FilePlanet Weekly

	Tuesday, August 26^th, 2003

Unbelievable Call of Duty^TM Demo EXCLUSIVE!
Your friends at FilePlanet just landed the Mother of All Demo Exclusives! The Call of Duty demo will be released on August 31, but ONLY to FilePlanet and Founder's Club Subscribers! Call of Duty is a new intense First Person Shooter being developed by Infinity Ward, the new studio founded by the development team behind Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. This is going to be one of the biggest, most-popular demos of the year and only subscribers will be able to play it. You can scope out the breathtaking action in the game in our exclusive gameplay video if you need convincing, and check out Sluggo's Hands-On Preview if you need even more convincing! --

Urgent Files

Command & Conquer Generals Demo
EA reinvents the Command & Conquer franchise with Generals, with a brand new storyline, units, and tactics that have all been inspired by the technology and ideologies of today's tumultuous world. The game play of C&C is also reinvented thanks to an impressive 3D engine and countless improvements to graphics, game balance, and control.

Exclusive Halo [PC] Gameplay Video
This exclusive, direct-feed video shows over 4 minutes of the exciting single-player action awaiting gamers when Halo arrives on the PC, courtesy of the talented folks at Bungie, Gearbox, and Microsoft. Read the Hands-On Preview on PC.GameSpy.com for more.

The Matrix Revolutions Movie Trailer
Warner Bros. released a new trailer for The Matrix Revolutions, the third and final film in The Matrix Trilogy. The trailer is explosive, and is just one of the hundreds of high-resolution trailers on FilePlanet.

More Hot Files

Priston Tale v.2.00.00 Client
Priston Tale is a 3D, animation-inspired MMORPG from Korea. The addition of a Class Change system promises to break the "leveling" monotony of typical MMORPGs by giving players the freedom of choosing their own development path.

Deux Ex: Invisible War Intro Video
Dues Ex: Invisible War, sequel to one of the most critically accliamed games of all time, is set during a chaotic period of recovery twenty years after the events depicted in Deus Ex. If the intro is any indication, IW be as outstanding as the original.

Exclusive TRON 2.0 Intro Video
This ultra high-resolution video shows the entire 4-minute intro cinematic from TRON 2.0. The video was originally available only to FilePlanet and Founder's Club Subscribers, but now everyone can enjoy it.

HydroRacer for Battlefield 1942
HydroRacers is an innovative Mod for Battlefield 1942 that puts you in the seat of a wickedly-fast Hydroplane. Grab the 1.0 client and the small 1.0b update.

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Download Complete: Sharing the Digital Love

The Sobig Virus has been kicking virtual butts all over the Internet. This nasty little virus is the worst mass-mailing virus to date, causing major headaches for ISPs, system administrators, and a gazillion individuals who have been buried under an avalanche of infected e-mails. I haven't seen too many infected e-mails thanks to real-time virus scanning vigilance, but I got smacked with a ton rejection messages as mail servers and anti-virus software bounced e-mails back to me. I am apparently the poster child for spoofed e-mail addresses (one of the drawbacks of having your e-mail address on the front page of one of the largest websites in gaming). There are about 10,000 unwanted e-mails heading to my clogged in-box each and every day now.

Despite this crush of bad e-mails, my in-box is once again the clean, pristine home of only the most important new letters. All of the trash is being pre-filtered by my new favorite Outlook plugin: SpamBayes. This sweet little plugin is a Bayesian anti-spam filter that you can train to remove only unwanted Spam. It only took a few minutes of configuring and "training" for SpamBayes to correctly filter 99% of the crap.

I learned about SpamBayes from a friend. I was bemoaning my pitiful state to Tungsten, the big cheese behind GameSpy Arcade, and he recommended the free plugin that saved my sanity. This is not the first time that I've tried a killer application based on a friend's recommendation. That's how I discovered GameSpy 3D, WinAmp, ICQ, and most of the other vital applications that have lived on my hard drive for years innumerable. I'm a big believer in word-of-mouth advertising, so I've done my part to extol the virtues of my favorite apps to anyone who will listen.

When I find a great program these days, however, I immediately add the shareware version to FilePlanet. Do You? Are there any software masterpieces that you would like more people to try? Submit them to FilePlanet and we will take care of the rest. Are there categories of software we are missing? Let us know!

Guess the Number, Win a Prize

This Week: E-mail has been a little wonky for many readers, so I'll give everyone another week on the latest contest. Battlefield 1942 has been blessed with some outstanding and popular Modifications. Desert Combat alone is more popular than most retail games. Do you think you know how popular Battlefield Mods are? I'll give a free month of the FilePlanet Subscription for the closest guess to the number of downloads from the Battlefield 1942 Mods section. Send in your guess and you could win big.

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