New details, screenshots, and a teaser video from Rainbow Six Vegas 2 shed more
light on plans for the next installment in the tactical shooter series.
This press release has
some new Xbox 360 screenshots as well as new gameplay details, while the video
is mirrored on
AtomicGamer,
ComputerGames.ro,
eXp.de,
FileFront,
FileShack, and
Gamer's
Hell. New features highlighted in the press release include increased
emphasis on multiplayer play, enhanced customization, improved co-op mode, a
larger portion of Sin City to explore, and more.
The
Hellgate: London Website
has word that version 0.7 of Flagship's action/RPG is now alive, offering
tweaks, fixes, and changes, and some key memory management issues have been
cleared up. They also express their goal of getting their first major content
delivered before the end of the year will not be met, as the lesson learned from
the game's rocky launch is that "releases should be a question of 'what' and not
'when.'"
The
AMD Website now offers new version
7.12 Catalyst reference drivers for ATI accelerators running under Windows
Vista, Windows XP, and Linux. Here's the highlight of the Windows release: "This
release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhanced version of ATI Overdrive for the ATI
Radeon HD 2900 Series. Users can now Overclock both GPU engine and graphics
memory clock speeds in Crossfire mode (and over-clock single ATI Radeon graphics
accelerators as well). This version of ATI Overdrive also includes a new stress
test application to verify any over-clocking speeds users may have configured
(either manually or through the auto-tuning tool) on their ATI Radeon HD 2900
Series of graphics accelerators."
Steam now offers new automatic updates for
Team
Fortress 2 as well as the
Steam
client. The Steam client update is fairly minor, but TF2 gets a number of
tweaks, changes, and fixes.
Neverwinter Nights Forums offer a new beta version 1.69.8101 patch for the
D&D RPG along with a revert patch. Word is: "The 1.69 Beta 2 patch addresses
some issues with the videos not playing under Windows Vista, as well as
prompting the user for elevated privileges when running Neverwinter nights under
Windows Vista." Thanks
Neverwinter Nights 2
Vault.
RageofWar.NET
offers new patches for Galactic Dream: Rage of War, updating this space strategy
game and its playable demo to version 1.1H. The downloads are mirrored on
AtomicGamer,
FileFront, and
Gamer's
Hell.
Aspyr now
offers a new patch for the Mac edition of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock,
updating the rhythm/music game to version 1.1. The new version includes the same
batch of changes as the recent PC patch (
story).
EverQuest II Q&A on TenTonHammer hears from former SOE producer Scott
Hartsman who answers questions about mob bosses in the Rise of Kunark expansion.
3D Realms' George
Broussard Tosses Out Duke Nukem Forever Information Scraps on ShackBlog
features some answers from the 3D Realms mainstay about Duke Nukem Forever upon
the release of the new trailer for the long-in-development shooter. Along the
way George clarifies where their engine development parted ways with the stock
Unreal II engine, how environmental puzzles and dismemberment are his favorite
features so far, how they've restarted development at least three times over the
years, and more.
The Stranger
Website now offers downloads of a free Christmas add-on for The Stranger,
Fireglow's fantasy-themed RTS/RPG. The add-on includes a pair of new multiplayer
maps: "Once upon a Time in Mokkosa" and "Heritage of Muneks." The new content is
available in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, and Czech.
A new patch for
The Witcher
is now available to update CD Projekt's action/RPG to version 1.2. The new
version does not add any features; bug fixes and tweaks are the order of the
day, as outlined in
the change log.
The download is available from
ActionTrip,
AtomicGamer,
ComputerGames.ro,
FanGaming,
FileFront,
FileShack,
Gamer's Hell,
The Patches Scrolls,
and
PixelRage.
The
Combat
Mission: Shock Force Demo and Patch Download Page now offers new version
1.05 patches for the Paradox Interactive and GamersGate editions of the military
combat game, not to be confused with the recently released patch for the
Battlefront edition, in spite of efforts at making this more confusing than it
should be. A number of changes and fixes are included in the patch, which
includes a warning to back up custom hotkeys.txt files and that old save games
will not be compatible with the new version.
A new patches for the US and European editions of Space Empires V update
Malfador Machinations' 4X strategy sequel to version 1.66. The US patch is
available on
AtomicGamer,
FileFront,
Gamer's Hell,
and
The Patches
Scrolls and the Euro patch is on
AtomicGamer,
FileFront and
The
Patches Scrolls.
The official Linux demo for Eschalon: Book I is now available, following the
recent release of a beta Linux demo for the RPG (
story). The
download is available on
AtomicGamer,
FileFront, and
Gamer's
Hell.
This year's edition of
Wired's annual Vaporware Awards are live (thanks nin), subtitled "Long Live
the King," a tribute to their obvious #1 choice, Duke Nukem Forever, which tops
the list in spite of yesterday's teaser trailer (which almost seems timed to
coincide with this announcement) and its "lifetime achievement" designation in
the
2004
Vaporware Awards (DNF has been a fixture on this list since it first
appeared in 2000 (
story)). The list also includes another two
games in a pair of odd entries, as Spore comes in at
number two even though the ambitious game was only announced a couple of
years ago (
story) and the even odder inclusion of
Diablo III at number seven, in spite of the fact that a third installment in
the RPG series has not yet been announced at all. At one point vaporware was a
term used to describe products that would never appear, but these "awards" seem
to have evolved into a simple list of products that have taken a while to
develop; past honorees include Windows 2000, Windows NT, OS X, Half-Life 2,
Diablo II, high-speed net access, Bluetooth, Warcraft III, and many other
products that were not only eventually released, but were quite successful.
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