ARMA II mod tools released

Bohemia Interactive has released the modification tools for its recently released military simulation shooter, ARMA II. The tools are completely free, and will be supported by Bohemia and the community at large. These tools allow players to create camo, models and weapons, vehicles or even whole new environments which they can then share with thousands of people online.

The ARMA II mod tools require ARMA II version 1.03. The tool suite consists of model editing and animation package, texture convertor and viewer, a packer, sound and lipsync utilities, a tool to edit and compile fsms used in ARMA II, conversion tool and more.

Find out more about these tools by visiting community.bistudio.com.

Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 released

The Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 is now available on Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 Microsoft Points - except Japan where it is not available. The Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 3 expands the COD multiplayer experience with four new maps. Fight for ocean territory in “Battery,” defend Russia’s resources in “Revolution,” and battle in the dense streets of “Breach.” Zombies return in “Der Riese” (Zombie Factory), a Nazi research facility featuring a weapon upgrading Pack A Punch Machine, teleporters, and 10 Achievements.

Add the DLC to your Xbox 360 download queue by clicking on this link.

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Old West Map Pack this week

Ubisoft has something for fans of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood that have finished playing the game: a new batch of downloadable content called the Old West Map Pack. It will be available August 6th on the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network. The focus of the Old West Map Pack is in providing more multiplayer content. To that end, the pack will contain four multiplayer maps: Little Bighorn, Vulture Mine, Forth Smith and the Elmira Prison Camp. all of the maps are playable in all of Bound in Blood’s multiplayer modes as well.

Little Bighorn is an open terrain level reconstructing the famous battle of the same name that took place June 25–26th, 1876, when General Custer’s troops were slaughtered by American Indians. In Vulture Mine players must steal the gold from an old mine and escape by destroying a lift so no one can follow.
Fort Smith is a prison escape mission where players must breach a jail wall, ring an alarm at a nearby Sheriff’s office and then try to escape. Finally, the Elmira Prison Camp map has Confederate prisoners trying to escape from a Union Civil War Prison at Elmira, NY. It is based on a real event that happened on October 7, 1864. Prisoners must blow up the camp and make their way to an armory and attempt to gain means of transport.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DLC on the way

 Some fresh content is coming to Activision’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - assuming that you are still playing it and enjoying it (i’m sure some of you are). The downloadable content pack developed by Luxoflux is being worked on as I type this that will launch later this summer.

Set to launch later this summer for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, the DLC offering is apparently being designed to appeal to fans of both the original Transformers animated series and the films starring Steven Spielberg’s lover Shia LaBeouf (he may be dreamy to some of you, but in my opinion he’s not that great of an actor - go argue about it wherever girls argue about Hollywood heartthrobs).

The DLC pack will contain over ten new multiplayer characters including fan favorites such as G1 Starscream and movie favorites like Sideswipe, three new multiplayer maps, mew playble characters for both the Autobot and Decepticon single player campaigns, a new expert difficulty mode with a set of new leaderboards and new Achievements and Trophies to earn.

Look for it sometime this summer.

Make Something Unreal Tournament Winners

Epic Games has announced the winners of the second phase of its Make Something Unreal Tournament, a special competition to reward the best user created content for Unreal Tournament 3. The winning entries will be showcased at the Game Developers Conference in late March, with Phase 3 of the competition getting underway in April.

The categories for this year’s competition include Best Mod, Best New Character or Custimization Pack, Best New Vechicle, Best New Vehicle CTF Level, Best New Deathmatch, Best New Warfare Level, and Best Use of Physics. So who are the finalists? Find out after the jump!

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The Rundown: Jan. 27, 2009

Welcome to another scintillating edition of The Rundown. Today we highlight new downloadable content for Fallout 3, the release of Coraline and Afro Samurai, cuts to EA’s UK PR workforce and more. Check it all out after the jump.

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