Site News Archive

July 16, 2002
Another new News Editor, his name is John, a.k.a. Jester. Also, the site is going to be changing alot in the next few days. New layout, etc. It is going to be more UC News-Based.
-Toast

July 15, 2002
We have a new member of Staff Here, His name is Sam. He will be going the name Offspring, and he is a new News editor. He has some news, and he will soon have a bio, in the staff section.
-Toast

July 07,2002

Well, another update. Quite big. Prpbably my last on for a little while, since I will be doing alot. Two new sections- Fun Stuff, and FXBL(FunxboxLive). I recommend looking at both, especially Fun Stuff, lol. FunxboxLive is a clan, that I am in, for Unreal Championship on the Xbox. I will have all the members posted, and members who will be getting UC.

Cya.

-By Toast

July 03,2002

Jeez, its been a while since I updated, so I just thought I would update for the sake of letting you know im still here. It's pretty crappy though. I might not be updating too much over the summer, at least until the actual game come's up, then it will be busy. But pretty soon I will be adding a "cool stuff" page, that will show links or just cool things i've found on the internet. I've already got stuff lined up for it. Anyways, I also won't be updating because I have this gay summer job where i am working 12 hours a day and getting paid jack. It's slave labor. lol. Anyways, I did update one thing, the links, with a link to caticus, a graphics design site. pretty cool. Be sure to check out the voices if you go to his site.

I have some crap to do, see you later, i'll make that new page in a couple of days.

And oh, I make another link to UGLY PEOPLE dot com

Cya.

-By Toast

June 22,2002

I have made a big update. Media is updated with new movies. Plus, Microsoft's Xbox.com did a Preview/ Review of the beta version of UC. Check that out in the previews section. I have updated this front page, and the screenshots section has two new shots. The nest screenshots I put up will be in a new section, maybe Screenshots II.

-By Toast

June 20, 2002

I have made a new media page and will be adding to that regularly. Changed a few links and errors, but thats about it. Updated previews.

-By Toast

June 19, 2002

There was a typo in the last update about a morrowind preview. I have fixed it. I am adding links to some cool sites, so check them out.

June 13, 2002

I havent updated for a while, but there isn't much news, and I have also been playing Morrowind. I have a small preview of Unreal championship, here it is, it will also be in the previews section. I will slowly be updating when news comes by, so check back ever couple days, I will update.

XRG.com-

Unreal Championship. This game for the Xbox from Digital Extreme is just insanely cool! Thanks goes out to Meridith from Infogrames for hooking us up with a showing of that and Unreal 2 (which was a close second). The thing that got me the most out of all the cool new features of the title was the particle system. There are a lot of games out there that brag about their particle systems but I am confident that the one that DE has in place for this is incredible. Here's the coolest example: imagine your typical UT level with the modern industrial feel but clean smooth hallways. There is a grate in the middle of the floor slowly letting out some steam. The steam thickens slightly. This, my fellow gamers, is where it gets good...and I mean really good. A fan in the wall to the right slowly starts to churn (picture the big fan that use to be on the Saturday Night Live music set). There is light shining throught the fan into the steam and the shadow in the steam is just amazing. It's all real-time so you see the shadows of the holes in the fan in the steam. But that's not it...oh no. A rocket is then shot through the steam and there is a whole in the smoke where the rocket went through. But that isn't the best part - the smoke trails after the rocket and reacts to the rocket just as it would in real life. There are also other great aspects of this title but it's the particle system that puts it over the edge. You add to that the fact that they have only been working on the game for 4 months and it's mind-boggling what the final product will look like.

Some quick info for UC (that's what Cliffy was calling it):

Takes place 200 years after Unreal Tournament. It's still a tournament culture but they have taken it to the next level.
It is using the Unreal Warfare technology.
As described above, it has an enhanced lighting and shadows system
11 weapons. A new weapon called the Link Weapon allows up to three players to harness their power and the lead person does triple the damage. There is a downside the people that are linking (not the one linked to) are defenseless. They have no weapons.