News Archive

Thursday, 27th April 2000

Gone Fishin'-Kooky
Just wanted to let you know that I'm going away to Mayo for the weekend and wont be around. Seeya now!

Strategy-Kooky
Check out the very first Empire Earth Strategy! Learn how to be the Pokémon Master somehwere else, learn how to be the king of news reading folk here!

Tom Green-Kooky
He's so da man! Unfotunatly, he has testicular cancer =) No joke, apparently he actually does. Cancer of the balls, link. Props out to jackealy.

Empire Earth University-Kooky
A great new EE site is out. The Empire Earth University. Go check it out now, because THE ROCK says so!

Tuesday, 25th April 2000

Unit Battler-Kooky
I managed to talk the team over at K Entertainment into making an EE Unit Battler to give us something to spend our weekends doing while we wait for the real thing. The Battler will take the information we have on the units so far, and allow you to fight them against each other, you can even select whole armies to beat the bejesus out of each other. We're also looking into an online database of custom made armies for you to fight against. Anyway check them out for more information.

The Hunt for Red October!-Kooky
Check this for good lookin! =) There's a submarine hidden in between those two ships. I don't whether you picked it up but I didn't see it. I got the tip off from Balshazzar on the forums. Thanks!

Monday, 24th April 2000

Links-Kooky
Updated the links section, it's got every single Empire Earth site now. If you have an EE site and its not there submit it!

Sunday, 23rd April 2000

New Site-Kooky
Check out Maximum EE. There's nothing there but the layout looks cool so far =)

Unit Section-Kooky
I'm having trouble deciding the arrangement of the Unit section, but I'm still scanning the units in and preparing info so I've still got time to think. You can help me think =) Send all mind expanding substances to 86 Aco ... no wait, just fill in the survey below =) Please.

New Screenshots-Kooky
With the release of the Official Site comes the release of five new screenshots. To see them and read my detailed analysis of each one click here.

Official EE Site Up-Kooky
The guys at Sierra obviously read my rant on Wednesday and put their asses into overdrive. Anyway, check it out at here. Go sign up for the newsletter.

Wednesday, 19th April 2000

Today is a good day to...-Kooky
Well certainly not die =) I found my tech tree =) It had fallen down the back of my radiator when I hung it on the wall. There's a really cool scanner in college so I'm going to see if I can get any kind of better quality pictures.

Tuesday, 18th April 2000

Rant-Kooky
I wrote a small rant. You can read it here. It's titled 'Why Sierra Has Not". It's an insightful look at the lack of smack.

EE@E3-Kooky
Robbed this from EENC. While Stainless Steel Studios wont be making the trip to the Electronic Entertainment Expo., it's publisher, Sierra, will be.  They'll be sharing booth 1146 with the likes of Havas, Blizzard and ... Knowledge Adventure =) Mmmm, sounds like some good learnin'. Anyway if you can

SMELL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING

you'll keep checkin' back here for all the goss. Anyway, just so ya know it takes place May 11 - 13. So it's a bit away yet.

Monday, 17th April 2000

Poll Results & New Question-Kooky
Well, I think this poll has been up for long enough. I can't remember what the percentages were anymore, but you can see it's almist a ration of 1:3. Nobody was upset by the fact that sierra got the deal, which is a plus. Anyway, the question now is which TV celebrity would you most like to see in the game? I have been talking personally with Rick Goodman, and he says we get to pick one. Lies Lies Lies!

Sunday, 16th April 2000

Jigsaw of the Week-Kooky
Slightly later than usual, but here in time nonetheless is the Jigsaw of the week. Quite a brain bender you'll find, took me about 20 mins. to complete, but it was well worth it =) Link.

Friday, 14th April 2000

Joke-Kooky
I laughed so much I cried, I cried so much I laughed. It's a vicious circle.

A drunk staggers out of a bar and sees a nun walking by. He immediately tears into her. He punches her in the face and kicks her to the ground until she is left there groaning.
As he turns to walk away, he looks back at her and says "Not so tough now, are we batman!"

Oh my ovaries =)

Monday, 10th April 2000

ICQ-Kooky
Hey! Add me to your ICQ list, my number is 3038701. If you don't know what ICQ is, check out www.icq.com.

Friday, 7th April 2000

Jigsaws!!!-Kooky
Check out the latest edition to the EE Shack by heading over to the jigsaws page. You can try and put ol' humpty dumpty mech warrior back together this week. With a new jigsaw every week this is the hottest EE thing yet! Jigsaws Page.

Work-Kooky
Doesn't work just suck? I have a part-time job working in a supermarket. The thing that annoys me most about my job are 35+ year old women. They think the own the fire trucking shop and if you're ever walking behind them they're so slow and because they walk in the middle of the isle you can't get past them. I think someday I'll have to bring a gun into work =)

Music-Kooky
The following thread is in the forum:

I think the music should match whatever age you are in. Let's say your in the neolithic age, there would be tribal toms, and big drums. As you advance, let's say to the Bronze Age, you begin to hear harps and flutes. By Renaissance you will be hearing Baroque. In the Industrial Age, you'll be hearing classical. In the Futuristic Ages you will be hearing Hard Trance and Techno. -Borschty

I agree that the music should change epoch to epoch, however, a few things have to be taken into consideration. CD quality music for each epoch might take up to much space, so instead MP3 could be used. I know that Age Of Kings used a whole lot of MP3 in the game.  Also, I hate trance and techno music. Personally I don't feel that that's the music of the future, maybe if there was like a futuristic/mystic kind of theme song. -Kooky

trance and techno is the music of the future. 'nuff said  -Borschty

HAH! I don't think so. I mean, if we all break out the rapid tunes what's going to happen to rock, punk and soul. Plus the fact that the majority of songs have no lyrics blows! =)

Wednesday, 5th April 2000

Staff-Kooky
I'm looking for about 5-10 people to work on this site. We mostly need people who are interested in news reporting. That also involves reading over the forums and talking about topics from them. If there's no news, make some! I want to get a real team spirit thing going, so, the more the merrier. Experience isn't a necessity. Anyway, if you're interested, e-mail me at tails@oceanfree.net.

Poll-Kooky
There's a new poll up on the left of the page. Go vote! My personal opinion is that, Sierra, back in 1997, made some of the worst blunders in the gaming industry, releasing unfinished games, games with bad gameplay, etc. However they are getting their act together, and they seem to be doing very well lately, they even have on of the best game companies, Blizzard, under their wings. So, I voted Yes.

Tuesday, 4th April 2000

Welcome-Kooky
Read my welcome note, here.

Sections-Kooky
I knew I'd get around to it someday, well, today is that day! Let's kick some ass, yeah!!! Blahhhhh!