here.
You have died in a comical fashion thanks to some fancy ragdoll physics.

Hey look what just popped into the EvEm news desk in-tray: Serious Sam 2 screenshots! Relic sent us a heads up for this page on the Game Connect Magazine website. It looks like Far Cry, Halflife 2 and JubJub: The Ewok Adventure all rolled into one great game.

Wow check this out, I can't wait to get my XP tricked out with all this eye candy. Without much fanfare MS has released a sneak peak at the Windows XP theme to be released soon. Apparently it'll be a free download for all XP Home and Professional users. I'm not sure about the name though. Either it's a lame sexist joke about the well endowed interface or it's a reference to the performance sapping characteristics of the transparent windows. They could have thought of something better like 'Grey Steel' or 'Cold Storm' or "Glowey Buttons' or something.

Read on for some more screenshots of all this themey goodness from Microsoft.

While Battlefield 2 seems to be getting sexier everyday with all these screenshots we're seeing I've not ever seen a comamnder screen and I think this is it. Got it from TotalBF2.

This looks like the perfect "I will take over the whole world!" desktop setup for playing Evil Genius. Oh sure sure it has about a thousand other sensible practical uses but think of the games!

After buying my Razer Diamondback mouse I've discovered what true romance with peripheral hardware can mean. I bought the spiffy red glowing 'Salamanda' version. But then I got this newsletter in my inbox from Razer proclaiming a new Diamondback; the limited edition "Plasma". Mmmmmmmm.

Oh man I got to have one, I know it's exactly the same as the one I've got but... well.... this one blue! And it's a Limited Edition!