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UK govt wants Medal of Honor ban. Found this on MSN NEWS.

LAN_THEME_728 Aug : 07:06 | LAN_THEME_8 Pietje | LAN_THEME_21
UK govt wants Medal of Honor ban
Defence Minister opposes game's Taliban mode
Carrie-Ann Skinner

The UK Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, is calling for game retailers to boycott the next version of Medal of Honor to "show their support for the armed forces".

The game, which is expected to hit UK shelves in October, will give players the chance to fight on the side of the Taliban.

"At the hands of the Taliban, children have lost fathers and wives have lost husbands. It's shocking that someone would think it acceptable to recreate the acts of the Taliban against British soldiers," Fox said in a statement.


"I am disgusted and angry. It's hard to believe any citizen of our country would wish to buy such a thoroughly un-British game. I would urge retailers to show their support for our armed forces and ban this tasteless product."

However, Electronic Arts, which created the game series, said the new title will give gamers "the opportunity to play both sides" and that no British troops are featured.

"Nobody who plays video games is going to be shocked or surprised by this. Most of us have been doing this since we were seven: someone plays the cop, someone must be robber."

[Submitted by TEZ]
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Counter Strike Source Update

LAN_THEME_723 Jun : 20:53 | LAN_THEME_8 Mili | LAN_THEME_211
Counter-Strike: Source Update Released
Product Update - Valve
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released and the game is now available on the Mac. To celebrate this update, Counter-Strike: Source will be on sale for 66% off until Friday. For more information, click here.

The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

General

* 144 achievements added
* New lifetime player stats and summary screens
* New match player stats and summary screens
* New end of round display with MVP and interesting fact about a player
* Updated scoreboard with new icons, visual style, MVP stars, and avatar pictures
* New cinematic death camera
* New domination and revenge system
* Added avatar icons to voice chat, scoreboard, and end of round display
* Incorporated many source engine updates
* Disallowed the use of arbitrary command strings for the message of the day screen. Now only a specific list of commands is allowed.
* Addressed issue in which AWPs and Scouts sometimes did not make the zooming sound.
* cvar mat_showlowresimage is now a cheat command.
* Many development console commands which would crash the server removed.
* Updated source engine addresses many issues:
* Better flashlight effect
* Better HDR behavior
* Multicore rendering support
* Added sv_disablefreezecam cvar to turn off the freezecam on a server.
* Added sv_nonemesis cvar to turn off domination/revenge on a server.
* Added sv_nomvp cvar to turn off MVP stars on a server.
* Added sv_nostats cvar to turn off stats on a server.
* Removed -tickrate command line option and defaulted tick rate to 66 rather than 33. This addressed a number of issues, including:
o Tick rate affecting how fast doors open / close
o Tick rate causing players hitting the ground to stutter
o Tick rate affecting the firing mechanisms of certain guns


UI

* Added the following cvars to allow players to customize their scoreboards.
* cl_scoreboard_ct_color_red
* cl_scoreboard_ct_color_green
* cl_scoreboard_ct_color_blue
* cl_scoreboard_t_color_red
* cl_scoreboard_t_color_green
* cl_scoreboard_t_color_blue
* cl_scoreboard_dead_color_red
* cl_scoreboard_dead_color_green
* cl_scoreboard_dead_color_blue
* Changed the screen that appears when the message of the day fails to load to display proper error text.
* Made the CT silhouette for the auto-select option in the Choose a Class screen smaller and corrected its aspect ratio.
* Addressed a problem that occasionally caused characters to be colored incorrectly on the Change a Class screen.


Gameplay

* Made ladders easier to climb. Added cvars sv_ladder_dampen and sv_ladder_angle.
* Fixed issue that awarded three points when the bomb explodes after the round ends by elimination criteria instead.
* Fixed issue in which you weren’t given credit for grenade damage if you fired a weapon at someone then hit them with a grenade (in that order). Also fixed problem in which grenading a player and then killing them with another weapon showed as ‘*** in 1’ on console.
* There’s now a priority order for displaying win conditions when multiple win conditions are set.
* If timelimit exists and is not 0, then show timelimit.
* If timelimit does not exist, show maxrounds if not 0.
* If both timelimit and maxrounds are 0, show winlimit.
* If timelimit, maxrounds, and winlimit are all 0, show nothing.
* Added a cvar to ignore win conditions: mp_ignore_round_win_conditions.

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