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Command & Conquer Classics - Now free

2010-02-14T22:05:00.000-08:00

The free game wagon just keeps on a-rolling -- our PC-obsessed sister site Big Download recently directed our attention to three classic installments in the Command & Conquer franchise which are currently available to download for nary a penny: Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun (with the Firestorm expansion pack), and Red Alert.

Installing the games might exact a price upon your patience -- Dawn and Alert both require a fair amount of tinkering to work on your futuristic computing rig. Still, we'd rather pay for games with patience than hard-earned dollars any day of the week.

Download: Command & Conquer Classics

Just Cause 2 demo is "on its way"

2010-02-04T21:59:00.000-08:00

Just Cause 2 developer Eidos is a fairly new entrant. Having just, 10(ish) hours ago, joined up via Square Enix Europe community manager Keir Edmonds, the company account has already dropped one bombshell: a Just Cause 2 demo is "on its way." Though the account merely alludes to "details to follow," we'd be downright surprised if the demo hit any later than the game's March 23 release date.

Source: Twitter

Final Fantasy XIII Extended Trailer

2009-11-24T22:01:00.000-08:00

Square Enix has released yet another Japanese language trailer for Final Fantasy XIII, likely the last one before it hits retail stores across the Pacific. This five minute video features a lot of recycled footage from earlier trailers, but attentive fans will notice the reveal of additional characters.

Just Cause 2 Gameplay Trailer

2009-11-15T21:46:00.000-08:00

Just Cause 2 is a game that fits neatly in the open-world action vein. On its own, that's not much of a description when you stop to think about how prominent the genre has become since Grand Theft Auto III took the format and catapulted it into prominence earlier this decade. What sets Just Cause 2 apart from the competition, though, is the sheer sense of scale around you. The game takes place over 400 square miles of fictional Southeast Asian geography. Your eyes are constantly assailed by sprawling vistas, huge mountains towering above you, and a draw distance that's both impressive and utterly intimidating when you realize that you'll actually need to travel across this world.

James Cameron's Avatar Game Trailer

2009-11-13T22:22:00.000-08:00

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game is an upcoming video game adaptation of James Cameron's film of the same name. The title is being developed by Ubisoft. It was announced by Ubisoft that it will be using the same technology as the film to be displayed in 3D. Now watch the official game trailer.

Prince of Persia Movie Trailer

2009-11-12T09:19:00.000-08:00

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, due out May 28th, 2010. Based on Ubisoft's critically acclaimed action adventure, the film stars a ripped Jake Gyllenhaal, Alfred Molina and Oscar winner Ben Kingsley. Even better, Jerry Bruckheimer Films is involved, the same group responsible for Pirates of the Caribbean.
Now watch the trailer.

Modern Warfare 2 record breaking sale

2009-11-12T09:12:00.000-08:00

Activision announced today that Modern Warfare 2 sold an estimated 4.7 million units in its first 24 hours in North America and the UK alone, which far exceeds the previous record of 3.6 million held by Grand Theft Auto IV.

Torchlight for MAC in 2010

2009-11-12T08:58:00.000-08:00

Encore Software and developer Runic Games have announced plans to enchant its relationship by entering an exclusive publishing agreement that will send the addictive download-only PC title Torchlight to retail stores on January 5, 2010 for a MSRP of $19.99. Combining skills like so many elemental gems, Runic's design posse includes members from the original team that developed titles like Diablo and Diablo II (anyone ever heard of those?).

Torchlight -- which recently released free editing tools to its users -- is currently available for PC via its website for $19.99. A Mac version is planned for sometime in 2010. Sometime, meaning "not soon enough."

Lost Planet 2 Trailer

2009-09-24T02:08:00.000-07:00

If there was ever any doubt in your mind that the enemies in upcoming third person shooter Lost Planet 2 are on the plus-size of things, the flood of assets coming out of the Tokyo Game Show should assure you of their huge-itude. Though we're only treated to a few scant glimpses in the trailer above, some of the beasts on display in the screens Capcom released are large-building-sized. The kind of big where you get that falling feeling in your stomach just from looking at them. Add to that the whole ongoing war thing and we're pretty glad to not be living on Capcom's now tropical planet.

DAWN OF WAR 2 - FREE OST from STEAM

2009-05-02T03:58:00.000-07:00

If music from Relic’s war extravaganza Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II has rated high on your personal chart then this news is sure to please you. Relic has put Dawn of War II soundtrack up on Steam for download. And this will cost you exactly zero dollars. The offering, as the saying goes is on the house! After jump is a list of all the 20 tracks that you can grab for free on either Steam’s page or on Relic’s community site. Composed by Doyle W. Donahooa and Jason Ross, some of these are actually good enough to encourage other things in the background, unless of course the memories of your massacres are too strong to repress. The entire thing is 188 MB.

• “There Is Only War (opening title)”
• “Angels Of Death (Space Marine Theme)”
• “Primarch’s Honour”
• “No Mercy No Respite”
• “March Of The Waaagh!”
• “Purge The Xeno Scum”
• “Forged In Battle”
• “Ancient Rites (Eldar Theme)”
• “The Green Horde Rises”
• “Khaine’s Wrath”
• “Attack Of The Heretics”
• “Xeno Presence (Tyranid Theme)”
• “For The Craftworld”
• “They Come In Waves And We Push Them Back”
• “The Great Devourer”
• “To Battle Brothers”
• “Hunting The Hive Tyrant”
• “The Emperor’s Victory”
• “Show Me What Passes For Music Among Your Misbegotten Kind (credits roll)”
• “Meridian Nights (Noobie’s Grim Dark Future Remix)”

Source: shacknews

Assassins Creed 2 - Updated Details

2009-04-12T08:31:00.001-07:00

Assassins Creed II comes with New weapons, smarter AI, a refined mission structure and even a crazy Leonardo Di Vinci flying machine are promised for the follow up, the new issues of US mag Game Informer reveals.

Also See the full list of changes, courtesy of NeoGAF, below:

- 1476, warring families, corrupted clergy, political intrigue, warring city-states.
- Assassination and executions are common in those days.
- Post plague era, modern science begins, etc., (basically, a resume of what the Renaissance era was like).
- Assassins and Templars continue their struggle.
- Venice and its waterways, Florence and its huge monuments.
- There is an illustration of San Gimignano's towers, and it speaks of the Tuscany country side. Another illustration shows some boats in Venice's canals.
- Saint Mark's Basilica. The Grand Canal, The Little Canal, Rialto Bridge, are shown (screenshots compared to real-life shots)
- Patrice D�silets says Altair was only in the middle of the "timeline", but now you live through the memories of a new ancestor to Desmond.
- Da Vinci is an ally to Ezio's family. He is like Q in James Bond. Machiavelli teaches you "tactics".
- "We know that he (Ezio) does end up alone and on a quest for vengeance". Learns to become an Assassin.
- Ezio can dive into the water in Venice, hide underwater as long as he can hold his breath, etc.
- You can pull guards in the water to assassinate them.
- Taller buildings. You can use a new leap maneuver to climb faster.
- More varied "hiding places"
- Ezio's infamy grows if makes too much commotion, making people more suspicious. If you become notorious, new missions appear (example: assassinate the witnesses, bribe people, get rid of wanted posters), so you can lower your notorious level if you want.
- Ezio can disarm enemies and use their weapons against them.
- Dozens of weapons with their own special moves (pike allows you to knock many enemies off their feet, dagger allows you to do an escape kill of some sort, etc.), can fight without weapons too and do things like throw dirt in an enemy's eyes because sometimes you don't have a weapon (except for the hidden blade and throwing knives), even heabutts! D�silets says that at the end you should become so good with the double hidde blades that you will use them over any weapons. A hammer is shown, a club too, and some blades and an axe.
- Game is made to address concerns people had with AC1, while staying true to its core. Biggest need was "more variety". AC2 no longer uses the AC1 gameplay loop structure (bureau, info, assassination).
- Ezio can use boats to move through the canals (in an example of mission variety, Ezio goes to see an informant but they are attacked and you must defend her as you make your way to a boat, then use it to get her to safety). Sometimes those different mission types are mixed together in one mission (example; mission starts as a simple delivery, but ends up as a chase, and finally a kill).
- A picture is shown of different enemy types. One is really big and fully armored. Each enemy type have their own attitudes and weaknesses. Enemies evolve as the game progresses (first encounter in the game will feel different than later ones). Agile dagger wielders can freerun like Ezio (following him more easily). The big dudes are more deadly in close combat. Spear wielders will look for you moreso, like in hiding places. You can kill enemies from the hiding places (picture shows Ezio grabbing a nearby soldier with his hand on his mouth, emerging from a bay hale chariot).
- Templars and Assassins are "underground, behind the events, pulling strings".
- Day and night cycle.
- Different kinds of objects to find but that actually give you something in return.

COD: World at War PC Patch 1.4 with Suprise

2009-04-10T11:19:00.001-07:00

Nothing better than a patch delivering something free, right? (Actually a free patch is what we ideally want). And Call of Duty: World at War has got precisely that. For PC gamers, Patch 1.4 has arrived, delivering Map Pack 1 for free. This patch went live on consoles last month for 10 dollars, and clocked over one million downloads in the first week itself. Now it has been made available for PC gamers and they are sure to feel validated. Activision, in partnership with Intel, has released Patch 1.4 that will enhance multiplayer gameplay with three new multiplayer maps: Knee Deep, Nightfire, and Station! There’s also a new Nazi Zombie map. This freaky little map will have more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses. Patch 1.4 brings a lot of bug fixes and tweaks for the game. A complete list of what the patch includes is included after break. Here’s the link to a list of sites hosting the file, which is about 600 MB.

• 3 new Multiplayer maps: Kneedeep, Nightfire, Station!
• Nazi Zombies map with more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses: Verrückt!
• Improved spawning logic.
• Auto balancing improvements. Players are no longer auto balanced while completing objectives.
• Mods: IWD’s can be placed in the usermaps folder.
• Mods: Hold Breath / Sprint functions as intended.
• Mods: MissingAssets.csv is generated when maps are run with developer set to 1.
• Fixed lag caused by shooting at tanks.
• All rifle grenades fired during the first 15 seconds of Search & Destroy will be duds.
• Players who equip a Bouncing Betty and melee teammates in Hardcore game modes are now credited with a team kill penalty.
• Players are now deducted 200 points for team killing the bomb planter/defuser in Hardcore Search & Destroy.
• Martyrdom no longer causes direct impact deaths in Hardcore modes.
• “Bayonet jumping” has been disabled.

Source: digitalbattle

BioShock 2 - Game play Footage

2009-04-10T11:09:00.001-07:00

We have our very first look at 2K Marin’s BioShock 2. GameTrailers is the home to exclusive in-game footage of BioShock 2. Two minutes of unadulterated action! Buffer it and you’ll see the manner in which underwater city of Rapture is set to return, and there’s some narration at the end. You’ll also get to see Big Daddy, whom by the way, you’ll be playing. Big Sister’s combat is in its full fury. Witness just how plasmids can be used along with other weapons. BioShock 2 is to hit PlayStation 3, PC, and Xbox 360 before the year ends. And isn’t it just great that this one does not try to supply any subtitles? Does remind one of BioShock though, bigger and better one at that.

Source: GameTrailers

Shadow of Colossus Movie - In Production

2009-04-09T00:47:00.001-07:00

Sony Computer Entertainment game Shadow of the Colossus which was released in 2005 is finally being developed as a feature length motion picture. The game was originally developed and distributed in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment’s International Production Studio 1.Sony is developing their own game into a movie instead of letting another studio take it.

Screenwriter Justin Marks has been tapped to pen the script. Marks wrote the script for the recent Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, and is currently working on the scripts for comic adaptation Hack/Slash and the new take on Jules Verne’s classic, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which is being directed by McG.

In terms of gameplay, Shadow of the Colossus is very unique. Instead of being like most games where you fight through countless smaller enemies to reach a level’s big enemy or “Boss,” Colossus simply has you find the 16 beasts and fight them and nothing more (unless you like bow hunting lizards). This may sound simple enough, but this world is amazingly large in scale for a PS2 game; sometimes it takes quite a while to get to their locations. When you finally get to them, then begins the task of figuring out how to take them down, and trust me when I say, most of these things are some of the biggest beings ever put into a video game.

Source: Risky Biz

Prototype Release Date announced

2009-04-09T00:13:00.001-07:00

Radical Entertainment’s alluring offering Prototype has been given an official release date. The open-world action game will be available with European retailers on June 5 and with their North American counterparts on June 9. So much has been confirmed by publisher Activison. The game will be available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 gamers. For the uninitiated: Prototype recounts the story of Alex Mercer – a man devoid of any memory, but possessor of shape shifting abilities – and his quest to unravel his past. Shape shifting is just one of Alex’s superpowers, and he’s endowed with 750 “unique combinations” of various powers. He has to wade through New York City, which has been invaded by the “Infected.” Parkour, open-world, zombies, and laboratory intrigue: Prototype seems to strike just the right gameplay cords. Radical has already delivered a massive open-world title: The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and is expected to repeat the good work. Can’t wait to get hands on this one! Head to the official page, consume the goodies (read videos) and get high on Prototype anxiety.

Source: el33tonline

GeForce GTX 275 from EVGA has 1792 MB DDR3

2009-04-09T00:04:00.002-07:00

Leading graphic card and mother board manufacturer, EVGA, has announced a new graphic card. EVGA’s new baby is the GeForce GTX 275, which is offering superb graphics, physics and high level GPU performance. The GeForce GTX 275 is a perfect graphic card that provides the user with rich graphics at an affordable tag, so gamers restricted by the budgets are sure to love it. As one can tell, this card is based on NVIDIA’s powerful GeForce GTX 275 GPU and features 240 processor cores and 0.8ns DDR3 memory.

EVGA is offering GeForce GTX 275 with two memory options of 896MB and 1792MB each. EVGA GTX 275 delivers graphics plus with NVIDIA CUDA technology. Graphic plus goes beyond the traditional graphics by offering Stereoscopic 3D gaming, video processing for converting your videos for portable media player, and it also helps in improving efficiency of Adobe Creative Suite 4. EVGA GeForce GTX 275 will soon be available through EVGA’s widespread network that includes retailers, system integrators, system manufacturers, e-retailers and distributors.

Source : PCTuner

Red Faction - Not a FPS anymore

2009-04-03T01:06:00.001-07:00

Red Faction is making some drastic changes. First of all it is making a shift in genre: going from an out and out first-person shooter to a third-person action game with an open environment. And second, it is switching over to the new consoles. Red Faction: Guerrilla will be hitting Xbox 360, PS3, and PC on June 9 (June 12 in Europe). Volition has also confirmed that a downloadable demo is in the offing on April 23. It is believed that like the previous two episodes of the franchise Red Faction: Guerrilla will also focus on destructible environments. This will be a lot more fun with the latest Geo-Mod 2.0 graphic engine being deployed. The game takes place some fifty years after the previous installment and focuses on a miner named Alec Mason. And since we are on the topic, you might want to head to GameStop cause a preorder would advance the demo date by three weeks.

Source: digitalbattle