Blizzard look to continue making use of the iphone with the announcement of the new auction system for the iphone. The full details have not been released as of yet but it has been mentioned in a recent interview that rather than a standalone app the auction system may be incorporated into the existing armory app and there is a possibility that some features will be ‘premium’, whether that means it will be a standalone ‘paid’ app or an addition to the armory app with a recurring charge hasn’t been clarified.

When Age of Conan was released back in 2008 it didn’t do as well as it should have due to a buggy release, this was ironed out eventually however players who had stuck with the game through the bad times discovered a more pressing issue – a serious lack of high level content. Well if your a fan of Age of Conan and have been thirsting for some high end content to get stuck into then your prayers may have been answered as that’s just one of the issues being addressed by Funcom in the upcoming expansion pack ‘Rise of The Godslayer

Rise of The Godslayer will introduce a wealth of new content including new high end areas and quests, a new race (Khitai), new mounts and of course new feats and armor sets. The expansion pack has a clear orient vibe and looks stunning, Funcom have also announced that the new Empire of Khitai will be different from most existing areas in that players will be able to ally themselves with numerous factions vying for land and power. Full details below.

Features

• New playable race Khitan – Journey through the lands of Khitai and discover new monsters, quests, gear and a culture like nothing you’ve seen before in Age of Conan.
• Take your hero to a new level of power with access to new martial arts moves, magic, legendary weaponry and a brand new alternate advancement system to give you more choice and customization in how you play your hero.
• New high end content – Explore new high level areas ‘Kara Korum’ and ‘Chosain Province’ and delve into new high level dungeons like ‘Pillars of Heaven’.
• 100s of new quests – Follow the footsteps of the might Conan and discover the truth to his motives in the east.
• Unique new mount system – With the choice of tiger or wolf your mount will start as a defenseless companion advancing to a deadly ally and then to a powerful mount all handled through a unique quest system.

Well that’s about all we have for now, there’s no official release date as of yet so keep an eye out for future coverage as there’s sure to bu much more over the next few months.

• Official Xbox Magazine – 9.5/10
• Edge Magazine 10/10
• PC Gamer – 90/100
• Games TM – 10/10
• GameAktuall (German) – 91%
• Xbox 360 Gamer – 9/10
• CD-Action (Polish) – 10/10
• Xbox 360 World – 90%

Now, that should put all your doubts to shame. Pre-order Mass Effect 2 now or miss out!

Vertigo For the Evil
Start the tutorial and wait for your conscience to stop talking. Continuously move the cursor in circles and your evil conscience’s head will eventually star spinning.

Food/Wood Bug
When using a wood miracle, if you rapid right click over a building, such as the main entrance to your village store, or the main building of the workshop, you will get almost 40,000 wood. This also works for a food miracle over the workshop. This works for both one shot miracles, and cast miracles.

Custom Villager Names
(To carry out this change you have to edit a game file. Please maake sure you have backed up the file before proceeding.)
Use a text editor to edit the “names.txt” file in the game folder. You can change the names contained in the file as desired. However, the number of names in the file must match the number listed in the first line.

Infinite Food and Wood
Activate a Food or Wood Miracle. Then, hold the Hand over the door of the village store or workshop and quickly and repeatedly press the Right Mouse Button. If done correctly, a large amount of food or wood will be created for very little mana.

Infinite Water Miracles
Use the following trick to get unlimited Water Miracles on the first level. At the place where there is the first silver reward, scroll on land one. After completing it, knock over the rock again and it will turn into a Water Miracle.

Beach Balls, Bowling Balls and Bowling Pins
Go to the God’s Playground (press [F2] during a game) and exit out of the first tutorial by pressing [Esc]. Then zoom all the way out. Look for the small island off of the larger one. When you find it, zoom in on it. Rotate the camera so that you are looking at the small island and can see the large island in the distance. At the base of the small island you will see two beach balls, two bowling balls and some bowling pins with smiley faces on them.

Dizzy Evil Conscience
Start the tutorial and wait for your conscience to stop talking. Repeatedly move your mouse in circles and your evil conscience’s head will eventually start spinning.

Alter Time
Hold [Alt] and press 1 to slow down time or hold [Alt] and press 2 to speed up time.

Five Teddy Bears
To get five quite harmless yet fun to throw teddy bears, find the gold story scroll near the large crater near the Indian graveyard. Select it and do as the man says and after you finish the teddy bears will still be in the crater and available to toss about or arrange in any manner you wish.

More Bowling Balls and Bowling Pins
To find two very small bowling balls and ten downsized versions of the pins found on the small island just look near the bottom of the mountain with the Celtic Wonder on top. There should be a shallow ditch at the bottom side facing in towards the mainland where you will find the bowling balls and pins.

Another Toy Ball
To find another toy ball just go to the narrowest part of the mainland and look for a medium sized grey rock standing straight up with a very ponty tip. Hiding behind it is the toy ball.

The Angry Stone Heads of Doom
To find the two angry stone heads go to the hill near the crater talked about in how to get the five teddy bears that has a big forest atop it. If you’re in the right spot you should be able to see the two angry stone heads very easily. Note that if destroying villages is your cup o’ tea these stone heads are perfect for it (which is obviously why I call them the “Angry Stone Heads of Doom”).

Get any creature from the start
Go to My computer, then drive C: Then Program files, Then lionhead studios ltd, Then Black & White, Then Data, Then Ctr, Then you will see a list of all the creatures in the game, to get any of these, you must swich places of one of the 3 started chars,(Ape, Cow, Tiger) by switching the name of one of them to the one you want. Then start up Black & White, Then when you make a new game and get the creature quest finished You will see the creature you want instead of the cow, or tiger or ape. Like Switching the BHorse.CBN file to the BCow.CBN file. That will switch places of both those creatures in the game. [Make a backup before renaming any files]

South Park Spoof
Leave the game running without taking any actions. Eventually, you will hear the advisers in a spoof of South Park.

Easy Miracles
You can teach your creature some miracles easily. Take either Food, Wood, Water, Lightning, Fireball, Teleport, or any other miracle you can use and use some/regrab it. Then put the rest back in the dish at the worship site. You will get the same amount of prayer power, so you can use it again.

Multi-player mode
Successfully complete all 14 regular missions on any difficulty setting with any medals to unlock two player mode.

Charm’s Way bonus mission
Successfully complete The Royal Escort, Contract Infraction, Piracy Above Lok, Taking The Offensive, The New Resistance, and The Final Assault missions with a bronze medal to unlock the Charm’s Way bonus mission. In the Charm’s Way mission you must defend a fleet of escaping freighters from waves of Trade Federation Droid Fighters. The lead freighter is captained by Reeve Dallows, Rhys’ father. You play as Rhys in the Naboo N-1 Starfighter.

Canyon Sprint bonus mission
Successfully complete Naboo Proving Grounds, The Royal Escort, Taking The Offensive, Midnight Munitions Run, Rescue On The Solleu, and The Final Assault missions with a silver medal to unlock the Canyon Sprint bonus mission. In the Canyon Sprint mission you play as Rhys in the N-1 Starfighter and you’re in a race through the canyon on Naboo. You get to race against the other main characters in the game, Vana, Nym, Essara, and Reti. Depending on who you beat to the finish line at the end will depend on the medal you receive. If you beat Essara and come in first you will get a gold medal.

Outpost Attack bonus mission
Successfully complete all 14 regular missions with a bronze medal to unlock the Outpost Attack bonus mission. In the Outpost Attack mission you must defend an outpost from swarming droid fighters. It is a timed land based mission where you lose points for losing buildings and gain points for destroying droids. Medal ranking depends on the score you achieve.

Space Sweep bonus mission
Successfully complete all 14 regular missions with a silver medal to unlock the Space Sweep bonus mission. In the Space Sweep mission you are in the middle of an asteroid field and you get points for blowing up asteroids, mines, and flying saucers.

Guardian Mantis ship
Successfully complete Contract Infraction, Secrets On Eos, and The New Resistance missions with a gold medal to unlock the Guardian Mantis ship in all missions.

Havoc bomber
Successfully complete Piracy Above Lok, Valuable Goods, Eye Of The Storm, The Crippling Blow, and Last Stand On Naboo missions with a gold medal to unlock the Havoc bomber in all missions.

N-1 Starfighter
Successfully complete Naboo Proving Grounds, The Royal Escort, Taking The Offensive, Midnight Munitions Run, Rescue On Solleu, and The Final Assault missions with a gold medal to unlock the N-1 Starfighter in all missions.

Darth Maul’s Infiltrator ship
Successfully complete all 14 regular missions with a gold medal to unlock the Infiltrator ship in all missions.

Giant hotrod
In the Canyon Sprint bonus mission, finish before Essara and get a gold medal. A giant hot rod will appear when the canyon opens up after the finish line.

Cheat Codes
Enter one of the following codes at the options menu to activate the corresponding cheat function:
RESULT CHEAT CODE

• All cheat options unlocked : overseer

• James’ day of work : james

• Spaceship and cast pictures : heroes

• Pre-production art : planets

• Enemy ship gallery : ships

• Christmas FMV sequence : woz

• View programming team : lateam

• View programming team : slteam

• Pictures of Simon : simon

• View credits : credits

• Secret spaceship for bonus missions : bluensf

• Jarjar mode; reversed controls :  jarjar

• Invincibility : minime

• Director’s cut mode : director

• Bonus features unlocked : nohud

• Programmer message : ltdjgd

Shift + G – Toggle God Mode
Shift + V – Toggle Invisibility
Shift + B – Toggle Enemy Brain
Shift + ] – Switch Tagged Enemy
Shift + K – Self-Destruct
Tab – Switch Game Info
ADDLIVES # – Add # Lives
HEALTH – Restore Health
ENEMYSPAWN – Toggle Enemy Spawn
OPENSESAME – Toggle Master Key
MAP END – Go to End Sequence
MAP [mapname] – Jump to [mapname] (list below)
NEXT – Go to Next Level
RESTART – Restart Level
NAME – Display Current Level Name
DIR – Show Levels in Directory
HELP – Show Help for Basic Cheat Commands

Map Names: TU01, TU02, TU03, TU04 START0, START1, START2, START3 LV01, LV02, LV03, LV04, LV05, LV06, LV07, LV08, LV09, LV10 LV11, LV12, LV13, LV14, LV15, LV16, LV17, LV18, LV19, LV20 LV21, LV22, LV23, LV24, LV25, LV26, LV27, LV28, LV29, LV30, LV31 MP1, MP2, MP3, MP4, MP5, MP6, MP7, MP8 SC01, SC02, SC03 BG1, BG2, BG3, BG4, BG5, BG6, BG7 END

Character Creation
This is perhaps the most innovative and interesting technology that the game possesses. When you create your character you’re allowed to pick your gender, name and of course a pair of pants. Dungeon Siege doesn’t allow you to pick any skills or be a certain class from the start. Instead it allows you to develop into whatever you want from the very start of the game. You can dabble a bit in magic, beat down some enemies with an Ax or imitate cupid and let the arrows fly. The game’s skill system is pretty basic since it only has four skills, which are combat magic, melee weapons, ranged weapons and nature magic. If say you choose to be a melee fighter, you wont need to train any additional skills such as Ax or Sword since the skills works the same on all melee weapons. As you use whatever skill you wish your ability increases in that particular skill. I’m guessing most experienced players will be more specialized and not diversify while beginners will do just the opposite. This system seems interesting and quite fun in theory, however I’ll reserve my judgment until I can play a full released version since it may not work so well in practice.

Graphics
Dungeon Siege sure does look great. Textures and models look fantastic thus far. Trees and bushes are especially notable. Their leaves sway back and forth in the wind and each bush has separate leaves, not just a texture with leaves stuck on one big polygon. The landscape is vivid and realistic. The character models are composed of almost 1000 polygons so they are detailed and sharp looking as well. One fantastic feature is that the transitions between dungeons and the landscape aren’t noticeable at all! You’ll go down into a dungeon and there wont be any noticeable transition and the dungeon’s inhabitants will be able to follow you out. Overall I’m very impressed with the game’s graphic splendor so far.

Gameplay
You’ll be able to control up to eight party members, however you’ll start with only one, yourself. You’ll be able to add new party members as the story line progresses and through various quest. There are basically three differently levels of gameplay. The easiest is to follow the story line and not diverge into smaller, less important quest. Now the second level is to diverge into smaller quest and puzzles but not go deeper into those still which would be the most difficult and third level of gameplay. By doing this, Gas Powered Games will hope to cater to the novice gamer as well as the hardcore gamers. The character creation system echoes this same line of thought. Like other RPGs, you’ll focus somewhat on killing baddies and developing your character(s). As you gain experience you can spend it on any of the four skills that exist.

Siege Editor
Siege Editor is a set of tools that lets you take complete control of the game itself. You can create new spells, dungeons, characters and even entire worlds. Players will also be able to post their works on the Internet for other players to download and enjoy. Very cool!

Multiplayer
Players will have the option of Co-op multiplayer play with their friends, via LAN or an in-game match making browser. The developers have hinted at creating worlds just for multiplayer play. One focusing on outdoor exploring and another for dungeon crawling. Nothing has been set in stone though. With Siege Editor discussed earlier, this could get very interesting indeed.

Final Thoughts
Dungeon Siege looks to be a very entertaining game. It will appeal to the side of me that likes to start up a game and have some quick fun and also the side of me that likes to get in depth with an RPG and explore the entire game thoroughly. I’m betting this title will sell very well since it appeals to such a broad audience.

“C:\Program Files\Return to Castle Wolfenstein\WolfSP.exe” +set sv_cheats 1

If using Windows XP, right click on the single play shortcut. On the “Command Line”, make sure the command line is in quotes and add +set sv_cheats after two spaces, so it resembles:

“drive:\path\folder\WolfSP.exe” +set sv_cheats 1

Notice that there are two spaces between the last ” and the + in the Windows XP shortcut.

Edit the path as necessary if you installed the game to another location. Start the game. While playing a game, press ~ to display the console window. Enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:

Cheat Codes (server)
While playing a game, press ~ to display the console window. Enter one of the following codes to activate the corresponding cheat function:

Change name
While playing a game, press ~ to display the console window. Enter “/name [value]” to change the player’s name and color. To change colors, include one of the following entries.

^1: Red
^2: Green
^3: Yellow
^4: Blue
^5: Light Blue
^6: Pink
^7: White
^8: Black
^9: Red

For example, to change your name to “AmericaTheBeautiful” in red, white, and blue, enter “/name ^1America^7The^4Beautiful“.

Item names
Use one of the following values with the “/give [item name]” code.

panzerfaust
thompson
mp42
mauser rifle
flamethrower
sten
fg42 paratroop rifle
grenade
colt 45
large health
medium health

Map names
Use one of the following values with the “/spdevmap [map name]” or “/devmap [map name]” codes:

escape1
escape2
tram
village1
village2
crypt1
crypt2
church
boss1
forest
rocket
dam
chateau
dark
dig
castle
end
beach
village
boss2
rocket
baseout
assault,mfactory
trainyard
norway
xlabs
wine
wine2
wine3