This mod is my own version of merciless mod. Filled with new weapons such as unscoped Springfield, Scoped M1 Garand, MG34, Scoped Svt, Dual Magazine... more
The story will take place in a hostile city where things wont go easy. So this isn't for those who want a simple challenge. This is for those who want...
The GOG.com Weekly Update & Weekend Deal The DRM-free web site GoG.com isn't done with us yet this week. The classic PC game site has a couple of extra additions to their growing library: Crystals of Arborea and Ishar III, Personal Nightmare, The Pandora Directive.
Crystals of Arborea and Ishar 3 added to Ishar Compilation - Silmarils/DotEmu - $5.99 It's a great day to be an RPG fan! Starting right now our Ishar compilation is complete, featuring all four games of the series. And to make the news even better, the price remains the same - just $5.99! This also means that if you already purchased the Ishar 1+2 pack, now you can download all four games with no extra charge. Both games are first-person perspective role-playing games, letting you create a party and live out a solid storyline in a 3D fantasy world.
Personal Nightmare - 1989 - Horrorsoft/Adventure Soft - $5.99 Where else but GOG.com are you going to get 20-year old games? Personal Nightmare is the oldest game in GOG's catalog to date and the precursor to the acclaimed Elvira series. Personal Nightmare is a first-person-perspective adventure game from Horrorsoft, putting players in the shoes of a young man who returns to his home town to find his father, the local vicar, missing, and the town he grew up in much different - and more haunting - than he remembers.
The Pandora Directive - 1996 - Access Software/Wordplay LLC - $9.99 The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment of the awesome Tex Murphy series. As can be expected from a game with such an acclaimed pedigree, you'll find an involving story which is guaranteed to keep you glued to your chair, topped with some dark humor and well-designed puzzles. This time our favorite P.I. is hired by a man named Gordon Fitzpatrick to find his friend, Thomas Malloy. But, as always, there is more to this case than meets the eye. You can now get all four games in the series for just $5.99. If you already bought the collection when it just had two games, you can now get the two additional titles for free.
All Pinball Games 20% Off Arcades may be having a tough time these days, but GOG.com keeps on pinballing. Starting tomorrow (so please don't talk about it until then! J) and running until Monday at 11:59pm Eastern, all of GOG.com's pinball games will be 20% off! That means you can get four classic pinball games that pass the test of time for just $4.79 each - that's four games for under $20!
In related news, Steam's weekend deal is Fallout 3 at 50% off its normal price. Seriously, $25 for this bad boy is basically a no brainer. Also 2K Games just launched its Huge Game Pack on Steam, bundling 20 of its games--which would normally sell for $229.80 individually--for the total price of $60. Bundled titles include Civilization III, Civ IV and its expansions, BioShock, X-COMs, Freedom Forces, Railroad Tycoon II and 3, Prey, Sid Meier's Railroads! and Pirates!, and more.
Stardock has released new screenshots of its upcoming PC fantasy 4X strategy title Elemental: War of Magic.
"The best way I can describe the battles is that they're tactical with XCom being a major inspiration but designed to be relatively short," wrote Stardock CEO Brad Wardell. During the battles, players can zoom far down to the front lines (see below, left).
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Want a new gaming challenge? Did you know it is now possible to play hundreds of different games online? With the internet growing as it has, we have seen the online gaming industry growing with it. It is now possible to play anything online, from the classic casino games, to far more complex multiplayer stage games. There is truly something for everyone. Don't miss out! Make sure you make the most of your gaming skills, and put them to the test online.
Digital distributor Impulse now offers the first two Red Faction titles for free with PC pre-orders of Volition's shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla. However, Impulse notes you will not receive the two games until you are charged for your $39.99 Guerrilla pre-order--which will only happen when Guerrilla arrives. Another interesting deals:
* Titan Quest - $3.99 * Red Faction Guerilla Pre-Order Bundle (RF1, RF2 and RFG) - $39.99 USD | $49.99 EUR | 34.99 GBP * Sins of a Solar Empire + Entrenchment Bundle - $29.99 * Call of Duty 4 - $34.99 * Prototype - $44.99 * Street Fighter IV Pre-Order - $35.99 * King's Bounty - $19.99 * Majesty Gold - $4.99 * Flock - $7.50 * Unreal Gold - $7.49 * Unreal II - $7.49 * Unreal Tournament 2004 - $11.29 * Unreal Tournament GotY - $7.49 * Unreal Tournament III - $22.49 * Unreal Pack - $33.79
Update: When contacted regarding the "Cataclysm" trademarks, a Blizzard representative told Shacknews that "we don't have any details to share at this time."
Original: Acclaimed developer Blizzard Entertainment (World of Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft) has filed new game-related trademarks for "Cataclysm," and that's all we know.
The studio is known to have at least four projects in development--World of Warcraft, Diablo III, StarCraft II and a new MMO--with the company recently confirming that the new MMO is to be the start of "a brand new franchise" created "entirely from scratch." In addition, rumors of a fifth mystery project began circulating earlier this year.
As one would expect, the filings have triggered a tidal wave of internet speculation. Some believe "Cataclysm" to be the name of the next World of Warcraft expansion, while others suggest it could be the new MMO or a new branding for the redesigned Battle.net.
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Digital distributor Impulse is sowing seeds of destruction by offering the first two Red Faction titles for free with PC pre-orders of Volition's shooter Red Faction: Guerrilla.
While Guerrilla focuses on demolishing constructions in the third person, 2001's Red Faction and 2002's Red Faction 2 delighted in exploding environments from a first-person perspective, complete with a terrain destruction engine.
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Seriously, did anyone think this was going to go any other way than what it did? Of course Windows 7 preorders for $49 - $99 are going to be a hit, beats the hell out of buying it for full retail. The two offers have proven exceptionally popular on Amazon. The Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade package vaulted to No. 1, not just in Amazon's software store, but among all electronics products on the site. Meanwhile, the Windows 7 Professional upgrade was No. 2 among software products. Amazon also has a lot of Windows 7 info on its site, as well as a paid delivery option that guarantees that the product will arrive on October 22. According to Engadget, Windows 7 has completely sold out of pre-orderable copies in Japan, which combines sales from the 17 retailers involved with the early orders. Apparently, this is a grand total of about 30,000 copies of the operating system, and it took 1.5 days (out of the 10 that were allocated) for this event to happen. Don't think that this offer hasn't been popular in the U.S., though; Windows 7 immediately shot to the top of Amazon sales.
Here's a playable demo of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, allowing you to try out the action-adventure that reunites fans with Scrat, Sid, Manny and Diego in an all-new quest based on the upcoming film from Twentieth Century Fox. The 513MB demo is mirrored on Atomic Gamer, FileFront
As the unlikely herd travels across the tundra and beyond, they stumble upon another world - a lush Dinosaur World teeming with jungles, mysterious plants, fierce dinosaurs, wild new adventures and several new friends. Taking on the role of more than six playable characters, including everyone’s favorite Ice Age friends and newly introduced characters, players master their unique skills and abilities across more than 15 action-packed levels. In addition to the expanded features of the single-player gameplay, for the first time in an Ice Age game, players can team up with friends and family in eight competitive multiplayer mini-games.
Minimum System Requirements for Demo:
* Pentium 4 1.8 GHZ or Athlon XP 2400+ or Higher Processor * 512 MB of Ram (XP), 1 GB Ram (Vista) * 2.77 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 400 MB for the Windows swap file)
*Supported chipsets for Win XP - All Nvidia GeForce 6600 128 MB Ram and better chipsets - All ATI Radeon X800 128 MB Ram and better chipsets
THIS IS MY DEMOMAN COLUMN! THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT! (Many, many like it.) BUT THIS ONE IS MINE!
Hooah! This week I'm being deployed to America's Army 3, which I'll admit isn't actually a demo, but instead a full, free-to-play, first-person shooter created as a recruitment tool by the United States Army. I'm still going to treat it like a demo, however, and my rule with demos is that if I give them an eight sticky-bomb rating, I buy the full game. So, if I give this game an eight rating, I guess I will have to join the Army. Boy, I really I hope I don't like this game.
Luckily for me, I'm off to a good start in hating the crap out of it, after spending hours just trying to get the damn training missions to run. I won't go into detail on all the technical problems I had, but let's just say I spent a great deal of time stationed at Fort Desktop and logged countless hours in Reboot Camp.
57% is a passing grade, but something tells me I'll still be scrubbing garbage cans.
Eventually, a surge of patches and updates allowed me to begin my training. Someone had already taken the username "Demoman", but the demo was nice enough to suggest a few alternatives. I went with "MrsDemoman", the least stupid of the suggestions, which included "FerretDemoman" and "TheCoyServant". Not exactly as catchy as Iceman and Maverick.
First up, MrsDemoman tackled the "Fit to Win" obstacle course, where the lesson was quickly learned that no one in the U.S. Army has ever played a video game. Left-Alt to sprint? Ctrl to melee attack? At least my drill instructor didn't mind me stopping in the middle of the obstacle course to remap my keys. After running, crawling, and rolling my way to success, it was on to the live fire ranges to learn how to shoot various weapons and throw grenades.
Punishment is swift if you frag a friendlie. To get out of jail, hit Escape. Makes sense.
I had to pass three tests with my M16, squeezing off careful shots at distant targets while lying prone, kneeling, and standing. I failed a couple times: they don't give you a lot of ammo, and you have to hold your breath (with the spacebar) to keep your aim steady. Frankly, the best shot I made all day was after swiveling around and putting a round into my drill instructor's dome, which the Army did not look upon favorably. After leaving my jail cell, I spent some more time on the range with the M320 Grenade Launcher and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, which has a reload animation so long you could spend a week in Morocco and be home in time to see it finish. I attempted to take the Combat Lifesaving class, too, but it stubbornly refused to run without freezing. But hey, how often do injuries really come up during battle, anyway?
It's a shame when a young mannequin goes down. He had a pretty plastic girl back home, too.
On the grenade range, I learned you don't just chuck grenades with one button press, either. Pull the pin with one click, and use another to "cook" the grenade. Cooking a grenade, as far as I can tell, means holding onto it just long enough to have it explode three inches from your face after you throw it. I somehow passed with my eyebrows intact.
Finally, I was on to the MOUT Course, which combined everything I've learned in all the training missions, things like missing targets because I forgot to hold my breath, running out of ammo, throwing flashbang grenades and having them bounce off doorjambs and explode in my face, forgetting where I remapped my melee attack to, and not knowing anything about first aid. Needless to say, of the first five times I went through the MOUT course, I failed four times. Then I failed a fifth time. Gotta say, though, for shooting cardboard targets, it's a lot of fun.
If the enemy just stands there impassively in a real fight, I'll do fine.
Still, there's nothing like shooting actual people, so despite not passing my finals or half the other training missions, I decided to take a jaunt online and see how I did in the real game. The answer will not shock you. I ran around a farm level, having no idea what the objectives were, emptying clips and hitting no one, and getting shot by enemies I didn't know were there. Eventually I employed the only strategy I could, namely, finding the highest scoring player on my team and following him around. After about a half-hour, I got one confirmed kill. It would seem I am not an Army of One. Whew.
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