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<t>It's out. As in, you can preorder it for 15$, get the (highly polished) beta, and will receive all the updates as well as the "full" version once the devs decide to remove the beta label.My only complaint is that distribution is limited to impulse right now, with BMTmicro and Gamersgate coming ...

<t>So, X gets a makeover again...Oh well. They were fun games, though not without their warts.One of my main gripes is, funnily enough, the economy system. The game uses a metric crapload of resources to track all the commodities and ships moving through space, while actually offering precious ...

<t>I noticed that there seems to be no thread about this (admittingly, rather obscure) game. First things first, here's the website:http://code.google.com/p/rlprospector/It's a roguelike, basically a graphically simple, turn-based RPG which is relying heavily on random generators*. You start as a ...

<t>There is no "free copy". You buy a key and affix it to an existing Miner Wars Account. Since there is only one client, there is no separate download option for the MMO (once/if that one materializes, that is) - you need an account to log into the client, and the perks purchased for that account ...

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mavrospete wrote:<br/>
I've just played Evochron Mercenary and I have one question: The player only controls one small ship? I really want to control big or capital ships.<br/>
No luck with the Evochron series, then. You only control one ship, and while there are larger frames available ...

<t>Renegades is the predecessor to Mercenary. (Actually, the evolution was Renegades - Legends - Mercenary). The games are pretty similar, though. Mercenary adds new ship frames, gas giants, a whole lot of new equipment options, the ability to build stations and improved multiplayer code, but (as of ...

<t>Here's a forum post from one of the Devs (Marek Rosa), which the people who preordered might find useful.<br/>
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You will get the MMO automatically. It will unlock itself once MMO is finished.Miner Wars (single player / MMO / or any future expansion) is still one application (one ...

<t>Sounds like a really fun concept, in an incredibly geeky kind of way. I especially like the captain's role (and his inability to actually do something without the rest of the crew). It's too bad that I have neither the infrastructure nor the amount of equally geeky friends to give that game a ...

<t>There's also the X-Series, which by by now can be gotten incredibly cheap. It's not without it's warts, but the games are definitely worth trying.<br/>
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some that I am waiting on personally is Starpoint Gemini, Shattered Origins and Salvation Prophecy.<br/>
SP:G is preordered already ...

<t>There's precious little about it right now - no previews, no screenshots. It's pretty much just rumors and footnotes on the CCP website (yeah, that's the guys behind EVE).[url]http://www.ccpgames.com/en/products/world-of-darkness.aspx[/url] White Wolf (the guys behind the Vampire - the Masquerade ...

For your browsing pleasure:Irrlicht - [url]http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/[/url] - [url]http://www.udk.com/[/url] is an open-source game development kit (and the german word for a will-o'-the-wisp), while UDK is a free (with some strings attached) version of the Unreal 3 engine.-Blackthorne

Aero wrote:
Is this game similar to Anarchy Online? Or more like WoW with laser weapons? Or Matrix Online?
It's EVE, with mechs on planets replacing the ships in space. The games are incredibly similar from the interface and the basic game mechanics.

<t>It's cute. And it has so much potential...I can't believe I've wasted half of the morning just to try all the ships. :DAnyways, have there been any announcements on the continued development? From the thread linked it the first post, it seems the author wants to port it to a new engine before ...

<t>So, they're at billions of star systems by now. Even for a MMO, think that this is overly ambitious. Then again, I consider Infinity to be overly ambitious, something that might easily spell it's downfall. One problem with that amount of space in a persistent universe is the hardware required to ...

<t>*Caution: Rambling old man ahead. Proceed at your own risk.*They have killed the great sun jesterWho danced between the starsThey have stripped him of his manhoodSigns of Venus and of MarsThe cynics left him weepingAnd the jackals left him tornAnd the jester reaches out blind handsHe can touch ...