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DRM in Crysis Warhead
Much Like Spore
Mirror's Edge Dated
PC Version this Winter
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The beta is open to all FilePlanet members (even those with free memberships), but keys are being given out on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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Ascaron and Deep Silver, the games label of Koch Media, announced today that SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel has reached gold status, and copies are currently being pressed.ASCARON further announced that Sacred 2 has passed the "Games for Windows" quality check. Games bearing this seal have been thoroughly tested on all current Windows versions, and support the built-in Windows Vista parental control functions.
SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel is one of the most comprehensive German games productions of all times. In all, 94 ASCARON employees worked on and developed this action RPG hit for four years, resulting in a stunning, unique role playing experience. SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel offers action RPG fans an elaborate new development with numerous new features and expansions of the popular games mechanics.
In SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel, the player gradually uncovers a huge, freely explorable universe featuring plenty of detail and top-end graphic quality. SACRED 2 – Fallen Angel fascinates players with a gripping storyline that can be experienced in two completely different ways (light and shadow campaigns).
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Topware Interactive today announced the donation of over 10,000 units of its sci-fi futuristic shooter software title Chrome Specforce to the various branches of the United States armed services in its ongoing effort to play an active role in the support of US troops, both at home and abroad.“It is our distinct pleasure to support the armed services of our country in any small way that we can” said James Seaman, Managing Director at Topware Interactive. “As a father of an army reservist – I truly understand the level of service and sacrifice that these men and women take on in order to protect and serve our great nation.”
With the help of Debbie Skolnik, the Family Assistance Network Coordinator for Operation Ready Families, TopWare has in recent months been able to provide a variety of its products to the troops directly, as well as those organizations whose mission it is to support them. While servicemen SFC James Vincent (223rd MI), SGT Daniel Caddy (235th EN), LT Commander Wayne Seamans (Coast Guard Station, Two Rock), & SFC David Chapman (2632nd TC) have assisted in the distribution of the games to the soldiers at home, organizations including the M.O.M.S. (Mothers of Military Servicemembers) & OCC (Operation Care & Comfort) have been ensuring that those men & women serving abroad obtain copies as well by including them in their soldier care packages, which are in turn dispersed to military installations across the globe.
TopWare intends to continue to advocate their support of active servicemen & women worldwide through their ongoing contributions of entertainment media. For the latest up-to-date new on Topware Interactive visit http://www.topware.com/.
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Will the retail version be activated via Steam or does it have an independent EA activation?
The Steam and retail versions both use SecuROM product activation online.
Will the Steam version have an activation limit?
The Steam version of Crysis Warhead has the same activation limit as the retail version of 5 activations. The Steam version of Crysis Wars will only require authentication upon installation just like the retail product.
How often can I install the game which I got from Steam?
Re-authentication is required only if you make significant changes to your PC's hardware, reformat your hard drive, or in some cases, upgrade your Operating System. Multiple installations of the game on the same computer that has not gone through significant changes will not count against the number of computers the game can be installed on.
Does Crysis Wars have online activation?
Crysis Wars is authenticated upon installation. If you want to play through Gamespy Arcade, you’ll need a valid registration key like most online games that use that service.
Can I play online only via Steam?
Online play for all versions of Crysis Warhead is done through Gamespy.
Are Crysis and Warhead the same when being downloaded via Steam as the hard copy ones?
Yes, the binaries and content are identical.
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This announcement is to let everyone know that if you haven’t yet entered your CD key into the account center, you must do so by tomorrow (Friday) morning at 7:00 AM. If you do not enter your information into the Account Center by the deadline your characters will not be affected, you will just be unable to login until your product key is entered.If you pre-ordered online and have not yet received confirmation that your order has shipped we encourage you to contact your retailers customer support to ensure you receive your game on-time. EA Store customers will be contacted with instructions on how they may continue playing while they wait for their box to arrive.
Think of it as a good time to stand up, have a stretch, and go out to greet that bright, giant, hot thing in the sky. Don’t forget your shades!
The WAAAGH! is understandably upset.
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Valve's knocked 75% off the usual price, allowing you to scoop up Wideload Games' entertaining title for a low low $4.99.
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Multiwinia: Survival of the Flattest is Introversion’s fourth stand-alone title. With a choice of six action-packed multiplayer game modes, and 40 unique maps set in one of the most beautiful, retro-arcade inspired game environs ever created, Multiwinia promises to be the ultimate homage to the halcyon days of gaming. Challenge your opponent to a game of stick-man slaughter, and watch digital-war unfold, as your Multiwinian army struggles to complete a chosen task faster and better than your rival’s. It’s fast, it’s furious, and only the flattest will survive!
Download here!
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The video game lawsuits that GamePolitics has uncovered include:
Shawn Guse of Federal Way, Washington. Guse, unrepresented by counsel, agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Wii, CoD 3 Xbox 360) to settle the case. Chris Hyman of Abbeville, South Carolina. Hyman, also unrepresented, agreed to pay Activision $25,000 to settle the case. George Laflin of New Jersey. Laflin, apparently the only defendant who had an attorney, agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Xbox 360). Maryanne Leach of Northome, Minnesota. Leach, with no attorney, agreed to pay Activision $1,000. Kenneth Madden of York, South Carolina agreed to pay Activision $100,000 (CoD 3 Wii, Cod 2 The Big Red One PS2, Tony Hawk's Project 8, Xbox 360). He too was unrepresented. James R. Strickland, aka Ryan Strickland of New York State; case is still active (CoD3 Xbox 360).
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One of the most eagerly awaited online role-playing games is approaching the final stretch in its development. The German, English and French versions of The Chronicles of Spellborn are scheduled for release on November 27th, 2008 in Europe. In preparation of the release, the innovative fantasy MMORPG has started into the next phase of the closed beta tests along with a large content patch Wednesday, 17th of September.The update brings along substantial advancements in the class system, the quest architecture, the fame system and the combat gameplay as well as improvements on art and general game mechanics lifting the game onto a new level of gameplay experience. During the upcoming weeks, developer Spellborn NV and publisher Frogster will invite more selected registered community members into the closed beta tests. A detailed beta and release schedule for The Chronicles of Spellborn will be announced shortly. Interested fantasy adventurers can register via the brand new beta registration on www.tcos.com to get the chance to have a look at the game before its actual release.
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The obligatory Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch modes will be present and correct, along with Capture the Diamond (if you've ever played Capture the Flag, you can probably work it out).Plus there's Uprising, described by Pharand as "a modified version of a VIP".
"We decided that all persistency will occur within a match or a define series of matches," Pharand added. "That way, gamers will have a taste of all our great guns quickly. You will get upgrades within classes and it will allow you to be more tactical in your progression, depending of the type maps you play."
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Codemasters today announced the forthcoming release of the first downloadable content pack for Race Driver: GRID, the summer’s hit game that made racing exciting again, with the reveal of the ‘8 Ball’ pack coming this autumn for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system. Details for downloadable content for the Games for Windows edition of Race Driver: GRID will be announced shortly.Enhancing the award-winning Race Driver: GRID, the premium 8 Ball pack is set to feature eight thrilling new cars to race and two new online events to compete in. Each vehicle is beautifully realised and was carefully selected as a thoroughbred racing car with a unique personality to deliver a stunning race experience.
‘8 Ball’ DLC Pack Cars:
McLaren F1 GTR TVR Cerbera Speed 12 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X Honda S2000 Nissan GT-R (S-G2008) VW Nardo Pontiac Firebird Trans AM Volvo C30 All eight cars will be available to drive in the game’s ‘Race Day’ mode and online races. In addition to the cars, the pack will make two new multiplayer events available, set on existing circuits from across Race Driver: GRID's three continents and to test drivers to their very limit online. On Xbox 360, the pack will also feature four new Achievements worth a total of 100 points to earn from four new competitive challenges:
Jack Of All Trades – Win an online race in each of the 8 Ball pack cars – 25pts. Drift Master - Achieve a 99x combo in the Honda S2000 – 25pts. Gas Guzzler - Clock up over 250 miles in your favourite 8 Ball pack car– 25pts. Clean Passing - Win a clean race in an 8 Ball Pack car from last position – 25pts. Further content is expected to be released for the game, including a V8 Supercars featuring Ford and Holden cars and the Bathurst circuit, later this year.
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We've gone from connected consumers being the minority to connected consumers being the majority.We need to look three years into the future and say it's going to be a completely different business, because of broadband connections. I am not going to be at the helm of a company that ends up like the music business that refused to stop trying to sell you CDs for £15 because it was a hugely profitable model. And the music consumer says, 'you know, I don't want to pay £15 for 12 tracks of which I want two, I don't want shiny discs anymore'. And so what did the industry do? It started suing its consumers for illegal downloads and, you know, Steve Jobs comes to the rescue to figure out a way to charge you 99 cents or whatever you're paying in the UK.
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Is that what it is? You're being ripped off. We're not going to do that, we're going to evolve, we're going to go faster for the consumer, whatever the consumer wants. So in the future hard drives are going to be bigger, broadband is going to be faster and we're going to look back and laugh at the fact that we used to drive to the store to buy a piece of plastic with data on it. That business model isn't going to exist – I don't know whether it's going to be five years from now or ten years, but it's not going to be around anymore.
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"We are pleased to bring the #1 fighting franchise, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw, to an online format, offering gamers an immersive online experience based on the world of the WWE," said Brian Farrell, president and CEO of THQ. "We view the online game market as an important driver of future growth and this new title further expands our portfolio of great games for this exciting market.""Now more than ever, fans can become their favorite Superstar in a WWE virtual world of their own creation," said Nelo Lucich, senior vice president of interactive, JAKKS Pacific. "Our entry into the online arena allows us to reach sophisticated gamers with unique and compelling content, engrossing fans in their own personalized WWE world."
WWE SmackDown vs. RAW Online is a fighting action game that allows players to enter the world of the WWE and play as their favorite Superstar. Players can create their own Superstar to compete and seek virtual wealth and fame in order to achieve the ultimate ranking in the Hall of Fame. Offering single player and multi-player modes, players can earn respect and points to unlock special features, items and level up their rankings. Players can purchase additional items, abilities and themes to enhance and personalize their Superstar in this exciting head-to-head online wrestling experience. The game will offer ongoing content updates and features to enhance the players' experience as they progress through the ranks, as well as season mode. Players will also be able to enter the lobby to challenge opponents, shop or interact with other connected players. WWE SmackDown vs. RAW Online provides the ultimate wrestling experience appealing to both beginner and advanced PC-online players.
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"The future, in our terms, starts next year. Next year we start researching our 2012 engine," the Crytek founder told the audience."I believe in 2011 and beyond, you'll see very creative use of rendering methods," Yerli says. "It will develop a lot of styles."
Which might sound rather technical, but there are other ramifications. "Software rendering will become, again, a renaissance of programming. That will allow for a new style that will rival CGI."
Having reached those conclusions, Yerli states: "The action is simple. We are linking ourselves to the console cycle."
"Frankly we are linking ourselves to the PS4," he continues by saying that it's a "driving beacon" for his company, despite the fact that Sony hasn't given the company full details. "That's probably the most important information that our company is missing."
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Warhead and Wars come without the 64-bit binaries for now. There will be more information on that quite soon, we just want to get some things sorted first.
A second official comment claims that the 64-bit version was removed for release.
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EA is expediting development of a system that will allow consumers to de-authorize machines and move authorizations to new machines. This system will effectively give you direct control to manage your authorizations between an unlimited number of different machines without having to contact EA customer service.Please keep in mind that we cannot commit to a specific time frame or give you a date on when this will be available, but it is definitely being worked on.
We hope that this will really keep you guys happy and that you can understand that we have been listening to your concerns and are trying to make as much progress as possible to help you all out as best we can.
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Mirrors:
Witcher --> Witcher: Enhanced Edition Patch
Witcher --> Witcher: Enhanced Edition English Language Files
Witcher --> Witcher: Enhanced Edition Adventure Module - Side Effects
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Pirates of the Burning Sea is the official video game of International Talk Like A Pirate Day (September 19th). Yarr, it be true. To commemorate this auspicious day, Flying Lab Software has created special missions and secret booty just for the occasion. Until September 26th 2008, players can log in to Pirates of the Burning Sea and party with the grog-swillin’, booty-plundering founders of the day, Cap’n Slappy and Ol’ Chumbucket. These rum-swiggin’ salts will be taking their rightful place in the Burning Sea as they hand out missions and teach everyone a thing or two about getting booty.
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A youthful buccaneer shows us the cartoon-like visual style of the free to play online world from Moliyo and IGG - An exclusive desktop in four sizes
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Western-themed costumes characters can wear to personalize their appearance in T-Entertainment's online title - Six exclusive model screenshots
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Today's question:
What games topped your most played list last week?
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Electronic Arts and 1C Company announce an agreement to create new channel for distribution of EA games. According to the contract signed 1C receives the rights to distribute EA titles for PC and consoles in Russia and CIS countries. The collaboration of these two companies is firstly aimed to consolidate and advance the largest markets (after Russia) – Ukraine and Kazakhstan. 1C Company already has offices in the region and has leading market share in these countries.Another important stage in the cooperation of Electronic Arts and 1C Company is the distribution of EA games for PC in economy jewel packs in Russia. For the first time ever part of new games released by world's leading publisher will be distributed in economy packs (CD jewel case). Electronic Arts plans to release three new jewel packed games for PC - Crysis Warhead, C&C; Red Alert 3, NHL 09. These games will be released in autumn 2008.
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We are going to add the ability to have multiple Spore Screen Names for any one Spore Online Account. Here’s how this will work: for each copy of Spore that you have purchased, you will be able to have one Spore Online Account, just as it is now. However, we will be adding the ability to have five Spore Screen Names for that account. When you launch Spore, you will be able to log in with any of those Screen Names.The content that is made and the MySpore Page will be associated with the logged in Screen Name for that account. Each Screen Name will be able to view and create content, Buddy Lists and Sporecasts that will be tied to that Screen Name. The Achievements earned will be credited to the Screen Name that is logged in at the time the Achievement is triggered. In the first iteration of this change, all Screen Names will be playing in the same Galaxy and any content downloaded by any Screen Name will be available in the Everything section.
As the forum post's FAQ states, the changes will take time, though honestly, profiles should have been in from day one, and obviously were at some point in time for the manual's editor to include specific details on how to utilise the removed feature.
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Kossar's Helm are very rare helmets that players can only obtain by purchasing Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 (either the Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 Premier Edition, or the regular PC version of Command & Conquer Red Alert 3). Kossar's Helm will only be offered for a limited time inside Command & Conquer Red Alert 3.These helms were rumored to belong to the deadly 77th Kislev Kossars Regiment, also known as "the Dancing Bears". Legend says that the regiment's warriors were able to transform into fierce slathering bears in the heat of battle. Many historians have postulated that the transformation was due to the enchantments held within the runes of Ursun the Bear God that were etched into each of the Kossar's Helms. Thought they were destroyed to a man at the Siege of Praag, their magical helms were never recovered and are said to circulate even today.
While in bear form, players can run around and show off. Bragging is very important in WAR. Taunting your foes and showing off is an integral part of the game experience. While the helm gives no actual stat bonuses, you get to turn into a frikkin bear! How cool is that?
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To install, download and use EA's abysmal Download Manager.
Update: Now available without using EA's poorly coded crap: FilePlanet / Worthplaying
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Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes and intensifying processor performance with AMD Boost. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft Windows Vista ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business – gaming.Made with simplicity in mind, we still let you behind the curtains and into the advanced interface to change how the utility works. You can customize with user selectable profiles which optimizes your PC for gaming. Also, you can easily build your own profile and choose exactly what you want disabled for a leaner footprint. Want to squeeze every bit of performance from your system? Engage our most advanced acceleration technologies such as Auto-Tuning and Hard Drive Acceleration. Push the limits for how lean and mean you can make your Gaming PC.
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Our passion is making quality games. We put our heart and soul in every game and hope that our fans will enjoy them as well. For years, Crytek fans have been passionately supportive of our efforts and we appreciate all of your dedication.We realize that copy protection and piracy is a very emotional and hotly debated topic. It is very hard to find a solution that fits both our needs. We need to make an effort to limit piracy but we do not want to limit the experience of our fans.
Warhead uses online authentication and allows up to five activations. This gives you the opportunity to install the game as many times as you want on five different machines.
We also know that multiplayer gamers have different needs, so Crysis Wars does not have an activation limit, but requires the game to be unlocked online once you start the game for the first time. Afterwards it will be possible to play in LAN without any online connection. The CD-key is only required when playing online.
I sincerely hope that you will enjoy playing Warhead as much as we enjoyed making it. We are very proud of it. Our community is the main reason we make games. If there is something you feel we could improve, please tell us what and why and we will do our best to listen to you.
Sincerely,
Cevat Yerli
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The topic of the conversation is of course Operation Immortality, whereas NCsoft aims to send Tabula Rasa players' DNA into space as a chemical weapon for a preemptive strike against hostile alien species.
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Today Ubisoft announced that Prince of Persia will ship December 2, 2008 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, and PC. Prince of Persia: The Fallen King will also ship simultaneously and exclusively for the Nintendo DS system.Prince of Persia opens an entirely new chapter in the Prince of Persia universe in addition to introducing a fresh Illustrative art style, evolved combat system, open world structure and dynamic AI -- most notably in the form of the Prince's powerful ally Elika.
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The way round this hullabaloo, of course, is to purchase through Steam, though many Europeans will no doubt find the cost far too high when stores are selling the retail version at less than half Valve's price.
Update: Brendan M. points out that the Steam version does include copy protection. To what extent is unknown.
Update #2: Crytek's copy protection FAQ is live.
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LET THE WORLDWIDE WAAAGH! BEGIN! Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, today launched the highly anticipated MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (WAR), in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. With the game’s servers now officially live, all players are invited to enter WAR’s grim fantasy world, swear allegiance to the armies of Order or Destruction, and experience the glory of Realm vs. Realm combat.“The Day of Reckoning is finally at hand and I am pleased to invite players to take their first steps into the Warhammer Fantasy universe,” said Mark Jacobs, co-founder and general manager of Mythic Entertainment. “The stage is set and the combatants are ready - it’s time to go to WAR!”
Free character cloning to under-populated servers is also mentioned in Mythic's news story.
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Later this year, developer one2tribe will add premium content to further enrich the deep gameplay of The Witcher: Versus, based on the hit PC RPG from CD Projekt RED and the wildly popular fantasy books from Andrzej Sapkowski. To avoid riots and hate mail, one2tribe reassures cash-strapped gamers around the world that they will not be shafted by this new content, as those who indulge in premium content will not gain an advantage within the game. The core gameplay of The Witcher: Versus will remain free of charge, and will continue to evolve in parallel in the coming months.Premium content will be added gradually; the first premium access package will contain new features intended to ease account and character management; they include a rucksack for items that are not currently equipped, a history of fights against a certain player (for ultimate bragging rights), as well as a private duels archive. The designers will reveal additional details over the next few months.
Future changes in The Witcher: Versus will not focus on premium content only, and will serve to make the free-to-play game even more enticing; leagues, tournaments, challenges, a full-featured RPG world and much more will begin to find their way into The Witcher: Versus in the later part of the year.
Gamers who wish to hack, slash, and uhh… magic their way to victory over friends and strangers on their lunch breaks (or anytime, really) can visit the website to get in on the action.
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Enthusiast: DirectX 10, all options maxed.
Gamer: DirectX9, all options maxed.
Mainstream: DirectX9, middle of the road settings all round.
And in this final image you can see all three directly compared:
If you'd prefer a smaller version, click here.
The next six screenshots also show the game in Enthusiast mode:
And finally, if you'd like more comparison shenanigans, PCGH has got you covered (they have benchmarks too).
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The Goblins are small and cowardly creatures, renowned for their low intelligence yet sneaky attitude. One can often find them accompanied by gigantic Trolls (who are even dumber), in formations that seem more humorous than dangerous. Goblins, due to their small height and agility, make good receivers, but their chance of blocking a human-sized adversary is nearly nonexistent. Make no mistake about Goblins, though, they often use the most perverse weapons and techniques to counter their low strength – including the unique “Goblin throw!” In this play, a troll will grab a Goblin and throw him into position deep into enemy territory bypassing the opponents defensive line altogether. - a must for Goblins teams, as long as the Troll doesn’t decide to eat his small teammate before executing this move!On the other side, Skaven, born of the foul magics of Chaos, are half-man and half-rat creatures, and though far from being the strongest or toughest players in Blood Bowl, wow are they fast! Many teams have been surprised by a Skaven slipping though their defensive lines to score a dazzling touchdown. Skaven can also call upon the phenomenal power of a Rat Ogre to counter their opponents and block the toughest players.
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As the initial content, LIVE CHANNEL will be released for Life with PlayStation. Through network connected PS3, it delivers worldwide news and information centering on two themes, “place” and “time” on a world map interface. Some of the live content includes; cloud imagery (provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center), along with weather information (provided by The Weather Channel), news headlines (provided by Google News), and live camera images (partially provided by The Earth Television Network) of nearly 60 cities around the globe. Through LIVE CHANNEL, PS3 users will be able to enjoy worldwide news and live information free of charge. In addition to LIVE CHANNEL, Life with PlayStation will continually deliver a wide variety of interactive content and channels to living rooms through network connected PS3s to further enhance the world of entertainment made possible by PS3.PS3 users can easily join Life with PlayStation by simply clicking the Folding@home icon on the network column of XMB (XrossMediaBar) that will update to Life with PlayStation.
Yup, when you're logged on to Life With Playstation you're also contributing to Folding@home.
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Take a leap of ‘Faith’ this November! DICE, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, today announced that the highly acclaimed first-person action adventure title, Mirror’s Edge will ship on November 11th for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system. The PC version of Mirror’s Edge will ship later in the winter. Prior to launch, players worldwide will get an early peek at the game when the demo becomes available via Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PLAYSTATION Store. The demo will feature the prologue of the game including the tutorial and a segment of the single-player story mode. Starting September 26th, players who pre-order Mirror’s Edge at selected retailers will get an exclusive code that unlocks the Time Trial mode in the demo.Time Trial mode challenges players to find the fastest route across the rooftops and through the streets. Players can upload their best time to the Mirror’s Edge leaderboards for their friends to download and compete against. Players can see their friend’s ‘ghost’ run as they race their way through the course to the top of the leaderboards.
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The ads appeared in post-9pm and post-11pm slots respectively. The longer, post-11pm version showed three punches from a first person perspective, with a hooded figure holding a brick aloft then bringing it down towards the camera.The watchdog received just nine complaints over the duo of ads, with three people recommending that the ads were ‘inappropriate for broadcast at any time’.
The ASA concluded: ‘… the ads contained scenes of graphic and brutal violence which, although computer-generated, were realistic in appearance.
‘We noted in particular that both ads showed a man punching another on the floor and blood splattering on the screen as a man was beaten with a club and considered viewers were likely to find those scenes offensive and distressing and to see them as condoning real violence and cruelty.’
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“This is the first time we have done a big, multi-platform game in-house, and it was brand-new technology, as well,” explained Cooke. “You kind of expect when you buy off-the-shelf software [Unreal Engine 3] that you’re just going to be up and running on all three platforms. We made a lot of changes to the engine, so each platform reacts to those changes differently. There’s a lot to follow up and that kind of stuff, trying to make it work right on all the different platforms.”While the changes and tweaks made to the existing technology from Epic Games complicated matters, it was the PS3 version that gave Gearbox the most trouble. They had no experience on PlayStation hardware.
“In previous ‘Brothers in Arms,’ we had farmed out the PlayStation versions to other developers who were PlayStation experts,” he said. “So we had to build up all that expertise in-house to understand that platform. There’s just major hardware differences; you don’t know if your Xbox guy has a hard drive but your PlayStation guy does, and you’ve got 8 cores on this machine and 4 and a half on this machine and some PC users have…who knows how many?”
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Atari has revealed that 90 per cent of its output will be online-only in a few years as it increasingly favours online titles over traditional retail.The publisher’s recent deal with Namco Bandai includes a clause which gives the Japanese developer and publisher the option to buy Infogrames’ distribution business outright in five years’ time – giving Atari the opportunity to concentrate fully on its vision of becoming a top-five online brand.
"We’re taking the first steps here," Atari CEO David Gardner told MCV. "In five years, Namco Bandai will probably own the majority of it, it will no longer be our responsibility and Atari will be just an online company – within five years we’ll have 90 per cent online products."
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The claims come from Jonathan Bissoon-Dath, the author of fictional works based around a mythical Greek warrior, and Jennifer Barrette-Herzog, who designed the map that accompanied his work 'The Adventures of Owen: Owen's Olympic Adventure'. Both plaintiffs claim that Jaffe's game contains similarities in plot, character relationships, themes, settings, mood, pace and dialogue.The two plaintiffs claim to have given their work to agents who presented the work to Sony and that three years later God of War was released. Sony and Jaffe, however, deny any accusations of copyright infringement and have requested that they be reimbursed for any legal expenses incurred while defending themselves.
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Achieving this level of realism is, understandably, a vast undertaking, and Lindop is keen to stress how important it is for it to gel correctly on a technical level. "To have all these dynamic effects and terrain, weapon systems all running simultaneously... A lot of the technology and effort has gone into that," he nods. "It means we have to have very clever audio managers and effects managers to have this kind of scale of combat on a cross-platform [title]. As part of the cross-platform delivery there's actually a lot of cross-pollination between platforms so that everybody benefits."Indeed, PC owners with Quad Core processors and 4GB of memory will particularly benefit from the extra detail. Console owners need not fear getting a watered-down version, but PC owners can expect more expansive multiplayer options and bigger matches. It has previously been reported that the PC will feature 32 player (16 vs 16) multiplayer compared to the console's eight-player multiplayer. In both versions, however, each player will have a total of eight AI squad members fighting alongside them. In co-op terms, the PC will feature eight-player co-op, while console will be restricted to two-player co-op - so there are evidently going to be huge benefits to opting for the PC version if multiplayer is your thing.
I think it's safe to say that the consoles are now outdated tech, unable to keep with the times.
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The last couple of weeks we've actually been moonlighting on Left 4 Dead. While the L4D team has been focusing on finishing up the core cooperative gameplay, we've been helping them by working on their Versus mode. Versus is the recently-announced competitive mode where one team plays the Survivors and one team plays the Infected. We've learned a lot while working on TF2 in the last year, and we were able to apply some of those lessons to Versus mode. As a result, we've just finished adding critical hits, respawn waves, flawless auto-team balancing, and facestabs to L4D, while removing anything that looked remotely like a grenade. I kid, I kid.Now that we're wrapping up that work, we'll be returning to TF2. We've got a bunch of exciting changes coming down the pipe for the next class update. Feels good to be home again!
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Content: FRACTURE Demo
Price: Free
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Text: [ESRB: T (Teen) ANIMATED BLOOD,MILD LANGUAGE,VIOLENCE] Defend the world against a genetically modified enemy force and unleash the power of terrain-deforming weapons and technology. Download the Fracture demo now!!
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CD Projekt are aware of the problem and are will fix it as soon as possible.
Update: Patch released.
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Myth War II Wallpaper #1
A colorful exemplar of the art team's conceptual work for Unigium's free to play massively multiplayer endeavor - An exclusive desktop in four sizes
Atlantica Online Media #10
Constantinople's Hagia Sophia is another historical locale that inspired Ndoors to put a virtual version in the game - Six exclusive screenshots
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Oh, I finished Spore too. Well, I'm done with Spore (cough). Nothing I do in the space stage is saving and I don't want to keep doing everything over again so I'm going to call it (at least for now).
Today's question:
Will you be playing Warhammer Online?
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