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Here are some stunning new wallpapers for the eagerly awaited Call of Duty Black Ops

At the beginning of each project, the team at Treyarch digs in and goes to work on engine enhancements with a focus on supporting the demands of the new environments and game play for our next title. For Black Ops, it was important to the team to have incredible photo-realistic lighting, huge draw distances, explosive destruction and effects, and mind-blowing character details.

We completely re-tooled the lighting system from soup to nuts, integrated texture streaming which makes levels like “Payback” possible, and provided our artists the tools and platform they needed to create stunning characters with detail down to their pores! We also went big overhauling the physics, jungle, water, and fire tech – the list goes on and on. You can see what we’re talking about from our gallery, but no screenshot even comes close to what you’ll be experiencing November 9th 2010!

All 14 can be downloaded at HERE

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What's New in TVTonic 3.3?

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Upgrading from TVTonic 3.2? Download the installer to perform an automatic upgrade.
Here's a quick run-down of what's new in TVTonic 3.3.

1. Redesigned interface
   • navigation menu — quickly jump to the My Channels menu, details on the currently playing clip, the Channel Guide or full screen-mode.
   • revamped Channel Guide — makes it easier to find, preview and subscribe new channels.
   • expanded Channel Settings — easily delete videos, disable downloads on a per channel basis, refresh channels manually & more!
   • centralized Cache Settings menu — you no longer need to open each channel to set it's cache size. Do it all in one place.
2. New Features
   • mark all items in a channel as viewed at once
   • support for HD QuickTime channels, such as Revision3's HD feeds
   • channel icons under My Channels
3. TVTonic Control Panel — new streamlined, tabbed design.
   • more detailed download monitor
   • schedule download times
   • restrict bandwidth usage and more
4. Under-the-hood improvements
   • much better stability and performance
   • smarter bandwidth management
   • more robust and efficient download engine
   • better cache management
   • improved channel subscription
   • mRSS support

 

  

TVTonic - What's New?

 

Version 0.97.1 - 7th March, 2008
- Fix: Phenom did not display proper temperature in version 0.97.
- Fix: Phenom randomly reports 255C (value ignored).
- Fix: Phenom displays more than a single system tray icon per CPU.
- Fix: Phenom 1/4 multipliers rounded improperly.
- Change: C° and F° now will display °C and °F accordingly.
Version 0.97 - 5th March, 2008
- Add: Vista x64 support - All drivers are now digitally signed!
- Add: Logitech G15 keyboard support - see ReadMe!.txt for details.
- Add: Support 45nm LGA775 Xeon series.
- Fix: Opaque background in system tray wasn't 16x16 pixels.
- Fix: Yonah based CPUs incorrectly detected.
- Fix: 1333FSB Dual Core Conroe based Xeon incorrectly detected.
- Fix: Dreaded cycle of "Driver can't load" messages if driver failed to load.
- Fix: Socket AM2 Athlon-FX was not recognized.
- Change: Core Temp layout on a Phenom.

Core Temp

Download: Core Temp 0.97.1

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RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

Watch it in Action:

Features:

• Minimize windows to the dock
• Real-time window previews in Vista
• Running application indicators
• Simple drag-n-drop interface
• Multi-monitor support
• Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons
• Icons zoom and transition smoothly
• Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over
• Positioning and layering options
• Fully customizable
• Completely Portable
• ObjectDock Docklet support
• Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins
• Runs great on slower computers
• Unicode compliant
• Supports many languages and can easily be translated
• A friendly user base :)
• And best of all... its FREE!!!

Download

Minimum System Requirements:

• Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• 500Mhz or faster CPU
• 10MB RAM free

Please note that Windows XP x64 Edition, Windows Vista 64-bit Editions, and alternate shells are not supported.

Latest Version 1.3.5 (6.20 MB) - changelog

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A new series is born: Alien Arena 2008

COR Entertainment LLC has announced the release of Alien Arena 2008 which features nearly all new game media, gameplay improvements, and a client that has been signifigantly upgraded for improved visual effects as well as major optimizations that greatly improve the fluidity and performance.

Alien Arena 2008 also offers a change to it's overall theme, moving towards a slightler darker, more serious tone, while still retaining a good bit of it's retro style, creating an interesting marriage between classic and modern sci-fi.

This resulted in completely new player models, many new weapon models and textures, and seventeen new levels. There are major improvements in weapon effects, per-pixel lighting, texture resolution, and resource usage, as well as the addition of a cross platform server browser, FUSE. Weapons have been tweaked for better balance, and movement has been enhanced with the addition of dodging abilities.

Download:

Alien Arena 2008 v7.0 Free Full Game for Windows (163.06MB)

Alien Arena 2008 v7.0 Free Full Game for Linux (212.99MB)

The recently released Battlefield Heroes trailer provided some great insight into how the game will play. After going through the trailer frame by frame we picked out the important parts to get a closer look. All screencaps are in the highest resolution possible from the video.

US, February 29, 2008 - In North America, there are few clearer examples of the disparity between PC and console trends than with DICE's handling of their Battlefield IP. Bad Company, a variation of the franchise featuring realistic environments and character models, is coming to consoles only. Battlefield Heroes, a cartoony casual-style, free to play, pay per item title is coming to PC. That's not to say Heroes is better or worse than what fans are likely looking for from DICE, it's just different.
While DICE is looking to push into the casual category with bright, cartoony graphics and highly accessible gameplay, it isn't abandoning the core Battlefield crowd on PC. "Battlefield Heroes represents a new side branch of the Battlefield series, along with Battlefield Bad Company on PS3 and Xbox 360," says Ben Cousins, senior producer at DICE. "We will still continue to make the high-end, deep and realistic Battlefield games on PC in the future."
Why make Battlefield Heroes in the first place? "The team went on a business trip to South Korea at the end of 2006, and saw the huge success of this Play 4 Free model in that country," says Cousins. "Given DICE always likes to be at the forefront of new online trends, we decided to experiment with this business model in the west."

That's a kill.

Heroes is accessed through a web portal. You sign up, launch the game from there every time after, and can use the site to browse statistics. Advertising exists on the website and on loading screens, but not in the actual game. As far as character choice goes, you choose from Royal or National armies. From there you can choose soldier, gunner, or commando classes. Unlike Battlefield games of the past, you don't swap between classes in the game. Instead, you select a class, customize your avatar's appearance and stick with that class thereafter, like in an MMOG.
As you play you'll level up your class, gaining new special abilities and clothing types along the way. Gaining more experience in combat lets you level up special abilities, making them more effective. "You may be a stealth based sniper, or a gunner focused on absorbing damage from enemies rather than attacking," says Cousins. "Each class has a unique set of weapons and abilities to unlock and customize."
In addition to the three classes to appear in the final version, DICE toyed around with a few other types. "For a long time we had a fourth class (the 'Pilot/Driver') but we couldn't flesh him out enough to make him a dedicated class which was as interesting and strong as the other three, so we dropped it," says Cousins. "There are the possibilities of course of adding more classes as the game progresses."
The game is free to play, but you'll have to option to spend cash on microtransactions. "The things we sell will be determined by the opinion of the community, but we will probably start off with two types of items," says Cousins. "The first kind is purely visual items for your character – glasses, hats, boots, jackets etc. The second type of items is what we call convenience items. Let's say we have two people playing Heroes – one has lots of time on their hands and plays the game for four hours a night, leveling up their character quite quickly and unlocking new items and abilities (for free). The second player has less time on their hands as they have a kid or job. This second player can buy an item which gives him double experience points over a single weekend – so he's still playing the game, he's still building up skill and he's still unlocking the same items and abilities of free players, but he's doing it a little quicker because he's bought this item."

Sitting on plane wings is now an option.

Will the cosmetic clothing purchases eventually provide some kind of ability boost or otherwise give players a competitive advantage? "The current plan is that they are just for show, but if we think the community is interested in clothing items which give a stats boost, we will consider them."
Heroes will take place almost entirely from a third-person perspective, but DICE says it'll still feel like a first-person shooter. "The one instance where the game has a first person view is when you zoom the sniper rifle; otherwise the game is third-person only," says Cousins. "I think there is a bit of misunderstanding among the community as to what third-person means. It doesn't mean we have a Mario or Tomb Raider control scheme. Our control scheme is identical to an FPS – you use the mouse to aim the reticule and move the character with WASD, with jump and crouch. You can transfer all of your FPS skills to Battlefield Heroes. The only difference is instead of a gun in the bottom right hand corner of the screen, you have a character in the bottom centre of the screen."
And it wouldn't be a Battlefield games without vehicles, of which there'll be two at launch. A Sherman tank with arcing shells and plane will available to players, the latter of which will have a simpler control scheme than in the franchise's past. Three players can occupy the flying machine at a time, one in the cockpit, two sitting on the wings. To simplify the process of scooping up squadmates, pilots need only swoop down near a player on the ground. The potential passenger can then hop about with the press of a button. It'll also be easier to dismount, as players can eject safely from the craft when near the ground. If piloting solo, it's also possible to swap positions at will.

A new look for Battlefield.

As far as gameplay goes, you can capture flags in the game's two maps set for launch, but you don't need to. Each game is basically a team deathmatch with a 50 life limit. A kill detracts one point from the other team and for each flag snagged a multiplier for points taken away is added. To keep things moving along swiftly, respawn rates will be on a five second timer. Players worried they may be set up against difficult opponents need not fret, as a built in matchmaking system will try and bunch together those of roughly equal skill levels in the 16 player matches.
During combat players will have quite a variety of skills. Incendiary bullets, x-ray vision, and temporary health bursts should keep gameplay varied. The commando class, the sniper, can cloak and sneak around the battlefield. At long range he'll be invisible, but his camouflage will be rendered somewhat ineffective at closer distances.
The user interface has been streamlined, eliminating the traditional minimap in the top right corner of the screen. In the top left will be a character portrait around which snakes an experience bar, and along the screen's bottom will be a skill hotbar.
We didn't get to play the game, so we can't really provide any impressions as to how it feels.
Beyond launch, DICE is planning on updating according to player feedback. As for when it's coming out, we'll let Ben Cousins have the last word. "We'll start with a closed beta of a few hundred people in the near future, gradually ramp that up to ten thousand or so in the month or two following, and then launch for everyone with an open beta later in the year. When we launch, there will be no items for sale, we want people to enjoy the game world and get used to the game and the gameplay before they are introduced to buying items."

IGN: Battlefield Heroes Preview

As we all know there's enough energy hits the planets surface every day to more than satisfy our needs, here's a handy device to make you that little bit more independent.

It has direct connection ports for the iPhone, iPod Touch and  Nintendo DS Lite, comes with 11 of the most used phone/gadget adapters, more adapters are available from 'Solar Technology' here

According to the makers FreeLoader 8.0 can power an iPod for 18 hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours, a PSP for 2.5 hours and a PDA for 22 hours.

Available in Hot Pink or Aluminium Cool Silver and costs just £30 .

Solar technology

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To celebrate Lara Croft's 12th anniversary as the heroine hottie who raids tombs, video game publisher Eidos and TrialPlay, an alternative online payment company, have temed up to deliver the Tomb Raider Anniversary PC game for free.

Using TrialPay, players get a free subscription to the game for signing up and trying an email offer from blue-chip advertisers such as eBay, Gap, McAfee, American Express, and others.

Tomb Raider Anniversary is an updated version of the celebrated 1996 adventure featuring the well-endowed Lara Croft (later to be realized on the silver screen by Angelina Jolie). This newly made-over game returns players back to Egypt, Peru and other locations as our heroine jumps, climbs and fights her way through treacherous caves and alongside cliffs in search of rare artifacts. A few extra features were thrown in, too, including new areas and enemies. Some nagging camera issues still remain, but overall this puzzle-filled action title won’t disappoint – especially for those with a sentimental tie to the original.

Click here to get Tomb Raider Anniversary for free through TrialPay.

sync: Play 'Tomb Raider Anniversary' for free

Silverlorde Interactive announced this morning that it has opened its servers to all players for SAGA, the persistent World MMORTS. The first open beta test client can now be downloaded from Strategy Informer.

Press release
The World’s First Collectible MMORTS entered Open Beta testing on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008. All players who sign up at www.playsaga.com will receive accounts, allowing them to create nations on the Beta servers. For the duration of the Beta test, all game features will be unlocked and available to testers. At release, a full unlocked copy of SAGA will cost $19.95; however, promotions will be available during the open beta period to purchase the full version of SAGA at a reduced price.

During the stress test conducted on Saturday, February 23rd, the servers performed excellently, with no crashes or other server issues. The SAGA servers are expected to support up to 20,000 players per realm with thousands of simultaneous users. Should a greater-than-expected number of players attempt to login to the world at the same time, a login queue will be implemented and additional realms will be brought online.
We recently talked with Andrew Grierson about SAGA, you can read that here.
You can download the client here.

News: First open beta test for SAGA launches today - Strategy Informer

 

WebGuide allows you to remotely view live and recorded TV programs and to remotely schedule and manage your recorded television programs, music, pictures and videos on your Media Center or Windows Vista PC. Install WebGuide on your Media Center PC and access it from any machine that has a web browser, including your cell phone or mobile device.

Convenient
Live streaming TV can be viewed on any web browser

Recordings can be scheduled from any web browser

"Place-shifting" for your personal media library, including TV, music, pictures, videos and DVD's

PocketPC and Smartphone enabled, Xbox 360 Support.

Windows Vista ready

Easy
Installation takes only minutes

User-friendly MCE interface

Languages include Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish

Fast
Live scheduling without delays

Search by show, date or time

Quick access to recent and upcoming recordings

Press Release:

Many loyal WebGuide users have commented that Microsoft should hire me to do Media Center development.

Apparently, someone in Redmond was listening.

I'm excited to announce that I recently finalized a business deal with Microsoft to make WebGuide available to users for free and to become a member of the Media Center team.  I'm joining an extremely talented group and will focus on pushing Media Center into the high-end custom installation market.  The custom installation market is a terrific incubator for new ideas and technologies that will eventually benefit the larger Media Center community.

Since I will be busy doing that, I won't be busy creating new features for WebGuide.  I will continue to monitor the Forums, make comments and provide updates for significant bugs.  One of the best parts of creating WebGuide, from my perspective, has been hearing directly from enthusiastic users about what they really want from the app.  I still want to hear this and am now in a better position to share these thoughts with the powers that be.

For those of you who feel I've sold out, given in to "the man" or crossed over to the dark side, you don't need to send me a nasty email.  I hear yah.  Go play a round of Halo to get it out of your system.  At the end of the day, my passion is for developing cool software, and this is an opportunity to do just that.  I'd be a fool not to take advantage of it.

Thank you for making WebGuide what it is and for keeping me excited and challenged for the past few years.  I look forward to maintaining that relationship.

The new Media Center add-in connects to a WebGuide server and enables users to stream recorded TV, videos and DVDs within the Media Center interface - including the Xbox360 extender - at qualities up to 720p via WebGuide's integrated real-time transcoder.  If you have multiple Media Center systems, no problem: in Media Center you can designate each one as a separate add-in.  Or, better yet, use the new "WebGuide Prism" technology to link them all into an single aggregated interface.

"WebGuide Prism" is a new component that allows users to interconnect multiple machines that are running WebGuide.  These connections aggregate the media from multiple systems into a single interface.  Each media item (recorded TV, video or photo) that is available on another machine will show alongside the local content, but will be flagged with a customizable icon that identifies the source machine.  You can play or the view media from other machines in the same way you would media from your local machine.  WebGuide does all the work for you.

About WebGuide:
WebGuide allows you to remotely view live and recorded TV, remotely schedule and manage your recorded television programs and access your music, pictures, videos and DVDs on your Media Center or Windows Vista PC. Install WebGuide and access it from any machine that has a web browser, including your cell phone or mobile device.  WebGuide is in use in over 35 countries and is available in 13 languages.  Also available in a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget, and coming soon, a Windows Home Server version.  For more information, visit www.asciiexpress.com.

Media Center / Xbox360 DVD Playback Interface

Gunny "I've been testing this software over the last few days, and I have to say its bloody marvelous, Easy to setup and works like a dream, The Vista Sidebar Gadget is genius ! and a joy to use. I highly recommend this bit of software. "

News Source : Here Technorati Tags: WebGuide4		Buy
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Bizarre Creations has very kindly told us what to expect from the Project Gotham Racing 4 Xbox Live demo - just as soon as it comes out of certification and lands on your Internet face.

The demo will consists of five vehicles (made up of cars and bikes), with a demo-only Arcade mode chapter set in Macau. This will consist of new challenges that have been custom-built for the demo.

Not content with that, they are throwing in a Nurburgring Snow Time Challenge - so you'll be able to see just how pretty the track (rebuilt for PGR4) looks when it's blanketed in snow. The snowy Time Attack also includes full leaderboard support.

The full game, for which our final-build hands-on will go live oh-so-shortly, splits single-player gameplay between Arcade (128 medals from Steel up to Platinum) and Career (difficulty pre-set by user, then a season of races and events).

And of course it has lots of Internet play, with a greater focus on Friends-based leaderboards and tournaments that are suitable for players of all skills, rather than the "best in the world or nowt" mentality of old.

Sounds rather good, no? We'll let you know when it's up there.

PGR4 is due out exclusively on 360 on 12th October

 

source: here

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posted by Stoney

Summer Update Released

Another Free Trial Period!

As the very alert will have noticed quickly, the Summer Update has been released. You may also have noticed that they are running another Free Trial Period from Yesterday (Wed 29 August) through the weekend, ending on Monday. Once again this means that you can get friends and family to try the full game for free, courtesy of Steam. It should be a busy few days on the servers!

Enjoy the new map - Krivoi Rog. We think it will convert a lot of people to tanking, with the new look to the game from the graphics enhancements and the huge engagement ranges. The full change log for the update is linked in the earlier posts. Head over to the forums and let us know what you think of the additions and changes to the game.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45

Summer Update Details and Screenshots!

We know how much people like to see more information on the updates, so here are a bunch of screen-shots for you, along with some more information - and the change-log on the forums.

More detail on the new and updated features:

And the screenshots for you:

News Source : Here Technorati Tags: Red Orchestra		Buy
posted by Churchy

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Killzone 2, GTA IV and Heavenly Sword in issue 5 of P3Zine P3Zine is the world's first free PlayStation 3 magazine. In the fifth issue, we have massive previews of two of the biggest upcoming games, Killzone 2 and GTA IV. We talk exclusively with Ninja Theory’s Tameem Antoniades about Heavenly Sword. And we've first looks too at Drake's Fortune, Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga and more. In reviews, we've played and rated Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Transformers and many more. If online gaming is your bag, check out our PlayStation Network section, where we have three full pages of the best PSN games. All this and our PlayStation 3 community section, news, letters, opinion and much more. And it's all enhanced with video multimedia. Just click to download the full magazine now and you can read it and all the other articles too.

Issue 8 of 360Zine: Bioshock, GTA IV and Fable 2 This month's previews are underwater sensation Bioshock (plus exclusive interview with full audio), Grand Theft Auto IV, Fable 2 and many more. In reviews, we've played and rated all the newest releases, including supernatural first-person shooter The Darkness, intrinsically evil RPG Overlord and demolition derby extravaganza FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage. All this and much more - check out the Community section, gaming news and all your Xbox 360 questions answered. Simply click to download and you will get the complete magazine with all the Xbox 360 games previews and reviews included.

PCGZine Issue 8: Gears of War, Hellgate London and Assassin's Creed PCGZine is a full, free to download magazine dedicated to PC gaming packed with previews, reviews and interviews about PC games, all written by UK games journalists. In this month’s brand new issue, we have huge previews of Hellgate: London and Assassin's Creed, plus first looks at Company of Heroes Opposing Force and mega-shooter Gears of War, coming to the PC from the Xbox 360 soon. We review Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - GRAW 2 -Pearl Harbour, Lost Planet and more. And we've talked exclusively to Martin van Balkom of Battlfront.com about the latest Combat Mission, Shock Force. All this comes with embedded multimedia, trailers, videos and interactive content, plus your questions answered, technical issues addressed, news from the PC gaming community and more.

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