Quake Wars Dated


At the ongoing Quake Con 2007, id software finally announced the release date of Splash Damage’s much anticipated FPS, Enemy Territories: Quake Wars. The game will hit American shores by the 2nd of October while European gamers will have their shot at the game by the 28th of September.
No mention was made about the Xbox 360 or PS3 ports so console gamers will just have to patiently wait for a while.

Hellgate: London Dated

After years of teasing eager gamers all over with CG as well as in-game videos, EA and Namco Bandai have finally announced a concrete release date for their first person action RPG, Hellgate: London. The game’s been in development for quite some time now and till a while back a lot of us started considering this title to be nothing more than vaporware but the newly announced release dates prove us wrong... thankfully!

Get ready to hack, slash, and shoot your way through a demon-infested London this Halloween! Electronic Arts Inc. and NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced that Hellgate: London, the premier title from Flagship Studios, will start hitting retail stores in North America on October 31, 2007 and in Europe on November 2, 2007 for the PC. "We wanted to hit the sweet-spot for release in terms of the development schedule and delivering the highest-quality game to our players," said Bill Roper, CEO of Flagship Studios. "Halloween was the perfect fit as it ensures that Hellgate: London will have an appropriate amount of beta testing, while also being an incredibly fun time to unleash the game."

id Software Gets Steam

At the Quake Con 2007 that’s currently taking place in Dallas, Texas, John Carmack, head honcho of id Software announced a collaboration with Steam that would enable them to sell their extensive catalog of shooter via Valve’s digital service. Here’s an extensive list of all the id stuff available on Steam:

  • Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
  • Wolfenstein 3D
  • Spear of Destiny
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  • Ultimate DOOM
  • DOOM II
  • Final DOOM
  • DOOM3
  • DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
  • QUAKE
  • QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
  • QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
  • QUAKE II
  • QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
  • QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
  • QUAKE III Arena
  • QUAKE III: Team Arena
  • Heretic
  • Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
  • HeXen
  • HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
  • HeXen II

World of Warcraft Expansion Announced

World of Warcrack addicts to freeze our asses off in the snowy region of Northrend. That’s right, the next expansion is called World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King ( official site). Here's a little on what the game will feature:

• Death Knight Hero Class: Create a high-level Death Knight character -- the game's first hero class -- once certain challenges have been met.
• Increased Level Cap: Advance to level 80 and gain potent new talents and abilities along the way.
• Northrend: Explore the harsh new continent of Northrend, packed with new zones, quests, dungeons, monsters, and items -- and do battle with the undead armies of the Lich King.
• "Inscription" Profession: Learn this exciting new profession and gain unique ways to permanently enhance spells and abilities in the game.
• Siege Weapons and Destructible Buildings: Take the battle to another level with new player-vs.-player game mechanics and new battlefields to wage war on.
• New Character Customization: Change how characters look and express themselves, with different hairstyles and dance animations.
I dunno about you guys, but I was pretty disappointed with this announcement; I didn’t expect them to bring Arthas into WoW anytime soon, since he’s such a huge figure in the game’s storyline. Oh well, looks like they want to wrap up most of the old antagonists (Rest in peace Illidan) to make way for new ones – for all you know they’re growing weary of the same franchises and want to start something new. I was hoping to see another RTS based in the Warcraft world revolving around Northrend, but by the looks of it I doubt that’ll happen.

Crysis Dated... Sort of

The coming months are probably going to make every gamer on the block a broke bloke (dare ya to say that fast) and to make matters worse, Electronic Arts have decided to release Crytek’s much awaited tropical shooter during the month of November as well, which means you not only have to make sure you have the dough to pick up the game but you have a powerful rig to run the game in all its graphical glory as well.

Supreme Commander

Supreme Commander (SupCom) was supposed to tread on completely uncharted territory with its epic scaled battles and unique design. Under Chris Taylor's expert supervision, we've hoped for another title as brilliant as his last brainchild—Total Annihilation, which by the way is regarded as one of the best RTSes of all time by many. So did this game really deliver? To make up our mind, let's take a look at what we expected from the game, and what we experienced.
Just as expected, the game boasts of some really massive battlegrounds, which stretch over miles. The enormity the game claimed (and has) was the key, and make or break factor of the game, since it could either ruin, or enhance the gameplay depending on how it translated into the single and multiplayer modes. In this case, it's a bit of both. When they said that the maps would be huge, they really meant it! The maps are large enough to make you feel like you're part of a full scaled war, rather than tiny skirmishes. But traversing these huge maps can be rather cumbersome at times. Although the units are pretty large themselves, they're really tiny compared to the size of the game's maps, and it can take them what seems like eons to get from one corner to another. I'm not exaggerating—the powerful (and slower) units LITERALLY CRAWL like an infant with only one leg and no hands.

Supreme Commander Patch

A new patch for Supreme Commander is out, that’ll update the real-time strategy game to version 1.1.3260. Apart from the bug fixes (that are mentioned below), there’ll be three new units to play around with, one for each faction, namely the UEF T2 Bomber, Aeon Guided Missile and the Cybran T2 Bomber.
Requirements : Win (All)
License : Freeware
F
ile size : 0MB






Patch Notes:
New units

- UEF T2 Bomber
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Aeon Guided Missile
- Cybran T2 Bomber
Bug fixes and other changes:
- F
ixed an issue with Ferry Beacon guarding
- Visual tweaks to UEF shield effect
- Horde AI will now utilize T3 land units
- Performance improved when showing waypoint lines
- Fixed crash bug associated with air units refueling/repairing on air staging platforms
- Air superiority has been retuned across all three factions.