There's an interview with Ritual artists Rob Atkins and Darrin Hart on Zupit. There are also audio interviews with FAKK2 creator Kevin Eastman and Julie Strain (Kevin's wife) talking about the game and movie.

The boys at GA-Source have put up a new FAKK2 interview, talking to various employees of Ritual. There's a lot of new information in there, and they also have a couple of new screenshots.

GA-Source has a screenshot of the FAKK2 consoles (yes, different kinds) where you can change a lot of settings. Word is the particle effects, just like scripting, can be controlled by txt files.

Rob Atkins over at Ritual Entertainment was kind enough to send over a pair of FAKK2 screenshots in high resolutions. You can check them in 800x600 here: [shot1] [shot2] or even 1280x1024 here: [shot1] [shot2]. Also, here's the index of previous FAKK2 images. FAKK2 is based on the Quake3 engine licensed from id Software and the Heavy Metal universe by Kevin Eastman.

Daily Radar has a FAKK2 Interview, talking to Ritual's Rob Atkins. They also have two new screenshots of this Quake3 engine game. Thanks FAKK You.

The folks at Ritual Entertainment sent along a Valentines image of FAKK2 showing off the Julie Strain model. We havent been hearing too much out of Ritual about their Quake3 based title lately. The Julie model in this image looks quite a bit better than from the earlier FAKK2 images.

To Ritual Entertainment's Scott Alden, who's mine and Steve's roommate and who's 63 years young today! Wish "grandpa" well!

The guys at FAKK You have posted a quick FAKK2 progress report they got from Ritual artist Rob Atkins. You can find it here. Here's some screenshots of the game.

Voodoo Extreme has posted a new interview, this time with Ritual level designer Berenger "Zor" Fish who is currently on Quake3-engine title FAKK2 with the rest of the gang. Thanks FAKK You.

There's an interview with Darrin Hart of Ritual on The Mushroom talking to this animator working on FAKK2.

That loony monkey spotted this bit from Stay Tooned which details the HBO release of Heavy Metal: FAKK2 the movie. Ritual Entertainment is currently working on a Quake3 engine based game using the same universe and characters. Here's the blurb on the movie and a bit of a review:

The following is a blurb from Mike Dobbs' wonderful Animation Planet E-Newsletter (which can be subscribed to by sending an e-mail to mdobbs@javanet.com).

"The story is just an excuse for nasty characters to do nasty things. Although the movie had been announced as a PG-13 production, this is clearly R material. I'm no prude, but "adult" material can indeed have sympathetic characters and wit. When one of the major moments of comic relief is scene of two lizards copulating, you know the film is in trouble."

The technical sides of the production also present challenges. This film was animated in studios throughout the world and incorporates both cel and computer animation. The scenes with characters are cels, while any scene with vehicles are animated by computer ( with one ill-conceived exception). There's really no effort to blend the two styles together and the change-over from one to another is jarring. The computer scenes are actually fairly well-realized and had interesting designs for the spacecraft. The cel animation, though, is fairly life-less just a couple of steps above Saturday morning fare with a washed-out color design."

Ga-Source has a report from Ritual's Tom Mustaine with info on how the story in FAKK2 progresses, with use of cinematics and such.

gXp just keeps on going with those FAKK2 grabs, check the latests here. Remember that you can pick up that video at FAKK You.

The Gamelinks guys have a preview of Ritual's Heavy Metal FAKK2. Check this purty looking game out: [shot 1] [shot 2] [shot 3] [shot 4]. Thanks KungFu at Telefragged.

Some more images of HeavyMetal FAKK2 have popped up on this gXp web page. This shot in particular impressed me a bit, snagged from some video footage they dug up.

Heavy Metal FAKK2 is in the works over at Ritual Entertainment. The guys at GA-Source had some hands-on experience with the game recently and are offering up their preview of the Quake3 engine based title. There are 4 known Quake3 based games now, FAKK2, Voyager, Alice, and Wolfenstein2000. I still cant decide which game I'd like better between this one and the KISS game from ThirdLaw.

The FAKK You guys have put up modem-friendly versions of the huge 52mb quicktime movie that was released a couple of days ago. They have a 26mb, a 14mb and a 8mb mpg.

gXp has more FAKK2 screen grabs for you to take a look at.

The gXp Interactive page has some video footage and images of Heavy Metal: FAKK2 from Ritual Entertainment. The footage is a bit dated though but if you're interested in seeing what Ritual is doing with the Quake3 engine it's worth a look. Thanks quake3arena.de

There's an interview with Mark Dochtermann on FAKK You talking about Ritual's upcoming Q3-engine powered F.A.K.K.² game.