tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56725162012-02-16T13:43:57.630+01:00new, old and older games. believing in communities.PDnoreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-2005564247335969202011-10-31T16:33:00.002+01:002011-10-31T16:57:58.326+01:00

If you get an error message from Origin while starting Battlefield 3 which looks like"There is a Problem with your game setup. Please reinstall your game." in your local language(german installation: "Es gibt leider ein Problem mit dem Spiel-Setup. Bitte installieren Sie das Spiel erneut." et. al.) you can try the following to fix the problem:- Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 9! BF3 will most

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Incredibly sad puzzle platformer :(http://armorgames.com/play/4918/the-company-of-myself

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Watch some awesome LIVE speedruns (Live stream on their website), donate some money for cancer prevention.Win-Win situation.

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The year is nearly over. These are the games I played in 2010.If you have posted your own "2010 in games" post somewhere (preferably with screenshots), feel free to post a link in the comments!Disclaimer: These are the games I played 2010, not necessarily the best games 2010 (release date):---League of LegendsNever before did I have more fun in a free 5vs5 game (except for the HL:CounterStrike

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By the lead designer of League of Legends, this is easily one of the best posts about (anti-)patterns in Game Design I've ever read.Insane amounts of wisdom on a single page without you having the sift through all the self-praise and empty phrases you'll find in Game Design books.

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I have just unplugged my Xbox 360. It will either move to a friend's place or Ebay.From now on I will only play on my PC again.This is probably my longest entry on this blog, explaining the reasons why:Hardware issues: Ring of Death (ROD) and scratched CDsThis one goes without saying. "Console" implies that it just works, does not destroy games or itself. After reading all ROD horror stories on

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-91092786378354957042010-10-03T08:47:00.002+02:002010-10-03T08:51:25.804+02:00

a brilliant animation movie about old vs. new games:

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In case you missed it: WCG 2010 Grandfinals are currently running.And since "pro gaming" is doomed and will never find proper sponsors again which would pay for the whole circus, they found a better sponsor: YOU!Now, I would have watched the Forza3 (spoiler: Daveyskills won) and League of Legends finals (spolier: CLG won against SK Gaming) at least, both of which require a proper resolution to be

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-52429044897293723812010-10-01T13:15:00.003+02:002010-10-01T13:29:55.923+02:00

Minecraft is probably the best selling PC indie game of all times:With 10,000 copies sold in the last 24 hours at a price tag of 10 € during alpha, the developer sits at $100,000 minus Paypal fees.And that's just from the past day.Overall, we're talking about 2,890,000 € or $3,965,000 in sales.

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...or easily the best Machinima so far:

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-78918481833678755432010-10-01T05:00:00.005+02:002010-10-01T06:26:31.630+02:00

Some minor racing game news:- Black Bean Games released a trailer of their upcoming WRC 2010 title showing some old group B cars in action. They also announced the payment model for these cars:While buyers of the PC version will be enjoying the Peugeot 205 T 16, Lancia Delta S4, Ford RS200, Citroën BX4 TC as well as the Renault R5 Maxi Turbo for free, the cars will only be available as paid DLC

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-31799891858641797722010-07-19T23:42:00.005+02:002010-07-19T23:46:19.796+02:00

Illuminated dust := Replay Porn.

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-75081485997192423342009-11-11T19:08:00.011+01:002009-11-13T19:18:57.375+01:00

"SM PATCH 2.5 by Soulmirror" for Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 is an inofficial game patch which includes all clubs from the german Bundesliga, both italian top leagues Serie A and Serie B, english Premier League, dutch Eredivisie as well as all missing teams from the UEFA Champions League.11/13/2009: Patch 2.5 update11/11/2009: Patch 2.2 updatelatest patch:Bundesliga Patch Download (SM

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-35589476430407028312007-09-25T14:06:00.000+02:002007-09-25T16:43:17.601+02:00

Ummm, the PES 2008 demo is out, one of the bigger PC demo releases this year with 12,000 downloads from GamersHell in 2 hours and probably beating the FIFA demo in every department.Not just that it is a great and popular title, but the demo alone also weighs 1.1 GB. Needless to say that most servers are crowded right now... The game is supposed to be multilanguage so you can download it from

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1156441565491657822006-08-24T19:46:00.000+02:002007-09-23T18:28:38.306+02:00

Attached is a series of live gameplay video footage of Valve's HalfLife Episode 2. Doesn't look very spectacular so far, but nice explosion effects as usual. As with the previous parts, it's probably the storyline which saves the game anyways.Gameplay footage @ GamesConvention 2006 - Cam rip:http://rapidshare.de/files/30599879/halflife2_episode2_allvids.wmvAnd even more Valve...Portal game play

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FEAR Combat is out now and web servers all over the world are choking to deliver the 1.8GB game (full version!) to the gamers.To play, all you need is a free CD-key from www.joinfear.com and of course the game itself.Here are a couple of file mirrors:http://gamershell.com/download_15038.shtml (GamersHell)http://files.filefront.com/fearcombat+en+107/;5417181;;/fileinfo.html (FileFront)http://

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1154368604658751102006-07-31T19:56:00.000+02:002006-08-18T14:36:20.920+02:00

In some cases, it's the idea which makes a game. Something along the lines of Spore - or this title, "Drawn to be Alive".The game is actually an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod and is being developed by French design school students as a school project. It's due in October 2006.From what you can see so far, the gameplay is about being a 2D cartoon character who is deployed in a 3D world. Your

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1153855170305928182006-07-25T21:19:00.000+02:002006-08-18T14:36:32.993+02:00

25.7. - The first screenshots of NBA Live 07 (EA Sports) on XBox 360This is probably as close to photorealistic as it gets on the 360. You can see the players' sweating, detailed reflections on skin and muscles as well ass realistic blurs in the background. If they get around and make the player faces more dynamic, it will become shockingly real.

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1153839662615226952006-07-25T16:50:00.000+02:002006-07-25T17:01:02.746+02:00

Nurburgring Nordschleife GTR2 add-on trackWe don't have to wait until September to floor the pedal for some immerse action on the Nurburgring Norschleife. The green hell can now be installed as an add-on track for the GTR2 demo!GTR2 Nordschleife "Brakesman Edition"Download link:http://rapidshare.de/files/26628274/NS_Brakesman_GTR2.rar.html - Rapidshare mirrorBasically, you can use any GT Legends

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1153837627933673722006-07-25T16:18:00.000+02:002006-07-25T16:27:07.993+02:00

Disable the ghost car in GTR 2 demoThe GTR2 demo seems fine, except for the fact that the ghost car in time trial mode gets on my nerves. Plus, there is no way to disable it via the GTR menu.To deactivate your ghost car and make it disappear, you have to edit your player configuration file which is located in your GTR2 directory (GTR2demo/UserData/profilename/profilename.plr).Use a text editor

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1151114038999224102006-06-24T03:42:00.000+02:002006-07-15T01:40:52.526+02:00

SubSpace is apparently an underground game now. Not that it was added to the Home of the Underdogs, but it has lost virtually every public existence on the web.During the past years, there were two big SubSpace sites which held the name of the game up: SubSpace.net and SubSpaceHQ.com.SubSpace.net was lost (expired?) some time ago but there was still SubSpaceHQ.Not anymore.SubSpaceHQ was captured

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Thirty titles that could keep the cash tills ringing through the long hot months - Well, not really. Who's playing in summer, especially such a hot one as this?Most of these titles are to be released in autumn. Makes sense from a sales point of view.Anyway, some promising titles in the next months once again. My peek list:Neverwinter Nights 2, THE role playing game for PC finally receives its

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1149295473492833092006-06-03T02:44:00.000+02:002006-08-18T14:37:08.016+02:00

MMOGCHART.com says WoW is now sitting at 50 percent market share and rising. The market? Massively multiplayer games.Already in 2004 it was pretty clear that WoW would become the most successful MMORPG ever. "Genre gurus" didn't see the game matching its hype and predicted the WoW hype to fade out soon enough. Now, 2 years later, the number of subscriptions is still rising.Where are these

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1136230681006396932006-01-02T20:34:00.000+01:002006-01-02T21:17:07.506+01:00

Game charts of the last week of 20051. Quake 4, ActivisionIn a desperate war for Earth's survival, against an unrelenting alienenemy, the only way to defeat them is to become one of them. Armed withadvanced weaponry and vehicles and aided by an elite squad of marines,you take the battle to the heart of the Strogg home planet and becomeEarth's only hope for victory.2. Call of Duty 2,

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Ghost car mod for Live for SpeedThe best online racing simulator on the net, Live for Speed, finally has had a ghost mod added which allows you to see a ghost car with you on track as you practice (alone).It uses the InSim interface to communicate with the game and always records the fastest lap as your ghost by default, including all split times.The green/yellow/red lines show whether the car is

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3 racing games in the top10 demo downloads ranking this week, this does look promising.Need For Speed: Most Wanted, ToCa Race Driver 3 (2006), TrackMania Sunrise Extreme, World Racing 2... what else can you ask for?I tried Most Wanted and Sunrise Extreme so far, so here is a little personal review:Need for Speed Most WantedBig glitches on the physics side of the game. Not as bad as Underground1

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1130723665809466032005-10-31T02:24:00.000+01:002005-10-31T02:54:25.870+01:00

Warcraft 3 : "Tower rush unleashed" replayMy first non-custom game of Warcraft 3 after what? - 2 years maybe - turned out to be a great noob vs. noob shootout.In the left corner, there I am. I never really enjoyed the regular warcraft3 battle.net games and installed WC3 again just to watch the Blizzcon Invitational final (Grubby vs. Zacard) via WaaaghTV but going online again, choosing Orc and

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Quake 4 autoexec.cfg configTraditionally, deathmatch shooters have a strange characteristic: They set new standards in the graphics department regularly, yet you have to disable most of the details if you want to play on a more advanced level. Basically, there is no chance to play Quake4 competitively without a good config file.You can use the below autoexec.cfg file as a start. Q4 does not

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Here it is, the best week so far in terms of game releases!We have the "non-tactical" duel of the first person shooters FEAR and Quake4 which is most likely to become the new multiplayer deathmatch reference as online and offline esport leagues will pick up this title and drop Painkiller which nobody really liked or played anyway. Thus 6 years after the last Quake title we have a new gory

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EGFL 2005: The grand finalSummer is gone and the EGFL 2005 finals are here. Last year's champion Blood will fight it out against OurFreedom, a squad which recently formed and is a 1:4 underdog to Blood if we can believe EG forum predictions.Blood surprised everybody by shutting up Silence, making them dissolve after Blood won both semi final games in the best-of-3 series in less than 1 hour

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How to legally play World of Warcraft for free...So it looks like we found a flaw in Blizzard's charging.A guild mate and me cancelled our WoW subscribtions some time ago and they both expired around the end of last month.Now, we can still play for free on the official servers for the new patch as the test realms don't seem to be connected to the main billing center of World of Warcraft. The test

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World of Warcraft becomes largest MMORPG in the worldAfter the successful launch of World of Warcraft in China, reaching 1.5million subscribers within only 1 month, WoW is now officially the biggest MMORPG out there.The previous record holder, Lineage 2, has lost a part of its market share to the Blizzard game.That being said, the european WoW servers are much less packed with players these days

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The ESL, as the biggest german and european esports league, is once again hosting a Live for Speed league. There will be 4 big grids of 20 starters each this time. This is the standing of the hotlap qualification 19 hours before the deadline:oh and if anybody can tell me why this table does not align at all in IE6, I'd be grateful ;) 1. ocr . ATI * Rudi Reinkort 2:13.050 3:05.500

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World of Warcraft 1.60 patch available for downloadYesterday Blizzard patched the EU versions of their MMORPG up to version 1.60.It supposedly fixes some character related bugs and was intended to be specifically a fix for Hunters and Warlocks. Also, the talent trees of Warlocks and Warriors were changed so all players using these chars get all their talent points back and can redistribute them

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List of all announced Xbox 360 games (Standing: June 3rd, 2005)2 Days to Vegas (Third-person action adventure)Alan Wake (Action thriller in the American Northwest)Amped 3 (Sports - Snowboarding game)Battle Angel (Cinematic game based on Anime series)Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Tactical first-person / Online multiplayer shooter)Blue Dragon (RPG by the Crono Trigger dev team)Burnout Revenge (

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1118228548138705112005-06-08T12:52:00.000+02:002005-06-08T13:02:28.146+02:00

Chew Crew surprisingly wins EGDL 3Chewbot's EGDL team, the big time underdog of this year's draft league, takes the win in 2 games lasting over 2 hours together.One might argue that Annihilate, Knitex's team, didn't have a chance because they were missing some players but the Chew Crew took a hit as well with Orc, Element Sun, Lammy and other starters missing in both games.CC entered the first

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Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) E3 FootageOf all hot games shown at E3, the upcoming GT for Sony's superconsole Playstation 3 which will be in the stores next spring was one of the greatest previews by far.Gran Turismo 5 - Working title "Vision Gran Turismo" - is a polished up GT4 which makes up for the fuzzy picture quality of the fourth part. The amazing details of Vision Gran Turismo will make it the

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Top 500 all-time reccers in Extreme GamesList of flawless EG pilots:1) bitch (2000 - 0)2) 0 p t i x (1815 - 0)3) prometheus x (1460 - 0)4) c0ught (1268 - 0)5) obsti (1214 - 0)6) baloola (1153 - 0)7) g.! (1104 - 0)8) high impulses (1089 - 0)9) duel (1050 - 0)10) twx (1009 - 0)11) cought+ (1003 - 0)12) evangelion-00 (1000 - 0)13) hydro7 (1000 - 0)14) evangelion-00 (890 - 0)15) 0ptix (766 - 0)16)

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Portability issues help to serve WoW doomcasters, or: "Time to move characters between accounts?""Bashing" World of Warcraft seems to be a new trend on the web. WoW is not "epic enough", it's not a real MMORPG, it lags, it's pay-to-play Diablo, too PVP-focused, easy, imbalanced, an endless grind, it's a pointless kids game... you may read these or similar opinions all over the place nowadays.I

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EGDL3 Week 3 ResultsExtreme Games Draft League 3:Some surprises this week. Chew Crew just managed to barely kill the Clown defense to win it in just under 2 hours. Mad Kiwi and IJOY (who is not to be found on the final scoreboard cause he lagged out) lagged through the Clown defense and made their last attack count while CCs defensive lineup held. In this shape, Chew Crew is a contender for this

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EGDL3 Week 2 ResultsExtreme Games Draft League 3:Chew Crew vs. Scared? : Chew Crew wins in 17 minsOpposing team won (1492610 points given)League:EGFL Summer/Fall 2004 - Finals Round:3------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winners Jackpot( 1492610) Game Time:00h 17m 15s Name Squad W

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Curse Gaming - WoW Ultimate UI v9.2 Download Of course you can take CTMod, Cosmos, the Nurfed UI or even go as far as downloading individual user interface add-ons from Curse-Gaming and spend hours to modify them to suit your needs. Or you could just install the WoW Ultimate UI which I found to be the best World of Warcraft UI by far. The latest UUI download includes the following features:

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EGDL 3 Week 1 ResultsAnnihilate vs. Gym Socks: Annihilate winsChew Crew vs. FuzzieBunnies: Chew Crew winsKoopa Troopas vs. Scared? : Koopa Troopas winOwninators vs. Clown: Clown winsAnnihilate vs. Gym Socks :Opposing team won (1395978 points given)League:EGFL Summer/Fall 2004 - Finals Round:3-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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World of Warcraft Europe got patched up to version 1.3.0 today. Realms are still offline but the huge download of 60 MB (Update) respectively 100 MB (Retail version) will take most players a while to download anyway.These are the filenames are the latest patch for all european versions. If you ran a fully functional WoW before, you might want to save those 40 MB difference and just download the

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... because of World of Warcraft.Offline economy has come to a halt thanks to Blizzard.An addiction portrait."I know that I cancelled City of Heroes and am skipping Silent Hill 4 and PaperMario 2 because of World of Warcraft.""...and about Doom 3, I deleted it today because of World of Warcraft, sorry.""I'm not on much at the moment because of World of Warcraft. Sowy.""... any recent posts

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All free agents for this year's EGDL are drafted. Preseason games start on sunday.PICK HISTORY: Round 1 gora picked by KniTeXalca picked by gambleFrozo picked by col.1eeta picked by ISRDarkKnight25 picked by xPYTrance picked by factorRoCkE picked by moeroTracker picked by chewbot! Round 2 unfun picked by chewbot!yellow picked by moerosaiko picked by factorexotic fungus picked by xPYMajin picked

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The draft went well and took nearly 4 hours all-in-all.These are the 8 teams which will fight for the EGDL 3 Championship:Koopa Troopas1. King2. fin13. Micken*4. red knight5. Wabbai6. moggy7. DesertFox8. primetime*9. Hypo10. vaal11. boo.12. Lord_Of_Acid13. wampire14. Yoshi15. PEKINHO!16. Stretchy17. Duckie18. brainlaw19. redix* (redix)20. Kupo!21. denk22. cabby23. Bobweave+24. crazed25. typon26.

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EGDL 3 - Extreme Games Draft League The Live Draft is on! It works via a well done live draft script developed by toCra. To see the progress, you have to refresh the draft page. This EGDL promises to be as interesting as the previous ones.

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Extreme Games Draft League 2005The player list is in for this year's EGDL. They barely managed to get 8 responsible Team Managers but now we're ready to roll. The draft will be this evening hopefully.moero - GM koopa troopa`s huy - GM Queer Bait knitex - GM annihilate gamble - GM clown col.1 - GM owninators ISR - GM scared? chewbot - GM chew crew factor - GM FuzzyBunnies------- 2b3 (Tube) 37.com

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City of Heroes - COH.com In Valentine's Day tradition... This week, there is a 14-day free trial available for City of Heroes. However, this one is not open to everybody. Current City of Heroes subscribers receive a free trial key by mail which they can send to a person who did not play the game yet. This key allows you to take the 14-day free trial.

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World of Warcraft Homepage It's official: The european, fully localized WoW will be released on Friday, 11th February, 2005! As already announced by Blizzard, there will be a regular game and a "collector's edition" for the die-hard World of Warcraft players out there. The monthly fee will be as low as 10,99 ? if you choose to pay for 6 months.

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Due to unknown reasons the Wish beta 2 was cancelled last week. After "analyzing the data from this test" they decided to shut the game down. The beta test was online for only 10 days. It's highly questionable if Mutable Realms will be able to recover from the failure of their MMORPG.

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FilePlanet - Wish Beta Client Download As of yesterday the Wish open beta client is available for download on Fileplanet's download servers. According to the developers Wish aint a regular MMORPG but a UMMORPG which stands for Ultra Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game. It supports more than 10,000 simultaneous players in a single word without zoning (splitting the world into several zones).

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Anarchy Online - Totally Free A major massively multiplayer game out there has gone free. With a tricky offer - namely everybody who registers in the next month gets to play 1 year for free - they supply a nice X-Mas present for online gamers. After Guild Wars this may be the second major free MMOG to watch. It has been around for some time of course... but hey, it's free. Right now the

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Prince Of Persia Warrior Within Ubisoft's latest Prince of Persia game came out this weekend. This is how the original adventure game Prince of Persia looks in 2004. Lots of action - and gore - guaranteed. Just for the sake of comparison: The Sands of time: Warrior Within vs. the original PoP This is one of the titles you'll buy for christmas if you don't like pure first person shooters like

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World of Warcraft Europe While the english WoW has gone live about a week ago, Blizzard Europe is still testing the game with yet another beta test to come. Thus you can still play World of Warcraft for free without using private server hacks or anything alike if you remember some of your german classes ;) I got the chance to test WoW final for a couple of days and I'm impressed by the

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EGFL - SSCX Extreme Games Flagging League The long awaited EGFL finals... here they are: Silence vs. Blood On the one side we have Silence, a squad stacked with european and american top pilots... names like Moggy, Lee, Ominous, Minus and rexrider should ring a bell for you if you watched EG close enough. Silence made the finals by a 2-1 against Mutiny, they were coming back from a 0-1 after

PDnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1098224666346335302004-10-20T00:24:00.000+02:002004-10-20T00:24:26.346+02:00

Racerplanet Network Forums - EAOR Reunion - A week long party on IP Lounge starting Oct. 20 There it is: 1 year after the shutdown of EA Online Racing we all meet again for a week of crazy online fun. Since I got IPlounge to work I'm gonna be there for a couple of races. Gonna be fun... although my times went downhill: Pyrenees, '95 993 1 year ago:: 1.56 now:: 2.03 *cough*

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1095268459468960472004-09-15T19:14:00.000+02:002005-03-17T19:54:03.093+01:00

EVE Online: 10-Day Free TrialEVE Online exists since early 2003 and is one of the massively multiplayer games which survived. Not only that it survived - there are currently more players than ever on the EVE servers... probably because of the free trial ;)If you like multiplayer galaxies, you will love EVE Online.

PDnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1093106191214895682004-08-21T18:36:00.000+02:002005-03-18T21:23:50.586+01:00

EGAC finishedElite Cats won the Assault Cup 2004 by a great win over TEAM FAT. So here are the results:1. Elite Cats2. TEAM FAT3. Panda4. Heartless5. Mogul6. BoltzEGFL (Extreme Games Flagging League) will come up next. Some outstanding, new flagging squadrons formed to make it a true competition. The following squads are considered top of the game as of now:- Blood (semi-finals EGSC1, 2nd EGSC2)-

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EGAC - Free Agent Sign-UpsJust 3 more days for EGAC Free Agent Sign-Ups to happen...The full schedule for the second week is online as well:SAT 3pm EST: Mogul - PandaSAT 4:30pm EST: TEAM FAT - HeartlessSUN 3pm EST: Elite Cats - BoltzTEAM FAT vs. Heartless stands out of course... This is also how the EGAC final will look I guess. We'll see, I'm too tired to analyze anything as of now :)

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First EGAC game finishedJust a couple of hours after the first ever EGAC game the forum is still quiet - which is the best sign of success!The arena was maxed out at 40 when Heartless and Boltz played in #egac. Unfortunately Boltz had a very bad showup and barely managed to get 6 eligible players. However Heartless basically had all of their key players.Heartless stormed right away and won Base 1

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Extreme Games Assault Cup (EGAC)And so EGAC is finally starting this weekend - with the usual squad scheduling problems that every other EG league already dealt with ;)Today I had some time to check the Rosters of all EGAC teams. Although I wouldn't have expected that many well-known names on the list, I'm also missing many RisinBlood and former Impurity (or Zen) players. However especially Risin

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Extreme Games Assault Cup (EGAC)If you know Unreal Tournament's Assault Mode, it will take you a whole 2 seconds to understand the concept of EGAC.Just a couple of weeks after EGSC there is a big league just around the corner.Players are free to form their own, custom teams in EGAC. That means we will see lots of inter-squad Assault teams which, from my point of view, is very interesting and

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StepMania - Dance Dance Revolution Clone for PCWe played 2 hours of StepMania today... and in case you're wondering:StepMania is a PC counterpart to arcade dance games like Konami's famous Dance Dance Revolution series. Although Konami already released a PC port of DDR in 2001, I'd always prefer StepMania:It's free, constantly updated, includes all modes of DDR, can handle a virtually unlimited

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Viper Racing Grand Touring ChampionshipI just can't seem to beat my Personal Best in Sega Rally 2 (4:04... duh) this summer, that's why I am always looking for new racing games. Arcade or simulation - who cares as long as it is fun to play.Viper Racing by Sierra is one of these racing sims that are unsupported and nearly forgotten. It's a great game with a hard single player mode if you choose to

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EGSC 2 - The FinalistsThis year's EGSC finalists are Blood and RisinBlood. These 2 squads will make it a bloody good final (sorry, couldn't resist...).Last week Blood had 2 completely different games. In the first one they did not take Downshift serious and had lots of individual chokes. They defended their flagroom successfully, but never managed to establish an attack before E00Z subbed in and

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1084378513278483772004-05-12T18:12:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:17:01.820+01:00

Dungeon Siege 2 E3 TrailerGas Powered Games released a short trailer of their upcoming Dungeon Siege 2 for E3. DS2 will find its way to the stores at the end of this year, most likely around x-mas of course.The video itself is just 20mb so it's still dialup-compatible I guess.

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Warcraft 3 1.15 releasedWednesday, 5:05pm, Battle.Net:I just logged in to see that Blizzard released their latest improvements and fixes for their current top-title WC3. the 1.15 patch includes a long list of new stuff: unit re-balancing, a new matchmaking system and anonymous "Free for All" games.And as always, there are a lot of crying noobs who spam the known WC boards (referring to the new

PDnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1084294771972571972004-05-11T18:28:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:15:18.300+01:00

Guild Wars E3 Demo DownloadAfter I gave up playing Diablo 2 for the 98th time after its release last months it's time for a new sparetime-player-friendly click-and-point wanna-be MMORPG. And no, this is no real online role playing of course... my guess is that it will be somewhere between Diablo and World of Warcraft - it's more or less the old but successful action-based fantasy slaughter fest.

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Extreme Games Squad Championship 2 (EGSC2)Sadly, I don't get to play any games besides my weekly SubSpace / Continuum capture the flag massacre with my brother. I'm so used to playing every Sunday morning now, been doing it for over 4 years without any real breaks in between... I guess "addiction" aint the right word for my SubSpace trauma anymore ;)Especially in Extreme Games there is lots of

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'Sasser' coded by 18-year-old german studentIt's not like Sasser used any NEW Windows 2000/XP exploits and it still had a nice population this week since you could find it on public top10 lists.Just by reading the 'features' on some tech news sites I could basically tell that it was written by a student... *sigh* If I had the time to not only THINK about ways to exploit security holes but to

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1081644190719620032004-04-11T02:43:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:11:59.060+01:00

Ultima Online - Private UO Shards and ServersSeriously: I thought that the grandmother of online roleplaying games, UO, already died. But there still is a large amount of servers and "styles" to choose from. Some of the listed sites even allow you to download the full game - patched and modified - to connect to an online server right away. I'm impressed to say the least.

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First details on Transport Tycoon 2 (Locomotion)I could see this one coming for a long time: Transport Tycoon 2!There are even some screenshots of the game engine which looks very smooth - it's a Cris Sawyer after all.So... can we expect TT2 to beat the Transport Tycoon Deluxe Patch (TTDPatch) which is constantly mantained and improved? To be continued...

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Nero 6 Ultra Edition fails on older CD-burnersI have to admit that I'm one of the ahead-maniacs, I used Nero ever since I bought my first CD-burner. And I just installed their great, so full-of-features and wizard-richt, Nero 6 Ultra Edition. This masterpiece of lagging software will hopefully go down in the books as the worst burning suite ever. To make a long story short: If you still have an

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Microsoft Education - Security PostersWhat does it take to make me laugh when it's friggen cold outside and the next week promises nothing but another big headache? MICROSOFT!It aint the ordinary "order your free backdoor prevention kit and learn to use your keyboard instead of your mouse" approach. And it's not the "photoshop trainee with google image search at work" phenomena either. But I mean

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1071155855728560012003-12-11T16:17:00.000+01:002005-03-17T20:06:26.650+01:00

Kazaa is dead, long lives Kazaa.They finally did it and forced the kazaa lite++ developers and distributors to take off any evidence of its existence.Not that it matters, there are still some good apps to access the fasttrack (kazaa) network: Areas, IMesh and ZK to name a few.And you could download the original kazaa media desktop and run DietKazaa over it anyway, which would get rid of any

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1067116434575485032003-10-25T23:13:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:05:53.206+01:00

Racerplanet Network Forums - Cruisin' World... last moments on EA serversIt's the end of the world as we know it, ...Electronic Arts Online Racing went down on Oct, 20th 2003 at approx. 2:30pm. What comes after the closure of the best sim-arcade mix online racer NFS:PU? NFS:PU!Some coders of the die-hard fanbase are working on a solution to enable statistics (lap records) in IP-to-IP races. I'm

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1065803089983415332003-10-10T18:24:00.001+02:002009-05-13T01:25:59.446+02:00

Over 400,000 Battle.net Accounts bannedAnd my WC3 account seems to be one of them although I did not cheat, did not hack and did not flame them in public. I called their local tech support and the girl on the phone asked me whether I "hacked" in b.net or not... sigh. Other voices told me to mail in my manual to get a working, new CD-Key - pretending my case got lost.Now that's a cool idea BUT

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1064759328402608822003-09-28T16:28:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:04:03.483+01:00

NFS: Porsche Unleashed not shutting down Oct 1stEA decided to let PU idle until it dies (because of lack of a stats server which allows new players to register and keeps track of the times, etc.). Thus, they will not shut down online racing as a whole on October, 1st.On the other hand a small group of players are analyzing the protocols and might have found their own solution to allow online

PDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672516.post-1064163874315928872003-09-21T19:04:00.000+02:002005-03-17T20:03:23.340+01:00

GunBoundLooking like a Worms World Party clone, GunBound is 100mb of quick, korean online pleasure. As more people all over the world discover it, I might start playing it again. It does not actually take "skill" to play but it is meant to be just a game, rrright? Gonna try to download it tonight.I also bought WC3: Frozen Throne this week and took part in a 1vs1 battle.net tournament on Friday.

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TTDPatch - The Transport Tycoon Deluxe PatchOn a bored trip through the web I found a patch (with WinXP compatibility!) for the greatest game ever: Transport Tycoon (Deluxe).Back in the day we used to play it peer-to-peer having great fun - 24 hours a day for like 3 days straight, then sleep 24 hours... repeat.It's kinda tricky to get the patch running on full screen and with sound support but

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Can you guess which OS Microsoft.com runs?Can You? It's obviously Linux! MS even had their coders modify IIS to run on Linux. Windows was never intended to provide stable and fast webhosting, but this recent discovery really makes me wonder.

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WarCraftIII.Net - The Unofficial Warcraft III SiteGreat, it's Sunday yet again and I still did not find my UT CD, although I did not search for it either. Anyway, I finished Warcraft 3 (Classic) Single Player mode and might go for Frozen Throne. While reading WCIII.net I also figured out how to creep rush your enemy and receive an instant win without the need of heroes or other units. Exploit?

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Unreal Tournament: AssaultWhile surfing the web and googling for random terms, I felt the need to play UT Assault after all these years. It looks like a lot of assault players sticked to the original instead of playing the sequel, UT 2003. Personally, I uninstalled the game like 2 years ago, however the CD must be right there... or there... out there... well, somewhere for sure :)

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Online Racers against EAElectronic Arts will effectively shut down all of their own online racing servers, Need for Speed: High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed plus Motor City Online, in autumn 2003.On the other hand there are still a lot of die-hard online racers on the servers who naturally do anything to keep the multi billion dollar company from killing their beloved online games. Another round

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Warcraft 3 Patch ChaosI was just forced by blizzard, especially warcraft 3: reign of chaos, to re-install the game. Version 1.12 was downloading the 1.12 patch over and over again and quit with the following message every time:Blizzard BNUpdate v2.71 compiled on Jul 24 2003Log created at 6:22 pm on 08/13/2003This patch upgrades Warcraft III from version 1.11 to version 1.12.ERROR: unable to apply

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http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5062532.htmlThe script kiddies and IRC nerds all around the world unite to make windows admins look like microsoft approved idiots once again.This special worm exploits a buffer overflow in the RPC (remote procedure call) service to install itself and target new windows computers. Nothing special really, it's just that it might cause real damage later on, DDOS

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