New Games

[Fiddler]

just thought id shine a spotlight on these 4 for now

Rome Total War

http://pc.ign.com/articles/402/402725p1.html

Axis & Allies RTS (yeah the classic board game but its RTS too)

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/axisalliesrts/preview_6095649.html

War Between the States

http://www.strategyplanet.com/civilwar/interviewaug02.shtml

Take Command 1861

http://www.strategyplanet.com/civilwar/interviewaug02.shtml

[Fiddler]

In other news on games....

Chinese goverment Bans Paradox Entertainment's Hearts of Iron

http://www.wargamer.com/news/news.asp?nid=962

[Yossarian]

In other (vaguely related) game news, my submission for my 'Designing Games Components' class at uni (Games Technology MSc) is up at http://www.davidlearnsgames.com/dgc/cwork1.avi .

I'll never earn a living as a 3d Modeller / Animator.

[Fiddler]

Just tried to watch it it went to Connecting... and didnt go no where after

[sachmo71]

Axis and Allies RTS...looks pretty, but I will definately not be buying. RTS mixed with "strategic" games just doesn't do it for me in the least.

[Fiddler]

i liked the looks of all of them ill wait to see how they pan out before i give my real opinion on them tho

[bamcgee]

good stuff here. Wish I had some timeframe for their release - 2004?

[hukarez]

Here's something for Jagged Alliance fans:

http://pc.ign.com/articles/521/521308p1.html

[Fiddler]

the Civil war ones are set for this winter.... but i dont know they both look like works still in progress... esp War between the states... axis and allies is suppose to be released nov 2nd this year. Rome Total War will be released september 14th this year... those are both good looking games coming out later this year..

[StanGunner]

RE:
Yossarian : In other (vaguely related) game news, my submission for my 'Designing Games Components' class at uni (Games Technology MSc) is up at http://www.davidlearnsgames.com/dgc/cwork1.avi .

Fiddler : Just tried to watch it it went to Connecting... and didnt go no where after

DITTO!!

[sabotai]

Try right clicking on it and saving it to your hard drive.

[sabotai]

Yossarian...that was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. The plane exploding...or rather lack of explosion..was funny as hell.

Except, I kind of feel bad because I'm sure it wasn't meant to be funny. :)

But in all seriousness, I'm sure you weren't given a lot of time to do it, and I actually think it's pretty good. The modals obviously could use some work, but I thought the camera movement and angles were very good.

EDIT: The guy getting squashed made me laugh out loud. :)

[Yossarian]

It was a seriously tragic effort on my part.

I work full time (programming) and I'm doing the MSc one day a week. The rest of the class obviously had MUCH more time.

The explosion was supposed to have all kinds of particle effects when the rocket hit but i realised that I couldnt get the effects right so I went with a light + lens flare.

I can't believe this is created with the same software they used for Finding Nemo (Softimage XSI).

as an aside, my classmates work was on a whole, MUCH nicer than mine - but a bit lacking in humour!

you can see some of them at http://www.davidlearnsgames.com/stuff
the "bmoore" one is by far the best...

[Havok]

Its all about Rome Total War.......