Report battlefield news to the headquarter here! Rogue Spear: Black Thorn to continue RS series (May 9th, 2001) Rogue Spear: Black Thorn, which is NOT the same as Rainbow Six: Take Down, is officially announced by Red Storm Entertainment to follow up the Rainbow six series. This was first published through pc.ign.com's E3 game-list of products to be displayed at the annual E3 ~ Electronic Entertainment Expo. So this is excellent news for all Rainbow Six patriots out there! Rainbow Six: Take Down (February 12th, 2001) Game Chosun (Korean gaming site) has revealed that Kama, who were responsible for the Korean version of Rainbow Six: Urban Operations, have formally announced Rainbow Six: Take Down. The title, due to be released in June of 2001, will be s standalone game containing 26 Korean-themed maps. While it's not 100% confirmed at this time, the game may be released outside of Korea by Red Storm Entertainment under a different name. Rogue Spear plugins released!!! (January 26th, 2001) I'm pleased to be able to announce Red Storm Entertainments release of the 3D Studio Max plugins for Rogue Spear! Now the doors are open to everybody that has 3D Studio Max and that wants to make brand new levels for Rogue Spear. You can find out more about the release of the plugins at Red Storm Entertainments official Rogue Spear site here Rogue Spear for Macintosh (January 16th, 2001) Found this interesting tidbit on Planet Rainbow Six; "First of all, the Rogue Spear for Mac is called version 1, but it is the Rogue Spear: Urban Ops Build v2.50. It is compatible online with other Rogue Spear: Urban Ops v2.50s for PC. However, since RSE released the v2.52 for Urban Operations, I'm pretty sure that Mac RS owners will be hard pressed to find v2.50 games to join with. Thus, it looks like they will be locked into their own community for the time being. Hopefully MacSoft will release the Mac version of the v2.52 patch so the life-long grudge matches of PC vs. Mac can finally take form. Also, it would seem that mods for RS PC will not work for RS Mac. Pity, as you will be hard pressed to find modders with both a PC and Mac(somehow people dislike those 2 to co-exist ;-)) to port RS PC mods to Macintosh. Either that must happen, or the Mac community has to grow big enough by its own right to produce RS Mac modders within the community." It looks like the Mac community have something to see forward too... GameSpot's huge list of the best/worst games of 2000 (January 12th, 2001) GameSpot has a very interesting article about last year's best games, categorized in different categories. Here are the winners; Best music: Icewind Dale (Interplay) Best sound: The Sims (Electronic Arts) Best story: The Longest Journey (Funcom) Best technical graphics: Giants: Citizen Kabuto (Interplay) Best artistic graphics: Sacrifice (Interplay) Best multiplayer: Half-Life: Counter-Strike (Sierra Studios) Best expansion pack: EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark (Sony Online Entertainment) Best game no one played: Allegiance (Microsoft) Best action game: The Operative: No One Lives Forever (Fox Interactive) Best adventure game: The Longest Journey (Funcom) Best driving game: Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (Electronic Arts) Best puzzle & classics game: The Return of the Incredible Machine: Contraptions (Sierra Attractions) Best role-playing game: Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Interplay) Best sci-fi simulation: MechWarrior 4: Vengeance (Microsoft) Best simulation: Enemy Engaged: RAH-66 Comanche Versus Ka-52 Hokum (Empire Interactive) Best sports game: FIFA 2001 Major League Soccer (EA Sports) Best strategy game: Shogun: Total War (Electronic Arts) Most disappointing game: Star Wars: Force Commander (LucasArts) Worst game of the year: Blaze & Blade - Eternal Quest (SouthPeak) GAME OF THE YEAR 2000: The Sims (Electronic Arts) The whole article can be found here! Rainbow Six and Windows 2000 (January 2nd, 2001) Ever tried to run Rainbow Six from Windows 2000? Well - it doesn't work. Or so I thought. Read this article if you are planning to play R6 from Windows 2000. I haven't tried it myself yet, but the rumours indicate that it works. :-) Game Predictions for 2001 (January 2nd, 2001) GameCenter.com has an interesting article called "The Top 10 Game Predictions for 2001". You should really read - and have a thought over - this article if you are interested in what we can expect in the shelves the next year. Personally, I'm waiting for Simsville and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. UPDATE: You should also have a look at GameCenter.com's "The Ten Worst PC Games of All Time" article, as well as GameSpot's "The 15 Most Influental Games Of All Time" article. Beware of Intel's new Pentium 4 (December 28th, 2000) According to CNET.com, Intel's new Pentium 4 processor has a bug which can degrade performance when video or other graphical data is processed through a PCI bus. Because of the bug, consumers may experience slow processing or data corruption if they connect a second monitor or an additional graphics card through one of the PCI expansion slots in a Pentium 4 computer. Read the whole article here! Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear is © Red Storm Entertainment, 1996-2000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED