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Level of the year 2012

Posted on 22/12/2012 by admin

There has been lots of great Drakan levels made over the years and we have celebrated some of them by a yearly award introduced back in 2009. This year’s award goes to Dark Master for his ‘Drakan3’ which is set … Continue reading →

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Site has now been moved onto the new server + new forums

Posted on 21/08/2012 by admin

The move to the new server and forum is now complete. The forum has been tested and is working OK however some problems did occur when importing data from the old Snitz forums. Users with symbols in their username were … Continue reading →

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Level editor tutorials available + site confirmed working on new server

Posted on 18/08/2012 by admin

There has been a lot of tutorials from the old Surreal News forums rescued by our forum member Shoprat who has put a lot of effort into finding tutorials and other questions and answers on the web and putting them … Continue reading →

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Moving the site from Windows server 2000 to Linux & Drakan music

Posted on 20/06/2012 by admin

Just to let you know that I have been doing some work on the website converting all pages & scripts from .asp to .php in preparation for the move from a Windows web server to Unix. This is to save … Continue reading →

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Unfinished single player maps now available for download

Posted on 11/06/2012 by admin

Added unreleased upcoming player made levels & series to the single player level reviews and downloads page. These probably will never be finished and all are in a playable state so are worth checking out. Aergoth is a stunning example … Continue reading →

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I ditched the Drakan webring

Posted on 07/03/2012 by admin

I got rid of the webring links on all pages today as the site keeps redirecting you to their site most of the time when clicking on links within this site. This make the site very annoying to use as … Continue reading →

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Level of the year 2011

Posted on 20/12/2011 by admin

This year’s best player made level goes to Dfoehammer for his level series Aergoth. This level series although unfinished is by far the best fan made add on level for the game and is our highest scoring level series reviewed … Continue reading →

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10th Anniversary patch for OOTF

Posted on 24/10/2011 by admin

Shelim has now got a moddb page for his Drakan 10th anniversary modification which brings the game more up to date with current graphics and supports new Direct X 9 features (the original game used Direct X 6) and also … Continue reading →

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Yet another dragon game in the works

Posted on 11/08/2011 by admin

Larian Studios have just announced their new game called Dragon Commander previously known as Project D. There’s a trailer at the moment which gives a sneak preview with more details coming next week at Gamescom 2011. This game should be … Continue reading →

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Level downloads working again

Posted on 07/08/2011 by admin

I never noticed until now that the levels.arokhslair.net sub domain has not been working since the move to a new server several months ago. Doh! This is due to stupid windows server 2008 running on the new machine so there … Continue reading →

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