Gamer's Hell reports that Electronic Arts has released a third patch for Need for Speed Underground, the recent urban racing game by EA Black Box. The patch improves cheat detection functionality, fixes some hardware issues, fixes UG Mode Completion, fixes various stability issues, and more

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Just spotted this bit of Info over at Guru 3D for Half-Life 2 Valve's upcoming shooter!

I expected April; according to a forum member a source at ATI leaked the release date of HL2 as the 24th feb 2004, this came about as ATI wanted to pin down valve for the date so they know when they can package there high end cards with the game. Green-Pilgrim from our forums got the info from SKY'S Gamesville programme and there not normally wrong with there PC news..

TweakTown have snagged 6 Half-Life 2 Screenshots showing off in-game action from Valve's upcoming shooter!

While on the subject of the game, I just had a whole bunch of new Half Life II screenshots sent to my inbox from an anonymous source. The screenshots are from the demo dated October 7 2003, "Chosen 9" release.

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Independently developed online racing simulator Live for Speed has a new demo out: vS1E.

We have added a new car to a special Christmas version of S1! It's called the MRT5 and is our first real car in LFS - thanks to McGill Racing Team! .

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The playable demo for SpellForce - the Order of Dawn is now available, offering an opportunity to try out this 3D role-playing strategy game by Phenomic Game Development. Word is the massive download includes the tutorial, one single player map Rift and a two-player multiplayer map Ashvale.

The playable demo of Massive Assault is now out, allowing you to try out the recent 3D turn-based strategy game by Wargaming.net. This demo includes: 5 Training Missions, 3 Scenarios, 4 Epic Replays, and the World War on One Planet mode.

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3D Gamers is now participating in an alliance of gaming websites around the world that have agreed not to host any exclusive demos anymore, even after they eventually become public.

Eidos today announced Hitman 3: Contracts is being developed by Io Interactive and will be available for PlayStation 2, the Xbox and the PC in spring 2004.

Hitman: Contracts takes you into the mind of Agent 47, the most ruthlessly efficient contract killer in history. The game begins in Paris as Agent 47 finds himself wounded and trapped in what is a dangerous situation, even for him. Hitman: Contracts explores the dark psychology of killing for a living and promises to be the darkest, most disturbing episode in the series.

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Computer And Video Games have snagged a trio of new Half-Life 2 Screenshots showing off in-game action from Valve's upcoming shooter.

Ubisoft released the promised Rainbow Six 3 : Raven Shield 1.5 patch December 9th, but they failed to mention their new copy protection scheme. It turns out that Ubisoft implented code into the RVS 1.5 patch which checks PCs for ANY clone or virtual drive programs and then fails to launch the game if such devices or programs are found. What this has in turn done is disabled thousands of consumers who use programs like Daemon Tools, CloneCD or Alcohol 120% from playing their Ubisoft games even if they have their own physical cds in an actual drive. More at EvilAvatar.

Blue's news reports that an Armed & Dangerous Demo is now available from FilePlanet (registration required) as one of their exclusive dealies for registered users. The demo is a 172 MB download, and to install and ruin the demo you will need a unique key generated during the download. As is the case with these exclusives, the file will be made available to the general public at some point down the road.

Eidos has issued the first patch for Deus Ex: Invisible War, updating the futuristic first-person action RPG by ION Storm to version 1.1. This release offers a dozen performance, control/interface, gameplay and other improvements as listed in the patch documentation.

The Matrix Online.com has released some screenshots today of its online MMORPG game. To see them go to their screenshots section. Besides DOOM3, I think this is the most anticipated game release awaited by game lovers all over the world, but since its a online game, only people with decent (read high) broadband connection will be able to enjoy it to the fullest.

3D Gamer's reports that Raven Software has issued a bonus map pack for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, expanding their recent sci-fi 3D action game. This pack sports half a dozen new multiplayer maps, distributed across one Duel map, one CTF map and four Free-For-All maps.

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