Archive for April, 2010

Half-Life 2 multiplayer mod Firearms: Source will be released on July. The Fast Team confirmed the release date of the anticipated mod. Firearms: Source want to take you “in the midst of the most brutal and violent firefights you’ve ever seen in Half-Life 2, period.”

The mod will feature 4 brutal gameplay modes: pushing your enemies from one side of the combat zone to the other, slaughtering everything in your path; searching and destroying their supplies; capturing their intelligence; or dominating them by controlling more territory. In order to play these modes you will have 8 new maps which will take you to a wintery urban Russian landscapes to the South Pacific.

You will have the pleasure to handle 31 weapons: Use over 31 kinds of pistols, melee weapons, shotguns, SMGs, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machineguns, grenade launchers, and hand grenades ” to kill, maim, humilate, and slaughter your opponents” – with more added each release.

More information on the official Firemars: Source website: here.

Waiting till July will be hard!

Call of duty 7: Black Ops has finally its official online website. The website confirms several details such as that the game will be developed by Treyarch. We can also  learn  the release date: November, 9 2010. No platforms are announced but we can expect there will be multiplatforms (Activision often publishes multiplaform games).

Treyarch is known by the COD community for developing Call of Duty: World at War on Wii, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Later today a trailer will be revealed on GameTrailers TV: we will finally know more about the supposed Vietnam context and the mysterious NOVA SIX (check this article about a very mysterious website trailer for COD Black Ops: click here).

Team Fortress 2 has been updated. The patch is available for downloading on Steam. Valve’s patch follows a small patch added yesterday which focuses on small contents and significant balance changes for a couple of classes. This new patch, the119th, includes new items, fixes bugs and balances tweaks.

Hit More to check the full list of updates.

2K Games organizes a contest to stimulate its Bioshock 2 community. After a first Dlc which caused a wave of bad comments and a 2nd Dlc whom release date has been pushed back, 2K Games wants to see you in action.

2K Games published the conditions on how to participate and detailed how to make the video.

The contest proposes you to send 2K Games your best Bioshock 2 kills on video. The winner will get $5,000 and a Big Daddy Suit.

More information below.

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You certainly know that DICE has developed Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and it is now developing Medal of Honor. Playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 can unlock a gun for the upcoming Medal of Honor. Yeah yeah: the upcoming game. That means it has not been  released yet!

We’ve learned from the Battlefield blog that we can have access to the M24 Sniper rifle in the multiplayer mode. If you’ve not registered your Battlefield: Bad Company 2 VIP code then you have up to March 31, 2011 to do it or just to play online in order to unlock the weapon for the future Medal of Honor.

This is a damn machiavelic marketing plan: people who unlock the M24 Sniper are then possible Medal of Honor buyers.

Beyond Activision’s troubles with Infinity Ward and its staff leaving the boat, Bungie has announced a 10-year publishing agreement with Activision. Activision will receive exclusive and worldwide rights to publish all Bungie’s games: the Bungie’s “next big action game universe.” Activision will then choose the plaforms and devices for the upcoming games which clearly means that Bungie’s Xbox exclusivity is past.

This surprising deal is the result of 9 months of work and Bungie is presented has an independant studio: Activision doesn’t own the studio. The intellectual property remains to Bungie. This would have been pretty hard for Activision to make another deal according to the conflict they had with the ex bosses of Infinity Wars, Vince Zampella and Jason West.

Half-Life 2 MMORPG mod: Proyect-Z, developed by Proteoma Studios, has a new available update.

This v1.1 beta patch fixes several bugs and adds some nice improvements. Please note that the City Map will suffer from some downtimes while the team  tries to solve some server crashing issues.

The update can be downloaded on ModDB. It’s a 137MB file and the list of what the patch fixes can be checked by clicking More.

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iTz Awesome has developed a Left 4 Dead 2 Mutations mod. The mod is available for downloading on ModDB.

Thanks to the mod, you can add 15 new mutations that Valve plans to bring to L4D2. These mutations can be played now or at anytime they include 3 custom mutations. The co-op versus is still being worked on.

According to different feedbacks, only 13 of the mutations can be played.

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This trailer for Rapture Metro Pack, the upcoming but undated Bioshock 2 Dlc presents the different new features.

You can have a look at the 6 new multiplayer maps through gameplay footage.

Eric Nofsinger, a High Voltage Software’s chief creative officer, explained on the Sega blog how Conduit 2 will be highly better than its predecessor (which we highy expect according to how bad was the first episode).

According to Eric, the first game suffered from the burden of having to build a new engine and a totally new intellectual property. It is true that this is a risky bet: “It really was a lot for the team to handle at one time.”

“At various points throughout the development of C1 we would discover something new about the technology, build a new graphics feature, and then have to make hard decisions as to whether or not we had time to rework existing art content to take better advantage of the latest features.”

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