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B & W Creatures to Download

As you might know by now by reading the various newsbits and previews of Black & White, your initial choice of creatures when you get that far in the game is limited to the Cow, Ape and Tiger. Thanks to…

Black & White Wrap Up

PC.ign was out to play last week in a big way with a mini-preview every day of different aspects of the good side in the now gold Black & White. There’s one for every day, but for the index head…

UWO Origin Pixel Captures

Praise be! There are three new screen nips from the successor to the late great Ultima Online called Ultima Worlds Online: Origin direct from the official page. I must say, I have seen more becoming shots of the game than…

Star Wars Galaxies Race Nuggets

With another week comes another sprinkling of the MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies info. It’s nice that they keep the fan community updated consistently with news on the forum boards and such. The concept art for the thus far 6 identified…

Scrying Room overhaul

As promised the guys over at the Scrying Room have done a major overhaul. They have added loads of new stuff that makes for a very interesting read. Obviously they have put some hard work, and we would like to…

Black & White Finally Gold!

After all this time, all these long months of wondering when the most anticipated game of the recent past is going to arrive, the puncuation point of development happens for the team at Lionhead Studios and Peter Molyneux. Here’s the…

Monster Groups

Gamer asks about how grouping monsters will work: So, I know we can assign custom AI scripts to creatures, in order to give them a specific behavior, like the werewolf pack. I’m wondering, however, if we can assign creatures to…

More Ways To Cast

Gamer is worried about casting in real time: …in a heat of a battle it would be quite difficult to select a desired spell and cast it using the current menu system. This is also the problem (in my opinion)…

Combat Animation

Gamer asks for a sample of the combat animation: I was wondering how far along is the animating of combat in the game?…can you give any more details on how extensive this system is going to be? How many points…

Height Transitions in Tilesets

Gamer asks about how the tilesets will handle height transitions: Height transitions updates?…1.) Will height transitions be limited to 1 raise/lower next to the adjoining tiles?2.) If there are tilesets that will allow for more than one height transition at…