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Well here is a cool looking racer from Disney studios of all people, Due out next month "Split/Second is a racing game, but you're racing through an adventure game." So says Jason Green, ambassador for Black Rock Studio, the developer of the upcoming action-packed racing game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC...

fpnewsUbisoft's always-on digital rights management solution, dubbed the "Online Services Network," has apparently been circumvented by hackers. News of its arrival on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks began circulating in places like social-news site Reddit Wednesday morning.

Preview of Sniper: Ghost Warrior, An upcoming title from City Interactive. Is it worth the wait? City Interactive is a well known company for Polish gamers creating low budget first pearson shooters. With their main idea being, seemingly, to do as much as possible whilst keeping thier costs and time spent in development to a minimum.

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Today EA released the first patch for BC2. While initially the list of updates was unavailable, we have added the list on this post, The update weighs in at 348.3 MB. Thus far first impressions are decent. The server browser has been much improved, with regional searches, hard core mode, and – at last - it actually seems to search for servers!  These settings are saved as well, so your daily routine of clicking every box is now a thing of the past.

fpbattlefieldEA DICE released? a new game mode for the cartoon shooter Battlefield-Heroes.? The game mode is available on a new map, and the new map is a night map, so the Heroes players will get the chance to play in dark surroundings.

Our current plan is to do final tests on the update and servers tonight and all being well we will look to release R7 client and R10 servers on Wednesday morning European time. While you wait for the release here are the details of the changelists for both the new client and server versions.

 In the mean time here is the R7 client changelist.

fpnewsEarlier today in an article from kotaku, a source close to Infinty Ward revealed something that most of the COD community probably already knew. The atmosphere in the studio is quite bad duo the recent dropouts. The previous Infinity Ward chiefs Jason West and Vince Zampella has moved forward and created Respawn Entertainment, and a lot of the other key members from the team that created the popular Call of duty: Modern Warfare 2 has now left the studio as well.

fpbattlefieldRush Zone's own nKm and sTon3r have been talking to Jock Yitch from BASHandSLASH.com in the latest podcast for thier site. The boys have been talking about the latest on Bad Company 2 and where the game is at right now, what isnt going right, what needs to be introduced and what is still not working right that EA have not touched yet (ie: the friends list). The boys also talk about the m60 and 40mms and how they should be a nerf to those weapons so there is a balance.

ATI released preview drivers today that provide a fix for slow loading times in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Right now this fix is only for 5 series cards. A fix for 4 series cards is planned for next week.
ATI Catalyst™ 10.4 Hotfix features:
The ATI Catalyst 10.4 Hotfix provides resolution for the following issue:

fpnewsIt was a dark, albeit not that stormy, night as the "Future of PC Gaming (Yes, there is one!)" panel kicked off at PAX East around 10PM EST. Considering what the panelists had to say, the setting was oddly appropriate.

Across the hour-long discussion, two things were abundantly clear. First, things need to change, and they're not going to do so overnight. Second, "Honestly, I think PC gaming isn't where it was ten years ago and it's never going to be there again."

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