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The old and loved map from Counter-Strike is now available for Quakers to enjoy! Quake.co.il.

Planetunreal.com writes If you're a mapper, you need to go visit Unreal Expectations right now, since he's updated with about 25 brand new, high quality static mesh prefabs ready for you to download. Spice up your maps, bucko!

Gamer's Hell have got hold of the new Counter-Strike, Fusion Pack v10....

Games Fusion has released the latest version of their replacement pack for Counter-Strike, Fusion Pack v10, to the public. This new version is "the biggest update since v6.5 and includes a wide variety of replacements including bug fixes and additional enhancements" (read full story for details). A small patch is also available for v10 that "corrects a few minor issues and also replaces a few items such as the Ak47 and some sounds

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During Activision's third 2003 fiscal quarter conference call earlier today (you can listen to the conference call right here), execs at the company mentioned in passing that a sequel to last year's Quake III engine powered first person shooter Star Wars: Jedi Outcast was in the works to be released in their fiscal 2004 time frame (April 2003-March 2004).

This is the 4th game in the Sim City series. Sim City 4 is no kids game, but it will leave you with endless hours of gameplay

Epic's Steven Polge posted a quick update on the bonus pack to the official boards:

We are working hard on testing the bonus pack. All the content and code going into the bonus pack is complete, but we are still testing, finding bugs, and tweaking.

Do you miss the sniper rifle in UT??? Welcome back Sniper Arena to UT2003! This is a port of the Unreal Tournament Sniper Arena mutator.

Sniper Arena 108 For UT 2003

Ubi Soft Entertainment sends along the promised patch for the multiplayer demo of Rainbow Six: Raven Shield, bringing this squad-based tactical shooter to version 1.2. This release addresses the high capacity magazine and thermal scope cheats, and adds "more error messages for unsupported video card features."

Computer and Video Games reports that If insider speculation is to be believed, Microsoft has bought US publisher Vivendi, with an announcement to that effect due soon. Take a deep breath and reflect on the implications of that, if true.

Half-Life 2, Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Crash, Spyro, Lord of the Rings... Vivendi has an enormous portfolio boasting some of the biggest titles on all formats, and it would be an ultra-smart move on Microsoft's part to snap them up. Such a buyout, of course, would come at a terrifically high price, making the 365 million acquisition of Rare look like peanuts. But if anyone has the necessary funds, it's Microsoft.

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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.