As the graphics wars between ATI and NVIDIA have escalated, one of the most favored weapons of both sides has been performance comparisons in big-name games. We've already seen performance previews of Doom III and Half-Life 2, made possible by graphics chip companies, despite the fact that neither game was anywhere near shipping at the time those previews were published.

Blizzard released v1.16 patch for one of the most popular RTS/RPG multiplay game around! grab it from blizzard's ftp site.

Plenty of brand new hi-res screens and renders straight from Bungie!

The highly anticapated total conversion mod for Medal Of Honor Allied Assault "Modern-Warfare" is scheduled to be released tomorow 07-02-04 at 6pm(est)

Modern-Warfare has been in development for 2 years, The download of the 120mb file will include 7 new maps, 15 new weapons, about 50 new skins and a flyable chopper with rockets and a minigun to keep you entertained. So dust off those old moh:aa discs, reinstall the game and download Modern-Warfare. Check out the Modern-warfare site for more Info!

Wargaming.Net announces "Twin Islands" planet and a new patch for Massive Assault Network

This planet is specially designed for massive naval battles: two equal continents are separated by sea. There are no small economy countries - only large and medium ones. That will ensure that the players will have enough resources for recruiting big numbers of expensive units including Battleships and Carriers. The war on this planet will be full of D-Day-style amphibious operations.

Patch 1.2 is in its final stage of production: a nasty scoreboard bug and a CDkey security issue remain to be fixed, but otherwise a huge list of improvement/fixes have been implemented and tested successfully.

Gamer's Hell reports that a enhacement pack for Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory is now available for download, adding new skins for axis, helmets, boots, new weaponskins, medicpacks, documenst, new flags, minemakers, teamdoors and new sounds.

Here's some interesting Info for Half-Life 2 posted over at Half-Life 2 Fallout! and don't forget to check out Mr Chimp's six-page write-up on Half-Life 2's Source engine! Great article well worth the read.

Half-Life 2 is about 3.5 GB uncompressed and about 2 GB compressed. This doesn't include CS:Source, HL-1:Source, DoD:Source, the SDK, or whatever. It's just the straight HL-2 sizes.

GameSpy have thrown up their preview of Tribes: Vengeance! Here's a snip.

Those familiar with the first two games will feel almost immediately at home in Tribes: Vengeance, even though it's now using a heavily modified version of the Unreal engine. In fact, the Karma physics engine has been completely ripped out and the Havok 2 engine is in its place. Despite these changes, the game feels very familiar.

Fido over at The Inquirer reports that I've just installed Far Cry 1.1 retail patch and found to my surprise that Shader patch 3 for Nvidia NV40 cards is already available.

The Far Cry web site actually talks about new 1.2 retail patch the one that the boys are still testing, but according to the site even 1.1 patch can support Nvidia shader 3.0.

On the official hl2 site (www.half-life2.com ) 2 high rez pictures were found but has now been removed but luckely the swedish site www.halflife.nu managed to download them before they were removed.

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On Thursday, 17th of June, the Danish RSC community and Ocrana.ATI Racing Team had the oppotunity to not only meet the 3 developers behind RaceSim game Live for Speed, but also be the first to test a pre-alpha version of the upcoming Live for Speed S2.

A report/preview on LFS S2 pre-alpha aswell as on the whole event can be read @ RSC

Tweak Guides have updated their Thief: Deadly Shadows Guide! to incorporate the changes from the latest Official Patch version 1.1.

I've just updated my handy Thief: Deadly Shadows Tweak Guide which covers all the major tweaks for this fantastic game. It contains detailed descriptions of the performance and visual quality impacts of all the in-game settings, links to important resources and all the advanced tweaking you need to make an outstanding Thief game even better!

There is a new movie trailer for Battlefield 2, revealing more from the contemporary multiplayer 3D action sequel in development at Digital Illusions. This clip sports half a minute of action-packed, in-engine cutscene footage.

Acclaim UK has released a playable demo of Kreed, offering a chance to try out this futuristic first-person shooter by Russian developer Burut. This demo contains an introduction cutscene, two single-player missions titled "Arc of Secret Light" and "Skirmish in Holy City," and a pair of deathmatch maps called "Dungeon" and "Aspero."

Security firm Secunia, has released a security advisory on the Unreal Engine used in Unreal Tournament 2004. It seems the Unreal Engine has a very dangerous security vulnerability in it that will allow malicious people to take over your computer. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the processing of secure queries, which are used to verify that a queried server is a legit Unreal server. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending an overly long challenge string to a vulnerable server. Read more..

Official launch date of August 3rd, 2004 confirmed?

The first official screenshots from Konami's new Metal Gear title for Sony's PSP.

PC-IGN reports that in an interview posted on Homelan Fed late Friday, Valve's Gabe Newell provided a delicious hint at the status of Half-Life 2. When asked how the title is coming along, he replied, "Good. It's in great shape. We anticipate delivering it to Vivendi in August

Ubi Soft Entertainment has released new patches for Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow to bring the North American, French Canadian, and European/Asian editions of their stealthy 3D action game to version 1.3. This release contains a new ranking management system, several networking improvements and fixes, and a few other changes as detailed in the release notes.