Far Cry was, without any doubt, a game outrageous for its time, considering the system required to run it on maximum quality settings, just as it happened with Crysis a few years after. Since its release, that took place in 2004's Spring, Far Cry sold over 1 million copies, spawning several console ports and a movie. Now, Far Cry 2 - although still unreleased, spawned a few new screenshots, as you can see below...

...in one of the many new screenshots published on IGN. The strange part is that I wasn't able to find any of them on the official Far Cry 2 website, but they'll probably update it pretty soon, or I simply missed these new shots. Anyway, all in all - things are looking good, my friends!<-180x150 Small Rectangle - right->

If you forgot about it, here's what you should wait from this game - "Caught between two rival factions in war-torn Africa, you are sent to take out "The Jackal," a mysterious character who has rekindled the conflict between the warlords, jeopardizing thousands of lives. In order to fulfil your mission you will have to play the factions against each other, identify and exploit your their weaknesses, and neutralize their superior numbers and firepower with surprise, subversion, cunning and, of course, brute force."

Just to remind you - next to the PC version, Far Cry 2 will also be available on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, all shipping simultaneously on October 21, 2008 in North America, while Europe will get it on the 24th of October.

Back in September, when we talked about Fallout 3 Survival Edition, I thought things were settled, and the long-awaited post-apocalyptic RPG would arrive in time. Well, "in time" doesn't say anything about an accurate Fallout 3 release date, so now we're going to attack that subject - is Fallout 3 gold, or not?

According to Bethesda Softworks' Pete Hines, Fallout 3 is not quite gold, although its Survival Edition is already sold out, as we were able to see back in mid-September. Here's what he said earlier this week to GameSpot: "At this stage we are really right down to the very end of the process. I'm just trying to get discs done and sent off and certified and released to manufacturers. … So there's a mad scramble to get all those copies made and into stores."<-125x125 Button - right->

In the end, the Fallout 3 release date should remain October 28 for all three platforms - PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, but after so many delays, who can tell for sure? Well, at least we should expect a huge world to explore, since Hines said "We actually envisioned the game would be smaller when we first drew it up. But we're never careful about being slaves to anything we write down. … So we made the game bigger than it was because we felt we needed to flesh it out with more stuff, with more locations in between, to make it more dense."

All right, another 3 weeks of waiting can't be that bad. After all, we've been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever since 1997, and we still have hopes to play that game, one day...

When talking about games that I will always remember, Duke Nukem 3D has, and will always have a special place in my heart. Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior, another game made by 3D Realms using the same graphics engine, ate a lot of my time during high school, and I don't even have to mention those network slaughter sessions I've been through...

...and now, every time I hear about Duke Nukem Forever beta - at least beta - I jump up and check the news sources, digging for all I can get. Unfortunately, all I usually got in the last decade was one rumor after another, and nothing more. After all, Duke Nukem Forever is the most delayed videogame in history, since its development started back in 1997, and promotional information has been released in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2007, and even in June 2008. <-180x150 Small Rectangle - right->Now, we have some new screenshots - in fact, only two of them, but nothing clear regarding the release date, as usual.

I think changing the name of the game into Duke Nukem Forever Beta, or even Duke Nukem Vaporware won't hurt too much. In fact, this could make this even more interesting. After all, Duke Nukem Forever got so many "vaporware awards," that could be identified by a lot of people with the "vaporware genre" itself, if I can put it this way.

The new screenshots that became available recently in the Xbox Live Arcade don't show much, just some 3D chicks, and an octabrain reminding me of some BlackSite: Area 51 monster. Now, the game is using a heavily modified Unreal Engine, while a decade ago, it all started with the Quake II graphics engine. Oh, my, how many can change in a decade...

...but I only hope one thing - to see Duke Nukem Forever beta turning into just "Duke Nukem Forever," and to have the DVD in my hands. As soon as possible, please! I am sure there are gamers who died waiting for this to come out, and I don't want to go after them...

I know the title should say it all, so let's stop wasting time - my friends into gaming, Crysis Warhead is available! Call your boss and tell him you won't be able to work in the next 3-4 days, since you don't have to wait for any package to arrive, as long as your Internet connection is fast enough to bring you the game in less than a day or so. All you have to do is remember to pay first...:)

The official press release says it all clearly - "The next installment in the award-winning Crysis franchise, Crysis Warhead is now available as a digital download on Direct2Drive." Even more, if you missed playing the original Crysis game, now you can get the Crysis bundle(Crysis+Crysis Warhead) for a $7.00 discount!<-125x125 Button - right->

If you missed all the articles around the Web about this topic, including on PlayerzBlog, then let me give you another useful excerpt from the official press release: "Crysis Warhead takes place alongside the events of last year's critical hit, with players experiencing the explosive battles against waves of challenging enemies on the other side of the island through the eyes and nanosuit of the bold and aggressive Sergeant "Psycho" Sykes. Crysis Wars features 21 maps and three diverse multiplayer modes, including InstantAction, frenetic deathmatch enhanced by the power of the nanosuit, PowerStruggle, a hardcore team-based mode and introducing TeamInstantAction, a mix of fast-paced action in a team-based environment. Both are built on Crytek's award-winning CryENGINE 2, optimized now to deliver the high-fidelity graphics Crytek is known for with an improvement in performance across a wide range of PCs."

The bundle is priced at $62.95, and Crysis Warhead costs $29.95, $10 less than the original, priced at $39.95 when purchased separately.

Without any doubt, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a great game. If you have a computer capable of running it properly, this game is "a must," no matter if you're a fan of the FPS genre or not. Anyway, if your computer is very old, you can try running one of the older games in the series, like the first one, a game I'll always remember. After all, people are still looking for Call of Duty cheats, so it's not THAT OLD, don't you think? All right, let's move to Call of Duty 6, now.

While Call of Duty 5 still needs to be released, and it doesn't have any release date announced yet, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick confirmed that what's in store after Call of Duty: World at War will arrive in retail stores during 2009. Well, I guess that's going to be the end of my current computer...or not, if they optimize the game as well as they did with Call of Duty 4!<-125x125 Button - right->

Currently, Treyarch are taking the Call of Duty series back to WWII with the forthcoming World at War I mentioned above. They are those who previously worked on the third game of the franchise, so we should also have high expectations from Call of Dutty 5. Hey, what am I saying here? Call of Duty has always been a game that I expected much from, and I never got disappointed.

Drawing the line, it seems we'll have Call of Duty 5 in a few months, and Call of Duty 6 is thought to be placed in a futuristic landscape, but that's not something confirmed just yet. If you ask me, I would enjoy to be a crossbowman in the Medieval times, but that would surely take us way off the concept of the "Call of Duty" franchise...or not?