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?"

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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.

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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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MTA:VC, the Vice City version of Multi Theft Auto has reached version 0.2.2.
This modification allows you to play multiplayer games with your friends in GTA:Vice City, building on the un-used network code in the GTA games.
New in this version is "Stunt mode" and several crash fixes.
Get the mod at www.mtavc.com

Note this software is unofficial and not supported by R*

Ubisoft has released a demo for Lexis Numerique's upcoming mystery/adventure game In Memoriam. A unique investigation experience to track a serial killer. Reality and fiction are blurred in this movie style thriller game. Enter the game of a serial killer using e-mail, the internet and movie footage to solve his puzzles in a dark and thrilling environment.

The multiplayer public demo for Contract J.A.C.K. consists of four different gameplay modes (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Doomsday, and Demolition) on 2 levels.

Gamer's Hell reports that a bit earlier than expected, a playable demo for Pro Evolution Soccer 3 is now available for download, allowing you to try out this imminent football sequel by Konami. This multilinguage demo.

Konami has released a playable demo for Silent Hill 3, allowing you to try out this imminent PC conversion of the third title in the popular horror series. The massive demo lets you play a good portion from the full game.

Buka has issued a playable demo of Midnight Nowhere, the third-person survival horror adventure by Saturn+ that was already released a year ago in Russia. This demo allows you to try 'episode' 24 (set in a Morgue) of the full game, and while the voices are in Russian the demo includes English subtitles to help you make sense of it all.

3D Gamers reports that a playable demo of Apocalyptica has been released, allowing you to try out this imminent third-person action game by Extreme FX and Konami that's powered by their Evolution engine. This demo includes the first level from the full game, playable in a choice of two characters. The original file needlessly included a DirectX 8.1 distribution, so our copy is a 24 MB smaller download by removing that (simply select 'No' when prompted to install it).

A new movie trailer for Final Fantasy XI has been released, showing more from the imminent fantasy massively multiplayer online RPG by Square-Enix. This is the intro movie that introduces the game's premise in a whopping seven minutes of cinematic, high-res footage.