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30 years ago, Sierra published EarthSiege 2, a mech combat sim. Originally developed by Dynamix, for which Sierra acted as a publisher many times, it puts you in control of massive bipedal war machines called HERCs (Humaniform-Emulation Roboticized Combat units). It’s single-player campaign-focused, with video briefings and squadmate digitized... show more

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Фото профиля World Domination Studios

World Domination Studios3 дней назад

AKA "Mechwarror from Temu" I've played this game many times and I prefer it over the Mechwarrior series.

Фото профиля exQUIZitely 🕹️

exQUIZitely 🕹️3 дней назад

Haha that one made me chuckle :)

Фото профиля Stats Man

Stats Man3 дней назад

Such a shame that the whole "Mech" universe is utterly neglected in modern gaming :(

Фото профиля Grim Jack Crow

Grim Jack Crow3 дней назад

I worked on Earthsiege 3 Starsiege later Just Starsiege.

Фото профиля State of the Art Moron

State of the Art Moron3 дней назад

hot shit. great game on its own. building hercs was a great addition to the gameplay. also the flying herc was a nice idea even if it was hard to fly.

Фото профиля CosmicThinker

CosmicThinker3 дней назад

I think battlezone - 1998, is way better

Фото профиля exQUIZitely 🕹️

exQUIZitely 🕹️3 дней назад

It was, I agree. But that was also 2 years later. Tech advanced pretty fast then.

Фото профиля CosmicThinker

CosmicThinker3 дней назад

Yes, you're right.

Фото профиля Professor Katze

Professor Katze3 дней назад

looks alot like G-Nome. the mech combat game where you can even walk around on foot and switch vehicles

Фото профиля ANKN

ANKN3 дней назад

Not many people know that it's part of the same series as the later and arguably much more popular Starsiege: Tribes

Фото профиля 💜 Bella Amethyst Dragon🐉 💜 vTuber 💜

💜 Bella Amethyst Dragon🐉 💜 vTuber 💜3 дней назад

now there's a title i have not seen in a very long time

Фото профиля Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett3 дней назад

This was around the same time I was working on SCARAB with John Radcliffe for EA. I think it got panned because it was kind of a slow moving game compared to something like MechWarrior. But it was quite fun in multiplayer.

Фото профиля KablooieXL

KablooieXL3 дней назад

I've always wanted to get into mech games, but they never "stuck" with me. I did, however, get heavily into Starsiege : Tribes, which was a spinoff series. Did you play it? Nothing like skiing down a slope in Tribes...

Фото профиля exQUIZitely 🕹️

exQUIZitely 🕹️3 дней назад

Hehe, yep, this one.

Фото профиля Sam_Spade

Sam_Spade3 дней назад

I felt this was better than Mechwarrior at the time

Фото профиля William DeOrbit

William DeOrbit3 дней назад

shattered steel was better

Фото профиля Chaz

Chaz3 дней назад

Ohhh one of my favorites!

Фото профиля QuietlyDisruptive

QuietlyDisruptive3 дней назад

It did a great job of balancing customization alongside pick-up-and-play action and it didn't rely as much on a joystick setup as peers such as MW. Definitely an underrated franchise. Now show us Ultrabots!

Фото профиля TseLabs

TseLabs3 дней назад

Mechwarrior was the OG

Фото профиля Bark worse than my bite

Bark worse than my bite3 дней назад

Loved this!

Фото профиля Dungeon Master

Dungeon Master3 дней назад

I think they also did Arctic Fox 10 years before this. Another good one.

Фото профиля Spitlebug

Spitlebug3 дней назад

I played the crap out of this game. I cannot for the life of me remember where I got it from, either.

Фото профиля tom_

tom_3 дней назад

1996, when "UPS hell" was a thing as you waited by the door to see if the truck would stop at your door to drop off your new game. For your gateway 486... (I've been a mecha fan since battletech - 'the crescent hawk's inception' on commodore.)

Фото профиля Able Archer 83

Able Archer 833 дней назад

Sadly my computer back refused to run this game - I only could play some time at a friends PC 😩

Фото профиля Femmes Fatales

Femmes Fatales2 дней назад

Could never make it past the Menu screen before the game crashed. We tried EVERYTHING to get it to work, but nope. What a buggy piece of shite lol.

Фото профиля Razxephon🔎👾🪶

Razxephon🔎👾🪶2 дней назад

remember really enjoying this game

Фото профиля Flesh & Bone VR

Flesh & Bone VR2 дней назад

add Mario and it's perfect

Фото профиля Rich

Rich3 дней назад

This was a cool game but that sound would still in your brain after a while.

Фото профиля Glenn Gossett

Glenn Gossett2 дней назад

Fun game

Фото профиля Alvin De Cruz

Alvin De Cruz2 дней назад

Heavy Gear is another.

Фото профиля MarkYT1300

MarkYT13002 дней назад

"Gut check time. The Cybrids have launched a major attack!" My fav Win95 game 👍 I piloted with a joystick while a friend handled keyboard commands. We had hours of fun, got to the point where we could anticipate what the other wanted to do.

Фото профиля DJ North

DJ North2 дней назад

Good MechWarrior clone

Фото профиля otecoy

otecoy3 дней назад

i loved using a joystick for this game.

Фото профиля Dizzi

Dizzi3 дней назад

I used to play this at a friends house on his dads computer for a while. but then my mum bought me Heavy Gear and that's all I played for a long time after that, great memories of ES2 though

Фото профиля 🌪 StormChaser Z 🌪

🌪 StormChaser Z 🌪3 дней назад

I played a ton of this and NovaStorm on Windows when I was really young. Few of the first games I ever played.

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In March 2026, I started on a TUI-based music player called cliamp. It was made as a tribute to Winamp, which we all love. I gained traction on my first post, which was really shitty compared to what I can do now, but nostalgia kicked in. It was a few months ago, included as the default Omarchy TUI music player. cliamp has separate providers, like - Spotify - YouTube Music - Jellyfin - SSH streaming - Local streaming - 30k+ radio channels - And much more It can run in daemon mode (no tui), it has IPC to be controlled by and from whatever you want, a full cli. The cliamp radio channel has exploded, and in the last seven days it has had around 115,000 sessions in total. The goal is to make cliamp even better, so I am working on the architecture. E.g., better IPC, so you can run it in daemon mode and build what you want on top of it to control it. I am also working on a GUI version that will use the IPC, as many have requested a GUI. Anyways, here's a short video of cliamp. It is pretty. It might not be the best UX to use yet, but it is the prettiest TUI music player out there. Thanks

In March 2026, I started on a TUI-based music player called cliamp. It was made as a tribute to Winamp, which we all love. I gained traction on my first post, which was really shitty compared to what I can do now, but nostalgia kicked in. It was a few months ago, included as the default Omarchy TUI music player. cliamp has separate providers, like - Spotify - YouTube Music - Jellyfin - SSH streaming - Local streaming - 30k+ radio channels - And much more It can run in daemon mode (no tui), it has IPC to be controlled by and from whatever you want, a full cli. The cliamp radio channel has exploded, and in the last seven days it has had around 115,000 sessions in total. The goal is to make cliamp even better, so I am working on the architecture. E.g., better IPC, so you can run it in daemon mode and build what you want on top of it to control it. I am also working on a GUI version that will use the IPC, as many have requested a GUI. Anyways, here's a short video of cliamp. It is pretty. It might not be the best UX to use yet, but it is the prettiest TUI music player out there. Thanks

Bjarne Øverli

106,881 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

Jannik Sinner was asked about the changes he’s made to his serve since the U.S. Open, ‘At times I still lose it. It’s not a shot where I feel very safe with. At the same time, we are working on that’ “Can I get you to discuss the changes you made to your serve? In particular since the U.S. Open…” Jannik: “Yeah, I mean it’s not only US Open. I felt like the serve was and still is a shot where I need to improve. It’s the only shot we have where we can do everything by our self. There is a lot of room to improve. We changed the motion a little bit. The rhythm of the serve, before, it was too fast in the beginning. Now it’s a bit slower. The toss usually was a bit more in front, a bit on the right. Now it’s a bit more back and over the head. But at times I still lose it. It’s not a shot where I feel very safe with. In the same time we are working on that. It’s one of if not the most important shot we have. Let’s see how I’m gonna serve this season.” (via Australian Open Press)

Jannik Sinner was asked about the changes he’s made to his serve since the U.S. Open, ‘At times I still lose it. It’s not a shot where I feel very safe with. At the same time, we are working on that’ “Can I get you to discuss the changes you made to your serve? In particular since the U.S. Open…” Jannik: “Yeah, I mean it’s not only US Open. I felt like the serve was and still is a shot where I need to improve. It’s the only shot we have where we can do everything by our self. There is a lot of room to improve. We changed the motion a little bit. The rhythm of the serve, before, it was too fast in the beginning. Now it’s a bit slower. The toss usually was a bit more in front, a bit on the right. Now it’s a bit more back and over the head. But at times I still lose it. It’s not a shot where I feel very safe with. In the same time we are working on that. It’s one of if not the most important shot we have. Let’s see how I’m gonna serve this season.” (via Australian Open Press)

The Tennis Letter

82,301 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

In 1994, the first 32-bit next-generation console appeared, and it was the 3DO. What surprised me the most was that Super Street Fighter II X, which was hugely popular in arcades at the time, was available on this system. I still remember standing in a game shop, completely mesmerized, staring at that game for a long time. I was really hoping it would come out on the Super Famicom too, but maybe because of hardware limitations, it never did. That made it even more shocking. By the way, the model I’m talking about is the 3DO ALIVE 2 made by LG Electronics. For a lot of foreign friends, this is probably something they’ve never seen before.

In 1994, the first 32-bit next-generation console appeared, and it was the 3DO. What surprised me the most was that Super Street Fighter II X, which was hugely popular in arcades at the time, was available on this system. I still remember standing in a game shop, completely mesmerized, staring at that game for a long time. I was really hoping it would come out on the Super Famicom too, but maybe because of hardware limitations, it never did. That made it even more shocking. By the way, the model I’m talking about is the 3DO ALIVE 2 made by LG Electronics. For a lot of foreign friends, this is probably something they’ve never seen before.

Gamer_lafan

49,793 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY premiered on this day in the UK back in 1981. It would hit screens in the U.S. two days later. I was only seven years old, so I missed it in the theater, but I’d watch it about a year later when it became available on HBO. I must have watched it a thousand times...well, maybe not a thousand, but close... This film marked a noticeable return to a darker, grittier 007 which may have been why it resonated with me and continues to rank with my favorite Bond films. It also ushered the series into the 80s with a title theme song by Sheena Easton, a song that lost to “Arthur’s Theme” at the Academy Awards. Which song can you still recite today? The iconic movie poster was designed by the legendary Bill Gold and certainly left an impression…

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY premiered on this day in the UK back in 1981. It would hit screens in the U.S. two days later. I was only seven years old, so I missed it in the theater, but I’d watch it about a year later when it became available on HBO. I must have watched it a thousand times...well, maybe not a thousand, but close... This film marked a noticeable return to a darker, grittier 007 which may have been why it resonated with me and continues to rank with my favorite Bond films. It also ushered the series into the 80s with a title theme song by Sheena Easton, a song that lost to “Arthur’s Theme” at the Academy Awards. Which song can you still recite today? The iconic movie poster was designed by the legendary Bill Gold and certainly left an impression…

Jack Carr

11,068 просмотров • 1 год назад

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY premiered on this day in the UK back in 1981. It would hit screens in the U.S. two days later. I was only seven years old, so I missed it in the theater, but I’d watch it about a year later when it became available on HBO. I must have watched it a thousand times...well, maybe not a thousand, but close... This film marked a noticeable return to a darker, grittier 007 which may have been why it resonated with me and continues to rank with my favorite Bond films. It also ushered the series into the 80s with a title theme song by Sheena Easton, a song that lost to “Arthur’s Theme” at the Academy Awards. Which song can you still recite today? The iconic movie poster was designed by the legendary Bill Gold and certainly left an impression...

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY premiered on this day in the UK back in 1981. It would hit screens in the U.S. two days later. I was only seven years old, so I missed it in the theater, but I’d watch it about a year later when it became available on HBO. I must have watched it a thousand times...well, maybe not a thousand, but close... This film marked a noticeable return to a darker, grittier 007 which may have been why it resonated with me and continues to rank with my favorite Bond films. It also ushered the series into the 80s with a title theme song by Sheena Easton, a song that lost to “Arthur’s Theme” at the Academy Awards. Which song can you still recite today? The iconic movie poster was designed by the legendary Bill Gold and certainly left an impression...

Jack Carr

20,613 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

43 years ago today, one of the best early multiplayer games ever was released: M.U.L.E. Most games in the 80s were single-player experiences. Some offered a two-player option. M.U.L.E. was the earliest to introduce a true four-player option. The auction system was brilliant, and so was the bidding for each plot of land. Very basic principles of supply and demand, beautifully packed into a game. It was also a great example of blending real-time and turn-based gracefully, getting the best out of both styles. I still consider it one of the best games of that early to mid 80s era. Ozark Softscape created some wonderful games; one of the true pioneers of the 8-bit era. The heart and soul behind Ozark Softscape was always Danielle Berry Bunten Berry, and she always put a strong emphasis on the importance of a multiplayer option, quote: "No one ever said on their deathbed: Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer." - I am sure everyone agrees that playing against your friends is infinitely more fun than against the computer.

43 years ago today, one of the best early multiplayer games ever was released: M.U.L.E. Most games in the 80s were single-player experiences. Some offered a two-player option. M.U.L.E. was the earliest to introduce a true four-player option. The auction system was brilliant, and so was the bidding for each plot of land. Very basic principles of supply and demand, beautifully packed into a game. It was also a great example of blending real-time and turn-based gracefully, getting the best out of both styles. I still consider it one of the best games of that early to mid 80s era. Ozark Softscape created some wonderful games; one of the true pioneers of the 8-bit era. The heart and soul behind Ozark Softscape was always Danielle Berry Bunten Berry, and she always put a strong emphasis on the importance of a multiplayer option, quote: "No one ever said on their deathbed: Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer." - I am sure everyone agrees that playing against your friends is infinitely more fun than against the computer.

exQUIZitely 🕹️

22,586 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

Who here is old enough to remember when Myst (1993) blew everyone away? It was a straight-up revolution! Well, that's how it felt like at the time. Developed by brothers Rand & Robyn Miller (Cyan), Myst had over 2,500 photorealistic pre-rendered images, 40 minutes of original ambient music, and 66 minutes of video on a single CD-ROM. Many say it helped kickstart the CD-ROM era (1993 was still heavily dominated by 3.5" disks), which was an expensive hardware luxury back then. It looked and sounded like nothing else. There was no combat. No death. And also no hand-holding. Just you, a mysterious island, books, levers, codes, and puzzles in beautifil, lonely worlds - you had to figure it out, the gameplay was open and non-linear. It felt like stepping into a painting, and you could argue it was one of the first games with true immersion (again, for its time - remember this was 1993). It sold over 6 million copies, and stayed the best-selling PC game for 9 (!) years until The Sims in 2002. It created a whole new audience and changed what people expected from PC gaming forever, the bar was raised to a whole new level. For the first time a game also had real appeal to the non-hardcore gamers. It pulled in more female players than any other game before. For its time it was pure magic.

Who here is old enough to remember when Myst (1993) blew everyone away? It was a straight-up revolution! Well, that's how it felt like at the time. Developed by brothers Rand & Robyn Miller (Cyan), Myst had over 2,500 photorealistic pre-rendered images, 40 minutes of original ambient music, and 66 minutes of video on a single CD-ROM. Many say it helped kickstart the CD-ROM era (1993 was still heavily dominated by 3.5" disks), which was an expensive hardware luxury back then. It looked and sounded like nothing else. There was no combat. No death. And also no hand-holding. Just you, a mysterious island, books, levers, codes, and puzzles in beautifil, lonely worlds - you had to figure it out, the gameplay was open and non-linear. It felt like stepping into a painting, and you could argue it was one of the first games with true immersion (again, for its time - remember this was 1993). It sold over 6 million copies, and stayed the best-selling PC game for 9 (!) years until The Sims in 2002. It created a whole new audience and changed what people expected from PC gaming forever, the bar was raised to a whole new level. For the first time a game also had real appeal to the non-hardcore gamers. It pulled in more female players than any other game before. For its time it was pure magic.

exQUIZitely 🕹️

40,899 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад