WWI Air Combat

Video: Rise of Flight says Hello!

Posted by David on November 19, 2008 11:24AM

Thanks to Sebuga.de and Neoqb, there's a new video up today that was posted on YouTube. The first half of the clip is a little tour of the office (lots of faces we haven't seen before!) and the second half is a tour of the game itself. There's some familiar videos from the two most recent Rise of Flight promo videos, but there's also a lot of new footage.

Here's some info on the footage:

At the Leipzig Game Convention 2008 we have got aquinted with Sergey Buragin (sebuga.de) who is a enthusiatic flight simulators fan. He was one of the first in the world who tested our "Rise of Flight" . Previous wekeend Sergey organized a cyber-competion the SIMLAN08 for fans of flight simulators. We have been also invited to this event. But unfortunately, Albert Zhiltsov - the producer of “Rise of Flight” couldn't visit that competion personally but he said "hello" virtually. Here is an exclusive video for the SimLAN 2008.

(Rise of Flight blog via Sebuga.de)

Red Baron Arcade cancelled for the PS3?

Posted by David on November 18, 2008 01:41PM

A while back I reported that Red Baron Arcade was due to be released today on the PS3 network. However, the game never surfaced. Mark Fajardo at GamersPlatform contacted Jennifer Chong, a spokesperson for the game, who gave him some grim news:

Sadly, Red Baron was never completed; they had to stop the project when Sierra Online was incorporated into Activision-Vivendi.

Boo! This is just another part of the fallout with the recent Activision-Blizzard merger.

Well, we still have Red Baron Arcade on the PC. I played the game a bit - it was fun and all, but nothing that can stand up over time. At the time I played, there were no multiplayer servers up as well. Bad sign.

But still, it looks like a lot of PS3 owners were looking forward to its release on their console. Maybe we'll see it in the future?

(PS3Fanboy via GamersPlatform)

Related:
Sierra's new Red Baron Arcade released
Red Baron 3D source code update
Sierra game servers closing down
RIP Red Baron 3D official metaservers (1997-2008)

Over the Coast (OFF Phase 3 preview movie)

Posted by David on November 17, 2008 05:03PM

Sandbagger over at the Sim-Outhouse forums for Over Flanders Fields posted this great little preview of Phase 3, which is supposedly to be released very soon!

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Over Flanders Fields Promo Movie 10

Posted by David on November 15, 2008 11:40PM

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RB3D events this weekend (Nov 15-16, 2008)

Posted by David on November 14, 2008 08:35PM

RB3D server list Saturday November 15
Flying Coffins tournament 2008 (info, forum)
Game 1: 12pm (EST)
Game 2: 2pm (EST)

Flying Coffins is in week 3 of its tournament. Registration for the current tournament is closed, but check out their forum for future tournaments.

Sunday November 16
Cold War Fun Day (info, forum)
Time: 21:00 Middle European/German Time, 3:00 PM EST USA
How long: 2 1/2 hours.
Place: Cold War Fun Day server.
Server Password: ( fun )
Map to be used: Verdun map.
Game to be used: Cold War 4.1n late years plane set.

Remember, the official metaservers are offline! Be sure to update mplayer.ini!

(Cold War info thanks to Wings of Honour)

Rise of Flight: new promo video

Posted by David on November 11, 2008 10:04AM

If you go to the video section on the Rise of Flight website, you'll notice there's a new video up! ~~I can't seem to get sound on my end though. It looks like they might still be trying to get it working, since there's been no announcements about it?~~

Update: sound is working now!