“Today we unveil LOTRO’s second major expansion and let players enter the legendary forest of Mirkwood and experience the climax and conclusion to Volume II of our epic story,” said Jeffrey Steefel, Executive Producer of The Lord of the Rings Online. “The response from our players and the press has been nothing short of outstanding and serve as a real validation of LOTRO’s position as one of the world’s premium online games.”

SEGA today announced that the 1 VS 1 Campaign Multiplayer Open Beta of the critically acclaimed Empire: Total War™ will be available to all Empire: Total War consumers globally on December 7th via STEAM. This Multiplayer Beta will allow 2 players to go head to head or cooperative against the AI on the full campaign map of Empire: Total War, including all 3 theaters of war. The free Campaign Multiplayer Beta is only available for owners of Empire: Total War, to get access sign up for the Beta Program on www.totalwar.com.

“After over 6 months of internal testing, we’re happy to finally give all players of Empire: Total War a taste of the future of Total War,” says Mike Simpson, Creative Director at the Creative Assembly, “Information and user feedback gathered from this Open Beta should help us getting the Campaign Multiplayer mode ready to be a regular feature in upcoming titles in the Total War series”

Also on December 7th, the Elite Units of the America Downloadable Content for Empire: Total War will be released, adding 15 new elite units to the American, British and French factions of Empire: Total War. In the last half of the 18th century, the political upheaval from thirteen of the British Colonies in North America ultimately led to the 1776 Declaration of Independence and changed history for ever. The 15 units from the Elite Units of America Downloadable Content have all played a major part in the American Revolution. Though their background owes a lot to European military traditions, their identity is tied to the destiny of the United States, and gave these men courage and audacity like no other soldier on the battlefields. The Elite Units of America are only available via STEAM for the price of $3.25.

Empire: Total War is set in the 18th century, a turbulent era that is the most requested by Total War’s loyal fan base and a period alive with global conflict, revolutionary fervour and technological advances. Empire: Total War was released on March 6th, 2009 and was expanded this October with The Warpath Campaign.

Players will have the opportunity to take on this challenge as either Richard the Lionheart, set to invade and take back the treasured Holy Land once and for all, or as the great Saladin, who patiently waits and prepares his people for the oncoming invasion.

Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade invites players to rewrite history through controlling and upgrading leaders and their armies, guiding various historical factions through political events, collecting relics, and unlocking new content in a feature-rich campaign set to take on the strategy genre by force.

Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade Features:
Play through two single-player campaigns – Crusader and Saracen
Oversee hundreds of soldiers in real-time epic battles
Command your forces, conquer territory, and expand your realm on a fully 3D map
Strategically manage your army between missions
Rewrite the past by playing as famous historical characters serving as the main heroes

Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade will be available in Q2 of 2010.

The Team Racing mode brings a fresh new challenge to SHIFT by completely redefining online racing. In this mode, two teams of up to six racers will battle against each other for online supremacy. Individual driving strategy and playing it safe won’t work as team tactics and 200 mph split-second decisions are required to push your team to the podium.

As part of the new content, players will also get access to these legendary racers:

1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
1967 Shelby GT-500
1969 Dodge Charger R/T
1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV

The pack will be released for the PlayStation3 on December 3rd in Europe and on December 10th in North America.

“This is our vision of the American West: beautiful, bloody and action-packed. The game is a true epic, and has been developed with the same production values and attention to detail we put into all our projects,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “Red Dead Redemption represents another milestone for us in the development of open world games.”

Red Dead Redemption recreates the American West at the turn of the 20th century: a violent and turbulent time of rapid growth and change. Players become the partially reformed outlaw John Marston; blackmailed by the government, his family threatened as he is forced to traverse the vast and unforgiving expanses of the Western frontier in search of members of his former gang. In a dangerous world full of opportunistic criminals, corrupt officials and settlers battling the elements in a struggle to survive, Marston’s journey takes him from the dusty and lawless frontier to the civilized towns of the North, and down into a Mexico on the brink of a full-scale civil war.

Developed by Rockstar San Diego in conjunction with Rockstar North, Red Dead Redemption is built on the internally developed Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) and Natural Motion’s Euphoria physics featured in Grand Theft Auto IV and Midnight Club: Los Angeles for an unprecedented level of realism and atmosphere.

To enable the Painkiller Cheat mode upon starting play press the tilde(~) to enter the console. It is located directly below the esc key on most keyboards. Once you’re in the console you can enter the cheat code for the desired effect.

Painkiller Cheat Codes: Code – Effect:

PKALWAYSGIB – Turns ‘excessive gibbage’ on/off
PKAMMO – Gives player full ammo
PKDEMON – Turns ‘demon morph’ on/off
PKGOD – Turns ‘god mode’ on/off
PKGOLD – Gives player a lot of gold
PKHASTE – Turns ‘haste’ on/off
PKKEEPBODIES – Turns ‘bodies will never disappear’ on/off
PKKEEPDECALS – Turns ‘decals will never disappear’ on/off
PKPOWER – Gives player full ammo and health
PKWEAKENEMIES – Turns ‘enemies get 1 health point’ on/off
PKWEAPONS – Gives player all weapons
PKWEAPONMODIFIER – Turns ‘weapon modifier mode’ on/off
WEAPONSPECULAR – Turns ‘weapon specular’ on/off. Press 1 and 0 to toggle.

Weapon Names:

All weapons and items must be entered in the form of weapon_ or item_
i.e. give weapon_crowbar
Weapon Names:
alyxgun, ar1, ar2, brickbat, bugbait, cguard, crowbar, extinguisher, flaregun, frag, gauss, hopwire, iceaxe, physcannon, physgun, pistol, rpg, shotgun, smg1, smg2, stickylauncher, stunstick, thumper, sniperrifle, rollerwand, molotov, manhack, immolator, irifle, slam, hmg1

Half-Life 2 Cheat Codes:

Cheat – Effect
god – God Mode
notarget – Enemies Ignore You
noclip – No Clipping Mode
give – Get Item
hurtme – Damage Player
impulse 101 – Give All Weapons
impulse 102 – Skulls
impulse 76 – Grunt
impulse 82 – Spawn a Jeep
impulse 83 – Spawn Airboat
buddha – Reduce Health
maps – List Maps
npc_kill – Kill All NPCs in Area
npc_create – Creates an NPC
npc_create_aimed – Creates an NPC aiming away from the player.
hud_quickhelp/text? 1 – Shows crosshair
ch_createairboat – Spawn Airboat
map – Load Specific Map
cl_drawhud 1 – Toggle HUD display On
cl_enablehud 1 – Toggle HUD display On
cl_showfps 1 – Shows FPS Rate
setpos – Move player to specified origin
sv_gravity # – Set Gravity (# = number)
sv_stopspeed # – Set Minimum Stopping Speed on Ground (# = number)
sv_friction # – Set World Friction (# = number)
sv_bounce # – Sets bounce multiplier for physically object collisions (# = number)
sv_maxvelocity # – Sets Maximum Velocity of moving object (# = number)
sv_waterdist # – Set Vertical View when eyes are near water plane. (# = number)
air_density # – Change the density of air. (# = number)

General Game Play Cheat:
boooooring – speed up game play
gesundherit – full health
ifiwerearichman – more money
ilikedressingup – change clothes
ilikescotland – cloudy weather
ilovescotland – rain
itsallgoingmaad – crazy pedstrians
madweather – speedy game clock
morepoliceplease – level up
nastylimbscheat – more violence/gore
nobodylikesme – pedestrians attack
nopoliceplease – level down
peasoup – fog
skincancerforme – sunny weather
timeflieswhenyou – speed up game
tortoise – armor.

Cheat Codes:

Code/Effect

god_mode_count=1/God Mode

give_all_weapons=1/Gives all weapons

give_all_ammo=1/Gives ammunition

Video Game Strategies:

There is another method to enable cheats in Far Cry be sure to check out About.com’s Video Game Strategies site via the link to the right in the link box.

Cheat Codes:

Code – Effect
aviDemo – Saves a demo of your game to an AVI file
benchmark – Game benchmark
com_showfps 1 – Show FPS view
doomhell – Jump to the last level of game
freeze – Freezes everything
g_showprojectilepct 1 – Adds hit % to HUD (use 0 to disable this code)
gfxinfo – Tells graphics card infomation
give all – Give you all weapons and ammo
give ammo – Full ammo
give doom95 – Load the 1995 version of Doom
give keys – All keys
give pda – PDA
give weapon_bfg – BFG
give weapon_shotgun – Shotgun
give weapon_chainsaw – Chainsaw
give weapon_plasmagun – Plasmagun
give weapon_machinegun – Machinegun
give weapon_rocketlauncher – Rocket launcher
god – God mode
killmonsters – Kills all monsters
kill – Suicide
map [map name] – Loads a map
noclip – No clip
notarget – Invisibility
quit – Quit game
r_brightness [number] – Set brightness level
r_gamma [0-3] – Set gamma level
s_volume_db [number] – Set sound volume (default is 0)
s_showlevelmeter 1 – Toggle sound level display
spawn [character name] – Spawn a character
status – Shows game status
timedemo demo1.demo – Benchmark test.