Weekend Readings - CoD 4 SP demo soon - briefly
(hx) 10:02 PM CEST - Oct,06 2007
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- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare preview -
CoD4 doesn't mess with the basics: all the multiplayer modes you want
are here. Where it gets interesting is with the ability to adapt and
customise your character in some surprising ways. In other news, Yahoo Games
has revealed that
a PC single player demo of Call of Duty 4 will be released on Thursday,
Oct. 11.
- Crysis Previewed -
1UP,
IGN,
and
GameSpot have posted their impressions from Crysis, soon-to-be-released
FPS. "It goes without saying at this point that Crysis looks amazing. We
played on dual-core and quad-core PCs that had a single 8800GTX video card,
and the performance was fairly smooth, though there were slight pauses at
the beginning of each mission as textures and assets were loaded into the
game for the first time. Although we were running machines capable of
DirectX 10 graphics, EA and Crytek had us playing the DX 9 version of the
game, and it still looked amazing."
- Hellgate London DX10 Shader Comparison - Sure, everyone knows
about DX10 titles like Crysis, but believe it or not,
Hellgate London's visuals really aren't that shabby. In fact, they're
quite attractive. While the DX9 and DX10 clients generally look the same,
DX10 does offer a few bells and whistles that DX9 does not.
- Blacksite: Area 51 and the future of gaming - Gamasutra has
conducted
an extended 8-pages long interview with Midway's Harvey Smith, best
known for his work on Deus Ex. They discuss Blacksite: Area 51 and the
future of gaming
- Bungie Q&A - Bungie Owns Bungie -
This Q&A on Kotaku talks with Brian Jarrard about Bungie's new
relationship with Microsoft that allows them to tell Redmond 'you're not the
boss of me now.'.
- Empire Earth III Movie - Sierra Entertainment has released
a new trailer from Empire Earth III, the third iteration of the
multi-million unit selling real-time strategy (RTS) series due to ship this
November.
- Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII Patch - Ubisoft offers
the first patch for Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII, updating
the World War II aerial combat expansion to version 1.01. 26
- Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword Patch v3.13 - Firaxis Games now
offers
a new patch (121MB) for Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword,
updating the turn-based strategy expansion to version 3.13.
- Loki Patch v1.0.7.0 - The Loki Forums offer
a new version 1.0.7.0 patch for the DVD version of Cyanide Studios'
action/RPG .
- NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer Text Hotfix - The Neverwinter Nights 2
Forums offer
hotfixes for the various language editions of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask
of the Betrayer addressing a problem with missing text in the D&D RPG
expansion
- Supreme Commander Patch #3269 -
GPGnet Forums offer patch notes for a new version 3269 patch that's now
available for Gas Powered Games' RTS game. The patch, in addition to
balance changes and bug fixes, adds three new units to the game; the UEF T2
Gatling bot, the Cybran T2 Rocket bot and the Aeon T3 Shield disruptor tank.
Manual downloads of the patch are mirrored on
3D Downloads,
FileFront, and
GH
- UFO: Extraterrestrials Patch - The UFO: Extraterrestrials
Downloads Page now offers
downloads of Patch #2 (2.4MB) for all English versions of the science
fiction strategy game.
- Orange Box To Have Midnight Release -
According to last nights Steam Update, the Orange Box will be released
just after midnight (Pacific time) of October 10th. So for those of you
night birds who plan on calling in 'sick' to work on Wednesday, you'll get
to play the entire night through.
- Alpha Prime Goes Gold (US) - Meridian4 announces the
North
American edition of Alpha Prime is gold, just 10 months after the Czech
and Polish editions of Black Element Software's first-person shooter were
declared complete.
- Culpa Innata Goes Gold -
Publisher Strategy First announced that the adventure game of the year
'Culpa Innata' developed by Momentum AS, has officially gone gold today.
Culpa Innata is due to hit stores across North America October 23rd, 2007.
- Pirates of the Burning Sea in January -
This press release announces SOE will be launching
Pirates of
the Burning Sea on January 22, 2008, and that preorders of Flying Lab
Software's seafaring MMORPG begin on October 23, which will allow access to
the full game 15 days before that launch.
- The 40GB PS3 Is Now Official, UK Gets A Price Drop - After weeks
of speculation Sony has officially unveiled the lower-spec 40GB PlayStation
3 and has announced that it's heading to the UK on October 10 at the
cut-down cost of 299 GBP. What's more, Sony is also slashing the cost of the
60GB PS3 down to 349 GBP. The lower capacity hard drive aside, the entry
level 40GB PS3 only has two USB ports (compared to the usual four), the
multi-memory card port has confirmed.
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