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    Thursday 31th December - Today's Releases

NFO NFL FOOTBALL PRO 99 (c) Sierra from Paradigm (49)

    Wednesday 30th December - Today's Releases

NFO Simon the Sorcerer's Pinball (c) AdventureSoft from Class (15)

    Monday 28th December - Today's Releases

NFO African Safari Trophy Hunter 3D (c) WizardWorks/GT Interactive Software (17)

    Saturday 26th December - Cracking War

This NFO has been sent out by Darkside Inc. in a bid to tell people what they claim is the truth about the so-called stealing of utility cracks.

    Thursday 24th December - Today's Releases

NFO Beavis & Butthead Bunghole In One (c) GT Interactive from Class (25)

    Tuesday 22th December (2:30pm GMT) - Help

This is the first and list time we will do a favor like this but could someone take back #djs on efnet for Saint Tok?

    Monday 21st December - Today's Releases

NFO Luftwaffe Commander (c) SSi from Class (48)
NFO Starsiege TRIBES (c) Dynamix (c) from Origin (48)

    Friday 18th December (2:30pm GMT) - Razor Dupe?

Razors re-release of Hesperian Wars is causing some problems. Paradigm is still claiming that their release from four months ago is a store final. While some sites have nuked the Razor release as a dupe others are leaving it alone.

    Friday 18th December - Today's Releases

NFO StarCraft Brood War (c) Blizzard from CIFE (47 ISO)
NFO Excessive Speed (c) Iridon Interactive from CIFE (48 ISO)
NFO Myth 2: Soulblighter (c) Bungie (28 ISO)
NFO Asghan - The Dragon Slayer (c) Grolier Interactive from DVNISO (35 ISO)
NFO Airport 2000 Vol.1 from Wacky (6 ISO)

    Thursday 17th December - Today's Releases

NFO Skullcaps (c) Creative Edge/Ubisoft from CIFE (18 ISO)
NFO Starcraft Brood War (c) Blizzard from Razor (40)
NFO Hesperian Wars (c) Midas Interactive (12)
NFO Outrage (C) NMS Software (23)

    Thursday 17th December (3:00pm GMT) - SpeedBusters Mk2

Along with the repack Fusion's SpeedBusters also requires a fix to run the game correctly on one of the tracks.

    Wednesday 16th December (4:25pm GMT) - Fusion Blows It

Fusion have admitted they stuffed up their release of SpeedBusters and have since released a repackaged version (packed by Backlash no less). The problem involves "We have made a mistake when we renamed the .bin that's why it's a repack!"

    Wednesday 16th December - Today's Releases

NFO Carnivores (c) Wizard Works from DVNISO (6 ISO)

    Tuesday 15th December - Today's Releases

NFO Carnivores (c) WizardWorks/GTI from Class (15)
NFO SpeedBusters (c) UbiSoft from Fusion (46)

    Friday 11th December (6:00pm GMT) - Interview 2

I have had this interview for a little while but decided to put it online, it is with myself and The Candy Man founder of The Humble Guys.
To see this interview with The Candy Man, .txt html.

    Wednesday 9th December (9:20am GMT) - Party

CDogg is organising a massive scene party / convention for all of us. It would be held in the South Carolina (S/E USA) coastal town of Myrtle Beach which is ment to be sunny even during winter. Food and drinks will be included so if you want to help him or wish to go drop him a line at cdogg@nirvana.net.

    Friday 4th December (4:50pm GMT) - Proficient 3.0 Out

Proficient, a popular script on the scene has finally been updated to work with Mirc 5.41.

Regular Version (172kb)
Includes themes, midi's, install program but no mirc.exe or mirc.hlp.
Download: [USA 1] [USA 2] [Australia]

Deluxe Version (770kb)
Includes everything including mirc.exe and mirc.hlp.
Download: [USA 1] [USA 2] [Australia]

    Thursday 3rd December (9:45am GMT) - T.C.A Returns

T.C.A is back at a new tempary url, the pages are not a 100% though some would say they never where :). http://cpu1058.adsl.bellglobal.com/tca/ will take you there.

    Thursday 3rd December (9:45am GMT) - WCW Again?!

Well Paradigm have released another version of WCW Nitro (c) THQ. They are claiming this version to be the store final, so what does that make the Hummer's so-called final version, beta yet again?

    Wednesday 2nd December (10:00am GMT) - T.C.A aka BlackAcid's Page Returning

Black Acid has been searching for the past for weeks and has finally found someone to host his infamous pages. We will give you the URL when it does return.

    Wednesday 2nd December (9:20am GMT) - Oldschool Game

A couple of oldies from the art and warez scenes have gotten together to create the ultimate old skool shootem-up. The game is titled AXIA and can be downloaded from http://owl.frc.wmich.edu/axia.

    Wednesday 25rd November (12:30pm GMT) - Heretic 2 Duped

Well there are two different versions of Heretic 2 floating around. One by Class and one by Razor, which came out first? Well obviously both will claim theirs did, so it will be again upto the nukers to decide.

    Wednesday 25rd November (12:30pm GMT) - KingXTC Update

KingXTC's webpage can now be found at http://www.isolate.net/, his site is updated every day with news on new releases and NFO's.

    Monday 23rd November (12:30pm GMT) - Stairway To Heaven Dropped

Stairway To Heaven, a site considered one of the best in the world has recently lost two of it's best affiliations. Both Manifest (WHQ) and Class (EHQ) have dropped it. Manifest has replaced their WHQ with Firesite.

    Sunday 22nd November (2:30am GMT) - Fixes, Fixes, Fixes

Every year the same topics come up, why are the quality of releases so bad at times? Why does Class's Tomb Raider 3 needs to be recracked? Why does Paradigm's Moto Racer 2 need a fix? Why do we have a number of wierd releases for Half Life including betas and beta fixes? Why does Divine insist on releasing crap that no one else will touch?

    Wedneday 18th November (5:20am GMT) - Jess Moves Forward

Jess the one time leader for Vengeance quit her old group recently and has now moved to Dimension.

    Sunday 15nd November (11:55pm GMT) - Saint Tok's Weekly Interview #1

From this point onwards we hope to bring you a weekly interview with a major person from the scene. Each interview will be brought to you by Saint Tok and will be published on these pages.

To see this weeks interview with Freddy Krueger, .txt html.

    Friday 13nd November (7:15pm GMT) - Our News On GameOver Is Incorrect

It seems we owe GameOver.net an apology for yesterday's article about a report on their pages. The report/article was infact an anonymous email that was not intended for public consumption. GameOver.net never had any intention of releasing this to the public and are disappointed that the public obtained the url.

    Friday 13nd November (7:05pm GMT) - Half-Life Is BETA!

The Class release of Half-Life today (yet another over-hyped fps game) is now confirmed as beta. The Class build is 738 while the final build is 742. This is another slap in the face for the group who have already had a shocking month. They also admit breaking the FACTION rule #1 but they claim it was for the good of the scene. But I say whats the point of creating rules if you do not follow or enforce them?

Here is an extract from their NFO ..
We are well aware of the packaged size of this game and we are aware that it is in violation of guideline #1 of the agreed-upon FACTION 10 point program, but we recognize a major title when we see one and there is no better way to deliver a title of this stature than in its most complete form. Some groups would motion to remove multiplayer levels or whatnot, in order to make it a legitimate release that could be counted in charts etc. Fortunately for the end-user, that is not OUR priority, and we sincerly believe that gamers out there who have been waiting for this game are willing to get it at the expense of a few hours and or a $50 dollar phone bill in Europe. There is NO better way to bring this game down in size while main- taining the utmost level of playability, functionality and enjoya- bility that this game deserves. So as far as credit in the game-charts goes, we say fuck-it. Nuke this game if you'd rather not see it on your respective sites. The rest of us will enjoy this long-awaited, stellar title. Noone can deny that this is what common sense dictates. Enjoy the game and expect more from your dependable friends who have brought you some of the greatest FPS games of all time, including QUAKE 2 and UNREAL... CLASS PC.

Oh it also seems when you use Sierra's online gaming server for multiplayer games the server logs some of your information. Sierra doing a Blizzard I wonder?

    Thursday 12nd November (7:10pm GMT) - No So Secret Article

Game-over.net has caused uproar among the scene by putting online an article about the scene. The article contained so much information that it might as well have been titled ‘The Newbies Guild To The Games Scene'. The article mentioned how-tos, group names, releases even group irc channels.

Many groups are highly aggravated at this article with many people now threatening a boycott of game-over.net (or worse). Due to a lack of communication within the group, some members claimed that the article was never meant to be put online. Even though it was complete and ready, with it's own custom graphics etc. But the persons who did published and uploaded this article, did it obviously without giving it too much thought.

The article was located at http://www.game-over.net/feature/november/truth/ but has since been erased due to many complaints.

    Friday 5th November (5:20pm GMT) - The Lost City Bids Fairwell

Hello all reading this

Long lived iso site TLC had quited due trafic problems at its current domain. I guess over 10 gb in and more out a day is much. Thank you all ppl who were involved building The Lost City into site it was. I hope I c u around. I hope u had fun, cos I had. Thanks to Cife, Deviso, Lamerziso, Risciso, Ambiso, Siegeiso, Caliso, Isolation, MNMiso and all the other groups that had part of the fun.

Muna

    Thursday 5th November (5:55pm GMT) - Razor Violates New Rules?

There has been an uproar today after Class nuked Razor's release of Sin, claiming it was a rape and broke the new FACTION rules. Razor released the game at 50 28.8 disks and in the original release ripped the movies, speech and music. Now here is the tricky part they also took out some of the multiplayer and training maps. Razor then went on to release a music addon at 21 28.8 disks and a Speech and Misc (missing maps) addon at 24 28.8 disks. Now here are the FACTION rules that are affected ..

2. Every release under this limit will be a functionally and playable complete game. This means that included will be every component necessary for the successful completion of the game (every level, track, course and other NECESSARY component).

> While Razor has removed some multiplayer levels the game is still functional and playable right to the end. All the necessary components are included.

5. Only 2 Add-Ons should be released per game. Each Add-On should be no more than 25 x 2.88 megabyte archives.

> There are only two addons for this release and both are under the 25 disk limit.

So as you can see Class had no reason to nuke Razor's release. Some people (though we do not) have been saying that certain people in Class are being nothing more then cry-babies, who are angry that they did not get their way.

    Tuesday 3nd November (4:59pm GMT) - Our Domain Was Hacked

Earlier today someone (we assume an AOL'er) hacked the domain name server which redirected www.defacto2.net to an incorrect webpage. Our domain hosts and InterNIC are going through the logs to see what can be done about this.

    Tuesday 3nd November (4:59pm GMT) - Paradigm Releases Railroad Tycoon 2

Paradigm have released this long awaited title, Railroad Tycoon II (c) Gathering of Developers. And thankfully it's the whole game, nothing was ripped!

    Sunday 1st November (5:25pm GMT) - Origin Not So Censored

It has been brought to my attention by parties concerned that the comment "So remember 'TU: Where the elite speaks' unless you rag big brother :)" maybe taken out of content. The parties concern say that Ice is indeed not censored and he can still post, he just can't read all the conferences.