Just one word: amazing.

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Another day, another new first person shooter. This action game lets players assume the role of a Russian Special Forces soldier. At your side is a military trained wolf which can aid in your battles for at least 60% of the game.

SPECNAZ is a First Person Tactical Shooter. The main characteristic features are the tactical-action model, which the game provides to the player, as well as giving him/her opportunities for the successful completion of missions without any limitations. Another importnant factor of the game is the Wolf, skills and services of which the player will be able to use within about 60% of the game.

Game Features:

• 5 campaigns (Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Myanmar) with interesting plot
• 31 various missions (8 Iran, 8 Yemen, 7 Afghanistan, 3 Uzbekistan, 6 Myanmar) – you will play in desert, jungle, towns etc.
• 2 game modes (Geroy and Tactical)
• Different environment depending on the time (night, day, early morning, late evening)
• Miscellaneous objectives (eliminating enemies, destroying buildings, retrieving documents and cargo)
• 8 weapons:Primary – AK 47, AS (VAL), OC-14-4A-03 – GROZA, VSS Vintorez, RPG – 18
• Support devices: Sat Cam view, Binocular, Compass, Night Vision – only in night missions
• Interaction with teammates from 3D view or Sat Cam view (only in Tactical mode)

System requirements:

• Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows ME / Windows XP
• Pentium III 733 MHz
• 128 Mb RAM
• 16MB Graphics Card
• 900 Mb of hard disk space
• DirectX 9

Release name: Specnaz_Project_Wolf-PROCYON
Size: 2 CD, 956 MB, 39×15 29×15 MB
Genre: Modern First-Person Shooter
Protection: none
File names: pro-spwa, pro-spwb

Reviews, info: GameSpot, 3DGamers
NFO: N/A
Homepage: here
Developer, distributor: Byte Software, GMX Media
Torrent: here

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Microsoft polished up the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 7 and offered it up today for download as the first release candidate (the step between beta testing and a final version). This new version doesn’t add any new features or major interface changes from the last version. It focuses on bug fixes, along with performance, compatibility and security improvements. You can get RC1 from Microsoft’s IE site for XP SP2, XP 64-bit and 2003 SP1. No release candidate for Vista yet, but Microsoft says “we’re getting close.” The final version is still planned for the fourth quarter later this year.

One little plus over beta 3 is that today’s version will automatically uninstall old betas. This release also adds language support for French and Spanish. The final version will match Windows’ supported languages. If you’re already using an IE7 beta, there’s no reason not to grab RC1. If you’re still using IE 6 for some reason, keep in mind that when IE7 is finished, Microsoft will be distributing it as a high priority update via Automatic Updates. Anyway, Firefox forever!

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Computer peripherals maker Logitech on Thursday announced two new mice that enable users to quickly scroll through long documents and web pages with a flick of its free-spinning scroll wheel. The wheel, dubbed the MicroGear Precision Scroll Wheel, is included in both the MX Revolution and VX Revolution mice. After flicking the wheel, it spins continuously for seven seconds, and can scroll through up to 10,000 Microsoft Excel lines with a single flick. Users can stop the wheel by tapping it.

The mice also include a feature that lets you highlight a word or phrase and then conduct a Web search with a single click. Located under the scroll wheel, the One-Touch Search button can bring up Web search results for a highlighted word or phrase with just a single click. After highlighting a term in a spreadsheet or document, clicking the search button opens a Web browser with Yahoo, Google, or Yahoo LiveWords search results for the term. Suggested retail price is set to 99.99 U.S. dollars, which may seem quite a lot for one mouse, but the good name of Logitech and unique features will probably ensure some popularity for this gadget…

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This first-person horror adventure sends you to investigate a small town destroyed by a deadly and inescapable disease.

Pathologic is a unique example of a dramatic game, which directly affects the player’s state of mind. …In the depths of the Ancient Steppe appeared a weird town. Once a small drover settlement scattered around the monstrous Abattoir, it unexpectedly developed into a mysterious, isolated establishment with an odd social structure. This odd society has managed to survive for several generations. It could have continued to aspire, were it not for a sudden outbreak of some enigmatic, lethal and inescapable disease, which begins to mercilessly slaughter the denizens inhabiting the area. Even science has proven helpless in finding a cure, or at least providing some explanation.

Game Features:

• A bizarre combination of first-person game, role-playing features, non-linear plot and real time flow
• The town has a life of its own, it constantly changes and adequately reacts to the player’s behaviour and random circumstances
• Well-balanced proportion of random factors and pre-arranged events
• Original enemy concept – omnipresent, omniscient, invisible infection
• 3 unique campaigns, several endings
• Original graphic concept and photorealistic portraits of NPCs
• A complicated system of context-sensitive music arrangement. Artistic sound direction
• A large variety of individual survival and resource-hunting strategies under the resource hunger conditions
• 3 heroes act independently: when one chosen, the two rejected heroes act on their own, plotting against the player
• Facial animation of the in-game characters powered by LifeStudio:HEAD technology by LifeMode Interactive, Corp

System requirements:

• OS Windows 98/Windows ME/Windows 2000/Windows XP
• Processor Pentium III 1000 MHz
• Memory 256 MB RAM
• Video nVidia GeForce 2 / ATI Radeon 7500
• Free Space 2 GB
• Sound DirectX 9.0c compatible

Release name: Pathologic-PROCYON
Size: 2 CD, 1.34 GB, 50×15 47×5 MB
Genre: Adventure
Protection: none
File names: pro-pathb

Reviews, info: GameSpot, 3DGamers
NFO: N/A
Homepage: here
Developer, distributor: Ice-pick Lodge, Buka Entertainment Company,
Torrent: NewTorrents

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Despite some hopes, or perhaps in spite of them, Nintendo did not officially give out the final release date or the price for Wii during its big splash at the Leipzig Games Convention today. “The price has not been decided yet, but I expect it to be … less than 250 euros,” Bernd Fakesch, Nintendo’s German operations head, told Reuters on the sidelines of a gaming industry conference. Wii will also have some new titles coming its way. The sequel to Super Mario Strikers – Mario Strikers Charged – and Battalion Wars 2, or just BWii for short, are slated for some Wii action.

Unlike Microsoft Corp.’s new Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3, which boast more power and high-definition graphics, Nintendo aims to win over customers with an affordably priced unit and ground-breaking games. It also hopes to attract a broader audience than the young males who usually make up the console gaming market. We should be only happy because of this small next-gen console war, because the result should be a better price for us, final consumers…

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The most known hacker on the world was beaten in his own way – his website was hacked by pakistanian hackers. Four websites associated with Mitnick’s various ventures were sprayed with digital graffiti on Monday in an apparently personal attack. The sites defensivethinking.com, mitsec.com, kevinmitnick.com and mitnicksecurity.com (which all run on Linux, incidentally) were defaced with offensive messages that said “hacking was for homos”, among other things.

The techniques used in the attacks are unclear but are likely technical in nature. Mitnick spent five years incarcerated as punishment for attacks against Fujitsu, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun Microsystems, among others, prior to his release in January 2000. It’s not the first time when was Mitnick’s website hacked, but it’s the first time when it was hacked in this rude way, because the previous hacks were more pleasant, just to welcome Kevin released from the arrest…

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