Filed Under (Half-Life 2) by NightCrawler on 31-01-2008
During Electronic Arts’ financial conference call today, company execs stated that they plan to release all of the new games in Valve’s Orange Box collection (Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) as separate retail games for the PC. The three games will ship to stores for the PC sometime before the end of March; no prices for the games were announced. Of course, Steam owners can already pay and download those three games as separate products.
Filed Under (Call of Duty 4) by NightCrawler on 26-01-2008
Fix for shader_bin error in CoD4Radiant and CoD4EffectsEd
A hot fix has been released for the English version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Mod Tools, a package which allows you to create modifications for this popular first person sequel developed by Infinity Ward. Note that CoD4 Mod Tools requires your video drivers and DirectX to be up to date. For certain applications to work correctly a DX9 video card is required, even though the game itself will run on a DX8 video card. The CoD4 Mod Tools do not work in Windows Vista, although some users have reported some success running them in Windows XP Compatibility Mode. {Thanks! GamersHell!}
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Filed Under (Call of Duty 4) by NightCrawler on 25-01-2008
Blizzardvision announced that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty 4 was the best overall selling game of 2007.
“We’re very excited about this achievement especially given so many competitive titles this year,” said Will Kassoy, senior vice president, global brand management, Activision Publishing, Inc. “Consumer and critics agree that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is one of the best games ever created and further establishes Call of Duty as one of the premier brands in the industry. This ground-breaking game and franchise continue to establish new standards by which all other action games will be judged.”
While Call of Duty 4 earned top multiplatform honors, Halo 3 finished as the best selling exclusive game with more than 4.8 million copies sold to Xbox 360 owners. Wii Play followed with 4.1 million copies.
The combined SKUs sold in excess of seven million units since November.
Filed Under (Call of Duty 4) by NightCrawler on 22-01-2008
COD4 swoops in and takes the crown for last week’s most played Live game
Halo has dominated Xbox Live since Halo 2 hit Xbox, even topping the 360’s online gaming lists (until Gears of War), but the third game’s domination of Microsoft’s online servers has been put on hold by Activision.
Last week, (beginning Jan 14), Call of Duty 4 managed to knock Halo 3 off the top spot on the list of most played Xbox Live games.
Master Chief was forced to settle for second place, with Guitar Hero III (another Activision title) coming in third, and Gears of War in an ever solid fourth.
By Mike Jackson, CVG UK
Filed Under (Battlefield Series) by NightCrawler on 21-01-2008
EA and DICE to gift multiplayer game this summer.
EA today announced that Battlefield Heroes, a cartoon-style addition to the popular multiplayer-led series, will be available for free download on PC this summer.
Swedish developer DICE - previously responsible for Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 and the forthcoming free-running FPS Mirror’s Edge - is in charge of the game and looks to have taken its cues from the hugely successful Team Fortress 2 with the cartoon approach. And while Battlefield Heroes is not quite the rumoured Battlefield 3, it does give PC gamers something to chew on while Xbox 360 and PS3 users get to enjoy the splendours of Battlefield: Bad Company. And all in all that’s a lot of Battlefield.
IGN will have more details here as they come in.
by Martin Robinson, IGN UK {Thanks! IGN!}
