EA have announced that 1943 on PC will be pushed back till next year 

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EA has confirmed that the final installment of its RTS franchise Command & Conquer will be unplayable for anyone without a constant internet connection.

While this means that the game will ship without any kind of DRM, many fans of the series are angry about the restrictions it will place on their gaming.

Since even the single-player campaign requires a live connection, it will no longer be possible to play C&C in situations where it may be hard or impossible to go online – for example, on buses, trains, or flights.

LAN play, which has been a staple of C&C players since the game’s first appearance in the mid-‘90s, is also set to suffer from EA’s decision thanks to the difficulties involved with connecting multiple machines on a local area network to the internet.

C&C has long set the benchmark for strategy game sales, but with EA’s decision so at odds with a large segment of its core fanbase it will be interesting to see how well the final game in the series performs once it goes on sale next year.

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L4D 2 is due for release on the PC & X-Box 360 on the 17th of Nov.

Yay

No news on the weapons yet, but there's a chainsaw in the trailer:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/5268/

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You will be able to pre-order Windows 7 between 15th of July & the 9th of August from the M$ site.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/pre-order.aspx

These will be a full install - not an upgrade.

The version available to the EU is the -E package - which does not have Internet explorer bundled with it.

Not sure which retailers at the mo.

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Some screenshots from Activision's Wolfenstein have been put on the net

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EA are looking to release BF 1943 - which is essentially a cut down version of 1942 with a new graphics engine.

It looks pretty amazing.



http://www.battlefield1943.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Lwuyf1gRk

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Valve have released the scout update with 3 new weapons & Community maps.



Force-a-nature - a new shotgun that can push foes back
Energy drink - makes the scout invulnerable for 10 seconds and super fast
Bonk - a new baseball bat that comes with a ball so you can stun enemies from far away

And a hand full of community maps.

Check it out:
http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/

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Please can you post your feedback here:

http://www.lanse.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,6585

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T'was not me. . .

Full info here:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17967175

Going to be very difficult to track down given a DDoS's nature.

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Yummy 

Anandtech

Hothardware

Hexus

hardwarecanucks

pcper

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