Shockwave Screenshot from Daikatana

Shockwave Screenshot from Daikatana is the story today, and it fits right into the fast-moving PC gaming pileup of June 1998. John Romero from ION Storm has updated his .plan with a screenshot of the Shockwave weapon from Daikatana. For example, our Shockwave weapon (a steel ball that blasts out, hits a wall, then explodes with tremendous force in an ever-expanding sphere of death and destruction) has all the animation on the client side, even the expanding, rotating rings of death and all the hit- are about 8 massive objects being drawn all at once! For players keeping one eye on patches, demos, hardware, and whatever the big studios are cooking up next, this is exactly the kind of update that can disappear in a day and matter a month later. Welcome to PC gaming, where the news moves faster than most download mirrors.