Archived News:
A new Far Cry trailer is now available on Ubisoft's
FTP (38 MB direct link) and the FarCry
Media Movies Page (10 MB), showing of the physics from Crytek's upcoming
first-person shooter. The clip runs over two minutes, showing off actual
game footage. Mirrors can be found on 3D
Gamers, Boomtown
(registration required), Filerush,
Gamer's Hell, IGN,
and Worthplaying.
- Halo
Halo:
Combat Evolved for Windows patch is now available, updating Gearbox's
port of Bungie's shooter to version 1.031. Word on 3D
Gamers is that: "the patch addresses a start-up crash related to
the intro movies, and sets anisotropic filtering off by default."
Mirrors are on 3D
Gamers, Boomtown
(registration required), Gamer's
Hell, and Worthplaying.
- Zero Hour
This FTP
directory has downloads of various language versions of the promised
version 1.01 patch for Command & Conquer: Generals - Zero Hour. The
patch can also be applied via the game's internal update function. Thanks
Frans.
- Chrome
Strategy
First has released a version 1.1.3.0 patch for Chrome, updating
Techland's shooter, saying: "Optimizations in this patch include:
faster game performance, new multiplayer maps and vehicles, anti-cheating
protections, and various other improvements and bug fixes. More details in
the Readme.txt."
The patch is mirrored on 3D
Gamers, GameCenter.cz,
Gamer's
Hell, and Worthplaying.
- NWN
A full assortment of Neverwinter Nights patches are now
available, the version 1.60 patch for the original game is on this Atari
Support Page, and there is also an accompanying version 1.60 Hordes
of the Underdark patch, as well as a new Shadows
of the Undrentide 1.60 Critical Rebuild Patch. Thanks Frans.
- LFS
The
Live for Speed Website now offers a new patch "E" for both
Live for Speed S1 as well as for the demo version. Word is: "After
extensive testing by the community, official patch E is now ready, including
the new (very popular) MRT5 single seater racing car. You can read a little
more about it just below, in the previous news update, and there's a lot of
information and discussions about it at our official forum" Thanks
Frans.
Computer
And Video Games has posted a trio of new Half-Life 2 Screenshots showing off
in-game action from Valve's upcoming shooter sequel. Thanks Tiscali Games.
Lionhead has released the developer tools for Black & White, their god game
(thanks Tiscali Games) on this Black
& White Page. Here's the accompanying note: "Lots of people have
been waiting for these, and now here they are; the BWDevNet Tools for
Black&White. They are designed to work with the latest version of Creature
Isle and won’t work if you don’t have Creature Isle installed. Apart from
that you will also need the latest patch of B&W. Additional information and
feedback can be found on our
boards."
Matrix Games sends word that a patch
for the demo for Eric Young's
Squad Assault: West Front is now available, addressing problems encountered
by some trying to play the demo under Windows 98 and WinME. The demo patch is a
1 MB download, available on 3D
Gamers, ActionTrip,
Adrenaline Vault,
Gamer's
Hell, and Worthplaying.
A new Alpha version 1b2 patch for the Elemental
modification for Dungeon Siege is now available. Word is: "The fixed patch
(version 1b2) is now linked above. Patching the original Elemental Alpha 1b0
will now give it proper support for Legends of Aranna, as well as fix all the
things listed here."
Thanks Worthplaying.
The Intel Pentium 4 Processor
Extreme Edition Challenge Website now offers downloads of a film from the
completion, described like this: "The 24 minute show includes in-depth
interviews with the players, extended coverage of games with commentary by TSN
& post-match tactical analysis covering the key rounds." Word is:
"I believe this is the first time a film like this has ever been made, its
use of animated diagrams to explain map tactics is certainly unique."
The Starsiege
2845 Comm Center has a big update filled with new images from this upcoming
Sierra=-sponsored modification for TRIBES Vengeance.
- Super Mario World Time Attack on FilePlanet
(registration required). In under 12 minutes. Thanks Ronin...
Thanks to all who offered suggestions on my video card crashing yesterday.
Thanks zaq for the advice to try scaling back to 4X AGP, which has cleared up
the problem. Sometime today I will also try the fix found on: Call
of Duty system hangs or VPU recover error messages playing game, an ATI
troubleshooting page, sent along by Jody, as it was CoD that I was using for a
good amount of this troubleshooting, so that may supply a fix that's less of a
work-around.
Huzzah and kudos once again to Frans for getting the forums and other scripted
elements updated yesterday. There should be very few remaining areas of the site
with the old format remaining at this point. The issue of how the font sizes
scale as you bump them up in your browser's settings still remains to be
addressed, but the dust from this whole project is otherwise pretty well
settling.
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