FIRING SQUAD GOES HANDS ON WITH GEARS OF WAR MULTIPLAYER
Those lucky dogs over at Firing Squad got to go play the multiplayer end of Epic Games upcoming Xbox 360 title Gears of War at E3. Once you manage to get the taste of envy and jealousy out of your mouth, head on over to Firing Squad and give it a read. Here’s part of what Firing Squad had to say;
“With what looks to be both a solid single and multiplayer game in one package, Gears of War is looking like it will live up to its promise and be one of the best action games of 2006″ – Firing Squad
Did I mention how much of a downer it was when Microsoft announced that there wasn’t going to be a Live Marketplace demo of the game during E3? Emergence Day just can’t get here soon enough. Check out the Firing Squad article here.
GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS II UPDATED
Galactic Civilizations II has been updated to version 1.11.029. Load up Stardock Central and go get the update now. As per Stardock, here are the changes in v1.11;
“As previously mentioned, while most people were happy with 1.1, the performance improvements and other features we added ate up memory that not all users had available which in turn cased out of memory and other problems for those users.
Rather than simply remove the caching and other performance boosts, we re-engineered saved games and did intensive profiling to optimize things. So v1.11 should be faster AND use less memory than 1.1.
We also made some AI tweaks and other gameplay tweaks.” – Galactic Civilizations II website
Click here for the full change log. Stardock also advised that the upcoming v1.2 will be all about easing the mod process for the game.
MAME32b 1.06 ALSO AVAILABLE
MAME32 has been updated to support version .106 of MAME. Head on over to the MAME32 page to get it.
MAME V.106 RELEASED
A new version of MAME has been released to the public. The big changes in V.106 seem to be a lot of bug fixes for recent game additions. Head over to Mamedev.org to get the new files. Click here to see the full details of what’s new in this version.
