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by Alice O'Connor, Aug 24, 2009 4:15am PDT

Oh, it's all fun and games here at Shacknews. Chris gallivants around QuakeCon, cosying up to id CEOs and superstars. Nick kicks back at BlizzCon to reacquaint himself with his dear friend the wizaaaaaaard and befriend Diablo 3's monk. Even Maarten's in on the fun, hitting up Gamescom to enjoy countless video games in a sophisticated European manner including Borderlands, which he said looked particularly splendid before sucking on a clove cigarillo.

Me? Well, knowing that events are far more work than they might appear to be, I'm secretly a little glad that I end up staffing the office to post the flood of media, even if it does mean I miss out on playing all the fancy pants video games before the hoi polloi.

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A Rise of the Triad reboot? Fuck yeah!!!

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24963

Aug 24, 2009 2:08pm PDT

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A Rise of the Triad reboot? Fuck yeah!!! http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24963 : NeoMoose
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  i have no memory of anything about this franchise, except for: 1. floating platforms 2. drunk missile ... : dirge23
  - three words: randomly generated levels : qaldar
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    I remember raining eyeballs. And a friend used footage of the game for his report on Cortez attacking th... : Grumbeld
    - Ludicrous Gibs! : evildanish
  - how could you forget mushroom mode? : RogerDandy
- hoorj! : hamachi
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  Oh, fuck yeah. I don't know how well it'll work, but I'm getting psyched. : Conan
  - i can't see how this will be anything but ROTT-in-name-only, but whatever : dirge23
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    http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/wolfpsyched2.png : manero
    - Yeah, that was intentional. : Conan
    - haha awesome : NeoMoose
- whattttttttttttttt : manero
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  wait, so are they going to hire back the folks they let go or is Scott and George 'working' on all these ... : deathofrats
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    It sounds like there's teams other than the DNF team. The DNF team was the only one that was fired. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
    - a lot doesn't seem right about this, considering that even 3drealms.com posted that farewell pic to their... : NeoMoose
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    They basically produce them, is what I've gathered. They work with a development studio putting in ideas and guiding certain aspects, but they don't "run" the development team. They have done this for 20 years, going all the way back to working with id to make Wolfenstein. They did it with Remedy for Max Payne (the idea of bullet time was Scott's). It's probably the best way they work, IMO.
    
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    They basically produce them, is what I've gathered. They work with a development studio putting in ideas... : exigence7
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    Explanation: The Duke Forever team was laid of due to a lack of funding. Activision sued them because ... : locater16
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      Activision Take Two : Schnapple
      
      My mistake, I couldn't remember who had the publishing rights : locater16
    - Re: Further Explanation 3D Realms is the studio still producing games. 3D Realms still exists. THE ONL... : locater16
- Lol whut? That was such a fucking bizzare game, especially since I played it when I was like 10... : locater16
- the multiplayer on that game was so much fun. : Colleton
- who is going to believe anything that he spews now? : pancake humper
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  "Our future is fine," founder Scott Miller said in a recent in-depth feature interview with Gamasutra. "W : baron calamity
  - Probably counting different platforms as separate projects : spiderfill
  - Carmack at QuakeCon wasn't sure how many iPhone projects id had in the works. a) Even smart people can... : Schnapple
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  No thanks. ROTT was popular at the time and in retrospect because it was such a weird one-off anomaly ... : Schnapple
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    We don't care about the characters, we don't really care about the setting, we don't care about the plot. : Conan
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      I would say like most FPS games from a particular era, but not as much today. For example you wouldn't... : Schnapple
      
      I don't even remember the storyline to ROTT - I just remember starting in a corridor and blowing up a guy... : dedgecko
      
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      Oh, I'd say there's still quite a few coming out today like that - and even "back in the day" there were ... : Conan
      
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      I mean, hell, System Shock predates ROTT. : Conan
      
      System Shock 1 was ahead of its time. : Sgt_Boomstick
- Please, oh god, let this be true. This is LONG overdue!!! : Wikus Van De Merwe
- lol, what a mess. : Godhatesfatpeople
- Sounds kind of desperate. : GreatGooglyMoogly
- ROTT? Perhaps it will be relased once I am rotting in the ground. :\ : pimpium
- mehhhh : timaste
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  Release Date: * W H E N I T ' S D O N E ' D * : Wolfanoz
  - it's never going to get released. Don't get your hopes up. : deathofrats
- It''s probably going to be some lame iphone or mobile game. : freshyk
- I loved ROT, but it would a terrible game by today's standards. : Sgt_Boomstick
- They'll bury you in a lunchbox! : the archvile
- ROTT sucked ass : mega man
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  ROTT was a gimmicky shitcat. In case you forgot, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIKfxrESqXA : Zombie Vonnegut
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    haha that's so bad : Godhatesfatpeople
    - As if the graphics and gameplay didn't eat enough shit, the SOUNDS are pure crocodile herpes. : Zombie Vonnegut
  - that looks pretty fucking awesome : Jackass1233
  - its worse than i remember it. that couldnt have taken more than a weekend to make : mega man
- Ludicrous Gibs! is the only correct answer to this news. : AgentPothead

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