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we've seen a number of free-to-play first-person shooters launched over the past couple years, but none of them have caught our eye like Crytek's in-development Cry Engine 3-powered shooter, Warface. Funny name, great looking game.

PC World directs us to Crytek's under-the-radar project, which the studio claims will deliver the next-gen of F2P shooters. Set in a war-torn future, Warface will feature story-based, co-op multiplayer PvE content as well as the PvP modes shooter fans would expect. See Warface in action below:



"With Warface we aim to become the next-gen of free to play shooters that are on par with traditional AAA games in terms of quality," Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli said in a statement. "It's the next logical step for us to bring this new IP to a global audience and thus to our worldwide community."

Warface has a release date of TBA 2012. Learn more at
Warface.com.

It's been a long time coming (somewhere in the order of seven years, by my count), but Alan Wake is finally getting released on PC next month. Remedy's critically acclaimed third-person thriller will launch on Steam in February, and will come bundled with two DLC packs: The Signal and The Writer.

Remedy has also updated its Alan Wake community forum with the PC version's minimum system requirements:

OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7 (see below for Windows XP)

PROCESSOR: A dual core processor is required:
- AMD: Athlon X2 2.8GHz
- Intel: Core 2 Duo 2GHz

MEMORY: 2 GB

HARD DRIVE: 8 GB

VIDEO CARD: DirectX 10 compatible or later with 512MB RAM

- AMD: ATI Radeon 3650, 4450, 5550, 6450 or higher (per series)

- NVIDIA: GeForce 8600GT, 9500GT, GT120, GT430, GT520 (per series)

SOUND CARD: DirectX 9.0c compatible

INPUT: Mouse and keyboard, Xbox360 controller also supported

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As for graphical tweaking and customizations, this is what PC users can expect:

"We are still finalising the options, but the players can naturally adjust resolution, run in full screen or windowed and change numerous graphics quality settings such as anti-aliasing, FXAA, shadow quality, draw distance and so on."

"The players can also turn off the HUD if they wish. This was a feature many of our fans wanted for Alan Wake Xbox360."

Remedy says it has no plans to release the game's modding tools, or make a demo available. The price of Alan Wake on PC "will be announced soon, a bit closer to release."

Thanks, Joystiq via Blue's News.

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An investigative forum user over at NeoGAF has uncovered some interesting information about Eidos Montreal's upcoming addition to the Thief franchise, Thief 4 (or Thi4f... as it's sometimes called in geek speak). According to the resumes of a few outspoken Eidos employees, the stealth game will feature some kind of online mode and will also utilize the popular Unreal Engine 3.

Unfortunately, no more information is forthcoming. The so-called "online" mode, which is mentioned in this particular Eidos employee's linkedin profile, could conceivably be a multiplayer mode... but it could also be something entirely different.

As for the game's graphical engine, a few employees mention "working with the Unreal-Engine" while developing Thief 4. This is the same engine that has been used to power Batman: Arkham City and Mass Effect 3, among others.

Thief 4 was originally announced in May 2009, but since then we have heard next to nothing about its development, much to the chagrin of Thief fans (like myself).

The last Thief game to be released was Thief: Deadly Shadows in 2004. As yet, no game in the series has ever featured a multiplayer component... although a fan-made multiplayer mod for Thief 2 does exist.

Kinda been slacking on the news while the holiday season has kept me busy in real life but heres a big one! The official Prometheus trailer has been released to the masses. Enough reading, watch!





Wow. I mean yeah I know it does not show much in terms of plot, but that trailer is heavy on atmosphere. I love it. Bonus points to those who can pick out the Space Jockey pilot seat in the trailer . Oh, and secondary points go to those who spot the derelict.

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New game is a change of pace for Epic

Anyone else get a Minecraft vibe after watching that Fortnite trailer? Obviously it's too early to tell how the game will really play, but it does have a striking resemblance to Minecraft's survival mode. In that game mode, you need to go out during the day to collect enough resources to prepare for the night, typically building whatever make-shift shelter you can manage. Only then can you survive an evening full of zombies and other creatures. That's exactly what Fortnite looks like -- and we like it. No word if this is coming out for PC, but we sure hope it is.

Gabe Newell and Valve do love to tease, don't they? While at a developer event in Seattle last night, Uber Entertainment's (Super Monday Night Combat) Chandana Ekanayake snapped a photo of a Valve employee wearing a Half-Life 3 T-shirt. Trolling or evidence that the long awaited next chapter in Gordon Freeman's adventure will be announced soon?

Ekanayake posted the pic on his Twitter account, stating: "All I'm saying is I saw this at a local game developer event worn by a Valve employee."

- Chandana Ekanayake

Answering questions from those who spotted the tweet, Ekanayake replied, "I asked him if it was OK to take the photo and he was cool with it. You never know with Valve."

"I did try to smother my face in his chest on the HL3 logo. He didn't even spoon me back. Jerk."

"We get together with other local Seattle devs every first Thursday of the month to have a beer and chat."

No word yet from Valve on Half-Life 3.

YouTube member ParadiseDecay is making waves across the industry with a video he created using the popular sandbox game. In fact, he recreated the entire Death Star run from the original Star Wars movie (aka Episode 4, A New Hope). Naturally there's nothing really moving save for the camera panning in and out of the set and the occasional wandering zombie, and the special effects are down to one or two explosions at best. Still, it's a great use of "camera work" and excellent -- if not extremely patient -- set building.

Torches lighting up the interior of Darth Vader's TIE Fighter = too funny. Zombies walking across the face of the Death Star = priceless.