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F.E.A.R. 3 Passing the Torch Trailer - preview
(hx) 11:25 AM CEST - Sep,03 2010 - Post a comment
Go behind the scenes of F.E.A.R. 3 to discover 'what Day One Studios learned from Monolith.' F.E.A.R. 3 was originally slated to hit on October 20th, 2010 but Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has decided to push it off till some point in 2011. No new release date has been announced.

Gears 2 Labor Day 25x XP Event - console
(hx) 11:15 AM CEST - Sep,03 2010 - Post a comment
Epic Games are preparing yet another special multiplayer event for Gears of War 2, this time offering players 25 times the normal XP for competing online and in Horde mode. The event which co-insides with the American holiday of Labor day will commence on Friday, September 3rd and cease on Monday, September 5th.
Fans turned out in huge numbers to follow the Gears of War Facebook page and drive up the Gears 2 Labor Day XP multiplier—now you get the reap the rewards. From September 3-7, you’ll rake in a staggering 25 times the usual XP rewards across all multiplayer modes. Boost your rank in style with gold Lancers and Hammerbursts, enabled for all players throughout the event. And be sure to check out Horde, where the Locust are playing a new game—Torque Bow Tag! With the exception of Scorchers and Boomshots, all enemy rifles are replaced with Torque Bows. Update your life insurance and watch your back!
Halo Reach 1st Level Campaign Gameplay Video - briefly
(hx) 02:37 AM CEST - Sep,03 2010 - Post a comment / read (1)
Halo: Reach launches on September 14, exclusively for the Xbox 360.

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Bloody Good Time Announced - briefly
(hx`) 10:36 PM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment / read (1)
Ubisoft just announced that Bloody Good Time, a new intellectual property being developed by Outerlight, will be released via the Xbox Live Arcade and Steam this fall. The game places players on a Hollywood set, where they get to choose their thrill kill. From a spring-break beach house, to a horrifying Vegas hotel, players will discover the merciless world of movie studios where anyone can star in a scary Hollywood blockbuster.
Bloody Good Time takes a new and irreverent approach to multiplayer shooters and will run on Valve's Source engine, a well-known specialized 3D game engine for classic multiplayer shooters. Bloody Good Time puts players on a Hollywood set, where they get to choose their thrill. From a spring-break beach house, to a horrifying Vegas hotel, players will discover the merciless world of movie studios where anyone can star in a scary Hollywood blockbuster film. There is an option link up to eight players online in this first-person shooter and to have a multiplayer experience like no other.

In Bloody Good Time, players can be as devious as possible by killing other competitors in nasty and unexpected ways. Players can use an arsenal of wacky weapons including guns, a frying pan and even an exploding remote-controlled rat to transform the movie set into real mayhem. In addition, players will be able to choose from a variety of stereotypical B-movie characters, such as the bikini beach babe, the creepy clown and the super jock.
RHEM 4: The Golden Fragments Demo - demo
(hx) 06:18 PM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment / read (1)
The RHEM 4 website now offers a playable demo for RHEM 4, the next installment in this point-and-click adventure series. Runesoft recently announced it will begin shipping RHEM 4: The Golden Fragments this week. The first person adventure game drops players into a huge world full of strange vehicles, mysterious buildings, unknown mechanisms, puzzling machines, and secret passages. To succeed players must solve the game's puzzles in an effort to finally find a way off the mysterious island of RHEM. RHEM 4: The Golden Fragments reveals another yet unknown part of the mysterious island of Rhem. The story continues where 'RHEM 4: The Golden Fragments' ended, but the game can be played on its own as well. Mirrors: WP
Mass Effect 2 DLC Trailer - movie
(hx) 06:01 PM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment
The official Mass Effect 2 website has a new trailer from Lair of the Shadow Broker, the Mass Effect 2 DLC that's due next week.

PS3 Jailbreak Code Hits Internet - console
(hx) 05:37 PM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment
The code powering the PS3's first modchip is now officially out there, meaning anyone with an internet connection and a USB micro-controller can get under their PS3's skin. The PSGroove, a new jailbreak solution engineered from the same code that powers the first modchip, is touted as an 'open source' PS3 exploit, meaning it's not out for profit, not being sold by anyone and doesn't have a company name behind it to pin a lawsuit on. As of right now, the standard PSGroove code doesn't let you play backups of your games. But now that it's out there in the hands of hackers, that feature will be with us soon, if it isn't already.

Note: With the release of PSGroove opensource PS JailBreak exploit for PS3, many are having trouble sourcing the required Teensy++, AT90USBKEY2 or AT90USB162 boards. That said, today PS3JailBreak.com has shared schematics for the Teensy so that users can build their own if they wish.
Path of Exile - Exclusive Classes & Combat trailer - preview
(hx) 10:43 AM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment / read (1)
PC Gamer has a preview of Grinding Gear Games' upcoming free-to-play action-RPG, Path of Exile. Here's a taster:
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Some basics up front: Path of Exile will be completely free to play (all character classes, quests, chapters, abilities and items are available to everyone). The lads at Grinding Gear say they’re committed to only charging for content that alters aesthetics–pretty armor, special particle effects like a dragon head-shaped fireball animation, or changing your character’s name. That won’t include any items or profile buffs that boost your rate of experience earning, which Grinding doesn’t plan to put up for sale. “Some of the free-to-play games out there aren’t actually free to play the way you want to–they’re free to tolerate,” said Wilson. “You can tell some of the games definitely want you pay money at regular intervals, and they’ll punish you by having long grinds that you could be skipping–we just skip that entirely by not having the ability to buy those things. You can dress up your character if you’d like to. The other thing is that our game is made by western developers for a western market–hopefully that counts for something.”
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There’ll be six character classes, all of which (like existing dungeon crawlers) are independent damage-dealers–Exile won’t include specialized support classes like a priest. The Marauder and Ranger are the two that’ve been revealed so far: the former is a tank-melee class (smartly, but hopefully not to the aid of griefers, character models can’t pass through each other in Exile, meaning you can use a Marauder to block a doorway while a ranged character tosses projectiles from a safe distance), the latter approximates Diablo’s Rogue.
BlackOps Wagermatch Trailer - briefly
(hx) 10:36 AM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment
At Call of Duty: Black Ops live event, Treyarch showed off the new 'wager' matches and four new modes of play.
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On September 1st, we held our highly anticipated, global hands-on multiplayer press event in Los Angeles. At the event, we introduced a variety of new features to expand on Call of Duty's awesome multiplayer experience. Wager Match is a brand new multiplayer game mode. Watch the trailer now.

Along with Wager Matches, we introduced several other new features. Customize your character and weapon to levels never before seen in a Call of Duty game. Create the perfect insignia in the new Emblem Editor. Direct epic gameplay videos in Theater Mode. And much more. Stay tuned for more in-depth information about these new features.
Three Big Announcements Coming from Valve - briefly
(hx) 03:02 AM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment / read (10)
In the latest issue of PC Gamer UK, Valve boss Gabe Newell has promised at least three big surprises over the next coming 12 months.
'I can guarantee you people are going to be surprised at stuff we do. That isn't going to stop any time soon. I'm just laughing because… people will be shocked again,' Valve boss Gabe Newell told the latest issue of PC Gamer.
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 'We have three pretty big surprises in the next 12 months at least.'
Also in the works is support for biometrics. Valve has reportedly spent $50,000 on gaze-tracking technology to understand where game testers are looking during play. The company is also hooking up testers to biometric devices to not only track pulse rates, emotional reactions and more, but to give them a little jolt.
QUAKE LIVE Patched - patch
(hx) 02:51 AM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment
A new patch for Quake Live, the web browser-powered remake of the awesome Quake 3 Arena, has been released.
General Changes
- Player Invite System - You can now invite players to join you in-game and/or accept fellow players invites. We have added a right-click context menu on the friends list which provides up to three options to perform on a friend: View Profile, Invite to Match, Join Match.
- Invite Monitor - Added the "Invite Monitor" which appears above the Duel Detective when you have pending match invitations. When you have invites pending you can click on the Invite Monitor to show a listing of all your pending invites in the server browser. This can be especially useful when you have a large number of pending invites to choose from.
- Blocked Player Improvements - All chat from players on your 'Blocked Players' list is now muted. This includes both in-game chat (chat, team chat, attacker chat, targeted chat) and XMPP chat (friends list chat, tell_buddy chat).
- Relaxed Spawn System - Minor adjustment to the spawn system algorithms, in many cases one additional spawn point will be included in the list of available spawn points. Further testing and improvements are planned.
- Global Broadcast Announcement System - Added support for delivering broadcast messages from the backend system to all users online. This will be used to inform players of important system information, such as when the site will be going down for maintenance.
- Match Browser Optimizations - Improved the performance of the Match Browser by limiting the number of requests it needs to make to the backend when hovering over matches. In the general case this change makes it so there are 1/6th as many backend requests made.
- Rich Presence Data - Increased the responsiveness of friends in-game icons. The method of reporting changes in status have been highly optimized and now update 'live'.
- Improved Server Daemon - Improved the way that running servers are tracked in the backend to be more efficient and scalable. This should resolve problems users were experiencing about non-existent servers showing up in the match browser.
- Punkbuster Update - Evenbalance has made improvements that may result in a reduced amount of communication failure and duplicate cd-key related kicks.
- Firefox 3.6.3+ Support - Fixed plug-in issues with newer versions of Firefox on Windows.
Start a Match System (this system is in limited beta and is not widely available yet)
- Match Visibility Modes - Added support for running private matches in multiple access modes: Public (all players), Friends Only, and Invitation only. The server will only be visible on the match browser to players who have access to join.
- Server Invite System - Added support for choosing friends who should be sent an automatic invite when the match has started.
- Custom Map Rotation - Added support for setting up a map rotation to be played on your private server.
- Improved Error Handling - Improved error handling in match startup so that users are informed why a match may have failed to start (Data Center overloaded, for example).
- Vicinity Locator - Added support for choosing "In My Vicinity" as a match startup location which will automatically choose an ideal data center based on your current GEOIP location.
- Optimized Game Invitation Strings - Join URL invite string length reduced for efficiency.
- Tiered Permission Groups - Organizations may spawn multiple servers at once without joining into matches. Individuals may spawn one server at a time and the server becomes available for others to join once the owner has joined the server.
Batman: Arkham City to Feature Multiplayer - briefly
(hx) 12:55 AM CEST - Sep,02 2010 - Post a comment
According to PSM3 magazine (thanks ArkhamCity.co.uk), "Multiplayer is a certainty, but [there are] no details on this yet."  There's currently no word on when developer Rocksteady will reveal more about the game's multiplayer. So we have to wait ...Oh well, if you haven't seen the new screenshots, apparently Cat-Woman will be in the game. Batman: Arkham City is scheduled to release in Fall 2011 on the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Love it or hate it, multiplayer is coming to Batman: Arkham City. Confirmed in this months issue of the popular UK magazine PSM3, they have proceeded in claiming that "Multiplayer is a certainty, but no details on this yet". This comes after a rush of rumors and discussion that Catwoman will feature as a playable co-op character and with no mention of Robin or Nightwing this is looking even more credible. Keep in mind that no details have been confirmed and we aren't 100% ruling out the possibility of VS multiplayer. This wont be Rocksteady's first attempt at multiplayer. Their Playstation 2 frantic fps shooter Urban Chaos: Riot Response also featured net play of 8 players. There is no doubt that we will be seeing a lot more info on this feature soon.
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Kane Lynch 2: Dog Days Multiplayer DLC - briefly
(hx) 11:36 PM CEST - Sep,01 2010 - Post a comment
There are three new PC DLC Packs available for Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Day. You can grab the updates separately or all together for $10.97 USD.
The Doggie Bag Pack - Take on new heists and unlock new Achievements with two never before seen maps and five exclusive weapons for Multiplayer and Arcade modes. Dockyard and High Rise maps, plus the Radio Tower map provide new opportunity to increase your wealth. And with the inclusion of five new weapons, including the DD 33, KL Viper, RTS, SMi 69, and the TOQ Model Four S the odds are in your favor of pulling off a successful heist. $5.99 USD
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Alliance Weapon Pack - Increase your weapons arsenal with seven powerful new weapons for all Multiplayer modes and Arcade mode. A mix of handguns, shotguns and assault rifles the new weapons include: Doretta Silenced, Steele 870, TOQ SBR, Kaliningrad 47, PAC 10 silenced, N 77P Silenced, TOQ Elite. $2.99 USD

Multiplayer Masks Pack - Conceal your identity and avoid revenge attacks with 8 costume masks stolen from a Chinese gift shop, for all Multiplayer modes and Arcade mode. You never want to be identified, especially if you are a traitor! $1.99 USD
Wednesday Reading - Diablo III status - briefly
(hx) 05:59 PM CEST - Sep,01 2010 - Post a comment
  • The Sims 3: Barnacle Bay Announced - The Sims 3 Website announces The Sims 3: Barnacle Bay, another expansion for EA's lifestyle simulation sequel. Word is: 'A Whole New World for your Sims to Explore! An island nestled in the Simuyan Sea, Barnacle Bay is a vibrant vacation getaway with stunning beaches, campgrounds, parks, and a curiously modern downtown. First settled by pirates, fisherman, and artists - the world’s inhabitants now enjoy relaxing at Smuggler's Beach and letting loose at The Wanderer's Watering Hole. Will your trip be a vacation or a staycation?'
  • Supreme Commander 2 Patch v1.2 - This update includes a host of new features, gameplay improvements and balancing changes, AI tweaks and even a new building: the Cybran Mass Convertor. In addition, this patch also offers all five of the Supreme Commander 2 Exclusive Pre-Order Maps: Emerald Crater, Iskellian Coast, QAI Prototype Facility, Seraphim VII Site and Weddell Isle which are now available for all players.
  • Kane and Lynch 2 paid DLC now available on Steam - The PC version of the game has no less than three new paid DLC options which can now be downloaded via Steam. The biggest one is the Doggie Bag Pack which has two new multiplayer maps (Dockyard and High Rise) plus the Radio Tower map that was included as a pre-order bonus for GameStop purchase. It also has five new weapons and can be purchased for $5.99.
  • Final Fantasy XIV open beta to start later tonight - One day after postponing the open beta for Square Enix's upcoming MMO, the game's official web site has now announced that it will now begin at 10 pm Eastern time for North American players (that's 7 pm Pacific time). There's no word yet on how long the open beta will last but the full version of Square Enix's next MMO title is scheduled to being on September 22 for owners of the game's collector's edition and September 30 for owners of the standard edition of the MMO.
  • Brink Developer Diary #4 - The developers talk about the realistic-versus-vibrant cartoon art style in Brink. If you've missed the first three viddocs, head to IGN to watch them
  • Diablo III's development status - IGN got an actual status update on the game's progress from game director Jay Wilson. He states, "We're still adding monsters, we're still working on bosses, we have some that aren't made yet, we're working on every Act but we've got some areas that haven't been built yet. We're still building, but we're building very fast. We're not in discovery mode anymore." Even with his positive spin, Wilson's statements seem to suggest that the game is still a long way from even a beta stage, much less a full game release.
  • Champions Online, A Week Of Free Play Time - Champions Online is celebrating its first anniversary, and to turn the celebration into a proper party Cryptic and Atari have announced that September 1 (10 AM PDT) to September 7 (10 AM PDT) will be a freebie.
  • Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Ep. 5 Available - Telltale Games announces the release of The City That Dares Not Sleep, the fifth and final episode in Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, the latest series of Sam & Max adventures
  • The Crucible Goes Commercial - The RuneStorm team have decided to take the big step into retail with their Unreal Tournament 3 modification The Crucible. Anyone familiar with their previous work will understand that polishing it to a professional level won't be much of a stretch. The team is also hinting at a second project in the works and we're definitely looking forward to hearing more about it!
  • Battle Vs. Chess Shipping In September - SouthPeak Games has announced that Battle vs. Chess will ship to retailers on September 28, 2010
  • StarCraft 2 Sells 3 Million Copies in First Month - Half of the three million sales were made in StarCraft II's first 48 hours of sale alone, which Blizzard says set "the record for fastest-selling strategy game of all time." StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty was released for PC and Mac on July 27.
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New 360 Controller with Transforming D-Pad - console
(hx) 11:56 PM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment / read (2)
Major Nelson has a new video that shows off a pretty neat dual-design D-pad on Microsoft's updated wireless controllers. The new controller allows the player to twist the d-pad causing the traditional 'disc' the pad rests on to recess in to the controller revealing a more traditional plus shaped d-pad. This allows players to gain precise movement in the four directions without the frustration of the previous disc based design. The new Xbox 360 Wireless Controller will be available at retailers in North America after November 9th and will retail for $69.99 with a bundled Play & Charge kit. Microsoft has stated this will be the only way to purchase the new controller. It will not be sold without the bundled Play & Charge kit unfortunately.

BF:BC2 'Ultimate Edition' Released - briefly
(hx) 11:29 PM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment
The rumoured Ultimate Edition of Battlefield Bad Company 2 is official, and it's out today.. Carrying a MSRP of $59.99, the PS3 and Xbox 360 release features the original 'first day' unlocks bundles with the game's Limited Edition release, the (still console-exclusive) 4-player co-op 'Onslaught' mode, and DICE's lone downloadable project Battlefield 1943.
The Ultimate Edition features the following:
- The best-selling Xbox Live/PlayStation Network game, Battlefield 1943
- This year's break-out, best-in-class shooter, Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 "Onslaught" mode, an intense 4-player co-op experience
- Immediate access to four vehicle upgrades and two weapon unlocks from day 1, a bonus originally included in the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Limited Edition
In addition, A new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 server build (R21) has been rolling out since last Friday. This update does not apply to clients. If you own a server, contact your server provider to see if your server has been updated.
Mafia II faces Jimmy's Vendetta on September 7 - briefly
(hx) 10:40 PM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment
2K Games sent out a press release announcing that Jimmy's Vendetta, the second downloadable add-on for Mafia II, is being released on September 7th. The add-on contains 30 new quests and leaderboard ranking, and will be available for PS3, Xbox 360 and the PC.
Jimmy's Vendetta takes players into an alternate perspective of the mob through the eyes of Jimmy, the guy the other guys call when they need to finish the job. Players will get their hands dirty helping Jimmy clean up other people's messes as they deal with the Italian and Irish mobsters that reside in Empire Bay. As players progress, a slew of new quests are unlocked, including assassination and timed vehicle pursuits ending in dramatic shootouts and explosive car chases. Execute with deadly head shots or charged explosives, and rack up points for precision-timed vehicular power slides, lofty jumps, and supercharged velocity. Multipliers and combos add bonus points to overall scores that will be immediately posted to thenew online leaderboard system, providing extensive re-playability as players work to rise to the top of the ranks.

Through a compelling narrative,Mafia II transports gamers into the dark and unforgiving world of the Mafia. The fiction is embellished by a sophisticated, era-evoking atmosphere that meticulously replicatesthe clothing, cars, music and advertising of 1940s and 1950s Americana. Players will easily become immersed in the game's cinematic Hollywood-style experience with strong, believable characters in a living, breathing metropolis. By fusing action-packed gameplay with white-knuckle driving and an epic gangster story, Mafia II is the industry's most compelling Mafia title to-date.
Mafia II GPU & CPU Performance In-depth - tech
(hx) 05:12 PM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment / read (5)
The chaps over at TechSpot take a look at Mafia II GPU & CPU Performance. Here's a taster:
The high-end GeForce GTX 480 is more than capable of playing this game in all of its glory at resolutions as high as 2560x1600 with PhysX enabled, so it is not the $500+ graphics cards we are concerned with. Even the more affordable GeForce GTX 460 can handle PhysX at resolutions such as 1680x1050 or lower when coupled with a fast enough processor.

Sadly for those with AMD graphics cards playing Mafia II with PhysX enabled is not going to run very well, unless you have a Nvidia graphics card handling the PhysX workload. Even with our Core i7 920 processor clocked at 3.70GHz, the Radeon HD 5970 and 5870 cards were limited to 22fps at 1680x1050. With a dedicated Nvidia PhysX card even the old Radeon HD 4890 can provide playable performance at 1680x1050, however factoring in the cost of the additional graphics card this path makes little sense. The best option for AMD users is to disable PhysX and forget it even exists. We suspect most will get over the missing rubble. While we would not normally recommend disabling anti-aliasing in games that support it, we must admit this feature made little difference in Mafia II. Owners of speedy GPUs won't feel the need to turn it off, but to give you tangible examples, the Radeon HD 4850 was an incredible 78% faster with anti-aliasing disabled while the GeForce 9800 GT was also 52% faster.
Borderlands Game of the Year Edition Announced - briefly
(hx) 10:33 AM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment
Gearbox Software has revealed the 'Game of the Year Edition' of Borderlands via Twitter, announcing the re-release for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on October 12. The package will include all four DLC add-ons, plus a foldout map of the game's territories. Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition will land in stores on October 12 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The PC version retails for $49.99, while the console versions will ring in at $59.99.
Final Fantasy XIV pre-release trailer - movie
(hx) 02:23 AM CEST - Aug,31 2010 - Post a comment
Square Enix's debuts a new trailer for Final Fantasy XIV.The game  is due out on PC on September 22 in the U.S. and on September 30 everywhere else. An open beta for the PC will begin on August 31 in the U.S. and September 1 for the rest of the world. A PS3 version is due March 2011. Aside from that, everything else in this epic Final Fantasy XIV trailer looks good, as there's plenty of gorgeous cinematic stuff to go with some actual gameplay footage.

Update: FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, which is scheduled to begin at 19:00 (PDT) on Aug. 31, 2010, will be postponed due to a confirmation of critical bugs. New schedule will be release at a later date. Along with the postponement of FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test, the issuing of registration code for FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test will be postponed as well. With the download of client software's installer, it will be suspended at 19:00 (PDT) on Aug. 31, 2010.
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