Playing Dead Space with Boot Camp – Dead Space Game Play Video Part III – 31 Minutes

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For the past few days, we’ve been releasing game play movies for Dead Space, Electronic Arts‘ latest third-person/action game. Game play video Part III and IV together will entirely cover Chapter 2.

Over the last chapter, the only ride out of the USG Ishigima has been destroyed. Hammond said earlier that he wanted to find out how Captain Benjamin Mathius died. In order for Ms. Daniels to access such information, they need Isaac to recover Captain’s authorization codes. Captain’s body has been located at Medlab.

Starting with Chapter 2, when the tram arrives at Medical Deck, Isaac spots a blind-folded woman, who hands Kinesis Module over to him. He can now lift and move objects by pressing and holding down the F key. Entering Security Station, Hammond tells Isaac that they have been attacked and that Ms. Daniels is gone. Does he mean she is dead? Hopefully, not…

In this chapter, Isaac needs to locate Captain’s RIG codes and then to find senior medical officer Nicole Brennan. Checking ship’s map, Hammond says the door to the emergency wing is barricaded. Isaac now needs to obtain

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1. a shock pad (detonator) from Zero-G Therapy
2. a white-red container with thermite in it from Medical Storage

to blow up the barricade. In this game play video, we have Isaac head himself to Zero-G Therapy at first.  Continue reading →

Playing Dead Space with Boot Camp – Dead Space Game Play Video Part II – 29 Minutes

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About 36 hours ago, we introduced a game play video for Dead Space, Electronic Arts‘ latest third-person/action game. Dead Space was developed by EA Redwood Shores. It’s an unexpectedly interesting game. Unexpectedly, well… We didn’t really expect a lot of good quality out of this game partly because of the title. I can tell you that we have decided to introduce at least a total of four game play movies for Dead Space, covering Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 entirely.

Over the last game play video, Zach Hammond instructed Isaac to repair the tram system. Kendra Daniels disagreed. The data board is fried, and a broken tram blocks the (tram) tunnel. Isaac managed to reach the Repair Room to remove the damaged tram. There was a problem. One of the claw arms was dysfunctional. That’s where the last game play video ends.

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The second Dead Space game play video starts right around the repair monitor. (See the screenshot to the right.) And it will conclude the first chapter of the game. Isaac needs to hold the second arm somehow while it’s reaching the broken tram. After Isaac initializes the tram data board computer, Daniels and Hammond will head themselves to the Bridge. Then Hammond instructs Isaac to the Kellion. But when he does… A totally unexpected accident near-kills Isaac.  Continue reading →

Playing Dead Space with Boot Camp – Dead Space Game Play Video Part I – 22 Minutes

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Dead Space is Electronic Arts‘ latest third-person/action game. It was released in October 20. The game was developed by EA Redwood Shores.

In this game, you will play the character of Isaac Clarke. He is an engineering and ship systems specialist. Unlike others, he wears a special suit with a light blue heath meter at the back. It’s no question that’s a unique suit that you will never see in other games.

Deep space mining is a lucrative business, they say in the game. The USG Ishimura (Ishimura is a Japanese last name meaning ‘stone village’) is a mining vessel, which has gone missing in the Aegis System. There is no communications transmission from the vessel.

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Dispatched to the Aegis System is a maintenance team aboard USG Kellion including Isaac Clarke, Kendra Daniels (computer specialist), Zach Hammond (the chief security officer) and others. Their mission is to locate USG Ishimura and find out the cause of communications blackout. As they explore the vessel, it’s empty, and there is no vital sign of life.  Continue reading →

Playing Fallout 3 with Boot Camp – Fallout 3 Game Play Video Part I – 42 Minutes

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As we reported the other day, possibly one of the most promising PC games in 2008 Fallout 3 from Bethesda Softworks debuted three days ago.

More than two years ago, Bethesda Softworks released a hit role playing game called The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. It never made it to Macs. And we don’t know it will ever although an unofficial, hacked version of the PC game with TransGaming‘s Cider Technology seems to go around among Intel Mac users.

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The latest release from Bethesda Softworks is also a role playing game with an unique scenario setup. Survivors of a nuclear war are locked up behind a facility called Vault 101. That’s where the character that you are playing will spend his or her first 19 years without knowing what it’s like being outside. The leader of the facility is The Overseer, an old African-American man who prohibits anyone from going outside. But one particular member is forced to take risks and leave the facility. Why? Well, sorry… You will find out why when you play the game. Anyway, the story is a bit different. But it should remind you of that of 2005 movie The Island.

This QuickTime video shows the first 40 minutes of a game play movie of Fallout 3 with no interruption. The movie will start at the scene where the character that you are playing is born and you will get to choose the gender and then name and other character elements.  Continue reading →

Interview with TransGaming Technologies

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The following is an interview with TransGaming Technologies (hereafter, TransGaming), a Canadian software company, which is well-known for its Cider Portability Engine among Mac users. TransGaming’s Cider Port technology is used to dual-release EA‘s hit game SPORE for Mac and PC. One of the latest games using Cider Port technology is Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. Moreover, TransGaming runs the website at http://www.gametreeonline.com to sell the digital version of Mac games online.

This is not the result of a live interview. Rather, MacHouse submitted an interview questionnaire sheet to TransGaming by e-mail beforehand. The contact person at TransGaming is VP of Marketing. We initially requested an interview in September and received their reply by e-mail from Marketing & Business Development in October 28. We did not submit counter-questions. We did edit some parts of their reply only upon their request.  Continue reading →