Ubisoft, one of the world?s largest video game publishers and Crytek announced two rising stars of game development have joined the already talented Far Cry? development team. The game?s next phase in development will focus on multiplayer excellence, and leading development is Chris Auty as lead multiplayer level designer and Richard Tsao as the multiplayer producer for the game. Auty and Tsao are tasked with developing a compelling multiplayer experience as innovative as the spectacularly deep single-player game. Far Cry is a first-person shooter set in a lush tropical paradise that sets out to bring the first-person shooter to an entirely new level of entertainment and technical excellence. The expansive plans to Far Cry?s unique multiplayer modes and lightning-fast online play have extended its development period to Q1 2004.

EA has released a demo for the anticipated next title in the Need for Speed series (#7). NFS Underground isn't about classic race cars like Ferrari and Porsche like the last games. This time round its hi-tech tuned Japanese cars out of The Fast & The Furious.
So find your bottle of NOS and buckle up for some serious street racing!

The demo is 220 MB and can be found here: 3D Gamers

WorthPlaying has a preview of Lock on: Modern Air Combat ready for your reading pleasure. They have some really pretty screen shots up, take a look. Eagle Dynamics should be lauded for taking the time to create a fantastic game in a genre that has been pushed to the back burner in today?s Sci-Fi and WWII-centered shooter craze. I?m impressed by what I?ve seen in the unfinished copy, and I can?t wait to see the finished product. Although flight sim fanatics will no doubt gobble up this game, it may be a little to in-depth for your average weekend warrior gamer.

Yes, Savage is already out but s2 games wants to beta test some add-ons for Savage, so if you're interested then head over to s2games and sign up. This first round of the new Savage beta test will include new units and structures, new network code, new upgrades, patches and enhancements. The developers are seeking experienced Savage players as well as those who have not yet tried out the game in order to compile a broad range of opinion and suggestions. Anyone who was in the previous beta test must register again.

Whether you think Halo's the best cross-platform FPS ever or just another fun fragfest, I'm betting you want to know how to maximise the game's performance. Well, your prayers have been answered as TweakTown's Koroush "PersianImmortal" Ghazi weighs in with the best and most complete tweak guide out there. Join him as he shows how to maximise your gaming experience!

Battle Field 1942 Mod: Galactic Conquest v1.5 ...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.

It is with great pride and pleasure that the Troopers Development Team, now operating under the name Kinetic Studios, is releasing it's second iteration of Troopers: Dawn of Destiny. With months upon months of brutally hard work going into the finest details of its creation, Troopers is a positively revolutionary modification. The bad news is this: we're a tad late. Okay, we're a lot late. Just like last time, actually, so I guess we can start calling it a habit -- albeit a bad one. But hey, it's out!

Yet another Halloween themed bonusmap has been released tonight, this time its EA with a map for both CC: Generals and the Zero Hour expansion pack. So if you really can't get enough of Halloween...

Quote: "Beware! Enter the Forgotten Forest at your own risk for you may never return! Graveyards, crypts and spooks inhabit this 2 player map brought straight to you from the ghouls & goblins on the C&C Generals team. Please have a hideously Happy Halloween!"

Download the map here.

Blizzard has released a bonus map for WC3: FT with a Halloween theme - just in time for the season.

Quote: "Take heed while you explore these eerie lands. You may find that the dead have a distinctly odd sense of humor. Is that the gleam of polished steel, or the glitter of gold? Trick... or treat?"

Download the pack here.

Gamespy has written a quite big preview of Bloodlines, the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade game from Activision. Bloodlines is a first person RPG where you can choose from any of the 7 Camarilla clans from The World of Darkness. The preview includes a lot of story and pictures, so if you're into the WoD - I suggest you check it out.

Here's a quote:
I was born on July 31, 1915 to a family that ran a small, but successful junkyard. I began sculpting using scrap metal when I was 15, and had achieved some success in the art world by the time I was 30. I then attracted the notice of a stunning woman who offered to make me immortal if only I would produce beautiful art at her request. A rival of hers, Dennis Strangvyr, could not allow this and took me away from her. I didn't even know what he was until I felt the fangs sink into my neck that night in 1947. After that, I changed into the twisted thing I am today, a Nosferatu, a nightcrawler who sucks the blood of the living for sustenance and tries to remember what it was to be human.

Gamespy Preview

The BloodRayne 2 website has launched along with a press release on Yahoo. "The tremendous success and popularity of BloodRayne has secured a film deal and helped establish BloodRayne herself as one of today's most thrilling new game personalities," said Ken Gold, vice president of Marketing. "BloodRayne 2 improves upon the original game in all respects and will deliver a much bigger, more action-packed sequel that elevates the franchise to a whole new level."

You can nab the latest patch for Battlefield 1942 on EA's FTP server. You can get the upgrade patch from 3D Gamers and Gamer's Hell. The full patch is also available at 3D Gamers & Gamer's Hell and IGN. Good luck.

The date for the fourth game in the GTA series was confirmed today, at a technology conference in New York. According to several reports, Take-Two executive vice president Cindi Buckwalter informed attendees that GTA 4 will be released in the latter half of the fourth quarter 2004.

However, that was all that was revealed.
Name? Location? Online play/Multiplayer?. These questions were left unanswered.

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Atari today sent out a small release today confirming that the next installment in Epic games' Unreal Tournament shooter series will not be out this year.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is now expected to be released in February 2004.

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The 1.10 Patch is finally out and the only way to update it from 1.09 to 1.10 is using the build in updater in the game. This wont work at the moment because Battle.Net servers are totaly overloaded. I get a standalone updater from Blizzard for serving.
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Blizzard sent the news that the 1.10 patch for Diablo 2 is available via the in-game updater. Patch 1.10 for Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo* II Has Arrived! Yes, you're reading correctly, the day has finally come for the Diablo II 1.10 patch! This patch is our largest to date in terms of game changes and offers many new things for Diablo II players worldwide, including seasonal ladder characters, more-challenging gameplay, enhanced skills, new items, new anti-cheat measures, a new game-world event, and much much more! We'd like to thank the Diablo II 1.10 beta testers for helping us test the patch, and we'd like to thank everyone for their patience while the patch was completed. We hope you enjoy this special upgrade to Diablo II. Simply connect to Battle.net to download the patch (5.5MB). We will post the standalone version on our FTP site as soon as it's available. See you on Battle.net!

The Community map pack for Unreal Tournament 2003 has been released. There are several mirrors on the website in case you have trouble downloading the massive 142MB pack. The screen shots look absolutely beautiful. This compilation began as a small project. A few of the Unreal community's best level designers got together to release a small pack of their best work to the community. As the time went on, the project grew into something far more significant, with more and more of the best Unreal talent out there joining the team. The map count went from a small handful to a fully-fledged professional-level bonus pack.

Rockstar games have published 2 official bonus maps for their latest smash-hit game "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne".
The package weights 12mb and includes the following:

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Activision has released the Dawnville demo for Call of Duty in anticipation of the WWII themed title hitting store shelves this Thursday.
The continuation from the last demo for Call of Duty is available from http://www.callofduty.com.
After taking over the village of St. Mere Eglise in France, it's your duty to hold the town against invading Germans.

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The second demo of the next instalment in the popular "Worms" series is ready, this time moving the game to full 3D. The players will have enough to handle with a new vector to take into consideration, making the game even more challenging and fun.

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