A nifty modder who goes by the tag Steaky has released the first Team Fortress 2 mod worth downloading,  The Great Class Dash.

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Late last night Valve announced that it has updated Team Fortress 2 to now allow user made items.

Since that announcement, people have already been finding all kinds of new items including: new outfits for every class, new melee weapons for the Demoman, soldier and Pyro, and a new snack for the Heavy. Read more… »

Rockstar has announced today that the long awaited port of Episodes From Liberty City for PS3 and PC has been given a last-minute delay, and will now be released on April 13th in North America and April 16th in Europe.

Previously stated for a March 30th release, Rockstar cited “a request by Sony Europe to make some minor content changes to the PAL PS3 version of the game” for the delay, but maintain that “the minor changes made to the game will not affect the gamers enjoyment of the games, these will not affect any gameplay elements and were not related to any local ratings requirements.”

For further details about the delay, head over to Rockstar Games for the full announcement. While the delay could be much worse, it’s still disappointing news nonetheless.

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Today EA announced that Black Box’s PC exclusive free-to-play MMO racer Need for Speed World will launch sometime this summer.

According to the press release: “Need for Speed World brings together best in class action racing with an unparalleled social experience. For the first time in a racing game, players will be able to compete against any one of their friends, family or pick from thousands of top ranked players to challenge in intense online battles and police pursuits across 150 miles of sprawling open world. Need for Speed World takes the well known and popular cities from Need for Speed Most Wanted and Need for Speed Carbon to create the biggest, most exciting race world ever released in the Need for Speed universe.” Read more… »

Today Bethesda Softworks announced that it has teamed up with developer inXile Entertainment to publish a new “third-person co-op fantasy action game” for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Dubbed Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, the new game promises to be a throw-back to the dungeon crawler days of yore combined “with the intensity and action of a modern-day shooter.”

Players will be able to pick one of two characters: a sword-wielding warrior named Caddoc and a bow specialist Elara. While either of these characters are capable on their own, inXile has designed the game so that the two work best together, hence the co-op feature. Read more… »

If you are one of the millions of people who are still playing Modern Warfare 2, even though its multiplayer is broken beyond repair, then this is your lucky day.  Details and pricing for the game’s first downloadable map pack have been released, and it appears that killing has a steep price tag attached to it.

For the completely absurd price of $15 (1200 MS Points), you’ll be able to slaughter your enemies in one of five new maps, two of which are actually “slightly reworked” maps from the original Modern Warfare.  Xbox 360 owners will get first dibs at this DLC when it launches on March 30th, followed by the PS3 and PC versions which will be available at some undisclosed date in April.

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Today Telltale Games announced that a new season of its popular episodic adventure game series Sam & Max will kick off on April 15. Dubbed ‘The Devil’s Playhouse,’ the new season will include five episodes, with a new one released each month.

The first episode, titled ‘The Penzal Zone,’ follows the premise that “Max has been bestowed with a set of powerful psychic abilities from an unusual ancient source that he’ll wield against the strongest and strangest foes the Freelance Police have ever faced.” Read more… »

For those of you who don’t know, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has essentially taken over the lives of many of us here at Gamer Limit.  We all adamantly agree that it’s one of the best multiplayer FPSs to come along in a while.

If you feel the same way as we do, you’ll be happy to hear that DICE and EA plan on supporting the game with lots of extra content.  According to Eric Brown, EA’s chief financial officer, BF: BC2 will receive an “extensive paid digital content plan with players receiving multiple packs of $5, $10 and $15” over the next six months. Read more… »

Today Epic Games announced that it has teamed up with Valve Software to help integrate Valve’s free Steamworks tools into all Unreal Engine 3 licensees.

This means that in the future games that use the Unreal Engine 3, like Batman: Arkham Asylum and BioShock, will be able to utilize some of the features that make Steam so great. These include auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking and a non intrusive DRM (and we all know how important that is). Read more… »

Today game streaming company OnLine announced that their service will be ready to roll out on June 17 for American PC and Mac owners. The company also announced that OnLive will require a $14.95 a month subscription fee.

For those of you who don’t know, OnLive is a new service (currently in beta) that allows users to play games remotely though their web browser. OnLive doesn’t require subscribers to download or install games. Instead, all the processing is handled by the OnLive servers, with the visuals being streamed to gamers. Read more… »

We all knew it was coming, but it’s official now.  Valve – and their shiny Steam boat – are coming to Macs everywhere! It’s planned launch is in April, and Valve’s games – Counter-Strike, Half-Life series, Left 4 Dead 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 – will be ready too.

But, that’s not all they have up their sleeves.  More into after the break. Read more… »

As the IGF looms closer, more and more details are being revealed about the finalists. Today, The EA Partners initiative announced that they’ll be publishing two indie games, both from successful developers. The first is Klei Entertainment’s Shank, and the second is Hothead Games’ Deathspank. Shank is a current IGF finalist in the Visual Art Excellence category.

Both games will be making their way to the Xbox LIVE Arcade and the Playstation Network, with Shank also making its debut on the PC. It’s not surprising that EA wanted to pick up these great games, as Klei Entertainment’s flagship title, Eets! was highly successful on both the PC and the Xbox LIVE arcade.
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