Evening Reading

by Nick Breckon, May 15, 2009 5:00pm PDT

Played a decent amount of Killing Floor, the zombie survival mod-turned-retail game from Tripwire. It certainly still feels more like a mod than a retail game, but I sort of like it with the right group of people.

I do wish that you could build actual barricades in both this game and Left 4 Dead. I have a gaming fetish that can only be sated by piling random objects in front of a door and playing hide-and-go-shoot. This explains my intense love of Resident Evil 4.

And the nominations for Most Interesting News of May 15 go to:

Activision, for new Guitar Hero 5 details
Activision, for Tony Hawk features full-scale skateboard controller
BioWare, for new Mass Effect 2 trailer
Take-Two v. 3D Realms, for more pre-trial craziness
Valve, for TF2 Spy update shenanigans

And the winner goes to.. Valve. A truly brilliant twist on an already entertaining marketing campaign.

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Now that DNF is no more, what software/hardware/etc is the inheritor to DNF's vaporware championship belt?

May 15, 2009 5:50pm PDT

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  Alan Wake or Gran Turismo for the PSP, I think. : BlackCat9
  - Please Alan Wake... noooo :( : sKetchflow
  - Gah thanks for reminding me that I was pining for GT for the PSP :( : LilCrypto
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    Alan Wake pales in comparison to DNF -- it was announced in 2005. : Kentor
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      That is still 5 years in development with very very very few updates (although obviously much more than D... : sKetchflow
      
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      their initial announcement showed more gameplay/in-engine stuff than DNF ever did : derelict515
      
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      Not if you count the 2 prior trailers for DNF. : spazzium
      
      DNF was never showcased as a tech demo, which I remember being the case of Alan Wake for Intel back when ... : dedgecko
  - Nah, I disagree on Alan Wake. Remedy has proven itself with Max Payne. It was in development for a long t... : Helios150
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  It's got a long way to go, but I vote for Alan Wake. : zipper76
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    Yup. We still don't even know what type of game it will be. : gimpx32
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      That will change very soon. : notd665
      
      oh alex, you tease : braaains
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      3rd person tetris. : j0nchan
      
      I have it on good authority that it's 5th person Tetris... it's gonna blow your mind. : delataur
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  Serious Sam 3 : Dave-A
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    SS2 sure was terrible. they forgot what made the first one great and went for LOL ZANY instead. : retarded talking dinosaur
  - New Serious Sam game announced. http://www.croteam.com/ : ShekkyBoy
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  Wouldn't it be StarCraft II. They said it was in development since they finished Frozen Throne which woul... : K1Bond007
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    No. Blizzard has always said that they wanted to revisit the SC universe, but didn't officially acknowled... : zipper76
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      http://www.gamespot.com/news/6171172.html?sid=6171172&action=convert The panel answered questions on n : K1Bond007
      
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      Posted May 19, 2007 Lots of games and game engines are in development for years and years. What made D... : zipper76
      
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      It is semantics and mostly retroactive vaporware. Wired agreed with me though. They placed it like #3 on ... : K1Bond007
      
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      Wow - that's some BS there (not you, the Wired Article - http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news... : zipper76
      
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      Well its been 6 years now since Blizzard, a company that used to be known for real-time strategy, release... : smax
      
      It's Blizzard what do you expect : Yanks
      
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      when you're releasing a sequel to an enormously popular game noted for its near perfect balance, you're g... : derelict515
      
      Everyone wants Blizzard-quality (or Valve-quality) games and noone wants to wait the amount of time it ta... : deveus1
      
      Shut up and sign up > http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58508 : [7]kami
      
      I think they were reaching to fill up the list. : deveus1
  - They're doing opt-in signups for beta right now. I think that's pretty far from vaporware. : slax0r
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  http://www.serioussamforever.com/ : boring gegtik
  - I have forgotten about Duke already! Bring it on Sam Stone! : SigENeaT
  - Duke, Freeman, Quake... Guy hah : DinK
- Looks like Elite IV is next up to lead the Vaporware charts. : roushimsx
- I asked something like this a couple of years ago, of the responses i think Dragon Age and Huxley are the... : boredguy
- my idea for a transformers tribes1 mod :[ : Chandler55
- Nothing, how can any other company do nothing for so long without running out of money? : quazar
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  I wouldn't call DNF vaporware, because it actually existed... The Phantom game system on the other hand, ... : davidc02
  - You seem to have a narrower definition of vaporware. By your definition, Starcraft Ghost and Warcraft Adv... : shyguy74
  - The phantom game system existed in the same way that DNF did, though. They had a few phantom demo units ... : batkiwi
- My vote will go out on a limb and say the new KOTOR MMO. My sources said so! : icon_of_syn
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  Rage is getting there. It wasn't announced til a few years ago but Doom 3 has been done a while and we kn... : socksta
  - Rage is nothing like vaporware. : pimpium
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    They were working on some game called Darkness or something, and scrapped it for RAGE. : Cihte
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      Whatever happened to "Trinity?" : ADSliv
      
      Trinity was just the codename for the quake 3 engine tech. It was named after the Trinity River to parody... : jet-poop
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    They worked on another game for at least a year after Doom 3 so work on Rage probably started in late 200... : freshyk
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      Plus a lot of that was developing ID Tech 5 too. : pancake humper
      
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      people seem to forget that part. They criticize id for taking so long to produce a game, but forget to re... : Cihte
      
      I'm not criticizing it, I'm just saying its up there slightly behind Alan Wake time wise. Rage is going t... : socksta
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  Sin Episodes 2 >:( you fucking pirate dipshits! : abrasion
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    I really enjoyed Ep 1. What a shame. : ADSliv
    - It was an incredibly solid game. All three of the weapons (:() had a great feel to them in the game. : freshyk
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    Please... let it go... Even if I could get the IP to continue it from Mumbo Jumbo, I don't have the re... : RomSteady
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  Some people in this thread don't know what the fuck vaporware is! : SockMonkeh
  - they never do, just like all the 'top 10 vaporware' lists, it's stupid : derelict515
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    Starcraft: Ghost :( : slax0r
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      It's not vaporware whan development has officially been halted. : master_disaster_17
      
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      Not halted, just delayed indefinitely. : slax0r
      
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      pretty sure it was cancelled : dantastic
      
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      It wasn't cancelled, just suspended. : rudds
      
      Which you're free to interpret as an implicit cancellation, of course. Blizzard never used the word "canc... : rudds
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  True Fantasy on the xbox : RuffasBluetain
  - It wasn't vaporware for that long though, it was outright canceled a year or two after it was announced. : Vincent Grayson
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  Ultima Worlds Online : Link.
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    That game would have been so horrible! : SockMonkeh
    - Probably not, but okay. That was back when OSI existed and rocked hard. : Link.
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  Of things in development, Alan Wake comes to mind first. However for some reason, the PS3 seems to be thi... : baron calamity
  - FF13 is scheduled to be released this Winter in Japan, though. And I'm used to Final Fantasy games takin... : slax0r
  - Home did get released in the end, we just wish it didn't and that the time & money wasted on creating a h... : nudel
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  Alan Wake or Heavy Rain : Perturbation
  - Heavy Rain is for E3 : zverozyab
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    You don't know wtf. : vx2o
    - okay I change my vote to Gray Matter : Perturbation
  - Alan Wake : matthaeus
  - definitely heavy rain... : deathofrats
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  what kind of world do we live in where Diakatana gets to go gold and DNF doesnt >:( : ninjase
  - Wow. Sad indeed. : Cygnus X-1
  - That put things depressingly in perspective :(. : quadeh
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    As much as I want(ed) DNF, there was (is?) always a chance that it could be worse than daikatana. : valael
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      "A delayed game is eventually good. A bad game is bad forever." -Shigeru Miyamoto : slax0r
      
      But there's also been plenty of bad games that were delayed at some point. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
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  The laptop external adapter to plug in PCI Express cards and get more 3D Graphics power. : VGET
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    I watched a video about the new Direct2D API in Win7 and they mentioned how it handles the GPU in a laptop docking station being removed and falling back to the laptop's internal GPU.
    
    Dunno if that stuff is what you're talking about, or if it's available now or just a theoretical thing, but it seems the idea of it is still alive.
    
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    I watched a video about the new Direct2D API in Win7 and they mentioned how it handles the GPU in a lapto... : nudel
- dungeon keeper 3 : yautja
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  L.A. Noire? Is that still in production? I've seen no in-game work for it at all and i was excited years ... : Snuffles-
  - Delayed until this fiscal year. I don't trust them. : michaelleung
- That amazing video card made by Bitboys : stuka
- Next Elite game by David Braben. /topic : watcherxp
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  Project Offset What the fuck is going on with this game. The trailer was amazing. http://www.youtub... : razlebol
  - Yeah, was wondering the same, still in development apparently. : lightly inclined
  - intel bought them. : GloriousCow
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    God yes, I remember seeing a preview about how advantaged the animation/models were in this game. Is it s... : Big Luke
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      http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/27/gdc09-project-offset-reemerges-with-new-media/ : GloriousCow
      
      Yea, that looks impressive but so did the CryEngine before Crysis was released. I'm hoping for the best t... : Big Luke
  - I expect Project Offset to be talked about more around the time Larrabee comes out. : freshyk
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    Intel bought the company, probably for the engine. I don't think that game exists anymore. : stuka
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      What the fuck would Intel do with a game engine? : Big Luke
      
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      Intel is making a video card, they want a game engine to show it off. : GloriousCow
      
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      Wait, is this true? Will we have an Nvidia, ATI and Intel video card battle in the future? : Big Luke
      
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU) : GloriousCow
      
      Yep :) Price drops, here you come! :) : melt_core
      
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      What does God need with a starship? : drazz
      
      Evidently He really likes "We Built This City." : RomSteady
      
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      Rumor is that they will totally Larrabee it and release the engine for free for people to use in their ga... : stuka
      
      PS4 was also rumored to use a intel graphic chip instead of ati or nvidia. : razlebol
- The Phantom : NFXFSX

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