3D Gamers reports Electronic Arts has issued an updated mod development kit for Battlefield Vietnam, upgrading this toolkit for Digital Illusions' 3D multiplayer action game to version 2.5. This release adds enhancements and fixes to the vehicle editor, .SM file imports and exports, the menu editor, and more.

FarCryHQ is hosting a co-op mod for Far Cry allowing to play all single-player missions with up to 3 players.

FarCryHQ - Gamer's Hell

An update to the Counter-Strike: Source beta has been released to cyber cafés that subscribe to the Valve Cyber Café Program. Steam will update itself automatically when restarted, and servers also need to be restarted.

It comes out that there's a huge bug in the french (and possibly others) traslated version of doom3. In certain circumstances the game would revert back to english with no way for the end user to go back to the local language without tweaking the config files. A post about the topic is at Doom3 Center

3D Gamers reports that EgoSoft has issued a tiny patch for X² - The Threat, tweaking the Artificial Life Engine in their space combat exploration game. This fix requires version 1.4 of the retail game, and word is: "Some unwanted behaviour for captured ships has been corrected. This is a recommended download for all players."

PC-IGN have thrown up their first-person shooters Roundup with the most promising shooters from now until Christmas, in one handy article!

We have some memorable franchises returning to our screens, with Half-Life, Medal of Honor, Tribes, and Ghost Recon present and accounted for. There are also some promising titles we've only been hearing about recently, like Star Wars Battlefront, Painkiller: Battle out of Hell, and Close Combat: First to Fight. Well, folks, all of these and more are about to be unleashed upon us in an avalanche of gaming goodness that will probably have us glued to our mice and keyboards until the snow finally melts away.

GGMania reports were you dissapointed by the lackluster sounds of Doom 3? Do you want your pistol not to sound like a Nerf air gun? Wish the enemies made sounds that could actually scare someone? Long for the far superior sounds by Trent Reznor? Well look no further, for here they are! This mod (8.6MB) changes the sounds for theimp, the pinky, the zombie, the fat zombie, the zombie commando, the hell knight, the pistol, the shotgun, the machine gun, the chaingun, the player, that's it!

Here's the first in-game screenshots of Counter-Strike: Source Beta that were taken on a low end system from Valve's Cyber Café Program.

Just got word that TweakGuides.com have thrown up their Doom 3 Tweak Guide!

The guide contains full descriptions of all the in-game settings, troubleshooting tips, and most importantly a comprehensive list of advanced console and config tweaks, all explained and with recommendations for what to use. So without any further ado, click this link to: Read the Guide

It has come to our attention that it is possible to preload the Counter-Strike: Source early off Steam.

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Following the release of Doom3 it?s seen many a discussions such as gameplay, graphics, benchmarking and tweaking. In this short interview we talk to id?s John Carmack about various elements of the title that are pertinent to benchmarking, as well as some of the queries that have arisen following some of the choices made within the games shader code.

The promised playable demo for Myst IV Revelation is now available, allowing you to try out the first-person point-n-click adventure sequel being crafted by Ubi Soft Montreal. Word is the demo "puts players in Atrus' room, which contains a number of objects, a trademark Myst puzzle, and an FMV flashback of Atrus' daughter."

3D Gamers - Gamer's Hell

sMull over at FutureMark's Forum has posted in-game screenshots from Epic's Games Unreal Engine 3!

Epic Games have released the latest patch for Unreal Tournament 2004, bringing the sci-fi first-person shooter to version 3270. This release adds a third batch of improvements, bug fixes and other changes for the Onslaught mode, general gameplay, menus, demo recording, networking, mod support, engine and more.

3D Gamers reports a playable demo of Worms Forts: Under Siege is now available, offering the first opportunity to try out the fortified 3D turn-based strategy game by Team17 Software. This demo contains one single-player map set in ancient Egypt along with one multiplayer map situated in classical Greece.

Wings Simulations have released the official playable demo for SÖLDNER - Secret Wars, renewing the opportunity to try out their vehicular 3D action game. This demo contains 4 maps (Army Base, Riverside, Deep Forest and Cold Winter) along with a selection of the full game's weapons and vehicles, all using the latest codebase.

Gamer's Hell - 3D Gamers

Doom 3 is finally here and TweakTown are tipping many gamers around the world are dieing to benchmark their system with one of the most anticipated games to hit computer screens ever. We've posted the definitive guide to benchmarking with DOOM 3 which includes information on exactly how to benchmark the game and the issues to look out for. It's benchmark time.

At last the game we were all wainting for was oficially announced... And just a day after that we see a lot of people benchmarking their PCs with the game. The results we are seeing are far far away from what is a good framerate for a 3D Shooter. On high-end systems equiped with 5900/9800 series videocards with high detail at resolutions of 1024x768 we get around 30-40 frames per second average... and on computers equipped with 6800 series videocard framerates reach around 60-70. Read some interesting information about Doom 3 benchmarking

PC.IGN have thrown up their latest Half-Life 2 article in which they get to play Half-Life 2, Valve Software's first person shooter at last Saturday's G-Phoria event.

I found that most of the objects that were placed throughout the depot, such as bottles, crates or other items could be picked up or interacted with, although I had to be careful about carrying or throwing some things around. For instance, I accidentally bounced a bottle off of a table and it careened towards a Combine soldier, who immediately switched on his shock stick.

Guru 3D reports that last week we heard that S.t.a.l.k.e.r. was going to be delayed for many months to come. A lot of critisism was given for that choice. But Today I noticed this post from PixelDude from our forums. He picked up Doom3 today, and to his suprise he saw an empty Stalker DVD containers on the "Coming soon" shelves.