Silkroad Online gets a new expansion

Silkroad Online, the popular MMMORPG is getting a new expansion; named Legend III Roc Mountain, the new expansion will give players a new area to play around, alongside an increase level-up cap, new monsters, new items and new quests.

Press Release:  

Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, today announced a new expansion for its massively popular free-to-play MMORPG, Silkroad Online. Entitled Legend III Roc Mountain, the expansion will give players access to a mountainous new area west of historical Karakoram, and promise high-altitude adventure amongst the desolate peaks and rocky terrain. Treacherous new monsters that call the forbidding mountain ranges home will challenge even the bravest and most seasoned of adventurers as they take on epic quests to obtain the most precious armor, weapons, and shields available in the magical world of Silkroad Online. Read more

World of Warcraft v2.4.2 Patch

Blizzard has issued an update for their crazy-popular MMO: World of Warcraft.

Druids

• Talent: Primal Fury (Rank 2) will now be properly unlearned when it is untalented.
• Talent: (Restoration)- Natural Perfection will no longer proc by normal melee attacks.

Full patch notes & download links after the jump.

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Space Force - Rogue Universe v1.2 Patch

JoWooD’s space fighting sim has gotten an update. Space Force - Rogue Universe can now be updated to v1.2 via the newly available patch. Release notes below:

RELEASE NOTES:

FIXES
- fixed bug with text,shield and armor overlapping on wingman list
- fixed wrong text displaying locked ship’s distance (near lock rectangle)
- fixed crash when matching a speed with a building or a turret
- fixed bug where second tutorial stage was accidentally skipped
- fixed bug where materials were illegal goods on pirate stations
- fixed crash caused by mine destruction
- fixed bug with clearing the lower right corner of the mini map
- fixed some bugs with overlappig text in few localisations
- fixed bug with volumetric fog, shader 3.0, HDR and star effect where half
of the screen become white
- fixed bug with makkinist huge armor and shield
- added few CPU and GPU optimisations
- added few missing effect files that can cause a crash
- fixed bug with effect that stay in space after object destruction
- fixed bug with time device and normal fire rate (player will now fire in normal
rate while in time device mode)
- HUD now contains distance that tells you how far the closest enemy missle is

FEATURES
- ship durability price is now 5% of ship full price

MODDING
- added weapon heat time vars in GlobalData.cfg

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Warhammer: Dawn of War 2 Coming 2009

A belgian magazine,PCGameplay has details of Relic’s upcoming RTS, Dawn of War 2! Dawn of War 2 has been in development since September 2006 and is scheduled for a 2009 release. Here’s a snip from the magazine:

- Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
- It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- [b]While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH[ it won't be "CoH in space",/B] while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn’t known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); “Let’s pimp out squads with cool stuff!”, you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You’ll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- You can’t control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn’t.
- The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don’t treat them like cannon fodder.
- There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like “Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!”. The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn’t have the hammer.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won’t be useable at once in the campaign, so they’ll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
- Release in early 2009 or later.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl v1.0006 Patch

GSC Game World has released a new patch for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, the update brings the version number to v1.0006 and fixes multiplayer bugs and adds the anti-cheat BattleEye system. Full release notes and download links after the jump.

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Company of Heroes: Gold Edition now available on steam

Now available on Steam, Company of Heroes: Gold Edition bundles the award-winning real-time strategy game, Company of Heroes, and its expansion, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, for the low price of $39.95.

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