Crysis Is Coming Soon Crysis is looking very good, and will be available on November 13th, 2007. The demo is coming on October 23rd. However, given the minimum PC requirements, you might want to get that new system now. Here is some Crysis multiplayer in-game footage, from Red Star Studios. Related PostsVideo Games or TV?Once

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To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Command & Conquer, EA is providing the original Command & Conquer PC game as a free download. Visit the news section and click on the 12th Anniversary link, then download the two ISO images. Windows XP users will want to also download the special installation instructions to get it

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Peggle, new from PopCap Games, is an stunning mix of Pachinko, Pinball, Breakout, and probably some other games. Four Modes There are four modes of play in Peggle: Adventure, Quick Play, Duel, and Challenge. Adventure Mode In Adventure Mode you play through eleven phases of five levels each, with each phase introducing a new guide

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Zork and Imagination

Back when we occasionally had to use our brains to create the images within games, a.k.a. in the 1980s and earlier, a text-based adventure game called Zork was incredibly popular. Since most games back then were either played on a board or in the backyard, our imaginations regularly got a workout. Besides, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and other books (stories written on piles of flat sheets called “paper” and bound together) were popular back then too, so the imagery came easily.

If you were born after 1980, brace yourself; the image you see below may shock you.

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Electronic Arts has released a demo of Command & Conquer 3, which is available for download from EA and the usual suspects. Once downloaded and installed, we’ll give it a try and post a quick review while we await the release later in March. Amazon has both C&C 3 and C&C 3 Kane Edition available

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Supreme Commander, the long-awaited followup to 1997′s Total Annihilation, has gone gold and a demo is available for download. Supreme Commander is scheduled for release on February 16, 2007 in Europe and four days later in the US. Before the release it is available for pre-order from Amazon. Successor to Total Annihilation Total Annihilation is

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Great in-game video of a helicopter raid in Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, due out this spring from Ubisoft. The constant commentary is a tad annoying but other than that this looks great. The Ghost Recon series, based on the Tom Clancy’s work, is superb and GRAW2 will no doubt be a hit too. Related

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Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is slated to be out in sometime during the spring of 2007. Ubisoft is targeting several platforms; from the press release: is currently in development for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Windows® PC.

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Flashback to August of 1995. Westwood Studios released Command & Conquer, a real-time strategy game (RTS) pitting the UN-backed GDI forces against the Brotherhood of Nod. The Brotherhood was supposed to be evil, but GDI was the UN, so it was a tough call to pick your poison. C&C was a fun game. So much so that several sequels and expansion packs were released, including Covert Operations, Sole Survivor, Tiberian Sun, TS Firestorm, and Renegade. An alternate universe series, Red Alert, was also released. It included C&C: Red Alert (1996), Counterstrike and The Aftermath (1997), Red Alert 2 (2000), and Yuri’s Revenge (2001). Another related game is C&C: Generals and its expansion pack, Zero Hour.

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If the Command & Conquer 3 trailer embedded below is any indication, EA’s upcoming title is sure to be a success when it arrives on March 28, 2007. C&C3 will be released in two editions, the standard Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars package and in a collector’s Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: Kane

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