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| 29 APRIL 2004 |
| FINALLY NEW HALF-LIFE 2 SCREENSHOTS Valve Software has finally released some new screenshots from their upcoming first-person shooter sequel.
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| WINHEX 11.5 BETA RELEASED WinHex
is a hex editor, disk editor, and RAM editor with a lot of features, such as template
editing, drive cloning and imaging, encryption. It allows to concatenate, split, unify,
analyze, convert, and compare files. Flexible search and replace functions are included,
also a data interpreter and a sophisticated undo and backup mechanism. The disk editor
supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and CDFS drives as well as physical disks. The RAM
editor can prove particularly useful for debugging purposes. You can go here to
download. |
| BEYOND DIVINITY V1.32 ENGLISH PATCH After
several German patches, finally a new English patch for Beyond Divinity has been released,
bringing it in line with the recent German update. Go here, here, here
or here
to download (24MB). |
| FEDORA CORE 2 LINUX TEST 3 The
Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general
participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of
The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general
purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Download it here. |
| HALF-LIFE: OPERATIONS 1942 V2.0 A
new version of the Half-Life single-player total conversion, Operations 1942, is now
available. Go here
to download it (66.1MB). |
| PURGE JIHAD V2.0.4 FULL INSTALL AND
PATCH Version 2.0.4 of Freeform Interactive's 3D role-playing action
game, Purge Jihad, has now been released as a full version and 2.0.x-2.0.4 patch. You can
go here or here to download. |
| WAR TIMES DEMO AND RETAIL V1.02
PATCHES Strategy First and Legend Studios have released the v1.02
patches for the demo and retail versions of the game. Go here, here, here
or here
to download. |
| 28 APRIL 2004 |
| KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE: INFERNAL
CRUSADE RETAIL PATCH 1 TDK Mediactive has released a new patch for
Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade, updating the English, German, French and Spanish
editions of the third-person melee-combat action adventure by Starbreeze Studios. You can
download it here, here, here or here
(30MB). |
| SQUAD ASSAULT: WEST FRONT V1.80
PATCHES The v1.80 patches for the retail version of Squad Assault: West
Front, have been released. Go here or here to download. |
| BF1942: THE GREAT WAR V0.12 PATCH A
new patch for the Battlefield 1942: The
Great War mod is available for download here (93KB). |
| BSPLAYER 1.00 RC1 BUILD 808 BSplayer
is windows player for playing back avi, asf, wmv, and mpeg video files or any other file
for which you have a codec. Go here to dowload (Registration required). |
| UT2004 MAC PATCH V3186.1 It
seems a new patch for the Macintosh version of Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for
download here. |
| HITMAN: CONTRACTS DEMO RELEASED Eidos
has released the playable demo of Hitman: Contracts. The demo contains the third mission from the full
game set in Syberia, titled The Bjarkhov Bomb. You can download the demo here, here, here, here, here
(torrent), here, here, here or here
(193MB). |
| CLONEDVD V2.0.8.3 AVAILABLE CloneDVD
extracts, transcodes and writes any orginal DVD title you like to a single recordable DVD.
Be impressed by the program speed and the amazing image quality of the movie copy. A
special transcoding technology compresses your choice of DVD title with your selected
audio and subtitle streams to one DVD Recordable. Go here to
download (4.2MB). |
| GERMAN BEYOND DIVINITY V1.31 PATCH A
new patch is available for the German version of Beyond Divinity. You can download it here. |
| SACRED V1.6.6 FINAL PATCHES Ascaron
has released the v1.6.6 patches for the US, UK, Australian and (for the first time) French
editions of Sacred, their semi-3D role-playing game. As before, this release applies more
single- and multi-player gameplay tweaks, bug fixes, and other improvements. Go here, here, here, here
or here
to download. |
| CIRTICAL WINDOWS FLAW REPORTED Security
researchers have discovered a serious boundary error vulnerability in multiple versions of
Microsoft's Windows platform and warned that attackers could hijack systems via Windows
Explorer and Internet Explorer (IE). The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error,
which can be triggered via Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer when connecting to a
file server. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by setting up a malicious
share with an overly long name (about 300 bytes) containing no lower case characters. Read
more here. |
| 26 APRIL 2004 |
| UT2004: DEATHBALL 2.0 BETA #2 The
second beta release of the Unreal Tournament 2004 modification, Deathball 2.0, is now available for
download here
(41.4MB). |
| NEIGHBOURS FROM HELL 2 DEMO JoWood has released a playable demo of Neighbours From Hell 2, the sequel to Neighbours from Hell.
The demo includes one level set on a beach in China that it is not included in retail
version of the game. Go here, here, here, here, here or here
to download (30.6MB). |
| LATEST CHEATS We
have added new cheats for the following games: |
| PLUMMIT DEMO AVAILABLE Purplenose
Games has released a playable demo of Plummit. You can download it here
(8.2MB). |
| YAHOO MESSENGER FOR WINDOWS 6.0.0.1555
BETA Yahoo! Messenger allows you to quickly exchange messages with your
online friends. Unlike e-mail, instant messages appear as soon they're sent. By
downloading the application to your computer, you can send instant messages. Other
features include voice chat, file transfer, mail and stock quote alerts, sports scores,
news, and much more. Go here to download. |
| MASSIVE ASSAULT NETWORK V1.2.205 PATCH Wargaming.net
has issued another new patch for Massive Assault Network. Download the patch here or here. |
| X-PLANE V7.40 BETA 12 RELEASED A
new beta release of the X-Plane flight simulator is now available. Go here
to download the Windows version or here
to download the Mac one. |
| DVD DECRYPTER 3.2.2.0 AVAILABLE DVD
Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD to your PC's hard disk.
From there you can choose to watch them with the likes of PowerDVD and WinDVD or you can
re-encode them to MPEG1 (VCD) or DivX. Advanced functionality can be found in the context
menus. You can download it here (763KB). |
| 25 APRIL 2004 |
| WARCRAFT III: THE FROZEN THRONE
DEADLOCK BONUS MAP Blizzard has issued yet another new bonus map for
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, called Deadlock. The map is best suitable for 2v2, 4v4
players or FFA. Go here, here or here
to download (3.3MB). |
| HALF-LIFE OPERATION: BLACK THUNDER 1.0
RELEASED Version 1.0 of the Operation: Black Thunder modification for Half-life, is now available.
In addition a Steam and Won update have also been released. Download the mod here
(51.2MB), the Steam update here (427KB) and the Won update here
(1.85MB). |
| CALL OF DUTY: REVOLT V0.1 Version
0.1 of the Revolt total conversion
for Call of Duty, has been released. Go here to
download it (122.7MB). |
| 25 APRIL 2004 |
| GAIM V0.77 RELEASED Gaim
is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN,
IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. You can download Gaim v0.77 here (5.38MB). |
| DVD REGION FREE V3.60 DVD
Region-Free is an unique, effective DVD tweaking tool. It allows you to watch all region
DVDs on any DVD drive even if it has been locked. You don't need flash firmware which is
sometimes dangerous, useless, or unavailable. It also disables region check for popular
software-based DVD players such as PowerDVD, WinDVD, and CinePlayer. Go here to download (708KB). |
| STAR FLEET COMMAND 3 V1.01 BUILD 531 The
v1.01 build 531 patch for Star Fleet Command III is now available for download here or here (40MB). |
| FRENCH/ITALIAN BREED PATCH #1 AVAILABLE Following
on the recent English/German update, Brat Designs has now released a French/Italian patch
for Breed. Go here or here to download.
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| 24 APRIL 2004 |
| NEW GRAN TURISMO 4 SCREENSHOTS GameSpot has posted several new screenshots from the upcoming fourth installment in the Gran Turismo series for the Playstation 2.
Go here for the screenshots. |
| HALF-LIFE: NATURAL SELECTION V3.0 BETA
4 PATCH The beta 4 patch for the Half-Life: Natural Selection mod version
3.0 is now available. This new release requires v3.0 beta 1 installed. You can go here or here
to download (36.1MB). |
| LIMEWIRE V3.9.4 BETA RELEASED A
new beta version of this file sharing program, has been released. Download it here. |
| WARCRAFT III: THE FROZEN THRONE
SHAMROCK REEF BONUS MAP Blizzard has released the Shamrock Reef bonus
map for Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. The map is best suitable for 2v2, 4v4 players or
FFA. Go here,
here or here
to download (3.3MB). |
| WINDVD PLATINUM 5.3.5.37 AVAILABLE WinDVD
Platinum is the latest version of WinDVD. It has improved video and audio, and has added
several brand new features. It is still a simple-to-use DVD player with all the features
of a standard consumer DVD player, but there's so much more for you. Download it here
(shareware). |
| DEAD MAN'S HAND EUROPEAN RETAIL PATCH
#1 Atari has issued the European version of the first retail patch for
Dead Man's Hand, the Western-themed first-person shooter by Human Head Studios. As before,
the patch contains 6 new maps as well as several gameplay and scenery fixes, multiplayer
tweaks, and more. Go here, here or here
to download (15.6MB). |
| SOLDNER: SECRET WARS UPDATED DEMO Encore
has released an updated beta demo of Soldner: Secret Wars, the upcoming vehicular 3D
action game by Wings Simulations. This v2 demo contains a large number of crash fixes,
server browser enhancements, gameplay balance tweaks, bug fixes, and other improvements.
You can download the demo here,
here, here, here, here or here
(221.3MB). |
ALWAYS CHECK DOWNLOADED FILES FOR VIRUSES AND SPYWARE
BETA RELEASES USUALLY CONTAIN BUGS,
SO MAKE BACKUPS OF YOUR ORIGINAL FILES!!