B5SCS Finnish Fansite Launched

Vesa Juusola from B5SCS Finland, sent in the following announcement:

B5SCS Finland - this site is a spoiler-free fan site, featuring news, information and downloads for the upcoming B5SCS game. The site is directed to the Finnish people waiting for the game. We're always up to date - and always without spoilers. That's our cue.

Sounds great to me. We wish Vesa and the rest of the gang, loads of luck and success with the new site. We will be working as close as possible with them, and hope to see them build a big community of B5SCS gamers in Finland.

B5SCS Finland can be found here: http://www.saunalahti.fi/b5scsfin/

Interview

I could not hold back on posting this interview for next week, so shoot me:) Check out an interview we conducted with the development team, which I believe included some new infomration. Thanks to the team for taking the time to answer our questions, it is very much appreciated!

New Screenshots!

Jeff Reitman from the development team, sent us 3 new screenshots. In addition to these being new screenshots, they are currently the only shots available from the E3 build (the most recent) presented last week in LA.

Note that the HUD is still under major development. Expect an interview with the development team during next week. Great to see the team kicking so much ass again ha?:)

E3 Coverage

The Electronic Entertainment Expo has been a source of great fuss over the sim. We've compiled a list of sites to aid your search. If there are any missing, let me know.

PC.IGN.COM
     Has a 29MB trailer and a eight common screenshots along with a complimentary article.

Adrenaline Vault
     Has a small article and eight common screenshots.

GameSpot
     Quickie article and nine screenshots.

Gamecenter.com
     Seven screenshots.

The 29MB trailer at PC.IGN.COM comes highly recommended. In addition, right before the developers left for E3, they posted a little gift of some new ships in the docking bay of b5games.com

Staff Note: We apologize for the lack of recent updates. We'll be moving to a higher rate of updating soon, as well has updating the FAQ sections.

---Grinner

This, direct from the mouth of Jeff Reitman:

      The movie is NOT in-game. It was a trailer that was made for the marketing guys a while back. Most of it IS the game models, but it was all done in lightwave as the engine was not ready for prime time when the footage was done early this year (might even have been before christmas).

     So, the moral of the story... the movie uses the game models rendered in lightwave.

     I will have Marc comment on it on Monday when he gets back to work and he get explain exactly what was what. Hope this clears things up.

Thanks for the clarification Jeff! Just a note to those who downloaded it (its a great MPEG), play it full screen. The compressor they used is great. And also, for those who are having download problems...use IE or an FTP program...because Netscape downloads it in ACSII and not Binary.

---Grinner