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xx Ubisoft drops hardcore shooters
March 19, 2008, 03:57:53 PM by farmboy in Gaming News
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51814
Stating that "The market was too narrow for it to be a viable business choice," Ubisoft has backed out of the tactical shooter genre, effectively ending the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon series of games.
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xx Nvidia confirms PhysX hardware dies
March 10, 2008, 07:56:33 PM by Wolfsong in General News
It's been a little over a month since Nvidia bought AGEIA Technologies... And what we've all known for a long time has now finally come to happen. No more physics cards.

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The physics card as a hardware device will die. Nvidia spokespersons were very precise about that as they said that the current PhysX cards will be the first and the last of their kind.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6157&Itemid=1
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xx GRAW2 Extended Mod
February 24, 2008, 11:15:33 AM by Wolfsong in Gaming News
This is the title of my little mod project for GRAW2. I've had a few different topics on this, but figured it would be best to gather it all up into one and will keep posting in this one.

The mod will change some things around to say the least. It will also try and add or tweak minor features that the community has asked for.

Among other things it includes:
- Increased draw distance from 150 to 300 meters and adjusted AI for it
http://www.theplatoon.com/forum/modding-general/increasing-draw-distance/0/
- New MP classes and kits
http://www.theplatoon.com/forum/modding-general/graw2-custom-classes-and-kits/0/
- Adjusted SP kits and class restrictions
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xx GRAW2 PC 1.05 patch
February 13, 2008, 08:52:16 PM by Wolfsong in Gaming News
http://patches.ubi.com/ghost_recon_advanced_warfighter_2/

Change notes:
- New speedhack check.
- Improved Anti-Cheat system.
- Added server log file.
- Open the console with a command in the chat:
( /open or /console ). Close it again with /close.
- Screenshot bug fixed.
- TDM tagging issues fixed.
- Playernames now visible in server info window
- Added a punish_suicide option to the server_settings.xml file.
- Fixed the mounted gun so it will be counted in the statistics.
- Added Night vision to the mounted gun.
- Objective markers properly removed now in Coop.
- Fixed some ordering issues in Campaign Coop.
- help_server_settings.txt added to settings directory.
- Several tweaks and bugfixes.
- 2 New weapons added, M240 Machinegun and M1014 Shotgun.
- 3 levels reworked for Multiplayer: 1 comment | Write Comment

xx GRAW2 PC patch 1.05 announced
February 08, 2008, 08:02:55 PM by Wolfsong in Gaming News
The 1.05 patch for GRAW2 will be out on Wednesday Feb 13th.

From a couple of different sources the patch includes:

New weapons:
M240
M1041

New MP maps (SP maps converted to MP):
- M01 (Sierra) : DM, TDM, RvsA
- M03 (Industry) : DM, HH, S, RvsA
- M04 (Retrieve) : Coop
- M08 (Dominion) : DM, TDM, RvsA

Loads of code fixes, among others:
- Anti cheat has been polished.
- Updates for the auto screenshot functionality.
- Accuracy bonus when using scopes or iron sights has been altered. Incl M99 fixes. (There was a bug before where you almost instantly got your accuracy increased when scoping with the m99. The way this was applied has been changed and affects all other weapons as well.)
- Game event logging.
- Mission script spawned weapons ( like RPG's in certain SP missions ) will no longer des...
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xx Video Game Tax Proposal By Senator Erpenbach
December 31, 2007, 11:07:02 PM by shiver in Gaming News
Madison (WI) - A Senator from Wisconsin wants to mandate an extra tax on video games because he claims they are linked to juvenile crime.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/31/senator_wants_tax_on_video_games/

Sen.Erpenbach@legis.wi.gov

Personally, I'd like to see a 1% Tax on everything Senator Erpenbach buys.
It could be called the Moron Tax.  Thumbs up
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xx New Grin Office
December 15, 2007, 10:22:38 AM by Wolfsong in General News
http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=48345&mode=thread&order=0

Grin is expanding once again with a new office in Gothenburg, Sweden. this will be another development studio next to Stockholm and Barcelona. Jakarta will still be a dedicated QA studio.

The news link above has one error in it though as there is no Grin studio in Japan. Tongue We are working with Capcom but are not really big enough to buy them out.... yet.  cool

Starting of the new Gothenburg studio are old DICE employees which stayed in Gothenburg when DICE moved everything to Stockholm.
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xx Blizzard's New MMO
December 14, 2007, 01:24:07 PM by Fixxxer in Gaming News
Blizzard confirms new MMOG

Community representative says recent job listings are for massively multiplayer online game unrelated to megahit World of Warcraft.

By Tom Magrino, GameSpot
Posted Dec 12, 2007 10:35 am PT

It's been assumed for quite some time that Blizzard Entertainment is working on a new massively multiplayer online game. In April, Blizzard indicated a "next-gen MMO" was in the works by way of job listings on its official Web site. Playing coy, however, the World of Warcraft developer simply noted that it had a number of unannounced projects under its awnings, but no official confirmation of a new title would be forthcoming.

At this year's Austin Game Developer's Conference, Blizzard CEO...
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xx Just caught wind of this here
December 04, 2007, 03:05:20 AM by FritzDaKat in Gaming News
http://www.codemasters.com/turningpoint/index.php?territory=EnglishUSA#/home/

Alternate history ww2 stuff always gets my attention, and it's from codemasters to boot.   Thumbs up

***Sit's quietly & waits for a demo release.***
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xx Blizzard and Activision to merge
December 02, 2007, 08:08:03 PM by farmboy in General News
"VIVENDI AND ACTIVISION TO CREATE ACTIVISION BLIZZARD – WORLD'S LARGEST, MOST PROFITABLE PURE-PLAY VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER

The combination brings Activision's best-selling video games, including Guitar Hero®, Call of Duty®, and Tony Hawk, together with Vivendi Games' portfolio of leading franchises, including Crash Bandicoot™ and Spyro™, and Blizzard Entertainment's® StarCraft®, Diablo® and global #1 subscription-based World Of Warcraft"
Blizzard's press release
Blizzard's FAQ
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