Zombie Bowl-o-Rama Playable Demo http://www.filefront.com/14714757/Zombie-Bowl-o-Rama-Playable-Demo/
This demo lets you try out Zombie BowloRama the game where the Zombies have taken over your favorite lanes and its up to you to send em back to the graveyard where they belong.
Hearts of Iron 3 Patch v. 1.1 http://www.filefront.com/14245841/hoi3_1.1.exe/
This patch for the recently released Hearts of Iron 3 contains a number of AI and interface changes, as well as bugfixes and database changes.
By Jon on Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 1:45 PM In Games
Blood Bowl Meet The Champions Trailer #2
In this installment of Meet the Champions, the Lizardmen take the Blood Bowl field to show off their skills on the gridiron.
EVE Online The Butterfly Effect Trailer
This trailer shows off what you can expect if you take the reins of a spaceship in EVE Online, the persistent, single-server futuristic MMO.
Mortal Online v.0.2.0.1 Beta Client
Star Vault has released the beta client of Mortal Online, a MMORPG with no PvP zones, only an open realistic world where you are free to choose your own path.
The Sims series has taken the next big leap forward with the latest full game, The Sims 3. Fans of the sims will find a lot to love about the game as long as they can keep in mind that Sims 3 is a new base game. Gamers who own every expansion and stuff pack for Sims 2 should find the new game mechanics fixes much of what wasn’t fun about the previous titles, but they’ll have to be patient as many of the luxuries they’ve come to take for granted will have to wait for expansion. Read on for the scoop on the Sims 3.
Last week, Electronic Arts decided to promote the release of Mercenaries 2 in a decidedly unique way: by giving away free gas to motorists in Los Angeles at a decorated station run by people dressed as characters in the game. The promotion went over well, and they thought they’d try the same marketing gimmick in the UK. Bad idea. Turns out they didn’t plan the event quite so well in London and ended up causing traffic to come to a screeching halt during the morning rush hour. People flocking to get their share of the £20,000 worth of free fuel ended up gridlocking the area for quite awhile, forcing police to shut down the station even though there was still £9,000 worth of gas left. Several residents and one politician, Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, Lynne Featherstone, were notably upset, saying:
“Whilst a lucky few might have got some free petrol, hundreds of local residents have faced misery on their daily journeys this morning. They deserve an apology for being the victims of such an ill-thought out media stunt.”
On the other hand though, the people who did manage to fill their tank for free seemed to have no complaints. On woman who waited in line 40 minutes stated:
“I think it’s a brilliant promotion. I don’t see it becoming a full-time thing, but I think it’s a great idea – I’ll be telling my sons about the game.”
There’s at least one lesson to be learned from this whole ordeal though: people don’t mess around when it comes to free gas these days.
I’m a Fallout fan. I’ve been following this game since it was a GURPS title. I was saddened when Interplay lost their way and the franchise seemed doomed to obscurity but when Bethesda scooped up the game three years ago I found renewed hope.
Last year Todd Howard, and the team fresh off of The Elder Scrolls Oblivion showed a very tight, controlled demonstration of the game in action, and this year I actually got 30 minutes of hands on time with the title. While the areas shown in the live demo area covered much the same content as last years presentation I didn’t care. This wasn’t my shot to gauge the story or the acting; this was about finding out if Fallout could translate to the 1st person RPG space and not lose its charm.
Well I have good and bad news for Fallout fans. Fallout 3 makes the transition well but only if you’re a fan of the Oblivion style of gaming (which I most definitely am). Controlling the character, implementing stat points and choosing perks using the Pip boy interface were all simple and intuitive.
Unlike Oblivion, Fallout 3 does not rely on a clunky interface. There is inventory management but its reminiscent of the older Fallout’s turn based grid with a few modern updates. The change of setting – from a medieval combat system to a modern gun-slinging wasteland works well also. I demo’d the game on the 360 and the title showed the same visual finesse of Bethesda’s earlier game. Those who found fault with the dialog interface or camera system of that title will find it virtually unchanged.
I spent a good deal of time navigating and interacting with NPCs. Dialog choices that could be influenced by skills were set apart – including the percentage chance of success, though the actual “roll” was hidden it was obvious when you succeeded or failed. This little tweak felt like a good reflection of the classic games and the content of the dialog also followed a more adult, humorous bent in the area of Megaton.
Wading into combat with some rabid scavengers in an old elementary school, I used every chance possible once engaged to test out the V.A.T.S. targeting system. This turn-based mode freezes combat momentarily and displays a digital overlay of a foe. The various target spots of the baddie glows and players can choose trick shots with likely success indicated by percentages based on skills and perks your character has.
All in all I’m just as excited about this game as I was last year. The hands on experience felt familiar in many good ways and with the game coming soon on the 360, PC and PS3 at least I won’t have to wait long to wander around at the end of the world nuking super mutants.
Not much going on in the way of demos this week, so to be quite honest with you, I am going forgo downloading any myself tonight and instead watch my newest DVD purchase – “Throw Mamma from the Train” – and drink until I drunkenly believe I am the bloody Queen of England.
Meanwhile, my coworkers will be flying to LA in pursuit of some of the grandest information being divulged at E3 2008, while Chris and I post their findings starting Monday. Personally, I would rather watch Anne Ramsey slap Danny DeVito around than fly all the way to LA to be quite frank, esp. since airlines are charging you scandalous amounts of cash just to breathe the recycled air on their flying death machines.
Hopefully after all the E3 2008 madness wears off, gaming companies will be a bit more willing to send out some demos, but until then these should get you through. If you want to see what else is available, you are a bit out of luck as far as new ones go, but FileFront has tons to keep you occupied in case you want to try something different out.
International Cricket Captain 2008: International Cricket Captain 2008 is the most realistic and in-depth cricket management game to date. With a complete statistical update, a remodelled game engine and a vastly enhanced and re-designed interface and the most up to date statistics available, International Cricket 2008 is set to reclaim its place amongst the sports management elite.
Dynasty Warriors 6 (Japanese): Dynasty Warriors 6 will deliver the massive scale and realistic atmosphere that players have come to expect from the series, but will redefine the Tactical Action experience, with completely re-imagined character designs and weapons, yet maintaining familiar characterizations that are accurate to culturally depictions.
Frontlines: Fuel of War PC Beta: Kaos has released a beta version of the multiplayer demo featuring the Oilfield and GNAW maps, updated with the latest v1.1.1 code. Since this is a beta version you may have to uninstall/reinstall when the full release is out.
For the full list of demos and patches, as always, click here and here. Have a great weekend, and while you are at it, “go get me a soda with some ice in it”, because “he bought me the unsalted nuts, and the unsalted nuts make me choke”.
GRID players on Xbox 360 have likely taken notice by now, but for those who aren’t aware, Codemasters recently wiped clean all ranks and leaderboards due to widespread cheating. While things like fastest lap times and other stats were maintained, many legitimate players lost their hard-earned ranks as a result of the reset.
“Resetting the leaderboards was a no-brainer; the players that are capable of consistently posting legitimately great times will be able to do so again,” wrote one fan on the Codemasters forums. “But resetting the Ranks?!?!?!?! Yes, some players have probably gotten Elite and/or Legend with the help of the brown screen glitch and other glitches, but some people, like myself, worked REALLY Hard to get the Rank we HAD.”
Codemasters has since responded with some answers, although I doubt they’ll make it any easier for hardcore players to swallow the reset.
“Given the number of reports we’ve had of people abusing the ranking system to get unfair ranks, it was only fair that we did a reset,” said Codemasters’ Rich Tysoe.
“It’s never an easy decision to make, and we’d rather it hadn’t come to this, but changes in the patch should make gaining those ranking points back fairer.
“We’d like to think that people play online for the fun of it, not so much the amassing of points, but if you find yourself in this sort of situation, it’s the fairest solution.”
It’s a difficult decision to make, as you can imagine. Is it better to let the cheaters get away so that you don’t affect the other players, or would it be better to pull everyone back to square one and force the cheaters to play like everyone else? I can see why some would pick one answer over the other, but as with any decision, you can never make everyone happy.
This is the fourth and final post in our Gears of War 2 Screenshot Extravaganza. Where as part three showed campaign artwork, these are actual screenshots and this time we have more than just pretty pictures, we have some actual multiplayer map descriptions too.
Here are the maps we know about so far:
GRIDLOCK: A tranquil highway next to a river rapidly filled with evacuating vehicles immediately after the Locust emergence. Few of the panicked owners made it out alive as ruthlessly efficient Locust squads swept through the area, taking out civilians one by one.
RIVER: Old grain mills located on the outskirts of the city of Landown make the perfect setting for a cross-bridge clash.
SECURITY: Older Coalition technology was built to last, as witnessed by the laser fences and security turrets located in this Pendulum Wars–era work camp. Soldiers must first deactivate the lethal defenses before making a dash for the weaponry in either wing of the arena.
Screens for each map are posted after the jump along with more screens from the game featuring Grenadiers, Hammerheads, Dizzy, Cole and more.
Be sure and check out the other GoW2 screens posts:
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