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Gomen! Sorry!


As you might have noticed, our site has gone dead for quite a substantial amount of time. We apologise for that. I myself have been quite busy and have not got the time to seriously admin the site. At the same time though, you have to admit that after the flurry of releases during the beginning of this summer, the PC and PC games circus has gone dead. Sure, you had the official announcement of the ATI R9700 but with the delay of UT2003, the only real large summer release was gone.

Erwin's Pages Central will fall back concerning activity, but we will continue to update you, our dear audience, about major gaming and PC events, and create thorough articles to (mis)inform you about what's really going down in the swamp of technology and games.





Grand Prix 4 review




Well, if you can blame us for something, it's for being late with reviews. Released end of June, GP4 was the next chapter in the widely acclaimed Grand Prix F1 simulation series. We bring you a thorough review end of August. Well, better late than never eh.

> Full Story



Detonator 40.41 released



This is just in: nVidia has released a new batch of Detonator drivers. These drivers will support everything from TNT2 to GF4 Ti, and promise, next to some new nView features, a performance increase of up to 25%

> nVidia Detonator 40.41





Hot Simcity 4 Screens!


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Ferrago.co.uk have released some mighty sweet pics from Simcity 4. If this is for real...then well... This is just a big "Holy Mother Jezus Christ Superstar" for me. Check them out below. Striking are the "Sims" elements like character profiles and such. It looks like Simcity 4 is just the continuation of the dumped Simsville project, but with a larger emphasis on the city aspect. Simcity 4 is due for Fall 2002.

Beware, the pictures are bitmaps, so they might take some time to load.

> Simcity 4 Screenshots


New affiliate: Animeworld



Erwin's Pages Central welcomes a new affiliate: Animeworld. The site is a very brave initiative of Inu Yasha, and heck, it even looks great too! If you liked the Erwin's Pages Satellite "Rurouni Kenshin Seidou", you should definitely pay a visit to Animeworld, since it covers much more than just RK. You can also find stuff about Japan, artwork, games and manga there, and last but not least, Animeworld supports an extensive and very active message board.

Cya all there!

> Animeworld
> Erwin's Pages Satellite: Rurouni Kenshin




Erwin's Pages over 50000 hits!



Hey, no comment eh. Over 50000 hits, coming from 30000 in July. All we can say is…thank you! Domo arigatou! Merci! Bedankt! Terima kasih! Danke! Gracias! ^_^




Icewind Dale 2 US release


Icewind Dale 2, the last game to ever use Bioware's Infinity engine, has been released in the US. Time to return to the Forgotten Realms, and freeze our ears off in Black Isle's sequel to Icewind Dale. The European release is planned for the first part of September. You lucky American bastards (again!).

> Icewind Dale 2 Site



Unreal Tournament 2003 system requirements


Here's what's been posted on the official UT site:

Operating System: WIN 98/ME/2000/XP
CPU: Pentium III or AMD Athlon 733MHz processor (*Pentium® or AMD 1.0 GHz or greater RECOMMENDED)
Memory: 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM or greater RECOMMENDED)
Hard Disk Space: 3 GB
CD ROM or CD/DVD ROM: 8X
Audio System: Windows® compatible sound card (*Sound Blaster® Audigy(tm) series sound card RECOMMENDED) (NVIDIA® nForce™ or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio. Also RECOMMENDED)
Video System: 3D Accelerator card with 16 MB VRAM (*32-128 MB VRAM RECOMMENDED) 16 MB TNT2-class DirectX® version 6 compliant video card. (*NVIDIA GeForce 2/ATI Radeon RECOMMENDED) DirectX® version 8.1 (Included on game disc)
Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. *Internet play requires a 33.6 Kbps or faster modem

Heavy, but nothing we couldn't expect. I got my GF4, so I think I'm pretty safe :D

> UT: 2003 Site




R9700 Pro Test at Tom's Hardware


The King of hardware sites, Tom's Hardware have reviewed the newest ATI flagship, the R9700 Pro (God, you just have to be jealous of those guys) And guess what, ATI fans? This is time to rejoice: the ATI board hammers the nVidia GF4Ti boards on all fronts. Read the full article below.

> Tom's Hardware R9700 Pro Review




Americas Army: Operations GOLD


At the beginning of this summer, the US army released a RECON version of government funded version of CS, and now the army dudes are reporting their game has entered the Gold stage. Here's a snip from the official statement:

AA:O will be available on a free CD at the beginning of October at local U.S. Army Recruiting stations, ROTC Detachments and at other Army events - to be listed here at our site. The CD will feature many missions that can be downloaded from our mirrored sites, as well as several exclusive levels (Weapons Cache, FARP) including the Swamp Raid and Mountain Ambush missions.

I don't know what to say about this game. On the one hand, it's a great opportunity to see the Unreal Warfare engine at work, but at the same time I do not like the mingling of real life (US' War on Terrorism, recruiting) with games. I think these two things should be well set apart…Oh well.

> Go Army
> Americas Army Site




New Tomb Raider Site


There is a new Tomb Raider site around the block. Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is set for release November 15th, both for PC and PS2. The site is redesigned, and features some hot new material.

> Tomb Raider Site




Battlefield 1942 GOLD


EA has reported that Battlefield 1942 has finally gone gold. Get ready for MOH:AA's ultimate killer, surprisingly from ithe same developer. Guess EA's management are either war veterans or watched Saving Private Ryan a couple of too many times ^_^

At date of writing, the entire EA site was down. This will probably be fixed pretty soon.

> Battlefield 1942 site



Sam & Max are back!!


"Oh my God" I hear you shouting, and I am too. In light of the graphical adventure revival at Lucasarts, after the joyful news of Full Throttle II, a sequel to Sam & Max, one of the best graphical adventures released back in 1993, is announced. Peep this:

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- August 27, 2002 -- Sam & Max, interactive entertainment's most beloved canine and rabbit combo, hit the road again first quarter 2004 in a long awaited adventure comedy sequel for Windows PC from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC. The follow up to the critically acclaimed 1993 adventure classic Sam & Max Hit the Road® will dispatch the Freelance Police into a wild world of screwy and vaguely quixotic missions. Each one will be jam packed with nerve-jangling action, brain-busting puzzles, and the kind of easygoing banter one might expect from a talking dog and a naked, hyperkinetic bunny.

In times likes this, one can only laugh. Really.

* walks off all giggly and shouting "pleasure overload" *

> Official Lucasarts Press Release








Summer Hit
What's going to be the summer hit?

Warcraft III
Neverwinter Nights
Morrowind
Grand Theft Auto 3
GeForce 4 Ti4200


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