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Brat Designs has released a partially new movie trailer of Breed, showing more from their 3D action game in development. The movie sports some three and a half minutes of action-packed gameplay footage in higher than average resolution, but some of the sequences are identical to the movie issued last month.

3Dgamers.com reports that NASCAR Racing 2003 Season is the imminent racing simulation sequel by Papyrus Racing Games. The game section for this title is now online, serving up the newly available playable demo (courtesy of Fragland) that offers the Michigan International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway tracks in testing session and single-race modes.

Planetunreal.com reports that version 1.3 of UT2k3Regcheck is available for download. This tool allows you to change or re-add your UT 2003 CD Key (great for when you format your primary partition).

I was just over @ Gamershell.com and I see they have a bucket load of games updates, movies, screenshots! Here's just some of what they have to offer...

Gameplay Movies: Mercedes-Benz World Racing Neverwinter Nights Shadows of Undrentide First Screenshots Action Half-Life v5.6 Update Star Wars Kotor screens #5 Urban Terror v2.6a Beta Patch Freedom Force v1.2 Patch Virtua Cop 3 Movie

Thanks to Geeknewz.com for the heads up...Another day, another beta patch. This time it's version 2181 which, as well as fixing some bugs that affected previous betas, contains general improvements such as a lack of stutters when you first load up the Instant Action menu.

Awhile ago, Valve announced they would be releasing Counter-Strike 1.6 via the Steam 2.0 beta. On Tuesday, they sent out the Steam 2.0 beta clients to certain members of the press to preview. As reported in our preview, we had some issues with Steam even under light usage conditions, and warned people to expect problems with the beta.
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Neowin.net reports that Flaws within Gaspy , a popular program that allows game clients to find and connect to game servers, might permit crackers to flood systems with useless packets and tie up processors through DDoS attacks. The vulnerability, which affects many games across Windows and *nix server platforms, is based upon spoofed UDP requests, as an advisory by security research outfit PivX Solutions (which made public its research yesterday) explains. Affected applications include Battlefield 1942 Server, Quake, Quake 2, Q3: Arena & Team Arena, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament 2003, and Return to Castle Wolfenstein... and more.

Just got word from Julio @ TechSpot.com that their America's Army tweak guide has been posted! Here's a snip....

Although first releases came with its hiccups, America's Army has mostly overcome its teething problems and is doing pretty well now. Based on the latest version of the Unreal Engine, this guide will take you through configuring the game for an optimum performance on your system, better network play and fixing other issues that might arise! Best of all, is free of charge for you to download

Gamers can now experience covert action IGI style with launch of the single-player demo of Codemasters? stunning stealth-based shooter.

Thanks to Onyx_00 for the Heads up....

New Features in DesertCombat Version 0.2

** This is not the complete or final list, this is only what is available for the public alpha and more will follow in the next alpha release.

As Counter-Strike 1.6 will be out tomorrow here's a Hands-on preview from Gamespot.....

Today GameSpot had a chance to play Counter-Strike version 1.6, which developer Valve says will be released via its Steam content delivery application on January 16. The free update to the popular multiplayer shooter includes two new weapons, a counter-terrorist tactical shield, a new map called de_airstrip, and revamped versions of two old maps, de_inferno and de_aztec.

"Big Scale Racing" führt Sie in die aufregende Welt des funkgesteuerten Automodell-Rennsports. Die im Maßstab 1:5 gebauten Fahrzeuge werden durch Benzinmotoren angetrieben und mit Hilfe einer Funkfernsteuerung gesteuert.
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Big Scale Racing is a simulator-based, action packed, highly addictive and fun RC racing experience featuring 240 unique AI-players, 6 detailed tracks with realistic weather effects, LAN-multiplayer etc.
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Infogrames, Legend Entertainment and Epic Games today announced that Unreal II: The Awakening has gone gold and will ship to stores nationwide during the first week of February. Source: Official forums

Are you ready for some extreme action? Then your wait is over because the girls of Dead or Alive are back and better than ever in the first ever "Sports Fantasy Simulation", Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball for the Xbox video game console. Developed by Team Ninja, the guys who brought you the million-selling Dead or Alive® 3 fighting game, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball is sure to have your heart-racing with beautifully rendered graphics and action-packed game play.
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Just spotted this @Blue's News.com

Valve sends word that their plan is to begin the 2.0 beta test of their Steam broadband content delivery system this Thursday, January 16. Included in the beta will be the release of Counter-Strike version 1.6, "which introduces new weapons (riot shield, FAMAS, and more) a new map (de_airstrip), as well as various fixes and tweaks." Also included in the new Steam beta will be a new version of TeamFortress Classic "featuring the introduction of the teleportation pad, a new map (ravelin), and more

Just spotted this @ Avault.com

File this under Rumor Mill: The February issue of Xbox Magazine claims that Valve has been working on a deal to make Half-Life 2 an Xbox exclusive. This wouldn't count out a PC version - which will certainly appear, but rather means the game won't be released on PS2 or GameCube.