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Could it be? Another bit of videogame goodness graced by the Star Wars universe? It looks that way, as LucasArts President Jim Ward told Reuters that a new Star Wars RTS title for the PC is on the way.
"I think there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original Star Wars games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year," Ward explains in the article.
Ward describes the new project as taking the RTS genre in a new direction, while balancing gameplay "between the hard-core gamers who buy these games and the broader audience that's familiar with the Star Wars brand."
Petroglyph Games is a small, independent developer based in Las Vegas. Members of its team have worked on projects such as Earth & Beyond, the Command & Conquer, and even classics like California Games.
The company's website mentions an unnamed "amazing product," to be revealed shortly. We suspect that project may have just been revealed.
Of course, we'll be back with more as soon as we have details. Stay tuned.
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Though more than a century old, in art-history terms -- think of the 2,600-year-old Greek Kouros or sixth-century architectural remnants at Chichén Itzá -- cinema is still in diapers.
Seen this way, The Polar Express, the latest in a series of digitally conceived features, might look like the first tottering steps toward a huge developmental milestone in the early childhood of American cinema. Along with new, computerized movies The Incredibles, Shark Tale and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Polar Express highlights an industry in the grip of an unprecedented growth spurt in imagination and technical promise.
Visually, movies can now transport us to previously unreachable photo-realistic dreamlands, whether the destination is a North Pole of storybook luminescence or a futurist's glance at the past. But artistically, we're still traveling: No matter how glorious these films look, no matter how eye-popping, they're still the work of apprentices, because the tools of the trade keep morphing.
Each time movie directors master the language of film, the mechanics of filmmaking evolve -- some new technology emerges that alters not just the "hows" but the "what ifs" inherent in the form. It happened with the introduction of sound, and again with the introduction of color.
At such junctures, movies can become tempo
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Film studios DreamWorks and Walt Disney have three films each in the running for best animated feature Oscar.
Disney's hopes are with Teacher's Pet, Home on the Range and The Incredibles, a collaboration with Pixar.
Shrek 2, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence and Shark Tale are flying the flag for DreamWorks.
Eleven films will compete for a maximum of three nominations, to be announced in January. Warner, Paramount and two independent studios also have entries.
Warner's entries are The Polar Express and Clifford's Really Big Movie, based on the Big Red Dog picture book series.
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, based on the popular TV series, is in the running for Paramount.
Indian 2D film The Legend of Buddha and South Korea's Sky Blue, which got its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, are also eligible.
The animated feature film Oscar was created in 2002, with Shrek winning the first prize that year. Spirited Away took home the coveted award in 2003 and Finding Nemo was this year's winner.
Underwater adventure Shark Tale premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month. Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro are among those who provided voiceovers for the characters.
Disney and Pixar's The Incredibles is released in the US on Friday.
It tells the tale of a superhuman husband and wi
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer has a serious rival in the long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser, which has just been released.
Few people get excited when some new software is released, especially when the program is not a game or a music or movie player.
But the release of the first full version of Firefox has managed to drum up a respectable amount of pre-launch fervour.
Fans of the software have banded together to raise cash to pay for an advert in the New York Times announcing that version 1.0 of the browser is available.
The release of Firefox 1.0 on 9 November might even cause a few heads to turn at Microsoft because the program is steadily winning people away from the software giant's Internet Explorer browser.
Firefox has been created by the Mozilla Foundation which was started by former browser maker Netscape back in 1998.
Much of the development work done since then has gone into Firefox which made its first appearance under this name in February. Earlier incarnations, but which had the same core technology, were called Phoenix and Firebird.
Since then the software has been gaining praise and converts, not least because of the large number of security problems that have come to light in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Rivals to IE got a boost in late June when two US computer security organ
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Activision announced today that Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the advanced, Source-powered follow-up to the original Redemption RPG title, will ship November 16, 2004.
Yes, that's right: Bloodlines will hit shelves alongside a certain other game running on Valve's Source engine. Can there be too much of a good thing? Probably not in this case. Embrace the riches.
Developed by Troika Games, Bloodlines offers another epic role-playing adventure set in White Wolf's World of Darkness RPG universe. Select from one of seven clans, uniting with and against other mysterious characters on the dim streets of Los Angeles. Something strange and unholy is taking shape, and your adventures will reveal more and more of its sinister shape.
Check out a brand new video showing off the game's vampiric powers. We've also got plenty more Bloodlines coverage so far, so be sure to read up on the character, gamplay, and technical innovations of Troika's latest -- then look for the full game to hit next week.
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