EA and DICE have announced that Battlefield 1943 will be released July 8 on Xbox Live Arcade then July 9 on the PlayStation Network, priced at $15 (1200 Microsoft Points). A PC release is due in September 2009.
Battlefield 1943 is a critically-acclaimed First-Person Shooter (FPS) multiplayer game that puts players in the middle of a dogfight on land, sea or in the skies. The game introduces two thrilling new modes that can be played across four classic Battlefield tropical WWII maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are inspired by the award winning Battlefield 1942 game, but have been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE destructible Frostbite™ engine which takes down walls, blockades and cover spots, leaving players with almost nowhere to hide. The game delivers endless hours of social online gameplay – an extraordinary
Blizzard senior VP Rob Pardo has confirmed that the company's upcoming RTS sequel StarCraft II will not feature LAN multiplayer support. The only multiplayer available will be on Battle.net.
IncGamers also got a clarification from Blizzard, shortly after the interview, saying the choice of excluding a LAN feature "is because of the planned technology to be incorporated into Battle.net," a topic they will reveal more about at a later date.
The original StarCraft gained popularity largely because of the easy LAN mode, used on massive LANs like Dreamhack or small personal networks between friends, so this is a surprising move by Blizzard.
Here's a new trailer for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, showing a few multiplayer features. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood hits PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on June 30.
It looks like Battlefield Heroes, the online only, free-to-play, web browser based Battlefield title, has officially gone live, without as much as a mention from Electronic Arts. Heroes lets you create a custom player, choose a side, and partake in the shooting of enemies and capturing of points. The only thing gamers pay for, are the optional in-game items and bonuses that players can utilize. $5 (USD) purchases 700 "Battlefunds" that can be put towards new clothing options for your character or special items that allow you to rack up Valor Points faster. Valor Points can be thought of as experience that is used to level up your character.
As promised, here's the playable demo for Bohemia Interactive's battlefield simulator ArmA 2. The whopping 2.84GB download offers one campaign mission, a multiplayer map with three game modes, the 'boot camp' tutorials, and oodles of weapons and vehicles. Already released in Europe, ArmA 2 will arrive in North America through Steam on Friday, then hit retail shelves on July 7 courtesy of publisher Got Game Entertainment.
The fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus provides the location for all the action in ArmA II and gamers will have the opportunity to explore its highland area in the demo version, along with the small Chernarussian island of Utes. More specifically, the 'boot camp' missions are all available which act as tutorials for the
Some of you have no doubt heard of this offer before, but many out there may not have--or they may have thought it was over. Well, it almost is.
UK students who want to get their hands on a legit, full copy of Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for less than £40 have until midnight (GMT) on 30 June 2009 to take advantage of Microsoft's long-running "Ultimate Steal" promotion. Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 contains Access, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Publisher and Word.
NVIDIA ForceWare software unleashes the full power and features in NVIDIA's desktop, gaming, platform, workstation, laptop, multimedia, and mobile products. Delivering a proven record of compatibility, reliability, and stability with the widest range of games and applications, ForceWare software ensures the best experience with your NVIDIA hardware.
New in Release 186.18:
•Numerous bug fixes. More information can be found in the release documentation.
•Installs the new PhysX System Software version 9.09.0428.
•Users without US English operating systems can select their language and download the International driver here.
New in Release 185/186 drivers:
•Adds support for Ambient Occlusion – the newest NVIDIA Control Panel feature to offer enhanced 3D gaming realism exclusively to GeForce GPUs.
•Adds support for CUDA 2.2 for improved performance in GPU Computing applications. See CUDA for more details.
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