"PCGZINE 4" NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

This month issue of PGCZine is now available for free download. As always, you have read it right, free download.

The issue includes a full interview with Michal Madej -Chief Designer of the RPG "The Witcher", previews of "Empire Earth III" and "Frontlines: Fuel of War", and more, much more.

So, what are you waiting for?! Download it now!

"SHARKY'S AIR LEGENDS": MULTIPLAYER AT LAST!

After a couple of weeks locked working hard on the next update of this great game, Sharky has decided to see the sunlight and publish the latest build of "Air Legends", which includes a 2-player splitscreen multiplayer feature.

Nice!

UPDATE: "THE DUNGEON QUEST" GAME

Benjamin has released a new build of the game called "The Dungeon Quest", which was part of the XNA Challenge (GDC'07).

The update fixes some minor bugs, boosts performance, and adds new features but it requires a videocard that supports Shader Model 3.0 -if you happen to have a lowerend GPU, say, the nVidia GeForce 6600 card (like I do), make sure to run the game in a lower resolution to seed up things a little bit more.

Those big ogres are awesome.

Great level ... Cannot wait to get the book ... ;)

"G": STANDS FOR "G"ENEROSITY

Remember this previous post about the game named "G"?

After playing the game I was really curious about the way these guys had implemented that tractor beam fx ("graviton ray" as they call it), so I decided to make use of their public invitation to get the source code so I contacted them a couple of days ago.

The result: they contacted me back, provided a link to a zip file and gave me the rights to access the server in order to download it.

Thus, having downloaded the zip file, I feel the obligation of publicly thanking them for sharing the source code of the game.

Great game, great code, great "G"enerosity!

Now, back to the Ultracave ...

360ZINE ISSUE 4 NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

This month issue of 360Zine is now available for free download. And yes, you have read it right, free download.

If you missed my previous post, Gamerzines.com publishes a set of online magazines in 4 different flavors, being 360Zine one of them.

This month topics cover a full review of Tom Clancy's "Graw 2" and an exclusive of "Bioshock", inter alia.

So, what are you waiting for?! Download it now!

D.B.P.'S WARM-UP CHALLENGE ENTRIES

Do you want to know which were the entries submitted to D.B.P.'s Warm-Up Challenge, watch screenshots of each game, and or download builds to play?

I bet you do, so jump to XNA Matrix site and be amazed!

Thanks to dczraptor for sharing the links with all of us.

Cheers!

WARM-UP CHALLENGE'S "UDDER ASSAULT" GAME

Continuing with news related to DPB's Warm-Up challenge winning entires, you can visit this site to get information related to "Udder Assault" -one of the winning entries, plus you can also download the latest build of this great game.

Information on "Cracklin Crackles" is available on this site, but there's no link to any build of the game, though.

If you know links to sites where builds of "Cracklin Crackles", "Earth vs. Mars", and "Viduce" are available for download and want to share them with the XNA community, please drop a comment.

See ya!

"G": A WARM-UP CHALLENGE WINNING ENTRY

Zyggyware informs on the release of the latest build of Mutant Penguin's "G" game.

For those that do not know, G is one of the winning entries in the Dream.Build.Play's Warm-Up Challenge Competition.

Very cool entry, the eye-candy is great and the gameplay is really funny.

Download the latest build from this link, and let's the joy begin!

XNA GSE CHALLENGE GAMES RELEASED!

Head over this thread on the XNA Creators Club Online, and download each game as soon as the authors post links to their respective builds.

Four games in four days ... great!

GAMERZINES: FREE MAGAZINES FOR GAMERS

Gamerzines? What's that? Glad you ask.

It's a set of e-magazines written by UK game reviewers that anyone in the world can download for free. Yes, for free!

But what is so special about this magazines? Well, not only you will find previews, reviews, interviews, and contests, but also as the magazines are dispatched as PDF files there's lots of multimedia content included, like demo videos and trailers of brand-new game releases and upcoming games.

The magazines comes in this four different flavors:

• 360Zine: for XBOX 360 gamers.
• PCGZine: for PC gamers.
• HGZine: for Sony PSP and Nintendo DS gamers.
• PESFanzine: official "Pro Evolution Soccer" e-magazine.

So, what are you waiting for, go and get them now!

BTW, 360Zine #3 includes an exclusive interview with Larry Hyrb, Microsoft's Xbox Live Director of Programming, also known as "Major Nelson".

Enjoy!

DBP: WARM-UP ENTRIES?

XNAMatrix has published a list of entries to the "Warm-Up" phase, which so far amount to 20 games in two categories: 16 of them are 2D, and the remaining ... well, let me see ... hum, I think is ... 4! Yes 4; ... ahum! ... well, the remaining 4 are 3D ... (sorry for the delay but I had to open 'calc.exe').

The page provides links to creator's pages, download sections as well as screenshots.

If you want to submit a link to your entry just contact them.

See ya.

RPG ZERO: LEVEL SEGMENT'S NEW PALETTE AND BADGUYS

New update available for the "RPG Zero" series.

Man, the eyecandy included in this game -which is under development- is quite amazing.

You can read what's going on with this project here (as well as watch a demo video of the cave).

Cannot wait for a demo build!

WARM-UP ENTRY: "SPACEWAR TACTICS"

There's a new entry revealed for DBP's Warm-Up Challenge ... from the creator of the game named "Warriors of the Shining Star" here it comes "SpaceWar Tactics" ... a mixture of "Advanced Wars" and "Asteroids".

Not only you may find a screenshots of it but you will also find a binary build for downloading here.

Place your existing fighters in the "space field", build your army as you play and choose your battles against your enemies!

Enjoy!

XNA MATRIX'S ENTRY TO THE WARM-UP CHALLENGE

Yes, Will has revealed a teaser of his entry to the warm-up chalenge. So repeating his words, "If anybody is curious" just browse to this link to see a two-days old screenshot of the game.

Peronally, I have been working on my entry for only 3 days now from scratch, so I don't think I get it on time, but no matter what, I'll post my version of the Spacewar game when finished.

Cheers!

UPDATE: SHARKY'S 'AIR LEGENDS'

Lawrence has released a new build of the 'Air Legends' game.

Among the new features we will find music, collision detection optimization, and a fix to the screenshot-saving functionality.

Also, now everything is packed and delivered in a single installation file (created using "Wix").

So, where shall I download the build from? Impatient, ugh? Just go to this page and grab it form there.

See ya.

AGE OF CONAN: DIRECTX 10 TRAILER

It's been a while since my last post.

The reason: right now I'm struggling with the final stage of a project for a client which I must end in less than a month, so I don't have time left to write about anything. Otherwise, this is going to become a "60-day" month ... ;)

Just go an see this trailer at GameTrailers.com which uses DirectX's newest technology ...

Now, back to work!

INFINITY: A SPACE-BASED MMOG

What an excellent way to publish my first post of this new year 2007 by talking about this amazing game that is being created: "Infinity". The guys behind this new production have posted great videos and images that really do a great job of showing off what the game is about.

Also, the "Journal of Ysaneya" is very interesting to follow -for us, developers- since it comments on the status of the game, the coding challenges they face to fix bugs, improve the gameplay, implement new features, etc.

Pay a visit to Infity's site, read the journal and don't forget to download the combat prototype and join the battle between the read & blue teams.

Cheers!

XBOX 360: THE NEXT WAVE

I had forgotten this video -also available at GameTrailers.com- with more interviews to XBox360 product's managers covering some of the games published and to be published for this great console.

Ok, ok, this time I mean it! No more posts for today ... ;)

XNA RACER'S VIDEO

Simply put: amazing!

Congrats Benjamin!!!