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Bungie & MS announced both at thier E3 Conference and on XBL that Halo 3 EXISTS!!!! The trailer has gone up for Download on XBL, and recently on bungie. Halo 3 will be released for Microsoft's Xbox 360 in 2007.

Guess who's back for Snake's latest and purportedly last mission? Try everybody who's ever been in the entire damn series.

AGEIA has released a playable technology demo for CellFactor: Combat Training, offering a chance to try out the physics-infused, futuristic first-person shooter being crafted at Artificial Studios and Immersion Games. This demo requires a PhysX accelerator and a "decent gaming rig," and it contains the technology level familiar from the recent movie trailers that can be played offline against bots as well as on LAN.

A new movie trailer for Battlefield 2142 has been released, revealing more of the futuristic multiplayer 3D action game being developed at Digital Illusions. This trailer highlights the new Titan game mode in a minute and a half of action-packed in-game footage.

Activision has just released the E3 2006 trailer for Call of Duty 3, the sequel FPS developed for PS3, Xbox 360, PS2, Wii, Xbox and PS2. As you can see, no PC version was announced (yet).

Before the madness hits, FiringSquad decided to post up an article about just some of the games we are most interested in seeing at E3 this year. Keep in mind that this list is not complete by any means and that some product announcements are literally kept under wraps until the expo officially starts up on Wednesday.

"Huge bright outdoors" and "32 player matches" are likely not the first thoughts that come to mind when one talks about the DOOM 3 engine but Splash Damage and id Software are planning to change this perception with Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars.

Security analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, a computer security vendor, have discovered a new Trojan horse that steals usernames and passwords from World of Warcraft players. The PSW.Win32.WOW.x spreads mainly through malicious browser pop-ups, but has also appeared in P2P files and email attachments.

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Prepare to burn the wallet hard with the upcoming Sin Episodes by Ritual Entertainment.

Each "episode" release will cost $19.95 US by Steam (boxed versions to be more expensive).

Today we discuss the class design, reason for including vehicles, the number of maps and planned support for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars with Splash Damage founder and lead designer, Paul Wedgwood.

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Bethesda Softworks have released the first beta retail patch for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, updating their acclaimed first-person role-playing sequel to version 1.1.425. This release includes a sizable set of bug fixes, quest corrections, and plugin tweaks as detailed in the included change log, but it's a beta patch so your mileage may vary.

During our look at graphics performance in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter earlier this week, we speculated on the possibility of ATI being able to allow for the usage of anti-aliasing in this title on their hardware, just as they had in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion via the infamous 'Chuck' patch.

Compound 2 - the classic revisited. This reworking of the mighty Compound level includes several new features, such as an extensive underground tunnel network, climbable buildings and an extended playing field to accommodate the larger teams that the latest Steam versions and more powerful server hardware allow.

Bethesda Softworks is happy to announce the release of our Beta Patch. Please understand that this is not the final version of the patch, this is a Beta Patch. If you are not experiencing any problems while running Oblivion, it is not recommended that you install this Beta Patch. ElderScrolls

I've put together a four-page Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Tweak Guide, based on the demo of the game. It provides the known methods of optimizing and customizing the game. Note that the demo and the retail version are essentially identical in terms of performance and tweaking, and as such download the demo and tweak it using the guide, as this will give you a genuine idea of how good the retail version will look and perform on your system. The full version of this guide will be released shortly after the retail version of GRAW is out.

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Last week saw the release of a demo of the latest game in the Ghost Recon series, Advanced Warfighter. This game has taken the Xbox 360 by storm, and its PC version has also garnered plenty of interest thanks to its advanced graphics and support for AGEIA's PhysX boards.

Legendary game programmer John Carmack discusses the impressive MegaTexture system for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

World of Warcraft has over six million users. EverQuest still has a loyal following, and even smaller MMOs have loyal followings. Loyd Case has decided he's fed up with all of them.

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Sierra has released a new patch (22.35MB) for F.E.A.R., bringing the sci-fi first-person shooter by Monolith Productions to version 1.04. This patch adds support for the updated SDK (587MB) and is accompanied by corresponding Win32 (118MB) and Linux (112MB) dedicated servers. Sierra