War is not something to dream about, but I am sure that game producers would surely have nightmares related to their future if someone would simply erase the past conflicts that fueled the creation of an impressive amount of movies and games! Today, it's about World War 2, and the Royal Air Force, in a game for Nintendo DS...


From what I've heard, Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the Royal Air Force is going to be an "air combat shooter" for Nintendo DS, based on historical missions, although flight mechanics are intuitive, and far less complicated then in a fully-featured fligh combat simulator.

Spitfire Heroes: Tales of the Royal Air Force comes with wireless support for up to 4 players, and according to the official press release, you should expect to have a lot of fun with it - "Enter into frenzied dogfights with German fighters, strafe columns of enemy tanks, cover the evacuation of Allied troops, knock buzz bombs out of the sky with a tip of your wing and more in an expansive campaign that recreates some of the most famous battles of the war.", while learning some history, too!

Unfortunately, there's no accurate release date, but since this game has gone gold, you should expect it in stores by the end of the month. For more details, feel free to visit the official page of this game's publisher, here!

Sometimes, seeing is not believeing. You also have to feel, to experience yourself that which can be seen, and leaving aside everything else, computer gaming is one of those areas where this sentence is painfully true. I have seen a lot of Duke Nukem Forever screenshots so far, we all had, but none of us played that game yet, because they keep delaying it. Leaving DNF aside, today I want to tell you a few things about Call of Duty 4, a game that was voted by many publications and sites as game of the year 2007, while in other cases, it finished second, after Crysis...


A lot of reviews of this game praise the excellent graphics and the high performance of the custom graphics engine used, but I won't get into that now. I simply want to share with you what I remember from my single player campaign (I played this game back in November 2007). Since there are tons of screenshots and game videos available online, I think the image above should be enough(this was one of the few situations when, while I was playing a FPS game, I was glad to die) to show how far they managed to go with Call of Duty 4 in terms of graphics effects.

As it usually happens with "serious" FPS games, your first mission takes place in a location where rookies are trained, but it doesn't get boring even for a single minute, as it happens in some other cases (America's Army is the best example I can give you now). So far, nothing special, but soon you'll get a mission. You'll be dropped with a small team on a boat, in the middle of a stormy sea. This is where my jaw dropped, my eyes suddenly locked on the screen, and I remained speechless for a few seconds, before I had to enter into battle.

During the single player campaign, you also die once (or maybe even twice?), since an atomic device is detonated near your location and you can't do anything about it. That scene is simply amazing, as well as the movie-style that was used to create the mission where you are a simple spectator, seeing the world through the eyes of some Middle-East president that is taken to its execution place, inside an older Mercedes limo...

All in all, the single player campaign can be easily finished in about 8-10 hours, without too much efforts, but playing this game was like those times when, being a kid, I saw Rambo, Terminator and Robocop for the first time. For me, the single player campaign was so intense, that I don't even want to think about playing it online. Why? Well, I also got a (real) life to leave, and best way to resist temptation is to avoid it, at least for me.

If you missed this amazing title so far, and you would also like to play one of the best online multiplayer games available at this time, you can grab Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for your platform for excellent prices, ranging between $20 and $30 in most cases, down from about $60 in late-2007.

These being said, I conclude this PS3 game review and hope you'll enjoy playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at least as much as I did.

Flagship studios are releasing the first major update for Hellgate: London under the name Stonehenge Chronicles.
It will improve gamers’ skills introducing new monsters, a PvP arena, improvements for the game’s interface, as well as new areas where gamers in multiplayer mode will have to finish different missions.

Stonehenge is a large hub where players will have access to a special portal from Templar Baze and several new gestures.
They will have new demons to face with and new objects to gain.
With The Caste Caves you will open four new and unique dungeons, one for each group of enemies - Beast, Necro, Spectral and Demon, while you will need to search and destroy the powerful overlord that controls each of the dungeons.
To be able to continue this adventure, you will also collect the four monsters’ heads.

Moloch’s Zair area will open only after all the heads are collected and players will have the pleasure to destroy the legendary Moloch from who will gain all the unique objects.
There are three mini-raid areas in The Wild which will pose different and hard to pass obstacles but as you accomplish this you’ll get all the important rewards.

Unfortunately you will need to wait a while until the bugs discovered in the Test Center will be fixed.

Here's a short interview about the Unreal Tournament 3 that was made at the E3 2007 - a lot of key questions have been asked and the gamers had certain expectations about this game. The current situation of the sales of UT3 is not very shiny, but hopefully, the game will win the heart of new fans.



While the game is packed with features, there was a not very short list of bugs which have been fixed with the first patch that has been released already. The developers are currently still investigating in order to find out other possible flaws,

<-250x250 Square - left->Shooter games gain more and more popularity these days, especially those that have latest generation graphics effects and dynamic action. Gears of War was originally released for the Xbox console, November 7, 2006, and this year for PC, under the Games For Windows brand, on the 7th of November. There is also a limited edition for collectors which also includes a disc of bonus content and a book called “Destroyed Beauty” that brings a lot of details about the story on which the game is based on.
Game Trailer

The requirements for this game are: 2.4-gigahertz (GHz) or faster Intel processor, or 2.0 GHz or faster AMD processor, Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 2) or Windows Vista, 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM, 12 GB of available hard disk space, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or better graphics card or ATI X700 or better graphics card with support for DirectX 9.0c or later; Microsoft keyboard and mouse or Microsoft-compatible keyboard and pointing device, sound card and speakers or headphones for optional audio amd Internet access for optional Gears of War downloadable content.
Emergence Day

The game story focuses on a team of Delta Squad soldiers (a delta team again? didn’t we see that in Crysis and Blacksite - Area 51 already? what about alpha and omega? - there is an alpha team in Gears of War) who fight to save the people living on the planet Sera (a made-up location) from the attacks of the Locust Horde. If you happened to watch the first video demos from game competitions like E3 of the Unreal Engine 3, you might have seen some monsters – and if you wanted to see them in action in a shooter now is your chance to fight against them – you will see plenty of them jumping around and full of ammo.

In the game, the player will take up the role of Marcus Fenix (probably an intentionally name-spelling mistake of the originating name Phoenix) who is taken out of the prison by Dominic Santiago (Dom) who needs his help in the missions against the Locust. The level-saving is based on checkpoints that need to be reached. The Delta squad thus reunited seeks the “resonator”, a special device that will help them locate the Locust Tunnel, the hiding place of the enemy. This is where the team needs to place the Lightmass Bomb so that all monsters will be destroyed. The Delta quad will experience a series of losses which brings Fenix into the situation of being ordered to lead the squad. There are also additional support troops and soldiers who join them, but some of them lose their lives for being too scared or for losing temper in critical moments.

Fenix leads the team into a mining facility and even deeper into the core of the planet, in order to detonate the resonator, but he soon finds out that the device hasn’t uncovered the entire map of the tunnel network. However, the team finds a nearly complete map of the whole tunneling system, and the place of origin being Fenix’s old home. The location is actually his father’s research lab, at East Barricade Academy, and there are lots of Locust forces to be reckoned with. The team obtains the necessary data, and they find out that all the Locust tunnels are cross-linked through the entire planet’s soil covering and that those links are much bigger and deeper than anyone expected.

The soldiers go into a train that carries the Lightmass Bomb – but they have to fight their way through and defeat general RAAM before inserting the critical data with the location coordinates. Fenix activates the Bomb and Dom jumps onto a helicopter. And just like in movies, in thelast second, Dom saves Fenix by helping him to get up into the helicopter enar him and they all watch the “fireworks”. However, the Locust haven’t been defeated yet completely and the Locust Queen makes sure the gamer knows that the evil monsters will keep coming back.
The Game Story In A Music Video

I was very much impressed with the overall graphics quality of this game – it looks and works much better than the default setup of the Unreal Tournament 3 – the retail version, and this is also because of an updated and improved version of the Unreal Engine 3 and because the Microsoft team made sure the game will take full advantage of DirectX 10 (with the so much wanted antialising option in the menu – which is currently missing in Unreal Tournament 3!). This is one of the games that comes prepared for HD screens – it supports 720p and 1080i resolutions so that the view-angle is increased. The multiplayer is also a key ascpect in this game as it adds to the flavor of the “killing spree” in specially designed maps for intensive matches that can be played among friends or on the Internet.

The sound in the game was really well implemented and the music contributes to the accuracy and intensity of most action scenes – the dialogues are very funny sometimes, and yes - soldier-style. A thing that many people might not like is that the gamer needs a LIVE ID account in order to play and be able to save the progress through the live-profile.

Bonus Video - How to create your own level:
Digitainment Mark: 9.5 (a really good game but with very rare random "hiccups" due to data loading into memory)

Designer: Cliff Blezinksi

Developer: Epic Games, People Can Fly

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios

Official Site: http://www.gearsofwar.com

Bonus - Cliff Blezinski with one of the weapons: