"I've been responsible for destroying New York, San Francisco, and Washington."
-- Ray Harryhausen, The Harryhausen Chronicles
This Halloween's special super not-so-secret monster is an homage to Ray Harryhausen, the stop-motion wizard who brought some of the greatest giant movie monsters to life. Harry, the 70-foot tall skeleton warrior, is based on the animated skeletons that took on Sinbad in the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (they were also in Jason And The Argonauts). Here's Harry (Note: image links to a 300k animated gif of Harry getting killed in-game. It's sped up a bit, though):

Harry goes to piecesThere are a few new Washington, D.C. screenshots over in Screenshots.In other news, we got a whole bunch o' terrific voice acting from the talented George Ledoux -- who you might know as the voice of MinuteMan from Irrational Games' Freedom Force.And in other news, we recently noted some spooky similarities between TCFH and DOOM III:

• we both aren't done yet, have been delayed, and haven't given an official release date
• both games' logic engines run at 60Hz independent of the rendering framerate, and thus would have no benefit to running the display at >60Hz
• both games use 3D shape-based collision detection, rather than bounding boxes
• John Carmack is distracted from coding by trying to getting into space - Lars is distracted from coding by reading books about the space program
• both games have objectives to get you through the game, but you can also use the simpler "kill anything that moves" method to reach those objectives
• neither game contains a single elf, orc, football or race car, BUT
• both contain spider monsters AND
• both are based loosely on earlier games

See? Besides the fact that "they're way cooler than us" and "have lots of money" and "there are actually remarkably few similiarities", we're almost making the same game!