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Half Life 2: Episode 2 Team Fortress 2 and Portal RELEASED!

Half Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal have just been released to anxiously waiting gamers everywhere. It has been an excruciating wait considering Episode 1 was released on June 1st of 2006, over one year ago. While Episode 2 may not push the boundaries of graphics by offering DirectX 10 graphical effects, it none the less offers spectacular DirectX 9 graphics with a few tricks up its sleeves, including the ability to offload particle effects to the GPU and of course massively fun gameplay.

Check out more here.

Linux Quake Wars due out in Weeks!

Timothee Besset, the Linux ID developer previously shared that the Linux client of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars would be out in a few weeks. In that community announcement he had not directly talked about a Linux client demo for ET: Quake Wars, however, that too is on the way. As there have been Linux demos for both Doom 3 and Quake 4, it should be no surprise that there will be on for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars as well. From an announcement on id Software's closed beta list, it sounds like the ET:QW v1.1 demo may even be out before the retail Linux client.

The Linux demo client will be around 600~700 megabytes and includes one demo campaign with LAN and Internet game-play support.

Earlier this week id Software had also released a ET:QW v1.1 (Release 4) server update for Linux.

Unreal Tournament 2007 No Longer Called UT2007

Epic Games annouced in Las Vegas that they were dropping the name Unreal Tournament 2007 and instead calling it Unreal Tournament III. The III stands for the third version of the unreal engine. It is also approperate that they now will release the game on three platforms. No longer will this be a playstation and PC only game. Xbox360 will now also get the title.

So far the early reviews of this game are amazing.

"The game looks spectacular, and it's quite possibly the best Unreal Engine 3 game that we've seen to date. Considering that this list includes last year's Gears of War, that's high praise indeed." - GameSpot

Battlefield 2142 Linux Dedicated Server

Battlefield 2142 came out Dec 18th,2005 with both Windows and Linux dedicated servers. It is still nice to see some developers giving Linux its due when their games are released.

It seems many new game releases now are starting to leave Linux dedicated servers out more and more which is very dissapointing.

Battlefield 2142 Release In Days!!

In just a matter of days the release of Battlefield 2142 will be out. The linux port is still TBA and the message board has received no posting by EA recently.

"The ship date is the 17th, but the actual in stores date is the 18th/19th The EA Downloader version will be available on the 18th @ 1PM EST

I'm waiting myself........it's only a day and a half.

Message was edited by:
MichaelBrobst2 (EA.com)"

Battlefield 2142 is no replacement for Battlefield2 so it will be intersting to see how well it is received.

Quake3 Exploit Widespread

Neverwinter Nights - Infinite Dungeons

Infinite Dungeons - A new Neverwinter Nights Premium Module Now Available View the full site Buy Infinite Dungeons Now Experience Neverwinter Nights in a whole new way! Create a completely original dungeon each time you begin your journey. Confront the mad wizard Halaster and his lethal allies in the twisting tunnels of Undermountain. Infinite Dungeons brings new monsters, new tilesets, new placeable objects, and new game features that promise to reinvent your Neverwinter Nights experience.

Grab it and watch the trailer from the BioWare online store HERE!

Crysis bound to be the Hottest PC FPS for 2006

One of the best shows at E3 and most promising looking FPS for 2006 is Crysis. Crysis is by Crytek, the makers of Far Cry.

Expect elaborate outdoor landscapes and water bodies. Here is the URL from the creators:

http://www.crytek.com/news/story.php?id=9&p=0&n=pr&t=1

Here are some links to some sweet movies:

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/crysis/media.html?sid=6146726&autoplay=6146726

So upgrade that PC for this winter cause you will have some great games that use the power.

Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, and Source Engine Updates Available

Updates to CS:S, HL2, and the Source engine have been released. The updates will be applied utomatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike: Source

* Removed FCVAR_ARCHIVE from cl_minmodels
* Added a workaround for linux servers sometimes being frozen after changelevel
* Linux dedicated server -condebug captures all console output now
* Fixed an exploit when joining a team that could spawn live spectators
* Fixed mp3 player advancing more than 1 song during level transitions

Half-Life 2

* Fixed bug where NPCs would ignore hintbrushes that should block line of sight

Source Engine

* Fixed really long game directories not being able to upload game statistics
* Fixed listen server host not being able to hear sounds from bsp .zip files
* Fixed demo smoother not being able to select samples in certain demo files
* Fixed partial-HDR exploit in DX7 allowing wireframe materials

Quake 4: Quake 4 Linux Server Guide Available

Some of the highlights in this guide are:

A complete set of ready made configs.
Detailed explanations of each config file.

Hope you find this guide useful, however please note that NO SUPPORT is offered other than the GameAdmins Bulletin Board.

You can see the guide under our Quake4 Server Guides section or go directly there by clicking here.