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Today, the Total Gaming Network has received word of the launch of World at War's second campaign.

Looking for organized play? Looking for brand-new custom FH2 maps that take you out of the desert sand? Looking for a community of gamers who will challenge and respect you? Look no further than World at War. World at War is kicking off their 16th campaign, and we want YOU to be a part of the number one tournament for Forgotten Hope 2.

The World at War Tournament has been producing the best team play on the Battlefield platform for over five years. Tried and tested in FH2, WaW is starting the second campaign to feature the newest version of Forgotten Hope, with the addition of custom maps made by an experienced map team. In the tournaments sixteenth campaign, the British 52nd "Thundering Tartan's" Division stands up against the German 51stFallschirmjäger-Division "Merkur." Leading each division will be veteran generals each with a command staff hand-picked to be the best of the best.

What can the World at War Tournament offer you?
- Massive 11-hour 64-player engagements every Saturday. Battle when you can, leave when you have to. Organized engagements allows you to play the game the way it was meant to be played.

- A thriving community of diverse gamers, including players from around the world.

- A complete gaming experience. Relive World War II as if you were there. Historical rank structures, accurate badges and medals, and intuitive strategies make the World at War tournament like no other.

The First Strike mod team is back today with a new map preview for their upcoming v1.2. Take a look:

Hey guys, we’re quite sorry about the delay on this update, but the stuff we wanted to show off wasn’t quite ready to show off. We won’t let that happen again. Anyhow, I have a few things for you today. First off is some great music created by steb74. These pieces will be featured on our previously announced map, Battle of Yavin. If you missed the initial announcement for Battle of Yavin, you can check out the old news post here.

So, without further ado, this first piece is what you will be presented with as your map loads: mp3

This second piece is an appropriately dark fanfare that you will hear if the Empire successfully destroys Yavin IV: mp3

And finally, a beautiful fanfare that you will hear should the Rebel’s accomplish the impossible and blow up the Empire’s technological menace: mp3

Secondly, I have a new map to reveal to you. This map is one of two that will take place on the planet Rhen Var in the upcoming release and is known as “Rhen Var Research Facility”. It’s quite a different experience when compared to your standard battlefield map, but an incredibly fun one as well. The level takes place in a heavy blizzard with a very low level of visibility, creating a lot of large firefights around the various control points causing you to constantly be at the ready as you never know when you might bump into a squad of Snowtroopers.

For more information on this new map being shown be sure to visit their website.

The Operation Peacekeeper mod team is back today with their latest media update. Here's what they had to say:

The LMG72 was announced a long time ago with some renderpictures. After we passed some problems with inlcuding this toy we managed to give it the last finish.

We hope that we can start a big test with some clans in the next week. At the moment we´re testing the first internal "releasecandidate" to detect the last major bugs.

The 0.25 will be ready for delivery to you in the next few weeks. Although the summer is inviting us to go swimming or to spend a relaxed barbecue evening with some friends we always get back to our PCs and complete the 0.25.

Nervertheless developing still continues and over Pentecost the major problems should be solved. In the following we are looking forward to your feature requests and wishes. And be assured: the 0.25 will contain some surprises for you.

To check out the rest of the new media released in this update, click here.

The guys over at Bit-Tech have posted up a new interview today with Bad Company developer Jamie Keen. Take a look:

BT: Now, the thing that puzzles me about Bad Company is that this is a series that is known primarily for the multiplayer. Why are you trying to put a singleplayer aspect in at all?

JK: It’s kind of the next step for us I think. A core part of doing a console game is giving a good, solid singleplayer performance. It’s been a real challenge for us making this game and we’ve always been interested in pushing the envelope in all areas, so while multiplayer has been important in the past we also wanted to have a go at this.

BT: So you’re just up for the challenge then?

JK: Basically yeah – why not? Bring it on.

BT: And I imagine one of the biggest challenges has got to be designing maps with destructible environments. Normal maps can be made of just connected rooms, but with destructible environments you have to bear in mind that the player can just blow holes in the walls and cut their own paths.

JK: Absolutely definitely. Especially when you think of the scale of maps we’re using here in Bad Company because these are really wide areas and are much bigger than the types of levels you’ll see in a lot of other games. Adding destruction to it is, like you said, very difficult. It adds a whole new area to design.

To check out the rest of this new interview be sure to visit here.

It was just before dawn, all was quiet on the shores of Erhai Lake, but not all was well. The orange rising sun should have been a warning sign to the locals as they began hearing the rumblings of war as the land slowly became basked in full light. The Special Forces Team from the Western Coalition had already been airborne in their Sikorsky Nighthawk, a blackened, long-range version of the Blackhawk, approaching their LZ, an island in the middle of the lake with a strategic AA emplacement to control the region.

But the Red Star army was well prepared for this day, and fighting exploded on the Island, downing the WC Special Forces helo with its crew, and quickly the fighting moved along the entire shoreline of Erhai Lake.

After 12 hours of fighting, both the WC and the RS had tied! So we had to fight a final round for all the marbles of the battle, to see who would be victorious. Another 30 minute round of All out battle raged, from the A10 bombing the T-90's and T-72's to the Gaskin's shooting the F-16 out of the sky, to the 10 vs. 10 (sometimes more) infantry battles raging below - it was a sight to behold on the BF2 battlefield. In the end, the Western Coalition had the final say, and to the victor goes the spoils.

The WC has already chosen the next place of action, a lonely place called Desert Storm. Some of you may have already heard about it...

This Saturday, beginning at 12 noon EDT, the fight continues at 21st Century Warfare, fighting in BF2 once again. So don't hesitate, enlist now with your favorite army and join the fight!

21st Century Warfare

A new update has been posted today over at the Point of Existence 2 mod website. Here's what they had to say:

We would like to start by talking about some development in POE's Staff. First off, we would like to congratulate Michi.be for his win in the Crysis mapping contest for his map Borderline. Michi.be is leaving POE to continue his work in the Crysis Modding scene. We would like to thank him for his hard work for PoE and wish him the best of luck in the future.

Additionally we welcome a few new members to our team. Gab has joined us as a vehicle modeler and we already have him on his first project. Also joining the team is Dr. Destructo who's work you might have noticed posted in our forums. Dr. Destructo will be joining us as a mapper and static modeler.

Moving on to the fan map pack, we will be releasing it on Wednesday May 14th. The pack contains 7 fan made maps and PoE conversions of BF2 maps.

For more information on the POE2 mod be sure to visit their website.

After a bit of silence, the IDF - Fight for Independence mod team is back today with their latest update. Take a look:

We would like to apologize for the long absence, we moved our homepage and forums to the Black Sand Studios server as we were unable to publish a new update on our old hoster. (note to all webmasters and communites: our domain changed to http://idf.blacksandstudio.com - please update your links!) Anyway, we are still working on our mod - with a very small team, but we are are working. And to everybody who always asked when there will be a version to download: There will be one as soon as we got maps and code, at least we don't have an mapping-artist neither an coder! So here is the call for all modders out there who are interested in helping, please contact us!

And for everybody who just waits for the screens, today we have some first person shots of our hand weapons.

To check out the rest of the new screenshots released in this update, click here.

The Forgotten Hope 2 mod team is back today with some very exciting news. Here's what they had to say:

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope. We've gone without a newsupdate for a while, but today, we've got the news you've all been waiting for - the releasedate of the patch! We've decided to name this new patch Forgotten Hope 2.1 and we're pleased to announce that:

Forgotten Hope 2.1 will be available as an incremental patch to Forgotten Hope 2.0 and as a full download. The patch will be 380 MB and the full install 1462 MB. As usual we've prepared passworded bittorrents and serverfiles, which will be available on Wednesday the 14th of May.

Nearly all the new content has been shown in newsupdates before, but for those interested in the complete list of changes we've compiled a changelog which you can download right now.

That's all for this update, but be sure to come back on Wednesday for the release of the serverfiles and the bittorrents. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel and our public forums to discuss this update and other news.

Great news indeed! Be sure to check back then for the release of this highly anticipated new FH2 version.

There is a new update posted today over on the BattleGroup-Frontlines mod website showing off their latest media. Check it out:

Hello and welcome to a new Battlegroup-Frontlines update. Today we want to show you the first important building for the Battle of Stalingrad. It is the warehouse Univermag which was built next to the famous Red Square and was at one point used as the headquarters of the German 6th Army led by Friedrich Paulus. While the roof became completely destroyed the rest of the construction could resist every attack. After the Battle of Stalingrad it was restored; it can now be visited at its original location and it is still used as a warehouse. The basement in which Paulus seeked security serves as a little war museum now.

We also want to show you some variations of two of the most famous tanks of World War II, namely the T34 and the Panzer IV. The T34 is shown as Models 40, 41 and 43 and the Panzer IV is shown as version F1. The T34 model 40 is a completely redone tank and will replace our old T34. The tanks are showcased on the map "Crossing the Dnjepr 1943" which we turned into a day map due to community requests.

To check out the rest of this new update be sure to visit their website.

The Battlefield 40K mod team has posted up a small update today showing off some new character animation. Take a look:

I have also been discussing new plans with the remaining devs about 6 maps we hope to complete for first release.

The seige of Tarokken V (3 City maps)
• A Tau Etherial has been captured by the Imperial Ordo Xenus that is vital to leading the water caste. Without his leadership the food production has dropped leaving the Tau sect in the star system facing starvation and civil strife.
• The last known intelligence on the where abouts of Etherial points to a city on the Imperial Planet of Tarrokken V.
• Through desperation the Tau Fire Caste with its allies prepares to make landfall and lay bloody sieges upon the Imperial cities in the search to free their spiritual leader.

To learn more about this mod be sure to visit here.