If you know what 5J52E-FVKXV-882FQ-YJXRQ-DOD98 is for and tried it, please try and refrain from being too upset in your posts.

The RTS Starter Kit opens up the power of the Torque Game Engine to strategy fans and developers. A customized version of Torque, the RTS Starter Kit provides the functionality needed by developers to create a strategy game.

Today publisher JoWooD has launched the homepage for its upcoming Stargate SG-1? game, named "The Alliance", Fans and game enthusiasts can now get a first look at the spectacular interactive game experience, Stargate SG-1: The Alliance?. The teaser site will premiere new elements of the game on a consistent basis. The full site will be launched in early 2005 to support the Stargate SG-1: The Alliance game release in Late 2005 for all major platforms.

A solution for the stuttering problem has been found and a fix is coming. I've been talking with Gary McTaggart about this today and it turns out that my texture management theory was correct. A patch will be coming for this issue that will load all of the required textures into video memory on level load, rather than doing it during game play. There is currently no ETA for this patch, but I will post an update as soon as I get more information.

Update: The patch should come out no later than tomorrow.

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AnandTech have thrown up part 1 and 2 of their Half Life 2 GPU Roundup!

With Half Life 2 out we spent the past two days play testing and benchmarking the game on the latest DX9 hardware. Part 1

Imperial Glory promises to be the most extensive strategy game ever, offering an in-depth management model along with graphically stunning real-time land and naval battles in full 3D. Choose which of the five great 19th century Empires to lead: Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia or Austro-Hungary, each with their own unique attributes. View the trailer and screenshots here

This bit of Info was posted over at Steam's Forum by Mayhem_ntl.

I did this for my retail install of Condition Zero (which also required the CD to run) and when I have some spare time I'll do it for HL2 and CS:Source.

Wondering which processor is best for Half-Life 2? Or perhaps you're curious to see how older Athlon XP processors perform with this game in comparison to Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 processors? In this article we've rounded up 17 different processors ranging from the Athlon XP 2100+ all the way up to the Athlon 64 FX-55 and Pentium 4 3.46GHz Extreme Edition. See how the CPUs compare to one another inside!

HomeLAN Fed reports the new December 2004 dated issue of Computer Gaming World magazine is now out in stores and has some of the first details and screenshots about Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, the upcoming expansion pack to id Software's first person shooter remake. Developed by Nerve Software, the new expansion is set to have 11 levels, four new monsters, three new weapons.

A small number of Half-Life 2 customers have been experiencing problems while playing the game, and we have traced these issues to corrupt Steam cache files. We've released a Steam update to help resolve these issues. If you have been experiencing problems such as crashing during gameplay or startup of Half-Life 2, please restart Steam and then click on one of the links below. Steam will then automatically verify your cache files. The verification process will take roughly five minutes to complete.

Pro Evolution Soccer 4 is the latest soccer sports sequel by Konami Tokyo. The demo comes in two variants, with and without full voice-over commentary, and allows you to play 5 minute exhibition matches between any two countries of England, Sweden, Spain and Italy in a choice of two stadiums.

Hi guys, I thought this piece of information would make interesting news, as it appears to be affecting a lot of gamers (myself included). Half-Life 2 is making me sick .... literally - it's giving me motion sickness.

HL2world have found a way to enable multiplayer in Half-Life 2 that's built into the retail version.

Out of the ashes of an evil alien occupation, mankind?s tattered remnants attempt to form an ineffective resistance against their technocratic masters. The endless source of inspiration for their efforts is one man, a four-eyed physicist that stuck it to the aliens and corporate forces of evil once before, armed with nothing more than determination, ingenuity, and?. a crowbar. Read the Half-life 2 review at GameConnect

Half-Life 2 Files reports recently, one of our members here, alerted me of a pirated warez version of Half-Life 2, apparently released via the Bittorent network. I immediately, forwarded this to Gabe Newell of VALVe Software.

The Halo 2 Autoupdate is a small piece of software which will improve the functionality of Halo 2, most notably in the following areas:

Matchmaking: Some players have experienced irritating delays while waiting for a game to be found while in Quickmatch and Optimatch. This is caused by a combination of factors, including connection speed and other detailed nuances of matchmaking. We have isolated the cause and applied a solution to the autoupdate which should normalize that wait time.

Half-Life 2 benchmarking demos used by HardOCP for benchmarking.

It seems ATI's benchmarks were flawed pretty badly.
The Tech Lounge and [H]ardOCP have some different numbers to show you.

As for calling one video card a ?winner? over the other, it just does not seem feasible and would likely be irresponsible to do so. ATI?s X800 series has not thrashed NVIDIA?s 6800 series silicon as many expected. Half Life 2 simply plays great on video cards from both NVIDIA and ATI. So let?s make this clear

GameConnect has new screenshots of the upcoming game Painkiller: Battle out of Hell. They show you the 9 latest screenshots of the Lab level. View them here.

The Halo for Windows v1.06 Hotfix addresses a rare crash bug that could occur if a malicious individual (hacker) purposely imitates a game server and sends invalid data to clients who try to browse the server list. This hot-fix changes the version number of Halo for Windows and the Halo for Windows Dedicated Server to v1.06 from v1.05.