After a renewed start we had an interruption these last few weeks but rest assured Filefront is still hosting and promoting all the great user created and hosted content contributed to us. We return with a double length post highlighting some great mods and files for quite a few outstanding games including usual suspects like Half-Life 2, the Battlefield games and of course one of my favorite series “that I am really no good at yet still enjoy” – Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War

Highlights from this week’s column include mods for:

• Doom III – Wrathchild Act I (not ROE compatible), Revised Alphalabs
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – A Provost of the Nine Divines, More Nord Beards
• Battlefield 2 – Operation Peacekeeper, Allies Intent Extended
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R – Ballistics Mod
• Far Cry 2 – new maps: MP_Surf & Gold Rush

There are also links to other maps, mods and patches for many of your favorite PC modifiable games. Be sure to check it all out after the jump.

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A new article on ExtremeTech pits antivirus software against some of the most demanding PC games around. AVG Free, BitDefender (GameDefender edition), Kaspersky and Norton (Gaming Edition) each face off against Crysis, Company of Heroes, Far Cry 2, Supreme Commander and World in Conflict.

ExtremeTech compared the performance of each game on a control system with and without each of the antivirus programs running. Between performance and price points you can get a fairly good idea of which of these software options are best for your gaming PC. Check out the final results from Gaming Performance Versus Antivirus Software on ExtremeTech.

There’s a new video podcast with an objective look at Ubisoft’s Shaun White Snowboarding up on ChannelFlip.

Comedian Eddie Izzard says in his Dressed to Kill tour, “…there’s only two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool; the second is DEAD!” For gamers who want to get into some extreme winter sports without losing life and limb or freezing bits off, this looks like it could be a good compromise. Get an idea of how the videogame measures up to the great expectations set by Shaun White’s reputation as podcast host Katharine Fletcher reviews Shaun White Snowboarding on the Xbox 360.

Electronic Arts is being targeted by another class-action law suit over the DRM included with Spore, SecuROM. This time, California resident Alex McQuown is hoping to use Spore to take down SecuROM once and for all.

The grievances listed in Alex McQuown’s class-action suit against EA are much the same as the other suits with three big differences. His lawyers at Finkelstein Thompson claim that SecuROM damages computers costing consumer time and money to repair the havoc caused by its installation. The suit also asserts that EA has needlessly caused its customers grief. The figures prove that piracy of games that carry SecuROM has risen dramatically. The biggest difference in McQuown’s suit is that he invites every U.S. citizen that has purchased an EA product with SecuROM to join the class.
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If the bigwigs over at Eidos were to look upwards today, they may see a stream of buzzards circling overhead in a most ominous fashion, if a report over on MCV is to be believed. Last week and this week, most rumors circulating around the possible take over of Eidos have mentioned Electronic Arts and Ubisoft within the same sentence, but Warner Brothers is the one that has purchased 20 percent of the stock in Eidos and have had restrictions lifted on purchasing more. However, today, MCV is reporting that Square Enix is thinking about throwing their hat into the ring as well… or to begin circling the skies above Eidos with the rest of the lot.

Although Warner Brothers would only have to purchase another $30 million for a controlling interest in Eidos, $80 million would give it total control over the company. Yet, with Square Enix showing interest now in the way of company president Yoichi Wada visiting Eidos’ Denmark developer studios, rumors have the Square set to make a bid on controlling interest in the company.

A source for MCV stated that: “I think Warners will still win, but it’s very interesting that Square have expressed this late interest. They are clearly looking for Western talent.”

This would make perfect sense because Square is interested in creating titles with a more Western appeal, and with Eidos in dire straits financially, this could indeed be a significant step towards a more global market for Square Enix. That is, unless Warner Brothers beats them to the punch.

Until more a concrete announcement is made however, take the news of Square Enix making a play towards Eidosas just a rumor for the time being and don’t count out Warner Brothers just yet. Someone will win the race eventually, and when they do we will be sure to let you know who crossed the finish line first.

In preparation for it’s Dec. 4 release, Ubisoft has unveiled a new launch trailer for the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Fallen King. This new game arrives on the DS about the same time as it’s console big brother, but sporting some cartoony graphics. This is the first time I’ve seen some actual gameplay for this title, and for a DS side-scroller, the game looks pretty slick. It looks like they’ve actually translated the Prince’s signature acrobatics into 2D pretty well. Guess we’ll find out how the whole thing plays in a couple of days.

A new dev diary of sorts is out for Ubisoft’s upcoming Prince of Persia game where Ben Mattes, the game’s producer, talks a bit about the “hero factor” of our main protagonist, the prince.

While watching the video, you will no doubt notice the eye-candy that is the game, along with some real faces that may be familiar to you should you be a viewer of G4’s “Attack of the Show”, or a reader of gaming sites other than this one.

Enjoy.

Ubisoft has released the list of achievements you can attain when playing the Xbox version of Prince of Persia. You can expect the game to land in retail on December 2 for the PS3 and Xbox 360 and on December 9 for the PC. There are a total of 50 achievements with a total of 1050 points to gain with the display string, how-to, GP, and type of challenge listed in order below. WARNING: May contain spoilers.

1. First Meet Encounter Elika: 15– Event
2. Save me please: Discover Save Me– 15– Event
3. All the basic:  Completing the Canyon– 155– Completion
4. Explorer: Use Compass (first time)–15– Other
5. Beginner Healer: Healing 01– 30– Checkpoint
6. Master Healer: Last Healing :90– Checkpoint
7. Hunter’s end: Kill Hunter in his lair– 15– Event
8. Warrior’s end: Kill Warrior in his lair– 15– Event
9. Concubine’s end: Kill Concubine in her lair– 15– Event
10. Alchemist’s end: Kill Alchemist in his lair –15–Event
11. Ahriman’s end :Kill Ahriman– 30–Event
12. Explorer: Explore every part of every region–15– Completion
13. Block Master: Blocking 50 attacks–15–Performance
14. Deflect Master: Deflecting 20 attacks–15–Performance
15. Biggest combo: Do 14 combo hits in fight–15–Performance
16. Be gentle with her: Do less than 100 save-me throughout the game–90– Performance
17. Breaker: Use a enemy to break something–15–Performance
18. Against the wall: Win a wall mini-game in fight–15–Performance
19. Race- Ruined Citadel: Run from the Sun Temple’s Fertile Ground to the Fertile Ground in Windmills in 5 minutes– 15–Performance
20. Race- Observatory: Run from the Fertile Ground in the Construction Yards to the Fertile Ground in Heaven’s Stair in 6 minutes–15–Performance
21. Race- High Castle: Run from the Fertile Ground in the Royal Gardens to the Fertile Ground in the Coronation Halls in 4 minutes–30–Performance
22. Race- Lava Rift: Go from the Fertile Ground in the Tower of Ahriman to the Fertile Ground in the City of Light in 7 minute–30–Performance
23. Warrior Special: Dodge 20 warrior attacks in one fight–15– Performance
24. Hunter Special: Deflect hunter 5 times in one fight–15–Performance
25. Alchemist Special: Defeat the Alchemist without using the acrobatic button–15– Performance

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Ubisoft has announced that Prince of Persia has gone gold for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and will be released on consoles December 2 and the PC December 9.

With interesting looking storyboard-style graphics, you play the (as usual) the Prince of Persia who finds himself caught in a battle between the primal forces of light and darkness: the God of Light, Ormazd versus his brother Ahriman, the destructive God of Darkness. The Prince arrives just in time to witness the destruction of the legendary Tree of Life – an act which threatens to plunge the entire world into eternal darkness. Manifested in the form of the Corruption, a dark substance (goo looking stuff) that physically contaminates the land and the skies, the Prince must partner with Elika to heal the world from the evil Corruption.

Want to spice up your game a bit with more Middle Eastern flair?  Once you have a copy of Prince of Persia in your warm, sticky hands, you can link your Ubisoft account to your PSN screen name or Xbox Live Gamertag  to gain access to an exclusive reward: The game skin of Altair from Assassin’s Creed. This really does not seem like much of a stretch considering the majority of us who played Assassin’s Creed thought that the Prince and Altair were a bit similar in some instances anyway.

To create a Ubisoft account, visit the Prince of Persia website here and once you begin playing the game, you will be able to immediately unlock this exclusive reward.

Screens for the Altair skins are posted after the jump.

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With the new and drastically different looking Prince of Persia game destined to hit shelves on December 2, Ubisoft has taken it upon themselves to announce the minimum specifications for the PC version on the official forums. According to the post, “there are no recommended specs as basically anything you have over this will run it nicely”:

• Supported OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista
• Processor: Dual core processor 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better recommended)
• RAM: 1 GB Windows XP/2 GB Windows Vista
• Video Card: 256 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list)
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0–compliant sound card (5.1 sound card recommended)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 libraries (included on disc)
• DVD-ROM: DVD-ROM dual-layer drive
• Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
• Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)
• Supported Video Cards at Time of Release: ATI RADEON X1600/1650-1950/HD 2000/3000 series NVIDIA GeForce 6800/7/8/9 series

If you currently do not have enough space on your hard drive to run this, you may need to do a bit of housekeeping and get rid of some of the junk taking up too much room–like those pictures of you and your buddies at the Roswell UFO Festival. However, since the game runs on the Assassin’s Creed engine, if you happened to purchase that particular Ubisoft game, you will notice that the specs are the same, only the hard drive space is 4Gb less.

The game will also be made available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 should your system not meet the minimum specs or you decide you would rather go the console route. While you mull your options over, check out our preview of the game here. Also, just in case you have forgotten, Prince of Persia: The Fallen King will also be hitting store the same day for the Nintendo DS.