Far Cry 2 Arrives October 24 in Europe By: HoriZon on the 05 September 2008 - 18:07 | |
Ubisoft Montreal's open-world shooter sequel Far Cry 2 (PC, PS3, 360) will hit European retailers on Friday, October 24, the company announced today.
The publisher has yet to specify an exact North American release date, though it has previously stated that the sequel to Crytek's Far Cry will arrive in North America this fall.
[A little later!] Pre-order the Far Cry 2 Collectors’ Edition
today! I for one am wet with excitement !!!! :)
Core site updated! By: HoriZon on the 29 August 2008 - 12:02 | |
The site has been updated to the latest core database, no new features just bug fixes all should be well if not let me know!
I have also removed the "Quick reply" from the forum as I didn't like it and prefer people to have all the BBCODE options, also added an IMPORTANT message box for posting!
Left 4 Dead Delayed By: HoriZon on the 25 August 2008 - 19:58 | |
The release of Valve's cooperative zombie shooter Left 4 Dead has been postponed until November 20, company president Gabe Newell revealed.
"Left 4 Dead is going to be released on the tenth anniversary of Half-Life, our first game," said Newell. "That will be on November 20th, the third week in November"
The game had previously been slated to hit PC and Xbox 360 on November 7. No reason was provided for the brief delay, though the crowded fall season and Gears of War 2 (X360) arrives November 7.
[31 August 2008] Left 4 Dead interview with Valve's Chet Faliszek on the Xbox 360 Version over at
Shacknews.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo Released By: HoriZon on the 21 August 2008 - 19:04 | |
Now available from the Xbox Live Marketplace in all Live regions is a demo for
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. A 905mb download, the demo includes a tutorial for using the Force Grip power, and a level set in a TIE Fighter construction facility. The demo is also slated for release through the PlayStation Network soon.
The retail version of LucasArts' action-adventure game where you play a secret apprentice of Darth Vader will be released September 19 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PSP, and Nintendo DS.
Source: Shacknews Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update Released By: HoriZon on the 19 August 2008 - 23:01 | |
The
new update features three unlockable weapons and thirty-five all new achievements for the Heavy. In addition you get a whole new game mode, we will also be treated to 5 new maps supporting this new mode, 3 of which are the familiar Badlands, Well and Granary which have been 'extensively reworked'. The other two are brand new maps, Lumberyard and Ravine. Furthermore there is a new Payload map which will have more open spaces than Goldrush, and if that is not enough there is a Control Point community map called Steel, and that's about it!!!!
Added 3 Heavy unlockables:
- Natascha, The Sandvich, The Killing Gloves of Boxing
- Added 35 new Heavy achievements
Added Arena game mode:
- 5 arenas: Lumberyard, Ravine, Well, Granary, Badlands
Added 2 new maps:
- Badwater Basin, a new payload map
- Added cp_steel, a community map by Jamie "Fishbus" Manson
Changes/Additions:
- Added server map timeleft to upper right of scoreboard
- Added new firing sounds to The Backburner
- Removed the Custom Tab in the serverbrowser, and added the Tags field to the base Internet Tab
- Increased The Kritzkrieg's uber-charge rate bonus from 10% to 25%
- 32 player servers can now support an extra slot of SourceTV
- Made the freezecam item panel description easier to read
- Players now broadcast whether they chose a team directly or use autoteam
- Added proper handling of cart blocking recognition to Payload maps
Bug fixes:
- Fixed bug where switching from flaregun-wielding Pyro to another class meant you didn't get a full ammo loadout on first spawn
- Fixed Spy watch arm not using team skins
- Fixed weapon switching preventing you from using secondary attacks for a 0.2s window after the primary became available
- Fixed players getting stuck in a bad animation state when class switching while spinning the minigun
- Fixed a loophole that allowed players to pickup weapons of other classes
- Fixed a bug that resulted in players earning more crit chance bonus in large, single damage events than they are supposed to
- Fixed an issue with the floating HUD +X health indicators that resulted in them appearing incorrectly
- Fixed a bug which caused the minigun spinning & firing sounds to occasionally stop while the Heavy was still firing
- Fixes the Loadout player model panel causing the in-game player facial animation to perform incorrectly
- Fixed spectators not having the target ID labels display correctly
- Fixed the cart alarm sound occasionally getting stuck on in Payload maps
The short film,
Meet the Sandvich is available on Steam and as always you can grab this new update by just restarting Steam.
Far Cry 2 Trailer By: HoriZon on the 17 August 2008 - 19:17 | |
In what must be one of the best trailers for any game is this new Far Cry 2 one called "Jackal!" I for one thinks its fucking brilliant just hope the game equals it!
You can view it by hitting the link below!
Read more... Small update to news area By: HoriZon on the 15 August 2008 - 17:16 | |
Just a small update to links from the news page for videos and external screenshots each will now have an icon to tell you what its linking to eg:
video link or
screenshot link.
Just to make it a bit easier to see what is what etc, I have gone through all the news and added the relevant icon where needed!
Also found a few spelling mistakes I have made over the last year :)
Spore Goes Gold, Arriving September By: HoriZon on the 14 August 2008 - 18:44 | |
Following years of delays and setbacks, publisher EA today confirmed that EA Maxis' ambitious life simulator
Spore has gone gold and is now in the manufacturing process.
The PC and Mac release is slated to hit North American retailers on September 7, with a slightly less ambitious Nintendo DS version, titled Spore Creatures, arriving the same day. The iPhone version, dubbed Spore Origins, arrives September 4.
The studio has previously released surprisingly low system requirements for the title, with a free creature creator currently available for PC and Mac users to download.
What is Spore about?Archived News - Overview of more topics
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