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KA Mod and UE Press Coverage

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Here is a list of places that have had news coverage or featured the KA Mod and/or UE in some way, typically outside of ModDB and the Tron fan sites.

This list will be updated as we find out about more places that have done coverage.


Killer App Mod
A Force for Good
Blue's News - April 2010
Blue's News - December 2014
Dead End Thrills
Examiner.com
Fileshack
FUDCast Season 2 Episode 16 - Brief mention at 1:00:19 mark
Gamers.hu - Not mentioned by name, brief mention as "HD mod"
Gamers On Linux
Gamexotic
Gamocracy
GamePressure - Scroll down page, GRYOnline.pl article republished in English
Grospixels
GRYOnline.pl - Scroll down page
Heelpbook
Kaiserkiwi.de
MegaGames
N4G - News for Gamers
Play Old PC Games
Quarter to Three
Reddit
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Not mentioned by name, scroll down to 43 where it's referred to as a "hi-res" mod, link to the mod is broken (Come on, RPS! You can do better than this!)
Strategy Informer
Thetartuffebay.org
Tom's Games France
Widescreen Gaming Forum

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April 2010 ModDB front page headline


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November 2014 ModDB front page headline


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December 2014 ModDB Top 10 mods


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PC Games Germany magazine, August 2015

(Look for the last paragraph, to the left of the sidebar on the right side of the page)


User Error
Doupe.cz
Fileshack
Gamoholic
io9 - Not mentioned by name, scroll down to 5 where it's referred to as a "fully fledged expansion"
MegaGames
PC Gamezone
Strategy Informer

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April 2012 ModDB front page headline


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April 2012 ModDB Newsletter



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Absolute Games
AFO Web
Game Life
ModDB Video Spotlight - 2:21 mark
ModDB A Year in Review - Q2 2010
Totalmod.hu
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Re: KA Mod and UE2 Press Coverage

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Widescreen Gaming Forum finally added the KA Mod as a widescreen solution for Tron 2.0, to their Games List. About time! :P
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Added an article found on Totalmod.hu reviewing the Killer App Mod and User Error 2. The review is positive about both.
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Added screenshots of when KA and UE were both featured as ModDB front page headlines.
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Added more UE coverage.
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Stumbled across an article on a Russian site called Absolute Games, discussing older games and mods for them. The Killer App Mod is mentioned, and for User Error the author refers to it in his "bonus campaign scene" comment. His brief review of both is favorable.
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Another article added, a TRON 2.0 restrospective from Gamers.hu. However, it doesn't mention the Killer App Mod by name. The article only refers to it as an "HD mod".

I don't get that. Why mention it, but not give the name or a place where to download it? It's a disservice to the reader to mention something potentially useful, but give no details on it. It was the same with the Absolute Games article, where they didn't mention User Error by name. Kind of shameful, really.

The article also mentions (paraphrasing) that "TRON 2.0 was kept alive by modders after Buena Vista Interactive abandoned it".
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Added a link to a page, from an article on the French site Grospixels. It's a big multi-page article covering everything Tron. The link is to the page talking about Tron 2.0, and in it the KA Mod is mentioned as a widescreen solution.
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Added an article from a site called Play Old PC Games. They recommend installing the Killer App Mod, and the article is so recent that it even mentions a Multiplayer Fix was in development.
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Added a link for a lengthy review of TRON 2.0 at Gamexotic, to the first message post, which recommends playing the game with Killer App Mod.
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Re: KA Mod and UE Press Coverage

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Slightly off-topic, but I didn't want to start a new thread for it.

Lately, there's been a sudden rise in the number of e-mails with people asking me for help or questions about Tron 2.0, and/or about the Killer App Mod. Way more than usual.

I believe the reason is because of this article on Kotaku.


It's about "classic PC games you must play", and Tron 2.0 is one of the picks chosen by Kotaku staff.

But I think we specifically owe Kain-Xavier thanks as the one responsible for sending people our way, due to mentioning my site. Thanks, K-X! T-)
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Re: KA Mod and UE Press Coverage

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Updated the first post in this topic to include mention of Killer App Mod v1.1a making the ModDB headlines for November 2014, and also being a Top 10 mod in December 2014 (peaking at #10) for a while. Screenshots included as proof.
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Added two new sites. AFO Web mentions both Killer App and User Error. GRYOnline.pl cites Killer App as a recommended download. (Though they pick the wrong picture to represent v1.1a. The Burst Cannon won't be in Multiplayer until v1.2 is released.)
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Added Thetartuffebay.org, which reviews TRON 2.0 with Killer App Mod v1.1a installed.

The review incorrectly assumes that crashes experienced while playing the game, are due to the mod. Crashes also occur in the vanilla, unmodded game, due to lingering bugs that weren't fixed in the last Official Patch. (When fighting DataWraiths, and sometimes if you quickload a saved game rapidly, several times in a row.)
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Added Kaiserkiwi.de, which reviewed TRON 2.0 and mentions the Killer App Mod at the end. Also added Heelpbook.
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