Bloodlines Trailer

Over at www.thecpl.com , we see what is in store for us this coming week at CPL Dallas:

Dallas, TX, July 03, 2005 –(PR.COM)– Serendipitous Films has chosen the US stop of the Cyberathlete® Professional League (CPL) World Tour to premier the first trailer of their latest feature, Bloodlines. Beginning on July 6th, the event will take place at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas. The Bloodlines trailer premier is scheduled at 8:30pm on Friday, July 8th, at the main CPL Summer Event stage hosted by Intel.
Filmed in Fort Worth, Frisco, and Dallas, Texas, Bloodlines stars Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Young Guns, Courage Under Fire), Yancy Butler (Witchblade, Drop Zone), Tom Wright (Barbershop 1 and 2, Murder at 1600), Glenn Morshower (24, CSI, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor), Jeff Speakman (The Perfect Weapon, The Gunman), and Dallas newcomer Troy Baker. The film also marks the acting debut for Angel Munoz, president of the CPL, who was cast as the Latin American corporate president taken hostage.

Inspired by the world of cyber-warfare, the Bloodlines plot involves a next-generation weaponry manufacturer. “There is no better place to premier the first trailer – the CPL and the gaming community served as an inspiration while developing the concept for this film,” states Writer/Director Daniel Millican. Producer Jeff Rodgers adds, “This is a match made in heaven for the CPL and Serendipitous Films. The 2004 Summer Event was unprecedented, and this year’s will be even greater.”

The Bloodlines trailer premier should have quite an audience – online tickets to the Cyberathlete® Extreme Summer Championships have already sold out. A total of 7,300 gamers from 60 different countries registered online for the five-day CPL World Tour event, which will take place July 6th through July 10th in Grapevine, Texas.

For information regarding Bloodlines and Serendipitous Films vist www.s-films.com.

You can find the original here : http://www.thecpl.com/league/?s=news&p=newsarchive_20050701

PCF News Update

I noticed this over on the PCF website, which has always had very little content other than the usual self-congratulating platitudes. We find a news post called Its been a while, so its high time for some news. which is the most communication weve seen from the company for a long while. You can find the post here.

Now that Painkiller expansion pack, Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, and Painkiller Gold/Black Edition are out, were totally focused on Painkiller Xbox (coming this year). Its hell of a challenge to squeeze that behemoth of a game into Xbox 64 MB, but weve already made a serious progress and even showed a playable demo behind this years E3 closed door. More news as soon as the release date is finalized.
People Can Fly, 21/06/2005

It does make you wonder whether these optimisations will ever make their way to the PC version of the game, or by the time that they do, whether it will matter.

*UPDATE* You can see some pics of the XBox conversion, here