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Apparently Starlite has received the infamous Blizzard “cease and desist” letter. It was inevitable that it would happen, but couldn’t you have waited just a bit longer, Blizzard? It’s not like you were developing the Starcraft DS port behind our backs this whole time…

As a note to all people who would endeavor to create these [...]

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Not only have these very talented homebrew developers been doing an amazing job at reproducing our beloved RTS on the Nintendo DS, but they’ve been doing so at a rapid pace! StarLite .03 has been released, and it includes the capacity for two player ad-hoc wifi play!

With two files to use now, both the .nds [...]

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I’m sure most of us have heard of this game at some point or another. Many of us know that it’s named Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) because it’s taking forever for them to develop the game.

Announced in April 1997, this title has been actively “developed” for over 10 years. Whatever the reasons behind this lengthy [...]

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Check this out, however, it’s a bit primitive when compared to this: Phosphor. Yeah, that’s a 3D FPS in a web browser. I discovered it a while ago and they were in the process of implementing multiplayer. Guess what’s been implemented?
Not only does it exist, but it has bots, multiplayer, and graphics at the level [...]

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By far the most unintelligent person I’ve ever seen, can you say dee-dee-dee?

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Want Starcraft on your DS? I don’t see why you shouldn’t get it, pick up a copy now!
Two french developers have begun to recreate Starcraft from the ground up for the NDS, calling it StarLite. It’s extremely alpha-esque, but hey, it’s a start! They’ve already released two versions, currently at .02, so this project isn’t [...]

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Before the announcement of SC2, a group of dedicated SC fans were laboring to recreate SC on the WC3 engine. Realizing that SC2 isn’t SC1 in the least, they’ve decided to continue their work. Similarly to StarCraft itself’s demo, Project Revolution has released a full terran demo.

Note that these are NOT from SC, these are [...]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R., which I just finished playing through myself, has a sequel in the near future. With full DX10 this is going to be a spectacular update to bring the rough edges of the original into check. The graphics will be great, the AI and wildlife get a boost, and a whole new story is there [...]

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More and more games have been moving to Steam, Valve’s content distribution service. When Steam first came out, it just angered me because I had to go through it for HL2 and other Valve games, and all my games weren’t in one place. Since the new content has been pouring in, this is quickly reversing, [...]

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