=========================================== News about Amiga gaming =========================================== Sadeness News A lot of people have been wondering recently what has actually happened to Sadeness. There hasn't been a lot coming from them and the website hasn't been updated in months. Well, I can now inform you that they are still alive and sre still commited to the Amiga market. There has been a number of changes and reasons for the lack of news from them, them moving being one of these. However, Sadeness Software are now only part-time and cannot be contacted via phone, a new email address should be available soon. As for Operation: Counterstrike, well, they will still be publishing this game. I'm also told that they will also still be publishing Dafel: Bloodline although this isn't confirmed. As for Forgotten Forever, I have no idea at the moment, I will try to find out... =========================================== New Eat the Whistle Demo A new demo of Eat the Whistle has been released. The game is already available from Epic Marketing and this demo is the final demo that will be released of the game. It is available from the Hurricane Software webpage at : http://www.freeweb.org/freeweb/hurricane =========================================== Olofight Update This game was only recently released at the Computer '98 show and already the authors have announced that there will be an update released very soon. First of all, the authors have announced that they will be making a CD release of Olofight in about 2/3 weeks, I'm sure you'll agree, this is much better then the mammoth 10 disks that the game currently comes on. They will also be releasing a GFX board patch for the game which will be available in about a month. A new demo should be available soon. =========================================== Settlers 2 =========================================== It was confirmed at the Computer 98 show that Titan Computer is to convert Settlers 2, a god sim to the Amiga but details have been hard to come by. Amiga Gamers should expect an excellent title that has already proved to be a success on the pc and mac with over a million copies sold. The storyline to the sequel is that after fighting a losing battle with the raging sea, a brave people find themselves stranded on an apparently uninhabited island. You must lead these survivors on the ultimate quest of world domination. Amiga Flame has now learned that Settlers 2 will feature Network Play ICP/ TCP and also have a random level generator. It boasts over 30 different building types such as sawmills, metalworks, pig farms, coal mines and more, building a medieval empire. You can then send scouts to explore unknown territories and build catapults and use various types of soldiers to fight against the Vikings, Nubians and Asiatics. Settlers 2 will surprisingly run on an 030 processor, with 16MB Fast Ram, 40MB Hard Drive and will be CD-Rom only. A special PowerPC version will be included. You can visit Titan Computer at http://www.titancomputer.de =========================================== Titan Computer logs =========================================== I have recently had comments that the logs of the interview can be to long to read at times and it is difficult to pick up on specific answers to questions. Because of this, I have decided to write a short summary of the whole interview each week. This will start with the Titan Interview that was held on Sunday. * First of all, we'll concentrate of Claws of the Devil, the Tomb Raider like game that is in development. First of all, the game will be released in March/April and there won't be a demo until 2/3 weeks before release (and not around now like was suggested at Computer '98). There will be no AGA version, only GFX card equiped machines will be supported. The game will run best on PPC although it will run on an 060 in low-res (res on PPC will be 640x480). * To begin with, Claws will use the PowerUP kernal and not WarpOS like has been suggested. Permedia support will be included in the game although this will not be via Warp3D to start off with, instead the game will use the Permedia chip directly. Warp3D support may be added in the future. * Settlers 2. This will hopefully be released in late January, again, a demo will be released a few weeks before release. The game will run on both 68k & PPC. Titan were not given the whole sources to the game, only the sound and gfx sources. There will be additions to the original PC game such as TCP/IP support and a level generator. * Evils Doom: Special Edition will be released in January, the 3D engine in the game has not been completly reworked just mearly made smoother. * Any future high spec Amiga games will depend on the sales of Settlers 2, Titan will continue with other PC ports and also have an option on Settlers 3 if Settlers 2 sells well. If it sells badly, it could be the end. Whats good sales, well, Titan want 3000 - 4000 at least, if Settlers 2 doesn't get this then we might as well give up. * Shadow of the Third Moon 2 PPC is a possibility, however, PC & MAC versions of shadow 1 will be released first. * Total Combustion is still on the cards, first details of this are expected in the 2nd quarter of '99. * Titan currently have 2 PC conversions lined up for '99, they are in talks with several PC companies including Eidos. =========================================== Eat The Whistle Released =========================================== Epic Marketing has released the long awaited soccer game, Eat The Whistle from developers Hurricane Studios. In Eat The Whistle there is the World cup, Leagues, Cups with real teams but of course players names have to be modified. Each player has more than 550 frames of animation, 300 for the goalkeeper and 100 for the referee. There is around 30 types of pitches such as muddy, frozen and wet. It has an intuitive control system allowing acceleration/ deceleration of players, and of course for other aspects like fouls, corners, throw-ins, heading and other special shots. In "arcade mode" it plays more like Speedball 2 with the inclusion of powerups, bonuses to spice up the action even more. There is a 1 & 2 players mode but there is support for 3 & 4 players mode using a 4 Joystick Adapter or Keyboard. It has a team editor and tactic editor, and what the authors describe as being a very complex menu. It includes spoken commentary and action replays which can be saved and loaded. Hurricane Studios have said that it will work on all Amiga's, with support for GFX boards and also for AHI and sound cards. Those who have faster CPU's get a faster frame rate. You can purchase Eat The Whistle from Epic Marketing at the bargain price of 14.99 UK Pounds. If you are still unsure whether to get it, then check out the new demo from the developers web site. -->Visit their web site at :- http://freeweb.aspide.it/freeweb/hurricane/ =========================================== ClickBOOM News: Z Announced, Napalm Site up. =========================================== ClickBOOM have finally announced that they will be releasing Z on the Amiga. It has been common knowledge for ages that they intended to do this, however, it hadn't, until now, been made official. Sadly, however, they give no details on the game, all that is revealed is that the game will make its way onto our screens sometime next year. This Command & Conquer varient from the Bitmap Brothers (Who made such classics as Speedball 2 & the Chaos Engine series) was quite successful in the PC market would be welcomed with open arms by many Amiga owners. There were rumours that the game was to be PPC only, however, I now believe this to not be the case although this hasn't actually been confirmed by clickBOOM in anyway. ClickBOOM have also made a long awaited update to the Napalm page on their site, however, they still have not given a idea as to when the game will actually be out mearly saying 'Napalm will be ready soon'. Hopefully it will be with us in time or christmas. It is also interesting to see that clickBOOM plan to have Napalm converted onto other platforms. I believe a PC version is already in the works and a MAC version may not be that far away. This movement into other markets can only be a good thing as is will hopefully fund the development of more Amiga games. Check out the clickBOOM webaite out at : http://www.clickboom.com