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4 years ago
Feature: Meet gaming’s restoration experts
“Hunting for distribution rights is essentially detective work,” says Marcin Paczyński, Head of Product at GOG. “Rights can repeatedly change hands or be split up between different parties, and it’s our job to get to the bottom of what happened.” Preservation of old games involves more than just an extra patch. The journey from dusty unplayable relic to polished, cross-platform installer is a minefield of…
7 years ago
Remember, remember the 6th of Julember. For that is the date that the two-day Rezzed game show, orchestrated by Eurogamer with lots of help from the nerds at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, kicks off in my current home town of Brighton, UK. It's also my girlfriend's birthday, which means I won't be at the show until Saturday July 7th. And that I will very sadly miss…
It's entirely possible we'll have to wait another 12.7 thousand years for Carmageddon: Reincarnation to roll its spiky, organ-splattered wheels this way, but we've waited this long already so a spot of extra patience before we can massacre pedestrians with weird cars isn't going to hurt. At least we finally have a first peek at roughly what the game will look like. Above is one…
8 years ago
Feature: Likewise Twisted
I was nine years old, visiting far-flung relatives in Malaysia. Back then, piracy was huge over there, with entire shops in respectable shopping malls dedicated purely to the sale of pirated software of all stripes. To a young kid with no real concept of money and ownership, all I saw was shelves of games in poorly-photocopied plastic wallets that my well-meaning relatives happily bought for…
Feature: The Splat Pack are back
I was a typically world-hating, violence-lovin' teenager during the early 1990s, and that means I'm as pleased as the next man-child that ultra-sadistic racing/pedestrian-splatting game Carmageddon is finally, finally due for a comeback next year, with a new game called Carmgeddon: Reincarnation. Having rescued the rights from the ashes of publisher SCI, original developers Stainless Games are back at the helm. Here, I chat to…
The Carmageddon reincarnation has been officially revealed. It's called Carmageddon: Reincarnation, appropriately enough. (The website appears completely broken at the moment.) And it's being made by the same team that created the original two games, Stainless Games.
VG247 are reporting that the countdown timer at Carmageddon.com has nothing to do with former publishers Square-Enix (Eidos), and that it is possibly an independent project. A source familiar with the matter said that Square Enix has nothing to do with the next in the Carmageddon series. All rights to the action IP have been negotiated away from Square, owner of original publisher Eidos. The…
9 years ago
Have we ever polled the RPS omni-opinion about Carmageddon? It appears not. The discovery that the 'Carmageddon' tag did not exist on this humble website before now is startling. It's not a game I'd ever hold up as essential, classic, important, with lessons unlearned by those that followed... but it's formative. It's a game that occurred at the right time, when technology was crude and…
