Posted in Relic, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Cataclysm, The Outfit, Company of Heroes by ÜberJumper on April 2nd, 2009
Round 5 is up!
This time it’s Relic Vs Bioware. We’re down the the final four now. It’s Bioware Vs Relic and Turbine Vs Nintendo.
At the time of this post, Bioware is up 608 to 540. Vote once, and vote with your heart. Bioware’s another great developer so it’s no dishonour for Relic to lose to them. For me though, it still comes down to Homeworld :-)
Posted in Relic, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Cataclysm, The Outfit, Company of Heroes by ÜberJumper on March 30th, 2009
Round four of The Escapist’s March Madness begins tomorrow. Voting starts at 6am EST Tomorrow.
Relic Entertainment made March Mayhem history today by becoming the winner of March Mayhem’s first overtime match. In the process they also participated in March Mayhem’s most epic match to date. Surely it will go down in this event’s history as nothing less than a classic.The Harmonix match was nearly as impressive with a close finish.
If you thought a poll between two videogame developers couldn’t be down to the wire nail-biting fun, think again. Can these two developers, so disparate in the types of games they make yet so similar in their devotion to quality, deliver a Round 4 classic?
Harmonix makes Rock Band for those that have enjoyed it.
Posted in Homeworld, Cataclysm by Someguy on October 8th, 2008
Sierra is scheduled to shutdown their a number of their game servers. Included on this list is Homeworld and Homeworld:Cataclysm.
Announcement: Sierra Game Servers Closing Down
UberJumper on 10/9/2008 - Update from Relic
The higher-ups here heard about this and are trying to get in touch with Vivendi. We’d definitely love to keep the servers running but we can’t make any guarantees of course.
Posted in General, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Cataclysm, Company of Heroes by ÜberJumper on May 14th, 2008
I’ve been an early adopter for Microsoft Operating Systems since Windows 98. I was there on launch day buying my copies of Vista for use with my GeForce 8800 GTS. I was super keen to download the CoH Direct X 10 patch (which took 3 hours to install due to a bad hard drive). Overall though, I knew game peformance would be slower than XP until the video card drivers improved.
I’ve been telling folks for a while that game performance and compatibility on Vista was a non-issue. Especially for Relic games. I’m actually working on an Article outlining running all of Relic’s PC games running on Vista X64. Spoiler: Relic games run in Vista as well as they do in XP (and better for CoH, as it has DX10 and XP does not).
Video card drivers have been improving for a while now, and we’ve now got benchmarks showing Vista SP1 besting XP SP3 performance wise for World in Conflict, Supreme Commander, and Crysis from Extremetech.com.
If you were using Vista’s gaming performance as an excuse to not get Vista, it’s time to find something else to hitch your horse too! I’ve said it since I’ve had it installed, Vista is Microsoft’s best OS yet. If you have questions about Vista and gaming, post a comment and I’ll try and respond. If you want to dis Microsoft, feel free to post as well, but don’t expect a response :-D
Posted in General, Relic, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Cataclysm, The Outfit, Company of Heroes by ÜberJumper on April 21st, 2008
Relic’s biggest fan contest 2008 is accepting submissions until Friday.
Last year, Goldo_0 won with this entry (100 MB download). Not only did he get a free trip to Vancouver, he got a job at Relic!
Get your submissions in, and good luck to whoever wins!
Posted in Relic, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Cataclysm, The Outfit, Company of Heroes, Relicnews by Someguy on April 1st, 2008
A new video has showed up on Youtube last evening. I’ll say that it’s pretty darn impressive watching big angry giant robots slug it out against the horde of orcs.
Posted in Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Cataclysm by ÜberJumper on September 13th, 2007
It’s my duty as a Homeworld fan to send these three videos your way…
Video 1 - latest trailer.
Video 2 - shorter trailer.
Video 3 - Russian Trailer, much longer, shows lots of gameplay.
Looks to be a space type shooter, customizable fighters, PC only title that’s due out in September. Anyone know more about it?
It seems the environments, music and overall game style is very much inspired by Homeworld. Very cool!
Update: There’s a Demo here! (It’s entirely Russian though). Thanks to Delphy for the heads up.
Posted in Homeworld, Cataclysm by ÜberJumper on August 22nd, 2007
Update from Elorran (a moderator on the Sierra forums). The Homeworld and Cataclysm WON servers are down and techs are working on them. No ETA on their return.
Edit 8/26/2007 - Looks like they’re back up!
Posted in Relic, Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Dawn of War, Impossible Creatures, Forums, Cataclysm, The Outfit, Company of Heroes, Relicnews by ÜberJumper on March 14th, 2007
There’s a thread running on the forums about people’s recollections of the Relic Open House. If you haven’t already, pop in and have a read. If you visited Relic for the open house, and haven’t posted your impressions yet, go for it!
Relic didn’t announce any new games, expansions or anything like that, but we did get to find out they have several teams working on various projects. Watch here for an article (once approved - NDA issues), about my recollections for the weekend.
Posted in Homeworld, Homeworld 2, Cataclysm by ÜberJumper on March 3rd, 2006
I’m still a huge fan of the Homeworld series, and Arioch’s Homeworld Shipyards was one of my favorite places to visit. Recently, he had to take down his Shipyards page due to space restrictions. Well, I got to thinking… “Hey, Delphy got big new servers with lots of space, I wonder if we can host them and Arioch would want to take us up on the offer?”.
Welcome aboard Arioch!