Ummm, the PES 2008 demo is out, one of the bigger PC demo releases this year with 12,000 downloads from GamersHell in 2 hours and probably beating the FIFA demo in every department.
Not just that it is a great and popular title, but the demo alone also weighs 1.1 GB. Needless to say that most servers are crowded right now... The game is supposed to be multilanguage so you can download it from
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Attached is a series of live gameplay video footage of Valve's HalfLife Episode 2. Doesn't look very spectacular so far, but nice explosion effects as usual. As with the previous parts, it's probably the storyline which saves the game anyways.
Gameplay footage @ GamesConvention 2006 - Cam rip:
http://rapidshare.de/files/30599879/halflife2_episode2_allvids.wmv
And even more Valve...
Portal game
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FEAR Combat is out now and web servers all over the world are choking to deliver the 1.8GB game (full version!) to the gamers.
To play, all you need is a free CD-key from www.joinfear.com and of course the game itself.
Here are a couple of file mirrors:
http://gamershell.com/download_15038.shtml (GamersHell)
http://files.filefront.com/fearcombat+en+107/;5417181;;/fileinfo.html (FileFront)
http://
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In some cases, it's the idea which makes a game. Something along the lines of Spore - or this title, "Drawn to be Alive".
The game is actually an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod and is being developed by French design school students as a school project. It's due in October 2006.
From what you can see so far, the gameplay is about being a 2D cartoon character who is deployed in a 3D world. Your
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
25.7. - The first screenshots of NBA Live 07 (EA Sports) on XBox 360
This is probably as close to photorealistic as it gets on the 360. You can see the players' sweating, detailed reflections on skin and muscles as well ass realistic blurs in the background. If they get around and make the player faces more dynamic, it will become shockingly real.
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Nurburgring Nordschleife GTR2 add-on track
We don't have to wait until September to floor the pedal for some immerse action on the Nurburgring Norschleife. The green hell can now be installed as an add-on track for the GTR2 demo!
GTR2 Nordschleife "Brakesman Edition"
Download link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/26628274/NS_Brakesman_GTR2.rar.html - Rapidshare mirror
Basically, you can use any GT
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Disable the ghost car in GTR 2 demo
The GTR2 demo seems fine, except for the fact that the ghost car in time trial mode gets on my nerves. Plus, there is no way to disable it via the GTR menu.
To deactivate your ghost car and make it disappear, you have to edit your player configuration file which is located in your GTR2 directory (GTR2demo/UserData/profilename/profilename.plr).
Use a text
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
SubSpace is apparently an underground game now. Not that it was added to the Home of the Underdogs, but it has lost virtually every public existence on the web.
During the past years, there were two big SubSpace sites which held the name of the game up: SubSpace.net and SubSpaceHQ.com.
SubSpace.net was lost (expired?) some time ago but there was still SubSpaceHQ.
Not anymore.
SubSpaceHQ was
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Thirty titles that could keep the cash tills ringing through the long hot months - Well, not really. Who's playing in summer, especially such a hot one as this?
Most of these titles are to be released in autumn. Makes sense from a sales point of view.
Anyway, some promising titles in the next months once again. My peek list:
Neverwinter Nights 2, THE role playing game for PC finally receives
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
MMOGCHART.com says WoW is now sitting at 50 percent market share and rising. The market? Massively multiplayer games.
Already in 2004 it was pretty clear that WoW would become the most successful MMORPG ever. "Genre gurus" didn't see the game matching its hype and predicted the WoW hype to fade out soon enough. Now, 2 years later, the number of subscriptions is still rising.
Where are these
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Game charts of the last week of 2005
1. Quake 4, Activision
In a desperate war for Earth's survival, against an unrelenting alien
enemy, the only way to defeat them is to become one of them. Armed with
advanced weaponry and vehicles and aided by an elite squad of marines,
you take the battle to the heart of the Strogg home planet and become
Earth's only hope for victory.
2. Call of Duty 2,
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Ghost car mod for Live for Speed
The best online racing simulator on the net, Live for Speed, finally has had a ghost mod added which allows you to see a ghost car with you on track as you practice (alone).
It uses the InSim interface to communicate with the game and always records the fastest lap as your ghost by default, including all split times.
The green/yellow/red lines show whether the
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
3 racing games in the top10 demo downloads ranking this week, this does look promising.
Need For Speed: Most Wanted, ToCa Race Driver 3 (2006), TrackMania Sunrise Extreme, World Racing 2... what else can you ask for?
I tried Most Wanted and Sunrise Extreme so far, so here is a little personal review:
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Big glitches on the physics side of the game. Not as bad as
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Warcraft 3 : "Tower rush unleashed" replay
My first non-custom game of Warcraft 3 after what? - 2 years maybe - turned out to be a great noob vs. noob shootout.
In the left corner, there I am. I never really enjoyed the regular warcraft3 battle.net games and installed WC3 again just to watch the Blizzcon Invitational final (Grubby vs. Zacard) via WaaaghTV but going online again, choosing Orc
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Quake 4 autoexec.cfg config
Traditionally, deathmatch shooters have a strange characteristic: They set new standards in the graphics department regularly, yet you have to disable most of the details if you want to play on a more advanced level. Basically, there is no chance to play Quake4 competitively without a good config file.
You can use the below autoexec.cfg file as a start. Q4 does not
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Here it is, the best week so far in terms of game releases!
We have the "non-tactical" duel of the first person shooters FEAR and Quake4 which is most likely to become the new multiplayer deathmatch reference as online and offline esport leagues will pick up this title and drop Painkiller which nobody really liked or played anyway. Thus 6 years after the last Quake title we have a new gory
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
EGFL 2005: The grand final
Summer is gone and the EGFL 2005 finals are here. Last year's champion Blood will fight it out against OurFreedom, a squad which recently formed and is a 1:4 underdog to Blood if we can believe EG forum predictions.Blood surprised everybody by shutting up Silence, making them dissolve after Blood won both semi final games in the best-of-3 series in less than 1 hour
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
How to legally play World of Warcraft for free...
So it looks like we found a flaw in Blizzard's charging.
A guild mate and me cancelled our WoW subscribtions some time ago and they both expired around the end of last month.
Now, we can still play for free on the official servers for the new patch as the test realms don't seem to be connected to the main billing center of World of Warcraft. The
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
World of Warcraft becomes largest MMORPG in the world
After the successful launch of World of Warcraft in China, reaching 1.5million subscribers within only 1 month, WoW is now officially the biggest MMORPG out there.
The previous record holder, Lineage 2, has lost a part of its market share to the Blizzard game.
That being said, the european WoW servers are much less packed with players these
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
The ESL, as the biggest german and european esports league, is once again hosting a Live for Speed league. There will be 4 big grids of 20 starters each this time. This is the standing of the hotlap qualification 19 hours before the deadline:
oh and if anybody can tell me why this table does not align at all in IE6, I'd be grateful ;)
1.
ocr . ATI * Rudi Reinkort
2:13.050
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World of Warcraft 1.60 patch available for download
Yesterday Blizzard patched the EU versions of their MMORPG up to version 1.60.
It supposedly fixes some character related bugs and was intended to be specifically a fix for Hunters and Warlocks. Also, the talent trees of Warlocks and Warriors were changed so all players using these chars get all their talent points back and can redistribute
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
List of all announced Xbox 360 games (Standing: June 3rd, 2005)
2 Days to Vegas (Third-person action adventure)
Alan Wake (Action thriller in the American Northwest)
Amped 3 (Sports - Snowboarding game)
Battle Angel (Cinematic game based on Anime series)
Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Tactical first-person / Online multiplayer shooter)
Blue Dragon (RPG by the Crono Trigger dev team)
Burnout
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Chew Crew surprisingly wins EGDL 3
Chewbot's EGDL team, the big time underdog of this year's draft league, takes the win in 2 games lasting over 2 hours together.
One might argue that Annihilate, Knitex's team, didn't have a chance because they were missing some players but the Chew Crew took a hit as well with Orc, Element Sun, Lammy and other starters missing in both games.
CC entered the
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) E3 Footage
Of all hot games shown at E3, the upcoming GT for Sony's superconsole Playstation 3 which will be in the stores next spring was one of the greatest previews by far.
Gran Turismo 5 - Working title "Vision Gran Turismo" - is a polished up GT4 which makes up for the fuzzy picture quality of the fourth part. The amazing details of Vision Gran Turismo will make it the
Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:40:07 PST
Top 500 all-time reccers in Extreme Games
List of flawless EG pilots:
1) bitch (2000 - 0)
2) 0 p t i x (1815 - 0)
3) prometheus x (1460 - 0)
4) c0ught (1268 - 0)
5) obsti (1214 - 0)
6) baloola (1153 - 0)
7) g.! (1104 - 0)
8) high impulses (1089 - 0)
9) duel (1050 - 0)
10) twx (1009 - 0)
11) cought+ (1003 - 0)
12) evangelion-00 (1000 - 0)
13) hydro7 (1000 - 0)
14) evangelion-00 (890 - 0)
15)
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