Avatar "Ignite the War" Trailer

Keeping us entertained tonight, Ubisoft has released a new teaser trailer for their upcoming movie-inspired Adventure title, Jame's Cameron's Avatar: The Game. Running just over a minute and a half long, the video shows off the game's world and combat with a mix of cinematic cutscenes and in-game action. Pretty cool stuff! Check it out:

Thanks to GameTrailers for the above stream. Mirrors are also available at the following websites:

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Avatar is scheduled for release this December.

Left 4 Dead 2 Pre-loading Begins

Kicking things off today, Valve Software has announced that if you pre-ordered Left 4 Dead 2 through their Steam digital distribution service, you can now start pre-loading the game. Basically, this means you can download all the content now and when L4D2 is released on November 17th, they'll unlock everything and you can start playing right away. So what are you waiting for? Grab it now! :D

Thanks for the tip Shemi.

Activision Blizzard secures $15 million USD profit this third quarter

In spite of a "challenging overall software market", Activision Blizzard still manages to beat projections to achieve profitability and a slight growth to its U.S. marketshare for its third fiscal quarter ending September 30th.

The company's revenues during the third quarter slid slightly year-on-year to $703 million USD, but beat its own projection of $680 million USD. Activision Blizzard has also managed to score profit of $15 million USD for the third quarter, a huge improvement from the $108 million USD quarterly loss posted last year. Spurred by such results, Activision believes it remains on track for revenue of $4.05 billion USD by the end of the 2009 calendar year.

CEO Bobby Kotick attributes this turnaround in profit to the performance ofits Guitar Hero, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and Call of Duty franchises. Blizzard's World of Warcraft also managed to deliver the goods during the third quarter.

Activision is certainly not unaware of the concerns raised elsewhere regarding the sustainability of its music game business, especially after the lukewarm reception to DJ Hero at launch. Sales for music peripheral bundles in North America are also stabilizing, as fans who already have the relevant instrument controllers increasingly opt for software-only packages. CFO Thomas Tippl not only believes things will be just fine, but in fact predicts even better holiday season sales for its lineup of music games than last year. The company continues to count on an engaged fanbase on the PS3 and Xbox 360 to help carry its music games through.

Source:Reuters

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Dragon Age: Origins PC patch 1.01 released

Fresh on the shelves, BioWare has already released the first patch for its highly praised RPG Dragon Age: Orgins, taking things up to version 1.01.

As you'd guess by the version number, this isn't a major update, but is welcome nonetheless. Included are mostly minor bug fixes, though one major for users playing with a very large display. The other notable bit is the tweaking of difficulty. As noted in our review, the game is quite challenging; BioWare have seen fit to tone down the Normal and Easy difficulties a bit.

Release notes are below; grab the 13MB file at the source.

Patch details:fixed potential corruption of character statisticsfixed portrait appearance sliders when importing a character from the downloadable Character Creatorfixed import for preset face settings from the downloadable Character Creatormade Easy difficulty easierslightly increased attack, defense, and damage scores for all party members at Normal difficultyfixed video issues when running on a very wide screen display, including ATI Eyefinity displays

Source:BioWare Social Network

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Warhammer Online Endless Free Trial Launches

Spreading the good news today, Mythic Entertainment has announced that they've launched an "Endless Free Trial" for their hit MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Replacing the 10-day trial, this Endless trial removes the time limit and offers access to all 24 careers and Tier 1 content, including the newly added Hunter’s Vale dungeon and instanced PvP scenarios. Here's a little snippet from the press release:

“With the introduction of the endless free trial and streaming client, we are making it easier than ever for a new player to join the WAR,” said Jeff Hickman, executive producer, Mythic Entertainment. “We’ve worked hard to create a more informative and community driven new user experience, and now we are giving players an unlimited amount of time to explore the early parts of the game at their own pace. We are confident that players new and old will find all the enhancements we’ve made to WAR over the past year worthy of their time and commitment.”

Interested in checking it out? Then click2083 here to get started!

Torchlight Patch v1.2 Released

Getting in on the action tonight, Runic Games have released a new patch (v1.2) for their hit Action-RPG, Torchlight. In addition to the usual laundry list of bug fixes and gameplay tweaks, this 418MB update features major load time improvements and adds the ability to change the game's difficulty level on the fly. You can check out the full changelog right here or just hit-up any of the following websites to start downloading:

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Note: If you bought the game th201drough a digital distribution outlet, be sure to grab the patch through them.

Combat Arms "Grave Digger" trailer released

Four billion player kills in one year is quite a feat, especially for a free-to-play FPS. Well, Combat Arms is still pushing that figure and has gotten its 16th map now with "Grave Digger."

A new trailer showcasing the map was just released, composed of compiled gameplay footage.

On top of the previously announced four billion kills, Nexon also noted that 1.5B grenades have been tossed, with 240 million hitting their mark. Ah yes, only in the gaming industry would you brag about having wracked up billions of deaths.

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