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Star Wars: Empire At War Demo

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LucasArts has now released a playable demo for Star Wars Empire at War, allowing the chance to feel the force in this futuristic 3D real-time strategy game under construction at Petroglyph Games. This demo includes the first five tutorials and a Galactic Conquest map playable as the Rebel Forces commander where "you'll battle for control of the Outer Rim in the Vergesso Asteroids and attempt to liberate Tatooine from the grip of the Empire.
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Rainbow Six: Lockdown Demo

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Ubi Soft has released the playable demo for Rainbow Six: Lockdown, offering the first opportunity to try out the squad-based tactical shooter sequel that is nearing completion at Red Storm. This demo contains a single-player mission situated in South Africa that's also playable in co-op, along with the Prison multiplayer map with the 'Team Adversarial' game mode.
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Preview

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When you watch the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars trailer, it's easy to leap to conclusions about what the game's going to be. It's Battlefield in the Quake universe! It's getting railgunned in the face by twitch-killers as you stand next to a spawnpoint for a vehicle.
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Battlefield 2: Euro Force Preview

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This year, DICE will release not one but two new booster packs for Battlefield 2, titled Euro Force and Armoured Fury. They feature three new levels each, new weapons and new vehicles. We have all the details, and new screenshots too!

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World of Warcraft v1.9.2 Patch

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Blizzard has released a new patch for the US, UK and German editions of World of Warcraft bringing their popular MMORPG to v1.9.2. Word is "Characters should no longer appear to "pop" around terrain. Movement should be smoother once again".

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Quake 4 Patch v1.0.5 Beta 2

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id Software has quietly issued a new beta retail patch for Quake 4, bringing the Win32 edition of Raven's sci-fi first-person shooter sequel to version 1.0.5 beta2. This update fixes a problem with screenshots turning black and an issue with running multiple instances of the dedicated server.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. CREEPS INTO BETA

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Anyone who still has the hots for the long-awaited S.T.A.L.K.E.R., congratulations first of all because you've managed to stay turned on to the game for around three zillion months without loss of ardour. But also, you might be tempted to roll around in Vaseline with glee at reports that GSC Game World's title has finally moved into beta.

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Timeshift Trailer and Closed Beta

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Sign up for closed beta: Atari and Saber Interactive are pleased to announce a closed public beta test for the upcoming first person shooter TimeShift. The beta test will comprise the multiplayer game mode only, the purpose of which is to get your feedback on game tuning and balance, help with hardware compatibility testing, and also general functionality testing.
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Quest for Lag Free Gaming @ Tech-Hounds

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We've finished our first article for 2006 and it's available on our website. In this article, we explore what can we do to avoid lag, stuttering, and performance - memory wise. It looks like 2 GB is a must if you want to run games at the highest details, but we think the major improvement of having 2 GB (or even 4 GB) of memory is not performance or lack of stuttering. It's game loading time - far shorter for newer games.
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Unreal Tournament 2007 Preview

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ShackNews have thrown up their Preview of Epic Games FPS Unreal Tournament 2007.

Many of the nine UT2004 vehicles have been revamped to be grouped into the Axon Team. Facing off against Axon is the brand new Necris team, which will have their own set of nine vehicles. Someone at Epic must be a "Back to the Future II" fan, because one of these new rides happens to be none other than a hoverboard. (Though hopefully sans the pink color scheme and "Mattel" label.)
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Dual-core gaming on test - Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2

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Elite Bastards have taken a look at what may become one of the big areas of improvement for enthusiasts in 2006 - Gaming performance for dual-core users. They take a look at the recently released updates for both Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2, both of which promise performance gains for multiple core and HyperThreading-based systems, to see if there are tangible benefits to be had.
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Half-Life 2: 64-Bit - Reason to get excited?

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Finally, a 64-Bit version of Half-Life 2! Is there any reason to get excited about this, or is it something you just want to bypass? We take both versions through a few quick tests to see if the 64-Bit has what it takes to be the preferred version.

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Quake 4 Dual-Core Performance: AMD & Intel

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Earlier this month id released a beta patch for Quake 4 promising performance improvements of up to 87% for gamers with dual-core processors.
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Call of Duty 2 Version 1.01 Dual Core Patch Performance

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Just after we posted benchmarks of the new dual core patch for Quake 4 we find that a Call of Duty 2 patch has also been released for multithreading with the help of Intel. You can find out first benchmarks here with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and the Radeon X1800XL. Enjoy!

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Valve Supports 64bit CPU

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For those of you running with a 64-bit capable AMD processor, along with the Windows® 64-bit operating system, Half-Life 2 and Lost Coast are now available in native 64-bit versions. Steam will automatically detect your OS and run the appropriate version the next time you run these games.
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Quake 4 Quakemas Map Pack

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Deck the halls with Rails and Rockets... id Software, Raven, and Activision have released the Quakemas Map Pack - three free new downloadable maps for QUAKE 4 on the PC. The maps - Railed, Tremors, and Campground Redux - offer all-new gameplay environments for more intense action in deathmatch, TDM, capture-the-flag and tournament combat. Have fun with the maps and stay tuned for much more in 2006!
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Unreal Tournament 2004 3369 Server Crash Exploit Fix

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Epic Games and Icculus have released a fix for Unreal Tournament 2004 to address a server crashing exploit in this sci-fi multiplayer first-person shooter. The Win32 fix contains 2 .DLL files to install over the previous versions in your System directory, while the Linux fix is an updated full patch to version 3369.2 that also re-enables AMD64 compiler optimizations.
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Counter-Strike: Source Update Available

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Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

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