Clanless Fun

Teaser Trailer December 2007 : click

DNF website: click

DNF forum thread (including link to HD torrent) : click

Testing still continues so a delay still can change these dates.

The start date for the release of patch 2.3, is currently scheduled for 13 November, and the start of Season 3 one week later on 20 November right after the weekly maintenance.

FAQ:

Q: Can I keep my title from Season 1 even if I haven’t participated in Season 2?
A: No, the seasonal titles are intended to be a reward for performance in the previous season. Similar to a sports title or award, it’s handed off or moved to different players/teams as their performance rises or declines throughout the seasons.

Q: What happens to my Nether Drake?
A: You will keep your Swift Nether Drake, and a new visually distinguishable Swift Nether Drake will be given to the top 0.5% of teams for their efforts in Season 2.

Q: So I’ve heard something about items having rating requirements?
A: Yes, the Season 3 weapons will have a personal rating requirement of 1850, and the shoulders will have a personal rating requirement of 2000.

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Download mirrors: click

/me downloading right now

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
• 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
• 512 Mbytes of System RAM
• NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

Recommended System Requirements

• 2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
• 1 GBytes of System RAM
• NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
• 8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space

More: click

Check here for download or Google video.
Also check here for even more videos.

Some weapon details which can be learnt from the (first) videos:

• Enforcer secondary is a 3 shot burst (no gansta style sideways shooting)
• BioRifle secondary isn’t instant kill, the glob sticks to you for a little while before bursting so you have a chance to fight back.
• According to the hints on the load screen wall dodging is in (didn’t get a chance to try it).
• Shield belt and armor where in the level.
• Flak secondary distance is very short.
• PR secondary is not as powerful as UT or UT2k4.
• Sniper Rifle has a red trail when fired.

And yes, your old pc will probably run it: click

Second expension pack for World of Warcraft announced, named:

Wrath of the Lich King

Some features:

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight - World of Warcraft’s first Hero class.
• Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.
• Learn the craft of spell augmentation with the new Inscription profession.
• Brave the harsh new continent of Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King.
• Engage in epic siege warfare, deploying mighty siege engines to lay waste to destructible buildings in your path.
• Transform your hero’s look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances.
• Explore perilous new dungeons filled with some of the deadliest creatures — and greatest treasures — on Azeroth.
• Blabla

More info and trailer: click

Yet another cashcow from Blizzard……..

It’s official now !

UT3 will ship november this year for PC and PS3.
Xbox360 will ship in 2008.

Check the new E3 trailer (with release date) :

• Download (HD): click
• Youtube: click

New details:
* The PC and PS3 versions of the game are now on the final stretch of development, and are due this November.
* Single player will be a big component of UT3, featuring online co-op with “decision points” which allow for non-linear gameplay. Examples of these choices might be the option to ignore or fight an invasion, or to steal some technology that might give you access to more advanced weaponry.
* Mods will be created on the PC version and “cooked” and put onto a Memory Stick to allow them to work on the PS3 version. At the moment Epic is looking at ways to get mods onto the PS3 via the PlayStation Network.
* The gameplay video appears to show the Ripper weapon from the original UT making a return in UT3.
* Deployables are a big part of the game that Epic hasn’t really talked about yet - these include a “slow volume” that slows down bullets and projectiles and is ideal for placing in front of a flag. Spider-mines also make a return, and UT3’s AVRiL (anti-vehicle rocket launcher) now has a targeting laser.
* As previously revealed, the Impact Hammer is back - this weapon’s alt-fire is an EMP attack which can be used to deal large amounts of damage to vehicles.
* The UT3 translocator has a limited number of shots, similar to UT2004’s.
* Teleporters in UT3 work like those seen in Prey and Portal - you can look through them and see what’s on the other side.
* The Manta is back, though not quite as powerful as before. One thing which has been removed is the ability to ride on the Manta’s wings (to prevent flag-running by riding the manta back to your base). Now jumping on the Manta’s wings results in a very messy death.
* Xbox 360 will get UT3 in “early 2008″.

More details on the release and some new screenies: click

What do you think of or expect from UT3?
Post it in the comments or on the forums. I’m curious.

Thanks to BeyondUnreal and PlanetUnreal

Epic Games’ tactical shooter, Gears of War, will be available for the PC this year.
This version will feature some new content, a game editor, five new chapters, multiplayer mode and new maps.
Cliff Bleszinski (Epic founder) demonstrated the PC version of the game at an E3 event when the announcement was made.

According to Microsoft, the PC version will be will be compatible with both Windows XP and Vista.

See this page for some additional information.

Blizzard has released the latest World of Warcraft patch, updating the MMORPG to version 2.1.3. The patch has some minor changes:

General

• In-game mail containing money will now have a one hour delay and is no longer instantaneous. Auction House generated emails for successful auction sales are still instantaneous.
• Read in-game mail will now be kept for thirty days instead of three.
• The Warlock spell Incinerate has had the performance of its graphical spell effect improved.
• The “show launcher” option has changed so that it now defaults to “on”. Players will now see the launcher when running WOW by default.
• Abyssal monsters in Outland are now lootable.

User Interface

• Improved the performance of conditional macros, slightly increasing the framerate.
• Fixed a crash triggered by many unit frame AddOns.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the movement of Archimonde’s Doomfire.
• Fixed the wand missile art on most Shadow based wands to show the correct graphical effect.
• Infinity Blades will now despawn properly when the encounter with Kael’thas resets after a wipe.
• Gan’arg Underlings and Felhound Defenders are now properly classified as demons.

Due to the implementation of this patch, European realms will be offline until 15.00, Paris time (CEST).

With the latest patch Blizzard changed the arena and honor rewards. So it’s quite obvious I wanted to check out the new items.

I ignored the announcement by Blizzard that they copied the Arena vendor to the Alliance barracks in Stormwind and in the Horde Barracks in Orgrimmar, and went to Area52 in Netherstorm. Once there it seemed everybody ignored the announcement .

Krixel Pinchwhistle’s (NPC - Arena vendor) house never looked so small and deadly .