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Closed beta registrations are now open for EA’s Battlefield Heroes. You can register for the beta on this page. Battlefield Heroes is set to be a free to play online game, you can learn more about it at the official Battlefield Heroes homepage.
The beta registration page states that they will be selecting beta testers over [...]

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Valve today announced the release of the Steamworks Software Development Kit. This offers game developers free freatures to create games using the Steam platform. Here is the release information from Valve:
Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools that offers PC game developers and publishers access to the game features and services available [...]

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Another day, another Team Fortress 2 update. Restart your steam account and TF2 servers and the update will occur automatically. Seems the last 2 patches this week didn’t fix all of the bugs, or perhaps introduced some new ones. Here are the patch notes:
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* Fixed several issues with the [...]

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Another update for Valve’s Team Fortress 2 has been released. This latest release fixes a few bugs as well as another Medic UberCharge exploit. The update will occur automatically when you restart steam.
Team Fortress 2 Patch Notes:
* Fixed clients getting the “Reliable snapshot overflow” error
* Fixed another [...]

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The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars official community site has been updated with a developers blog which reveals the changelog for the next ETQW patch, v1.5. Some detailed descriptions of some of the major changes are included in the dev blog, including user interface improvements, new customization cvars, ranks and statistics, as well as bot improvements.
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A post on the official Battlefield Heroes website offers some insight in to the upcoming closed beta to their free-to-play multiplayer shooter. Basically, they want you to hold your horses until they tell you it’s time to sign up, but here post in it’s entirety:
As you may have noticed, you killed our website. We are [...]

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An announcement by id Software today reveals that it has begun production on Doom 4. With the announcement of Doom 4’s production comes word of some new positions that have opened up at id Software. If you think you have what it takes to become a member of the internal team of developers at id [...]

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The latest Warhammer ONline Newsletter offers more details regarding the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Collectors Edition. Only 60,000 units of the Collector’s Edition will be available for North America, which will include a few collectors items, bonus in game items, as well as exclusive content for collector edition owners only.
The WAR Collectors Edition is [...]

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An introduction to the gameplay of FarCry 2 is on display in this video, with some commentary by some of the developers explaining what you are seeing on screen.
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Team Fortress 2 updates have been released today. Included in the update is a fix for the unlimited UberCharge exploit as well as a fix for the charge effect getting stuck on the Kritzkrieg when changing class/weapons.
Restart Steam and the update will take effect automatically. Server admins will also need to update their servers.
On a [...]

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