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Information for the masses is what Google provides. Or at least a way of searching through it. Now we have them to thank for sharing this info with us: tank exploits 🙁 The video shows enough for a BF2 player to recognize an exploiter, so hopefully this will clue up some clueless admins and give people a chance to get some evidence to report those taking advantage of the bug.
Well, it seems we have more proof that the changes to Battlefield 2 in the 1.2 are for real, and that UAVs can (unfortunately) be shot down. Videos released from PlanetBattlefield and BF2.se show the UAV (and other features) in action.
Edit: Kenny found us some video footage of the new unlocks in action
Edit #2: Alpha Test summary from BF2.se
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The good folks at SiteAdvisor have put in a good bit of work in checking 140,000 downloads from over a million sites to find and rate the “best of the worst” sites and downloads when it comes to adware.Read More »SiteAdvisor samples nearly 150,000 downloads for malware
Further to Kenny’s post, it seems there has been a leak of some additional patch information, along with some pictures.Read More »Update to Battlefield 1.2 Patch
Any counterstrike player will be familiar with the experience of joining a server, loading up the map, and seeing a few changes. Like seeing a massive floating banner for whatever clan it is that runs the server. Normally these are just a minor irritation.Read More »Valve gets hot over in-game ads
“…and in other news, there was a pointless post on ‘Bertie Baggio’s Wonderland’ shortly after the news of our top story broke.”
Microsoft’s Kevin Collins was surprised as a HD-DVD player he was demoing failed to work at CES yesterday. Of course, this isn’t the first time a Microsoft executive has been embarrassed at a tech demo (thanks to the ever-keen-to-bash-MS users at /. for the link!).Read More »HD-DVD tech demo fails at CES
The folks at Microsoft’s “Linux and Open Source Lab” have done a ‘study‘ (and I use the term as loosely as possible here) to “dispel the myth that Linux will run on legacy hardware”. They claim their sudy shows more or less that Windows runs as well as Linux on legacy hardware. Interesting.Read More »Microsoft releases more propaganda; some surprised
In the upcoming format war, the winner will likely be decided by capacity, speed, coolness of name, and avaliability. So InPhase’s 300Gb Holographic drive is… Read More »InPhase says “Mine's bigger”