Welcome to the first Weekend Roundup. What is this? Newsposters collect all news about RTS and FPS games at the end of the week. So, let`s go!


SafeCast problem resolve
Good news from BFME2 Developer Team. They fix SafeCast authorization problems in The Battle for Middle Earth II Beta. The answer was very simple - delete one file. What the file? Read here

Goblin Video Out at IGN
IGN has just released a Goblin strategy video to accompany the unit rollout and Developer's Diary released earlier this week.

Welcome Heaven Games to the BFME 2 Community
Heaven Games has just joined the BFME 2 community with their new BFME 2 fansite. Heaven Games is a veteran network site with great coverage of lots of great games and we're happy to welcome them to the community.

GR's Screenshot Update
There have been so many screenshots released in the last few weeks that it can be a bit overwhelming to keep track of where they're located. To make your life a little easier, you can now find 110 more images in GR's Screenshot section

Dream Machine Tour Write-Up
Dzhon has written us yet another montrous article about his experience with BFME2 at the Dream Machine Tour at Marina Del Rey in LA.

BfME2 Beta Tourney
If you are lucky enough to have the beta, patient enough to play through its balance issues, and want to match wits in a fun tournament, enter this new single elimination tournament for the BfME2 Beta.

Developers Diary
Cool news from IGN: this big games site release four page of developer's diary. Also IGN make hints about the various races in the game, including three large features.

Middle-earth Monday
New Middle-earth Monday has arrived. The folks at EA have recorded a 2 minute video of Elves vs Men of The West see it here.

Battle for Middle Earth II vs Empire at War
Guys from Voodoo Extreme create very actual poll - "Battle for Middle Earth II vs Empire at War". If you are real BFME or EaW fan -> Vote now, support you favorite game!

6 New Screenshots from Voodoo Extreme
The Voodoo Extreme guys had a mini-preview before their recent article. The new screenshots show a few new angles from the beta tutorial.



Two new previews
Two games website release EaW Hands-on at once: TotalVideoGames and UGO

X-Fire Dev Chat and Q&A from Darth Torpid
Official Empire at War post Xfire Dev Chat Transcript and another Q&A from Darth Torpid, EaW Designer. He replied to five actual questions from Lucas Forums, including problem about localization and collector`s editon in the different country

Welcome Heaven Games to the EaW Community
As the BFME2.Heavengames another fan-site enter to the EaW-community - Empire at War Heaven

Designer Diary #4 on GameSpot
Frank Klepacki, Petroglyph Audio Dersctor, present his Diary - Audio in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Empire At War goes Gold
LucasArts has announced that Star Wars: Empire At War has officially gone gold. Release date - 16 February

Gametrailers.com preview
Thank you Salkin for this cool news: "Gametrailers.com has an entirely new preview up"

Hands-on with a full beta version
Yes-yes, this is hands-on with a full beta version, not demo! Gamecloud had a good chance to testing beta version of Empire at War:

Ten Questions of Fame #1
Finally! The answers to the 10 most wanted questions posted in our boards are here. Paul Ens of LucasArts made sure these questions passed by the EAW devs and sent back in the answers.

Eurogamer`s preview
Eurogamer has released a new preview on Empire at War

EaW versus BFME2
The guys from Voodoo Extreme created a very actual poll - "Battle for Middle Earth II vs Empire at War". If you are a real BFME or EaW fan, vote now and support your favorite game!



Clanwars Results
Well it was a close and very active month for the "dying" BFME, In the last week it was so close between the top 4 yet, by the end of the week there was only three really in contention. But there was a lack of spamming on the last day and DIVA just clinched it.

Shoutcast by KlunG^
KlunG^ presents his first shoutcast: AnAgA vs GODs. The size of shoutcast is about 6 Mb and replay - 182 Kb. Enjoy! Please be indulgent because KlunG^ is Norwegian, "so dont expect superb fluently english"

Replay Reviewers Wanted
Well, then Replay Reviewer might be the right position for you! To become Replay Reviewer you have to write a total of at least 3 application-reviews, if we like them, we will promote you.
Write only 1 review at first and post it into the application-topic, one of our Senior Replay Reviewers will contact you soon.

Weekly Clan Wars Update
Here we go its going to be a close month, with alot of activity the last couple of days are going to be crucial!



AoE3 Goes Platinum
Yes, AoE3 has gone platinum and to celebrate this achievement, ES is hosting a new contest with juicey prizes at stake.

Our New Game Admin
Since our beloved HERO is moving back to the upcomming BFME 2, we have a new Game Admin. Everybody please give a warm welcome to Evry1, our former Senior Replay Reviewer to his new position, and farewell HERO!



Big preview from IGN
Yesterday the fine folks up at Big Huge Games invited us up to their studios to show off the latest build of Rise of Legends. The game, due out this spring, is pretty much complete now, at least in terms of content.
(with new video)

Hands-On from Gamespot
Introducing the Third Nation, Single-Player, and Multiplayer
We went to Big Huge Games' Maryland office to get the first information on the newly revealed third nation in Rise of Legends, as well as to take the game out for a test-drive.
(with new video)

Hands-On from GameSpy
I can't help but laugh as I step off the elevator into the subdued lighting of Big Huge Games' offices. The location is a small office park in a suburb of Baltimore and I'm here to meet with Tim Train.

JustPressPlay preview
I installed the preview copy I received today and simply have been hooked since. That should give you an idea of how good this game is going to be when fully released. For those of you that are familiar with my reviews or know me on staff, FPS is by far my favorite genre of game to play.

New Screenshots
Need a comments?

High quality promo video
In-game movie trailer (1280x720, 1:01, WMV9). Size = 71 Mb



Real-Time Strategy Watch '06
Article about RTS games og 2006: Star Wars: Empire at War and The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, Rise of Legends, Company of Heroes, MedievaI 2: Total War

Command & Conquer The First Decade
The countdown to Command & Conquer The First Decade has officially begun! We are just over one week from our February 7th ship date to strike the Command & Conquer community with a decade compilation of some of the most renowned RTS games of all time.

Exclusive podcast with Louis Castle
Louis Castle, VP of Creative Development at EALA and co-founder of Westwood Studios, the creator of the Command and Conquer franchise, will be featured in an exclusive podcast this Thursday with APOC, the EA RTS Community Manager

Empire Earth 2: The Art Of Supremacy
Dr. Ian Davis of Mad Doc Software talks about the upcoming centuries spanning RTS expansion pack.

Empire Earth 2: The Art Of Supremacy. Designer Diary
The insane posse over at Mad Doc software sit down and discuss the trials and tribulations of creating RTS gaming.

Supreme Commander and Company of Heroes delayed
As THQ reported, Supreme Commander and STALKER shall released between January and March of 2007. Release date of Company of Heroes is September, 2006

Paraworld: Designer Diary, Part 1
So, Paraworld is slowly approaching its release. What's the history behind this project? It has come a long way, and, of course, it would be impossible to detail this without elaborating on the history of our previous title and the SEK in general.

Paraworld: Designer Diary, Part 2
The story you'll get to experience in the game is the result of a cooperation between Nico Nowarra, Daniel Finger and Sven Oswald from Men in Text and SEK. MiT is a company specialized in creating characters, stories, scripts and localization among other things.



BF2 patch update: Hot off the press!
Below is a statement from EA concerning patch 1.2 for BF2.

Sneak peek at the two new model
Valve take out two new images of skins for Terrorist (Leet Crew) and Counter-Terrorist (SAS) models

STALER in 2007
As THQ reported, Supreme Commander and STALKER shall released between January and March of 2007

EA + Crytek = Crysis…Game "Crysis"
Electronic Arts and Crytek, today announced they will bring Crysis™, an exciting new first person shooter, to gamers worldwide. Developed by Crytek, the makers of the award-winning Far Cry™, Crysis will be an original first person shooter game for PC based on new intellectual property.
(Tech demo video in a High resolution)

Here is the full Weekend Roundup 11/02, enjoy reading!


BFME-2 Demo is Live
Congratulations all RTS and BFME fans!: The BFME-2 Demo is Live! You can download from Gamespot or from FilePlanet. The Demo size is 1400.0MB!



Lots of news from EA Apoc
News about CnC First decade, BFME-2 Demo and BFME-2 Beta

Gamereplays' Arcade system
Due to popular demands, Gamereplays has installed an Arcade system!! The arcade has been popular back at the days of bfme.org and I am sure it will be popular now too. So all go and play, and try to beat the latest highscores

Earth 2160 Shipped!
Earth 2160 has officially been tagged as a shipped title. Be sure to check out the Earth 2160 GameReplays.org forums and the Midway press release from Yahoo.



BFME-2 - Overal champion
Look at this! Need a comments? Only one - Good Job EA

Elves Strategy Video
A 3 minute-long video for the Elven faction just came out on IGN, to go together with the Developer’s Diary released earlier this week. It features valuable comments and tips from Greg Black, the lead balance designer for Battle for Middle Earth 2, about the different strategies and advantages that the Elves can offer in battle.

Demo Available on the Official BFME2 Site
Hey guys,You can now download the file from our official site. Please go to this link.

BFME-2 Demo is Live
Congratulations all RTS and BFME fans!: The BFME-2 Demo is Live! You can download from Gamespot or from FilePlanet. The Demo size is 1400 MB!

The Ultimate Goblin Strategy Guide
For those of you in the beta test, this is the ultimate way to learn how to win as Goblins. Thanks to Elven, Prepare, and NoFxFireblaze, we've compiled a list of the best strategies in the game. These are competition-grade strategies

Lots of news from your Community Manager
News about CnC First decade, BFME-2 Demo and BFME-2 Beta

Louis Castle & Mike Verdu RTS Podcast LIVE
The Louis Castle & Mike Verdu RTS Podcast is now live at IGN. For those of you who don't know, Louis Castle is one of the founders of Westwood and current VP of Creative Development at EA, and Mike Verdu is the Executive Producer on The Battle for Middle-earth series.

EA official bfme2 site updated!
The official Battle for Middle Earth 2 site has just been updated, with info about the single-player demo, that you can find here, along with a new section about the different factions in the game, right now only containing info about the Goblins.

The community DOES matter!
As a community we're getting closer to where we would like to be. We have great contacts with EA, they value our feedback and most importantly games change based on our opinions

Developer's Diary #2
Yet another Developer's Diary is unveiled, this time about the Elves...The three developers describe to us the significance of the Elves in the Lord of the Rings universe, their unique qualities among all the races of Middle-Earth within the game, and their visual appearance.

Demo right around the corner
Finally, the first news about the Battle for Middle Earth 2 demo is here. WTF.gif Gamespot subscribers will have access to it on Thursday, February 9, at 9:00 AM PST.

Middle Earth Monday
Middle Earth Monday is upon us once again. This week we can find one new video about the devastating super-powers in the game.

BFME2 vs EaW. Final
After one week Voodoo Extreme sum up of the Poll: "BFME2 vs EaW"



Patch 1.03 - LT approved
Great news from MaDDoX. He talked with Apoc about Patch 1.03 and...

Final pre 1.03 challenge, da noob style
[WISE]Seek has devised a fun challenge. OK Leifius requested one more challenge, so this is what came up:

2 new shoutcasts!
2 new shoutcasts were posted by WKRS and KlunG^. WKRS shoutcasted a match between [aFr]Victoire (Rohan) and POW|Perfection (Gondor). (Link to the shoutcast)

Weekly Clanwars Update
Here we are - a new month has arisen and also some fresh challanges to the holders of the cup

Video: The Palantir #3
The long awaited and the best video, homemade by Maddox is now finally released! The first two palantir videos were superb, just before the patch, Maddox releases another one. A good sign for all of us. Prepare for the battle, prepare for 1.03 and a new BFME.



The RTSs of 2006
Check out the news here. I like what is said for the Spec. Forces Rebel Soldier "In the Long run, a clone bred solely for skill in battles is no match for a being defending his freedom"

More gameplay elements, videos
Check out the news here. I like what is said for the Spec. Forces Rebel Soldier "In the Long run, a clone bred solely for skill in battles is no match for a being defending his freedom"

2nd SW Rap song!
Frank Klepacki, composer and audio master for empire at war, pumped out another Starwars Rap song! It's again a chewie one and just as good as the previous one

Mega-pack of preview and interview
This week full of preview from a different games site. Read them all and enjoy

Word from Delphi
Delphi (Delphi-PG on our boards) both designer and community guru for Petroglyph has left some interesting comments on some of the threads in our boards

Happy Birthday
Today is the 74th birthday of the Maestro of the Starwars saga and one of the finest composers of our times, John Williams!

PC Gamer Magazine: Video Podcast
Alright guys, this is a notification from PCG_Norman about PC Gamer Magazine

Interview: EaW With Chris Williams
In a recent and detailed interview, Chris Williams from LucasArts tells us why upcoming PC RTS Star Wars: Empire at War is set to be a Force to be reckoned with. Here's a glimpse of the Q&A

Updates ...
Just some updates from our forums in case you missed them...There is a complete viewer and editing tool available for EAW now with even a GUI (Graphical User Interface)! It was posted in our forums by Dante and you can find the topic about the RenEvo Utilities here.

EaW vs BFME2. Final
After one week Voodoo Extreme sum up of the Poll: "BFME2 vs EaW"

New preview from Worthplaying
The first hotly anticipated real-time strategy game to be released in 2006 is none other than LucasArts’ Star Wars: Empire at War. Developed by Petroglyph... Empire at War is looking like another leap forward for the genre and another notch in the belt of Petroglyph.

Preview from JustPressPlay
Not since Starcraft have I been so stoked about a real-time strategy game. Sure there have been other RTS games worth playing like Warcraft III, Rise of Nations, and the very successful Age of Empires series.

Preview from 1UP
Remember Dune 2? Of course you do; it's one of the defining games of the real-time strategy (RTS) genre. How about Civilization III, Blade Runner, or Command & Conquer? Petroglyph is the studio behind Star Wars: Empire at War, and its team has experience on all of these titles.

Preview from FragLand
During E3 we were quite impressed by Empire at War and now we've played the beta we can say our first impressions were correct. There's a lot of potential in this title and we hope that the final vesion will succeed in getting rid of the last issues



GameReplays Recording Contest Finale
We at GameReplays are proud and happy to annouce the conclusion to our lengthy Recording Competition. Over the last few months, we've had over 300 recordings submitted - a large and rather staggering total. Throughout the judging process, we narrowed down the contestants to a final handful of great submissions from which we went over extensively and voted on.

GameReplays seeks Qualified Reviewers
A huge part of what we offer as a site is based on people reviewing submitted recordings and replays, offering analysis and suggestions, and helping your fellow gamer

1.05 Balance Change List
Ensemble Studios have released an unofficial balance change list for the next patch. These are most likely to be changed, but you will have an idea of whats being delt with. Here's the general outline of what's being fixed

Herding Guide by .Necron
Ever wondered what deer herding was all about? Did you think it was a waste of time? Don't know what it is? Well it's all answered in this nice little guide by our RR, .Necron.




Rise of Legends Screenshot
Shok, the Cuotl Goddess of Storm, unleashes the elemental fury of the skies on a contingent of Vinci musketeers in our 32nd Screenshot of the Week- Now featuring our streamlined user interface per community request!

Preview by StrategyZone OnLine
It’s almost like someone at Big Huge Games just freaked out. It’s like he took the design docs from Rise of Nations and threw the pages into a strong wind. Then he picked up the pages and shuffled in a bunch of pages from other games, some of which haven’t even been made yet.

Official Website
Microsofr present big Flash official site of the Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends

Preview by TeleFragged
It's hard to find innovation in the strategy genre nowadays. We've seen plenty of real-time strategy formulas applied to various pop culture phenomena (Star Wars and Lord of the Rings come to mind immediately), and just about any RTS title seems to now be loosely based on the formulas that were made popular by Starcraft, Age of Empires, and/or Warcraft III.



The RTSs of 2006
IGN reviewed 30 best RTS of 2006 year. This list include Company of Heroes, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars, Star Wars: Empire at War, Medieval 2: Total War, ParaWorld, Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy, Warhammer: Dawn of War - Expansion 2 and other cool RTS. Also you can find RTS of (possible) 2007 year included Command & Conquer: The Next Title, Petroglyph/SEGA RTS, Possible Ensemble MMO, Supreme Commander and StarCraft 2. Recommend

Empire Earth II The Art of Supremacy Golden
Vivendi Universal Games is pleased to announce that Empire Earth® II: The Art of Supremacy, the expansion pack to last year's award-winning RTS Empire Earth II, has gone gold!

Empire Earth II The Art of Supremacy: preview by GameSpy
The original Empire Earth was offered to RTS gamers as the game to end all RTS games. What more is there, after all, than the ability to take a civilization from stone clubs and spears to particle weaponry and spacecraft?

ParaWorld Delayed
RTS ParaWorld -- being developed by Berlin game studio SEK -- will be delayed for release until the end of August 2006

Command & Conquer The First Decade released
The Collection of 12 CnC Games now released also EA take out Winners of Hall of Fame

CnC First Decade: Interview with C&C co-creator Louis Castle
IGN has just posted an interview with C&C co-creator Louis Castle in which he discusses the upcoming release of C&C: The First Decade

First movie from CnC: The First Decade
New movie =)

CnC: The First Decade - Interview
Electronic Arts is releasing a new massive collection of most of the C&C games in Command & Conquer: The First Decade and Gamecloud got a chance to chat with EA's Louis Castle, one of the franchise's original creators, to find out more about the collection and on C&C itself.

Generals 1V1 Tournament went very smoothly
Yesterday we had our 1v1 tournament which was quite competative and we also had a good turnout in the end. Although not everyone did turn up, most of them because of the time it would have been nice if they took themselves out the tournament or atleast told me like murat

Zero Hour 2v2 tourny results!
Well a few teams didnt show up which was dissappointing, but never the less i felt the tourny went well, and i hope you guys enjoyed it. The final was TBH| Vs [cL] which i watched and shoutcasted live, you can get that and all the replays here.

Top 20 Games of 2006
Voodoo Extreme posted first top 20 games of 06 preview last year. The list include Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, Star Wars Empire at War and Battle for Middle Earth II

Company of Heroes - Preview
Company of Heroes is an RTS that takes place during World War II, so you are bound to run into some easily recognizable scenes. The single-player campaign follows the story of Able Company, a group of brave men who are facing some of the most daring missions during the Normandy invasion.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Screenshots
New screenshots from historical real-time strategy game. Developer: Midway San Diego studio. Release: June 2006.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Movies
The high-resolution movie is available for downloading

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Screenshots from ToTheGame
New SS =)

Rome: Total War Gold Edition
SEGA of America, Inc. today announced that Rome: Total Warä Gold Edition will be available at retail outlets across the country beginning February 15, 2006 for a suggested retail price of $39.95.



Day of Defeat: Source...For Free!
When you first read this title, you might think of piracy. No no folks, this is from VALVe themselves.

Crysis - Preview
Standing with the big boys takes brass, but that's essentially what German developer Crytek was able to do with its 2004 island-paradise shooter Far Cry.

Halo 2 for PC
"Halo 2," the award-winning sequel to the instant classic "Halo: Combat Evolved" to make its PC debut on the Windows Vista platform

Episodic Half-Life 2
Valve Software reveals that the Aftermath expansion pack will now be the first in a series of episodic content.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Delay. Comment
Comment from GSC: "The decision on the project's release date is for the publisher to make. Even though we are currently at the beta stage with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., it will be the publisher that makes the decision, when to optimally release the game."

America's Army: Special Forces
America's Army: Special Forces is now available as a full install or a patch 2.6.0



Catalyst 6.2 Drivers
New driver for ATI's range of graphics cards

nVidia Forceware 81.98
New driver for nVIDIA's range of graphics cards

Review of the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 CPU
For the last six months, prospective high-end AMD processor buyers have been faced with a dilemma. AMD has two product lines for high-end buyers, one being the Athlon64 FX and the other being the Athlon64 X2

Xfire vs Yahoo...Problem resolve
Xfire has some great news about the Yahoo lawsuit: the parties have settled their dispute. All of us at Xfire want to thank the millions of gamers who have supported us during this time and who have been part of our great journey. Over the past year we have seen the Xfire community grow from 1 million gamers to over 3 million. The Xfire team is looking forward to continuing to build Xfire into the ever more perfect tool and community for gamers!

Radeon X1900-series roundup
At the end of last month, ATI announced the successor to the heavily delayed and eagerly anticipated Radeon X1800-series cards based on the R520 GPU. It was known internally as R580 and when it was announced, it was unveiled as the Radeon X1900-series.

MSN Messenger 7.5.0324
New version of the popular messenger

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Welcome back, Commander. I want to present for you very secret information = Weekend Roundup 18/02. In the last version this project We include Around GR forums - the most interesting topics in newsposters opinion.



Empire At War US release
Starwars: Empire At War has been released! In the US that is, European fans will have to wait 'till the 17th (tomorrow!) before they can embark upon this new RTS trip!



Empire At War US release
Starwars: Empire At War has been released! In the US that is, European fans will have to wait 'till the 17th (tomorrow!) before they can embark upon this new RTS trip!

Atari's Future in Question, What's going on?
Is Atari going down hill before its release of AoW expansion pack?

Short interview with Mark Skaggs
Ferrum, our member, interviewed Mark Skaggs, ex-EA staff who create with 2 other talant people own studio.



Official min spec for BFME II
Official BFME-2 site update minimal specifications for the game

Brand new Gamespot video
Gamespot just released a new video, this time giving us a sneek preview on the video extras from the Battle for Middle Earth 2 Collector's Edition, and more precisely about how the developers created the Celduin mission from scratch. Along with the new footage, there is a detailed preview about the Collector's edition, right here.

BFME2 Communtiy Section Update
On Official EA BFME2 website, they have updated the Community Section, where you can find updates about what's going on.

LotR Poetry Competition Ends
The Lord of the Rings Poetry Competition has ended, and the results are in. Out of a four-page thread teeming with solid and fantasy-like poems, we have our top three poems rated by the judges

First BFME2 Review
From Apoc: "Hey guys, Well I have a great announcement, let the review engines fire up because The Battle for Middle-earth II has received its first official review....drum roll.....a 90!"

BFME 2 Limited Edition Keyset!
From zBoard: Introducing the new The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle Earth Limited Edition Keyset!

Mike Verdu Blog
To complete this busy day, Mike Verdu, the executive producer on Battle for Middle Earth 2 has published another one of his insightful blogs on the game's official site. This one describes us the War of the Ring Mode and the Create-a-Hero tool, and Verdu's opinion on these two features.

IGN Video Preview
More great news: IGN has just released a Video Preview on Battle for Middle Earth 2. In the preview, Dan Adams, the Editor in cheef of IGN-PC discusses about the Campaign, the different factions, War of The Ring Mode and Create-a-hero, while showing us how these things work to make the game a memorable Lord of The Rings experience

Battle for Middle Earth 2 goes gold
It's official. IGN has just published the press release concerning the final phase of BFME 2's production cycle. Having gone gold, BFME 2 has passed the final phases of quality control and a gold template copy is now being used to mass replicate the game for shipment (figuratively speaking tongue.gif). We can expect to see BFME 2 in stores on March 2nd.

New Screens at Gamespy!
Gamespy has just released a gargantuan amount of art: 60 new images containing the artwork and icons used inside Battle for Middle Earth 2, for the Elven and Goblin units, heroes and buildings. Click right here the view them.

Interview with Mike Verdu
Boomtown interviewed Mike Verdu, the Executive Producer of Battle for Middle Earth 2. They spoke about all aspects of the realtime strategy sequel.

New Middle-Earth Monday
Again the Battle for Middle Earth 2 team has brought us some Middle-Earth Monday paradise. Today we have one spectacular video presenting more on two factions that everyone has wanted to see more of in months: Isengard and Mordor, and how these 2 factions use the elements of fire and lightning to their advantage. To watch it, click on this link, and enjoy your ride

BFME2 Load Screens
The Battle for Middle Earth 2 Mission Load Screens for the Singleplayer Campaign have just been released on Middle Earth Vault. You can admire the 16 pieces of art right here.



Unit- and Hero-Guides for 1.03
Lots of things have changed in BFME 1.03, units are improved, fulfill different purposes and most of the heros are different, too. Reading the changelog for 1.03 you may find it difficult to tell what those changes mean for a real match, to know when you should retreat with certain units and when you should attack and how to use your heros.

LotR Poetry Competition Ends
The Lord of the Rings Poetry Competition has ended, and the results are in. Out of a four-page thread teeming with solid and fantasy-like poems, we have our top three poems rated by the judges.

Weekly Clanwars Update
Well we are exactly half way through this month now and it is really heating up! There are two main challanges to the cup this month |EAGLE| and [LNL] they have a distinct 1500 points advantage over Ikings yet any thing can ha[ppen in the BFME w0rld

1.03 ReplayFest, come and get them!
I've posted some of the better BT replays of the last version, which is compatible with the patch. In addition a good replay of Ranger using the "Palantir" strat vs MiNi's Gondor, first game I've seen posted of a win vs a battletester!



Star Wars: Empire at War Team Q&A #1
Joe Bostic, Gary Cox, Adam Isgreen, Chris Rubyor, Bertrand Estrellado and James Morris answered to IGN about their favorite sides and locations plus memorable moments in Empire at War. Must read!

Preview by Yahoo!Games
Strategy games and Star Wars have not mixed well in the past, but LucasArts has finally brought balance to the force that kept them apart.

Preview by GameDaily. GameSpot and EaW
GameDaily prepare to us little surprise - four page of Empire at War review. Thay evaluate EaW a 4.5/5 score! Congratz! Also check the main GameSpot page ! Yes, the main theme - Empire at War serve as a background for this site

Patch 1.02 is out!
Installation: This is a self extracting exe. Double-clicking on this file installs the patch. Corrected an issue with server disconnection. This should fix the problems some of you have with server connection

Firewalls and connections
Delphi asked me to put a small work around on our boards related to firewalls and your connection.Read the technical information here!

Gamespot Review
As reviews keep coming in, Gamespot dug into Empire At War as well. They gave our favorite game a 8.7 score!

News from Delphi
No not from the oracle but from the community manager and designer of Petroglyph. Delphi has words for those who have been looking for the replays function, here's what he said when asked about when replays will be added to the game

Patch v1.01
Empire at War available the first day on sale and Petroglyph make a present to us - Patch v1.1

Reviews of EaW!, Collection of links to the Reviews
IGN.com's review, UGO.com, 1up.com, Gamespot's Review

EaW Hands-On Preview
'frenchscumbag' over at Gamehelper.com has recently written a nice and lengthy Hands-On Preview for Star Wars: Empire at War. This in-depth article includes many quality screen-shots and is well worth a read for those who are deciding/planning on buying EaW. Here's a glimpse

Almost there ...
One more day and we'll be able to play the full version of Empire at War! For our American visitors that is, people in Europe will have to wait one more additional day.

Empire at War: Designer Diary #5
Every week GameSpot posts a Designer Diary of Empire at War. But this article is very-very interesting because Michael Legg, Lead Programmer and President of Petroglyph, tells us about "The History of Empire at War"

iGames premiere
iGames annonced that they will host an exclusive premiere (February 18) and two weeks showcase (February 20 - March 5) for Empire at War at over 150 member centers across North America and Canada



Age of Empires - III: New Rating System in 1.05?
SkWizZ_Ourk from AgeSanctuary had a little chat with Ensemble Studios' ES_Solus on ESO recently and learned that 1) a patch is soon on its way and 2) the patch will contain a built-in ESO ladder and rating systemх

Age of Empires - III: Fastest Industrial Age Contest concluded
As ES has announced on AgeCommunity.com, the entries are in and the winners are declared. Here's the final time sheet for the top submissions. Odeton takes the prize of first place in a staggering 7:27.

AoE-III, AoW, ZH: Newsposters Needed
Like to watch to an updated portal?? Well, here is what you can do to make the portals even more up to date: Become Newsposter!!

AoW:HT Atari Website Released
The AoW:HT Atari Website has been released. At the site you can find some screenshots and information on the new units in AoW:HT. Ontop of that you can also find the interview questions and answers from and interview we held with Atari

In depth strategy guides posted!
Check out these in depth strategy guides created by the dedicated ZH staff and look out for more in the very near future: USAF Mirror, GLA Mirrors, Toxin vs Nuke, Nuke Mirror, Rockvee, Hunting Tactics, USAF vs Inf guide!

War on Terror Demo
WOFOR: War on Terror brings modern precision-strike warfare to real-time gaming.
At the dawn of the new century, peace is a forgotten relic of the past. Secret terrorist groups have united into a single deadly force and launched lethal assaults in major metropolitan areas around the globe. Their agenda is unknown, their attacks are precise and deadly.

Supreme Commander: New Screenshots
New SS

Medieval 2: Total War - Interview with Bob Smith
Project director Bob Smith reveals some of the first tantalizing details about the newest Total War game, Medieval 2: Total War.

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends - Preview
Microsoft recently sent some preview code of the exceptional looking Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, the sequel to the original acclaimed Rise of Nations RTS title from Big Huge Games

ParaWorld: Screenshot of the week
New SS



Battlefield 2: 2142?
Read this interview where Dan Blackstone said that "We’re about to announce something very big, so stay tuned. One other interviewer asked this and I gave him a hint, so it’s only fair that I do the same for you: 3213/3X2. Or said another way: S.R. 4588164."

F.E.A.R.: Patch 1.03
New patch for "Best Shooter of 2005" - F.E.A.R is now available. 1.03 included three new multiplayer maps and anti-cheat support

New FPS Available for Pre-Load from Steam
"Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is now available for pre-load and pre-purchase via Steam. Red Orchestra is a realistic WWII online action game that features one dozen scenarios, a wide arsenal, and drivable vehicles. Pre-loading is available with no obligation to purchase."

Newsposters Needed
Like to watch to an updated portal?? Well, here is what you can do to make the portals even more up to date: Become Newsposter!!

Patch 1.2 released
Ok, the latest patch for Battlefield 2 is now available! You can download the full patch (358 MB) from different a place, for example EA FTP or 3D Gamers, also you can grab the Incremental Patch (81.6 MB) from 1.12 to 1.2 version (EA FTP or 3D Gamers)

BF2 Patch tomorrow! Plus Euroforce news
A dutch website has it that the patch will be upon us tomorrow, 1700 GMT. The patch will be available from here. The source is meant to be reliable, plus they do have the patch read me, but i guess "we will believe it when we see it".

BF 2: Patch 1.2 soon
Some important words from Official BF-2 website: "We have some great news for you regarding the upcoming patch. 1.2 is in the final stages of its release cycle. This means you need to keep an eye on this web space for further info and a release date.

America's Army Linked Up (from IGN]
February 9, 2006 - America's Army today released America's Army: Special Forces (Link-Up), an update to the popular soldier sim which adds enhanced multiplayer gaming and two new multiplayer missions.

Battlefield 2 - Euro Force Trailer
New trailer from upcoming pay-to-play booster pack Euro Force.

Commandos Strike Force Demo Now Available
This is 638MB of demo version from next game from famous Commandos title, but this is not tactical strategy, Commandos Strike Force is a FPS wfor gamers with a good tactical skill

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - Interview
When Activision, id Software and Splash Damage revealed Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, a lot of people were shocked at the concept.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - New Screens
New SS



ATI Catalyst 6.2 Performance Analysis
As we roll into February another set of Catalyst drivers roll in to our inbox and in normal TweakTown style we will be looking at just how they compare against the previous batch, Catalyst 6.1.

X1900 Launch Analysis by NVIDIA
Confrontation: X1900 vs 7800GTX. Who win?

GeForce 7900 GPUs on March 9
Nvidia is expected to launch its 90nm GeForce 7900 graphics processor unit (GPU), in GT and GTX versions, on March 9, according to sources at Taiwan graphics-card makers. In addition to the GeForce 7900 series, Nvidia plans to add the GeForce 7600 (codenamed G73) by the end of next month, the sources indicated.

DDR/Memory FAQ
Pretty good review of Memory from our Tech Support Mod - Apex

About memory
Bit-Tech.net posted good article about Memory - "Is more always better?"

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February
Last Security Bulletin from Microsoft



New Lara Croft model
New Lara Croft model: Karima, a self confessed tomboy and Top Shop sales assistant, will need all her reserves of energy for the adventures that lie ahead in one of entertainment's most challenging acting and modelling roles.

This week has been very busy for BFME2, mainly because of its release. The site has some news updates too that are worth checking out!



ClanWars is offically opened
First, you have to register your clan and have your clanmates sign up as well. You can find the offical site here: http://www.clanwars.cc/Main/



BfME II CW, Geforce 7800 up for grabs!
EA has announced that the top warrior for the March tournament will be awarded a new Geforce 7800 graphics card. Details on prizes for the top clan will be forthcoming. Good luck to all warriors this month!

GR.org announces "Advanced Discussion" forums
Lately Gamereplays.org received some complaints about the immature state of the discussion forums. That is why we have decided to introduce the "Advanced Discussions" forums.



BFME-2 and TheOneRing.net
Very interesting news I found when wrote the "Weekeand Roundup 04/03": EA Games and TheOneRing.net present 'North Kingdom' Contest.

Previews spam
Gamespot, GameSpy, IGN, Eurogamer, Yahoo

Gamespot videos
Some new gameplay videos just showed up on Gamespot, showcasing big battles, naval conflicts, and a dragon making its new victims, among many other things. Check them out right here.

BfME II CW.cc, Geforce 7800 up for grabs!
EA has announced that the top warrior for the March tournament will be awarded a new Geforce 7800 graphics card. Details on prizes for the top clan will be forthcoming. Good luck to all warriors this month

BFME-2 at EA Store
The Battle for Middle-earth™ II now available at EA Store and cost $49.95

Replay Reviewers Wanted
You love to watch replays? You like to help other people to improve on how to play BFME 2? You have enough time at hand to watch and review at least 4 replays per week?

Replays have arrived
Hey everyone. Just to queue some of you in, this site is called GameREPLAYS.org for a reason. Our member 1v1 and member team replay sections are open to start posting replays. Share with us some of your greatest moments in BFME 2 online

ClanWars is offically opened
irst, you have to register your clan and have your clanmates sign up as well. You can find the offical site here: http://www.clanwars.cc/Main/

Gamespy and IGN 'Pre-Reviews'
Both Gamespy and IGN have released previews of BFME2, as they plan on writing the full review when they test out multiplayer more extensively.

BFME2 2v2 Tournament
Well before some of you even have the game, Sledgehammer of BFMET (Battle for Middle Earth Tournaments) has announced the first 2v2 tournament for BFME2. Since it is a 2v2 tournament, you must sign up with another player, and it will be a double-elimination tournament, meaning that every team has 2 lives.

Middle Earth Monday - Part 2 is Live!
Hey guys, Apologies for not getting this live yesterday. It was finished in the morning and then had to be compressed and pushed live to the site, both of which took trillions of hours, lol.

All Faction Info is Now Complete
Every single unit, structure, hero, fortress upgrade, fortress expansion, and spell power for every single faction has been revised and corrected with their game description and vivid screenshots! Speculating about Sharku's abilities?

Boost Your BFME2 Graphics
Do you have blocky shadows and blurry terrain in BFME2, even though you have a good card, your in game settings are maxed out, and you KNOW your computer can handle it? Are you tired of this? Well you're not alone, and Sledgehammer70, one of the biggest graphics nuts in the BFME1/2 community has put together a step-by-step set of instructions that will work on any cards higher than the NVidia 6600GT or the ATI 9800Pro (and all cards higher).

Theres Lots of New BFME2 Contentc
So I've linked all of the major new content coming in on the forums so you don't have to dig it up for yourself!

Designer Diary #2, Final Thoughts
Mike Verdu has written the 2nd Desginer Diary, called "Final Thoughts"

BFME 2 Updates-February 28th
Some cool downloads for BFME 2 and BFME. Enjoy!

Fresh WotR Mode Review at BFME Tournaments
For anyone interested, Sledgehammer70 at BFME Tournaments recieved his copy of BFME2 in the mail yesterday, and may be the first person in the United States to play WOTR Mode

Last Middle Earth Monday - Part 1
The last edition of Middle Earth Monday is upon us. Today, only 72 hours before the release date, EA released a 2 minute-long video about the Create-a-Hero level 10 powers in the game, along with 5 new incredible wallpapers, on the Battle for Middle Earth 2 official site.

Bree Map at Bestbuy
Bestbuy.com present exclusive map for BFME-2

Xfire: the Developers Chat
Do you wanna free BFME2 copy? Maybe you want ask a question about BFME2 to Developers? You have a good chance because Xfire present the exclusive chat with the creators of The Battle for Middle Earth II

Goto last unread Six factions strategy commentaries
HERO made 6 faction commentaries for Dwarves, Goblins, Elves, Men, Isengard and Mordor

First patch for BFME2 already out
Altough Battle for Middle Earth 2 has not yet been released, the first patch for the game just came out on Middle Earth Vault. It seems to be more related to stability and performance than balance.

Request from EA Apoc
Aaron wants anyone who has already gotten their hands on BFME 2 to post a picture of themselves holding it in hand. There might be some cool prizes for the best photo.

Strategy video for Dwarves
The strategy video for the Dwarven faction is now available on IGN, to accompany the Developer's Diary released earlier this week

GameSpy Arena Launches BFME2 Ladders!
GameSpy has just launched its ladders for BFME2! As with BFME1 there are two ladders, one for 1v1 matches, and one for 2v2 matches. This means that yet again we can rely on a great set of gaming ladders from GameSpy Arena.

Multiplayer Mike Verdu Blog
Mike Verdu, the Executive Producer on the Battle for Middle Earth 2 has just released his newest Blog on the game's official site.




Staff Needed
The release of BFME2 have split-up our staff members and we need to keep everything on the run.That is why we really need new staff members now. We have to secure the future of BFME1 and have active staff.

Isengards Showcase
Hi, Isengard has now full strats vs all it's foes, Gondor, Rohan and Mordor (Isengard mirror stays almost the same), now it's time for instructive/constructive replays to be posted...

New ClanWars ?
Its a feeling of deja vu for the |EAGLE| all stars as they pick up their fifth silver cup of their long campaign, yet congratulations to this months winners [LNL] for a hard fightback and late spamming which clinched it. This is how it looks

New ClanWars ?
As some of you may know, a new build of www.clanwars.cc has been in the works for some time. We are pleased to announce that this new system will be going live on March 1st. We will be down for part of the day while we transfer data to the new system.

2v2 Mentor/Mentee Tournament
I am organising a 2v2 Mentor/Mentee tournament to be played at TBC date in the future. It is early days, but I am looking for any willing Mentors to register their team now. You can find the thread to sign up and the full story here. Please read the rules carefully before posting, and please feel free to PM me with any questions

A new Dawn for BFME
Soon, yes very soon, in a couple of months, not now, no it is delayed. A few weeks now. Where is the patch??
Will come soon in a couple of weeks. Where the hell is patch?? The patch will soon come. How long does it take for the release of the patch?
About 2 weeks. The patch isnt out. You will have to wait a while. Damn, gimme the f***ing patch.



Frank Klepacki: March update
The debut CD of Frank's side project The Bitters, is in production and will be available soon! In the meantime, you can hear clips from the whole CD in the jukebox on Frank's website, or on The Bitters page under "Projects". The Bitters offical website is HERE.

Gamespy reviews EAW
The gamesite giant GameSpy has reviewed Empire At War and awarded it with a 3.5 out of 5 score!

New EaW 1v1 Campaign Ladder
Empireatwar.net has launched a brand new 1v1 campaign ladder. Users can still play on gamespy but instead of playing using the 'Quick Match' mode, which throws up random settings, players can play a normal custom match, using the settings that both players agree on.

Final Major Update
The final major update of the Official EaW Website has come, enabling us to see the final remaining game elements as well as a link to the latest Dev Chat.

Review by Game Industry
Created by ex-Westwood (Command & Conquer, Earth & Beyond, Dune II) and ex-Origin developers (Ultimas, Wing Commander), Star Wars Empire at War is definitely a LucasArt's portfolio piece. Hands down it is one of the better Star Wars games.

Review by Gamerati
tar Wars: Empire at War is the latest offering from the team at Lucas Arts, and let me tell you - it's amazing. No - better yet, let me show you.

Review by Gamerz-Edge
The epic adventures of the Stars Wars saga continue in Lucasarts' Empire At War (EAW). Developed by some RTS veterans at Petroglyph, Empire At War lets you control the forces of the Rebellion or the Empire like never before.

Review by HookedGamers
Empire at War offers both single player and multiplayer content, and except for the "Story Mode," the only difference between the two is if you have the chance to playing against humans or the AI.



News screenshots: High Treason
Voodoo Extreme posted some new screnshots from the AoW: High Treason. And look at this addition words from Voodoo: "Bigtime FMV corny cut-scenes (in a good way), solid 3D graphics and fun gameplay make this a really enjoyable title for people who dug the old Red Alert stuff."

AoW Concept Art!
Atari has blessed us with some new concept art from their expansion pack, High Treason! Click here for more pictures!

New Shoutcast in ROTW
There is a new shotucast which is bundled with this weeks ROTW. Make sure you check it out, please give osme feedback so I can know wether or not ot bother with doing shoutcasts.

AoW: HT - New screenshots
WorthPlaying present 15 new screenshots from Act of War: High Treason



Patch 1.05 Released
Yes it's the one we've all been waiting for.. and guess what, it's finally here! The full Patch 1.05 has been released is now available for download through the in-game auto updater. Click "Help and Tools" then click "Update Game" to get the latest patch. Here's a small glimpse of what's been changed:

AoE3 Pro-Gamer Interviews
Over the last little while, GameReplays have embarked on a project to interview pro gamers within the AoE3 community and share our findings with the public, the results of which will hopefully shed some insight into them and the game we all play.




EAW or BFME2. Again
Interesting forum at the Lucas Arts official forum

New RTS - War-Front
Here's a new RTS I stumbled across called War Front, some kidn sci.fi WW2 RTS.

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends - Building a Better Multiplayer Experience
Multiplayer programmer Stuart Jeff discusses how Rise of Legends has the most unique multiplayer interface of any game to date, letting you find online matches easier.

Another interview with Chris Taylor
Many of the game elements in ‘Supreme Commander’ will be familiar [for players], for good reason, but we have made some huge changes to the way the game is viewed and interacted with which does indeed make strategic game play much more possible.

Empire Earth II - Preview
Empire Earth II is one of those sequels with very little to prove. This is almost always a good thing. When a sequel has to completely reinvent the original game, you've got to wonder whether the original concept was ever really worth the effort.

Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy - GameSpy`s preview (This site give this game 2 star from 5!)
When it comes to the Empire Earth franchise, nobody can fault them for a lack of ambition. The game basically offers all of human history in one RTS, covering 15 eras ranging from cavemen wielding clubs and spears all the way to near-future warfare using cybernetically enhanced soldiers.

Medieval 2: Total War - Preview from ActionTrip
When Creative Assembly released Rome: Total War, they were determined to lure gamers into an experience that was more cinematic and epic than any of their previous titles. If you haven't played Rome: Total War yet, then you've missed out on one of the most influential and appealing strategy games of our time (I suggest you try it out at the very least).

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War- IGN`s preview
At a recent Midway event in Hollywood, we were able to take another look at Rise & Fall as it heads towards a June release date.

Rise & Fall: Civilizations At War - New movie
W/o comments

Rise & Fall: Civilizations - New SS
A new batch of screenshots for Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is now available

Panzer Elite Action - MP Demo
The second demo (475 MB) for Panzer Elite Action: multiplayer World War II from Zootfly team

Company of Heroes - New video
New video from World War II RTS game, developer - Relic

Paraworld - New video
New video

Paraworld - Designer Diary # 3
In the previous article I talked about the story and other aspects related to the single-player campaign. We did split up the gameplay-oriented content into two articles since there simply is a lot to cover.


Counter-Strike Source Update Released!
Now, we have new models to choose from in CS:S!!

BF2 Patch 1.21 Update
Dice and EA have been working on a follow-up patch for the recent 1.2 patch that will be addressing some of the new problems that 1.2 have stirred up.

BF2Tournaments World Premier 8v8
You are now able to sign-up for BF2Tournaments World Premier 8v8 Tournament.

Sniper Elite Demo
Demo version of Sniper Elite: 630 MB and three maps

Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers Demo
416 MB: tutorial and ntro movie

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Q&A
Release date, RPG-style, camera, weapon, NPC

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion gone GOLD !!!!
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has gone to gold master. Look for it in stores in North America and Europe beginning the week of March 20

Unreal Tournament 2007 - More, More and More
Preview from GameSpot and first impression(IGN)

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
The Xbox 360 edition is appearing on store shelves on March 10 (apparently a bit earlier than expected), the Xbox edition is due the 17th, and the PS2 edition is expected by March 31



7.1 can destroy your home?
As a home theater tech critic, I spend much of my time evangelizing for surround sound. I do it unashamedly and with all my heart.

NVIDIA, ATI chipset plans exposed
DailyTech has some purported info regarding the MCP55, NVIDIA's upcoming Socket AM2 (desktop) and Socket S1 (mobile) chipset likely to be dubbed nForce5. The new chipset will apparently feature a new audio controller, dual on-chip Gigabit Ethernet, and six SATA channels.

Realtek AC97 Driver v3.84
New version 3.84 driver for ALC AC97 audio chipsets.

Shattering The Half Terabyte Mark : 500 GB Hard Drive Shootout
2005 was, more or less, a transition period for the storage industry. The key players who control this industry, namely chipset, controller, and drive manufacturers, were able to successfully wean the masses off of the aging Parallel ATA storage standard, migrating to the newer and far superior Serial ATA standard.

Blu-Ray wait you, North America.
Sony has announced that its Blu-Ray next-generation DVD format will launch in North America on May 23rd, giving a clear timeline for the first time for the arrival of the media format which will be used by the PlayStation 3.

Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
Accuracy, speed, and precision in aiming are what the mouse is there to provide so long as the gamer using it has the skill. However, there are many mice out there are on the market today each boasting their own strengths and features.


GameSpot showing its noob colors
Why am I calling gamespot noob for giving it an 8.3? Here's why? Read their review first, then read my analysis of it.
To begin with, they dont need to repeat the same god damn thing they've been telling us since August, that the game is based on the War in the North. Do you know how many times I've heard that? Im sick of it. Shut the fuck up and tell me something I DON'T know for a change. Words 1 through 264 are a waste of space

This week should make us happy because Atari released its demo version of expansion pack for one of the best RTS 2005 year - Act of War: High Treason



High Treason Demo Released!
You can download the demo at the official site. The Features of the demo includes: * All Naval units from faction, Task Force Talon, playable * 3 Maps to play on * Chapters 9,10,11 from singleplayer * LAN and online play * All units from Task Force Talon playable except Tactical Weapons, Counter Tactical Weapons, and Future Force Warrior. * Localized in German, Italian, French, and English. The demo is 770 MB in size.



High Treason Demo Released!
You can download the demo at the official site. The Features of the demo includes: * All Naval units from faction, Task Force Talon, playable * 3 Maps to play on * Chapters 9,10,11 from singleplayer * LAN and online play * All units from Task Force Talon playable except Tactical Weapons, Counter Tactical Weapons, and Future Force Warrior. * Localized in German, Italian, French, and English. The demo is 770 MB in size.

Autozip Replay Upload System
Gamereplays is introducing an Autozip Replay Upload System. The interface still remains the same, but whenever you upload a .rep, .bfme2replay or .age3rec file, it will be automatically be saved as a zipped file. And when you download the file, it will be a zipfile with the original replay inside. This will help free some place on our hard disk and conserve our monthly bandwidth usage.

Act of War:High Treason Demo to be Released This Week!
Act of War: High Treason is an expansion pack to the modern action-packed RTS game, Act of War: Direct Action. This expansion pack includes new features like naval warfare, upgraded graphics, and new units like the mercanary units!

C&C The First Decade
DarkZero.co.uk, UK gaming website present own review of Command & Conquer: The First Decade



Gamereplays BFME2 Tournament
BFME2 a monster game with monster players and a gamereplays monster start. Gamereplays first BFME2 tournament will start on Saturday 11 March at 19:00 GMT. So be there if you want to play vs the best, challenge the best and be victorious over the best

More reviews for BFME2
4 new reviews just came in for the Battle for Middle Earth 2: The first one from UGO, giving the game an A-, the second one coming from Amped IGO, offering the game no less than 9/10, and the last review made by All Game Guide rating the game 3.5/5 stars. 1UP release own review too. Editor`s rating - 8.5, user`s rating - 5,7 and total rating is 7.1

Clanwars Update
Well here we are the first ever clanwars month for BFME, |EAGLE| now [xXx] are really the only contenders to EPICS epic charge for this munths title. Yet this game does look promising and it is still early with new strats being made every day.

BfME2 macro-management Article by Maddox
Maddox has posted an great article about Macro Management on BfME2. Be in the mind of this experienced old school RTS player and get a good headstart on the game!

New Mike Verdu Blog regarding 1.02 and 1.03
A new blog from Mike Verdu has been posted at the official BfME2 site. In here you can find more info about the fixes in the upcoming 1.02 and 1.03 patches. As you can see, the EALA guys are very busy trying to rid the game of all the errors that is bound to be present in a newly released PC game. Discuss more on this in the general discussion topic posted by EALA Amer.


BFME 2 Tournament Coming Soon
The ESL UK is arranging a special tournament for BFME 2 in the spring. It will be a 64 player 1v1 tournament for players who live in or descend from the UK or Ireland. Prizes include a 3 month premium ESL account, a Raptor Gaming P2 Pad with Teflon Spray & Gliders, and possibly more.

New Map Section! Custom Maps are now available!
The BFME2 Custom Map Section is now online! If you would like to try a new map or submit one, go to our Map Section at www.BFME2.com/maps. In addition to great maps like the Argonath and Weathertop, there are conversions of BFME1's Old Brown Lands and the city of Pelargir(Ring Hero is available).

RRs Wanted
The BFME 2 section has absolutely exploded with new replays and we need a few good RRs to help out. This is one of the best ways to contribute to the community and better your own skills in the process.

Servers are back up
Hey everyone, The servers are back up and we are continuing to monitor the technical situation behind them. We apologize again for this inconvenience, and we have a team analyzing the issues right now to see what has been going on. This issue today affected the EA servers across all games so by no means was this singled to just BFME 2.

Xfire Dev Chat Log
The Xfire Dev Chat was over and I present for you this Log

Help is on its way...
Apoc has just announced that more people from the developement team of The Battle for Middle Earth 2 will be visiting this forum a lot to gather feedback, in order to fix the current issues with GameData errors, desyincs, and connection issues, as soon as possible.

Strategy Informer Review
Strategy Informer has just reviewed The Battle for Middle Earth 2, giving the game an 82%. It is a rather mediocre and short review, focusing mainly on the War of the RIng mode. All the reviews up to date result in the Battle for Middle Earth 2 having an overall average of 83%, on GameRankings.com.

BFME II Server Timeout Update
Hey guys, Apologies for the delay in response, we are fully aware that the online servers are timing out. We are working as fast as possible this morning to get them back up and running.

Reviews from TrustedReviews and GameAxis
Some more reviews from gaming sites but the funny moment is the name on of the webiste - TrustedReviews (Rating - 80%). They review is fu... sorry, read yourselves and you understand. Anoter review from GameAxis. Rating - 90%

Next patch, ladder reset, etc
Today we identified a problem that was preventing some people from connecting to the servers during periods when very large numbers of players were on-line. We have a server-side workaround in place that solves the connection issues, but as a result individual player stats were reset as of 10am today. It’s a good news/bad news situation: The good news is that you should have a much easier time connecting but the bad news is that your stats got reset. We apologize for the reset. Any games that you played between 10AM and now for the Tournament Ladder were recorded and counted for your rank and not lost.

Boomtown review
Another review of the newly released the Battle for Middle Earth 2 just came in. This one is from Boomtown, and it gives the game an 80% rating. The reviewer states that he greatly enjoys the game, and his main complaint is the weakness of base defenses.

Gamepro review
Gamepro reviewed the Battle for Middle Earth 2 recently, and considered the game worthy of 4.5/5 stars, which is basically the equivalent of 90%. smile.gif The entire article focuses on the new gameplay implementations and the Single Player modes, and there is almost no mention of multiplayer whatsoever

Actiontrip review
Actiontrip just reviewed the Battle for Middle Earth 2, rating the game at a solid 85%. As most other reviews, the main focus of the article was the Single Player Mode, but Multiplayer was mentionned first and the great online potential was also acknowledged.

Message from APOC : Online issues
Hey guys, I wanted to apologize for the brash of server issues that were encounted over the weekend with the multiplayer experience of the game. There is no finger to point at either our server end or Gamespy, this is a technical issue we are working on a solution together.

Replay of the Day!
Due to the massive popularity of the BFME2 replays, with the ROTW clocking over 1000 downloads in it's first day, we have decided to launch a Replay of the Day feature for a few weeks.
Check back every day to watch the most entertaining, chaotic and down-right ingenius replays the online RTS community has to offer.

Replay of the Week comes to BFME II
As some of you may have noticed, Battle for Middle Earth 2 now has it's first Replay of the Week. Credit goes to Moony and Sentry for a very entertaining game on Withered Heath.

Over 70 replays already posted!
There has been an incredible 70 replays posted in the first two days of BfME 2, this incredible! Please visit te BfME 2 Replay section to download some great replays and watch and learn from others playing. Also, you can give them tips and share your knowledge.



Weekly Clanwars Update
Just thought i would post this for traditional values, even though clanwars has like died

Result of GR 1.03 tournament
This was first tournament after releasing of patch 1.03 for Battle for Middle-earth! The competition has beeen hosted by Species8472 and CorteZ. Thanks them for this competition! The places were distributed thus



Update
Both LucasArts and Petroglyph have been working on a new patch including updates on some multiplayer issues. When they give me more details on it, I'll pass it along.

Article: Two Weeks of EAW - by Apollo-
Our strat emperor Apollo- has written an article about his first experiences with EAW and how his first two weeks playing this game were. You can find the article in the menu above or by going through our article section. Enjoy and thanks to Apollo-!

Mike Legg Speaks
I just received an email from Mike Legg, explaining a bit the current situation at Petroglyph. Some cool inside info that he shared with Cain of the Unofficial Petroglyph Fanforums and forwarded to EAW.org as well. Thanks a lot Mike!

CVG review
Computer and Video Games release great review with cool verdict: "The best Star Wars RTS in the galaxy... Ever!" (Score - 85%)

Gamehelper review
Another review from another website. Gamehelper gave to EaW 80% from 100%

Bomtown review
This is review by Bomtown which rate the game at 7/10

GameGuruMania review
This is review by GameGuruMania which rate the game at 78%



High Treason Demo Released!
You can download the demo at the official site. The Features of the demo includes: * All Naval units from faction, Task Force Talon, playable * 3 Maps to play on * Chapters 9,10,11 from singleplayer * LAN and online play * All units from Task Force Talon playable except Tactical Weapons, Counter Tactical Weapons, and Future Force Warrior. * Localized in German, Italian, French, and English. The demo is 770 MB in size.

Interview with Henrik Strandberg
Shacknews interviewing Henrik Strandberg, senior producer of Act of War: High Treason ! "Shack: Act of War: Direct Action is one of the best looking strategy games out there. Regardless, are you introducing any new graphics features in High Treason?

High Treason Demo Announced
Act of War: High Treason is an expansion pack to the modern action-packed RTS game, Act of War: Direct Action. This expansion pack includes new features like naval warfare, upgraded graphics, and new units like the mercanary units! Click here for an indepth interview with Atari's producer of some of the new features, and here is the official website for screenshots and a trailer



Screenshots Released
Fresh new screenshots have been released by IGN for the upcomming AoE3 Expansion pack!

Expansion Pack!
Newest Addition to Best-Selling Franchise Introduces Playable Native American Civilizations in a Fight for Control of the Americas. The incredible momentum behind ”Age of Empires III” continues as Microsoft Game Studios and Ensemble Studios announced their plans for delivering an expansion pack to gamers in 2006.



Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends - Preview by GamingExcellence
While still in development, Microsoft's Rise of Legends is showing a great amount of promise as a real-time strategy game, but the nagging question is does it offer anything different to a genre where players make multiplayer into a science?

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends - New movie
New movie from very potential game. Duration: 30 sec, quality: high

SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars - Demo
Aspyr has released a demo-version of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (564 Mb)

Empire Earth 2: The Art of Supremacy - Preview by EuroGamer
The original Empire Earth's expansion pack presented an unusual experience. Now, at the time of its release, looked like the State of the Art in the Real-time Strategy game, with its 3D battlefields and assorted gubbins.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Rreview by Gamespot
The single-player campaign will have you playing as the chaos or the empire at the beginning of the game. Those familiar with Warhammer history know that there are always wars raging back and forth between the factions. In the game, the chaos are once again pushing south, into a northern part of the empire.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Rreview by GameSpy
With the exception of Relic's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, games set in the Warhammer universe really haven't broken through to the casual gamer. Perhaps the intricately-designed world of Warhammer intimidates too many people, or perhaps the games simply haven't been that great. But it's a fact that Namco Bandai is well aware of, and one that Senior Producer Chris Wren says that they are going to address.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Rreview by IGN
With the success of Warhmmer 40,000: Dawn of War, it's not really a surprise that someone would want to pick up the other Warhammer license, Fantasy Battles, and give it the same sort of treatment. Namco was the lucky winner of part of that prize (the other winner was Mythic with Warhammer Online) and they immediately signed Black Hole (Armies of Exigo) up to create Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, an RTS some very strong visual elements and the promise of huge bloody battles.



Battlefield 2 - Patch 1.21
As EA promise, patch 1.21 ready for upload to your PC: full patch (367MB) and update from 1.2 to 1.21 (13.9MB)

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 will be available on March 14
Through steam, the new WWII FPS game that everyone has been talking about will be available to play on March 14, 2006 via steam.



New Catalyst drivers for ATI videocards
Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product may result in intermittent display corruption being noticed.

5.46GHz PC
One of the world's fastest PCs will be on show at CeBIT 2006.

nVidia's 7900
Little information about this new gfx card

Radeon X1800 GTO
The Radeon® X1800 GTO is the newest and most affordable member of the highly acclaimed X1800 series, giving you all of the same capabilities and advanced features



Dr. Darky from now on! (well for a while)
It's officially happened! I'm now Dr. Dark, not Mr. Dark. Hence, Dr. Darky for my username. (Profit by the occasion: Congratulate you, Dr.Darky.)

As always our NP and SNP carry through new WR special for our readers. Enjoy


Act of War: High Treason. GOLD
Atari today announced that development is complete on the Act of War: High Treason expansion pack for the critically-acclaimed, techno-thriller RTS, Act of War: Direct Action. Developed by Paris-based Eugen Systems and loaded with new features including modern-day naval combat and mercenaries, Act of War: High Treason is on schedule for release on 24 March 2006 for the Windows platform.



The TAS Forum is in need of RR's!
nterested in helping people with gaming troubles? Enjoy watching replays while eating a bag of popcorn? And Most importantly enjoy playing TAS? Why not try to become a part of our GR.org/TAS Replay Reviewer?

And now for something completely diff by Stridah
Im simply thrilled because Big Huge Games practically read down my list of what I want my next RTS to be like, except I never had to mail it to em. 1) Five or less playable sides 2) Different from eachother! ... and other

RoL Dev Interview at IGN/Gamespotm
If you have any doubts about buying the game, this interview will convince you! The fellow who is interviewd is Tim Train, Executive Producer at BHG!

Pure Pwnage episode 10 is out!
The new Pure Pwnage episode is out!! Episode 10 aready. It's a real back to old school episode and a very nice watch. All go check it out!!

Rise of Legends Forums are up!
We've opened the Rise of Legends forums, so come and join us in discussing this upcoming game! Click for Rise of Legends section! It is being FULLY supported by GameReplays.org and will have a full staff section, replay sections etc etc once the game is out.

Developer Icons at forum view
As you might have aready noticed, Gamereplays just got a brandnew feature! It's the Developer icons at forumview!! Whenever one of the Game Developers that visit our boards post in a topic, you'll see the their respective company logo as a post image appearing at forumview.

Act of War: High Treason. GOLD
Atari today announced that development is complete on the Act of War: High Treason expansion pack for the critically-acclaimed, techno-thriller RTS, Act of War: Direct Action. Developed by Paris-based Eugen Systems and loaded with new features including modern-day naval combat and mercenaries, Act of War: High Treason is on schedule for release on 24 March 2006 for the Windows platform.



Worldbuilder Developer Tips
EA have announced the release of two worldbuilder tutorials by the very experts -The Battle for Middle-earth II Development Team themselves! A few of our top map designers and beautification artists have come together to develop some very easy tutorials to teach YOU how you can create a spectacular multiplayer map with a few simple steps. If you are new to World Builder, please download the document "Building a BFME II Multiplayer Map" to learn the basics.

2 more reviews
It's time for 2 more reviews for The Battle for Middle Earth 2. The first one comes from GameDaily, giving the game a 4/5 stars rating. The second one from JustPressPlay rates the game 89%. The 2 reviews focus greatly on the Campaign, War of the Ring Mode, and the gameplay innovations since the Battle for Middle Earth 1.

New nVIDIA driver - 84.21
Today nVIDIA release new driver (WHQL Certified) for their videocards - 84.21. Windows XP, GeForce FX 5900/5950: Graphics corruption occurs with Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth 2.

Patch 1.02 - Next week ?
Second, Patch 1.02 is anticipated to be released next week (fingers crossed). This patch will fix the problem with how games were reporting ladder results and stats incorrectly and because we want the official results to be based off of correct data reporting, we will be resetting the ladders once 1.02 goes live.

Official announcement about Apocs trip
Aaron Kaufman, the Community Manager for the Battle for Middle Earth 2, otherwise known as Apoc, is taking his first vacation in 2 years! He will spend the first week in Aruba, which is in the southern tip of the Caribbean Islands, and the second one in the Los Angeles area.

New Interview With EA Apoc, Gamereplays.Org Exclusive
That's right, I've just done a new exclusive interview with our community representative for the Battle for Middle-Earth 1 and 2. Many thanks go out to Apoc for treating us to this look into his life. Read the interview here

Weekly Clan Wars Update
Well another intense week of clan wars has passed with [xXx] still leading the way yet with EPIC| just behind, it is really just bewtween these two clans now as the gap between 2nd and 3rd is 5413, thats a whold lot of points, this is how it looks.

Possible Game.dat fix and Ladder Report Update
EA Apoc just created a thread in the General Discussion section of this forum, where he explains in great detail the current Game.Dat errors from BFME2, and a possible solution, which basically consists of downloading the ForceWare 81.98 drivers for all nVidia graphic cards. He also brings to our attention that the LADDER repoting issues have been solved in the 1.02 patch.

Links section at EA BfME2 site opened!
The Links section at the Official EA BfME2 site has been opened! In here you can find links to many other fansites out there that have delicated themselves to BfME2. Gamereplays.org is there!!! And as well as our partner BfME Tournaments. Go check it out to find more!!

New review - GameGuruMania
Next review from prominent gaming site - GameGuruMania. The author of this article rate this game ... 85% (Excellent)

Post a Photo with your copy of BFME II. Results
Today Apoc present winners of the Post a Photo with your copy of BFME-2 contest. They are:

First GOLD Replay
We are proud to announce the very first GOLD replay for BfME2. Capping off an extraordinary couple of weeks since the release of the game, this gold replay stands out amongst the 350 BfME2 replays posted to date as demonstrating superb strategy that isn't often seen in most replays.

GameReplays.org Replay Competition
GameReplays.org is proud to announce a BFME2 Replay Competition. GR.org is looking for the best and most entertaining replays of this moment. Do you think you got the replay that everyone loves, showing at least decent skill but entertaining from start till end? Then join the GameReplays.org Replay competition now!



New 2v2 tournament !
Sunday 2nd April CorteZ, our Tournament Mod, will host the 2v2 Single Elimination Tournament: Date of tourny: 2nd April. Maximum teams: 16



Information about patch 1.04
Delphi-PG said that new patch 1.03 haven`t replays function, but replays had to take a back seat so that we could get all the connectivity issues worked out. We are expecting the feature to be in 1.04 along with a ton of balance changes and the editor.

Update: next patch, new features and content
Patch 1.03 is nearing the final phase of testing and we are expecting it to be released next week. The patch contains a wide array of updates and fixes resulting from feedback we have received from the community. Most importantly, connectivity issues should be greatly reduced. Along with fixes and tweaks made to the net code, we’ve added a new feature that will allow the host to “Test Connections” before the game launches to ensure connectivity is 100%



US release appears to be later
In their game page they have hte US release date set to May, 30, 2006. A full month further than what it was before and even at the very end o the month at that. I assume this g ame will be played in the US around June sometime which is horrible for US players. Guess we'll have to live off the demo for a long time now.

Athlon XP Fix for High Treason Demo
If you are encountering problems with loading up the new High Treason Demo and you are on an Athlon XP, Eugen has released a new fix for you! Replace the current aowht.exe in your Act of War:High Treason directory with the aowht.exe below. Then start your game normally and should load up. You can still play with other gamers who are on Intels and Athlon 64's.

Act of War: High Treason. GOLD
Atari today announced that development is complete on the Act of War: High Treason expansion pack for the critically-acclaimed, techno-thriller RTS, Act of War: Direct Action. Developed by Paris-based Eugen Systems and loaded with new features including modern-day naval combat and mercenaries, Act of War: High Treason is on schedule for release on 24 March 2006 for the Windows platform.



IGN Interview with Sandy Peterson
In a recent IGN interview with Ensemble Studio's lead designer Sandy Peterson, ES reveals more of their plans for an AoE3 expansion expected this fall entitled The WarChiefs.

New Interview: Bruce Shelley
Bruce Shelley, a designer from the AoE series, has replied to some questions from a german website - WorkingTitle

Ask Sandy Q/A - Expansion
Some very interesting question and answer posts have popped up in AgeCommunity.com over the last few days or so, concerning the upcomming expansion pack.



Climate Zones Part II - Welcome to the Jungle
welcome to the jungle: -- 3 new buildings --- climatic zones sequel -- the jungle including a HD movie in 720p and a panorama shot

Climate Zones Part III - The Savannah
welcome to the savannah: -- 3 new dinosaurs -- the savannah including a 720p HD movie and a panorama shot



Latest ROTW and other news
The latest ROTW is matchup not seen often; a stealth mirror! It was also elite and is being voted on for legendary so is definately worth a watch! Recently there have been a few video recordings of people playing Zero Hour, the links are contained here. These are a decent insight into how people play the game which can sometimes not be seen by a simple replay.

Command & Conquer: The First Decade Patch
First patch for The First Decade

Rise of Legends - New preview
According to Tim Train, that's how Big Huge Games views their real-time strategy hit, Rise of Nations. It's an odd way to describe a game that garnered excellent sales, voluminous critical praise, and more than a few "Game of the Year" awards -- surely a home run by most estimates.

Supreme Commander
While Total Annihilation didn't blow the doors off of innovation, it did prove that Chris Taylor and his people knew their way around an RTS. Huge robots and lasers blowing stuff up didn't hurt either.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe - Announce
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, will feature three new nations (Spain, the Great Duchy of Warsaw and the Rhine Confederation), 10 new battlefields, four new campaigns, six new skirmish missions and three new historical battles (Waterloo, Leipzig and Borodino) will offer an expanded Cossacks experience in both single- and multiplayer play.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe - First Screenshots
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EA and DICE Merge!
Today, EA and Digital Illusions CE (DICE) announces that DICE will merge with Electronic Arts!

New Game Coming to Steam
There is news from Steam that a new game is coming out under the Source engine made by Turtle Rock Studios!

BF2 Euro Force Booster Pack Available
The newest booster pack has been released which features new weapons, vehicles, and much, much more!

Steam Platform Update Released
A new steam update has been released that fixes some major issues within the Steam client.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Released!
The latest FPS on the Source engine is now available to play from Steam!





New Gfx Sub-forums
Gamereplays.org has new additions to it's growing graphics/images section in the form of new sub-forums. Namely, the Graphics Resources and the Tutorials sub-forums. Each of these new sub-forums have there own uses and rules. Please participate in the activity of these new sub-forums.

Tutorial Competition
Since we now have the new tutorial sub-forum, we'll be needing to have it filled up. And what better way to do this is through a tutorial competition.
Starting AS OF NOW, Saturday, March 18, 2006, people will have to submit THEIR OWN made tutorial in order to qualify. Competition ends a week from now, and we'll be handing out article publisher medals to good tutorials.



Memory OverClocking Guide
So, it's time to tweak your memory to get maximum performance out of it eh? After playing around with a LOT of memory, I've sorta settled on what I think is a good way to overclock memory. It might not be the fastest, as there is a lot of testing and tweaking involved, but you'll be sure to learn a lot about what the memory can do, and see if there's any hitches along the way.

Logitech MX510
Whether you're into first person shooters, real time strategies or even delve into occasional graphics design, you should know that a good mouse is an essential tool in your daily computing activities. In this review we are going to look at the Logitech MX-510 optical wired 8-button mouse.

ATI Catalyst 6.3 Performance Analysis
ATI didn’t promise any big performance jumps this time around and its worth having a look at the release notes as there are many game fixes which seemed to be the main concern on this release.

New nVIDIA driver - 84.21
Today nVIDIA release new driver (WHQL Certified) for their videocards - 84.21.

Internet Explorer Has a Future
At Mix '06, Microsoft's Web 2.0 conference in Las Vegas next week, tools for designers won't be the only hot button. Microsoft also will be showcasing Internet Explorer 7.0, distributing new browser bits and sharing ideas on the next version(s) of IE in the works.



The new pure pwnage, pp10
Yes, new Purepwnage was out. Your opinion?

Definition of Rush, Not only in BFME2
RUSH - What is this ?

Congratulate all GR members and especially RoL fans: Gamereplays glad to present for you new portal - Rise of Legends.


Rise of Legends portal is up!
We've launched our support for BigHugeGames' latest title in the Rise of Nations series: Rise of Legends. Currently the game is in a beta test phase getting it balanced, bug squashed, and ready for release around May 23rd. On the portal you can find guides for the three factions, an overview of the game, and an exclusive interview with the Rise of Legends community manager, Joe Pishgar (who goes by the name GrayPawn around the community).



Rise of Legends portal is up!
We've launched our support for BigHugeGames' latest title in the Rise of Nations series: Rise of Legends. Currently the game is in a beta test phase getting it balanced, bug squashed, and ready for release around May 23rd. On the portal you can find guides for the three factions, an overview of the game, and an exclusive interview with the Rise of Legends community manager, Joe Pishgar (who goes by the name GrayPawn around the community).

Act of War: High Treason IN STORES for Europe/UK!
If you are living in Europe or in the UK, you have the ability to buy the game right now! High Treason is the expansion pack to the sleeper RTS game of the year, Act of War. New modes and features include: * Navy Mode * Scud Launcher * Marine One Down * Deathmatch * New Units * Upgraded Artillery * Better Aircraft * A Robust Single-Player Campaign!
If you want to try out the demo, or see a trailer of it, go to their official site.

Awesome update for RoL
Concept art and vids update!

Exclusive Interview With Joe Pishgar, Rise of Legends' Community Manager!
Some highlights:
GameReplays: How developed is the replay facility. Can it just play/fast forward/pause or is it more advanced with rewind etc?
GreyPawn: The game recording system is fairly enhanced, and includes Play, Pause, Rewind, Fast Forward, Toggle Fog-of-War, Player Camera Follow, Player Perspective, Slow Down and Speed Up options.
Come in for the full interview now!



Patch 1.02 Released
Woohaa! Next awesome review from Gamerz-Edge for awesome game - Battle for Middle-earth - II. They give presents for BFME-2 Dev Team ... overall score = 9.3/10

Patch 1.02 Released
Patch 1.02 is online and available for download. The patch is mainly for stability, and contains no balance or unit fixes. You can download the patch by logging onto the Battle for Middle Earth Online or download it manually.
And as EALA Amer reported, "On Monday, 3/27, we will reset the GameSpy 1v1 and 2v2 ladders to accurately reflect the new reporting system. Additionally, as I've mentioned before, we will be releasing a major 1.03 patch sometime next month that includes balance changes and addresses a number of technical issues."
For those of you that have difficulties with the auto-patcher to download the patch, check out this topic where EALA Jimtern explains how this can be fixed.

BFME2 2v2 Tournament to start April 22nd
That's right, after a long wait BFME Tournaments is having it's first full BFME2 2v2 Tournament. This tournament is scheduled to begin on April 22nd and rounds will be played on every Saturday from that date on until the end of the tournament. Read the official rules here, and make sure you READ THEM ALL before signing up. Many mistakes and misunderstandings during our tournaments are due to players not fully reading the rules

BFME2 Strategy Contest!, Cash Prizes!
Big Time Tournaments is having its first ever Strategy Contest. This is your chance to prove that you know your stuff and also your chance to make some money with your strats!

First shoutcast for BfME2 on gr.org!
Bosn aka [xXx]Dakka made an awesome shoutcast of a Mordor vs. Elves match in which he was Mordor. He explains his moves and game-plan as well as giving useful micro-tips. It's very entertaining and instructional, especially for Mordor-players.

Weekly Clanwars Update
Well here we go again theres only one more week of gaming left and there are only two clans left in contention for that no.1 spec! The warrior table is also staring to space its self out with tuckke starting to pull away, but he is still catchable, this is how it looks

Elves vs Dwarves In-Depth Guide
Fait^, our new Elven Strategy Moderator, has created an In-Depth guide covering everything you need to know about the matchup from the Elves' perspective. If you are an Elves player looking for help on this matchup, or tips on the Elves in general, make sure you check out this guide here.

BFME2 LANparty
Today Target announced first BFME2 LANparty in the large cafeteria on an Intel Campus in DuPont WA: Friday April 28th 9PM to Sunday 9AM April 30th. Prizes: Processors, Motherboards, Graphics Cards, Memory Hard Drives and much more . Over $10,000 given away as door prizes! Full information about LANparty in this topic



RoL Physics news
The recently announced AGEIA PhysX Physics Processing Unit will be used to full effect in Rise of Legends, Big Huge Games' new real-time strategy game, and even if you don't have the addin card, you can experience AGEIA's still-stunning NovodeX physics system in-game

Rise of Legends Trailers
IGN have a spectacular set of trailers to offer RoL fans. The most recent of the 6 was released yesterday and is called "Wow", which is suggesting it is a must watch. You can watch these clips on either Windows media or Quicktime player. The lucky "IGN insiders" can experience these clips at 640 x 360. Normal fans can still watch these great movies and at high quality (320 x 180).

Article from PC Gamer
An in-depth look at RoL from a sneak peek standpoint written by Steve Klett of PC Gamer magazine. Read the full article here.

Community Tuesday, March 21st
Hey all! It's March 21st, and of course that means Community Tuesday again! Since we got so much great feedback on the avi's taken from in-game shots, this Community Tuesday release is full of 'em. Take a look at the great new stuff

Worthplaying preview
Today, Worthplaying present preview for Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Full preview

Exclusive Interview With GreyPawn
GameReplays: Would you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about you?
GreyPawn: Sure! My name is Joe Pishgar, but folks ‘round these parts call me GreyPawn. I’m the Community Relations Manager at Big Huge Games, and it’s my responsibility to make sure the community is kept engaged and active.
[...]
GameReplays: How long have you been with Big Huge Games?
GreyPawn: I’m a fairly recent addition to the company, and I’ve been here since the middle of December ’05.



Server Issues
We are currently experiencing some intermittent server side issues with EAW since the ladders were reset about 3 hours ago. You should be able to play custom games ok, but QM games are sporadic. We are working very closely with GameSpy and should have the problems sorted out soon.UPDATE: All right, servers are back to normal

Patch 1.03 is out!
Star Wars: Empire at War patch 1.03 is now out! Patch details are here! To get the patch just start up your EaW and let it Auto-Update.

Interview with Frank Klepacki
Gamers With Jobs Radio have a podcast about some Xbox Games, new EA and also, you can find interview with Frank Klepacki, the composer of Command & Conquer and Star Wars: Empire at War.

The Arena. Full guide, Current Competitive ladder for 1v1 and 2v2's
Our Stratagy Moderator Apollo- carry through a hard work - he wrote very useful guide about Gamespy Arena`s Official ladder for "Empire At War in 1v1 and 2v2 games for land, space and campaign battles"



High Treason is for sell in Europe/UK!
Good news! Atari has just managed to release High Treason this week for the Europe and UK markets! You should be able to find them in stores RIGHT NOW! Go buy them and have fun. There is no set release date for U.S. or Australia yet. Stay tuned!

Preview by Worthplaying
Look at this preview from Worthplaying ! "Let there be no doubt – this is a competitive RTS", "if you loved Starcraft or old-school C&C, you're going to love this title" and other pleasant words about Act of War: High Treason. If this was a review ,the score wiil be most likely 85-90%



GameReplays.org Showdown
Hey folks, this is me bringing you a new feature of GameReplays.org, "GameReplays.org Showdown"
This week's showdown is between...

GameReplays Interview with ES Thunder
In an interview with GameReplays, AoE3's Community Manager ES Thunder provides a snapshot of what being a Community Manager is like and his thoughts on the game we all play.

Power Rating - How it works
Ensemble Stuidos' ES_Thunder has written a nice detailed guide on the power rating system. He describes how and why it works, how civilizations effects the number of points you gain for win and much, much more.

AoE3: The WarChiefs Expansion FAQ
AgeCommunity have released an official FAQ for The WarChiefs Expansion. It includes a description of the Iroquois and nine screenshots, well worth a read.


Climate Zones Part IV – The Icewaste
intime and with following content:
--- 3 tribes temples --- the icewaste including a 720p HD movie and a panorama shot



New advanced Random mirror strategy guide up! - Zero Hour
Many thanks to our SM Sm34g0l for making this superb Random Mirror guide. Check it out now! Random Mirror Guide. Random Mirror Guide Topic (you can reply here)

Supreme Commander - FiringSquad`s interview with Chris Taylor
FiringSquad: First, Dungeon Siege II has been out for several months now. Overall are you happy with the way the game turned out?
Chris Taylor: Yes I am, but it's one of the painful things about game development, there are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently. Luckily a lot of those things are probably not noticeable to most players.

Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy - Review
So how do you create an expansion for a game that spans the entire history of the conflict of civilizations from ancient times through the future? In the case of The Art of Supremacy you add a few new civilizations, some new campaigns, and toss in a few new game variants.

War Front: Turning Point
New SS

Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War - Q&A
When Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War arrives in stores this summer, it will have overcome some notable obstacles, the biggest being the fact that developer Stainless Steel Studios (which also made the original Empire Earth and Empires: Dawn of the Modern World) shut down in the middle of development. Undeterred, publisher Midway is pushing ahead.

Command & Conquer: The First Decade - Big Review from PlanetCnC.
I make no apologies for the length of this article; I have a lot to say about C&C: The First Decade, I hope that the extreme level of detail provided within can help you in making an informed purchasing decision. This review covers the contents of the package, any hidden details, and sums it up in a conclusion, but if you're in a rush, scroll down to the conclusion at the bottom as I have prepared a flow-chart to help you decide.

Cossacks II: Battle for Europe - First Look from GameSpot.
This year's Game Developers Conference in spacious San Jose, California, is under way, and we took the opportunity to visit publisher CDV for an up-close look at Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, a stand-alone expansion from developer GSC Game World and publisher CDV. Like the previous game, Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, Battle for Europe will take place in 19th-century Europe and will feature massive 2D battles between musketmen, cavalry, and cannons.



Battlefield 2142. Official!
I think needless to say anything. Read Official announce and watch FIRST screenshots!

Battlefield 2142: Information from EA
Hi BF fans, Today we have some really big news to share with you. The more sniper-eyed of you out there will probably already know, but we're currently hard at work developing "Battlefield 2142", which is scheduled for release this Autumn. As you'll have guessed, this is a departure for the BF series as we're going into the future - something that a lot of you wanted to see happen in the BF universe

Battlefield 2142
Battlefield 2142 illegally announced by PC Gamer ! Yes ! You can watch the trailer and download PC Gamer`s scans from Rapidshare (8755 KB)! I think, the new Battlefield is a hot mix of Renegade, Quake Wars and of course, Battlefield. Watch, read and comment !

Unreal Tournament 2007 - Q&A
We (Gameplay Monthly) had a chance to catch Producer Jeff Morris about what's happening with Unreal Tournament 2007. Although they are busy trying to crank this title out, we were able to get a brief Q&A. Special thanks to Tim DaRosa for assiting us.

Crysis - first impression
Crytek, the developer of Far Cry, is impressing the GDC crowd with an incredible tech demo of its upcoming first-person shooter. Two years after bursting on the scene with the acclaimed first-person shooter Far Cry, German developer Crytek is out dropping jaws once again with the first glimpse of Crysis, the company's second game. There's a technical trailer of Crysis being shown at Game Developers Conference that is simply blowing everyone away with its visions of incredibly lush and realistic jungle combat.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
New two videos from the game: 1 and 2



NVIDIA and Havok Demonstrate World's First GPU-Powered Game Physics Solution at Game Developer's Conference
The result of an ongoing engineering collaboration between Havok and NVIDIA, this new software product from Havok -- called Havok FX™ -- enables the simulation of dramatically-detailed physical phenomena in PC games, when powered by GPUs such as NVIDIA GeForce®7 or 6 Series GPUs and further amplified with NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology

Firefox 2.0 Alpha
It's alpha software, so be prepared for crashes and other unpleasant experiences while using it. Having said that, I've been using it for a couple of hours without any problems. A handful of my extensions don't work with 2.0a1, so if you have become reliant on one or two Firefox extensions, you'll probably find yourself reverting to 1.5 before long.



Russia tried to help Iraq?
A US Pentagon report said Russia passed details through its Baghdad ambassador. The false intelligence apparently passed on by Russia concerned the date the US was likely to start its main attack on Baghdad

New Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, known lately for its big movie licenses and sports franchises, wants to bring more creativity to the industry. Execs at EA would like to see less dependence on licenses and sports and more effort put into developing original titles. EA could potentially become more dominant than ever before.

Thanks to all SNP and NP who work for Weekend Roundup. And special thanks to Chun-a-Lun

As you see, our Weekend Roundup had been upraded: new cool badge for section news ann special Weekend Roundup Archive. Who creat news section picture? Our gfx`er - Fozzi4real - guy who creat WR Logo also. Say him "Big Thanks".


Rise of Legends Demo is here!
Ok, guys, Rise of Legends Demo now available! You can download it from GameSpot or Downloads.com. The size is 620.01MB. Mirrors: 3D Gamers, FilePlanet, Gamershell, GG Mania, Computer Games.ro, Fileshack, VG Pro, Worthplaying



1,000,000 posts!
Only one word - C o n g r a t Z

New futures of Gamereplays
As think all our members know MMORGs like as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Lineage-2, Auto Assault and many others. And Gamereplays.org teams decide to create one more Portal. Yes! MMORG Portal. But this is not one good news: Gamereplays.org have the special prize for you - Exlusive information about WORLD OF STARCRAFT ! Finally, we can broke NDA (thx to Blizzard) and tell about this new game from Blizzard. But we post this Q&A after launching MMORG Portal.

Rise of Legends Demo is here!
Ok, guys, Rise of Legends Demo now available! You can download it from GameSpot or Downloads.com. The size is 620.01MB. Mirrors: 3D Gamers, FilePlanet, Gamershell, GG Mania, Computer Games.ro, Fileshack, VG Pro, Worthplaying

Rise of Legends Demo tomorrow!
Gongratz all RoL fans! GameSpot announced the countdown timer for the Rise of Legends L singleplayer demo release. The Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends single-player demo will be available in: 20 hours and 45 minutes



Replay Reviewers Wanted
The BFME 2 section is overflowing with new replays and we need a few good RRs to help out. This is one of the best ways to contribute to the community and better your own skills in the process. The process is simple, write an application review and post the link here for our SRRs to check it out. You'll also find more info about the whole process in there

Dedicated Clanwars replay forums
We've done a slight restructuring of our replay forums now to better organize them. Member 1v1 and Member Team replays have been renamed to Quickmatch/Custom 1v1 and Team replays. You may find the new replay forums in our replay section here

New Strategy Guides Released
Two great new strategy guides have been released by two of our strategy moderators. Our Men of the West Strategy moderator Ainamir has released a guide detailing everything you need to know regarding the MotW vs Elves matchup, from the Men of the West perspective. If you are a MotW player, be sure to check it out here.

EA needs YOUR help to fix desyncs
EALA Jimtern on our forums: "If we are able to get both players' replays for a desynced match, we will have a much greater chance of finding the glitch. We are thus proposing that if you are playing a match that desyncs, it would be awesome if you could both save out your replays and post them simultaneously on this thread." UPDATE: We have created a NEW forum!!

Gamespy Ladders Reset
The Gamespy Ladders have been officially reset as of about 5:15pm PST on Tuesday March 28. We apologize about the delay in getting the reset, but we wanted to make extra sure everything would go smoothly.

BFME-2 Xbox 360. Pre-alpha review
Team Xbox present very interesting information from upcoming BFME-2 of Xbox360 version. We get hold of "a quick demo of a pre-alpha version of the game at Microsoft’s recent press event". And what result?

Help EA resolve desync issues
In an effort to resolve the desync issues in BFME 2 patch 1.02, EA is asking for help regarding the circumstances that are creating desyncs. There is a thread here posted by EALA Jimtern asking for feedback.

Another review
Now for another good review for BFME-2 and the overall rating is 91%. Read the StrategyZone Online review here

BFME2 GameSpot Gameguide
Over at GameSpot a man named Doug Radcliffe has written up a massive game guide for BFME2. (ie. Good Campaign takes 12 pages). It's so big it even has a MP section, which usually gets left out of GameSpot stuff (at least it was on the review).



Demo is here!
Ok, guys, Rise of Legends Demo now available! You can download it from GameSpot or Downloads.com. The size is 620.01MB

Singleplayer demo will be available tomorrow!
Gongratz all RoL fans! GameSpot announced the countdown timer for the RoL Singleplayer demo release. The Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends singleplayer-demo will be available in: 20 hours and 45 minutes

Community Tuesday, March 29th
Hey guys, Once more, GameReplays.org is proud to present some more of the great RoL Art work and SSs.Thks BigHugeGames, for the cool news this week.



Frank Klepacki news
Frank Klepacki, the game music maestro, pulled off a very cool new remix of the notorious Beastie Boys. You can check this funky tune on Franks myspace account which is located here. Enjoy!



SKSUS & CiTNoH & GiGa eSports
Hello, as we all know that CiTNoH & SKSUS are our very great players and friends. We shall be watching them LIVE on GiGa eSports on Saturday 01.04.06 22:00 - 23:00. CiTNoH & SKSUS have been playing Act Of War - High Treason since it came out on market last friday.

US release of High Treason: Late May!
Atari and Eugen has solved the deal of distrubiting Act of War: High Treason in the U.S. They expect High Treason to hit stores in late May.



Age of Empires 4 Announced!
Today, we have all been alerted on the announcement of AoE 4. Ensemble Studios' Ricky Foolman and Micky Goodman (co-designers) are excited on the upcomming prospect they are working on and they reckon the game should be released in the early part of 2007. The upcomming 2 games are to be focused on WWI and WWII.

AoE3 Pro-Gamer Interviews
After the succes of our first interviews we decided to make a few others, an interview with ES_Thunder which was released a while back, and 2 interviews with pro-gamers. This time it's Moony and SM4RTAsS who share their insights and thoughts with the rest of us. Enjoy!

VGM Podcast with Wally Wachi
VGM Fusion have released one of their daily podcasts and this time it's with Wally Wachi. Wally Wachi is one of the leading developers for the upcomming AoE3 Expansion named 'The War Chiefs'.



Paraworld Developer Interview, GameReplays.org Exclusive
Lead Designer Tom Langhanki of SEK-Ost has been so kind to answer these questions about the upcoming RTS game ParaWorld. Check out the full interview here

Climate Zones Part V – The Ashvalley
the last climatic zone is revealed. this update's contents: -- one new beast --- the ashvalley climatic zone final 720p HD video and a panorama shot



Medieval 2: Total War - Q&A
GNPC: How is Medieval 2 progressing? What have you been working on recently?
Bob Smith: It's progressing very well as we move towards alpha. Currently the team's main focus is putting together the demo for E3...

World of Conflict - New RTS
New RTS from Massive Entertainment, deveolopers of the Ground Control series. "Unlike the Ground Control games, World in Conflict is set on present day Earth but in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union never fell and they stage an invasion of the US."

World in Conflict = Details
Some details from CVG: "Elaborating on the core multiplayer gameplay, current info on World in Conflict has revealed that the plan is to support up to 8-player versus 8-player battles, players selecting to fly the combat flag for one of two teams in a hot zone and then assuming a specific role within that team".



BF2: Patch 1.22 released
HOA! They do it! After BF-2142 announce you thought EA abandon BF2, but... they still work at this game

Crysis - New screenshots
ss

Crysis - High resolution trailer
High resolution version of trailer from GDC



NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT and GTX
The majority of high-end gaming systems sold throughout 2005 were equipped with nVidia GeForce 7 series graphics cards. nVidia's GeForce 7800 GT and GTX were the twin pair of products which dominated this market, no doubt with the help of nVidia's SLI technology.

20" Widescreen Monitor
Everyone likes flat panels, right? They're more convenient than CRTs, they look better, and they're easier to stare at for long hours of desktop work. OK, so they're not quite as good for gaming, but with technology improving, they're swiftly getting there.

Realtek AC97 Driver v3.85
New driver for ALC AC97 audio chipsets: from ALC100 up to ALC850

Style XP 3.17
New version popular tools for styling yor Windows






Gamereplays has hit 1,000,000 posts!
Heh, the post count caught my eye last night when it was at 998,800 something...Congratulations Gamereplays

High Treason: US release
As we already noticed, US boxed version of High Treason will be available in May 2006, but you can download the game from IGN`s service Direct2Drive at once. The game size is 3.21 GB, version 1.00. Cost - $39.95



RTS... Future ?
Today IGN release very actuall article about "past, present, and future of the RTS genre". This matter hold 7 pages which include analyses of big RTS titles.

New RTS: Field Ops, the first RTS-Shooter, Press Release Info
Field Ops is a new RTS title being developed by Digital Reality, and published by Freeze Interactive. Field Ops brings something new to the RTS genre by becoming the first Real Time Strategy Shooter.

World War III-themed RTS Announced
One of the staples of the real time strategy (RTS) genre has been the massive battles of the Second World War, a conflict with an epic scale that readily translates into RTS gameplay.

High Treason: US release
As we already noticed, US boxed version of High Treason will be available in May 2006, but you can download the game from IGN`s service Direct2Drive at once. The game size is 3.21 GB, version 1.00. Cost - $39.95

Game Info: Superweapons in Rush for Berlin
In addition to the officers and their skills, Stormregion's new 3D real-time strategy game presents a number of super weapons. In 1945, the German army needs to halt the Americans' assault from the West and the onslaught of the Red Army from the East, while launching a counter-attack.



BFME2 Xbox 360 IGN videos
IGN has just released 2 new videos for the XBOX 360 version of The Battle for Middle Earth 2. The first one is a trailer, and the second one a 4 minute-long exclusive video with Louis Castle. You can check them out right here. Also, IGN Insiders can enjoy these 2 videos in High Definition format.

EA is looking into Create-a-Hero
As EA posted on the official site of The Battle for Middle Earth 2, they are looking into Create-a-hero for patch 1.04. So if you want to contribute in the improvement of this feature, visit this thread and post your suggestions.

New World Builder Features Tutorial, Official EA Tutorial
World Builder is the professional map-making software that comes with BFME2. EA has released a new tutorial that explains all the new World Builder features since the previous version (BFME1). There is also a sample map.ini file with the code already written for you and a chart explaining where the hotkeys are.

Welcome back, Commander !
As you know, Apoc return from the 2 weeks vacation and right away post very interesting information about patch 1.03 and Xbox360 version of this game.



Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends Trailer #7
A new Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends trailer has been released, showcasing the follow-up to Rise of Nations developed by Big Huge Games. Unlike the previous game, Rise of Legends is a fantasy real-time strategy game, affirming the intentions of developers to create a new franchise.

ROL : Multiplayer Gaming
Things were looking bad: my magical Alin forces were outnumbered and outflanked, my heroes were almost dead, and I'd already brought up the last of my infantry reinforcements in a desperate final bid to hold this important city on the edge of my empire.

Mod for the DEMO
Do u want to see the Cuotl faction?Download this mod (that opens 98% of Coutl in the demo) and follow the instructions provided in the .txt files.

New Video! Trailer 6
GameSpot has just released a new video of RoL showing some great battles!

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends IGN Multiplayer Preview
Big Huge Games have been allowing other companies to test out Rise of Legends multiplayer system. Along with IGN, Gamespot has also had the chance to test this out. This is a great way to get people more interested in the game and Big Huge Games have showed us they really do care about their communities.

The one and only Executive Producer Tim Train posted today in our Discussion forums.
I want to thank everyone who has downloaded the demo for Rise of Legends. We really appreciate the time everyone has taken to play the demo and post feedback on their impressions. We are aware of a number of issues with the current build of the demo, including problems with crashes, AI, and performance.

First Impressions - Multiplayer !
First, it's worth mentioning the multiplayer interface. Big Huge took a lot of lumps for the multiplayer gameplay in Rise of Nations, as finding and staying connected in a game was a lot harder than it should have been. The server browser was fairly rudimentary, and the game itself was unstable

Community Tuesday, 4th of April
Hey guys, Once more, GameReplays.org is proud to present some more of the great RoL Art work and SSs.Thks BigHugeGames, for the cool news this week.



1.03 -> 1.04 Balance Issues
Since I couldn't find a dedicated balance issues topic I thought it would be good to make one. It just might help Delphi out. List what issues you think are imbalanced and possible solutions here.



Community FAQ!
Last week, members in our forums compiled questions about Act of War and the expansion pack, High Treason, to PQlear of Atari. PQlear is the Senior Producer from Atari.

High Treason: US release
As we already noticed, US boxed version of High Treason will be available in May 2006, but you can download the game from IGN`s service Direct2Drive at once. The game size is 3.21 GB, version 1.00. Cost - $39.95

HT Hands-on Info
Yes, the game has been out and I had planned for this to launch with some of the HT info we have, but since all the timings with the US and European release. I've decided to release this article now. Citnoh was kind enough to write up a good article on Act of War: High Treason about the things he experienced while visiting Eugen Systems for winning an Act of War:Direct Action tournament.

AoW:HT at GameReplays.org
Act of War hightrason forums have now been created. The discussion areas will be joint.



RTS-League Season 2 Sign-Ups
Signups for Season 2 are open until Thursday, April 13th.

Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs Q&A, First Details, New Civilizations, Better Home Cities
Gamespot interviews Sandy Petersen, one of the lead designers of Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs, we find out some new and interesting things about this expansion pack.

Mutiplayer Mods & Hacks
On the heels of announced bannings, ES has posted notice to all ESO games

Bruce Shelley on the X-Pack
Bruce Shelley has once again updated his AoE3 blog. His attention? Now on the X-Pack, named 'The WarChiefs' which is predicted to be released this autumn. And yes, he has been involved with some testing with the first new native civilization, the Iroquois

Ensemble: MMO plans
Next-Gen.Biz asked Tony Goodman, CEO of Ensemble Studios, about the future plans of ES

BAN!
Attention for all cheaters! You`ll die! As Ensemble Studios reported you can be banned

GameReplays.org Showdown #2
Hey folks, this is me bringing you a new feature of GameReplays.org, "GameReplays.org Showdown"
This week's showdown is between iGiuL and PreSsuRe

April Fools Expansion Details
More expansion details have been disclosed by ES Sandyman on AgeCommunity



ParaWorld - Development diary
You can promote one unit from one level to the next. If you have enough Skulls. As I already mentioned in the first gameplay article, this resource can be gained by defeating enemies, wild animals or destroying enemy buildings. Units don't have an individual amount of Skulls - they're being added to a global pool. And that's the source you're tapping in order to improve your troops.



Hope For the QM-ladder - bfme1
Great news for you guys: contrary to the over-negative popular belief that "BfME1 is abandoned" and "all EA cares is BfME2 now", I've talked to APOC yesterday and he told me he wasn't aware of the problem, but assured me it WILL be looked into, 'coz it's a high priority for EA that the online ladders can't be exploited or abused

New advanced USAF vs Stealth guide up! - zero hour
Many thanks to our great Senior Replay Reviewer Pyro for making this great guide

Zero Hour Movie Maps!
he maps on this section are movie maps. You don't play em...just watch and enjoy. We will be adding to this section as we receive these types of maps. To watch them, simply place em in the same folder you would any ordinary map, fire up the game, and select the map name. Enjoy the show!

RTS... Future ?
Today IGN release very actuall article about "past, present, and future of the RTS genre". This matter hold 7 pages which include analyses of big RTS titles.

World War III-themed RTS Announced
One of the staples of the real time strategy (RTS) genre has been the massive battles of the Second World War, a conflict with an epic scale that readily translates into RTS gameplay.

Game Info: Superweapons in Rush for Berlin
In addition to the officers and their skills, Stormregion's new 3D real-time strategy game presents a number of super weapons. In 1945, the German army needs to halt the Americans' assault from the West and the onslaught of the Red Army from the East, while launching a counter-attack.



BF2 Community Update
A community update introduces a new member of the BF2 team. EA also announces that more mods and fan media will be supported in the future.

Loads of Steam News!
Latest news from steam excite gamers thats are familiar with Half-Life 2 and the steam engine as Ritual Entertainment announce that a new game called SiN Episode 1: Emergence will be available on Steam on May 9, 2006. Pre-loading has also begun for this game.



The Best In CPU heatsink fans, add your own here
lot of people have asked how to overclock and how to put together computer hardware. With this in mind i thought it a good time to talk about processor cooling, and avert a disater before it happened. I then thought it would be worth while looking at CPU heatsink fans for those just startin out building/overclocking their computer.

Awsome dell XPS labtop for 1,349$
Dell Inspiron XPS M170 2GHz 17" Widescreen Notebook for $1,349 shipped
Dell Home offers the Dell Inspiron XPS M170 2GHz 17" Widescreen Notebook with Pentium M 760 2GHz 533FSB processor, 17" UltraSharp 1920x1200 widescreen LCD with TrueLife, 1GB DDR2 SDRAM, 60GB hard drive, dual layer DVD burner, 802.11g wireless, 256MB nVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX video card, PC-cillin Internet Security (15 months), Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and a one-year warranty for $1,349. With free shipping, that's a $180 drop from our earlier mention and the lowest total price we've seen for an Inspiron XPS M170 laptop. Sales tax is added where applicable.



Results will be shown soon!



High Treason: US release
As we already noticed, US boxed version of High Treason will be available in May 2006, but you can download the game from IGN`s service Direct2Drive at once. The game size is 3.21 GB, version 1.00. Cost - $39.95

GR Selection Tournament. Final
Well, the Selection Tournament of Gamereplays is over ! Conratulate all winners which can free of charge visit Perm, Russia. Remind, the first place of "Perm Age" in Zero Hour discipline =$ 4444. Who are these lucky beggars?



New AoW video !
SKSUS, the German progamer, present for us new awesome video about Act of War ! "I have finished my new video and for the english speaking community a made a english version!" Enjoy this very cool and interesting movie (31 MB)!

HUGE Prize Money on offer for European Zero Hour players
A 2v2 Zero Hour championship is being held in Perm, Russia - Where 1st, 2nd and 3rd share almost $9000 worth of prize money. GameReplays is holding a selection tournament over the weekend to find 3 top teams which will be sent to Perm to compete in the Championship during the first week of May.

Take Command 2nd Manassas goes gold
International publisher Paradox Interactive announced today that their next big April release, Take Command 2nd Manassas, has gone gold. The strategy title plays out during Americas Civil War and brings the struggle between unionists and confederates to life like never before.

Clanwars is looking for volunteers
"The Clanwars ladder is reaching out to the community to help fill 2 admin slots for our new EA sponsored BFME2 league. The primary responsibilities for the admin will include: --assisting players in the league with day to day problems --resolving disputed matches ---processing reports and alter match reports for the league. ---making decisions regarding new rules for the league"

Important News, From Clanwars!
"The IP tracker is about to be turned on again for all of the manual report leagues. Players and clan bosses should be aware that the tracker has been modified from the system you are familiar with. To help avoid unwanted violations, please read carefully the new system I am about to describe.

Important News, From Clanwars!
"The IP tracker is about to be turned on again for all of the manual report leagues. Players and clan bosses should be aware that the tracker has been modified from the system you are familiar with. To help avoid unwanted violations, please read carefully the new system I am about to describe.



1.03 Release Date and Info
Apoc has dropped a hint over at the MEV forums about the release of patch 1.03. Apoc also added in another thread that even more desyncs will be fixed for 1.03 and A.I. enhancements coming for the upcoming patch

BFME-2 Xbox 360: Preview by Shacknews
Shacknews present nice preview of Xbox 360 version of Battle for Middle-Earth II and they upload some news screenshots

Clanwars is looking for volunteers
"The Clanwars ladder is reaching out to the community to help fill 2 admin slots for our new EA sponsored BFME2 league. The primary responsibilities for the admin will include: --assisting players in the league with day to day problems --resolving disputed matches ---processing reports and alter match reports for the league. ---making decisions regarding new rules for the league

Weekly Clanwars Update
W00t! I'm finally back with your favorite news - the weekly clanwars update! Starting now we'll try to get it in every Monday, to keep it regular (ahem). It looks like a close race so far as top clans such as EAGLE|, LNL and DIVA emerge at the top. Everyone keep your seatbelts on - the top ten are all within 2500 points!

BFME2 March winner nabs Logitech system, statue
There has been a bit of disappointment with EA as they held back the video card for a month because of a few glitches in March. EA have been as kind as to still give the winner a prize, a very nice prize I must say. The winner [xXx]tuckke has won top of line Logitech surround sound speaker system as well as a Balrog statue.


Community Tuesday
Hello! Once again we are honored to have a look into RoL Concept Art.As allways, the drawings are simply amazing. You can see all pictures in here.

New Cinematic/Gameplay Trailer
Hi all! IGN released today, or should i say yesterday, a new video that focus more on RoL cinematics & gameplay. Awesome graphics! Top notch Art work



New AoW video !
SKSUS, the German progamer, present for us new awesome video about Act of War ! "I have finished my new video and for the english speaking community a made a english version!" Enjoy this very cool and interesting movie (31 MB)!

First patch for AoW: High Treason
Congratulate all AoW fans: Eugen Systems finished they first patch for Act of War: High Treason. The size of the patch is 143 MB. Download



Patch 1.06 Released!
Great news fellow AoE 3 fans, Patch 1.06 has finally been released! Here is the announcement from AgeCommunity.com

GameReplays.org Showdown #3
You can still sign up for the "GameReplays.org Showdown".
This week's showdown is between [GR_]PreSsuRe and [tEk]Stophon4



GR Selection Tournament. Final
Well, the Selection Tournament of Gamereplays is over ! Conratulate all winners which can free of charge visit Perm, Russia. Remind, the first place of "Perm Age" in Zero Hour discipline =$ 4444. Who are these lucky beggars?

HUGE Prize Money on offer for European Zero Hour players
A 2v2 Zero Hour championship is being held in Perm, Russia - Where 1st, 2nd and 3rd share almost $9000 worth of prize money. GameReplays is holding a selection tournament over the weekend to find 3 top teams which will be sent to Perm to compete in the Championship during the first week of May.

Important News from Clanwars!
"The IP tracker is about to be turned on again for all of the manual report leagues. Players and clan bosses should be aware that the tracker has been modified from the system you are familiar with. To help avoid unwanted violations, please read carefully the new system I am about to describe."

Weekly Clanwars Update
[OoE] are leading this month by quite a large amount, 1000 points! The 4 clans below that are all in a similar range but we're not even half way through this month, so anything could happen in the next few weeks. I would also like to say that I dont think the release of BFME2 has had a major affect on zh but we will se as the months go by. BFME2 has had quite a large affect on BFME1 cw which isn't a surprise seen as it's a sequel

Rhovanion Alliance Update
News from our friends at Rhovanion Alliance have indicated that their first complete showcase of one of the new factions we will be adding including renders, music and ingame screenshots is now avaliable. Including armies such as Mirkwood, Dol Guldur and Westmark.

Supreme Commander AtomicMPC: Q&A with Chris Taylor
Atomic: Is RTS gaming a dying genre that has stagnated past the point of no return? CT: I don't believe so. In fact, I hope that Supreme Commander is the game to really remind players that we are just at the beginning in terms of the life of this genre, and in no way have exhausted the possibilities.

Warcraft III Patch v1.20d
The Warcraft III patch v1.20d has been released to address an exploit that could happen in multiplayer games.


Call of Duty 2 Patch Released
Although not everyone is on this version, this update brings PunkBuster along with 2 new multiplayer maps!

Source and Earth 2160 Updates
The new awaited models are finally available on Counter Strike Source. A saving error for Earth 2160 has also been fixed in this update.

Red Orchestra Update Available!
Those who have Red Orchestra on Steam have some new updates available after a quick restart of the client that fixes many issues in the game.

Earth 2160 Available on Steam!
The expansive real-time strategy game from Zuxxez Entertainment AG, is now available via Steam for just $19.95.



Awesome dell XPS labtop for 1,349$
Dell Inspiron XPS M170 2GHz 17" Widescreen Notebook for $1,349 shipped

Firefox 1.5.0.2
Here's what's new in Firefox 1.5.0.2: * Universal Binary support for Mac OS X which provides native support for Macintosh with Intel Core processors. Firefox supports the enhancements to performance introduced by the new MacIntel chipsets. * Improvements to product stability. * Several security fixes.

Catalyst 6.4
New version drivers for ATI videocards

ATI Tray Tools 1.0.5.877
ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings. Quite handy and quite a small download



2v2 Tournament Draw
Tourney, Tourney, Tourney !!! 6 lucky beggars !!!

The best news undoubtedly is ... announcing Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. This is next EA LA project which will be releasing in 2007 year. And for this event, GR open special CnC-3 Forums!
And as again, Fozzi4reel, our gfx staff, create special badge for CnC-3 News Section. Thank you!


Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. OFFICIAL !
April 20, 2006; The epic struggle between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and The Brotherhood of NOD continues...and the third Tiberium War is about to begin. Welcome back, Commander. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Command & ConquerTM, the groundbreaking series that put the Real-time Strategy (RTS) genre on the map, is returning in full force with Command & ConquerTM 3 Tiberium Wars*. This highly-anticipated next chapter takes the popular series back to its roots in the Tiberium universe and features the fast, fluid gameplay that Command & Conquer is known for and a gripping story that will redefine storytelling in RTS games.



Patch 1.03: Notes and release date
Great news for all BFME-2 player: today, as the Apoc promise, you EA release Balance Notes for Patch 1.03 and as Apoc said the release date of this patch is Tuesday, April 25th.

Sign up for the Command and Conquer 3 Newsletter!
Well finally all of our dreams have come true and Command and Conquer has been announced to the enormous gaming community. You will be very pleased to know that EA's community manager has already posted in our CNC3 discussion area and lets us know about the CNC newsletter which we can all get through email. Below is what he posted in the forum.

Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. OFFICIAL !
April 20, 2006; The epic struggle between the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) and The Brotherhood of NOD continues...and the third Tiberium War is about to begin. Welcome back, Commander. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Command & ConquerTM, the groundbreaking series that put the Real-time Strategy (RTS) genre on the map, is returning in full force with Command & ConquerTM 3 Tiberium Wars*. This highly-anticipated next chapter takes the popular series back to its roots in the Tiberium universe and features the fast, fluid gameplay that Command & Conquer is known for and a gripping story that will redefine storytelling in RTS games.

GameReplays CNC3 Tiberium Wars FAQ is up!
After the considerable success of our BfME 2 FAQ and Rise of Legends FAQ, and some awesome coding from Lateralus, GameReplays.org is proud to launch the CNC3 - Tiberium Wars FAQ. It is totally integrated into the forum software which involved some serious custom coding! It will be kept up-to-date with all the latest CNC3 info, please PM AGMlauncher if you have anything you would like to be added to the FAQ.

CNC3 announced!
The next Command & Conquer game has now officially been announced in PC Gamer!n Details are very sketchy atm but here is some top level info: * Tiberium storyline * GDI, Nod and a 3rd faction * SAGE engine * Clan support * VoiP * Observer/referee modes

New global discussion forums opened
We've opened up some general gaming discussion forums. These are NOT a replacement for the dedicated discussion forums for our supported games, they're there to discuss anything related to gaming. The new forums are: PC Games, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, Handhelds



Sign up for the Command and Conquer 3 Newsletter!
Well finally all of our dreams have come true and Command and Conquer has been announced to the enormous gaming community. You will be very pleased to know that EA's community manager has already posted in our CNC3 discussion area and lets us know about the CNC newsletter which we can all get through email. Below is what he posted in the forum.

GameReplays CNC3 Tiberium Wars FAQ is up
After the considerable success of our BfME 2 FAQ and Rise of Legends FAQ, and some awesome coding from Lateralus, GameReplays.org is proud to launch the CNC3 - Tiberium Wars FAQ. It is totally integrated into the forum software which involved some serious custom coding!

High Quality scans of Magazine with CnC-3 Info
Awesome news from our Command and Conquer-3 forum: now you can found 8 pages of scan of PC Gamer with first infromation about CnC-3. Executive Producer - Mike Verdu, Lead designer - Jason Bender...

CNC3 announced!
The next Command & Conquer game has now officially been announced in PC Gamer!n Details are very sketchy atm but here is some top level info: * Tiberium storyline * GDI, Nod and a 3rd faction * SAGE engine * Clan support * VoiP * Observer/referee modes



Browse GameReplays and the Internet much faster!
Only 25% of GameReplays.org users currently user Firefox for their web browser - we're trying to get this up to 50%. I remember the first day I used it instead of Internet Explorer and i've never ever looked back. With a vastly better netcode (i.e. it's miles faster than internet explorer), tabbed browsing, lots of cool extensions and much much more it is a must for anyone using the web.

Official 1.03 patch info from Apoc
Finally, the moment everyone has been waiting for is upon us: our Community Manager, Apoc, has just revealed the change log for patch 1.03 for The Battle for Middle Earth 2 over at the EA message boards. It is a long list, containing changes for all the races, General balance changes, as well as some improvements for Create-a-Hero. Also, Apoc brought to our attention to disregard any leaked balance notes seen before, as they are all false.

Little notice about BFME-2 from Apoc
So most of you now know about the announcement heard round the world today, Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars is officially our next RTS project. And that's all I have to say about C&C in this forum.

Replay Reviewers Wanted
The BFME 2 section is looking for a few good RRs to help out. This is one of the best ways to contribute to the community and better your own skills in the process. The process is simple, write an application review and post the link here for our SRRs to check it out. You'll also find more info about the whole process in there.

Goblin Strategy Guide Released
Our Goblin Strategy Moderators Danny and Jordan^ have collaborated together to create a new guide covering the Goblins vs Dwarves matchup! The guide is very detailed, and covers everything you will ever need to know regarding the Goblin Units, Buildings, and Build Orders that should be used when facing the Dwarves. Included is a segment on how to properly counter one of the Dwarves' biggest threats: the Guardian Rush.

BFME2 Xbox 360 Official Site
The official site for the Xbox 360 version of The Battle for Middle Earth 2 just opened up. Many of the sections are empty, such as "360 Blogs", "Xbox Live" or "Controls". However, you can still find 12 exclusive images for the Xbox 360 version in the "Screenshots" section, as well as info about all the races in the "Factions" section. Make sure not to miss the "First Impressions" from IGN, Yahoo and Gamespot, in case you haven't seen them.

Official announcement on Patch 1.03
Apoc, our beloved Community Manager, has just announced on the official BFME2 site that the 1.03 patch is coming very soon. The change list for this update will be released on EA's official message boards, this Friday. Read the complete announcement on this page. Enjoy

Weekly Clanwars Update
Alright here's our third update of the month, as we can see things are getting a lot more spread out as the top clans and players being to pull away from the masses.

BTT Logitech and ZBoard Giveaway!
BTT is currently sponsored by a wide aray of computer companies. Lately we have gotten Logitech and Zboard on board and they have agreed to help is with a huge giveaway. At Big Time Tournaments we want all our community members to be able to join free tournaments for huge prizes all year long, but not everyone who plays can win a prize. Well now the tournaments will not be the only place to win a prize. BTT has teamed up with Logitech and ZBoard to offer you a Big Time Tournament giveaway.



Rise of Legends FAQ page is up!, compiled from Q&A topics from GreyPawn all over the internet
A new FAQ page is up!! This was compiled by the 'Q&A' topics from several fansites wherein Big Huge Games community manager GreyPawn answers many of the members' questions. The fansites from which we have gathered the questions from are: Rise of Legends Oracle, RoL Masters League, Rise of Legends Heaven, Rise of Legends World and of course Gamereplays.org. Everyone go check out this FAQ!! This is a very good read you like to know more about this exciting new upcoming game!!

New MODS for the Demo!
Hey all! The past cuolt mod as been improved. And there is another one that transforms the Alin into Dark Glass. Many thks to EA_roigcarlos.

Rise of Legends Preview
Here is a preview posted at "Computer and Video Games". To read the rest of this preview please click here

Community Tuesday
The latest batch is here! Some nice concept art and in game screenshot... You can find the full batch here!


Star Wars: Empire at War Game Guide
Little gift from Gamepressure.com - Empire at War Game Guide! Guid for free with Imperial (Rebel) Training, Campaign



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MMC Wins Season 1
Congratulations to MMC for winning the first season of RTS-League AoE 3. The finals were played by MMC and AzTeC and what great games they were, the 3rd and deciding game lasting 50 minutes! Recorded games can be downloaded here. Find the original post here. Congratulations

ESO Server Status
ESO is being taken offline while we investigate a game update issue. For a time this morning, users logging on to ESO were being prompted to download the version 1.05 patch instead of the proper 1.06 version. We are working to correct this as soon as possible.

Scouting Guide by .Necron
Want to scout like a pro? Want to improve your chances of victory? This Scouting Guide written by yours truly will detail exactly how to improve your game at all parts throughout a game, covering early, mid, and late game scouting. Click here to read the full Scouting Guide.

CRTSL: Season 2 Accepted Clans and Leagues
The following clans have been accepted for Season 2 of AoE 3 Supremacy. Find out more at the original post. Good Luck to all clans



ParaWorld, developed be SEK-Ost
Well this thread is all about ParaWorld, questions, hypes anything are welcome. If you don't have a drip on what ParaWorld is go to http://paraworld.com/ and checkout out GameReplays.org Exclusive Interview with Lead Designer Tom Langhanki. Also if you guys want more on ParaWorld visit our own Weekend Round-Up Archive which you'll be sure to find ParaWorld news

Paraworld: The Interview
Here's the twist. Julian Dasgupta, who is the PR manager for SEK (SpieleEntwicklungsKombinat GmbH, and just try to remember that spelling), contacted me a few weeks ago and said that he remembered the E3 column and did I have any questions?

Paraworld - New Screenshots
New ss ^^

The Tribes Part I – The Norsemen
An extensive description on the characteristics and strengths of the Norsemen.



United-Battlezone.de Zero Hour Tournament
[url=b]United Battlezone.de[/b], a Command & Conquer tournament page is having their next Zero Hour tournament on 23 of April 2006, 16:30 CET. Unfortuanally they don't have an english page yet, but there are english FAQ's available here.

Command & Conquer™ The First Decade: Patch 1.02
EA, for the present, doesn`t confirm information about CnC-3, but they carry through good work for The First Decade: second patch 1.02 is already available (and special patch for the German version)

Staff Tournament Underway
The BFME Staff Tournament is well on the way and some of the first matches have already been played. All the games will be reviewed and the replays will be avaible for everyone to enjoy and learn from. There are already some good quality games to watch

BFME Staff Tournament
"For the entertainment of all we have arranged a staff tournament starting this Saturday and concluding during the following week. This tournament is between Game Admins, RR's and SM's from the BFME section and some famous past names from the section."

Weekly Clanwars Update - BFME
We are almost half way thru this month of BfME 1 CW, and the tension is increasing by the day with more clans joining and more games been played. DivA have stepped in to the action and managed an incredible 21 game win streak before finally losing. The clan is now in the race for the title, currently at the 2nd spot close behind the leaders P2B.

Weekly Clanwars Update - Generals
Here I am again with this weeks cw update. Well ccg cw is still going strong with about 30 games a day which is stil very good: 1) -2HARD 2)CHGRUE 3)[RV] 4)[NM] 5)[GxA]

New RTS GAMES
Any new RTS games that haven't recieved the big light yet that you guys know about? They are Field Ops, Rush for Berlin, Take Command 2nd Manassas, Maelstrom

Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War
Wow download the newly released demo from gamershell now! It is very good in my opinion. The gameplay is so fun you can't pass this up. Check out the screenshots from ign here. It has fairly standard RTS gameplay but also includes the option to fight with your hero in first person mode and totally annihilate.

Rise & Fall Civilizations at War - Preview from GameSpot
Rise & Fall: Civilizations at War is a game that almost should be called Fall & Rise. That's because this real-time strategy game from publisher Midway has risen, Phoenix-like, from the ashes after its original developer, Stainless Steel Studios, folded late last year

War on Terror - Preview
What better way to take your mind of the pressures of the real World than to dive into a real-time strategy game about war on terrorism? Oh wait. Yes, the idea may not be the most original but it can give a player his RTS fix for the day. World Forces, The Order or People’s Republic of China, choose your side and thrust into battle!



HL2, CS:S, and Source Engine Updates
Another update has been released from Steam. This one seems to only update bugs in HL2, CS:S, and the Source engine itself. Updates to CS:S, HL2, and the Source engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

SiN Episode 1 Update
An update has been released from Steam that adds and fixes features in Steam's newest game, SiN 1.Updates to SiN 1 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter - Gold and Movie
April 18, 2006 – Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest video game publishers, today announces that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ for the PC has officially Gone Gold! Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter™ for the PC will be available in-stores on May 3rd, 2006! Also, Ebisoft present little movie

Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars - Article from GameSpy
It's one of the games we're most excited to play this year -- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars -- and, with E3 just a few weeks away, it's our guess that we'll get an updated look at the multiplayer shooter soon enough



Browse GameReplays and the Internet much faster!
Only 25% of GameReplays.org users currently user Firefox for their web browser - we're trying to get this up to 50%. I remember the first day I used it instead of Internet Explorer and i've never ever looked back. With a vastly better netcode (i.e. it's miles faster than internet explorer), tabbed browsing, lots of cool extensions and much much more it is a must for anyone using the web.

Dell Buys Alienware
Dell has bought Alienware. The two companies will operate independantly.

Opera 9 + BitTorrent
Opera Software has announced the first public Beta of Opera 9. The version includes Widgets, small Web programs running in their own windows and integrated BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file downloading technology.



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Welcome back Commander(s)
So, that little secret I’ve had to hold behind my breath for quite some time has been much harder than you could ever imagine. Watching you guys speculate and pray for the longest time for the return of Command & Conquer, –a series that I personally have grown up with and never imagined in my wildest dreams that I would one day be the Community Manager of—salivating at the glimmer of hope for any type of information, has been a monumental challenge sitting here, waiting to tell you your beloved franchise has returned!

RoL DeMo 2 is here!
The second demo is here, with multiplayer capabilities and more smile.gif. Try it now and enjoy the fun of Rise of Legends!
More information on our Rise of Legends portal
Also, be sure to check out the EXCLUSIVE interview with Tim Train, the RoL Executive Producer!



Rise Of Legends
This most anticipated RTS is coming, we've just had confirmation from GreyPawn concerning the dates of release and minimum specs!
The release date for Rise of Legends domestically is May 9th in the U.S..
The release date for Rise of Legends internationally is May 23rd.

Rush for Berlin - Satchel Dogs of War
Paradox Interactive and Stormregion proudly present detailed information about the special skills of the regular soldiers, war dogs and other animals in their new WWII-RTS Rush for Berlin. "During WWII, five War Dog Reception and Training Centers were operated by the Quartermaster Corps" (war-dogs.com). Now the "dogs of war" are returning in Rush for Berlin.

BfME 2 1.03 patch released
The long-awaited 1.03 patch for the Battle for Middle Earth 2 has just landed on the EA servers, as promised. Other additions not related to balance include improvements to the lobby (eg. no more ringing), minor AI changes, 5 new maps, namely Evendim, Fords of Isen II, Tournament Hills, Weather Hills and Udun. Lastly, some desync and crash issues have been adressed as well. To read the entire change-list, visit this link.

Graphics section expanded
The graphics forums have been moved to a new location. Now, it gets its own section so that it can have more forums. The link to that section is here. You can also access it via the dropdown menus at "Graphics" or even set it as your 'Favorite Game' so that it loads as your default page. In this way, the graphics forum are more accessible because there are fewer subforums to click on

BfME 2 patch 1.03 will be released today
The countdown has begun for BfME 2 1.03 which should be released later today. As EA is in Los Angeles the estimated time of arrival is around 9pm GMT, perhaps later. Of course, it is not unknown for EA to delay patches, so don't be too disspoinated if it doesn't arrive today!

Official GameReplays Poll about Amazon and product reviews
Please could you take a minute to answer this poll about product reviews and Amazon. It literally takes 20 seconds and will help us immensely in providing the best site we can.

New GameReplays.org Teamspeak IP
The new GameReplays.org Teamspeak IP address is as follows: 72.232.86.178:8767
It is running on our new second server and this is the reason for the change in IP.



! --- CnC-3 at E3 --- !
As the CNN report, the main showcase of EA will be: "Madden" , "Crysis" and.... Yea! Command & Conquer" franchises



BFME2 winds down
After several months on hiatus the ZH Screenshot Micro Game is finally making a comeback. Check back every Sunday night/Monday morning for a new installment to test your knowledge and micro abilities.micro abilities[/i]

Replay Manager
Saurman has created a new tool for BFME 2 known as RepInfo. For those of you familiar with BFME 1, it's basically a spinoff of the popular Replay Manager, but with some added features that really come in handy. You can get all sorts of info about replays from it, as well as replays being saved automatically when turned on..

BFME2 on Xbox360 - IGN Hands-on
IGN had the chance to try out the Xbox360 version of The Battle for Middle Earth 2. The preview talks about general aspects of the game, identical to the PC version, such as the graphics, the Campaign, the 6 factions, etc. On the other hand, the article also mentions a few things that have changed since the PC version of BFME2, including new Multiplayer modes, the exclusion of Create-a-Hero and War of the Ring mode, as well as unlockable heroes.

Louis Castle Xbox 360 Blog #1
Louis Castle, the Executive Producer behind the Battle for Middle Earth 2 has just written his first Blog on the Xbox 360 version of the game on the official website. In this first Xbox 360 Blog installement, he describes that the main reason behind the lack of success of RTS games on consoles lies in the interface.

Speak your mind
The official webpage of the Battle for Middle Earth 2 has been updated with a message from the developers, inviting players to visit the message boards and discuss the balance of the 1.03 patch, as well as the new maps that were included with the update.

Map Strategy Discussion
Master Index of Map Strategy Topics! Click on the map name for the link to that map's topic for details and discussion!

HeavenGames Prize Tournament for BFME2 Players
Heavengames is hosting a big tourney with a lot of prizes. Registration is simple, just put your info in the sign-up thread. Prizes: 1st Place 1 GeForce 6600 NVIDIA Video card, Logitech G15 keyboard, EA game, HG T-shirt; 2nd Place 1 BFME2 Keyset and Zboard, EA game, Zboard gaming T-shirt, HG T-shirt, FragMat; 3rd Place 1 BFME2 Keyset and Zboard, EA game, Zboard gaming T-shirt, FragMat; 4th Place 1 BFME2 Keyset and Zboard, EA game, FragMat
5th Place 1 EA game, Zboard gaming T-shirt; 6th Place 1 copy of BFME2, HG T-shirt
7th Place 1 HG T-shirt; 8th Place 1 HG T-shirt

New Review From Armchairempire
Just yesterday Armchairempire published a review of Battle for Middle Earth II, it got a decent rating of 7.5/10. Below you will see a snippet of the review, the pros and cons of the game and a link to read the whole review.

New poll on BFME2 official page
Make sure you visit the official page of the Battle for Middle Earth 2, as EA has posted a new poll, asking you what you would prefer added for the game, between: a new faction, improvements for War of the Ring Mode, new Single Player campaign, improvements for Create-a-Hero and new units for the existing factions.

New Dwarves vs MotW Guide Released!
One of our new Dwarven Strat Mods, Arion, has gotten to work and created a fantastic guide detailing the Dwarves vs Men of the West matchup from the Dwarves' perpective. The guide has more info than you'll ever need, including unit statistics and comparisons, build orders, and in-depth strategy and tactics.

BFME2 Patch 1.03 released
The long-awaited 1.03 patch for the Battle for Middle Earth 2 has just landed on the EA servers, as promised. Other additions not related to balance include improvements to the lobby (eg. no more ringing), minor AI changes, 5 new maps, namely Evendim, Fords of Isen II, Tournament Hills, Weather Hills and Udun. Lastly, some desync and crash issues have been adressed as well. To read the entire change-list, visit this link.

BfME 2 patch 1.03 will be released today
The countdown has begun for BfME 2 1.03 which should be released later today. As EA is in Los Angeles the estimated time of arrival is around 9pm GMT, perhaps later. Of course, it is not unknown for EA to delay patches, so don't be too disspoinated if it doesn't arrive today! Discuss the new patch, possibilities for 1.04, and anything else to do with BfME 2 in our BfME 2 discussion forum

Weekly Clanwars Update
1) EAGLE 28,914 pts. 2) NcV 26,006 pts. 3) WoA 22,233 pts. 4) DivA| 21,571 pts. 5) myC| 21,532 pts. 6) PoW| 21,444 pts. 7) CFD| 21,094 pts. 8) SOS| 20,739 pts. 9) |MaS| 20,683 pts. 10) [LNL] 20,050 pts.

Official GameReplays Poll about Amazon and product reviews
Please could you take a minute to answer this poll about product reviews and Amazon. It literally takes 20 seconds and will help us immensely in providing the best site we can.

A New Gold Replay.
We're proud to announce BFME 2's 2nd Gold Replay. Out of over 1000 replays posted so far on site, this one stands out for its excellent team play and non-stop entertainment. It's a bit lengthy, but well worth the watch. Check it out for yourself and enjoy

BFME2 Replay Competition
Due to the release of the new patch, the BFME2 Replay Competition will close next Tuesday. Most likely the old replays aren't compatible with the new version, so thats the reason we are forced to close the competition sooner.



Expansion pack on E3 and Map Editor
Darth Torpid, the Game Designer at Petroglyph, noticed ( at LucasForums ) about Map Editor and X-pack for EaW

Patch 1.04 targeted release is sometime next week!
We now have confirmation that the next patch will be released sometime next weeek. I haven't heard any news about the replays function but I guess we will find out soon.

Replays Are Very Much Needed For Showing Bugs!
There has been a lot of arguments happening because of the replay function still not been released into EaW. We thought it might have been released in patch 1.3 but our dreams were wrecked. A lot of us thought they must release it in the next patch but that couldn't be confirmed as the studios would like to concentrate on balancing the game first which is understandable.

Delphi-PG Replies to Members Views
Recently |elder|Ap0C has returned back to EaW and made a topic about his "article to Delphi at PG about land skirmish". This article is about how Empire at Wars land skirmish acn be changed for the better in |elder|Ap0C view. You may not agree with all his points but he has raised some good things.

SEGA Announcement
No! Not yet the announcement of the next Petroglyph project but still some cool news. Sega will be announcing new titles from this day on till the first of the E3 in LA next month! A snippet from the official press release



How to Save and Play Replays - Demo
Hey all! Thks to Ayestes effort, we have now the know how to save and watch replays in the last released DEMO. This is a major breakthrough for GameReplays, so get posting replays! GameReplays can now start to do what we do best: reviews. Guide to saving and watching Rise of Legends replays

How to unlock the demo for LAN multiplayer
To enable Multiplayer LAN, simply add MPDemo=1 to your personal.ini file in a text editor such as notepad, and save it. You can find the Rise of Legends personal.ini file usually in My Documents

Demo 2 is OUT!
The second RoL demo is here!! File size is 720mb. Get here at riseoflegends.com. Have fun with one of the biggest releases of 2006. Thank you BHG.

GameReplays interview with Tim Train
Yes, its true! GameReplays is proud to present an exclusive interview with the executive producer of RoL, Tim Train!

RoL Demo Officially Confirmed For Today
There has been -HUGE- amounts of speculation about the release of the 2nd RoL demo today but now we know the truth. All of us have been waiting all day for some kind of news about this demo as they seem to be being very secretive today. Well GreyPawn(Big Huge Games community guy) has confirmed within the last hour that the demo is stillheading for it's release today!

RoL HotKeys
Well, thank you to a number of members who have very generously typed out the Rise of Legends Hotkeys for our benefit. First of all we have the huge list courtesy of Kermond, on behalf of the staff and all the members I would like to say a big thank you!

Rise of Legends Getting Up
We now have confirmation from Microsoft that this expected to be bit hit game has gone gold! Just yesterday this news was announced, i'm sure all you Rise of Legends fans will be over the moon.

Some great news...
This most anticipated RTS is coming, we've just had confirmation from GreyPawn concerning the dates of release and minimum specs!
The release date for Rise of Legends domestically is May 9th in the U.S..
The release date for Rise of Legends internationally is May 23rd.

RoL Podcast with Brian Reynolds
A new podcast done by VGM is here!

Community Tuesday, April 25
Cool! We have one more "Tuesday" update. Due to my GMT time i only had the opportunity to post this now. Better late than never hehe. Enjoy the Art Work of GODS among other awesome things!
See the full topic here.

Hands On Preview
Next review from gaming site. This time, Digital Entertainment News release own article about Rise of Legends, and they said, "this could well be one of THE games in 2006".

Interview with Brian Reynolds
We recently had an opportunity to speak with legendary designer Brian Reynolds of Big Huge Games. He is currently heading up the sequel to their popular real-time strategy title Rise of Nations, and has previously been involved with other industry defining strategy titles such as Civilization II, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri



NEW:: Naval Invador Mod
The Navy Invaders Mod (5.4 MB) allows you to pit your naval strategic genius against one or more A.I. opponents trying to destroy your base with hordes of aggressive warships! Select any of the 10 available Navy maps, and assign an A.I. difficulty to each available player slot.



AoE3 Stats Tool
Lemperator in the AoE3 community has created a great tool that shows your last games played and the stats of them, you can search up every player you want and it has some very nice features , I reccomend you all check the tool out as it can very useful, combining AgeCommunity stats with the Cuetech ladder.

Season 2 Preview
[MMC] guile writes a preview on his thoughts and some facts about RTSL Season 2. He makes an interesting overview as well a a brief rundown of each league. Remember these are just thoughts and opinions. Read the article here.

Ask Sandy
I would like to take this time to invite you all to look at regularly check up on ES's Sandy and his question and answer topic which gives some very good insight into AoE3 and future plans for patches and the expansion pack as well as general Q&A about literally everything.

Bruce Shelley Blog Update
Bruce Shelley has updated his always interesting blog, in this posting he covers the recent announcement of Zone discontinuing their service for AoE 1 & 2, The War Chief updates, and E3 preperations, a reccomended read for all!

Age of Empires and Age of Kings
If you're a player who still plays the original Age of Empires and Age of Kings games multiplayer via www.zone.com, an announcement by MSN Casual Gamers regarding the retirement of support for these titles has been made today. For more information please visit www.ensemblestudios.com.

Legion Clan ESO2 Tournament
The Legion Clan is hosting a 2vs2 Age of Empires III Clan tournament with plenty of prizes, including $2000 being awarded to the top teams! There are a few rules however, your 2vs2 partner MUST be in your clan. It is a double elimination, unless the amount of teams exceeds 256, in which case a single elimination will be put into place. Each round will be best of three, except the final 2 rounds will be best of 5.

PC Gamer on the X-Pack
GameSpy's Planet Age of Empires web-site have received the latest issue of PC Gamer. It has a short article on the upcoming War Chiefs expansion. It has some great info about the War Chief unit



The Tribes Part II - The Dustriders
An extensive overview on the Dustriders

The Tribes Part III - The Dragon Clan
Last but not least: Impressions of the Dragon Clan

ParaWorld Logo
Moving closer towards release, SUNFLOWER releases the ParaWorld Logo



Supreme Commander - New Gamespot Previews
Check it. Nice screenies included with it too.
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BFME Staff Tournament, The Semi-Finals
The league phase of the BFME Staff Tournament is over and we have our 4 semi-finalists who will play 1v1 knockout matches to get to the final and then a single final to decide the winner. The semi-final draw is

Interested in becoming a tournament Mod?
We, the BFME 1 team are looking for a new tournament mod. In this job you will be expected to host a tournament every weekend. If you are interested in becoming a tournament mod please send Jobbies the Senior Replay Reviewer a PM. He will continue from there. Hope to see some candidates soon

New Shoutcast For BFME
A long time have past without a shoutcast, but finally Nic767 delivered one.
He have shoutcasted the Silver rep between [WISE]Flubergtd vs [GTFC]StonLord.
A very entertaining game that will be even more fun to watch with comments, so go check it out!

Weekly Clanwars Update - BfME
The race for the title is on its final week, and the battle for top spot is still wide open.
DivA have moved up in top spot since last update, closely followed by P2B and{ThE}.
Champions [WISE] are currently struggling in 9th position almost 300p behind the leaders, but with over a week to go, they still have the chance of defending the cup
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Weekly clanwars update! - ZH
Clan Standings: 1 . -RauTe 12,933 pts. 2 . -FaKe| 10,673 pts. 3 . -Fis3y 9,661 pts. 4 . [BAD] 9,407 pts. 5 . [OoE] 9,341 pts.
[OoE] are still at 5th place and don't seem to eb moving up.

Generals.nl 2v2 tourny friday
I have been informed and i will be playing in a www.generals.nl tournament this friday. Generals.nl is a dutch site similar to cw.cc, many months ago when cw.cc died down many clan war players went to play there. If you would like to play in the tourny here is all the info and with this you should be able to navigate round the dutch.

ZH Screenshot Micro Game is back!
After several months on hiatus the ZH Screenshot Micro Game is finally making a comeback. Check back every Sunday night/Monday morning for a new installment to test your knowledge and micro abilities
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2 Vs 2 TOURNAMENT TODAY
ALL JOIN NOW, IT WILL START IN A FEW HOURES

Weekly clanwars update - Generals
Clan Standings: 1 . [RV] 2,927 pts.; 2 . -2HARD 2,838 pts.; 3 . First 2,581 pts.; 4 . -2eZ^ 2,384 pts.; 5 . revel 2,210 pts.

2V2 TOURNAMENT SUNDAY 30TH APRIL 17:10 GMT
As yesterdays tournament was a big hit with a high number of players I feel it is the right time to try and make these tournaments a regular event again. In the 3v3 tourny a lot of players wanted a 2v2 tournament, but as our last few 2v2 tournaments have failed I hope this becomes a different story.
To sign up for sundays tournament please click HERE

Zero Tolerance
After a short discussion with carp, we both realized that the amount of flames increased during the past. We decided that we will once again follow the zero tolerance policy, which means that you will not get warned by sending a pm several times, trolling will be punished.
This is a warning as it's not helpful to tell new members not to post replays again, trolling is punished with a 10% warning.

New Strategy Section made
Check out our latest strategy section. You can find all about teamstrategies in here! Verry nice guides maded by XeoNeq and Nubbe! Check them out and improve your skills. Regards Carp



SiN Episode 1: Emergence Preload Continues...
For those of you looking into the new SiN Episodes, preloading for the first one has continued.

Valve Announces Development for Xbox 360
Looks like HL2 is coming to the 360!

BF2 v1.3 Patch Info
As EA promised, they are not stopping the supporting of BF2 after the announce of BF 2142

ET: Quake Wars
What is ET: Quake wars? A sequal to the free multiplayer game Return to Castle Wolfenstien:Enemy Terriory that will feature objective based team gameplay like the original ET: RTCW but with halo or battle feild like units to use and territory to hold.

Ghost Recon: AW - Demo out today
I've played the demo, and damn does it play well! Very smooth and playable. Not only that, but the weapons rock (unlike in BF2, when you aim at something you actually hit it) and feels great. The UI is also fantastic. Give it a shot



XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition
So you'll know XFX by now right .. hey it's hard to miss them. Even at Cebit they had a "way" of communication and getting attention. Personally, they're one of my favourite manufacturers as they quite honestly do deliver some really impressive goods. Today's tested product is no different. The lovely GeForce 7900 GTX 512 MB, and this is the even lovelier XXX Edition. Yes XXX: Adult entertainment for games

Xfire Q&A on FiringSquad
Yet another big PC gaming deal was announced yesterday but this one is a little different than most. Xfire, the popular gaming oriented instant messaging-chat software company (and formed in part by FiringSquad co-founder Dennis Fong) was purchased for $102 million by media mega-company Viacom less than three years after launching. So what does the purchase of Xfire by the parent company of Paramount, CBS and MTV mean for users?

Mozilla to Issue Firefox Security Fix
The Mozilla Corporation plans to rush out a minor update to Firefox, numbered 1.5.0.3, in order to address a denial-of-service vulnerability in the most recent version of the open source Web browser. The move comes despite the flaw being rated "non-critical" by security firm Secunia

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
Get downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available.

Internet Explorer 7 versus Firefox 1.5 = Who win ?
Next year at this time, if you find yourself using and liking Internet Explorer 7, thank the volunteers at the Mozilla project. The release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 roughly 18 months ago marked the beginning of a steady downhill slide for Internet Explorer -- the open-source browser has been taking increasingly bigger bites out of IE's market share (and mindshare) ever since. After a series of solid and reliable updates, Firefox is, by most objective measures and in nearly every category, a better browser than Internet Explorer 6.



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The bottom line for RTS design
A real time strategy game is inherently a competitive game. When two players, or teams of players go head to head, they each put their skills to the test to win. Skill is ultimately made up of three components: knowledge, thinking/planning, and execution.

No doubt, the main news of this week is the opening of the Supreme Commander Portal! Also, Gamereplays launched WorldBuilder Forums and opened a special Graphic Section. A nice SupCome badge has been made by our GFX staff member, Fozzi4reel.



NEW PORTAL - Supreme Commander
"Here you find all available Information on what is widely considered as the biggest hope of the Real Time Strategy Genre for years: Supreme Commander.
If you don´t know anything about the game yet or if you read every last Interview already, theres alot to discover over here. Our Newsposters will keep you updated on every last news and rumours, starting with a full scale E3 coverage coming next week. Also Expect a growing number of Articles, all new Screenshots within minutes and virtually everything else you can wish for concerning this game"



RTS Genre Pre-E3 Preview
"Are you remember IGN`s "The State of the RTS" ? da_buddha, Gamereplays member combine jobs as the Head Journalist at The Think Network Events Section, wrote the good article which called Real-Time Strategy Genre Pre-E3 Preview"

NEW PORTAL - Supreme Commander
"Here you find all available Information on what is widely considered as the biggest hope of the Real Time Strategy Genre for years: Supreme Commander.
If you don´t know anything about the game yet or if you read every last Interview already, theres alot to discover over here. Our Newsposters will keep you updated on every last news and rumours, starting with a full scale E3 coverage coming next week. Also Expect a growing number of Articles, all new Screenshots within minutes and virtually everything else you can wish for concerning this game"

C&C3 Facts and Fiction
"Some interesting Facts and Hints have been posted by Soldiers Valhalla here. Some of the questions the community have been pondering for a while have been revealed-or just hinted to for more spectulation. Soldiers Valhalla has included is own summary of the information, and a small unit list."

Command and Conquer 3 Poll Roundup!
"AgmLauncher has posted up the Poll Roundup complete with all the important polls that have been made, so vote now! This is a great way for the community to really express it's opinions about different aspects of the game. Some great debates have come into play. Don't forget to say what you voted for!"

Rise of Legends - Replay Reviewers wanted!
We've had some replays posted already and need RR staff for Rise Of Legends,
so if you're interested in reviewing this new amazing game come to our forums now and apply!



CnC-3 : The Winter of 2007 ?
"Interesting information I found at the gaming site called Eurogamer. As they said, CnC-3 will be released in the winter of 2007. "Headlining will be the likes of Will Wright's Spore (PC), Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (PC - winter), Battlefield 2142 (PC - winter) and Crytek's highly anticipated PC FPS Crysis (also due this winter)"

Command and Conquer 3 Poll Roundup!
"AgmLauncher has posted up the Poll Roundup complete with all the important polls that have been made, so vote now! This is a great way for the community to really express it's opinions about different aspects of the game. Some great debates have come into play. Don't forget to say what you voted for!"



Jeremy Soule Interview
"The brandnew PCGamer Podcast features an Interview with Jeremy Soule, the Composer of Supreme Commanders Musical Score. He also composed the award winning Score for Total Annihilation, Supreme Commanders predecessor. For more Information on Jeremy Soule read our Abstract about him and his work: find it in the Articles Box to the left or directly here"

Supreme Commander Official Site update
"The Supreme Commander official site has been updated with Unit information, Planets and more, so check it out here!"

High Resolution Screenshots
"We just received a present from THQ, the publisher of Supreme Commander: High resolution (1600x1200), high image quality versions of the latest Gamespot Screenshots. These images are freaking huge! So go over to the Screenshot Page and drool on those insanely huge pictures. Maybe these pictures are even exclusive for our site as no other Supreme Commander Site has them online yet. So you are the first to see them outside out the development studio."

Supreme Commander Newsposters Needed!
"If you are interested in becoming a newsposter for supcom please read on. We need people who know a lot about the game or can find a lot about the game. Although you will be a supcom newsposter you have global powers in all the other portals and are advised to post news you find in them aswell."

Guardian Interview
"Guardian Unlimited Technology Published a new 1 page Interview with Chris Taylor, its pretty short but really good.
"TG: Has the RTS genre become stagnant? Is there anything or anyone you'd blame for its downfall?
CT: Seriously, I blame myself for not getting off my arse and working on Supreme Commander sooner."

Not Working Pictures
"Ther ehere have been problems with viewing the Full Screen Versions of the Screenshots and Concept Art. We did a short term solution, and now all registered (and logged in) members can view them. however it is NOT intended that you have to register to be able to see them. Its a problem with ipb software. We´ll fix that within the next day"

Welcome to Supreme Commander
"Here you find all available Information on what is widely considered as the biggest hope of the Real Time Strategy Genre for years: Supreme Commander.
If you don´t know anything about the game yet or if you read every last Interview already, theres alot to discover over here. Our Newsposters will keep you updated on every last news and rumours, starting with a full scale E3 coverage coming next week. Also Expect a growing number of Articles, all new Screenshots within minutes and virtually everything else you can wish for concerning this game"

Actiontrip Preview
"New preview by Actiontrip. Nothing new for those who are completely informed already, but a good read nevertheless. "



BFME-2 Review From X-Play
"A new review from X-play only gives the game a 4/5, although it is quite high I'm a lot of players think it's 5/5. Here's just a little snipit of the review. If you would like to see it all with images please click on the link at the bottom which I have supllied."

World Builder Forum now open!
"We've just launched 2 brand new GameReplays forums for the map creation/editing software that comes with BFME2 called World Builder!
World Builder Discussion Forums
Everybody has questions about this professional EA program, so a new GR community is developing for those interested in working with the program. If you've got questions, ideas, musings, or tutorials to share, then head on over to the World Builder Discussion forums!
World Builder Map Reviews
New custom BFME2 maps are being made everyday and these can be shared and reviewed in the new GameReplays Map Review forums. Maps that receive the best reviews will also be posted in the Legendary Multiplayer Maps forum. If you've got a great 1v1, Team Multiplayer, or Scripted Mission-based map to share or want to see what others are working on, drop in on the Map Review forums!"

FME2 Hot Survey
"A new survey has been launched on the official site of The Battle for Middle Earth 2. It only takes a few minutes of your time, and it lets you rate the game in many areas, thus giving you the unique chance to let EA know where you think the game delivers and in which area it fails. Take note that there are some questions involving a possible future Expansion Pack for the game."

April Clanwars Results
"The April clanwars tournament came to an impressive end yesterday, with Eagle grabbing the win and establishing themselves as an undisupted dominant force. Congradulations to NcV for the tough fight, it was fun to watch. The competition for bronze was intense, with DIVA squeaking by to swipe it from under the nose of three clans! Gl next month all!
1 EAGLE 42,221 pts. , 2 NcV 41,580 pts., 3 DivA| 31,058 pts., 4 PoW| 30,581 pts., 5 WoA 30,511 pts."

BFME2 Replay Packs
"Lately lots of good clanwars players decided to share their replays from last month with the community. Thats why we decided to create a forum for BFME2 Replay Packs only. If you want the replays from the best players then this the place to find them."



FinalBig!
"Got this message from species, one of our game admins. Be sure to read this news about the support of our favorite game being added to a great extractor / editor!"

What Are Your Ideas For An EaW Expansion?
"There has been speculation recently about an EaW expansion. What kind of new things would you like to see in this? What things would you like to keep and what things would you like to be scrapped? Delphi-PG has already replied to this topic so if you have some ideas you would like to share then please post them and he could reply to you!"

Say Hello to Petro's New Community Manager!
Today Delphi-PG introduced us to a new Community Manager for EaW, SAGEKING. SAGEKING will be taking over Delphis post as Community manager and will be working full time, meaning a timely response time for any questions or comments you have about EaW. Feel free to drop in the topic and say "Hi", and ask him any questions you may have.

Legacy of War Mod
I am happy to report that there is currently a mod in development for Star Wars Empire At War called Legacy of War



"Bridger had written a very nice reply and I think it's worth a portal mentioning!
All that during a battle that can last between 30 seconds and 2 minutes. That's a lot of stuff going on, and i never even accomplish it all because a lot of it you have to continue doing the entire battle. I'm just not that good yet. I forgot even the most standerd RTS tactic, remove almost-dead units."

Hero Info
"We had a thread about Heroes trampling and effectiveness. Ayestes has posted some good info:
Giacomo has 390 Health, 4 Trample, 5 Splash Attack, 16 Range, 40 Speed, 20 LoS
Doge has 450 Health, 6 Trample, 5 Splash Attack, 6 Seige, 16 Range, 30 Speed, 20 LoS
Lenora has 350 Health, 3 Attack, 4 Seige, 16 Range, 60 Speed, 20 LoS, etc, etc, etc"

MaDDoX First Impressions
"MaDDoX is a global admin here at Gamereplays.org and he knows what he's talking about. You may or may not know he is one of the creators of the famous zh mod, boss generals. I'm sure his opinion will matter a lot and people will respect it"

Do You Think Units Should React/Move Faster?
"A very interesting poll has been creating just a few days ago in RoL discussion forums. Do you think RoL units need to move/react faster or are they ok as they are. There has been some outstanding replys to this topic, if you wish to share your view in this poll and vote yes or no please click here."

Lets all use the same hamachi network
"As the new demo has just been released only recently and it does have an online option then we should all try to get on known networks. If there's more people in a network then there will be more games played, in that case there will be more replays and maybe make it easier for us to find better strats. Below are two networks which I suggest you try and get on first before any others so we can all meet up and know were from the Gamereplays.org community"

Counter Guide
"Our dear and first ever Strat Moderator of RoL, Ayestes, has created an unique counter guide with very detailed info about all units of the game.
Im sure it will be very useful for all that love Rise of Legends and want as much information about units as possible. Fell free to download the file here."

Preording RoL from Amazon
"If you are planning on buying Rise of Legends and you can use an Amazon site then use the affiliation links for your country's Amazon which are now on GameReplays! This will mke us 7% of the order value and will help keep GameReplays pay the server costs (£400/month)"

Community Tuesday - May 3
"Today we have a screenshot breakdown of the game's interface, make a clan invite for a duel or just search for the best players. And a nice explanation by Jeff S. of the ranking system of RoL."

LAN Map Switcher
"Our member tec27 so kindly gaves us the information that this little but great program will do all the "tough" work for you to switch which map to play on in the demo". All you have to do is make sure the profile name is right (it picks the last used profile from the game) and choose which map you want, and hit the button."

ClanWars RoL league has been created
"Well with the release of the 2nd demo Clanwars.cc have decided to open their league, although you can't actually play in it until the 9th of this month. This is really great news for RoL, I'm sure everybody can't wait for the release of the game. Regarding to this topic on their forums they opened it right now!"

RRs wanted!
"We've had some replays posted already and need RR staff for Rise Of Legends,
so if you're interested in reviewing this new amazing game come to our forums now and apply!"



NEW: Battle of the Alamo MOD
"Your mission is simple -- defend your HQ at any cost!!!
The A.I. will launch one vicious assault after the other, every two
minutes, against your defenses -- don't even bother trying to destroy the
A.I.'s HQ as it's indestructible!
The A.I. only has one difficulty setting: DEADLY! Instead, use the
"Time to survive" option (10, 15, 20, 25, 30 min, or forever!) to decide
the length (and thereby difficulty) of the game. On larger maps, you
can also add more than one A.I. for an additional challenge."

Pre-E3 2006: Atari Announces Its E3 Anatomy
"Atari continues to move forward and seek out groundbreaking, imaginative and entertaining properties like the underground based, street smart HOT PXL. Evident as part of our E3 line-up, these and other games are all part of the Company's evolution and continued focus on gameplay," said an Atari rep."



GameReplays.org Showdown #5
"This weeks showdown was between: timstaples and Perfection"

AoE3Clans Rating Signatures
"AoE3Clans.com have made some very nice new rating signature designs for use on forums, they offer normal sized images as well as minimal Age of Mythology style pictures. You can also request your own custom sig in the forums. The site also has a ladder which you can sign up on. Check it out!"

Empires Legacy
"Empires Legacy is dedicated to the survival of the Age Of Empires series.
With the MSN Gaming Zone discontinuing support for CD Games, Empires Legacy picks up the pieces. Aiming to create a client better than the MSN Gaming Zone ever was, or ever could be is our aim - and with your help, we can achieve it."

Interview with ES Swinger
"In keeping with the interviews we've done in the past, GameReplays interviewed ES Swinger to get his thoughts on the game, patching, and what we have to look forward in the future of AoE3."

Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs Q&A
"The Sioux will be the second Native American nation to be featured in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs, the upcoming expansion to last year's best-selling real-time strategy game. The WarChiefs will feature three Native American nations, and they'll offer a different perspective and play style compared to the European nations found in the core game. "



Dev Diary #1
"The Developer Diary is now available on the ParaWorld official site."

Peeping into ParaWorld with the artist of Pendulum!
"For those who don't know, CGSociety posted the second part of the ParaWorld feature about Pendulum, a San Diego based 3D animation studio specializing in leading-edge character animation and digital FX for TV, film and games.They are currently creating an action packed fully-3D cinematic game trailer for Paraworld."



CW Factions Champions - BFME
Starting May, the Clanwars.cc BFME league is going to announce not only the clan and warrior champions, but monthly faction champions too.
When you report your losses, you have the option to select which faction you and your opponents played as

Clanwars Results, April - BFME
This month of BFME 1 CW came to an end last night, and what a thrilling end it was. Winner was P2B with an impressive 67-12 win/loss record and a win % of 85%. A well deserved champion. In 2nd place, we find NighT^ that only stepped in to the action about halfway into the month, and still almost got to top spot. {UTC} with boss rordLogan got 3ed spot with the favourite for the cup, DivA ending up in 4th spot with [WUB] just behind in 5th. The defending champions [WISE] missed out on top 5 ending in 6th place.

BFME Staff Tournament Semi Final Shoutcast
The first of the BFME Staff Tournament Semi-Final matches has been played between SoulWings and StoneLord. The match is stunning to watch, full of incident and skill. Make sure you don't miss it.
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Clanwars Results - ZH
"[i]Clan Standings: 1 -RauTe 16,917 pts. 2 [OoE] 16,128 pts. 3 -FaKe| 15,334 pts. 4 -Fis3y 13,205 ts. 5 [BAD] 12,481 pts."
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CCG is looking for new staffmembers
"Do you think you have what it takes? We are currently looking for Replay Reviewers. Anyone can apply for this position, you just have to pm me with the links of the reviews you have done. You can also contact Cypher or Quasis our SRR."

1V1 CCG TOURNAMENT 16:10 GMT 7TH MAY
"Well last week we had a very exciting 2v2 tournament. This sunday I hope we have the same amount of fun if not more. I hope everyone can sign up for this tourny"

Wow The 2v2 Tournament Was Great! - Generals
"Yesterday evening I hosted a 2v2 tournament. This has to be one of the best tournaments we have had in the last 1-2 months. There was some great competition in these games. When I looked at the standings before the tournament I saw that there were hardly any well known pro's. Later on in the event I realised a lot of players were using different names which made the tourny more fun and secretive."

Clanwars Results - Generals
"Clan Standings: 1 First 3,556 pts., 2 -2HARD 3,263 pts., 3 -2eZ^ 3,180 pts., 4 [RV] 3,165 pts., 5 |VP| 2,673 pts."



Steam Client Update Released
"Changes and additions are seen in this update that we have been waiting for for years! Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted."

F2 Community Update 01/05
"Another booster pack will soon be made available from EA, along with the newest patch, v1.3."

Half Life 2: Episode 1 Preloading Begun
"Half-Life 2: Episode One, the first in series of episodic games from Valve, is now available for pre-purchase and pre-load via Steam. Those who pre-order the game before it is made available on June 1st will save 10% off the $19.95 price. For more information, visit www.steampowered.com."



Radeon X1800 GTO vsGeForce 7600 GT
"Every new generation of high-end graphics cards heralds a speed bump for the mid-range products. In the past, I've been disappointed with many of the mid-range cards - there's just not enough peformance there to justify the £150-200 price point. It's about time we get some decent performance out of the not-stupidly-expensive line-ups and this time round both the red and the green teams have come up with the goods..."



At this week the winner of SOTW #48 is... our gfx admin - keno190 ! Congratulate, mate! His work you can see under my words.




Walls or not ?
What you think, will be the walls a good addition to CnC-3?

What an AWESOME week ! E3 was over but community only just get hot. Therefore, we could not select the best news, news of the Week...








Official trailer, interview and EALA
Undoubtedly, all you awaited official video from E3. And your patience was compensated - download this low quality video from GameSpot (High quality only for Premium users) and watch the interview with Mike Verdu. But the world not without a good people: somebody upload High quality video to the Rapidshare or CnC Saga.
Also, I find interesting information from News.com (interview wth Neil Young, General Meneger EALA`s studio) about increase in the number of staff of EALA

Aliens, Live presentation, CE and Community Summit
Are the Aliens - 3rd side? Yes! Collector's edition of C&C 3 with the Special Bible? Maybe! Community summit? Yes, this summer ! If you uncertain at my words then read this Command And Conquer 3 Impressions from Firingsquad.

PC Gamer UK Article
PyRo^ has posted up the scans here. The article confirms the return of the light scout unit Wolverine, as well as some hints that Kane RETURNS! Check it out here. Thanks to scubasam for the mag

! VIDEO .........CnC-3......... VIDEO !
(Thx CnCSaga for the news) Its unbelievable but true: EA upload CnC-3 video at EA Media Center. For watching this trailer, choice E3 Lineup or download it in High resolution (195 Mb) or Low (24 Mb) and enjoy !

E3: Supreme Commander Coverage and VIDEO
one - Our Forum Member da_buddha, game journalist, uploaded pictures for us which he took from the / a E3 Supreme Commander Video at their THQ stand.
two - Hail IGN ! They present a first fast-look of Supreme Commander which was presented on the pre-E3 event, right before the show started.
three - New Concept Art: Faction Posters, see them in our Concept Art Gallery
four - GameSpy E3 Supreme Commander Article
five - the GameSpot view on Supcom at the E3 uncovering nice new info on interface elements that you can also find in this topic
six - a IGN update to their E3 Supcom coverage
seven - Official Supcom site updates

Gamespot E3 Article on C&C3!
Gamepspot has released an article on their impressions of Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. We find out many things including new evidence that the Scrin are the third faction: "This sequence of events polarized the world, so that the world's inhabitants aligned themselves with either GDI or Nod, a standoff that was threatening enough to global stabilty until, as the narrator of the trailer explained against a wide shot of Earth from outer space, 'they came.'"

IGN E3 2006: C&C3 TW Exclusive Interview
IGN has released an exlusive interview for the 3rd Command and Conquer with Mike Verdu, the Excecutive Producer. With new screenshots and information, this interview will definately satisfy your hunger for news for a few days with 3 pages!

Star Wars® Empire at War™: Forces of Corruption
Following the success of Star Wars: Empire at War, the best-selling PC game of Q1 2006, LucasArts announces an expansion pack titled Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. A widely appealing strategy game, Empire at War let gamers play the light side or the dark side in an epic Galactic Civil War. Now, for the first time ever, Star Wars Empire at War: Forces of Corruption introduces a unique point of view – the corrupt side.

Rise Of Legends
Rise Of Legends was released today in the U.S. , this game has already proved itself with the two demos! Already yielding one Elite replay and many other great games this great new game from BHG will hit GameReplays.org strong in the upcoming days, so do not miss the wagon, best to be there when a game is born!

! Louis Castle Podcast Interview @ E3 !
For all you interested... we (at GamerAndy.com) are bringing Command & Conquer creator and now EALA Vice President Louis Castle to our live podcast from the E3 Outpost (at E3) on Thursday this week.


BFME2Tournaments about CnC3 and GDI
Sledgehammer, admin of BFME2Tournaments.com present own preview telling about the game and GDI. Why he know so much? Because he was at the E3 !

Official trailer, interview and EALA
Undoubtedly, all you awaited official video from E3. And your patience was compensated - download this low quality video from GameSpot (High quality only for Premium users) and watch the interview with Mike Verdu. But the world not without a good people: somebody upload High quality video to the Rapidshare or CnC Saga. Also, I find interesting information from News.com (interview wth Neil Young, General Meneger EALA`s studio) about increase in the number of staff of EALA

Aliens, Live presentation, CE and Community Summit
Are the Aliens - 3rd side? Yes! Collector's edition of C&C 3 with the Special Bible? Maybe! Community summit? Yes, this summer !If you uncertain at my words then read this Command And Conquer 3 Impressions from Firingsquad

E3 + CnC3 + IGN+ ALIENS ?
Read this preview from IGN, as is easy to see, Mike Verdu as close as possible help us for revealing the 3rd side.

VIDEO .........CnC-3......... VIDEO
(Thx CnCSaga for the news) Its unbelievable but true: EA upload CnC-3 video at EA Media Center. For watching this trailer, choice E3 Lineup or download it in High resolution (195 Mb) or Low (24 Mb) and enjoy !

CnC3: E3 Preview
Andrew Park, journalist from GameSpot get ready short review of his trip to EALA stand at E3. Of course, the case in point is Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars Impressions

C&C 3: Tiberium Wars FAQ updated
Many new questions/answers have been added and updated based on the latest revelations from E3. Be sure to check out the latest summary of information in the CnC3 FAQ. There are a total of 37 questions and answers available.

Remembering CNC #3: Ion Storms
Our member, Joseph Silver, wrote 3rd part of the article called Remembering CNC. At the new part, author remind about Ion Storms ! This is very actual becouse, as IGN noticed, Ion Storm will be controllable

IGN E3 2006: C&C3 TW Exclusive Interview
GN has released an exlusive interview for the 3rd Command and Conquer with Mike Verdu, the Excecutive Producer. With new screenshots and information, this interview will definately satisfy your hunger for news for a few days with 3 pages!

IGN E3 2006: C&C3 TW Exclusive Interview
IGN has released an exlusive interview for the 3rd Command and Conquer with Mike Verdu, the Excecutive Producer. With new screenshots and information, this interview will definately satisfy your hunger for news for a few days with 3 pages!

Louis Castle Podcast Interview @ E3
For all you interested... we (at GamerAndy.com) are bringing Command & Conquer creator and now EALA Vice President Louis Castle to our live podcast from the E3 Outpost (at E3) on Thursday this week.

CnC-3 at E3: lLimited Access
Not good news from Command and Conquer-3 front: as EA reported, the presentention of CnC-3 will be exclusively behind closed doors



E3: IGN Preview
On 10th May IGN kindly published an article explaining some features of what to expect in Supreme Commander. Featuring some amazing screenshots and new information. It mainly focuses around the Demo which was shown to an excited audience at E3. So for all you Supreme Commander fans out there, this article might shed some light on the mystery shrouding this highly aniticpated RTS title.

3 New Previews from E3
It appears news has been spreading through many cably modems over the last week, first came the preview published by IGN followed by a small update later. Then Gamesopt and Gamespy decided they could not miss out on the action and released their own previews from E3.

PCGamer E3 Podcast
The "E3 Day 1" PCGamer Podcast mentions Supreme Commander, a Editor of them is completely blown away by it, and mentions a nice detail: Supreme Commander will have, all factions together, 240 different Units. Thats 80 per faction, however its unknown if this means only units or, more likely, units and buildings together.

Supreme Commander E3 Video Download
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be anymore news about Supreme Commander this week, the guys down at SupComUniverse decided they would release the Video shown at E3; available for download. Not only did they release this initial video, but an extended version with THREE minutes additional footage.

Supreme Commander E3 Presentation Video
This is the third Supreme Commander Video which has been brought to your attention and covers the presentation of the game at E3. The download is a hefty 60MB but is a must for any Supreme Commander fan. One thing worth noting is the Command Interface in SupCom which is displayed in this video. A special thanks to SupComUniverse for releasing another spectacular video.



Mordor vs Isengard Guide Released!
Locke, one of our Mordor SM's, has released a guide detailing the Mordor vs Isengard matchup. This guide includes information regarding build orders, power choices, units, and much more. If you are looking to improve your skills as a Mordor player, this guide is a must-see for you.

New Worldbuilder Tutorials
3 new Tutorials for the Worldbuilder of The Battle for Middle Earth 2 have surfaced on the game's official page. The tutorials appear in the form of .doc files, and they teach the reader about building a Single Player Mission, about Scripting, as well as the new features of the BFME2 Worldbuilder.

BFME2 on Xbox360 Blog #2
A second blog for the Xbox360 version of The Battle for Middle Earth 2 has been published on the game's official site. This time, Mike Glosecki, Senior Development Director, tells us about the 4 new multiplayer modes that waren't there in the PC version of BFME2. Below you can read a short description of 2 of them.

New Isengard SM and RRs still wanted
Precise has just got promoted as Isen SM. He is now one of the guys which will provide you guys with new strats, help you out on questions and will give you help for anything that is involved in Isengard. RRs still wanted: Do you feel you have a good hang of BFME2 and would like to help players out? Then a RR position might be the right job for you. We are always in need of new RRs, and if you feel like becoming one, just go ahead and read this topic

Weekly Clanwars Update
Another month of BFME 2 CW is already on the way, and EAGLE is in the early lead and have even build up a small gap to the others with around 500p ahead of 2nd placed WoA who have got off to a good start as well. But with almost 3 weeks to go, its nothing that will worry any of the chasing clans. A quick look in the top 10 shows us not big surprises yet. DivA|, like always are in the race for glory, currently in 3rd spot with DreaM| also in the race at 10 spot.
Here are the top 10 standings early Tuesday morning

Elves vs Goblins Strategy Video
Nic767, along with our Elven Strat Mod Fait^, has created an in-depth strategy video for the Elves vs Goblins matchup. This video is a great watch for all, and is definately a great learning tool. Whether you are an experienced Elves player or just trying to improve your sklls with the Elven faction, this video is a must watch. The video runs about 11 minutes long, and can be found here.



For all you Yoda Fans..
Well for those who have been keeping up with the news over the past week you are already aware that Star Wars: Forces of Corruption, the expansion pack for Empire At War has been announced by LucasArts and is making an appearence at his year's E3 gaming event.

IGN Release E3 Preview
It was a very busy day on Thursday for the Star Wars galaxy as news flew around the web regarding the new expansion pack Star Wars Forces of Corruption. IGN publised a rather lengthly article explaining, in some depth what can be expected in this game. They also provided some nice screenshots showing this game in it's full glory.

Gamespy E3 Preview
On Thursday 11th May 2006 Gamespy released a snall article about what is to be expected in Star Wars Forces of Corruption. They also kindly published 10 screenshots displaying some battle sequences and new units which are expected in this game.

Forces of Corruption Trailer
With the recent announcement of Star Wars Forces of Corruption the expansion pack of Emire At War LucasArts thought they would leave our mouths watering for more as they released a trailer to this new game which displays the power of this new Corrupt faction and their ultimate weapon...the Eclipse.

Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption
It has been an extremely busy and exciting week for the Star Wars Universe with news flooding in practically everyday. Beginning with the announcement of Star Wars Empire At War: Forces of Corruption the expansion pack to the best selling Star Wars RTS of all time. This new expansion pack is to feature a new faction, known only as the Corrupt faction and led by an aspiring underworld figure called Tyber Zann.

PC Gamer Announces Star Wars Forces of Corruption
When an established gaming magazine called PC Gamer released a preview of this new expansion pack, we were all surprised by this sudden emergence of news. Although this article was brief it does shed some light on the situation. Although this news was unofficial the report was confirmed by LucasArts who later released their own Official Announcement and a Trailer as evidence.



Another Elite replay
A great game between Bouzip and Silent^1 another Vinci mirror fraught with constant fighting... Prepare the popcorn, this replay's HOT!

All map images have been updated!
Darky has updated all the map images for the retail version, so remember to pick the right one. Plus PM Major if you find a mistake on any of the maps.

How Do You Compare RoL to Other Games?
Everyone has their own special views on the games they play. We will never actually no which game is the best because its all opinion and not fact. However we can share our views on which games we like the most. It is very intersting. You may share the same liking to games as other people here, wouldn't that be great to see why that is?

Rise of Legends First Elite Replay
Gamereplays.org Rise of Legends game admin posted a replay just a few days ago. He played vs a gamer called "Skimies" who is a bfme 2 strat mod also at Gamereplays, it was a Vinco mirror played on "Sumers Heat". On the same day as the replay was posted it was reviewed which I'd say is pretty fast so thanks to DuRiN. Over all the game was rated a high 7 and became Replay of The Week along with our 1st ever elire replay. I'm sure this replay will remembered for a very long time to come.

New Alin Unit Guide
Necrosjef our new Alin SM has produced a new unit guide for us

The game's interface
A very nice post by xessos points out the amazing new interface of this game:
For those of you wondering what it looks like and how the basic functionality works, here's a few pics (click through)
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None of this is stuff that hasn't been done in other games, but the fact that it's all here in RoL is great. Just about the only notable missing feature I saw was that while you can play 1v1/2v2/3v3 random teams automatch, you can only play 2v2 arranged teams automatch, no support for 3v3 or 4v4.

First ever RotW!
Yes its true! GameReplays is proud to present the first ever Rise of Legends Replay of the Week. Its an awesome Vinci mirror between Major and Smikies wich was rated 7. Check it out! You can go directly to the RotW topic just by clicking on the map picture here on the portal (located on the right top corner of the page). Or: Rise of Legends RotW Download!

Game is out!
If you didnt noticed game is out in the stores. You can buy the full game throu Amazon. Its link is located in the bottom of the pages of our forums or just download the file to see how its done. At the moment we have going on a discussion about multiplayer interface wich seems to be the major quality of this great game along with other features of course.
Also, along the way, we have a discussion about the positive and negative sides of the game in this topic located in General Discussion Forum. Your opinion is VERY important, so dont hesitate posting it in there too.

Bugs
No game is perfect after its release. For all that have the full game and notice bugs within the game please post in this topic located in General Discussion Forum! Use SSs and replays (if possible) along with a detailed explanation of what happens. This can surely help BHG make RoL become a even better game. Im sure we all want that so lets work toghether on this

Community Tuesday, May 10
Release date is here! And for the final installment of the Community Tuesday release, I bring you the Mod Documentation Pack. It is a 13 meg zip file containing detailed information, step-by-step guides on how to customize Rise of Legends and make your own content. We even threw in the Mapmaker's Handbook, the same one used by Big Huge Games to train our own scenario designers in how to create maps for Rise of Legends!
Weekend Roundup 14/05

Yahoo Review
Rise of Legends has a hundred and one things in it, all fitting together in a hundred and one different ways. It's generous, detailed, and brainy. If you want cheap thrills, there are some great real-time strategy games out there -- this isn't one of them. But if you want something from the other end of the spectrum that plays unlike anything else, this is the game for you.

CW Rise of Legends League is open!
Now that Rise of Legends has been released, the Clanwars.cc League is now officially open and you can begin playing and reporting clan matches. If you're new to a Clanwars.cc manual league, have a quick read of this thread which explains a few brief things about how to use the league.
Thanks and good luck!

How to buy RoL with Amazon
One of our staff members, Nic767, just made a shoutcast of how to buy Rise of Legends game thou Amazon.com.
So, just download it here. Pretty easy. Its a file with no more than 4.5 megas and its free. Also keep in mind that buying it thou Amazon you are helping GameReplays.org to survive, and not paying more than you would do in a normal store.



New Navy Mod
In the General Discussion forums, henry666 reports that a new Navy Mod, created by Salfisi. This thing looks great. Head to the AoW:HT Navy Mod post in the General Discussion forums. Details and screenshots of the mod are available in the post on the forums

CitNoh and SKSUS visit Eugen Systems
CitNoh explained that him and SKSUS were invited to visit Eugen Systems and explain to them features that the German community wanted in and any bug fixes. If you have any suggestions or would like to hear about their experiences first hand check out AoW General Discussion forum.



E3 : GameSpy about The WarChiefs
The Native Americans have a new unit called a travois that can be cashed in for a free building. They also have a special structure called a fire pit. They can assign villagers to the fire pit to dance around in a circle and give units a global bonus. The more dancing villagers, the higher the bonus. The dance can be switched depending on the situation.

Portuguese Turtle Strategy Guide
ES Swinger latest tour of duty through the Portuguese ranks inspired him to write a guide displaying how to effectively pull of a water-based economic boom strategy. It's detailed and full of pictures displaying what to do, a recommended Deck overview, and an example recording; so if you're looking for something new, or wanted to improve your strategy, this is a must.

New WarChiefs Screenshots
IGN have released some very good looking new screenshots for The WarChiefs Expansion, there are some new artwork, Sioux, and even naval screenshots for your eyes to look at for a while. There are now 3 artwork images released for the WarChiefs so one may speculate if the 3 are actually the war chief for the 3 new civilisations, if you know your native americans then nows your time to show your knowledge!

New Bruce Shelley Blog
Developer Bruce Shelley is continuing to update his blog, this time it is mainly on E3. He also mentions there are currently 300,000 registered ESO accounts with 500 being added every day! Bruce also acknowledges all the online petitions for Age I & II to be kept online and ES are still looking for possible solutions. The blog is very interesting, a great read!

The Legion Clan Website Hacked
Unfortunately, The Legion Clan website has been hacked and is down until further notice. An update to everyone and a reminder that the brackets are still available online but, for now, the webiste and forums are down which could be an upcoming problem for the tournament match scheduling among teams.

The Legion Clan Tourny Brackets
The $2000 Legion Clan Tournament brackets have been released to the public today and the competition has officially begun, featuring over 600 players and some very juicy prizes to aim for. Good luck to all participating!

More WarChiefs Ask Sandy
As always, Sandy is still answering questions about the WarChiefs expansion at AgeCommunity and he has just posted the newest addition of his Q&A. And as per usual, you are always welcome to ask questions yourself for him to answer. Check it out!


E3 : Paraworld preview from GameSpy
There are two key innovations in ParaWorld: unit management and pre-battle army construction. The "Army Controller" is a wonderful way to control, access, and survey your units. The Controller, which rests along the left-hand side panel of the screen, can house up to 52 unit icons split into several army groups.

E3 : Paraworld preview from IGN
A bit more work has been done on the army controller. Rather than requiring you to organize your units on your own, Paraworld uses a handy window on the side of the screen that shows all of the units you've created. They're divided into five broad power groups and you're limited in the number of units you ca have in each category. The lowest level can hold up to 25 different units, while the most powerful level can only hold one unit.

Dev Diary #2
The second part of the developer’s diary is now online.



BFME Staff Tournament Result
The StoneLord v Major final has been played and was a 'best out of 3' final played with RANDOM armies. Only 2 of the 3 matches were played and the same player won both the matches, sealing an historic win.
So the result is definite.
Your BFME Staff Champion is

BFME Staff Tournament Announcement
Life never runs too smoothly when we are trying to organise staff events and we have another twist to add to proceedings.
Due to continuing difficulty in working around Ranger being in a completely different timezone to the rest of staff he has decided to hand his place in the final back over to Major to play against StoneLord for the title of BFME Staff Champion.
So, finally (and hopefully), the tournament final will be between:

Weekly Clanwars Update - BFME
A new month is on the way, and it’s with great pleasure I can see that BFME 1 CW is picking up by the day. More old players from patch 1.02 starts to find the way back, and this month also see the return of the well know {EWM} clan. NighT^ have taken the early lead in the standings with an amazing 27-2 win/loss record and with a win percent of over 90%. Behind them we find |MFW| and DreaM| with defending champions P2B also in the race in 4th spot. {EWM} have also come off to a good start and are in top five. Here is the current standings:

World in Conflict
The basic premise of World in Conflict is that in 1989 the Soviet Union, facing certain economic collapse, launches a sneak attack on the U.S. and Europe. As we were ushered into the room for our four-on-four match, the Massive Entertainment guys asked which side I'd like to play. I told them that as a registered Republican, I didn't think I was allowed to play the U.S.S.R., so they graciously allowed me to defend the Land of the Free against the ruthless Commie menace.


ShadowGrounds: A New Game From Steam!
Steam has been on fire lately! News games almost once a month! Here's a little bit about the new game available called, ShadowGrounds.

BF2 Community Updates
Two new updates from EA regarding BF 2142 and the upcoming BF2 update have been posted on their site.



AM2, Roadmap
Westlake Village (CA) - While Intel is busy bringing its next processor generation, based on the Merom core, up to speed, AMD is adding the final touches to its DDR2-based Socket M2 Athlon 64 platform, TG Daily has learned. AMD is preparing 12 M2 processors for Q2 launch, spanning the Athlon 64, X2, FX and Sempron series of CPUs. Part of the launch will be an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and an Athlon 64 FX-62 chip.

Windows Media Player 11 for XP release details leak!
I have some information about release dates on WMP 11 for XP that no one else has. This info was obtained from a Microsoft employee who I can't name but was able to give me this info. If you know other MS employees, they may be able to confirm this info by digging a little bit through Microsoft's internal knowledge base (employees only):
Microsoft is planning a Public Preview Beta of Windows Media Player 11 for XP on Wednesday, May 17th

Plan for .xxx porn domain dropped
Internet regulators have rejected plans to create a domain for pornography websites ending with the .xxx suffix








Tanks in Tiberium Wars
As much as I love Generals, there is a world of difference between firepower in Generals and firepower in past C&C games. Past C&C games use Tanks as the primary ground force. However thanks to all the noobs who whined about rushing, the C&C series got a reputation as being a mindless "tank rush" game. So what did the creators of Generals do? Reverse that paradigm by making tanks nearly useless. Rocket based weapons easily destroyed them.

Empire at War: Patch 1.04 Released ! !
Awesome news from Petroglyph. Long-awaited Patch 1.04 released and Map Editor too


Neil Young about CnC3
Do you know what He think about return of CnC franchise to the world game arena? Ok, watch this interview Neil Young (Vice President and General Manager, EA Los Angeles) to gaming site Kotaku

Empire at War: Patch 1.04 Released ! !
Awesome news from Petroglyph. Long-awaited Patch 1.04 released and Map Editor too



Neil Young about CnC3
Do you know what He think about return of CnC franchise to the world game arena? Ok, watch this interview Neil Young (Vice President and General Manager, EA Los Angeles) to gaming site Kotaku



GameSpy Best of E3
Supreme Commander has come in at no.3 , in GameSpy's top 10 PC games at E3.

Best Strategy Game #4
Yes-yes... poor editor, they haven`t choice - Supreme Commander is the Best Strategy Game at E3 Expo and real deserved this award from GameTrailers.com. Watch this review (also included BFME-2 Xbox 360 and Command and Conquer - 3) or download

Best Strategy Game #3
Again and again... Best Strategy Game by Voodoo Extreme version

Best Strategy Game #2
Supreme Commander Scored its second "Best Strategy game of E3" Award already, this time from 1up.com

Best Strategy Game - SupCom
Nice picture? Yes! And welldeserved: GameSpy`s editorial staff award Supreme Commander to the Best Strategy Game reward.

E3 Preview Footage
he Supreme Commander E3 preview video has been released, with 4.46 mins of footage, most of it new and never before seen. Find it here at GameTrailers, where it can be streamed and downloaded in WMP 26.6 MB and Quicktime 26.1 MB. Posted in the general discussion forum by NERDsFist, thanks man!



Isengard vs MotW Guide Released
Precise, our new Isengard Strat Mod, has gotten to work and created an in-depth guide covering the Isengard vs Men of the West matchup. This is a must read for all Isengard fans, as it covers the matchup in all aspects, from Units to Power Points to Build Orders and Replays. You can find it here in our Isengard Strategy Forums.

Weekly Clanwars Update
EAGLE is continuing the BFME2 prowess as the leading clan, and this week is no exception. DIVA is the only serious competitor for them at the moment, but the aren't too far behind: 1) EAGLE ; 2) DivA| ; 3)HFD| ; 4) EotD| ; 5) WoA .



Petroglyph Requires your thoughts on Patch 1.04
With the latest patch for Star Wars Empire At War (patch 1.04) making it's way into the history books of RTS, Petroglyph looks for your thoughts on the latest patch and the changes it has made to the game. Here is what Petroglyph had to say...

Lion
A little newspost for Lion, the ruler of the mighty Den network (www.petroden.com). Lion was involved in a terrible accident but luckily got out of it alive. He needs some time to recover and has been through a hell of time. I'd like to wish him all the best in name of the GR staff. Hope that you get well soon Lion!

Map Editor is here!
Finally the Map Editor is upon us! Expect to see cool MP maps coming out and maybe even some cool SP missions! Petroglyph has announced that there will be a map making contest held soon, so keep an eye on that as well!

Patch 1.04 Released ! !
Awesome news from Petroglyph. Long-awaited Patch 1.04 was released and a "Map Editor will be released later today, stay tuned!"

EaW: FoC - First Look
This is the first look to Empire at War: Forces of Corruptionfrom GameSpot after demonstration the game at the E3.



1up.com Review
It seems Rise of Legends continues it's dominance of the RTS gaming world as anothr gaming site reviews this epic title. A site entitled 1up.com has reviewed Rise of Legends giving it an impressive rating of 9.0 which is fantastic news for the game. Here is an extract of what this site had to say about Rise of Legends

IGN`s review
Thanks Necrosjef, our Strategy Moderator, for the news: review from IGN was released today and the game get 82%

iGames: Events for Rise of Legends
Great news for you: iGames will host Launch Events for Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends

BHG Interview
Bridger is working on a streaming audio interview with BHG: Lead Designer Paul Stephanouk, Multiplayer Programmer Stuart Jeff, Designer Ike Ellis, and Community Relations Manager Joe Pishgar.

Competitive level of play!
Our member, Chaosknight just created a very good post about what´s the level of competitive play in RoL?. Based on a pro player friend criticism about several aspects of the game, Chaosknight managed to gather some nice counters to those arguments, and in the end resumes it with a list of pros and cons.

Your Favourites!
At the moment, in discussion forum, is going on a poll-topic about wich is your favourite race/hero/unit/building. Many have already responded, but the more people vote and discuss about it the better. Then we can have a clear idea on what is our main preferences within this game.

Week ScreenShots Guide
Our member Evolved just recently posted a screenshot guide in Discussion Forum.
It describes each screenshot that was release during each week (for over a year) before RoL was out on the stores.

Bovine Conspiracy Review
Yet another gaming site has published a review of Rise of Legends and this time, the RTS title gains an impressive 8/10. The author of this article has praised the game practically throughout his anaylsis which is a pleasing read for any Rise of Legedns fan.

GameSpot Review
Well Rise of Legends has been out just over one week and it appears the critics have had enough time to play the game as yet another review is published. This one, which can be found on GameSpot gives Rise of Legends a 7.6/10 which equates to a "Good" game.

ActionTrip Review
Well Rise of Legends has been released little over a week and already it's making it's mark on the RTS genre. With reviews giving some great comments about this game and achieveing high scores it looks like Rise of Legends is a game those fans in Europe ought to watch out for.

GameZone Review
I thing the image above this words more than enough characterize the Game... Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends. Michael Knutson from GameZone wrote an article about all aspects of this game. Look at the scores, not bad, it isn`t ? !

New Economy Study.
Great news. WDI just wrote a very good study about RoL´s economy. Sit down, relaz and take a deep breath because this involves math.

New E3 Rise of Legends Video
It appears a new video has been released by Gamespot showing Rise of Legends. Although those who dwell in the US already have the full version of the game, this gives us all an opportunity to witness Brian Reynolds (President of Big Huge Games) demo the game at E3.

BHG Connection/Tech Issues
All right i know Rise of Legends was only released in the US so most of you will not be able to comment on connection issues experienced when using multiplayer. If you have encountered any connection issues please post your experiences in this thread.



AoW:HT US Release NO BOX COPY
AoW:HT will not be released as a boxed version is the word out on teh US AoW Atari forums. What this means though is that on June 1st Atari is planning to release AoW:HT for 19.99 through the Gamersfirst.com service.


Anti-Raiding Guide by Djembore
GR member, Djembore, has written quite a nice little Anti-Raiding Guide whcih covers what you should and shouldn't do when managing your Settlers and economy. It's well worth a read to get some good ideas and to think about if you really are managing your Villagers as you should be. Check it out!

More WarChiefs Info
E1superman posted his friends findings from playtesting The WarChiefs at E3 on the AgeCommunity forums. Alot of this info hasn't been released in previews so it should be new to all of you, an interesting read

Patch 1.07 will NOT contain any balance fixes
Well, Thunder, ES Community Manager said it himself in reply to a topic posted in the General Discussions; Patch 1.07 will not contain any balance changes, but will have other features

Post-E3 Ask Sandy
Sandy from Age Community and Ensemble Studios has answered everyones questions again with some very interesting statements coming out of him regarding mainly the War Chiefs expansion that we all are so eagerly waiting for.

Senior Soldier Nominations
Around the Age of Empires III forum area, as well as all sections of GameReplays, we are looking for bright, good players. Suitable candidated will be granted Senior Soldier status which grants you a few bonuses around the community

1.07 and the Unknown are Coming
AgeCommunity have announced that patch 1.07 which will include The Unknown as a new map which could be land, water, snow, or desert. ES are making the final adjustments to the patch before they release it.

E3 Wrap up
A special announcement on E3 by AgeCommunity.com

ES Tournament
Ensemble Studios is sponsoring a 1vs1 tournament for people who live in the US aged 18 and over. It is to be called the 'Warrior's Path Tournament' and the top 4 finishers will be flown to Dallas, Texas to get a chance to playtest (and get paid!) the upcomming WarChiefs X-pack for Age of Empires 3



Good Things Come In (E)3's...
The original E3 2006 trailer, Part 3 of the Dev-Diaries and a new dinosaur are now online.

New ParaWorld details
New details have been revealed of PC real-time strategy title ParaWorld - including news that it won't be arriving till the autumn now.

E3 2006: Paraworld
In the demonstration we saw at this year’s show, one upgraded dinosaur lobbed Velociraptors into enemy lines, while another carried a squad of archers in buckets thrown across its back. In every case, these dinosaurs are fantastically detailed and carefully animated. These are the stars of the show, after all.



The Influence of Literature and Myth on Videogames
IGN have published a fanstaic and extremely interesting article exploring the influence of literature and myth on videogames, particualarly focusing on RTS games. The article is a long read and requires some time to read s make sure your confortable before embarking upon this fantatsic article. Here is an extract from the article published on IGN:

The BFME World Cup Tournament
Due to the resounding success of the BFME Staff Tournament and the passion for an open tournament Daemon will be organising a BFME Tournament taking place at the same time as the FIFA 2006 World Cup using the same format as the World Cup competition.
There will be a US group phase and a EUROPE group phase and then knockout phases for each time zone. The winners in each time zone will get tournament winners medals.

Weekly Clanwars Update
Halfway thru the month, and the tension is increasing. I’m glad to se that two former top 10 clans from BfME 1 CW back in patch 1.02 have returned and is doing good. Welcome back to [DT] and Beer. In the top we find NighT^ in a close fight with defending champions P2B. Beer jumps straight into 3rd spot with Faith and [A01] in a real close battle for 4th spot with Faith currently 1p ahead. This is the top 5 halfway
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Results 2v2 Tournament 14th may 2006 - Generals
Congratulations to the team "cybersports", and the players "Devil" and "Ghost" for winning the entire tournament. GG's WP!
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-Bli[N]d- and ^spAmmAAjA's replay pac
-Bli[N]d- and ^spAmmAAjA were a good 2v2 team last month, playing mostly gla. There rep pack is certianly worth checking out if you want to see some good teamwork and gla in 2v2 games



Sin Episodes: Emergence
Wondering if content presented in episode format is worth a try or even a buy? Maybe i can answer a few questions with my say about the hottest download off Steam.

SiN Episodes Updated
Updates to SiN Episodes: Emergence have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include...:

Medal of Honor Airborne - Wow!
I know this video was released last week, but I just wanted to make sure everyone has checked out the new addition to the Medal of Honor series by EA Games. This game looks create and will be available on all the new systems.

Red Orchestra Bug Fix
A bug fix for Red Orchestra has been released that should fix a bug when joining servers.

E3 2006: The truth behind STALKER
E3 was full of surprises, but none quite as engaging - or alluring - as the behind-closed-doors demo of STALKER: Shadows of Chernobyl. We've heard the supposed problems at developer GSC Gameworld, read the financial forecasts from THQ stating the game's release as 'sometime next year', stories of cut features and even the (thankfully) quickly squashed rumour that the game had been scrapped.



Windows Vista`s Minimum Specs
* A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
* 512 MB of system memory.
* A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable.

E3 Expo 2006 LA Pics, Gallery
Excellent job from the folks at X-bit, we've now got a gallery of hardware-related pics from E3 Expo 2006 LA

StarForce + Windows XP
StarForce Technologies, a leading provider of copy-protection solutions, today announces that its StarForce FrontLine Driver 4.0 has passed Microsoft’s “Designed for Windows XP” certification programme.

Windows Media Player 11 Beta Released
Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP offers you unmatched choice and flexibility for your digital media. You can easily manage your libraries of digital music, photos, and video on your computer; explore a new world of music through the integrated URGE music service; and connect with mobile devices so you can have your digital media collection wherever you want it. Requires Windows XP.

Skype 2.5 BETA
We’ve listened to your feedback and have made our new Skype 2.5 easier to install, get connected, use and pay for premium features like SkypeOut.



Tra-ta-tam... the winner of SOTW #50 is keno190, our gfx Admin! Hail !




Your feedback/ideas wanted on possible subscription packages
The site will remain free for everyone!!! We are thinking of launching subscriber packages (well they are launched, but i've not advertised them at all), you can find the options here

GameReplays.org special subscriptions
GameReplays is proud to now officially launch special member subscription packages for its members, using Paypal.
Firstly let me assure everyone that the site WILL REMAIN 100% FREE FOR ALL. These subscription packages are designed to give people who help the site financially have a few extra features which currently no one has. In other words, if you can't or do not subscribe you will notice no difference at all. I've made this as clear as I can - the subscriptions are an OPTION, not compulsory!
Phew - now that's out the way, lets talk about what they are. There are 3 levels of subscription: Bronze, Silver and Gold which cost $5, $10 and $20 per month respectively.


Remembering C&C 1-5
Remembering C&C is a series started by our very own Joseph Silver, taking us back to the old C&C games and exploring their features and units. Pictures included! This is a great way to immerse yourself in the C&C realm in preperation for C&C3! The current 5 (more to come) are as follows:

Rush for Berlin, MP DEMO
Paradox Interactive and Stormregion announced today the release of the multiplayer demo for "Rush for Berlin" and the official tournament for the game.

GFX Lecture Lounge
For all those interested in Graphics and struggle understanding the jargon in the Signature tutorials around the web; there may be an event coming up that could solve your problems...
The GFX Staff Members are hosting a Graphics Chat using the TeamSpeak servers here at Gamereplays and are offering their assistance to those who struggle using Photoshop. If your looking to learn about the tools photoshop has to offer and struggle with a particular technique; the solution is just a few words away. The talk may also include a 'walk-thorugh' as the Graphics members design a sig and show you how they achieve these awesome effects

GameReplays.org special subscriptions
GameReplays is proud to now officially launch special member subscription packages for its members, using Paypal.
Firstly let me assure everyone that the site WILL REMAIN 100% FREE FOR ALL. These subscription packages are designed to give people who help the site financially have a few extra features which currently no one has. In other words, if you can't or do not subscribe you will notice no difference at all. I've made this as clear as I can - the subscriptions are an OPTION, not compulsory!
Phew - now that's out the way, lets talk about what they are. There are 3 levels of subscription: Bronze, Silver and Gold which cost $5, $10 and $20 per month respectively.

Rise Of Legends: Worldwide
Rise Of Legends was released today worldwide , this game has already proved itself with the two demos and a fortnight of retail action in the U.S.! Already yielding several Elite replays and many other great games this great new game from BHG has hit GameReplays.org strong in the last weeks, so do not miss the wagon, best to be there when a game is born!

Rush for Berlin - Allied Trailer
Paradox Interactive has released a new trailer focusing on the Allied portion of the campaign. The trailer shows off elements of the singleplayer storyline performed by the Gepard 3D engine. This is a nice Rush for Berlin trailer you will definately want to check out.







High Resolution Trailer
The High Resolution trailer which is recorded directly from the latest E3 event, features some spectacular footage and can be downloaded from Gamereplays now. This is one trailer you SupCom fans won't want to miss

Best Stategy Game #5
GameSpot is the fifth gaming website to award the Best Strategy Game to Supreme Commander, the site complementing the games battlefields and the camera which allows the user to view the whole map on the screen at one time



New Xbox 360 Trailer
A trailer for the upcoming Xbox 360 version of BFME2 is out. The one and a half minute trailer shows off the promised action and the outstanding graphics. EA shows their strength in a way almost never seen before.

BFME-2 Xbox 360 Screenshots
As the release of The Battle For Middle Earth II on Xbox360 quickly approaches more screenshots are being released around the web showing the amazing graphics the console version which is due to be released later this year.

Unit Stances/Formations Guide
One of our BFME2 Staff Members has created an in-depth guide evaluating the use of Unit stances in the Battle For Middle Earth II. For those who are unsure how to use unit stances or formations correctly this would be invaluable to you, learn to reep the benefits of using unit stances in the game.

BFME1 Maps Reloaded
[Wise]Rohara has painstakingly converted many of the official maps for BfME1, updating them and prepping them for BfME2 play, including Outposts which have been replaced with BFME2's capturable buildings and Added some new creeps here and there

Patch Update From EA Apoc
With news floating around the web about technical errors relating to online play it appears EA will be releasing Patch 1.04 in the next two weeks, This is only to solve some of the major Desyncs which occur in multiplayer. It looks like Patch 1.04 will resolve most of the technical issues, while changes relating to actual gameplay and balance issues will now be included in Patch 1.05.

MoTW vs. Isengard Strategy Guide Released
Smikies, one of our Men of the West Strategy Moderators, has created a guide detailing the Men of the West vs Isengard matchup. He has included many details regarding Build Orders, Units and their Uses, How To Counter the Warg Rush, and much more!

BFME-2 Xbox360 EU Release Date
As PALGN, Australian website, reported, the release date of the Xbox360 version deferred for an earlier date: from 5th July to 16th June. Don`t forget: you can preodering this game via Amazon from a special GR`s box


E3 TeamXbox Awards
As this year's E3 event finishes many community sites and companies have been presenting awards to various gaming titles. This time Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle Earth II wins the Best Strategy Game award from TeamXbox; for the console version of this epic title.



Legacy of War SSD Mod
The new Legacy of War mod adds the Super Star Destroyer (Executor or Vaders Flagship) to the galaxy. The SSD is only 3-4 times the size of an Imperial Star Destroyer as it's true size would have made it too big for any map. Please note this mod isnot intended to balance the game, it is merely for your enjoyment

Developer Chat
With the earlier announcement of the Developer Chat one of our staff members, xDAKx, attended the chat representing EAW.org. The developers answered many questiosn regarding the Forces of Corruption Expansion pack, so if your an EaW fan, dont miss out and read what the developers had to say

Frank Klepacki's Birthday
Frank Klepacki, the composer and audio guru of Empire At War (and also a lot of other RTS classics like the Command & Conquer series and Dune) turned 32 this week! Lots of luck Frank and have fun today!

A Message From the EaW Team
With the recent release of patch 1.04 there is bound to be some techncal issues in the first opening days of the patch and it seems the developers have discovered an issue and are hoping to resolve it as soon as possible.

Live Developer Chat
Well it appears those developers at LucasArts and Petroglyph have been listening to our questions and have decided to host a LIVE Developer Chat on Thursday 25th May 2006, at 15:00 PST.




Patch 1.1 Annoncement
With the recent release of Patch 1 it is suprising to see the announcement of patch 1.1 so early. This is another minor patch relating to some balance changes so nothing too extreme to change the game. The patch is either released already or going to be released later today.

Games Revolution Review
Perhaps the last review of Rise of Legends this week considering the recent bombardment of reviews from community sites across the globe, a site called Games Revolution published a review giving Rise of Legends a perculiar rating, of a grade 'B'. Read on for more details

Worth Playing Review
As Rise of Legends spreads across the world into the waiting arms of many fans another site has reviewed the epic RTS title. Next Level Gaming who awarded the game an 8.1/10 were impressed by the unique scenery of Rise of Legends.

Next Level Gaming Review
Seems Rise Of Legends is becoming more popular amongst the community sites as another review is published, this time by Next Level Gaming who complemented the games graphics, controls and gameplay.

Balance Discussion
Its to early to determine any imbalance within the game since it normally takes months to reach any conclusion or/and a new patch, but it would be nice to hear your opinion about balance, in particular between Vinci and Alin factions. Take part in this Balance discussion now

Amped IGO Review
Well it seems the community sites dotted around the web continue their review bombardment of Rise of Legends. Yet another review has been published, this time on Amped IGO which have given Rise of Legends a rating of 7.8/10.

Big Huge Interview
On Thursday 25th May 19:00 EST a site called TsN Central will be hosting a LIVE audio interview with four members of the BHG Development Team. The interview will last about one hour and will be followed by TVsN coverage of an exhibition match by two of the best players in the game. Lybydose will be taking on GR.org's very own Ayestes!

JustPressPlay Review
Another review has just been published by JustPressPlay, this time Rise of Legends receives an impressive rating of 9.1. The site praised all aspects of Rise of Legends and complemented the unique environment which Rise of Legends is set in.

Games Radar Review
Rise of Legends the RTS title which gives a whole new meaning to creativity reaches the arms of many worldwide fans today and what better way than to celebrate the WorldWide launch than publishing another review which can join the ever increasing armada of Rise of Legends publicity.

Gamespy Review Rise of Legends
The latest review from Gamespy, who have praised Rise of Legends multiplayer functionality as being "elegant, beautiful and quirky". Although receiving great comments about it's multiplayer mode, the game did face a deal of criticism in other departments scoring an average rating of 3.5 stars.

First Patch is Live
Big Huge Games has released the first patch for Rise of Legends! The patch fixed some bug issues as well as balance changes. Only a small patch but it does prove BHG are willing to support this game, good to see their trying to improve multiplayer

Second ROTW
A great Vinci mirror once more, this time it's Diuzer/Bouzip(Vinci) vs. Silent^1(Vinci)
Some nice moves to learn in this replay and an enjoyable watch. So if your a Rise of Legends fan and enjoy replays watch his epic match and you might just learn a trick or two




New Release: Navy Mod v2.0
The new version(2.0) of the Navy Mod created by Salfisi has been released for Act of War: High Treason. Some of the additions include improved AI which now uses both land and air transports and the general behaviour of the AI has undergone some work[/url]

ES talking about the Cover Mode Change
[i]Many people, including myself, have been surprised and annoyed about the fix of cover mode to units in the game after 1.07. ES cleared a few things up and answered some questions in a post on AgeCommunity. ES Thunder and ES matty talk about it (matty's post is two posts down) here.

Season 2 Mid Season Report
[MMC] guile, writer of the Season 2 preview, provides us with yet another great insight of RTSL. As each league reaches the middle of the season (45 games uploaded), guile will update the report with each league. At the moment he has done leagues 4, 6 and 10. guile includes all the key battles, upsets and standings. The other leagues will come in a few days.[/i]

Warrior Patch Tournament Registration
ES's Warrior's Path Tournament sign-ups have begun and everyone over 18 and living in the US can participate! Full details on the competition have been put up on AgeCommunity and available for all who wish to read.

Legion ClanWars Update
A reminder and a note to all those that do not know, The Legion Clan tourney is still in it's early stages but replays from expert players are being posted every day. There are replays from teams such as Ourk / Vekkou, cheapapapa / 凸o_O凸, and NanoX / mRcheese. So if you want to see some great team strategies, check this area of The LClan site out!

Post-E3 Bruce Shelly
Bruce Shelley updated his developers blog with his thoughts on E3 as well as wrapping up some information about the Sioux civilisation in the expansion pack. He generally confirms that there will be a rushing civ and goes on to say that that is what they're only going to be good at

Patch 1.07 Released
Patch 1.07 is now available through the in-game auto updater or from the AgeCommunity game updates page. Click "Help and Tools" then click "Update Game" to get the latest version. This patch adds the new random map The Unknown, new functionality for the ESO Friends List, as well as other bug fixes.

Server Downtime for Patch 1.07
It appears those Age of Empires fans will have to wait a moment longer, as AgeCommunity is experienceing some server downtimes.








New Zero Hour Shoutcast
Woobi, a member here at Gamereplays has made another shoutcast for Zero Hour, the 32nd Zero Hour Shoutcast to be exact. It's a toxin mirror between 'xG and [Ca$H] which is also the current Replay of the Week!

Neil Young about Westwood
Sometimes, reading an interview with "a big boss" is useful: as you remember, we wrote about the interview with Neil Young, Vice President and General Manager of EALA. And now some more interesting words about DreamWorks and Westwood.

Rohan Replay Centre
Our very own Jobbies (Senior Replay Reviewer) has created a pinned topic for Rohan Replays. This is for Rohan players who wish to improve their gameplay and learn from their mistakes. This is not for posting replays of games that you won or completley destroyed the other player, but for help with your strategies.

EA Responds to the Win-Loss Bug
As most of you who browse the Battle For Middle Eath General Discussion will know, there is a rather hefty topic concerning a win-loss bug which has been experienced by numerous players online. Anyway EA Apoc noticed your thread and responded. It is reassuring to know EA are trying to resolve this issue, when a possibe patch may be released is unknown

BFME Weekly ClanWars Update
The final week is here with EAGLE still in top with a pretty comfortabl gaap down to 2nd placed clan DivA|. But it’s a close call between 3rd and 10th spot, and outside top 10 we find many strong clans that will fight hard to get up among the best. In the warrior standings, Fr0zen is leading with an impressive win percent of 90%. DivA| is well represented with 3 players in top 10 through Smikies, Fait^ and Daishik||r. fishiii make sure EAGLE is also up there as always.

Worldbuilder Forums
One of the ways to keep a game alive is the production of new maps. As you already know all games with the sage engine (C&C, ZH, BFME and BFME2) have an inbuilt map editor. For questions, tutorials and reviews you can visit our Worldbuilder forums. We also require some fresh blood in the staff ranks, so if your interested in becoming a map reviewer or any other type map/mod related job you can ask [WISE]Rohara to join the staff.



FEAR 1.05 Patch
The 1.05 patch for FEAR was just released and features two new modes. All hail games that provide free multi content! The patch features two new modes, Control Mode where two trams compete for three control points and Capture All Mode, where two teams compete for the control of fice control points.

BF2 Community Update
An announcement was made to all Soldiers and server admins on the BF2 Home Page regarding issues plaguing the server browser after the 1.3 update. The teams down at Dice and EA believe that a last minute update in the way the Battlefield servers and Gamespy servers communicate may be the cause.

Half Life 2: Episodes Update
With the recet annoncement of Half Life 2: Episode One gone 'gold', it was not long until those developers decided they would excite us all with the confirmation of Episode Two and Three. Episode two which can be expected toward the end of 2006 and episode three by christmas 2007.

Source Engine Update
The source engine has received an enormous update this week. The updates include alterations to the Graphics, User Interface and Sound engines. Not only has the enig received an update, but many bugs have been fixed in each 'category'

Half Life Episode 1 June 1st
That's right! Half Life: Episodes have gone gold!! All episodes should be released by Christmas 2007. Episode One is the first of the trilogy, with episodes two and three following up either later in the year or sometime in 2007.

Battlefield 2 v1.3 Patch Released
Patch 1.3 has now been released and is available for immediate download. The release of this patch is in line with our ongoing effort to make the game as enjoyable as possible, releasing quicker fixes addressing some of the things that you want to see changed.

A Look at the Origins of FPS
Negotiate has given us a look into the first FPS games with his article titled First Person Shooter Genre, The history inside. This is an interesting read and recommended to all FPS fans out there




OMEGA Drivers 6.5
A site called OmegaDrivers.net has publised some information regarding whats new in OMEGA Drivers. It appears these new drivers are based on the Catalyst 6.5 Official drivers. Some resolutions were not showing for some reason so this new driver has new coding which seems to have solved this problem providing you have the the proper Monitor INF installed

ATI and nVIDIA without DX 10
Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest maker of software, will not release next-generation graphics application programming interface (API) called DirectX 10 for the currently shipping Windows XP operating system (OS), instead, the company will keep the new API strictly for the forthcoming Windows Vista OS, despite earlier assumptions about DirectX 10 for the XP.

"PhysX" physics processor
One of our Tech Mods, Subroutine has provided us with links to infomration regarding the 'PhysX' processor. For more information regarding this new piece of hardware view the links provided in the topic



SOTW 51 Results
This week an established GFX artist called Blehhhhhhhhhhh won the SOTW, the theme was 'Pattern' and she won by a minor TWO votes (44 votes total) with Loke coming in a close second with 42 votes. A very close competition this week.

CNC Wallpaper Competition
As the title suggest, gr.org will hold a CNC themed wallpaper competition with cash prizes...
50 USD at stake here!



Gamereplays Review Section Open
The GameReplays review section has now opened. Currently the review databse is in a growing state, and will be filled with products that the GameReplays community have interest in. In the meantime, enjoy the reviews, and let them persuade you into purchasing some great products from the following: Razer, Guitammer, Deck Keyboards, and Paradox Interactive.

CNC Wallpaper Competition
As the title suggest, gr.org will hold a CNC themed wallpaper competition with cash prizes...
50 USD at stake here!

RoL Auto-Parsing
We're glad to announce that replays for Rise of Legends are parsed automatically from now on.
You don't have to fill out the form with info on the matchup etc anymore - armies, players, teams and maps will be retrieved automatically from the replay

Petroglyph Podcast 1: Frank Klepacki
Sageking of Petroglyph has done a podcast with our maestro Frank Klepacki!
For those of you who are missing an important part of game and RTS history: Frank Klepacki is the composer of the original Command and Conquer series and is currently Audio director for Petroglyph, responsible for every single piece of audio and music present in Empire at War!

Eric Gooch Interview
One of our members, Ferrum managed to interview Eric Gooch who worked on the Command and Conquer series when Westwood still existed. The interview is rather interesting with the main talking point being his history in RTS development. Here is an extract from the review...




GameSpot: History of...
Gamespot have released the history of the United Earth Federation or UEF as it's commonly referred to. The article is a MUST for all Supreme Commander fans out there, an interesting read which contains some new and exciting details for the upcomig RTS game

SupCom Game Preview
As Supreme Commander (SupCom) progresses further through it's development stages, more news spreads around the web about the possible units and features the game will have. The lates is a preview from PC Games, who have published a small article explaining some 'features' of SupCom. They seemed rather impressed with the user interface in this game


Dwarves vs Elves Guide Released
Our Dwarven Strategy Moderator, IDKwhoiam has released his first Master Guide which goes into great detail regarding the matchup Dwarves vs Elves. The guide contains numerous strategies ranging from the successful Guardian Rush to the risky Axethrower Rush.

Weekly Shoutcast Update
One week from our last Shoutcast update, i am proud to announce that our Shoutcast Moderators have been busy yet again and produced some new shoutcasts for you BFME2 fans. This week TWO shoutcasts have been added to our growing collection. Visit the Shoutcast Forums for more information

Apocs Community World Tour
Apoc, our community manager, has created a profile on a site called Frappr and wants all of you to join. The point of this site is to get to know where people are from. It is designed in a way that it uses google earth to view all around the world. Just place a marker around where you live and then people will know where your from.

Multiversion
Ever felt like watching your or any other old 1.02 replays again? Before today it was near impossible to do, but now your able to fully enjoy them again! Our SRR, tda along with another member have designed a mtliversion so you can all enjoy the games which use 'old patches' without having any negative effects on the game!!

New Louis Castle Interview
Our one and only favorite community manager, Apoc has had an interview with Louis Castle (VP of Creative Development at EA LA) about the upcoming version of BFME2 for Xbox-360. In this interview, they talked about E3, controlling Xbox-360 BFME2, reviews from the critics, and Multiplayer modes/options. This interview will erase any doubts that you have against the console version.


Forces of Corruption Interview
A site called 2404.org has published a Forces of Corruption Interview with David Silverstein, Assistant Producer of Star Wars Empire At War. The interview focuses on what features we can expect in the upcoming expansion and proves useful if your looking for more information regarding this game.

Fun Stuff!
The Community Manager for Empire At War. who goes by the name Sageking has created a map on Frappr where all EaW fans can post there locations, choosing from a selection of iconsfor what factions you play. Purely for fun!!

Petroglyph Podcast
The guys down at Petroglyph have released their FIRST podcast which features Frank Klepacki. Frank composed, the ever popular music for the Command And Conquer universe (except Generals) and is currently audio director for Empire At War and any other future Petroglyph projects.



The Big Huge Compendium of Early Game Starts
Mems and other members like Skynny, Bridger, Lybydose, WDI are working together to creat a early game Build Order Guide for all three factions. Join the discussion now and contribute to this huge project by posting your build order for any of the three factions

RoL Mentor/Mentee system
For those fans of BFME on gamereplays you may remember the mentor system that the site was running, offering assistance to those gamers in need. Well it appears Rise of Legends is hoping to do the same, so if your interested begin posting in the discussion topic now

Cuotl in Detail!
Our member Heavens has posted four files - tables that explain in detail every statistics and aspect of every Cuotl unit, heroes, techs and districts. Knowing the statistical information of a game can prove very useful when considering possible counters they are invaluable. Head on down to the Coutl Strategy Forums to read this useful guide

Rise of Legends 8th in US PC Sales
GameSpot have released the latest US PC game sales and, dropping down the list from the last chart, Rise of Legends has come in at 8th position. This isreassuring news and hopefully the Rise of Legends community will continue to grow in the future

Good News!
A patch is on its way, and is currently in testing. I'm happy to say that all signs point to it being released relatively soon, and it should fix a larger number of issues folks are experiencing with quickmatch and multiplayer config issues.

TroubleShooting RoL Docment
This Q&A is designed to answer many common technical questions about Rise of Legends; The document will be updated with new questions and answers as appropriate. Hopefully the document will receive additional help to fix more and more machine-specific problems in patches

RoL Auto-Parsing
We're glad to announce that replays for Rise of Legends are parsed automatically from now on. You don't have to fill out the form with info on the matchup etc anymore - armies, players, teams and maps will be retrieved automatically

Skynny Alin BO´s
Our Alin Strategy Moderator, Skynny posted a few Alin BO´s along with some replays to support his theory. This should prove invaluable to you Alin players who may require some reliable build orders for muitlplayer

New Guides!
Three new guides have been released this week, one for each RoL faction. All of the guides cover some information on Concept Description, Technology Tracks, Heroes, Units and Buildings. A must read for any RoL fans out there!!



ClanBase 2v2 Ladder opens
Great news for all you clan-based team players out there, [nex]Black Adder, ClanBase AoE3 Game Supervisor has announced the opening of its 2v2 ladder. Here's all the details:

ESO Server Maintenance 06.07
A friendly note to you all that the ESO servers will be down for 15 minutes at 2PM GMT. So make sure you aren't playing a game during that time because if it doesn't finish before the maintenance then the win, loss, and exp won't count!

New Skwizz Ladder Features
The already great Skwizz Clan Ladders, have been updated with some very cool new features and changes. You can now see the live ESO population, how many games are being played at the moment, and how many advanced and Quick Search games are being hosted.

Fastest Population Update
As a reminder to everyone who hasn't heard about it already, the $300 Fastest Population Challenge is still alive and kicking and entries are coming in fast. The fastest time to reach 200 population is currently Black Ice Spain with 10:09, followed by LinkoN with 10:11. Entries close on June 14th so get populating!

The War Chiefs - Iroquois
IGN presents a new civilization from Age of Empires 3: The WarChiefs - the Iroquois:
"The Iroquois, a native American civilization centered in what is today upstate New York, were a confederation of several tribes that controlled a vast expanse of territory by the time the Europeans arrived on the shores of New England

Age of Empires 3 10th in US PC Sales
GameSpot have released the latest US PC game sales, and even after 7 months of life, Age of Empires 3 continues to stay in the charts, this month featuring at spot number 10.

New Skwizz PR & ELO Signatures
SkWizZ Clan have created some great new rating signatures with over 100 different designs. They also have the features to show if you're online or offline, your Power Rating and ELO rating, as well as your clan rank!
SkWizZ Clan is proud to present you their new signatures with the Power Rating, the ESO status (online or offline), your favorite civilization for the last 10 games, and a lot of statistics! We also have more than 100 designs (backgroungs) so you will probably found a nice design for your signature.

ZBoard sponsored RTSL 2v2 Tournament
In sponsorship with ZBoard, RTSL are having a friendly 2vs2 tournament where some funky new ZBoard keyboards are up for grabs, more information will be released soon.
ZBoard has sent us 3 of their newly released MERC Gaming Keyboards to offer as prizes in a special RTSL Event. While full details of this tournament are not being released at the present moment, we would like to give participating clans sufficient notice of a few key details:



Clanwars Results May - BFME
The May tournament came to an end during mid week, and what a thriller It was. Three clans made it an epic battle right in to the very final hour. In the end, P2B managed to defend there title with there top player MuM playing an important part with some great wins in the final hours.
But it was a very close call between top three, and it could easily go the other way. Beer got 2nd place and {EWM} managed to get a medal thru 3rd spot. ELDER| entered the competition very late, but managed to grab an impressive 4th spot witch is a great performance for them. Top 5 is complete with MUD in 5th spot. This is the final standings for May:

BFME World Cup Draw
The BFME World Cup Tournament draw has been published. The board is set, the pieces are moving.
Every player has been assigned a Fifa World Cup country (except for the US Timezone because we ran out of US teams in the competition and just had to use local country names to make up the shortfall) so you can also see if you can get your country further through the competition than your football team.

BFME World Cup Tournament Has Begun
The BFME World Cup Tournament threads are now unlocked and waiting for your tournament replays. The BFME World Cup leagues phase will be open as long as the FIFA World Cup group phase. After that we will start the knockout phase of the BFME tournament with the group phase winners.

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ZH 2v2 Tournament Results
We had a really fun + competitive tournament today, thanks to everyone who participated! The Finals came down between `xG (General and Spell) and -UrGh| (Smeagol and Triky). It was a close final round, but `xG pulled out the victory with a 2-1 win over -UrGh|.

Eric Gooch Interview
One of our members, Ferrum managed to interview Eric Gooch who worked on the Command and Conquer series when Westwood still existed. The interview is rather interesting with the main talking point being his history in RTS development.


Steam Roundup
There has been much Steam update activity this week, so I decided to just combine all the updates into one post.

BF2142 Demo will come!
As BF2142.com reported, EA have a plan for releasing Demo-version of Battlefield-2142.

BF2: Armoured Fury Now Available
BF2: Armored Fury is now available for download for NA residents.



Crysis Game Engine
Only a small announcement but it appears the Crysis Game Engine is going to be for the new Windows Vista. The graphics look impressive which implies is going to take a decent system to run them. Read on for more details and a screenshot



SOTW 53Results
This week the theme was Prince of Persia and we received many entries from GFX artists of different skill levels. The competition was really interesting but Trice, a member of our staff clenched the title with a massive landslide victory of 47 votes with Folkon trailing in at second place with 16 votes. Here is an image of the winning signature...




Rise of Legends RR's wanted!!
Want to be a Replay Reviewer? Read this to learn more about what to do. GameReplays is open to applicants, so if you'd like to become part of our Staff team, this is a great opportunity.

We think that both news, EaW Map contest and BFME2 Replay competition, are the main news of this week. So, we consolidate two section: News of The Week and Site news. Congratulate BFME2 Replay competition winners and Good luck with new great EaW Map Contest! Hope you appreciateNP team work at its true value. Enjoy our news!



Official EAW Map Contest Launched!
I proudly present to you the first Petroglyph Official Empire At War Mapmaking Contest!
This map contest, sponsored by Nvidia and Creative with AWESOME prizes, is all about YOU creating cool maps for Empire At War. Be sure to read the official guidelines and rules before sending in your map!
You should post your map in the correct forum (there are space and land hubs) and don't forget to create a poll so that other fans can vote for your map!

BFME2 Replay Competition
Gamereplays has officially released the results of the BFME2 replay competition!! Over 150 replays in the replay competition section have been reviewed. Out of those we had 15 of the highest rated reps closely watched and re- reviewed by all our staff members again to make a vote for the winner replay. Congratulations to [LNL]FreeZZinG and PoW|Ch3m1c4l who both participated in the winning replay



GDI or NOD ! Choice the side or you will lose
Enough talk about the game for a moment at least in this thread, we want to know who your allegience is to...GDI or Nod? And tell us why. Death to Nod, KANE can burn in his own ashes, GDI forever!!!! APOC always sides with the good guys. So, let the war begin, are YOU GDI or are YOU Nod?

EA Apoc at CnC3 Forum
This is just a general alert that I will start populating these ever popular forums as best I can. You can always find me at our official C&C 3 forums, Planet C&C forums, and now here.

MCV System - Official word from APOC
There is a huge clash about the MCV system in which those who love single player and the "old style" of C&C LOVE the MCV system. Meaning, you can't have C&C without the MCV, bottom line.
Those who dislike the MCV system lore over games like Warcraft, Starcraft, BFME, and most importantly Zero Hour style of play, because that is the new wave, the new age of RTS, a style that has proven over and over is what the hardcore multiplayer RTS community wants.

Remembering CNC #8
Next awesome article from our Joseph Silver - new worl called Aircraft



New UEF Characters
As some might have noticed its UEF - Month this month so this week we have two new UEF characters revealed: President C. Allen Riley II, & EarthCom Commander-in-Chief and General Samantha Clarke, highest ranked General in the UEF


Rate Ea on BFME2
EALA has released a new survey featured on zboard.com asking you to Rank how good they have done with BFME2. It is only a quick survey and you get a chance to voice your opinion.

BFME2 1v1 World Tournament
With the BFMET 2v2 tournament finals being held this weekend. It is time to announce the next huge BFME2 tournament. So BTT would like to announce the BFME2 1v1 World Tournament. This tournament will be open to as many players that want to sign-up. Prizes will range from high-end graphic cards to custom gaming Mice and keyboards.

Xbox 360 Community event teaser
Now that we can partially loosen our elven cloaks of secrecy, here's a group of us in the hotel lobby.

Mordor vs Men of the West Guide Released
BTMKroqGarr, our new Mordor Strategy Moderator, has released his first strategy guide for Mordor. The guide covers the matchup between Mordor and the Men of the West, from Mordor's perspective. BTM goes in-depth on how specifically each unit should be used, power point choice, and includes Build Orders and tips on specific tactics and micromanagement.

New Replay Utility
One of our new members fonger has created a wonderful utility that erases the hastle of copying a replay into the BFME2 replay folder. All you have to do is extract the program from the .zip file and then place it in a "conveniant" location. After that, just click on a replay and instead of clicking save as, click open (then choose the program to open it with). The replay will automatically be saved in the replay folder.

Weekly ClanWars Update
As the ClanWars league continues for the Battle For Middle Earth II things start to become more competitive as a number of clans try to grasp the June ClanWars title. Currently leading is DivA| with [OoE] in second place. Following closely behind in third is Helix| who are only 40 points behind the runners-up. Here are the Clan standings...

Interview with BleeDer
The number 1 warrior on CW.cc, at the time being, BleeDer has been in the community since the early stages of bfme1. KlunG^ has got a chance to interview him and ask how he became a sucsessful cw player, and discuss issues related to BFME2 and Clanwars:

Bfme2 replay competition results
Gr.org is proud to announce that the staffmembers have found a winner of the replay competition.
Over 150 replays in the replay competition section have been reviewed. Out of those we had 15 of the highest rated reps closely watched and re- reviewed by all our staff members again to make a vote for the winner replay.

Two New Men of the West Guides
Our Men of the West Strategy Moderator, merc_vices, has been hard at work creating new and exciting guides for Men of the West players.
His first guide deals with something you might have heard of called Clumping. The guide uses images very well, and goes into detail how to use Clumping to your advantage and how to counter it



Official Map Contest Launched
I proudly present to you the first Petroglyph Official Empire At War Mapmaking Contest!
This map contest, sponsored by Nvidia and Creative with AWESOME prizes, is all about YOU creating cool maps for Empire At War. Be sure to read the official guidelines and rules before sending in your map!
You should post your map in the correct forum (there are space and land hubs) and don't forget to create a poll so that other fans can vote for your map!

3D Studio Max 7/8 Plugin
Word from Sageking, the Petroglyph community manager about the 3DS Max plugin: 'As requested by the community- 3DS MAX 7&8 PLUGIN has been RELEASED!

Creating and Editing Maps
A new guide has just been released which explains how to create and edit Galactic Conquest maps for Star Wars: Empire At War. It will prove invaluable to those who hope to explore map creation or simply alter your favourite map.

New video!
There's a new EAW video out. It explains some of the stuff that's going on with orbital bombardment and the first look at moving stuff in your base around. It's a big file, but still cool! Check it out!


Patch 1.5 Released
Patch 1.5 has been released with quite a lot of fixes and changes to connection problems people have been experiencing, more balance changes and a brand new map! It is available through the in-game online updater. So you just need to log in to the multiplayer area and it will download it automatically.

Mastersleague has Begun
As announced in the Gamereplays forums earlier this week the 1 v 1 Rise of Legends Tournament on Mastersleague has officially closed the registration process which means the next stage of the tournament may commense

Tales of Legends: New Players Series
The guys down at TsN Central have released some videos which are extremely beneficial to a new gamer hoping to increase their understanding of Rise of Legends. TsN|Bridger who is heading the project; has announced TWO volumes of the New Player Series which can be viewed at TsN Central...

Rise of Legends Review
Just when we thought there could be no more reviews having had nearly 30 reviews published another one has just been published. This time a site called eurogamer has reviewed the new RTS giving it an impressive score of 8/10

Brian Reynolds Promoted
As we all know Brian Reynolds is the president of Big Huge Games, the company thought has brought us notable titles like Rise of Legends. It appears he continues his career in the gaming world and has been appointed President of the IGDA (International Game Developers Assosiation). Here is what he had to say on the promotion....

Weekly ClanWars Update
As the month of ClanWars continues for Rise of Legends, the tournament begins to become more competitive with players eyes on that prize money offered by Big Huge Games for the opening month. This month BhU lead the Clan Rankings with 466pts followed by Grunts who have 215pts. Not a massive difference between these two clans and many of clans still have a chance to reach the top five. The Clan Rankings: 1 BhU 466 pts.; 2 Grunts 215 pts.; 3 SoaF 202 pts.; 4 KRG 156 pts.; 5 WH 126 pts.

Review: Computer Games Romania
Romanian gaming website present review for Rise of Legends and mark some (for me) truthful points. Total raiting: 85 / 100



Signup for ESL
Skillz posted a guide on registering for ESL in the general discussion forum. Make sure you pay it a visit and signup, things only take around 5-7 minutes as long as you follow the simple and clear directions.. ESL is the best online league for AoW:HT at the moment and is a great way to find an opponent. So pay the forums a visit. The pros have said, mainly Kingmak3r, he wants to see more of the American market on.



Observer Mode Maps Released
All Standard ES Maps set up as 1v1 with Observer Mode. Non-rated. Comes with the option to select Random All or Standard Observer Maps!

Warrior's Path Tournament Bracket
AgeCommunity have posted the brackets so far for the Warriors Path Tournament. Right now ES are expecting a few no shows so it is a confirmation to see how many players who've entered are dedicated to this tourney, they've also set upa forum for the tourney so people can ask questions. The battle for the 4 Beta testing spots of the WarChiefs is about to start!

New World Tournament Brackets
The $1000 New World Tournament Brackets have been posted on AoE3 Heaven and the first games kicks off tommorrow on June the 18th, and all of the first round games are to be played on New England. This tournaments brackets are seeded which means that all the top players have been seperated rather than just a random pick.

[Nations Cup] Custom Map: Green Valley
Green Valley is the first of several custom-designed maps for the Age3 Nations Cup. Over the weeks ahead, we will be releasing these maps to the public, in anticipation of their use in the Nations Cup.

List of Warriors Path Players
ES Thunder has posted the full list of the players who will be playing in the Age of Empires 3 Warriors Path Tournament coming up. While there weren't as many players as people were expecting to enter, there are some fantastic players in the list so this looks to be a great tourney.

More ES Job Openings
EnsembleStudios have updated their staff opening page with more opportunities to join their team, they are obviously moving into other types of games, they are looking for people such as Senior MMO Environment Artists and X-Box Live Developers.

AoE and AoK now on GameSpy
Great news from Ensemble Studios, who have announced that they are teaming up with GameSpy to provide matchmaking services for Age of Empires, Age of Empires: Rise of Rome, Age of Empires II and Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

AoE3 Stats Tool Version 1.02
The vastly popular Aoe3 Stats Tool which shows your last 10 games (or all of this weeks games) and a lot of other great features has been updated to Version 1.02 with many new features such as no need for case sensitivity and deathmatch support

AoE3 Boardgame Artwork
The marketing director of EagleGames has posted some amazingly detailed artwork of images that will come in the manual and on the board of the Age of Empires III Boardgame drawn by Paul E. Niemeyer

Warriors Path Tournament Deadline
AgeCommunity have posted a reminder to everyone about the Warrior's Path Tournament Deadline for signing up which is 11:59am PT on June 12 so if you're over 18 and you come from the US, sign up for a chance to playtest Age of Empires 3: The War Chiefs, which would be an amazing opportunity.

1000 New World Tournament
HeavenGames are hosting a new Age of Empires 3 tournament with $1000 up for grabs! The tournament is looking to be a big success with at least 256 people entering. The winner will recieve 75% of the $1000 and so the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th all get a substantial amount for their achievements.



New information about hero and unit
New hero Stina Holmlund - Stina was born on May 5th 1972 in Stockholm, the daughter of Danish diplomat Björn Holmlund and Swedish politician Anne Holmlund, née Andersson. Her mother is a member of the Swedish Green Party and passes a strong love of the beauty of nature on to her daughter.
Eusmilus riders - Produced on Medium dino farms...

Interview with developers - Thomas Langhanki
Strategy Informer: Do you think it's likely we'll see some changes to the current release date?
Thomas Langhanki: No, we’re on track for a release in early September and based on the feedback we received so far I’d say there’s no need change anything about the launch



1v1 Tournament 17th June
A great success in this weeks tourny, a very active and fun tourny was hosted by [Thf]Apollo- and we had 27 sign ups this week and it was really good turn out producing some tight and excellent replays!! I like to thank everyone who took part in the tourny and will hope to you see guys for another tourny next week!! Congrats to the winner, incredible, and to extreme who helped me host the tourny as his trial run for the next tourny mod.

CnC Pwned
Pure accident, I found this interesting movie - CnC Pwned at the german ZH fansite Generals.at. What about this trailer: Chinook + rocket rush, humvee-spam, etc, etc ...

1v1 Tournament 17th June 18:00GMT
This week iam going to let it be not a random tournament so you can choose whatever army you want! Its a single knockout tourny, you lose in the group stages your out !!
The final will be best of three games, only one condition in the final will be that you can NOT play the same army more than once. For example, if you play the first game as AIR you can NOT play the second game as AIR and you must choose another faction.
We meet in the OAO ( Original Armys Only ) lobby at 17:50GMT, ill close the sign ups at 18:00GMT and ill open the standings at 18:10GMT.
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Tournament Mod
We are looking for a new Tournament Moderator. Ideally, you should be able to host a tournament once per week, usually during the weekend. It will take about 2-4 hours from the start to the end of the tournament. Send a PM to Jobbies And tell him why you would like to be the Tournament mod. Good luck to all who apply!

BFME Movie
Cherry, our member, informing us about his movie from BFME: "Hi Guys, now I wanna present to you my video which narrate the game between me (Gondor) and other Isengard guy. The video is 2 months old. I am not anymore in CF, but I hope you, guys, have fun. If you want, you can also write comments to the german fanpage of BFMe."

Weekly Clanwars Update - BFME-1
Almost halfway into June and we find Beer in top spot closely followed by there rivals P2B.
ERA, a new one man clan is doing a good job in 3rd spot with mighty DivA in 4th, who managed a impressive 16 game win streak before finally losing. [Pr0^] completes top 5 with an amazing win percent of 93%. Clan Standings: 1 Beer 578 pts., 2 P2B 538 pts.; 3 ERA 493 pts.; 4 DivA| 462 pts.; 5 [Pr0^] 438 pts.
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CNCT Pimp Your Base Contest!
Big Time Tournaments is hosting a "Pimp Your Base Contest". All you have to do is make a base in any CnC game from Red Alert to Zero Hour to Generals and email it to Sledgehammer70 (BTT Administrator).

Post replays!
Hey guys, ss you can see the Replay Reviewers have reviewed all games in the 1v1 replay section and most games on the team section on page 1. Now we do have some problems and we hope you can help us out, there are not enough games posted to be reviewed. I'm sure you guys have more good replays which you want to see reviewed by our professional reviewers!
I also have a suggestion to make: We didn't have the chance to review all games in the past, due to a lack of staff members sometimes, and so some games were never reviewed.

Cash C&C Generals Tournament
On Sunday 18th June gaming-source will be hosting a 1v1 tournament.
This will be the first tournament that we host and we hope that it will be a succesfull one.
We try to make it more interesting for you guys by giving a $50 cash prize to the winner!
Plus, the replay which will be rated the highest will get $10 !

[Thf]Apollo-: What Apollo the God isn't
A wonderful interview of our very own Apollo- has been made by Chun-a-Lun.
The rising star of CCG and a rarity nowadays, this pro GLA player has been, considered to be one of the best players at the moment. Ladies and Gents, it is my please to introduce to you none other than Shaun "Apollo-" Clark.



Steam Message: DoD maps, "Detonation"
Some good news from Valve: they want releasing new maps for Day of Defeat: Source - Colmar and Jagd. They will be available after June 28

America`s Army 2.7
As GameDaily and GameSpy.com reported, new version of America`s Army will be available very soon - during July !

Community Update 6/16/06
The launch of Battlefield 2: Armored Fury has started off with great success, the maps have been great and the new scout choppers are introducing a whole new style of game play. Not surprisingly, there has been a lot of support and approval from the American community.

Half Life 2: Deathmatch Update Released
A long-awaited update has been released for HL2:DM that includes many "exploit" and "bug" fixes that players have been longing for.

Call of Duty 2 v1.3 Patch Released
A new patch has been made available for COD:2 that addresses some of the issues experienced by users of earlier versions.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Hands-on preview from IGN
June 15, 2006 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is one of those games that's going to have a lot to prove when it's finally released. In development before we wrote our first article on the game back in 2002, the game suffered delay after delay and had pretty much disappeared off of the radar until this year's E3, where THQ demonstrated, behind closed doors, what's been done with the game



Have the AMD CPU's reached the end of their life??
AMD recently confirmed that the X2 chips with 1MB L2 cache will reach the end of the line this year. AMD looks to produce chips with 512KB per core opposed to the current 1MB cache. This appears to be a further step toward consolidating the Athlon 64 and X2 lines

GameReplays GRAPHICS CARD review!
If you are planning on upgrading/buying a new graphics card and you can use Amazon (.com, .co.uk, .de, .ca) then please order via the links at the bottom of the GameReplays.org forums. We get 7% of the value of your order and you pay exactly the same as you would normally. Just click on the CORRECT link (e.g. .com, .co.uk, .de, .ca) and anything you buy in the next 24 hours will be monitored by Amazon and we'll get 7% which helps our server costs.

Crysis Game Engine
This engine is gonna be for games on Vista, look at this screenshot: where is real island ?


Who is the winner SOTW 54 ? Angra and his cool work. We can`t post image here becouse this is VERTICAL signature, but you can see it here. Congratz Angra !


Supreme Commander Requirements
An interesting discussion has begun in the Hardware and Software forums regarding the speculated requirements for Supreme Commander. The requirements have been debated in the General Discussion forums for some time but now its the turn of you technicl folk to guess the requirements. Have anything to add to the discussion??

$1000 Rise of Legends Tournament!!
Gamereplays is proud to announce a $1000 Rise of Legends tournament which is sponsored by developers, Big Huge Games. The prize money is broken up between the winner who will receive $600 and the other qualifiers who will each receive $100. Signup using the Gamereplays tournament site and have a chance to win this massive sum of money. For more details on dates please follow the provided link


$1000 Rise of Legends Tournament!!
Gamereplays is proud to announce a $1000 Rise of Legends tournament which is sponsored by developers, Big Huge Games. The prize money is broken up between the winner who will receive $600 and the other qualifiers who will each receive $100. Signup using the Gamereplays tournament site and have a chance to win this massive sum of money. For more details on dates please follow the provided link

Xbox 360 BFME2 Review, Seattle Summit Trip Debriefing
One of our Global Admins, Arctic Aurora recently attended the EA Seattle summit where numerous community representatives participated in a playtest for the upcoming console release of BFME2. For the details on the summit and other media available such as interviews, podcasts and picture galleries visit the Xbox 360 Community Summit Page

CnC3 for Xbox 360
In the latest podcast from Louis Castle he stated that we can expect Command and Conquer 3 to be released on, not only the PC but the Xbox 360. It seems EA is currently on a campaign to bring the RTS genre to the console, an achievement which has never been completed successfully. For more information download the podcast now


CnC3 for Xbox 360
In the latest podcast from Louis Castle he stated that we can expect Command and Conquer 3 to be released on, not only the PC but the Xbox 360. It seems EA is currently on a campaign to bring the RTS genre to the console, an achievement which has never been completed successfully. For more information download the podcast now






New Worldbuilder Tutorials
If your interested in designing maps for BFME2 you may want to check out the Worldbuilder forums here on Gamereplays. The section now has three in depth guides which guide you through the basics of mapmaking. If you have any questions that need answering simply post them in our Worldbuilder forums. Once completed submit your map for an official map review!

Apoc on Patch 1.05
EA Apoc has let some information slip regarding patch 1.05 on EA's official BFME2 message boards. Some of the known alterations is to the elite archer unit for MOTW, Rangers who are receiving quite a nerf. Every faction is receiving a rather large balance assessment so expect some major alterations in the future patch

BFME2 Mentor/Mentee Programme
After a similar programme was run for bfme which proved successful, we have decided to launch it for bfme 2. The goal of this project is to help 20 mentees who will each be assigned to a mentor to help them improve within the game. Register your interest now

Seattle Summit Trip Debriefing
Our Global Admin, Arctic Aurora has released his account of the latest EA summit which he attended. For all the goodies, check out the Xbox 360 Community Summit page, and browse the on-site content, as well as that from around the community. There's a lot of information out there and when you get everyones take on the event, you'll appreciate it a lot more.

Weekly Shoutcast Update
This week one of our members Madfred has produced his first TWO shoutcast updates which can be found in the BFME2 Shoutcasts forum. For those who want to watch an interesting and enjoyable game visit the Shoutast forum for more details

New Gamespot Article
Gamespot has released a new article pertaining to BFME2 Xbox-360. This article goes into depth about multiplayer and the forms of game play in it. To read this detailed article about the console version of this RTS visit Gamespot now

BFME2 tourney mod wanted
Gr.org is currently in need of a tourney mod for bfme2. The tourney mod is a person who hosts and runs the gr.org tourneys. The tourney mod needs to be a responsible and mature person with abit time on his hands at weekends Being well organised is also a good thing

New Mike Verdu Blog
Mike Verdu, executive producer of BFME2, has just released another blog entry on the Blogs page of the official BFME2 site, called "Patch 1.05 / MOD SDK Update". In it, he talks about future patches and new tools being released to help modders. Here is an excerpt:

BFME2 Xbox360 - First gameplay movie !
All who interested in BFME2 for Xbox 360 can download IGN Weekly Episode 13. At this movie you will find 6 minutes with Dan Adams (Editor-in-chief, PC IGN), Douglass C.Perry (Editor-in-chief, Xbox IGN) and, of course, presentation of gameplay, GUI (Graphical User Interface) and how this game controllable with help joystick

BTT Image of the Month Contest
Interested in winning a BFME2 Keyset from Zboard?
Head to BFMET for your chance. All you have to do is take a screenshot of an army. Any army. Any formations. Any powers being used. Anything. The only condition is that there is an army in the screenshot, and that army is fully upgraded.

Men of the West vs Dwarves Guide
One of our Strategy Moderators, Merc_vices has published a new guide detailing the matchup Men of the West vs Dwarves. The guide contains numerous build order recommendations, unit choices and possible tactics to employ when facing the enemy. If your struggling with the MOTW vs Dwarves matchup this is one guide you will not want to miss. Visit the Men of the West Strategy forums to view this enormous guide and post your thoughts/feedback.

Weekly Clan Wars Update
Things continue to heat up as the top clans fight for the beloved honor of being number 1. Currently [OoE] is on top with a large lead over Diva|. In third place he have Aak trying everything to get to the summit.



Happy Birthday Sageking!!
Thats right, Petroglyph's Community Manager who is known under the allias, Sageking, is celebrating his 23rd Birthday. Sageking takes time to read the comments and suggestions recommended on various community forums so take time to wish him a happy birthday

Petroglyph Podcast - Part II
The second installment of the podcast featuring Mike Legg, the President of Petroylgpyh has been released and is available to download. The podcast focuses on how Petroglyph plans to continue its influence upon the RTS genre and contains some advice for young 'gamers' who want to enter the industry

Designer Diary #1
Petroglyph have released, through Gamespot a Designers Diary which focuses on the Underworld faction which will be the third faction available in the upcoming expansion Forces of Corruption. If your looking to discover more information regarding the Underworld faction this article is higly recommended

Petroglyph Podcast - Mike Legg
The second podcast from petroglyph has been released and features the President of Petroglyph, Mike Legg. The podcast is massive and hence is being published in two sections. The first part talks about how he got started on his adventures of making his hobby of video game playing into a successful career. The second installment will be released on Wednesday where Mike will talk about how Petroglyph plans to continue its influence upon the RTS genre and his plans for Petroglyph's future.


$1000 Rise of Legends Tournament!!
Gaemreplays is proud to announce a $1000 Rise of Legends tournament which is sponsored by developers, Big Huge Games. The prize money is broken up between the winner who will receive $600 and the other qualifiers who will each receive $100. Signup using the Gamereplays tournament site and have a chance to win this massive sum of money. For more details on dates please follow the provided link

Replay Parser
One of our members, WDI who visits the Rise of Legends discussions has done some work with coding and produced a replay parser which will renames all *.rec files to display type of match, map name, and players name. This is an extremely useful tool to download if you have dozens of replay files on your computer and need to organise them. Read on for more details

Interview with Paul Stephanouk
A site called Gamers with Jobs recently published an interview with Paul Stephanouk, the Lead Dsigner of Rise of Legends. The interview focuses on the games development and launch campaign as well as discussing some known technical issues experienced by many RoL fans.

Replay of the Week
This weeks Replay of the Week award goes to Yae vs. Totakeke which was voted by staff members to be the most entertaining replay out of five contenders. Watch this game and theother contestants for an enjoyable and hopefully learning experience

Explorer's Atlas: Miana Station
Big Huge Games are proud to announce additional maps which all fall under the title, Rise of Legends: Explorer's Atlas. These updates are FREE and provide all Rise of Legends owners with some more maps. This week they have released the Miana Station map which appears to be a flat, desert terrain. Stay tuned for additional map releases

Weekly ClanWars Update
As the Rise of Legends tournament continues toward the end of the month BhU increase there lead in the Clan Rankings while WiN.iT, a representative for BhU hopes to add the Warrior title to the clans achievements. Read on for more information regarding the rankings for this weeks ClanWars games






Bruce Shelly Interview and Blog
Bruce Shelley, Age of Empires designer has answered some questions in an interview at FiringSquad about Age of Empires III, the RTS genre in general, and even future ES projects. So if your an AoE3 fan check out his blog and the interview for more interesting news!

[Nations Cup]Custom Map: Tower Nomad
Tower Nomad is the second of several custom-designed maps for the Age3 Nations Cup. They are releasing the maps in anticipatin of the actual competition so players may experiene the new maps and develop possible strategies for them

RIFF, Rusian Imprisoning Fast Fortress
Have you been looking for a Russian Fast Fortress? Fast Fortressing with Russia can be difficult. They have a slower start and need 270 food before they can make another batch of villagers. Plus, they do not have a villager card in Age I. Forumer poita uncovered a strategy that will allow you to get to the Fortress Age in under 8 minutes with three shipments waiting for you. Not being able to send villager cards is a set back, so what do you do? Well just do not send a card in Age I, or Age II for that matter. That’s right, you do not even need the 700 coin card and will have military shipments ready to be sent right when Age III is hit

Major RTSL Tournament Sign-ups Begin
The full information on the ZBoard sponsored RTSL tournament has been released and sign-ups have begun. The tournament is in celebration of 5 years of the RTSL website and some very interesting rules have been posted. The big surprise in the rules is that no military shipments will be allowed at all during the games. The tourney will be available to all the clans in the AoE3 season 2 and it will in a 2vs2 setup. Another interesting rule is that you and your clan team mate can not use the same civilisation in one game!

Big Ask Sandy Update
There have been a lot of Ask Sandy questions and answers being posted at the moment and over the last few weeks. Quite a few interesting questions have been answered and all the recent archives are well worth a read.

Warriors Path Top 4 Announced
The ES Warriors Path Tournament has almost come to a close and the lucky people who are going to playtest The WarChiefs will be WaCkO, Sup3rMaN, Sowers and LieS. A big congratulations to them.
Congratulate the players here and find the tourney brackets here.






Two New Articles
Two new articles have been written which are worth looking at if your a Command and Conquer fan; both focus on how to become a better player at Zero Hour. One is written by our own Game Admin, ^General and the other by Dustman, a member here at gamereplays

UBZ: Zero Hour Tourny Site
MrYuRi has recently made a guide for us english speaking, about his german website which hosts tournaments every sunday. Very easy and straight forward guide translating from german to english on how to enter and participate in the tournys! Weekly prizes are also given out at these tournaments so get yourself registered and get your chance in playing in prized tournys!! Each week the prizes vary so stay tuned for more details regarding weekly prizes
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BFME World Cup Tournament
The Knock-Out phase of the BFME World Cup Tournament is almost upon us and the places in the draw are starting to fill up. The EUROPE draw is almost complete and the US draw in the process of playing its last games.
Starting on Saturday 24th June the knock-out phase will begin and the draw has been published:

Weekly Clanwars Update - BfME
As we getting near the end of the BfME 1 June tourney, [Pr0^] seem to have a comfortable lead almost 400p clear of the runners up KingZ|. [DT] have moved up in 3rd spot with some good wins by their top player Shadow. In 4th and 5th spot we find the biggest rivals in BfME 1 CW at the moment, Beer and P2B|, who both need to raise theire game if they want to compete for 1st spot this month. This is the standings so far:

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New CnC USA Strategy Moderator
Congratulations to Squaak who has joined the staff ranks as USA Strategy Moderator. Squaat is one of the best USA players in the CnC Generals world and has achieved numerous clanwars titles. He will be a great addition to gamereplays and the CnC staff



Battlefield 2142 Hands-On and Q&A
Get a load of information on the game's new features such as its history and "titan" mode!

Armed Assault FPS Movie Released
A new FPS by Bohemia Interactive called "Armed Assault" now has a video released to show gamers what they are creating!

Major DOD:S Update on June 28
A huge update will be coming on June 28 for all Day of Defeat: Source owners!

Red Orchestra Update Released
Updates to Red Orchestra have been released.


Air Cooling Guide
IronMan one of our members is producing a guide to describe Air Cooling for computers. The guide has diagrams to aid his explanation and is easy to understand. A good read if your looking to construct your own PC or looking to improve the Air Cooling system in your PC. Visit the Hardware Discussion Forums to view this guide

DirectX SDK Released
Earlier this week Microsoft launched it's DirectX SDK which contains the DirectX Runtime and all DirectX software required to create DirectX compliant applications in C/C++ and C#. It also contains updates to tools, utilities, samples, documentation, and runtime debug files for x64 and x86 platforms. This release also include a public pre-release Direct3D 10.


Sig of the Week 55 Results
This week the theme was Scenery which was met with six entries from our GFX artists and members. But Bigboi, a member of the GFX Staff won the competition with 43 votes with his Sunset entry. Congratulations to all participants for another great sig of the week. Here is the winning entry...




New CnC USA Strategy Moderator
Congratulations to Squaak who has joined the staff ranks as USA Strategy Moderator. Squaat is one of the best USA players in the CnC Generals world and has achieved numerous clanwars titles. He will be a great addition to gamereplays and the CnC staff

Congratulate our NP Team ! The 20th WR fished ! Read and enjoy


Act of War: High Treason, Great Deal
AOW:HT is available as an expansion to the original AOW: Direct Action, or as a Standalone game for download from Direct2Drive for ONLY $20.00. There are three very unique factions that all offer excellent balance, tons of depth, and amazing graphics.



Act of War: High Treason, Great Deal
AOW:HT is available as an expansion to the original AOW: Direct Action, or as a Standalone game for download from Direct2Drive for ONLY $20.00. There are three very unique factions that all offer excellent balance, tons of depth, and amazing graphics.

Perms Age - 2006. First day. First details
Right now, Balrog and me are at Perms Age - 2006! Yes, at Perm, Russia. At the moment we are waiting the distribution for matches: 16 teams ( 9 teams from Russia ) and your Senior Newsposter's! Check out these photos. A full review will be released after my return!


A detailed in-depth article about the upcoming game CNC3
Do you remember the first time you played Command & Conquer? It was probably a long time ago, perhaps before the genre became lost in the game's unending list of po-faced clones.



Gamespot: UEF Units and Structures
Gamespot has a new article detailing several units and structures belonging to the United Earth Federation, read the full article Here

New UEF Wallpapers
As the UEF-month continues, exclusively for all fansites, THQ / GPG emailed UEF Wallpapers to all fansite Admins. So they´re not on the official site yet, but the fansites have them. Below Links to download them. I´ve left em at max quality, and made some resizes to fit the most common resolutions. The Third one is for a double 1600x1200 screen setup like definately everyone of us uses these days....

First Rotating Planet Pictures
We can present you the first rotating planet motion picture! You all saw pictures of the newly introduced planet Seton two days ago, now you can watch it rotating. So watch this small .mov movie to make yourself a picture about how the planets will be presented in game

Total Supreme Commander Storyline Annihilation
Gnome has just published an article on Supreme Commander which is an interesting read and humourous at the same moment. The article is entitled "Total Supreme Commander Storyline Annihilation" and investigates the hypothesis that "there is more than a spiritual link between SupCom and its successor".

SupCom Designer Diary #2
Gas Powered Games recently published a Designers Diary which goves details about two new Worlds and Characters of the UEF. The two UEF characters were already announced on this portal last week so this update covers the new planets.

New UEF Characters
As some might have noticed its UEF - Month this month so this week we have two new UEF characters revealed: President C. Allen Riley II, & EarthCom Commander-in-Chief and General Samantha Clarke, highest ranked General in the UEF



BFME2 Xbox360 : podcast, community summit
"Producers from The Battle for Middle-earth II for Xbox 360 and Community Manager APOC discuss the fan impressions and reactions from the recent community summit we hosted at Microsoft Studios. "

Xbox 360 Preview
From a content standpoint, the single-player game looks to be almost identical to the PC version released earlier this year, save for the fact that the Xbox 360 version lacks the War of the Ring campaign mode featured in the PC version. Still, you'll get a good and an evil campaign that appear identical to the ones found in the PC version, as well as a regular skirmish mode that lets you choose a faction and battle it out against the artificial intelligence on any map in the game."

Bfme2 1 vs 1 Tourney
Gamereplays is hosting a bfme2 1v1 tournament on 15 July at 6.00 PM GMT
There are 32 places so the tourney will last at least 3 hours, be sure you can stay that long
All players are in the tournament lobby at 6.00 PM GMT, more than 5 minutes late and you're disqualified
You will play your first match at 6PM and directly after that match you play the next one

New Discussion
GR has come out with a whole new discussion named BFME2 Xbox 360 Discussion. As you can probably already tell, this discussion is to talk about the new, spectacular RTS on console game, BFME2 Xbox 360. For those of you who have had their head in the ground, this game is a major break through. It will be the most successful RTS game ever to be converted onto a video game console.

Mentor/Mentee combos
The mentors and mentees has now been paired up, in the "mentor/mentee" program. Go to this thread and read more about the contacts, and their user id's to get in touch.
Let the fun begin!

Weekly clanwars update
As we near the end of the month [OoE] and DivA| are battling for first place with [OoE] just crreeping in front. Helix|, HFD| and PoW| all very close and any of them could take third place



Map Contest (Update)
A lot of maps have already been posted so be sure to head there and check them out. If you like the map, get back here to vote for your fav. mapper! A quick reminder that ALL maps should have a topic with a poll. Maps without polls won't be accepted for the contest!

Petropedia
Slipstream Studios have published Petropedia; which is an encyclopedia specifically directed at Petroglyph. Petropedia is very similar to the larger Wikipedia and could prove useful to those wanting to discover news or articles relating to Petroglyph and thier products



Rise of Legends Review
Another review has been released, this time from a site called Gameplanet. It gives the game an impressive 4/5 and highly recommends it as a sold RTS game. If your looking for more opinions on RoL checkout this new review now

New Players Series: Volume Three
Tales of Legends: New Players Series Volume Three was released yesterday on TSN Central. It focuses on the main elements of Combat in Rise of Legends. The volume entitled "Combat" illustrates the use of Hotkeys in battle; to micro your units with relative ease and command more batallions at the same moment to achieve victory.

New Replay of the Week
After several replays were selected from the dozens of entries and the staff voted on the best relay from the selection; the replay Nut vs AtleastTry wins this weeks ROTW. If your looking for a decent and entertaining replay you might want to download this replay

Weekly ClanWars Update
This week the clan Grunts has achieved massive amounts of points as its members pull out 'all the stops' to catch BhU. In the Warrior Rankings WiN.iT still remains at the head of the league followed closely behind by Grunt. Only 38 points seperates these two warriors meaning the title could go to anyone.



Salsifi's New AI MOD UPDATE!
Salsifi has released the newest version of his AI Mod. This thing is nice I must add, to download it and find my comments about the mod check out the post on the General Discussion mode.

ESL Shoutcast
I had some time this weekend to shoutcast an ESL qualifying match live, as well as shoutcast a non ESL match, with two ESL opponents. The links to the shoutcasted replays are right here:
ESL Game, Regular Game.



The Russian Rock Guide
Our Russian Strategy Moderator, Blue Gaiden, has completed a new Russian guide that is sure to get your rising through the ranks. The guide is actually 2 different strategies including an agressive FF and a turtle FF. Very high quality material, check it out!

Balance Patch Promised Before TWC
ES Thunder has made a post on AgeCommunity confirming that there will be an Age of Empires 3 balance patch before The War Chiefs is released in October / November this year. Whether it will be coming in the next week or two or in a month or two is yet to be known.

Nations Cup Custom Map - Windy Isles
The 3rd Nations Cup custom map has been released. Windy Isles is it's name and promises a hsome very nice sea action on a pampas like map. Give many thanks to Orca, Viper, and Amasis for designing it, creating the art work, and balance testing the map respectively. This is another great map and you should all download it and have some fun on it!

RTS League LAC Brackets Released
The RTSL Lethal Alliance Challenge Tournament brackets have been released with a huge amount of competitors. The prizes include some nice gaming keyboards and the competition is sure to be great. If you've signed up make sure you check out the RTS-League website for more details on what to do now in terms of scheduling your games with other teams.

More and more Ask Sandy
Sandy is answering questions in his Ask Sandy topic like mad at the moment and he is releasing more and more information about new patches and Age of Empires 3: The War Chiefs so make sure you have a big read about the new answers this week. Also, remember that you can ask your own questions and Sandy tends to answer every question people posts so take advantage of this great privilege!

New Catalyst Drivers Fix Display Issue
ATI have released their Catalyst 6.6 Drivers for ATI video cards. The driver update has fixed an Age of Empires 3 problem that some customers have been experiencing. This update will fix it so if you've had the problem quotes below then download the new drivers to improve your AoE3 gaming experience!

Clanwars June 2006
[i]Here are the Clan standings for June 2006. Congratulations to [OoE] for coming in first place with -MAFIA close behind and to `xG for third place: 1) [OoE] 33,364 pts.; 2) -MAFIA 33,005 pts.; 3) `xG 23,573 pts. 4) -BeeR^ 16,165 pts. 5) EGCVM1 15,957 pts.

CnC: ZH 1v1 Tournament!
With the CnC Portal up and running, the staff over at Big Time Tournaments didn't feel like waiting til next year to run our first tournament. Therefore, we decided that Zero Hour would be a good game to cristen the CnC Tournaments.com world.

Perms Age 2006. First day. Begining !
Hi all noobs and pros. Now, I am and Balrog at Perms Age - 2006 !!! Yes, at Perm, Russia. At the moment we are waiting the distribution for matchs: 16 teams ( 9 teams from Russia ) and yours Senior Newsposter ! Check some foto if you wanna, ofcourse, full review will be releasing after my returning !

2v2 Tourney 25th June
This weeks 2v2 tourney was hosted by me (ExTrEmE) and we had a massive turnout of 20 teams (40 people playing). Firstly thank you to all the people competing in the tournament for making this possible for all involved. We had a great time on the night with some fascinating and enticing games which will be available here to watch soon.
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Clanwars Result June
Another month of BfME 1 CW came to an end yesterday, but without any thrilling finish to it. [Pr0^] was just too superior this month taking the title in an outstanding way. The clan managed a remarkable 35 game win streak before finally losing, and was almost 1.800 points ahead of the runners up P2B. Beer managed to grab the bronze medal with [WoW] and [DT] making the top 5. Here are the final standings for this month:

Prizes for the BFME League
EA have confirmed that they are sponsoring the Clanwars.cc BFME League with prizes again.
Two free games will be offered each month - one for the warrior champion, and one for a random warrior in the top 10.

June BFME Faction Champions
Congratulations to clan [Pr0^] and warrior Haiku for taking gold cups away for June. Furthermore, the Faction Champions for June are as follows:

Gondor vs Gondor Master Guide
Now that our beloved Gondor SM, SoulWings have decided to step back, others have stepped up to help out. This is RangerStryder´s first Master Guide, and it is the Gondor mirror.
It contains all the important things you need to know to be able to learn this match up.
You will find the proper build order, good info about all stages of the game and also some replays in the end to show the proper way to execute the strat.

Isengard vs Rohan, Master Guide
Our Isengard Strat Mod, Ranger have finished his first Master guide.
It is Isengard vs Rohan and includes an overwiev of both factions, correct build order, how to use powers and also some very usefull replays. A must to check out if you want to learn how to play this matchup.

Weekly Clanwars Update
Less then one week to go of this month of BfME 1 CW and [Pr0^] is looking strong in the top with a lead over P2B with almost 700p. If they want to catch up they better start bringing in the points soon. In 3rd place we find KingZ| who is having a good month with [DT] close behind in 4th. Beer is still in top 5, but with almost 1000p to the leaders, they have a long way to go if they want to win. Here are the top 5 clans so far:

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June Clanwars Results
Here are the results for the Clan and Warrior Standings for June 2006.: 1) First 1,792 pts; 2) [Thf] 1,695 pts.; 3) [WoO] 1,685 pts.; 4) -2eZ^ 1,535 pts. 5) [OMEN] 1,348 pts.

Tribute VIDEO to Generals and the Community
A couple of people namely my self were working on a bit of a tribute to generals and the community. I lost interest for the project as i was doing all the work by my self and it take far too much time to get things just right.
So anyway here is a 2 and a half min trailer/collection of (non continual) clips that were going to be used in the original, which had a story, a universe, characters, and a persistent atmosphere.

Weekly clanwars update]
We are nearing the end of the month and First is at the top with [WoO], [Thf] and [OMEN] still close behind, can First hold on to the top spot? Clan Rankings:1) . First 1,029 pts. 2) . [WoO] 965 pts. 3) . [Thf] 933 pts. 4) . [OMEN] 919 pts. 5) . -2eZ^ 840 pts.
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Joint Task Force
Best. Physics. Ever. Check out the gameplay video. It's SICK.
Too bad it's just a tactics game. Imagine if they made that into a normal RTS game? They could even keep the theme of inserting a specialized group of units to capture control of a base that you can expand and make new units from. It's so lame that such an amazing battle system is lost on only being able to use a handful of units at a time



BF2142 have under bugs than BF2 ?
As CVG reported, Marcus Nilsson, Producer of BattleField-2142, said that the game will 'less bugs than BF2' at the release stage. Do you believe this?

FEAR 1.06 Patch
This latest update for F.E.A.R. corrects the loading issue with games saved before the 1.05 patch and several other fixes.

DOD:S HUGE Update Released!
Yes the previously announced update for the 28th of June was released and everything promised is included!

SiN Episodes and Red Orchestra Update
Updates to SiN Episodes: Emergence and Red Orchestra have been released.

$2000 BF2 Tournament
Yes you heard right. Bttournaments.com is hosting this huge tournament that is getting everyone excited!



ForceWare Version: 91.31 June 23, 2006
WHQL Certified, Adds support for GeForce 7950 GX2, Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel. Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel website for more information, New NVIDIA PureVideo features and enhancements. Please visit the NVIDIA PureVideo website for more information on PureVideo technology and system requirements.

ATI Catalyst 6.6 Windows XP drivers
For details on this driver, including resolved issues, please review the RELEASE NOTES.
Installing a new driver is only recommended if you are having issues with your ATI product.
Products Supported.

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3
Get downloads for Internet Explorer 7, including recommended updates as they become available. To download Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 in the language of your choice, please visit the Internet Explorer 7 worldwide page.

Keyboard special for Windows Vista
Microsoft Hardware is pushing the innovation envelope and introducing industry firsts to help you move from work to play with cutting-edge performance and total style. Can a keyboard create its own mood lighting? Respond to you? Enlighten you? Move with you? The ultimate desktop can with ambient backlighting, proximity sensing and 30-feet of range.

Easter Egg - Word 2003
Open Word 2003, wrote "= rand (200,99)" without quotes and press Enter


SOTW 56

This weeks sig of the week was won by ex Graphics Global Mod Angra with 44 votes. The theme for this week was pre-set stock(an image you have to use as your render) Here is the winning sig. Congratulations Angra



Are you GDI or Nod? Tell us Why?
Enough talk about the game for a moment at least in this thread, we want to know who your allegience is to...GDI or Nod? And tell us why. Death to Nod, KANE can burn in his own ashes, GDI forever!!!! APOC always sides with the good guys. So, let the war begin, are YOU GDI or are YOU Nod?