Case swap

It's the classic move from Hustle. One person puts a case down, another picks it up and walks off with it. New animations and assets from the upcoming Criminals pack.

Moviestorm 1.1.5 in test

We've just sent Moviestorm version 1.1.5 over to the QA team, so that Synnah and Dick Swayze can break it before they leave. All being well, it should be ready to ship in a couple of weeks.

Most of this build is fixes to the modders' workshop, and a few minor changes necessary to support the next couple of content packs. When those are nailed down, we can finally get the criminals into QA, and hopefully you'll get them soon as well.

We'll let you know as soon as we get a firm release date.

Big Brother IS watching you

Here at Moviestorm Towers, we're always striving for greater realism. And as we stroll innocently through the streets of Cambridge, minding our own business, we can't help noticing the way our benevolent rulers and retail environment owners have placed cameras everywhere to keep us safe from the foul miscreants who would destroy our civilisation. It makes us happy to know that our every action is being watched and recorded so that we can prove our innocence should we need to, and it makes us feel good to know that we are doing our bit to help our heroic law enforcement officials in their fight against terrorrorororrism. And we know you feel the same way too.

So here you go. Security cameras. Moving, blinking, and remembering everything you do, just like the real thing. So no more excuses of "I didn't touch anything, it just crashed." We can see your keyboard, so we know you hit the magic CTRL-ALT-7 combination that causes everything to go slow.* And we can see what you're doing while you wait for your movies to render.

They'll be part of the Criminals pack. Which will be out... altogether now... when it's ready!

*Oh come on, don't tell me you actually tried it, did you? You did? Mwahaha!

I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it, I'm bad

Now that the Streets bundle has, erm, hit the streets, the next pack going into test* is Criminals, who compliment the kindly, friendly, law-abiding policemen in the Law and Order pack. We've shown you a few sneak peeks before, but today, we've got a first look at the new faces.

Now, as everyone knows, bad guys are always disfigured (except when they're suave British villains played by Alan Rickman), so we've introduced some new morphs. Which means you can give your perps broken noses and the like. Cos then everyone will know they're bad.

*When it's ready. Did you really need to ask?