Winter 2022-2023:

MRCK released his massive 14-map episode, Blast Radius, some weeks ago; it's now been reviewed. Do NOT miss this!

I promised this almost two months ago, so here's a review of Hollywood Holocaust remake part 2.

Here's another new map from MRCK, Tit-E-Bar.

Quite a few noteworthy Duke3D projects have come out in recent weeks, so I'm gonna have to buckle up and start playing!

Oh crap, I actually posted a review of this map, Koodbool, a week ago (it's been on the "Latest Maps" list above since then), but totally forgot to mention it here in the news section. So, check that one out!

2022 will draw to a close in about five hours here in Finland. The post-covid year was marked by Russia's brutal imperialistic war in Ukraine that was meant to last no more than a few weeks, but the Ukrainians had other ideas, fought back and are now on their way of becoming the most formidable military power in Europe while Russia's future looks bleaker than it has since the start of the Nazis' genocidal Operation Barbarossa.

We'll end the year with a review of the fourth episode of the AMC TC. This was a truly memorable journey, so waste no further time and grab it. Also, the guy who made a "remake" of Hollywood Holocaust a while back released a sequel about a week ago. I had almost finished a review of the map but ran out of time while trying to desperately wrap up my AMC TC review before the end of the year, so I'm gonna have to post the review a bit later. Meanwhile, feel free to grab the map here.

As for a summary of how 2022 fared against the past in terms of new releases reviewed/released on MSDN, here's how it looks:
2004: 50 new releases
2005: 36 new releases
2006: 30 new releases
2007: 21 new releases
2008: 40 new releases
2009: 34 new releases
2010: 26 new releases
2011: 21 new releases
2012: 29 new releases
2013: 28 new releases
2014: 22 new releases
2015: 19 new releases
2016: 24 new releases
2017: 13 new releases
2018: 20 new releases
2019: 11 new releases
2020: 15 new releases
2021: 23 new releases
2022: 16 new releases

So, "not great, not terrible". The year included some gems such as a new Alien Armageddon episode, AMC TC Episode 4 and AWOL with a map by yours truly.

I've also updated My Maps section, but some work still remains, so be mindful of any inconsistencies.

Happy New Year!

Here's a review of Polaris Outpost, a map from 1996 that I implicitly promised a review of back in April. Anyway, give it a look, as it's a damn good space map.

It's independence day in Finland, and our thoughts are with our Ukrainian brothers whose sovereignty and existence is, just as ours was, threatened by Russian imperial fantasies. The fall counteroffensive met every expectation, forcing Russia to mobilize in panic. The Russians have responded with intensifying terrorism, gratuitous bombing of civilian infrastructure and threats of further reprisals if Ukrainians dare to defend themselves. (This is what the Nazis did a lot in the 2nd World War; if they were attacked, they'd take it out on the civilian population of whichever territory they were occupying.) Russian routs/retreats in the north and south have revealed more rapes, torture chambers, castrations, kidnappings (of possibly tens of thousands of little children, now deported to Russia for brainwashing), all examples of the so-called "Russian World" they're trying to impose on Ukraine. Russians themselves have become more critical, but tellingly not of the war itself, merely its conduct; it's not the killing of Ukrainians they're opposed but the fact that the killing isn't going any better. (Lots of creepy examples here.) The right to kill Ukrainians for the sake of antiquated notions of imperial "glory" is taken for granted, even though their supposedly inferior brothers (racistly referred to as hohols) have turned out to be lightyears ahead of Russia by pretty much every measure. And while all this is happening, Russia is trying to sell both the domestic audience and the international community the idea that somehow they are the victims here.

Another gloomy winter/hi-tech map from DannyFromNewOrleans, check out Memory of the Waters.