Tactical Gamer Weekly News: April 27, 2006

[Mateo]

Just in case you get bored of the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter Demo, here is what else is going on this week!

Tactical Gamer Events

• 04-27-2006 Thu: Dystopia Night, Ghost Recon Night, Red Orchestra "Tanks Only" Night, Tactical Mod for BF2 on Server #1
• 04-28-2006 Fri: America's Army Night, Counter-Strike: Source PCS Proven Night
• 04-29-2006 Sat: Natural Selection HLTV Session, Tactical Poker
• 04-30-2006 Sun: Day of Defeat: Source Night, Game Club (SWAT 4), Tactical Mod for BF2 on Server #1
• 05-01-2006 Mon: BF2 Private Server Night, Dystopia Night, Ghost Recon Night, SWAT 4 Night
• 05-02-2006 Tue: Call of Duty 2 Night, Counter-Strike: Source PCS Proven Night
• 05-03-2006 Wed: BF2 Scrim vs. MA, Red Orchestra Night

Tactical Gamer News

• H-Hour has released a new coop mission pack for Ghost Recon, entitled Coop Pack 1.
• Tactical Gamer is testing v2.0 of the Tactical Gamer Weapons mod for Call of Duty 2.
• Tactical Mod for BF2 will be mentioned in this weekend's Battlefield Podcast.

Game Industry News

• Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends gone gold. Release date is 5/9.
• SiN Episodes: Emergence has also gone gold. Release date is 5/10.
• Marvel and Activision announce an un-holy Alliance. 140 characters? That's alot of spandex!
• Prey gets a release date: July 10. Pre-order plan is also announced.
• Heroes of Annihilated Empires offers public beta.
• Gabe says "Hell no! Ok we'll go".
• Blizzard dishes on World of Warcraft Patch 1.11.
• Microsoft goes Massive.
• Strategy First picks up Alliance Future Combat.
• That sound you hear is the anguished cries of Linux and OSX Gamers.

New Demos

• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Available here.

Mod News

• The SSF SWAT 4 Clan, makers of the excellent Realism series of mods, has made a realism mod for SWAT 4: The Stetchkov Syndicate entitled SSF Realism Mod v3.0.
• Battleracer 1.2 For BF2 Released.
• The Hidden Source beta 3.0 released.

Patches

• Neverwinter Nights and Expansions patched to 1.67.
• F.E.A.R. patched to 1.04.

Shipping

• Shadowgrounds. 4/25
• Guild Wars: Factions. 4/28
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Due 5/8, preorders appear to be shipping.

Thanks to Strag, Asch, Magnum, and the entire Content Development team for the assist! See you next week!