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50159	2002-05-22 11:02:00	Gamespydaily and Gamespot have both posted their Black & White 2 first looks articles featuring screenshots and descriptions on how the sequel follows up on the original Black & White. They look at some of the new features such as the new tribal war and city building, the improved gesture-based interface and spell system, the consequences of being a good or evil god, the expanded combat system, the enhanced graphics engine, and more. For your look go to the following links: - Gamespy <www.gamespydaily.com Gamespot <gamespot.com lucasArts has announced <www.lucasarts.com plans for the development of Full Throttle 2, continuing the adventures of the outlaw bike Ben. He's the lowdown from the press release: A CLASSIC RETURNS -- LUCASARTS REVS UP FULL THROTTLE. FOR LONG AWAITED SEQUEL Acclaimed Classic Adventure Roars Back to Action on Next Generation Consoles and PC in 2003 SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- May 21, 2002 -- Full Throttle, one of the most loved classic adventures from LucasArts Entertainment Company LLC, returns in a long awaited action packed sequel for next generation consoles and PC in 2003. The follow up to the award winning game from 1995 will once again feature one of LucasArts' most popular and enduring characters, the swaggering outlaw biker Ben, leader of a renegade motorcycle gang called the Polecats. The free wheeling action-adventure will offer a humorous original story, furious bare knuckle fighting, and the thrill of high speed biking. 'Full Throttle is one of LucasArts' greatest and most beloved original games,' says Simon Jeffery, president of LucasArts. 'We can't think of a better brand or character to lead LucasArts' charge into a new era of original game development. Ben so perfectly symbolizes our legacy and yet has just the right mix of attitude and edge to appeal to a new generation of game players.' new bunch of Unreal Tournament 2003 screenshots <216.105.167.65 has been released, 28 new scenes from the sequel to the hugely popular Unreal Tournament . Version 5.3 of Fon's Stats <www.planetquake.com the log parsing stats program for online gaming has been released for download. The new version adds support for Jedi Knight II and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and is available for Win32, Linux, and Mac OS. Version 5.0 of QuakeIT <www.planetquake.com the game launching utility for Quake III Arena is now available for download. The new release is a complete re-write of the program's underlying code, and offers a new remote control feature that allows you to control a Q3A server from within QuakeIT. TechSpot (AKA 3D Spotlight) have updated their Jedi Outcast Tweak Guide <www.techspot.com The update brings the guide inline with the latest released patch as well as added Multiplayer tweaks and more information on console commands and Audio options. Nintendo has responded to the price cuts by Microsoft and Sony and lowered the price of the GameCube <news.com.com to $US150 starting tommorow. Here's a bit from the news item on the price drop: Nintendo on Monday raised the stakes in the fierce game machine price war by cutting the cost of its GameCube console by nearly $50. Effective Tuesday, the machine will sell for $149.95. Nintendo's move comes after price cuts were made last week by rivals Microsoft and Sony. Their machines, Xbox and PlayStation 2, respectively, were cut to $199. Nintendo said at the time that it had no plans to cut prices. read more at the link above. Dup-DVD the tool to convert a DVD movie to SVCD/VCD version 2.1.1 is out with the following changes: bug fixed:CD ROM detection. added:AVI file output. added:Task bar icon. added:More language files. Grab your copy here <www.dup-dvd.com The NVRefreshtool website has undergone a redesign with these new features to help enhance your visiting experience: - Direct one-on-one with all of the people involved with the site and the program. - Newly designed help file (offered only to beta users) - Other tweaks, updates, and some heavily useful additions. Head over to the new site, here <http://www.nvrt.net> to check it out. Here are some new BIOS files to download fromAbit, Aopen, Asus, Iwill and Tyan: Abit KR7A 7G <fae.abit.com.tw Abit TH7-II 7C <fae.abit.com.tw Aopen AK77 Plus, AK77 Plus(A) R1.16 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ak77plus/a77ps116.zip> Aopen AK77 Plus(A)-133 R1.08 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ak77plusa133/77psa108.zip> Aopen AK77 Pro, AK77 Pro(A) R1.16 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ak77pro/a77p116.zip> Aopen AK77 Pro(A)-133 R1.08 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ak77proa133/77pa108.zip> Aopen AK77-333 R1.04 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ak77333/w7733104.zip> Aopen AX4B Max R1.04 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ax4bmax/w4bm104.zip> Aopen AX4BS Pro R1.07 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/ax4bspro/w4sp107.zip> Aopen MX3S R1.26 <ftp://ftp.aopen.com/pub/bios/mx3s/mx3s126.zip> Asus A7M266-D 1006 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_A/AMD_Chipset/AMD_760_MPX/A7M266-D/1006d.zip> Asus A7V266 1008 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_A/VIA_Chipset/Apollo_KT266/A7V266/1008.zip> Asus P4B 1010 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/INTEL_Chipset/i845/P4B/1010.zip> Asus P4B-E 1004 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/INTEL_Chipset/i845/P4B-E/1004e.zip> Asus P4B266-C 1004 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/INTEL_Chipset/i845d/P4B266-C/1004c.zip> Asus P4B266-M 1004 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/INTEL_Chipset/i845d/P4B266-M/1004m.zip> Asus P4S533 mit Onboard LAN 1007 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/SIS_Chipset/SIS_645_DX/P4S533/with_OnBoard_Lan/1007.zip> Asus P4S533 ohne Onboard LAN 1007 <ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_478/SIS_Chipset/SIS_645_DX/P4S533/without_OnBoard_Lan/1007c.zip> Iwill P4R533 15.5. <www.iwill.net Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462) 2.11 <ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios/760mp/2462v211.exe> Tyan Tiger 200T (S2505T) 1.05a Beta <ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios_beta/2505105a.exe> Tyan Tiger 200T (S2505T) 2.05a Beta <ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios_beta/2505205a.exe> Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466N-4M) 4.01q Beta <ftp://ftp.tyan.com/bios_beta/2466401q.exe> Majorgeeks has a program to download that will guide you in setting and adjusting the parameters and controls of your monitor. The program is called Monitor Tester (Original name hey!) and it can test and adjust the picture size and position, color convergence and purity, white balance, brightness and contrast, focus, interference, and high-voltage regulation of monitors. Go give it a go here <www.majorgeeks.com WinDVD Tweaker 3.3 Beta 3 has been released with the following additions/changes: - WinDVD 4 support. - Most of the audio fixes have been installed. - Many settings have being removed as WinDVD 4 does not use them anymore, eg interlacing mode. - Preset saving is not properly supported yet so please do not use this. Click here <downloads.planetmirror.com for a direct download link. Here's a program for all you budding webpage creators out there. The program is Javascript Menu Maker and it behaves like so: Javascript Menu Maker is a powerful Javascript-producing design tool for creating menu on Web pages. Javascript can be customized highly and easily by using Javascript Configuration Program. You can define text, image, font, color, URL and more for the Javascript Menu. You don't need to write any code by yourself. Javascript Configuration Program will generate it for you. You can preview the Javascript Menu in your favourite web browser without quit the program. All relative files that you need to upload to server will be saved along with the project file so that you can easy to get them and publish them to Internet. A detailed document that help you to master anything about this Javascript Menu. But in most case you can finish the design work without read anything from document. The size of the Javascript file is only 28 KB. It will be downloaded instantly. So don't worry about that the visitors will have to wait a long time to download. With this easy-to-use Javascript development tool, you can create a professional Javascript Menu just in minutes! Grab it here <www.1stdesktop.com and read more here <www.1stdesktop.com FlashGet 1.3 Beta 2 has been released with not a word on the changes. If you have used this download manager before, I am sure you will want to pick up the new version, which is available here <www.majorgeeks.com BlindWrite Suite version 4.0.2 is out for download with the following changes: All products : * New languages supported Blindread : * Extraction issues has been solved (mostly, about subcodes) * Better support of Key2Audio protected CD (on hardware that support this kind of cd) * Redesigned transitions between wizard pages Blindwrite : * Small writing issues fixed. * Redesigned transitions between wizard pages Patin-Couffin Control Panel : * New design for easier operation * Available in 3 languages : English, German, and French * Fixed some bugs preventing to detect properly the driver version BlindWrite suite if you're not sure is a tool designed to perfectly reproduce most CD. RAW mode is needed to produce perfect backups of some protected CDs! DAO mode is even better. Almost all protected CD can be perfectly backed up using with DAO. Blindread / Blindwrite are perfect tools to produce backups in RAW and DAO mode. Get the new version here <www.blindwrite.com AnandTech <http://www.anandtech.com> has got their hands on one of the first commercially available GeForce 4 Ti4200 cards from Gainward and has posted up the results in a brand spanking new review. Here's a bit from near the end of the review: Now that we're half-way into the month of May the first board vendors are shipping their cards. Enthusiastic users have noted the appearance of the Ti 4200 on search engines such as Price Watch as an indication that the cards were finally here, and indeed they are. Go here <www.anandtech.com to read the whole review and see how it measures up next to it's big brothers and the older GF3's. ASUS has announced the commencement of shipping for it's its GeForce4 Ti4600 V8460Ultra Deluxe card. This card is in response to their earlier Ultra card not having all the previous Deluxe solutions supporting stereoscopic glasses, Video-In and hardware monitoring functions used to be very popular among hardware enthusiasts. The Deluxe card will be equipped with 128MB graphics DDR memory and will work at 300MHz core and 650MHz memory frequencies, a TV-Out, a Video-In, will support stereoscopic glasses, use 'Immersion Gold Coating' for higher stability, feature VGA and DVI Outs for monitors and a new cooler and PCB as shown below: No firm prices have been set yet but it would be fair to say that the new card will come at a premium over the cost of the standard Ultra version Hardware Reviewness: Asus P4B533-E Intel 845-E Motherboard on GamePC <www.gamepc.com DFI NB76-EA Motherboard on VIAHardware.Com <www.viahardware.com EPoX 4G4A+ i845G Motherboard on VR-Zone Hardware <www.vr-zone.com Gigabyte MAYA Radeon 8500 Deluxe Video Card on Tweakers Australia <www.tweakers.com.au Intel i845G Motherboard on Sharky Extreme <www.sharkyextreme.com and TweakTown <www.tweaktown.com MSI G4Ti4600-VTD Video Card on HEXUS.net <www.hexus.co.uk OCSystem Enhanced Radeon 8500 Video Card on Mikhailtech <www.mikhailtech.com Shuttle SS40G Barebones System on Legion Hardware <www.legionhardware.com Shuttle SS50 Barebones System on Hardware-test.dk <www.hardware-testdk.com and LostCircuits <www.lostcircuits.com Soyo Dragon KT333 Ultra Motherboard on Hardware Pub <www.hardwarepub.com TDK VeloCD 24/10/40F CD-RW on Designtechnica <www.designtechnica.com ABIT BG7 Motherboard on The Tech Report <www.tech-report.com ABIT SILURO GeForce4 Ti4600 Video Card on got apex <gotapex.com Claw Game Controller on BurnOutPc <www.burnoutpc.com Cooler Master Aerodynamic Cables on Tek Sector <www.teksector.net DFI NB76 i845G Motherboard on TweakTown <www.tweaktown.com Dynatron Copper Heatsinks on phlux <www.phlux.co.uk EPoX 8K3A+ Motherboard on OcPrices <www.ocprices.com Gainward GF4 PowerPack Ultra/750 XP Video Card on PC PowerZone <www.pcpowerzone.co.uk Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer Optical 3.0 Mouse on Ascully.com <www.ascully.com Sidewinder Copper Mesh Rounded Cables on Overclocker Cafe <www.overclockercafe.com SUMA Platinum GeForce3 Ti500 SE and Ti200 SE Video Cards on x-bit labs <www.xbitlabs.com XFX GeForce4 MX420 Video Card on NextGen Electronics.com <www.nextgenelectronics.com	Guest (0)
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