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It’s been a month, possibly more since the last update which I majorly apologize for- with a small staff and busy lives it is bound to happen every so often! Personally I’ve just had a wisdom tooth taken out, which has reared its ugly head since Armageddon last month, but thats sorted now, and I’m ready to announce a project for RetroActive.

Are you a seasoned “Starcraft” player? Retroactive wants to hear from you ASAP for a documentary about to hit pre-production in the next month, and hopefully release a few weeks after Starcraft 2.

We’re looking at interviewing modders/mappers/and players both casual and “hardcore”, as well as filming the release of the game’s sequel in Wellington.

Please email ross@retroactive.co.nz for more information. NZ’ers only for interviews sorry!

Hey guy’s, I’m back from having a bit of a summer break and raring to go!

Since it’s moved a year forward I’d figure I’d review something as late in what I would define as “retro”….

Developer- Epic Games

Release- November 1999

Platforms: PC/Linux/Mac and later Dreamcast and PS2

1999 was the year I’d consider one of the last years of “current gen-retro”. By this I means its more than 10 years old, and a huge turning point in the industry as far as how we looked at online gaming.

Until then, multiplayer was just something that came up alongside other games main campaigns, there was no focus to create a multi player only shooter. The only strictly multiplayer shooters were modifications such as Team Fortress or Counter-Strike- however these were just mods to retail games that allowed you to mess with the map editing and code of the games (not to say this wasn’t a bad thing).

Then along came Epic who broke the rules with “Unreal Tournament”.

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