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Line Rider gets updates, allows for 2 simultaneous rides
Ever since Line Rider made its way onto the internet back in 2006 its been a huge success even seeing a retail release for the Wii and Nintendo DS, among other platforms.
Well, it seems that Sparkworkz hasn’t abandoned the Flash version completely as they have just updated the game to beta 3. This new version adds the ability to send 2 riders simultaneously down a user created track. Additionally, beta 3 adds a new line for deceleration and all new camera options.
Check it out here.
Heroes of the Fall content pack for Battlefield Heroes makes its debut
Battlefield Heroes is a completely free to play game so it was generally assumed that EA wouldn’t be putting much effort into release additional content for it. However, considering the game’s success EA has gone ahead and released the Heroes of the Fall content pack for the game.
The change list, included after the break, is quite long with some notable features being the all new Riverside Rush map, new items and a whole slew of bug fixes.
Plants vs. Zombies free online version
Plants vs. Zombies was, like many other PopCap games, has been a hit ever since it was released earlier this summer (read our Plants vs. Zombies review), and now the developer is offering the game to play for free on the official website. While it’s only a “trial” version, it still offers lots of play time, and you owe it to yourself to at least give it a go.
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Antic Entertainment emerges with Junk: Battles in tow
It seems that the guy who founded DICE, Fredrik Liljengren has moved onto bigger and better things with his latest game studio, Antic Entertainment. You may be familiar with DICE as the studio behind Battlefield: Bad Company and Battlefield: 1943.
Anyways, Antic Entertainment is to be a studio that specializes in free-to-play games with their first title being Junk: Battles. This browser based RTS will let players create their own ship and then duke it out against other players as they collect parts to upgrade said ship.
If you want to read more about Junk: Battles and Antic Entertainment, head over to the game’s official website here.
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Batman Arkham: Asylum getting free DLC next week?
It seems that the guys over at Joystiq have managed to take the above screen shot of the Batman: Arkham Asylum main menu that reveals something we previously didn’t know. It seems that the game will be getting a free DLC pack sometime next week, as you can see from said screen shot.
Of course, we have absolutely no details regarding the DLC pack but chances are Rocksteady or Warner Bros. will come clean sometime within the next couple of days.
Modern Warfare 2 to feature duel wielding
It wasn’t until Halo 2 that the franchise saw the ability to duel wield appear so it would only make sense that Infinity Ward would do the same with Modern Warfare 2. That’s right, you will now be able to duel wield weapons in the highly anticipated title using the Akimbo perk.
The above screen shot was taken at the Games Crazy Con that recently went on in Las Vegas where Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling took the main stage to give us a live demo of the game. Sure, the screen shot is blurry but you can definitely make out duel wielded Desert Eagles if you look close enough.
Not to mention the below Tweet from Bowling’s Twitter:
Just walked off stage. Crowd was amazing, went insane chanting “pick it up!” when I stumbled over Dual-wield Deagles. lol – Akimbo confirmed
Modern Warfare 2 will hit store shelve for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on November 10th of this year.
via modernwarfare247
Free Gears of War 2 multiplayer this weekend
This weekend, Xbox Live Silver members were given the option of trying out some Gears of War 2 multiplayer for free. The event started Friday and will be ending August 3 at 11:59am EST, so you still have time to get into the action.
If you already have Gears of War 2 (like you should), be sure to check out our Dark Corners DLC review.
Crysis Wars Summer Trial next month
Crytek has announced via their Monthly Update feature that a “Crysis Wars Summer Trial” will be starting next month, allowing players to try out Crysis Wars for free. Competitions and giveaways will be held throughout the trial, so even more incentive has been thrown out there for you. No word on an exact date.
For those of you who are already Crysis fans, a 3vs3 PowerStruggle Tournament, powered by Multiplay, has been detailed, along with an interesting interview with Senior Sound Designer Florian Fusslin.
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Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited delayed
Turbine Inc., has announced today that Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited will be seeing a delay. The free-to-play game was originally slated for an August 6th release, but looks like it will be pushed back to September 9th. DDO VIPs will be given access to the game beginning September 1st, however.
The reason behind the delay was to “ensure that we can support the massive increase in players that we are expecting and deliver them a free to play experience like none other.”
DDO Unlimited lifts the level cap, introduces a new player class, and has includes more content.
PlayStation Store update for 7/30, Fat Princess and Watchmen
Today, the PlayStation Store was updated with a few goodies, including the much anticipated strategy game, Fat Princess.
Two new demos were also added into the mix, featuring a Madden NFL 10 demo and a Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 demo.
Speaking of Watchmen, the full version of Watchmen: The End is Nigh Part 2 also released today, retailing at $14.99. Spec Ops: Airborne Commando was also added to the PSOne classics.
A good amount of DLC was also added, ranging from Dynasty Warriors to Rag Doll Kung Fu. Here’s the full list:
- Rag Doll Kung Fu Time Saver DLC ($1.99)
- Cross Edge Enigma Synth Pack (1) (free)
- Cross Edge Hero Pack ($0.99)
- Cross Edge It’ll Come in Handy Pack ($0.99)
- Cross Edge This is Equipment Pack ($0.99)
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires Eclectic Armor Set (men) (free)
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires Norse Armor Set (men) (free)
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires Priestess Armor Set (women) (free)
- Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires Valkyrie Armor Set (women) (free)
- Guitar Hero songs
- Rock Band songs
- Katamari Forever and Noby Noby Boy Themes (free)
- G.I. Joe Rise Of The Cobra: Cobra Theme ($0.99)
- G.I. Joe Rise Of The Cobra: G.I. Joe Theme ($0.99)
- Harry Potter XMB Theme Pack ($1.99)
- College Football Themes (x5) (Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan State, Nebraska and Wisconsin) ($1.99 each)
- Killzone 2 DLC Bundle Pack Trailer
- MAG Developer Diary 3
- MAG Developer Diary 4
- Dark Void Composer Interview
- Unbound Saga Between the Panels Issue 1
- God of War III Wallpapers (x3)
- Brave Story: New Traveler ($14.99) (also available from PS3 storefront)
- Pocket Pool ($9.99) (also available from PS3 storefront)
- Strikers 1945 Plus ($11.99) (also available from PS3 storefront)
Oh yeah, a bunch of Guitar Hero and Rock Band tracks were also added. But you already knew that.
Quake Live update rolls out today
A new Quake Live update has been release today by the folks over at id Software. The focus of the patch is to work on competitive changes, such as shoutcasting. Client side updates and general fixes have been added, as well.
Here is the full changelog:
- Fixed lightning gun sound, no more loud enemies.
- Added team_say for spectators so they can chat only among spectators.
- Increased the speed of nailgun nails.
- The powerups now spawn at the same time after match start.
- cg_lagometer 2 will now display the client ping estimation along with the standard lag-o-meter graph.
- cg_chatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message.
- cg_teamChatBeep allows you to enable/disable the audible beep when you receive a message from a teammate.
- cg_selfOnTeamOverlay toggles whether you see yourself in the team overlay.
- cg_fov lower limit is now 10.
- Changed demo autorecord naming to more easily sort and locate.
- cg_autoaction 0-3
0 – do nothing
1 – auto record demo
2 – auto record a screenshot at end of game
3 – auto record demo and screenshot - cl_autoRecordDemo has been removed in favor of the new cg_autoaction system.
- cl_demoRecordMessage 0/1 allows you to toggle the “RECORDING…” message on the hud when recording a demo.
- cl_conTimestamps can now display values in game time.
0 – Do nothing
1 – Show values in game time (affected by cg_levelTimerDirection)
2 – Show values in servertime - Fix for several keys becoming unbound (2,e,u,o,s,m)
- Spectators will no longer get the “Internal combustion” message upon respawn after following a player that was mined.
- Fix for a dropweapon bug that could cause other players in the game to auto switch to another weapon.
- Removed setu/sets commands.
- Fix for odd sv_maxclients values.
- Warmup delay is now disabled for bot games.
- Zoomed fov calculation now takes aspect ratio into account.
- Some FireFox users were experiencing crashes while loading into maps, these issues have been resolved.
Competition mode changes:
- Added support for limiting the amount of timeouts called, and configuring their default duration. Time outs remaining are indicated on the team scoreboards.
- Server owners can deop other clients with the ‘deop’ command.
- Pause and Timeout events print to the console.
Buy a Wii, get a game free at GameStop
GameStop is having a promotion this week for anyone planning to purchase a Wii. As the title suggests, you’ll get to grab a free Wii title with the purchase of a Wii console. However, the titles are from a limited selection:
- Don King Boxing
- Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games
- Sonic Unleashed
- MadWorld
- Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
- Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip
- Wario Land: Shake It
- Wii Music
- Animal Crossing: City Folk – Game Only
- My Fitness Coach
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
- Excitebots: Trick Racing – Game Only
Not exactly your triple-a titles, but hey, it’s a free game. Wario Land: Shake It is a pretty damn fun game, too. Anyways, the offer began today and will last until July 26th.
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New DLC for Killing Floor, both free and paid
Killing Floor will be seeing some new downloadable content, as revealed today by the game’s developer Tripwire Interactive. First, a free DLC package titled “Heavy Metal” will be released, featuring a new map called the “Foundry” and two new weapons; the classic AK-47 and a Japanese Katana Sword.
Tripwire also mentioned that they are planning a paid DLC for the zombie FPS, which will feature four new playable characters, two of which are “a Horzine foundry worker and a soldier in prototype Horzine body armor.”
Right now, Killing Floor is only available via Steam, where it competes with fellow zombie shooter Left 4 Dead. For people who can’t handle the bandwidth, the game will be available in stores worldwide soon.
via BigDownload
Soldier Front update rolls out, new map and female character
NHN USA announces that a new Soldier Front update has been released today, releasing a new map and female character faction, the Mulan Special Forces. The new map is titled Venice, Italy and is based off of the streets of, you guessed it, Venice.
Soldier Front is run on a free-to-play model, with the option to purchase game currency for paid content. The game is published on ijji, NHN USA’s game portal website. You can grab it for free over at the official website in a quick 300MB download.
I’ve played the game and I can say that it’s definitely not worth to buy the special weapons and such, but it’s worth a go in case you want a pick-me-up FPS.
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Ubisoft starts making apps for Facebook, launches TickTock
With all of the thousands of useless applications on the social networking website Facebook, it would only be a matter of time that video game developers would jump on the bandwagon and begin developing for the popular platform.
Ubisoft is one of the first to do this, and have already launched an application, TickTock, for the site. The application isn’t exactly a game, but more of a trivia challenge of how well you know your friends. Some type of bomb is created by you and six of your friends have to defuse it in order for you to win by answering trivia questions about your friends. The concept is very refreshing in a sea of Facebook applications (e.g. the very offensive Own Your Friends).
“We’re going to try to make best applications for Facebook, just like we make the best applications for the Xbox 360 and Wii,” said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America.
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