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Xbox Headsets-Thursday,
July 19 NH
Exclusive
Interview-Wednesday,
July 18 NH
Guess Who's
Back?-Wednesday,
July 18 NH
Apologies
to Public-Sunday,
July 15 CF
Upcoming Interview-Thursday, June 21 NH
Splash
Contest-Tuesday, June 19 NH
Cool
Effects-Saturday, June 16 NH
Tireless
Work-Wednesday, June 13 CF
New
Footer-Wednesday, June 10 CF
New
Art and Other-Sunday, June 10 CF
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Interview: Fallen
Age-7/18/2001
NH
Fan
Art: Nucleus
v1.1-7/15/2001
CF
Column: Final
Fantasy-7/15/2001
CF
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Xbox
Headsets|
Thursday, July 19, 2001 9:55 AM. | NightHawk |
| Microsoft
has chosen the company Plantronics
to make Headsets for the Xbox. These headsets will be plugged
in directly to the console and it will allow communication
between players through online games.
"Microsoft
understands the impact that voice controlled performance will
have on the Xbox experience for gamers. We are very pleased to
have been chosen to develop a unique product for the Microsoft
Xbox," said Neil Snyder, president of Plantronics'
Computer Audio Systems Division. "Plantronics'
leadership in both audio and voice input, as well as our
expertise in building headsets that are lightweight,
comfortable, durable and, most importantly, cool, will allow
gamers to immerse themselves in their gaming experience."
Read the full article here.
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| Exclusive
Interview|
Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:42 PM. | NightHawk |
| Like
I promised, here is the interview. Dave Manachi and I had a
chance to communicate wand I asked him a few questions about
the upcoming game, Fallen Age.
Check out this exclusive
Tempest Tek interview here.
Hope you enjoy :)
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| Guess
Who's Back?|
Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:33 PM. |
NightHawk |
| That's
right, I AM BACK! Anyways, this means that ColdFire has left
for Europe. I got some much needed vacation and now I am here
to work...like thats any fun. To prove what I say, I am even
going to post our new interview with Daniel Manachi. Look for
it in the next few minutes.
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| Apologies
to Public|
Sunday, July 15, 2001 7:20 PM. | ColdFire |
| I
would like to make an apology to the public, and give an
explanation. I, as are all of Tempest Tek, are sorry to keep
you waiting so long for new news and site updates. I am
leaving to Europe in 2 days, so I will not be around. But
NightHawk and the other staff members will be here. My
explanation for this slowdown of work is that 1) NightHawk has
been in Brazil with relatives for a while, and 2) I have been
working (designing websites and such). So now I am coming back
and giving you some fresh material.
First off, I made a new
updates section, so not only do you have the news, but you
know what is new on the site. Also, I have put in the first
column entry. This is a big step. And last, I have been
prodding the other two staff members to do some work. And
last, I have been doing a lot with Deviant
Art. It is a great online art community which is highly
interactive and has a lot of interesting members and art. I
myself have posted work and messages (I go by the screen-name
coldfire3.) and am getting more proficient with PhotoShop 6,
so expect some new artwork. So that's it for now, and expect a
jumpstart on the site.
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| Upcoming
Interview| Thursday,
June 21, 2001 5:51 PM. | Night Hawk |
| That's right, you read right!
Tempest Tek is having its second exclusive interview! This time its with one of the
members of the Fallen Age crew! Fallen Age is a brand new Massive Multiplayer game that
will be released for the PC later this year. It mixes many genres together and is bound to
be great. For more information, check out the official website here: www.fallenage.com
The questions were already sent it and I just have to receive the answers. The
interview should be up within the next couple days.
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| Splash Contest| Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:10 PM. | Night Hawk |
| Tempest
Tek launches its first contest with the objective being creating a Splash Image for our
intro page. The winner will have his image posted in our intro page with full credits, and
10 runner ups will get their images posted up on the site (also with credits).
For all the rules and information, click here.
Want to talk about this contest with others? Check out the thread for the Splash Image
Contest in our Art Forums.
Click here!
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| Cool Effects| Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:58 PM. | Night Hawk |
| If
you havent noticed by now Tempest Tek now has some cool little effects. On the left and
bottom navigation bars of each page the text now changes colors on mouse over. This was
accomplished by using DHTML, and thanks to ColdFire for firguring out the DHTML function
in FrontPage. Also, this effect is in every single page, and I accomplished this
after a mindless task of saving it to every single page in our site. In the future we hope
to add more such effects that make the site cooler, but still keep its professional look.
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| Tireless Work| Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:34 PM. | ColdFire |
| Ah
yes, the steam engine that this site has started out with is now a full-fledged home grown
magnetic train (for those that have been following technology). We are now having work
done on the site constantly, but it is hard to see because it is mostly behind the scenes
and tweaking pages. Anyways, I'm sure you are tired of hearing about site updates, but
here's one more. The column, a new feature, is like the
newspaper, only smaller. It will have someone write a story (non-fictional) about
something that is going on in the world. Also, if you would like to apply for editor for
the column, click here. So until next time we meet
again, Batman, Ciao!! |
| New Footer| Sunday, June 10, 2001 9:18 PM. | ColdFire |
| We
now have an updated version of the footer. Although it looks the same, for those of you
that know FrontPage 2000, it is a shared border. This will allow us to update the bottom
more easily. But there is a drawback: we have to go through every page and delete the old
footer. I could not start on it now, but I have the entire staff on alert to get this
fixed ASAP. So in the future, if you see a double footer on a page, please alert us at tempesttek@hotmail.com. Thank you. |
| New Art and
Other| Sunday, June 10,
2001 2:54 PM. | ColdFire |
| Life
here at Tempest Tek is good, which I am happy to report. New site updates are being made,
as you might have noticed from how often the news is being updated. Also, you have seen
many new pages and sections appear, due to a larger participation of the staff members.
And at this moment, another staff member is going to be added. He will be writing a column
for us for the Magic: The
Gathering section, which we hope will come in soon so you, our loyal subjects, may
read it. Also, we are hoping to gain more staff members because of the larger workload.
You may apply here. Some new art updates are added
wallpapers (2 Halo wallpapers have been added by NH and myself because we are anxiously
awaiting the release of Halo and X-Box). So the site is changing, and it's here for you to
enjoy...so enjoy! |
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