Massive Entertainment, Sierra and Intel invite you to join the open beta and find out what you are made of. By enlisting you will be able to exclusively experience the most intense and highly anticipated action-strategy game first hand before it hits the streets in September. Furthermore, you will actively help us to improve World in Conflict, making it this year?s ultimate RTS game.

It?s been almost three years since the alien Covenant brought their devastating war against humanity to the Xbox in Halo 2. Now, ?because the fate of all mankind is too great to be decided on a console alone,? PC gamers who are Halo fans can finally step into the iridescent green battle armor of the Master Chief and take the fight to the Covenant in Halo 2 for Windows Vista. Was it worth the wait? Let?s find out.

Following a successful beta, the final version of Highway Tampa for Battlefield 2 is now ready to roll out. DICE, along with our update partner Intel, created this new map focused on tank battles that echo those of Battlefield 1942. Exploding shells ring out across the desert as tank columns meet in furious battle amidst the swirling sands.

ETQW will feature appropriate advertisements in select locations of our levels. The ads aren't intrusive and you won't have to interact with them; they'll just be part of the normal environment. In fact, there are some places it's quite odd not to have an advertisement - the sides of container trucks, for example. Great care is being taken to ensure that all our ads are appropriate for the game world and we have absolute approval rights in this area. If it's not appropriate or it's distracting, it won't go in.

Comparing upgrading benefits of Direct X10

A DirectX 10 patch for this game is expected to be available very soon. The patch should be free to download and install on the already released DirectX 9 version of Call Of Juarez. Meanwhile why don't you check some high-res screenshots of the benchmark in action - 2048x1536 @ maximum details...

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The DirectX 10 Patch (version 1.70) has finally arrived and will breath new life into Company of Heroes. New features include: soft particles, CSAA support, instanced foliage and ambient objects, short grass using instanced terrain shells, and normal map compression.

In fiscal year 2007 financial results released today, publisher Activision revealed that Splash Damage's upcoming multiplayer shooter Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is expected to release in the company's second quarter of fiscal year 2008. Given Activision's fiscal schedule, this suggests that the game will be released some time between the months of July and September of this calendar year.

Eidos Interactive has released the Tomb Raider Anniversary demo on Windows PC. Featuring a segment from Peru, players can download the 270MB demo direct from our download server completely hassle free, and without spending a dime. As one of the most successful games of all time, selling over seven million copies worldwide, the original Tomb Raider was widely credited for revolutionizing adventure gaming.

The Demo contains three racing types and three different tracks. Number 1 is the point-to-point racing, against-the-clock action that?s a hallmark of the series. The Colin McRae: Dirt demo (850 MB) pits you and your Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX against a testing Italian rally stage. This mode is also playable in multiplayer. Number 2 lets you test your nerve in off-road racing as you race against 9 fearsome AI drivers in a CORR class 1 buggy packing 650bhp. Number 3 take on the rally legend himself, Colin McRae, in a Subaru Impreza ? the race is on a twisting tarmac crossover track in Germany.

PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT are in search of a challenger in Taiwan to take on Johnathan ?Fatal1ty? Wendel, the world?s best known professional video gamer, during COMPUTEX 2007. Is this guy human? Can he be defeated? PowerColor, Cooler Master and Universal ABIT want a worthy challenger to give him a run for his money. We will reward the challenger with 100,000 NTD (or about US$3000) if he or she can defeat Fatal1ty on June 5th.

In 1986 the world was stunned by the largest nuclear accident in history. Twenty years later, history incredibly repeats itself. But this time it?s no accident. An unknown force is causing the Zone around Chernobyl to extend its deadly, radioactive embrace. Is the Zone a new frontier with incredible scientific discoveries waiting to be found?or a Man-made Hell that could mean the Beginning of The End? It?s up to you to find out in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.

StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.

The second season of PurePwnage's show has began! The good fellows from PurePwnage.com have released a new episode of their awesome gaming show (Reminder: Boom Headshot!). Pure Pwnage is an Internet-distributed mockumentary series from ROFLMAO Productions. The fictional series purports to chronicle the life and adventures of Jeremy (played by Jarett Cale), a Canadian self-proclaimed "pro gamer". The creators of the show recently estimated their current viewer base to be well over three million.

Good morning? Yes! Because Capcom pushed two demos of Lost Planet through the internet. You need some food for your brandnew graphics board? Then just try the Lost Planet DirectX10 Demo (you need Windows Vista). All others can try the Lost Planet DirectX9 Demo. The demo contains two playable levels with awesome visual effects.

Cell Factor first appeared as a bundled demo when Ageia's PhysX cards launched. It was more of a proof of concept demo than anything else and illustrated what could be done to an arena-based first person shooter with a dedicated physics processing unit (PPU). Now you can the entire Cell Factor Revolution for free. It's also playable without a physX-Card. The Download weights about 880 Megabytes.

It is the result of a common passion... Player yesterday, creator tomorrow. Those who have been waiting for this mod for so long, It's here! Perfect Dark for Half-Life 2 has been released! This file is an Installation, excellent for people who are rather un-experienced, or just want to do it the easy way. Just warp to Perfekt Dark: Source Beta Download

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has now officially confirmed by Activision. And 'Modern Warfare' isn't just a name but a description of the battlefield scene too. Rumours now suggest that the game will allow the player to serve with the US Army, US Marine Corps. and the British SAS in a battle against Middle Eastern terrorists. Want to know more? Warp to Call of Duty 4 @ bit-techn.net.

The Float32 modification for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernoby has been released this morning, which beefs up the already impressive graphics in GSC Game World's first-person shooter. This mod adds full reflection vector calculations, better bump mapping, real specular effects! All this detail improvement costs nothing in framerate and you will get 20% better framerate than before if not more! Shadows are soft and no longer jagged and the overall graphical quality has been vastly improved.

As promised, Electronic Arts has released a new retail patch for Battlefield 2142, bringing the futuristic multiplayer 3D action game by Digital Illusions to version 1.25. This patch adds increased security for EA account login, gameplay corrections, balance tweaks, multiplayer enhancements, bug fixes and more.