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AUGUST 2009

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Aug 1, 2009 21:42 (231 days ago)	Outpostgamez		100
1 billion downloads help Firefox maintain momentum Microsoft�s ever-dominant Internet Explorer shouldn�t begin cowering in the corner of the Web browser arena just yet, but the popularity of Mozilla Corporation�s rival Firefox continues to grow and [...]
Aug 4, 2009 19:22 (228 days ago)	Outpostgamez		186
Battlefield 2 Mod Updates US Intervention posted four new screenshots today of the BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle. The Sir. Community recently released a new Battlefield 2 video based on a Japanese TV show called "Takeshi' [...]
Aug 4, 2009 19:25 (228 days ago)	Outpostgamez		314
Crysis Mod Update 08/04/09 Well, we have another Crysis Mod update. While it has been a little while we are putting up some new information on some upcoming crysis mods.
Aug 4, 2009 19:55 (228 days ago)	Outpostgamez		273
Red Faction Guerilla Update RFG Official Patch Coming Soon, MLG GameBattles 4v4 Ladder Tournament (Nearly $5,000 in prizes!), Weekend Giveaway - Summertime Fun!
Aug 4, 2009 20:10 (228 days ago)	Outpostgamez		186
BFHeroes Updates and More A few days ago it had come to our attention that some of you were receiving the incorrect codes for the Thor's Turbojet outfit in issue #211 and instead gained codes from issue #210 and Much more....
Aug 6, 2009 01:12 (227 days ago)	Outpostgamez		115
Crytek Threatens To Leave Germany Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has said that a proposal by Germany interior ministers seeking to ban the domestic production of violent games could force the developer to leave the country.
Aug 7, 2009 02:41 (226 days ago)	Outpostgamez		121
Path to 2409 - 2390 Supplemental Log I meet with Captain Data in the ready room of the starship Enterprise. He�s gone through a lot to get where he is. There have been concerns within Starfleet about his ability to do his job, after t [...]
Aug 8, 2009 14:57 (224 days ago)	Outpostgamez		131
Hailing Frequency at Las Vegas Trek Con! This is our audio road report from the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and this report covers the convention for Friday 7th August. Our reporter, Athos, continues to provide amazing coverage of the [...]
Aug 8, 2009 15:34 (224 days ago)	Outpostgamez		98
BF2 Patch Held Up By 'Office Politics' DICE Associate Producer, Barrie Tingle has yet another update on the status of the Battlefield 2 v1.50 patch. This time the hold up seems to be "office politics". Thanks Blue's News.
Aug 8, 2009 15:38 (224 days ago)	Outpostgamez		77
Battlefield 1943 Weapons in Bad Company 2 Fans of Battlefield 1943 will feel right at home in EA DICE's next title, Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Aug 8, 2009 17:04 (224 days ago)	Outpostgamez		101
Battlefield 1943 Pending Issues Update Over on the EA UK Forums, Battlefield 1943 Producer, Gordon Van Dyke addressed a couple of pending issues they are working on fixing.
Aug 8, 2009 17:37 (224 days ago)	Outpostgamez		63
Battlefield Mod Updates Operation Peacekeeper - Map I: Recall, Forgotten Hope 2 - Prowlers
Aug 10, 2009 11:53 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		105
Sunday News & Movies Today is Sunday, we are just putting up some information in regards to some upcoming movies.
Aug 10, 2009 22:44 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		114
Audio Interview at Hailing Frequency Our executive producer, Craig Zinkievich, spent some time with the folks at Hailing Frequency to talk Star Trek Online in an extended audio format.
Aug 10, 2009 22:48 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		141
Ask Cryptic: Ground Combat (August 10) Welcome to the 13th installment of Ask Cryptic, where we put the questions you ask to our development team. In this issue we discuss ground combat. Read more to learn about Star Trek Online!
Aug 10, 2009 22:51 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		149
SIGGRAPH 2009: New CryEngine 3 Footage This is a SIGGRAPH 2009 talk from "Advanced Real-time Rendering Course" about new ligting technique in CryEngine 3. The new technique called "Light Propagation Volumes" is used for Global Illuminat [...]
Aug 10, 2009 22:53 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		133
BFHeroes: Recieve Fraud Email? We have been notified by your reports that some of you have received emails asking for your log-in details and claiming to be the community team member, U-238.
Aug 10, 2009 22:56 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		215
Angry Gamers Considering Activision Boycott Activision Blizzard, the world's largest video game publisher, has been raising the ire of many gamers of late. So much so, in fact, that there is at least preliminary talk of a boycott of Activisi [...]
Aug 10, 2009 22:59 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		153
America's Army Game Used to Create Machinima About Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Machinima artist Paolo Pedercini turns the tables on the U.S. Defense Department's controversial America's Army recruiting game in Welcome to the desert of the real.
Aug 10, 2009 23:03 (222 days ago)	Outpostgamez		579
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Hands On We recently reviewed ArmA 2 for the PC, Bohemia Interactive's follow-up to its intensely realistic battlefield shooter, Operation Flashpoint, so we were especially curious to see what Codemasters
Aug 12, 2009 00:10 (221 days ago)	Outpostgamez		831
Building a Better Battlefield Vehicle For Battlefield: Bad Company 2 we wanted to take Battlefield�s traditionally deep vehicle experience and bring it to a whole new level. In order to do this we analyzed every aspect of our vehicle [...]
Aug 13, 2009 13:39 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		201
Crysis 2 Trailers to be Shown at gamescom We have spotted two markings on Germany's entertainment age rating website USK.de confirming that two different (stage and stand) Crysis 2 trailers will be shown at gamescom in Cologne, Germany.
Aug 13, 2009 13:42 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		128
The Path to 2409: 2391 - Startrek Online Raids by Nausicaan pirates continue to disrupt shipping lines on the edges of Federation space. Angry at what they perceive as a lack of response by Starfleet and the Federation government, the Fed [...]
Aug 13, 2009 13:44 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		159
Battlefield 2 Mod Updates Today we have aprox 3-5 different mod groups of and from the Battlefield 2 Modding Groups that are still running strong.
Aug 13, 2009 13:56 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		120
BFHeroes Update on Numbers Three weeks ago we reviewed EA's latest Battlefield game, Battlefield Heroes. This free-to-play, browser game offers players a chance to refight the battles of World War 2 in more light-hearted, ca [...]
Aug 13, 2009 13:59 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		518
Crysis Mod Update 08/13/09 Well, once again we are at the weekly report of the updates coming out of the Crysis Mod Community and Crysis Mod Portal.
Aug 13, 2009 14:27 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		155
Crysis Wars Summer Trial! As promised in July's monthly update a brand new trial period is coming! This is the perfect opportunity to get your friends and family involved in some great online battles in Crysis Wars. You'll [...]
Aug 13, 2009 14:29 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		151
Crytek at GDC Europe! Welcome to a Crymod news post regarding Crytek's upcoming appearance at GDC Europe, where we'll be showing off CryENGINE3 in a variety of live shows as well as talks on the technical side of game d [...]
Aug 13, 2009 14:30 (219 days ago)	Outpostgamez		140
CryENGINE3 Demonstration at SIGGRAPH 09! Welcome to a Crymod news post regarding a recent demonstration of Crytek's CryENGINE3, which was recently announced and is now being shown to developers across the world at various conventions.
Aug 14, 2009 18:45 (218 days ago)	Outpostgamez		563
Starfleet - Vigilant Class After the success of the Defiant class in the Dominion War, it was clear that small, heavily-armed starships had a role to play in Starfleet.
Aug 16, 2009 18:51 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		157
Battlefield Newsletter August 2009 EA sent out the August 2009 Battlefield newsletter. Nothing too new, but we do get a hint that BC2 will have more than 2 game modes.
Aug 16, 2009 18:53 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		117
Battlefield Mod Update #3 Operation Peacekeeper posted some information on how the release went yesterday and some news about the server files.Eve of Destruction release v1.50 today for Battlefield 1942. The client is split [...]
Aug 16, 2009 18:57 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		118
Surprise Coming at Gamescom Next Week European gaming convention, Gamescom is gearing up to start next week (August 19 - 23) and setup has already begun. EA posted a layout of what the booth will look like, which includes a Bad Company [...]
Aug 16, 2009 19:03 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		168
Siggraph'09 - Parallel Graphics in Frostbite [ DICE Software Architect, Johan Andersson spoke about the Frostbite engine at this year's Siggraph conference. Below you can find a copy of his slides, which can be a bit technical for the average u [...]
Aug 16, 2009 19:05 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		137
Team Fortress 2 Update This one's ours now, Classless Update - Day 2, Theft is a Dish Best Served Cold, The final day of the First Ever* Classless Update is upon us!
Aug 16, 2009 19:14 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		121
Dev Chat Transcript - IRC 14th August Hello, everyone, and welcome to today's dev chat. With us to answer questions today is Al "Geko" Rivera, STO's lead designer, and Zeke "Continuum" Sparkes, STO's lead content designer.
Aug 16, 2009 20:11 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		199
Crysis Mod Update 08/15/09 Well, it is that time again and we have an update on the weekly Crysis Mod update, remember that some of the mods are fully modified Mods to that of addons, vehicles and much more.....
Aug 16, 2009 21:09 (216 days ago)	Outpostgamez		309
Startrek Online PC Gamer August Mag Images Well, we have found some images from the upcoming August 18th issue which has many very interesting images from Startrek Online Characters.
Aug 18, 2009 17:28 (214 days ago)	Outpostgamez		905
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Massive Update Today we have an massive update on Battlefield Bad Co 2, GameCon information in regards to BFBC2, 5 New Images Released, Release Date and an New In Game video of BFBC2, check out more...
Aug 18, 2009 18:00 (214 days ago)	Outpostgamez		134
GC 2009: Battlefield 1943 Hits 1 Million Also announced at Gamescom today was that Battlefield 1943 has passed 1 million downloads.
Aug 18, 2009 18:02 (214 days ago)	Outpostgamez		136
Battlefield Mod Update #4 Battlefield: Pirates 2 - The Call of Duty, Project Reality - Hightlights Reel #1
Aug 18, 2009 18:12 (214 days ago)	Outpostgamez		244
Greedy Bastards: Call of Duty MW2 $60 Doing the rounds on forums is word that retailers across North America are now charging $60 for Modern Warfare 2 PC, the same price as the console editions. As we all know, PC titles are traditiona [...]
Aug 21, 2009 02:36 (212 days ago)	Outpostgamez		79
IGN GameCon STO Preview There are few franchises in the world of entertainment that carry as much loyalty or have as deep a history as Star Trek. So it seems odd that it's taken so long for developers to take a stab at ma [...]
Aug 21, 2009 02:45 (212 days ago)	Outpostgamez		147
IGN BF: Bad Company 2 Preview Announces Upcoming Beta IGN posted a preview of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 from Gamescom and have revealed that a beta is planned.
Aug 21, 2009 02:47 (212 days ago)	Outpostgamez		137
PBBans Status Many Battlefield servers and other Punkbuster enabled games rely on a service called PBBans, which maintains a large global ban list of cheaters on top of regular Punkbuster protection.
Aug 21, 2009 02:49 (212 days ago)	Outpostgamez		147
GC 2009: G4TV Interviews Karl-Magnus Troedsson G4TV interviewed Battlefield executive producer, Karl-Magnus Troedsson talking about none other than BF: Bad Comany 2.
Aug 21, 2009 03:09 (212 days ago)	Outpostgamez		273
Crynet Systems - Nanosuit 2 We've got a very special announcement for you all coming exclusively from GamesCom! We have more juicy information on Crysis 2! Cevat Yerli announced today the Nanosuit 2, the latest piece of techn [...]
Aug 21, 2009 16:20 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		155
GameCon 09: Eyes-on Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Star Wars: The Force Unleashed put players in control of Darth Vader's secret apprentice and combined the venerable sci-fi franchise with fast-paced, physics-based action.
Aug 21, 2009 16:37 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		145
GameCon 2009: Star Trek Online There are few franchises in the world of entertainment that carry as much loyalty or have as deep a history as Star Trek.
Aug 21, 2009 16:39 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		199
GC 2009: Crytek Announcement At EA's press conference on Tuesday, the head of EA in Europe paused in the midst of his long succession of demos to introduce the team from Crytek, explaining that they were going to be making an [...]
Aug 21, 2009 16:41 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		132
GC 2009: Guild Wars 2 - First Details and Q&A Ever since Guild Wars: Eye of the North shipped almost two years ago we've eagerly waited for news on Guild Wars 2, the next big step in ArenaNet's popular franchise.
Aug 21, 2009 16:48 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		138
GC 2009: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 The gang at DICE know something about making multiplayer shooters. Having dominated the genre with the successful Battlefield franchise, they're currently hard at work on Bad Company 2, the sequel [...]
Aug 21, 2009 16:50 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		128
GC 2009: Diablo III Hands-On Even though Diablo III is presumably over a year away from a release date, this game absolutely oozes polish. It runs at a silky smooth framerate (at least on the PCs Blizzard brought to Gamescom),
Aug 21, 2009 22:42 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		92
Stargate Worlds has obtained Funding to Stay alive! Recently, MMORPG.com learned that Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment has received the funding that they believe will allow them to complete work on Stargate Worlds, and to eventually pay back vendors [...]
Aug 22, 2009 04:08 (211 days ago)	Outpostgamez		94
Battlefield 1943 PC Release Delayed Until 2010 The PC release of DICE's World War II shooter-driver-flier Battlefield 1943 has again been delayed, producer Gordon Van Dyke told G4tv, now until the first quarter of 2010.
Aug 23, 2009 23:35 (209 days ago)	Outpostgamez		131
Battlefield 2142 Maintenance 24th/25th August DICE Associate Producer, Barrie Tingle posted about a Battlefield 2142 maintenance period coming up this Monday.
Aug 23, 2009 23:37 (209 days ago)	Outpostgamez		86
Battlefield 2 Mod Update #5 Project Reality announced they about to open signups for campaign 8 of their PR tournament. Operation Peacekeeper posted some information today about a hotfix they plan to release on Tuesday. If yo [...]
Aug 23, 2009 23:44 (209 days ago)	Outpostgamez		133
This point ain't gonna cap itself! We thought you might be interested in seeing some of the "behind the scenes" work that goes on in Team Fortress 2.
Aug 24, 2009 00:01 (209 days ago)	Outpostgamez		77
BlizzCon 2009 You can now follow all of your favorite Blizzard Entertainment news on Twitter. Just head over to @Warcraft, @StarCraft, or @Diablo for all of the news, events, contests, and more. We're starting o [...]
Aug 24, 2009 00:15 (209 days ago)	Outpostgamez		147
Blizzard Planning Pseudo-LAN Support for StarCraft 2, Diablo 3 to Follow Suit Battle.net developer Greg Canessa says that Blizzard is actively working on a LAN-like solution to include for Battle.net play in StarCraft II.
Aug 24, 2009 18:24 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		245
Gamescom Interview with Gordon Van Dyke The guys at BF-Games.net had the chance to interview DICE Producer, Gordon Van Dyke at Gamescom last week. The interview touches on everything from the Battlefield 1943 delay to possibility of Bad [...]
Aug 24, 2009 18:34 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		150
Massive BFHeroes Update Today, we have 4 updates from that of BFHeroes Cartoon Shooter. If you don't know already, BFHeroes is an free to play in browser game, so check it out if you haven't already.
Aug 24, 2009 18:38 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		143
Crysis Wars Summer Trial! Download Today! Enter our competition starting Monday 31st of August for your chance to win a free copy of Crysis Wars! We have 50 keys to give away and will be running competitions all week, starting on Monday an [...]
Aug 24, 2009 18:51 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		83
Blizzard Planning Pseudo-LAN Support for StarCraft 2, Diablo 3 to Follow Suit Battle.net developer Greg Canessa says that Blizzard is actively working on a LAN-like solution to include for Battle.net play in StarCraft II.
Aug 24, 2009 18:54 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		135
Diablo 3 Impressions: Hands-on with the Monk Class Click, click, click. It's rare that a game is so instantly recognized by simple onomatopoeia. Diablo III has that instant recognition factor; playing the game, it is simply Diablo from the first hack.
Aug 24, 2009 18:55 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		258
Tricia Helfer to Voice Kerrigan in StarCraft 2 Battlestar Galactica veteran Tricia Helfer will voice Zerg queen Kerrigan in Blizzard's StarCraft II. From Six to Kerrigan, the life and career of Tricia Helfer.
Aug 24, 2009 18:57 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		166
Battle.net New Fevamped Look 2010 A future StarCraft II Marketplace service was announced today at BlizzCon. The Battle.net store, planned to be added to StarCraft II after the game's launch, will allow map makers to publish both f [...]
Aug 24, 2009 19:00 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		172
Blizzard Details Diablo 3 Monk Class Skills Following the announcement of the holy Monk class for Diablo III, Blizzard detailed the character's skills during a BlizzCon panel.
Aug 24, 2009 19:01 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		134
Blizzard reveal new Details on Multipler service Blizzard revealed new details on the upcoming revision of its multiplayer service Battle.net during BlizzCon today.
Aug 24, 2009 19:03 (208 days ago)	Outpostgamez		193
Blizzard: Don't Expect Diablo 3 in 2010 Much to the chagrin of those who were expecting Diablo III to arrive next year, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that just-revealed World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm and StarCraft II ar [...]
Aug 26, 2009 19:56 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		149
GameSpot GameCon Review - Startrek Online Set in the year 2409 (Stardate circa 86645.315), Star Trek Online kicks off 30 years after the events in Star Trek Nemesis, in the prime timeline rather than in the new timeline created by the even [...]
Aug 26, 2009 20:00 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		129
Nanosuit 2 Reveal Event at gamescom 2009: Video & Transcript Here is our transcript of Crysis 2 Executive Producer Nathan Camarillo's speech at gamescom 2009 where Nanosuit 2 was revealed for the first time. In the video, after a short introduction by Crytek [...]
Aug 26, 2009 20:03 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		112
Red Guerrilla 2: DLC Pack 2 Screenshots Have you been wondering what the other six maps are in our Multiplayer DLC pack on September 17th?
Aug 26, 2009 20:44 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		106
Bad Company 2 - Gamescom Newsflash Video The guys at GamerSpawn released another video today giving an overview of Battlefield at Gamescom.
Aug 26, 2009 20:50 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		146
Battlefield 2 v1.50 Announcement Tomorrow If you remember back a couple weeks ago, DICE announced that the Battlefield v1.50 patch was held up by "office politics" because of something the team was really pushing for. Tomorrow we might act [...]
Aug 26, 2009 20:51 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		129
Battlefield Mod Update #6 Operation Peacekeeper released the 0.31 hotfix today fixing a number of map bugs. BattleGroup42 posted an update today talking about the v1.61 patch, which fixes a number of bugs and map changes.
Aug 26, 2009 21:34 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		336
Crysis Mod Update 08/25/09 Today, we once again bring you an massive update of all the Crysis Mod Updates. We will preview many different works in progress, to completed to simply assets for those that want to improve that c [...]
Aug 27, 2009 03:27 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		348
Conflict 2142 Tournament Campaign 8 Starts! Conflict 2142 is gearing up for it's 8th campaign. Campaign registration has just been opened, so sign up today!
Aug 27, 2009 11:30 (206 days ago)	Outpostgamez		283
BF2: 1.50 Patch Sept 1st and Boosters r Free! After nearly a year of development and three public beta tests Battlefield 2 v1.50 is ready for release. The update will be released on Tuesday 1st September at 5pm UK, 6pm Europe. Stay tuned for r [...]
Aug 28, 2009 00:01 (205 days ago)	Outpostgamez		166
Section 8 Offers Ground-Breaking Clan and Stats Portal Midlothian, VA - SouthPeak Games and developer TimeGate Studios are pleased to announce their clan and statistics portal for the upcoming Section 8 sci-fi FPS. Developers are redefining what gamers [...]
Aug 28, 2009 11:27 (205 days ago)	Outpostgamez		118
Two Operation Flashpoint 2 Videos Today, we will show you some up to date footage of Operation Flashpoint 2. An open environment, with maps and tactics which look off the hook!
Aug 28, 2009 11:33 (205 days ago)	Outpostgamez		481
BF2: 1.5 Patch Questions Answered DICE Producer, Barrie Tingle has been fielding questions in the EA UK forums about the upcoming Battlefield 2 v1.50 patch. Some informaton on how modding will affect the patch is also listed.
Aug 28, 2009 16:18 (204 days ago)	Outpostgamez		121
Bad Company 2 Senior Producer Interview GameTrailers posted a new video interview with Bad Company 2 Senior Producer, Patrick Bach.
Aug 28, 2009 17:17 (204 days ago)	Outpostgamez		138
Inside Crytek - Q&A with Level Designer Daniel Phillips Daniel Phillips is the thirteenth Crytek team member to be interviewed by Crytek and us fans in MyCrysis.com's Inside Crytek series.
Aug 31, 2009 13:45 (201 days ago)	Outpostgamez		423
Crysis Mod Update 09/01/09 Greetings everyone, well today we have yet another update in regards to what is going on in the world of Crysis modding. If you would like to check out some of the interesting modifications to simp [...]
Aug 31, 2009 14:11 (201 days ago)	Outpostgamez		144
Crysis Summer Trial Beta Keys We hope that by now you have been able to download the entirety of Crysis Wars and you�ve had a chance to train with your friends on LAN, because now, you are going to be able to play online!

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