Maxim has compiled its most wanted videogame babes of 2008. Usually these lists pick the top ten, but Maxim just couldn’t stop there. There are seventeen lovely ladies, virtual and real live knock out that give playing videogames an extra thrill.

Several of these heroines are a given. The list wouldn’t be complete without Tomb Raider: Underworld’s Lara Croft modeled after Alison Carroll and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3’s Gina Carano as Russian hottie Natasha Volkova and Jenny McCarthy as Special Agent Tanya Adams.

Maggie Q as Detective Chase Linh in Need for Speed: Undercover may have been overlooked due to the games underwhelming ratings. Of course the virtual girls are well represented including. Zoey from Left 4 Dead is a pick as well as several secondary characters and enemies.

I’d say you could read the article for details but let’s be honest with ourselves, shall we? You can view the whole The 17 Hottest Video Game Babes of 2008 list on Maxim.

Electronic Arts has issued two patches for two of their RTS series Command and Conquer: Kane’s Wrath and Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. The notes for Kane’s Wrath are pretty extensive so we won’t get to descriptive with them here, but it is basically aimed at making ‘numerous’ economic balance changes across all 9 factions.

The patch for Red Alert 3 is not as extensive and offers new and improved automatch system plus a balance exploit fix which means no more “Crane Exploit”. Also contained in this patch are the recent major updates from the previous patch, v1.05, and includes DRM de-authorization so if you’ve maxed out at 5 machines, you can easily de-authorize any installation in-game with a few simple clicks. A balance exploit was fixed by adding capture delay on Engineers, they have balanced Allies vs. Empire of the Rising Sun–secifically tuning Allied aircraft rush against Rising Sun and have added the ability to see a player’s stats in the online lobby. Co-op lobbies have been added as well, so you can easily find your next co-commander, a critical list of balance and technical changes have occurred and the official release of Red Alert 3 Worldbuilder has arrived as well.

Both patches are available in many other languages bedsides English, and you can see if your region was included by checking out the main patch page on FileFront. You can get each patch by hitting the appropriate badge below.

Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

The November NPD numbers are in for PC titles for the month, and it should come as no surprise that World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is on top–as a matter of fact it takes the top two spots out of the Top 20. If you look through the whole chart though, you will notice that World of Warcraft took five spots which is an indication that its popularity shows no wane in sight.

Call of Duty: World at War for the PC came in third, with Spore still pulling in the gamers and resting at number four, and Left 4 Dead took the number 8 spot which is a decent slot considering the PC powerhouses that are present on the chart.

1. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Edition
3. Call of Duty: World At War
4. Spore
5. Fallout 3
6. World of Warcraft: Battle Chest
7. The Sims 2 Deluxe
8. Left 4 Dead
9. The Sims 2 Apartment Life Expansion Pack
10. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
11. World of Warcraft
12. The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff Expansion
13. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
14. EverQuest II: The Shadow Odyssey
15. Far Cry 2
16. World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack
17. BioShock
18. Spore Creepty & Cute Parts Pack
19. IGT Slots: Little Green Men
20. Assassin’s Creed

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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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When you think of piracy lately, Spore comes to mind more so than anything else, and according to a post over on Actiontrip– Electronic Arts and Will Wright’s huge hit Spore is the biggest pirated game of 2008. I wonder if it has anything to do with the hoopla caused by the DRM restrictions EA imposed upon the title?

Whatever gamers reasoning for pirating these titles is, they are all listed in the order of most to least with the release date of the game next to the title. While looking this over, some of you may recall all of the money that Ubisoft claims they lost when Assassin’s Creed for the PC was pirated. The main reason that Assassin’s Creed was so highly pirated according to a lawsuit brought against OEM by Ubisoft, was because an employee took home a copy of Assassin’s Creed and uploaded it onto the internet six weeks before the game shipped in April 2008. Ubisoft claims that this led to over 700,000 pirated downloads of the title. Well, now that number is up to 1,070,000. Wow, just wow.

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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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For those ambitious gamers who enjoy modding, Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 has a World builder available. The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Worldbuilder allows players to design custom multiplayer & skirmish maps using the same tool the Red Alert 3 developers use.

To build your own empire download the Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Worldbuilder tool from FileFront. Make sure to check out the other Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 mods and the Red Alert 3 Co-Op Lan Enabler Utility (1.1) while you’re(you are) at it.

Some gamers were disappointed that EA didn’t allow for Co-op Campaign play through the LAN network menu for Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. A few were so miffed, they created a mod to allow LAN gameplay. FileFront has the Red Alert 3 Co-Op Lan Enabler Utility (1.1) with detailed instructions on how to install and use this mod. More information follows the break.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is bringing on the action with a new demo. EA’s Real Time Strategy alternate reality game is back, with a star studded cast. Red Alert 3 ushers in the a new high tech enemy to change up game play. You can grab the new Red Alert 3 Playable Demo on FileFront. The key features of the demo are listed after the jump.

In the mean time, here’s David Hasselhoff to tell you about Red Alert 3:

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The Open File, Gaming Today’s feature piece on the news and interests of the FIleFront network of file sites returns this week after a long hiatus. In the spirit of great cooperation we’ve aligned with the producer of the Filefront Network Insider to provide user submitted news blogs and links to recently updated modification files and maps hosted among the various file communities.

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