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Movie Battles has gone a long way since it began. If you want to know more about its origins check out its website listed at the bottom or my review on a previous version of it. The basic mechanics are still there, a modified siege game type that allows players to truly feel like they are in the movie battle.

There are two main game types in MBII that are played. These are Full Authentic (FA) and Open mode (Open). FA is a siege game type where each player selects a character from the movie battle and plays as such in an attempt to accomplish an objective. In other words it is Full Authentic to the movie's battle. Open, the more popular of the two, is a class based siege in which you pick a class to complete an objective. The classes vary from being an imperial stormtrooper, to being a wookie that can tear your arms off, to being a stealthy sniper to pick off enemies from a long range, to being an RPG wielding Arc trooper, to being the classical Jedi or a Sith. The possibilities are endless. Whether you want to have duel of the fates between Darth Vader and Luke, or Maul and Qui Gon, you can do it in Movie Battles' open mode. The gameplay and selection of classes involves a point progression in which the more kills you get, the more points you have to buy add-ons or upgrades for your classes, forcepowers for Jedi and Sith, and skills such as being able to dodge bullets! A great feature in Movie Battles is its new aspect on a player's life. In the normal siege mode, if you die you merely respawn after a couple of seconds. In Movie Battles, if you die, you are dead for the round and have to wait until the 5 minute round ends or the objective of the team to be accomplished. That is unless you have a class where you can use your points to buy an extra life. This is balanced in the way that troops like a stormy can have 3 lifes, yet have less health. While Jedis have a lot of health, but no abilities to buy extra lifes. Movie Battles II has had a history for being in beta for years, but now the final release is nearing and Movie Battles releases its third Release Candidate. RC1 Patch 1 (RC3 P1) This new version of the game includes more maps, more class abilities, and more of what makes this mod great! For a changelog just visit the download section of their website, listed below.

All in all it is a very awesome modification that is worth downloading and which is still very active with over a dozen of servers hosting it with at least five of them being full on weekdays. The possibilites are endless, whether you want to play the what if, or you want to follow the movie script, Movie Battles II has something for all!

Check out Movie Battles' Official Website and its Forums! today.

Article written and posted by: Jorge Fonseca
Exclusively for RGN.

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This just came from the Raven Soft forums. C.Bernstein has posted the next text to inform us all that they will be closing their boards.

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Everyone. We regret to inform you that we will be shutting down the message boards. The message boards on the forums.ravensoft.com website will be down for an indefinite period of time.

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By this, I think that RGN is in the urge of getting the website done and finished in order to welcome the guy's from over Raven Boards

(Source: Raven Soft Forums)

Well just when it looked like the fire of the game Jedi Academy was extinguishing, A simple game mod suddenly grew into an amazing new gameplay form that uses Jedi Academy. What am I talking about? The JKIII: JA Modification called Movie Battles II (MBII) and its version now played B17. This mod, is like a new type of siege where you play in classical maps made by the greatest mappers we have gotten the honor to have for Jedi Academy.

There is three diferent types of games in MBII. These are Full Authentic (FA), Semi Authentic Semi-FA), and Open mode (Open). FA is a siege type of game where depending on the map you are on, for example tantive IV one person can be the player Darth vader, while the rest are stormtroopers. then for rebels, one person is Leia, while another one can be a rebel. In other maps like Geonosis Arena, you can be Mace Windu, or Anakin or padme and so on. Now Semi-FA, you can have 10 Darth vaders if you want and 1 stormttooper or 10 Leias. oe 10 Mace windus. And finally in Open, in any map you can be any character in the game so you can play in Tantive IV an Anakin Skywalker vs a Darth vader in other team :P Cool isn't it. But if that was the whole point of MBII it wouldn't really give it that real feeling. But thats when the MBII makers included a new feature in which you depending on character, usually heroes like Vader and other Jedi or people like Solo, if you die, then you die and have to wait till the 5 minute round ends or the objective of the team is made or a team dies, or time runs out. While troops like a stormy can have 3 lifes yet have less health. and finally another cool feature is that in open mode you get points with kills or winning the match, up to 80 points. now this points can be used to upgrade guns, get thermals, meele skills, more lifes per game, and in Jedi and Sith force powers. Each class in open mode has diferent upgradable skills. Jedi and Sith are oblvious while other classes like Heroes of Movies can use snipers and thermals, clone can upgrade blasters or twin guns. mandalorians can get jetpack fuel and flame thrower and most all a nice shiny rocket

In Conclusion it is a very awesome modification that is worth downloading and there is always more than 9 servers playing it while at least 5 are almost full. Plus you can always go to the OWA server which to my point of view is the best.

Check out Movie Battles Official Website and its Forums! now.

Article written and posted by: Jorge Fonseca
Exclusively for RGN.

Hi everyone and welcome!
I am John the new owner of the Raven Community.
We took over a little while ago but after some problems with the content management system and then some more bugs and issues we finally have everything ironed out!

There is a ton of awesome information here and as a gaming freak I am excited to carry on the legacy of the previous owners and contributors.

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Well we made ourselves a new review section, you can check it out by clicking the 'Reviews' link on the right hand menu. Right now there's only one review, but I'm sure it will be filled up soon!
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"I'm writing this open letter to announce my resignation from Raven Software effective Wednesday, June 30th and to let everyone know that this pending departure is both amicable and mutual. What can I say? It's been a hell of a ride.

In the past seven plus years I was fortunate enough to be able to contribute to twelve Raven Software titles alongside the most talented group of people I've ever had the good fortune to work with. I want to thank Raven for giving me the opportunity to start my career in game development and I send out my best wishes to everyone at Raven and Activision for their continued success. I know you'll all do well.

I'm sure the question many of you are asking is "why?" (Then again, maybe you aren't!) Put simply, I've reached a point in my life where it's time for me to move on to new challenges…to take some risks and make some time for a few things I've always wanted to do. I don't deal well with "what might have been" scenarios. That said, there are some shots I need to take and I believe now is the time for me to take them. The way I see it, if I don't do it now, I may never get the chance again."

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Some communities now require anyone selling used video games to give fingerprints for police records. The question is: why?

Some stores that buy used video games have begun taking their customers’ fingerprints and turning them over to police, but the stores say they’re just complying with local laws.

In addition to recording drivers license, telephone numbers, and addresses of customers who sell used games or consoles, some are routinely requiring a thumbprint. Retailers are collecting the information under a law intended to regulate pawn shops and make it easy for law enforcement officials to track down thieves who fence stolen goods. A number of states have such laws and Utah passed its own version just last month.

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Source: www.gamespot.com

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A report from CBBC demonstrates the use of a video game controller used to manipulate the game world directly from the brain. In the game Mind Balance, a player dons a lightweight, wireless headset and helps the alien character Mawg walk a tight rope between sci-fi inspired buildings by focusing on left and right flashing boxes. If Mawg sways too much to the left, the player focuses more on the right box to counterbalance. Neither the game not controller are available for purchase, however, this first generation will enable researchers to create more sophisticated applications and devices for retail use.

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I just receive this mail from Darklord217:
"There is a game called Morrowind, you may have heard of it, with this game comes a powerful editor. With this editor I plan on creating a TC for Morrowind. The TC will be a Hexen-Heretic one. Here's the link to my site on it: Project Serpent "

This project looks interesting, I´ll keep you updated on further development.

Darklord 217 sent us a Hexen portrait set for Baldurs Gate, which also contains Hexen II, Heretic II and Heretic portraits. He also submitted a soundset for the same game, using sounds from Hexen and Starcraft.

The newest version of Game File Explorer has been released. This new 1.32 version includes support for Red Faction, Ghost Recon, Black Thorn, Nascar Heat and Kyrandia I, II and III.