[H]ardNews 1st Edition - Games

Half Life 2:

ShackNews reports today is the day that information embargo dates expire for Half Life 2. Still sTeve reports that you will likely not find much information online. Guess, they have to give that stuff to the mags first now days or no one will read them... Of course if you happened to get hold of the full scanned article from PCGamer, it was nice read with lots of good pics. Looks like those headcrabs got a bit beefier.

We should be getting a nice chunk of information on Half-Life 2 this week, the magazine's actual NDA's lift tomorrow. However most websites wont be hosting anything for a little while longer.. not quite sure how that will work out but I've been speaking with a couple of magazines in hopes of scoring some stuff for you guys.

Celebs in Games:

Gamespy.com talks about the use of big names in big games. Only seems to make sense to me. I seem to remember a company named "id" doing some NIN stuff some time ago.

However, the use of celebrities isn't just happening in the realm of story building and character portrayal. Witness, for example, an advertisement in the May 2003 issue of Game Developer magazine. It features a wild-eyed Ozzy Osbourne peeking up out of the background with the tagline: "Next time they tell you that hitmakers aren't interested in games, maybe they should talk to him."

Vice City DivX:

I know many of us are hoping to see GTA3 Vice City on our PCs soon. This time we are hoping that it even works good! Still, you can head over to this Euro-site that has seven Quicktime movies posted of the PC game in action.

They also have some hi-rez screencaps posted as well.