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Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning Beta for Fileplanet Subscribers will start today August 25! Buy the Pre-Order Direct 2 Drive to also play in the BETA and get bonus items!

It seems more people are visiting the site and I think you guys like the changes. If you guys love it or hate it, feel free to drop me an message at cpham@modcenter.com

- [MC]Ricecrispi -

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Go to Direct 2 Drive and purchase the Pre-Order and start playing the Beta online August 22nd this weekend!

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Coders Wanted - Flash MX2004+
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concept artists of maps needed

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

Gundam Universe Interview - Pappy-R of Planet Quake interviews Superman, projector creator of Quake 3 mod Gundam Universe, to discuss his 7 year experience developing this mod to public release.

ES Post Mortem - Eternal Silence project leader Daniel Menard shares his thoughts on the past five years of developing one of Half-Life 2's most ambitious and successful mods and its future.

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Community News

Drawing Out Real Emotions in Heavy Rain

Posted on 08/25/2008 - General News - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Brandon Sheffield from Gamasutra Interviews David Cage about presenting and creating real emotions for a mature gamer audience in his latest game Heavy Rain. They discuss issues with realism, narrative, cinematic in gaming, and building compelling characters.

Dreaming of a New Day: Heavy Rain By Gamasutra

Here is the trailer of Heavy Rain courtesy of Voodoo Extreme.
Trailer looks exciting with a mix of fear, eeriness, and rush of adrenaline of flight or fight excitement.

If you like to see more content like this in the future then Click Here

VE3D Video for Heavy Rain (PlayStation 3) - GC08 Trailer Redux From Voodoo Extreme

VE3D.IGN presents The Godfather II DEV Video

Posted on 08/21/2008 - General News - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

I'm proud to presents ModCenter's first video courtesy of Voodoo Extreme.
The interview with The Godfather II the Game executive producer, Hunter Smith, explains the steps the Godfather II Dev team took to find things to improve from the original game, how they develop gameplay elements and AI design, 60s artwork, and other aspects of the game.

If you like more video content posted on ModCenter Click Here

IGN presents The Godfather II DEV dairy From Voodoo Extreme

Going Rogue By Jay Barnson

Posted on 08/18/2008 - General News - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Jay Barnson got intouch with a few Indie Game developers and together they created an article that explains the various reasons these developers left established professional DEV teams to begin their own companies as Indie developers. These individuals also talk issues they encountered as Indie developers with troubles of finding resources and business issues, game distribution, and reasons they are still Indie Game developers today.

Going Rogue by Jay Barnson From Escapist Magazine

Atari Posted a Profit For 1st Quarter 2008!!?

Posted on 08/14/2008 - General News - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Seriously, Atari posted like a profit of $3.5 million dollars! I don't remember when Atari lasted posted a profit, maybe when I was born! I am shocked to even see them around. This has to be the feel good story in the Gaming Industry in 08' with Atari is being bought out by Infogrames and their last minute hurrah definitely points to brighter days for Atari.

Atari reverses fortunes in Q1 From Gamespot.com

Bionic Commando Remade Pricing Dramarama

Posted on 08/14/2008 - Game Release - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment<

Bionic Commando Rearmed is a remake and reskinned version of the NES classic original. Well some PC users got upset that the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network release was $10 and the PC version was $15. Every PC gamer assumed they were getting gimped but it wasn't the case with the PC version getting extra content. Aren't PC users already used to this treatment from Microsoft?

Purchase at: Direct 2 Drive
Xtra Content for PC Bionic Commando Rearmed From Wired

Talking To Pirates Article by Cliff 'cliffski' Harris

Posted on 08/14/2008 - Industry Articles - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Cliff "cliffski" Harris is a game developer at Positech.co.uk that produced the game series Kudos. He recently brought up the hot bed topic of video game piracy. Of course he got thousands of responses and gave an overview of what he believes are the key responses from pirates.

I posted my viewpoints on Piracy so come by and give your Input

Talking To 'Pirates' by Cliff Harris By positech.co.uk

Gamasutra Interview with Bioshock's Tech Director

Posted on 08/08/2008 - Industry Articles - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Brandon Sheffield talks with Tech director of PC hit Bioshock to discuss issues as creating interest in a sequel, using the Unreal 2 game engine in the future, PC medium for games and addressing issue with target gamer audience.

Thinking BioShock: From Tech to Philosophy By Gamasutra

Art Development Process for Indie Game Braid

Posted on 08/08/2008 - Industry Articles - [MC]Ricecrispi - Comment

Visual artist David Hellman explains the art development process and collaboration with Braid creator Jonathan Blow in transforming this game into an exquisite visual art piece with luscious backdrops, fantastic looking level design, and great artistic detail. Braid is an innovative and visually gorgeous Indie game that has been on display at GDC and IGF conferences and was released on Xbox Live Arcade on August 6th.

The Art Of Braid: Creating A Visual Identity By Gamasutra

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