Posts Tagged ‘ Sci-Fi ’

Mass Effect 2: The Future of RPGs? Oh really?

There has been a lot of hype around the release of Mass Effect 2 some weeks back and some people already start claiming that this game is going to be the Future of RPGs. Rampant Coyote took a stance and so did The Brainy Gamer. Being an old hand RPGer and having played Mass Effect [ READ MORE ]

Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic with Tandy Sound Enabled

  • February 9th, 2010
  • Posted in Gaming

Today’s video pick (yeah right, as if I had a new post everyday here) is from YouTube user Five5Six and about how he managed to get Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic to run on DOSBox with Tandy sound enabled. That’s right, Tandy sound! By default the game uses those bleepy PC speaker sounds as in [ READ MORE ]

Moments in Gaming 3: Grager’s Yacht (Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic)

  • November 22nd, 2009
  • Posted in Gaming

Back in the days when computer games still required you to use your imagination to play them there was a role-playing game pearl named Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic, one of the many scifi-themed RPGs back then which today are only sparsely seeded in retailer shelves. Future Magic was first released for DOS and a port [ READ MORE ]

Tutorial: Creating a Galaxy in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will explain how to create a relatively realistic looking galaxy with Photoshop. I was searching the web up- and downwards to find any tutorials that could tell me how to get a similar fantastic result. There are like 100.000 planet tutorials out there and the few tutorials which were about creating [ READ MORE ]

SWG … once again

So after about six months of absence I’ve decided to subscribe for a month back into SWG to see if things changed for the better (and to see if my stuff still exists). I spawned inside my house where I left the game last November and decided to bring my char to level 90 so [ READ MORE ]

Fun with SWG NGE

… I’m not talking about fun with playing the NGE mind you … when the NGE came live there was a lot of derision and mockery on the official forums. Among all this down pour of anger, hate and dismay about the NGE there were a handful cynical postings of how scenes in the Star [ READ MORE ]

Game Over for SOE about Star Wars Galaxies?

If we can believe these rumors originally from mmorpg.com it looks like Star Wars Galaxies is very soon history for Sony Online Entertainment. According to the news Lucas Arts withdraw the SWG license from SOE and gave it to Bioware, the makers of SWKOTOR. “Bioware did indeed gain rights to develop a second version of SWG. [ READ MORE ]

Memories of Star Wars Galaxies

I’ve been playing Star Wars Galaxies on and off for about three years so by the time a large amount of screenshots have been piled up on my harddisk. And because it’s a good opportunity, here’s a little memorial gallery for SWG, the game that once was a hell lot of fun. There were many nice [ READ MORE ]

Star Wars Galaxies – A slight breath of hope?

According to this forum post on allakhazam.com, the result of Lucas Arts Focus Group discussion about the future of Star Wars Galaxies most participants yelled for a server rollback pre-NGE in unity. Star Wars Galaxies suffered a huge loss of players in late 2005 because of the NGE total game damage that a certain Julio Torres [ READ MORE ]

The rise and fall of a Galaxy

Or how to completely destroy a popular MMORPG I’ve been a Star Wars fan for a long time, I remember since 1983 when I still was a kid and went to the movie theater with a mate to see Return of the Jedi. I wouldn’t say I’m an overly fanatic fan but I always liked the [ READ MORE ]

Lightspeed Flight and Laserfight

Review: Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic (DOS/C64) One of my very favorite games back on Amiga was the space RPG Hard Nova (to be reviewed in a while) which took me long cozy winter nights to solve. The predecessor of Hard Nova was a game called Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic which was released in 1988 [ READ MORE ]

What happened to the Hired Guns?

About four years ago there was a game in development that I highly anticipated but that never actually got released. The now disbanded software company Psygnosis was about to develop a new 3D version of their 16bit classic Hired Guns. I remember playing Hired Guns back on Amiga and while the Gameplay wasn’t anything particularly [ READ MORE ]