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Desert Combat is a modern day military modification to the popular war game BattleField1942 from EA. It is focused on conflicts in the middle-east within the last decade between the various nations, From Desert Storm to Somalia. This war game is a total conversion for Battlefield1942 and is based on the same principles of a FPS and arcade style vehicle sim.

Click 'Read more' to see the changelog and the link to the mirrors! Full version: 573 MB and Patch version: 234 MB

Fileplanet have a new Half-Life 2 technology demo showcasing DirectX 9 Effects, Now keep in mind that this is a technology demo, so it's not showing off gameplay. The area shown might not be in the final game. The monster in the demonstration just stands there idling, so you can see the effects done to its skin (which, I'll point out, are very cool.) In my opinion the roofs of the buildings are a bit too shiny to look right -- but again, they're showing off possible engine effects, not a final product.

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BeyondUnreal have thrown up the first preview of the upcoming Unreal 2 XMP multiplayer add-on, which will be released for free by Atari later this year! Here's a rip.

Here at BeyondUnreal, we've been lucky enough to preview the latest beta version of XMP, and we've been extremely impressed with what we've seen so far. XMP successfully translates Unreal II's style into the multiplayer arena, while adding some very unique gameplay twists; and delivers much more than anyone could have hoped from a simple multiplayer add-on. So head onto the next page and take a look at the game that's delivering a breath of fresh air to the Unreal franchise.

Bluesnews.com reports that Activision sends news that they plan on releasing a new version 1.02 patch for Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory later today. The update will improve server stability to "help to remedy unexpected server timeouts" and will also include the updated version of Even Balance's PunkBuster anti-cheating software.

Electronic Arts has now released the multiplayer demo of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Breakthrough, offering a chance to try out this imminent first-person shooter expansion pack by TKO Software. The demo introduces the new Liberation mode and sports two maps, Anzio and Palermo, along with a variety of new weapons and more.

Update: Sorry about that, all links have now been fixed.

The long awaited expansion pack for Funcom's award winning MMORPG Anarchy Online are only hours away from release.

08:40 pm CEST (Central Europe) tonight, the servers went down for the Shadowlands Launch Patch, and the estimated time for the patching to be completed, and people are to be given access to the world of Shadowlands, is 2:40am CEST.

Ubi Soft has now released new patches for Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, bringing their squad-based tactical shooter to version 1.41 according to 3DGamers. The main addition of this release is PunkBuster and GameSpy Arcade support, while the "Immediate Firing Animation" was made optional, and a few bugs were fixed. Currently the US, Canadian, UK, German, French and Italian editions are online.

Found this through The Inquirer. Note to people who think these DLLs are "unfair" in benchmarks. This is horribly incorrect. Quake3 (even with an Athlon XP) forces AMD chips to use 3DNow, not SSE. Little do people know the 3DNow! code is completely broken in Quake3. It does not help at ALL. The Pentium 3 and 4 chips however are both detected as "Pentium 3" chips, which automatically uses SSE which DOES work in Quake3 and gives a significant FPS boost. These DLLs don't enable SSE but do help with Athlons... and if SSE was to ever be enabled in Quake3 for Athlon processors they would blow Pentium 4 chips out of the water even more. In the tests I ran a P4-2.53 @ 3.32GHz, 175/700fsb lost to a "stock" Athlon XP 2700+(2166MHz, 166fsb) using these dlls.

Ritual Entertainment and Activision have teamed up with Ritualistic to give you the chance to beta test the upcoming 1.10 patch for Star Trek Elite Force II. You will be able to play the updated version of the game before anybody else and give the developers valuable feedback on the changes made.

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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy allows players to immerse themselves in the classic Star Wars universe as they take on the role of a student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Master Luke Skywalker.

Gotham Games has released a playable demo of Starsky and Hutch, offering the opportunity to try out this arcade racing/shooting game by Minds Eye Productions that's already been available in Europe for a few months. The demo contains an intro movie and the first episode from the game's Story Mode, called "Fast Cars."

Battle Field 1942 Mod: Galactic Conquest v0.1c ...Galactic Conquest places you on the ice planet Hoth in an epic battle of survival from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Blaze over the snow in speeders, man the anti-personnel cannons, and ready those blasters for a long battle between the Empire and Rebel forces.

Electronic Arts has now issued a fixed incremental patch for Battlefield 1942, addressing an installation problem with the original file. This problem applied only to the incremental patch if you already had the Battle of Britain map installed, and the fixed patch should now work fine with the previous version 1.4 whether or not the map is installed.

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A playable demo of Space Colony has been released, giving you a chance to try this upcoming space-based People Sim/City Building game in the works at Firefly Studios.

Vivendi Universal Games has released the playable demo for Homeworld 2, allowing you to try out this imminent 3D real-time space strategy game by Relic Entertainment. The demo includes the tutorial mission, two single-player missions, and a pair of multiplayer missions.

Your girlfriend just got some competition. In this Windows Virtual Reality Game build and compete against Virtual Women with full artificial intelligence, choose ethnic type, personality, location, clothing etc. Throw away solitaire forever! Features 3-D graphics, Sound and Digital DNA support. Must try to believe.

As this is a beta test, some features are restricted or currently unavailable. They will be added shortly. Special Features: Artificial Intelligence Engine, Synthesized voice for opponents, support for Digital DNA files, Intelligence updates via the web, powerful customization options. Testing the parameters for a unique virtual human file format (Digital DNA) that will allow these files to be customized and traded over the web via file trading services.

Just spotted this bit of news at Planet Halflife.

A fan by the name of Kamakiri mailed Valve's Gabe Newell about those "pay to play" rumors, and received the following response (which has been confirmed as being legit):