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Archived News:
Ritual announces that SiN Episodes: Emergence is now available in Russia and
Germany, and that following the game's most recent update, statistics sections
are live on their website with info on performance in the single-player game as
well as Arena mode. The
SiN Episodes
Stats page has breakdowns on solo play, while the
Arena Mode page
has multiplayer stats.
SOE Licenses Unreal
Engine 3 has word that Sony Online Entertainment has licensed the Unreal 3
engine. The deal covers several upcoming PC and console projects, though the
only one being confirmed at the moment is the upcoming MMORPG based on DC comics
being created with the collaboration of Jim Lee.
Tripwire announces plans for a free content release for
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 a
week from today adding a new map and more to the World War II
shooter: Tripwire is happy to announce our next free update for Red
Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, due out next Thursday, July 27th, to be downloaded
automatically off Steam. This is the next in our planned series of free content
updates for the game. A quick summary of the new content:
- Brand new map - "Lyes Krovy". This is a brutal close-quarters fight for a
German trench-and-bunker position in a forest in northern Russia , in the summer
of 1944. The Soviet forces get to assault into and through a strongly-fortified
position, while the Germans fight hard to hold them off. This one has rapidly
become a firm favourite with the test team!
- Brand new weapon system - smoke grenades. We've teased about this one on the
forums... on some maps, infantry commanders will now have smoke instead of
explosive grenades, which can be used to create quick cover for assault routes,
or to momentarily blind the defenders. We're finding that clever use of smoke
can change tactical stalemates at a stroke!
- Tank reloading: we've listened to the requests and we have changed the tank
reloading so that you now choose the next round to load, without having to
unload first. Quicker, more realistic, more intuitive.
- Victory conditions changed so round can no longer end in stalemate "No
Decisive Victory" situations.
- Multiple fixes, including a fix from Creative Labs for choppy VOIP with EAX,
no more players "bouncing" off prone players and no more "telefragging" when
players change stance.
Starcraft Ghost Novel Q&A on FiringSquad talks with Keith R.A. DeCandido,
author of an upcoming novel that's a prequel to the storyline in Starcraft:
Ghost: "Well, like I said, it was originally designed as a prequel to the game.
The game was going to be a first-person shooter, in which you-the-gamer play
Nova, a Ghost -- basically a powerful telepathic and telekinetic assassin with
excellent martial arts and weapons skills. What NOVA the novel does is tell the
character's backstory and show how she got the point she's at in the game."
The M.A.N.2
Download Page has a new beta version of Massive Assault Network 2,
Wargaming.Net's multiplayer RTS game. The new version is 2.0.205beta, and there
is a patch for previous versions of the client as well as a new full installer.
The new version incorporates user requested features and changes.
Shockwave Productions Forums (thanks Frans) now offer a new patch for
Battle
of Britain II, updating the World War II aerial combat sequel to version
2.04. They say the new version offers new features, stability, performance
improvements, and fixes, though presumably they mean "improved stability." The
forum posting has a detailed list of the extensive changes, as well as a listing
of download mirrors.
- Steam
News has details on a new update for The Ship automatically available
via Steam to address a few bugs. Thanks Frans…
Bit of an early update this evening as I head off for a bit of family dinner,
which will also give us the chance to follow-through on our promised birthday
gift for the younger Smurf. I think he is going for the skateboarding action
figure guys, rather than the light-up sneakers. Oddly he never mentioned
disappointment at not being offered a plant as one of the options after all.
Though not yet noted on the Might and
Magic Website, a new patch is now available for Heroes of Might and Magic V,
updating the latest installment in the turn-based strategy series to version
1.02. Downloads of the various localized editions of the patch are available on
3D Downloads, 3D
Gamers,
Filecloud,
FileFront, Gamer's Hell,
VGPRO, and
Worthplaying.
Codemasters Press Colin McRae kicks up DIRT as genre-leading series goes next-gen.
is the press release officially announcing Colin McRae: DIRT, the just-unveiled
( story) next installment in the rally racing series, as well as
the launch of the
official product section with info and screenshots. Here's the announcement: Colin McRae: DIRT™ is today revealed as the
title* for the next generation of the genre leading, 8-million+ selling rally
racing series. Codemasters also confirms the game will launch for the
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360™ video game and
entertainment system from Microsoft and PC simultaneously in 2007. A special
edition for mobile phones will also be available from Codemasters Mobile.
Colin McRae: DIRT™ is set to be the most diverse and exhilarating off-road
racing experience ever with sensational gravel, mud and dirt events the world
over. Events will include the series’ intense point-to-point races and then take
players further off-road than ever before.
Race in challenging heavyweight 850bhp cars, drifting on the loose gravel and
high-speed blind corners of Hill Climb events along perilous cliff edges. All
12.4 miles of the world famous Pikes Peak International is included, with over
150 precarious turns to negotiate through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
How about engaging in multiple car races with Dakar-style trucks and
super-powered 4x4s on the toughest desert terrain in Rally Raid competitions?
Then there are Rally Cross events, switching between dirt and road racing, where
the competition is always tight, fast and collisions with your opponents are
inevitable.
With more off-road racing styles to be revealed, Colin McRae: DIRT™ will also
offer a dedicated mode for European, International and Global rally
championships featuring official 2WD, 4WD, Classic and RWD rally cars.
Colin McRae: DIRT™ will deliver the wheel-screaming exhilaration of off-road
racing with the next generation of the series’ sublime car handling and physics
system and a devastating new damage engine that ensures players experience every
bump in the track, every loose rock, every inch of shifting dirt through the
reactive environments.
With an incredible range of off-road vehicles, thrill-packed tracks, modes that
make the most of online multiplayer, and more varied events than any other
single-championship rally game, Colin McRae is being reborn as a bigger, faster,
wilder racing experience.
Get ready for total mud splattering, gravel churning, handbrake turning,
off-road racing in Colin McRae: DIRT™, coming 2007 for PlayStation®3, Xbox™360
and PC. Sign up for the drive of your life and receive advance race briefings
online at www.codemasters.com/dirt
Games
Industry offers the missing footnote to that orphaned asterisk: "Game titled “
Colin McRae: DIRT™” in PAL territories. In the U.S.A, the game is
titled “DIRT: Colin McRae Off-Road™”."
LucasArts and Sony
Online Entertainment Unveil Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures
(thanks Frans) announces a DVD bundle called Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete
Online Adventures. The package will include special content, including an
exclusive vehicle. Word is: The Complete Online Adventures features the
base game, Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, along with all three of the
game's expansions: Jump to Lightspeed®, Rage of the Wookiees(TM), and Trials of
Obi-Wan(TM). In addition, Star Wars Galaxies subscribers will automatically
receive a series of game updates that are scheduled to be released by LucasArts
and Sony Online Entertainment throughout 2006, filled with new content, features
and gameplay enhancements.
The World of
Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Movies Page now offers a "mounts" trailer from
the upcoming WoW expansion, the official release of a clip that was recently
leaked a bit early. The 46 MB clip is mirrored on
3D Gamers and
FileFront.
CDV Software Entertainment features a patch to update Night Watch (thanks
Frans), Nival Interactive's tactical role-playing game. The update addresses a
few bugs, and makes the game's lip synching a little less Milli Vanilli.
ZUXXEZ now
offers a new patch for the WinXP edition of Earth 2140 (thanks Frans). Word is:
"A new patch for the XP-Version of "Earth 2140" stops the stability problems of
the software. After the installation of the 1 MB package no more arbitrary
system crashes will occur."
Matrix Games now
offers a new War Plan Orange patch, updating the war game to version 1.205. Word
is: "The v1.205 update focuses on adding more detail to the already
extraordinarily accurate database of information. A new ship type, the Armed
Merchant Cruiser (AMC) has been added to the war replacing the anti-aircraft
cruiser. Depth Charges have been adjusted to reflect historical values making
depth charge hits more lethal while US Subs are now equipped with at least a
single AA Machinegun for their surface defense. US Battleship combat range and
fuel capacity has been adjusted to be more historically accurate, and thus the
US Battleships have a much shorter range. These updates coupled with a host of
minor updates, ship refits, and overall improvements round out the list of 56
changes included in this patch." The download is available
on this page.
- Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise of Clans on
3D Gamers.
- The Eets Website
now offers an updated version of the puzzle game dubbed Eets: Replay
Enabled. As before, a demo is available…
The road crew showed up again yesterday and extended that hole across the
street: rather than creating a bigger car trap, it turns out they are indeed
working on the water main, extending the main across the street to an extra lot,
presumably in case a house is built there. Then to compound the war-zone look,
the folks showed up to follow-up on Con Ed's damage to our driveway, so now we
have a hole there too, though that one is scheduled to be filled tomorrow. How
badly chewed up is our street at this point? Yesterday there were three kids on
their motocross bicycles riding up and down the block jumping the various piles
of dirt and debris.
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