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“Attention all competitors: This is your one minute warning. I repeat, one minute until race commencement. Members of the public: You now have one minute to reach minimum safe distance!”

Thus began the introduction to the original Carmageddon.

Now, almost 15 years after that first warning announcement, Stainless Games are pleased to be able to give advanced notification to all those of a nervous disposition that the Carmageddon racers are back. And just for the record – the break hasn’t done anything to improve their road manners.

Today, the team who developed that first game have finally been reunited with their creation. Carmageddon has come home.

Stainless Games is in the early stages of designing the next instalment of the Carmageddon series; Carmageddon: Reincarnation. As the game develops, you’ll be able to follow progress in the Blog.

Early prototype in-game screenshots:

The game was first announced at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards show (VGAs) with a trailer demonstrating Tony Hawk skating around the Woodland Hills Warehouse (the first stage of the original game). It is the first Tony Hawk's game on consoles that will be offered exclusively as a downloadable game. It is a return to the gameplay of the original games in the series, predating Tony Hawk: Ride, and as such will only be played using a standard controller.

The game is not an HD porting of the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, but rather an amalgamation of levels collected from the first two installments, remade in a completely new engine for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Yesterday Tony Hawk himself tweeted that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD will launch in June, a specific date has still not been announced.

Activision is now hosting a Free Weekend for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), All you need to participate is to have Steam installed, once you do click here to download the game and start playing.

System requirements:

• Operating system: Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom X3 8750 processor or better
• Memory: 2 GB RAM or better
• Graphics: 256 MB Pixel Shader 3.0 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT/ATI Radeon X1950 or better)

Ill be having a go to see how it compares to the 360 version, is anyone interested who doesn't yet own MW3?

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II is the second part of the episodic game Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and is slated to be released sometime in 2012.

At midnight EST on April 21st, Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II was made available for pre-order on the Steam store. Users who preordered the game found that they were able to download and play this build of the game. This security hole was fixed the following morning, and users who preordered the game afterwards could not download the game. Those who had previously downloaded it are locked out once their Steam library updates (via restarting Steam, for instance), thus making the game unplayable without use of a crack. However, the game has since been cracked and is available for all to try.

The Beta 8 build appears to be mostly complete and is fully playable, however has a few issues:

• Certain textures in Sylvania Castle Zone often fail to load, resulting in flat white geometry.
• The game crashes upon switching windows if run in full-screen mode.
• Pressing 0 on the keyboard (or LT on an Xbox 360 controller) increases the number of rings in stock by 99. This can be used to easily increase lives.

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XBMC 11.0, the popular open source, multi platform media center application has been released.

Major milestones in this release include vast improvements in Confluence (the default skin), massive speed increases via features like Dirty-region rendering and the new JPEG decoder, a simpler, better library, movie set scraping, additional protocol handling, better networking support, better handling of unencrypted BluRay content and structures, adjustable display refresh rate in OSX (to match the already available feature in Windows and Linux), AirPlay support, an upgraded weather service with geoip lookup, and much, much more. Check out the highlights in the summarized changelog.


In addition to many software improvements, the XBMC team has increased hardware support since version 10.1 was released. Eden marks the first in-sync stable release for the Apple TV2, iPad, and other iOS devices. The team has vastly improved the method by which input is handled, including heavily upgrading JSON-RPC support, making remote control support much, MUCH simpler in Windows, and enabling unique methods of device communication with hardware. And now even AMD devices are supported for GPU video decoding in Linux to some extent, thanks to the inclusion of VAAPI.

Beyond XBMC 11 for Windows, Linux, OSX, and iOS, the XBMC team are also happy to announce XBMCbuntu Final.

XBMCbuntu is very similar to past versions of XBMC Live. By default, the user boots directly into XBMC, and if he/she chooses, he or she will never see the underlying OS. However, unlike Live, XBMCbuntu is now built upon a full LXDE desktop environment, which has a web browser (Chromium) with a fully updated (and updatable) version of Flash built-in and a GUI package manager ready to install and update all of the normal Ubuntu programs a typical Linux user might use. The user may now toggle between XBMC, which auto-starts, and a normal desktop if he or she chooses. And, perhaps most exciting for many users, XBMC will now be upgradeable, both from command line and from the GUI package manager, without fear of crashing the XBMC experience.

Naturally, those users who do not want to see the desktop will never need to. When you boot your computer, you will be booted directly into the XBMC homescreen, just as you are right now. The only clear difference is the new power underneath the hood. Those users who have already installed the Beta version of XBMCbuntu can upgrade to final using the apt-get upgrade commands.

Download XBMC 11.0 Eden now!