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This Crysis 2 Mod Looks Just A Little Bit Incredible…

Kotaku AU

Crysis 2 looks good now that it’s had its little DirectX 11 patch – right? Wrong. Blackfire’s Mod 2, is a Crysis 2 mod custom designed to make your tearducts leak and your nostrils flare with a strange and intense visual fervour. It looks just a little bit incredible…

It features some incredible new texture work and vastly improved lighting. Head here for all the details on how to install the mod.

BlackFire’s Mod 2 [Crymod]

PC

Valve’s Bringing Dota 2 (And A $US1m Prize) To Gamescom

Valve’s Dota 2 will be officially shown to the public for the first time at this month’s Gamescom convention in Cologne, Germany — the same location that will host the game maker’s first Dota 2 tournament featuring a million dollar prize.

PC

Words With Friends Takes On Your Facebook Friends

Zynga’s scrabble-style word game, Words With Friends is coming to Facebook. Words With Friends will carry over all of the features and functionality from the Android and iOS versions while adding social features. This is the first time Zynga has moved one of their mobile games to Facebook, not the other way around.

August 1, 2011
PC

Hands On With The Diablo III Beta

I have defeated Diablo III‘s Skeleton King and, in doing so, also bested the upcoming Blizzard game’s multiplayer beta. Soon, many of us will have the privilege to do so, hacking and slashing our way through an early portion of the next Diablo, over and over again, seeing its randomness and testing its new improvements.

PC

If It’s A PC Exclusive With No Multiplayer, You Better Believe Hard Reset’s Trailer Is All About Gameplay

The Polish super-team building the cyberpunk FPS Hard Reset must think it’s 1996 or something. The game is a PC exclusive, has no multiplayer, and although it was announced last month, it’s coming out later this year. That’s how things used to get done around here.

PlayStation

Hidden Content Reveals More Cell Phone Pics, PC Aspirations Of Catherine

Probing discs for console games doesn’t usually turn up much, but someone found a ton of extra naughty images of Catherine (such as the three above) and an unused file that hints that Atlus once planned a PC version of the game.

In Real Life

Lawsuit Demands Second Life Horses Be Starved To Death

Second Life’s merits as an actual video game may be debatable but its impact on the economy is not. It has, for example, provided a huge boost to the new markets of virtual sex caskets and imaginary pet food. And ridiculous lawsuits, because America has been lagging other first-world nations in that important economic indicator.

July 30, 2011
PC

iOS’ EDGE Comes To PC And Mac On August 11

EDGE, the critically acclaimed iOS game from 2009 (which also kicked off the eventual downfall of Tim Langdell’s all-encompassing claim to “Edge” as a trademark), is now coming to PC and Mac via Steam. The game will be available on August 11.

PC

Guild Wars 2 Makes Player-Versus-Player Debut At Gamescom

This year’s Gamescom in Germany will play host to a bevy of firsts for ArenaNet’s eagerly anticipated MMO sequel Guild Wars 2, including the playable world premiere of PvP combat. Exactly how jealous should I be?

PC

Download Brink’s Agents Of Change DLC On August 3

The battle for The Ark spills over into the underwater Labs facility and Founders’ Tower on August 3, when the free Agents of Change downloadable content is released for Bethesda’s Brink.

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