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Dave's Internet Games Blog August 2003 Archive

By Dave Spohn, About.com Guide to Internet Games since 2002

Battlefield 1942 v1.45 Patch

Saturday August 30, 2003
It's patch time once again for BF1942 players. Client fixes include support for the Secret Weapons expansion, changes to ground vehicle spawning, and elimination of the floating exploit. Details and ... Read More

Exclusive Demo Backlash

Saturday August 30, 2003
The recent release of the Call of Duty demo has stirred up quite a controversy. FilePlanet had cut a deal with Activision, the game's publisher, to offer the demo exclusively ... Read More

Galaxies #2 MMOG in U.S.

Friday August 29, 2003
Star Wars Galaxies now has over 275,000 registered users, making it the second largest massively multiplayer online game in the United States, right behind EverQuest. This also makes Galaxies the ... Read More

Women Gamers Outnumber Boys

Thursday August 28, 2003
People often assume that the majority of video gamers are teenage boys. Who would have imagined that they are actually outnumbered by women gamers age 18 and older? The Entertainment ... Read More

Homeworld 2 Goes Gold

Tuesday August 26, 2003
Homeworld set the standard for real-time strategy in outer space with great gameplay and some of the most satisfying graphics of its time. Fans of this franchise will be glad ... Read More

New Screenshots Galore

Monday August 25, 2003
Editor's Day at Atari was apparently very productive, because GameSpy has new screenshots of a whole bunch of upcoming Atari titles, including Unreal Tournament 2004, NWN: Hordes of the Underdark, ... Read More

Dark Age Housing Boom

Thursday August 21, 2003
Since the introduction of the free Foundations expansion about six weeks ago, players and guilds in Dark Age of Camelot have had the opportunity to purchase in-game housing. In this ... Read More

2nd Annual Madden Challenge

Thursday August 21, 2003
EA Sports has launched the 2nd annual Madden Challenge Tournament. It's a nationwide 32 city contest to decide the best player of the world's top-selling football video game, and the ... Read More

PlanetSide Expanding Underground

Tuesday August 19, 2003
Having accumulated over 60,000 subscribers since its launch in May, Sony has decided that an expansion for PlanetSide is in order. Core Combat, due this October, will take the mayhem ... Read More

John Carmack Interview

Monday August 18, 2003
GameSpy caught up to John Carmack, co-founder of id Games, at this year's QuakeCon. He talks about Quake IV, taking risks in the game business, and the next graphics rendering ... Read More

Doom 3 Preview

Friday August 15, 2003
Blackouts are always inconvenient, but the good news is, it missed Dallas, where QuakeCon is underway - that would have been a serious emergency! The lights, and computers, are still ... Read More

Console Takes on PC Games

Wednesday August 13, 2003
Look out Xbox, PS2, and GameCube, there's a new console coming that is designed to run PC games. DISCover intends to make PC gaming friendlier than ever, and bring it ... Read More

BF 1942: Secret Weapons Demo

Saturday August 9, 2003
EA Games has released a demo of the Secrets Weapons of WWII expansion, allowing you to check out 10 of the 16 new weapons. "Fly and fight at the same ... Read More

New Races Coming to Camelot

Thursday August 7, 2003
Trials of Atlantis, the upcoming expansion for Dark Age of Camelot, will add three new playable races to the game. One of these will be the shar, which are described ... Read More

WWII Online Version 1.9

Wednesday August 6, 2003
World War II Online has seen a fairly major overhaul, including a move to OpenGL graphics, new vehicles, Depot spawning, and more. To kick it off they have reinstituted their ... Read More

Horizons GenCon Footage

Saturday August 2, 2003
Fighting dragons in games is great, but how would you like to be able to play a dragon? There is a new movie on Horizons Vault of David Bowman at ... Read More

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