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Valve Announces Left4Dead 2

Sequel to Best-Selling Co-op Thriller Coming This Holiday

June 1, 2009 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2), the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer thriller.

Coming exclusively to Xbox 360 and PC, L4D2 promises to set a new benchmark for co-operative action games and become one of 2009's marquee titles.

Set for release on November 17, the title adds melee combat to enable deeper co-operative gameplay, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.

Introducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.

Featuring new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch.

World at War Patch

Call of Duty: World at War PC Patch 1.4
Submitted: April 09th, 2009

Notes:

3 new Multiplayer maps: Kneedeep, Nightfire, Station!
Nazi Zombies map with more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses: Verrückt!
Improved spawning logic.
Auto balancing improvements. Players are no longer auto balanced while completing objectives.
Mods: IWD's can be placed in the usermaps folder.
Mods: Hold Breath / Sprint functions as intended.
Mods: MissingAssets.csv is generated when maps are run with developer set to 1.
Fixed lag caused by shooting at tanks.
All rifle grenades fired during the first 15 seconds of Search & Destroy will be duds.
Players who equip a Bouncing Betty and melee teammates in Hardcore game modes are now credited with a team kill penalty.
Players are now deducted 200 points for team killing the bomb planter/defuser in Hardcore Search & Destroy.
Martyrdom no longer causes direct impact deaths in Hardcore modes.
"Bayonet jumping" has been disabled.

Don't Be Left 4 Dead! Join OCG!

Looking for some quality L4D competition but can't find it? Tired of all of the rage quitters that leave you for dead? We are looking to recruit survivors to join us for TWL Left 4 Dead competition and you may be the missing piece to help get us to the top. There are currently 115 teams on the TWL L4D ladder and TWL is also looking to start a new L4D League soon.

If you are interested in joining OCG and playing L4D competitively, jump on our TS and game with us. Then when you are ready, fill out an application for membership!

How to apply to OCG

We hope to hear from you!

Building a New Foundation

CoD5 is in full swing and we have actually been building the server the past few nights. Thanks to all the OCG members who have been making this possible. It'll be important moving forward to continue this effort to build a new foundation.

If you are new to OCG and you've been playing on our server, thank you for visiting us. Make sure to register on our site and get to know us through the forums as well as in-game (join us on TS, see the side bar for TS information!).

Now I would like to shamelessly plug my last CoD4 compilation one more time. If you are new to OCG or you aren't but haven't seen it yet, check out this CoD4 compilation that I put together. It was a long and tedious process but the end result really paid off! I have a lot of video left but this will probably be my last one for CoD4. CoD5 (and all of you!) will be my next target...

http://www.gamerstube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=66668f11ca4fa80525dc

(also check out my "Bodies" video while at GamersTube!)

Infinity Ward back for next Call of Duty game

It's been rumoured for quite some time that Infinity Ward will develop Call of Duty 6, taking back the franchise reigns again after Treyarch developed Call of Duty: World at War. Fans will be pleased to hear then that Activision Blizzard has confirmed this to be true at an Analyst Day.

With that settled we're now left wondering when we'll see the game. Over the past few years Treyarch and Infinity Ward have released a game a piece every two years, meaning we've had a new CoD game every year since Call of Duty 2 in 2005.

Activision Blizzard CEO Mike Griffith reportedly mentioned both a 2009 and 2010 release date for the game at the event, suggesting that we might be in for a wait after the release of World at War.

Just when you thought you had the baddest Video Card...

BFG Tech GeForce GTX 280 OC & GTX 260

NVIDIA’s next-gen GPU has arrived. HardOCP gamed with BFG Tech’s new GeForce GTX 280 OC in Crysis, Age of Conan, COD 4, and Assassin’s Creed. They've included the GeForce GTX 260 as well. Real gameplay advantages are to be had, especially in the brand new Age of Conan.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUxOCwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA

Also check out NVidia's site!

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_gtx_280.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_gtx_260.html

Is it time to upgrade already?!

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare v1.6 Patch Released!

The v1.6 patch for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has been released.

Here are the fixes/changes:

- New maps Creek, Chinatown, Broadcast, and Killhouse
- Hardcore and oldschool server browser filters
- Fix for a Denial of Service attack.
- Includes all the changes up to patch 1.5

Download it from [HERE]
SIZE: 282 MB

COMPETITION NOTICE

TeamWarfare League (TWL) has mandated this patch for all Call of Duty 4 4 competition. Teams will have till 8 June 2008 (Sunday Night) to update their servers/clients.

COMPETITION MAP ISSUE

The only issue known at this time is an error on Killhouse where once ready up is done, it will kick for an m16 silencer weapon mismatch. Teamwarfare is working to fix this issue. This map will not be put into rotation on larger ladders once this is fixed due to its small size.

Variety Map Pack sponsored by NVIDIA hits PC June 5th

A copy/paste from 402's blog:

Great news! Heads up that the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack sponsored by NVIDIA will be available worldwide for our PC players next week on June 5th!

NVIDIA is making it possible for PC players to download the map pack for Free on the PC thanks to their sponsorship. In addition, expect to see quite a few promotions popping up leading up to the launch of the map packs on the 5th and beyond. I know NVIDIA has a lot of great things planned for PC users in addition to maps becoming available.

There’s going to be some PC specific previews going up online this weekend I believe that will cover how well the maps play on the PC version as well as some contests and promotions happening all next week. I’ll be posting up details on them as they get started all this week!

The Variety Map Pack includes four new maps for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer including Broadcast, Chinatown, Killhouse, and Creek.

In addition to the map pack hitting, PC Players will be receiving the 1.6 Patch for the PC version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that will add support for the new maps, fix a server crash exploit recently reported by the community, and a few additional features / bug fixes. I will post a full patch notes list next week.

Source: http://iamfourzerotwo.com/

Inside Newegg NJ: A New Warehouse and Another Contest

Have you ever wondered how Newegg gets it all done? Then check out this article from AnandTech! It details their newest facility in NJ and walks through each step of an order .

Make sure to enter the drawing to win 1 of 5 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650!

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=3315&p=1

Sweet.

Team Fortress 2 : Free Weekend & Update

The Team Fortress 2: Gold Rush Update is now available, free to owners of Team Fortress 2 via Steam. The Gold Rush Update introduces the new Gold Rush map and Payload gameplay style, the first set of unlockable weapons, and a new set of achievements for the Medic.

In other TF2 news, a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will begin Friday at noon PDT, and will include access to the new content released today in the TF2: Gold Rush Update. Using the functionality made available through Steam and Steamworks, all of the files needed to join the Free Weekend are available for pre-loading now.

The Free Weekend is open to players around the world, and there is no obligation to purchase to participate; all that is needed is a Steam account to join.

To start pre-loading everything you need to play on Friday and learn more about Team Fortress 2, please visit www.steamgames.com/goldrush

So if you don't have TF2 as of yet, now here's your chance to try before you buy. Get Steam and pre-load away! You won't be disappointed.

Source: steampowered.com