Lazy Sunday Reading - briefly
(hx) 01:08 PM CEST - Oct,09 2005
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- Battle Carry trial & dedicated server - AFSL Games has released
the full retail trial version of Battle Carry, their new tank-based
multiplayer action game. This download allows you to try out the Chapel level
"and some new content", but also includes the other seven maps and all further
content of the full game that you can unlock after purchasing a license key
online.
- T72: Balkans On Fire Mission and Map Pack - Battlefront.com has
released
the first mission and map pack for Tank T-72: Balkans in Fire, the modern
tank simulation game by Russian companies Crazy House and IDDK. This pack
includes 4 all new playable missions and 2 new Desert Maps.
- Rose Online Open Beta - The
Rose Europe Website announces
the open beta
testing of Rose Online, Gravity Interactive's upcoming cartoony MMORPG.
- Bill Roper Interview -
Flagship Studios' Bill Roper has been interviewed at TVG about
wide-ranging subjects such as the state of the industry.
- TuningChallenge2 on NFSUnlimited.net - A Need for Speed fansite
NFSUnlimited.net is organizing
a Need
for Speed Underground 2 car styling competition called TuningChallenge2
with an ATI x800RX graphics card, Logitech G7 mice and several games and NFS
Most Wanted demos. The aim of the competition is to make the best looking car
in NFSU2, make a screenshot of it and upload it to the site where it will be
rated by others.
- BF2 Crashing to Desktop? -
BFNation Forums member, "Morat", has just posted a guide to help diagnose,
and hopefully solve the crash-to-desktop issues that many members of the
community are having after the v1.03 update for Battlefield 2.
- Gearbox Liberation party pictures! -
The album has shots and a brief description of the event, it's a cool
inside look at the party for those who weren't able to go.
- Governor signs bills involving violent video games, sports supplements
-
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill Friday that would ban the sale or
rental of especially violent video games to children, setting up a legal
showdown with the $25 billion industry. The new law, which takes effect on
Jan. 1, will fine retailers $1,000 if they sell games to people 17 years of
age and younger that "depict serious injury to human beings in a manner that
is especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel."
- Battle.net Countdown Ends -
Blizzard's Battle.net
countdown has resulted in a site redesign. That's it. Move along
- Quake IV website - The official
Quake IV website has
relaunched
- Want an Xbox 360? Good luck - Getting your hands on one of this
holiday season's hottest gifts
might be even harder than you think - and it might get even more
expensive.
- Ten Xbox 360 Developer Kits stolen in Germany -
Microsoft
lost 10 top secret Xbox 360 developer kits from a warehouse in Düren,
Germany. The developer kits arrived late August in unmarked packages together
with other Microsoft products. The kits were destined for game developers to
adapt their games to the new technology. In raids of homes and businesses in
Austria and Germany, three of the prototype consoles were seized. The other
seven are still missing.
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