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GAME INFO
publisher: Acclaim
developer: Charybdis Ltd.
genre: Strategy

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
P200, 32MB RAM

ESRB rating: E
homepage:
www.acclaim.net/games/machines/index.html

release date: Mar 31, 99 (released)

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DEMOS	size	date
demo	29.4MB	Feb 19, 99

PATCHES	size	date
v1.15 patch	2.8MB	Jun 04, 99

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»	Mar 10, 2012 Vessel A puzzle, here a puzzle there, platformish puzzles everywhere. Our latest foray into the indie gaming scene has lead us to believe that there are really some truly amazing and talented developers out there. » MORE

»	Dec 08, 2011 X3: Albion Prelude Revealed Egosoft announced a brand new addition to their X space shooter series. X3: Albion Prelude is going to bridge the gap between X3: Terran Conflict and the forthcoming X Rebirth. » MORE

»	Sep 07, 2011 Hard Reset PC Demo Released Poland-based developer Flying Wild Hog releases a playable demo for the PC version of their shooter, Hard Reset. Word is: "The world as we know it ceased to exist. » MORE

»	Aug 24, 2011 Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC Patch Released Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have released an update for their sci-fi game, Dues Ex: Human Revolution. This patch is applied automatically via Steam. » MORE

Jun 17, 2011

Dungeon Siege 3
Dungeon Siege is back and it's not from Gas Powered Games, but rather Obsidian Entertainment. Have they done a good job with the third installment in the hack'n'slash RPG series? Let's find out: Dungeon Siege 3 is still a challenge and that's what I like about it.

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May 20, 2011

Today's Controversy: Firmware Update Murdering Older Xbox 360s
The Xbox 360 is an aging device, and what older units have been lucky enough to not be destroyed by the red ring of death and angry girlfriends are now being destroyed by a firmware update that causes an error that makes older devices unable to play games.

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»	May 04, 2011 The Story That Cannot Die: Sony Tells Congress Anonymous May Be Responsible This has been going on for weeks now, and the story just keeps getting better. Or worse depending on your perspective. I'm starting to grow tired of writing about it every damn day. » MORE

»	Mar 15, 2011 Dragon Age 2 Save Game Patch & High Resolution Texture Pack Released BioWare released the beta patch for Dragon Age 2, which, among other things, fixes control issues and the save game issue for single core systems a lot of gamers have been complaining about. » MORE

Dec 11, 2010

So, Yeah, It's Probably Mass Effect 3
According to a product list on EA's website/store, Mass Effect 3 is most likely BioWare's Spike VGA announcement. The info on ME 3 supposedly got posted prematurely and from what was gathered by various sites around the Web, "Earth is burning.

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»	Nov 23, 2010 Arcania: Gothic 4 Patch Released The latest patch for Arcania: Gothic 4 features including new gameplay dynamics and fixes a variety of performance issues for English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish editions of the game. » MORE

»	May 29, 2010 Alien Breed: Impact Goes to PS3 & PC Development studio Team 17 decided it's time to revive its Amiga classic -- Alien Breed -- to the Xbox 360. The game is entitled Alien Breed: Evolution and was released via Xbox Live in December last year. » MORE

»	May 03, 2010 Alpha Protocol PC DRM Explained The blog over at SEGA America uncovers what gamers need to know about the Digital Rights Management in the PC edition of Obsidian's espionage-themed action/RPG, Alpha Protocol. » MORE

»	Mar 02, 2010 Supreme Commander 2 Ships Word just reached us via Steam News that the real-time strategy Supreme Commander 2, from the crew at Gas Powered Games, is now available via digital distribution. » MORE

»	Feb 22, 2010 New Mass Effect 2 PC Patch Released BioWare issues a patch for the PC edition of Mass Effect 2, updating their sci-fi action RPG (or whatever you wanna call it) to v1.01. Download the Mass Effect 2 v1. » MORE

»	Jan 28, 2010 Bad Company 2 SecuROM Explained There's a post over on the Battlefield Blog, explaining how SecuROM will in DICE's upcoming shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2. SecuROM in general The version which we use is a wrapper around the main game executable. » MORE

»	Dec 09, 2009 Borderlands PC DLC Released The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, the DLC for the RPG flavored shooter Borderlands, is now available. You can grab it via Gearbox Software Store. As we understand it, the DLC maybe be purchased through Steam as well. » MORE

»	Nov 18, 2009 Supreme Commander 2 in Spring, New Screens Having made the announcement for Kane & Lynch 2, it would appear Square Enix will be taking another project under its publishing arm. Yep, it's Supreme Commander 2. » MORE

»	Jun 27, 2009 The Sims 3 Patch Released No, it's not the nude patch. If it's nudity you're after, check out this news update (and no, it's not THAT kind of nudity, you sloshed, perverted bastards). » MORE

»	Jun 19, 2009 Empire: Total War Patch Next Week Creative Assembly is preparing a large update for their strategy game Empire: Total War. The v1.3 patch arrives this Monday and will feature balance changes, performance improvements and more. » MORE

»	Apr 09, 2009 New Riddick Game Sparks DRM Complaints Oh boy, here it is; yet another DRM-related backlash, this time involving the release of the PC edition of Atari's recently released shooter Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. » MORE

Apr 10, 2009

New Call of Duty: World at War Patch Released
As promised, Activision and Treyarch release the v1.4 patch for last year's shooter Call of Duty: World at War: Changes 3 new Multiplayer maps: Knee Deep, Nightfire, Station! Nazi Zombies map with more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses: Verrückt! Improved spawning logic.

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Apr 08, 2009

Call of Duty World at War v1.4 Patch Details
Activision promises to deliver another patch for Treyarch's shooter Call of Duty: World at War. The upcoming v1.4 patch will include: 3 new Multiplayer maps: Kneedeep, Nightfire, Station! Nazi Zombies map with more weapons, Perks-a-Cola machines, and electroshock defenses: Verrückt! Improved spawning logic.

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»	Feb 10, 2009 SEGA Losing Money, Cutting Jobs Well-known game company Sega revealed their financial results for the nine months ending in December 2008. Apparently, they're losing money, which denotes necessary staff reduction, as well as the closure of numerous arcades. » MORE

Dec 23, 2008

Warren Spector Making Mickey Mouse Title?
As bewildering as it sounds, well-known game designer Warren Spector -- recognized for projects like Deus Ex -- may be involved in a new project. Oddly enough, Warren's studio Junction Point is reportedly working on a new game based on Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse character.

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»	Jul 14, 2008 Too Human Demo Now Available We've seen plenty of footage from this one in the past several weeks and now MS and Silicon Knights have finally released a playable demo for the soon-to-be-released X360-exclusive Too Human (thanks, MajorNelson). » MORE

»	Apr 15, 2008 Trailers Sell Games Better Than Demos Electronic Entertainment Design and Research Group (EEDAR) carried out a study, the results of which showed that games promoted with trailers sold better than those that had playable demos on offer before release. » MORE

»	Apr 03, 2008 Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War II Official The rumors turn out to be true. Relic Entertainment and THQ officially confirm Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II. Powered by an enhanced version of Relic’s proprietary Essence Engine 2. » MORE

»	Feb 20, 2008 PC Gaming: Allied Assault The earlier-mentioned PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), a non-profit organization made up of game devs, publishers and PC makers and hardware suppliers has officially become a reality at the GDC08 in San Fran. » MORE

»	Dec 11, 2007 US and UK Best Sellers The latest best-selling charts from Amazon are just in. Wii and DS titles are obviously dominating game sales, but CoD 4 also appears to be doing good. » MORE

»	Nov 19, 2007 NVIDIA Launches GeForce 8800M Notebook Beast For all you "nerds on the go" NVIDIA has announced the launching of the GeForce 8800M GTX chip for high end PC notebooks. Really high-end notebooks that cost as much as an average Toyota. » MORE

»	Oct 26, 2007 Crysis Demo May God have mercy on our poor, poor servers. Here ya go, folks, the only machines feeling more pain than our servers will be your computers! Crysis demo. » MORE

»	Sep 26, 2007 New Warhammer 40k: DoW Expansion Unveiled THQ and Relic announce the imminent release of another Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War expansion pack. This one will be a stand-alone game titled Soulstorm. » MORE

»	Jul 30, 2007 Mark Rein: Showing Single-Player Hurt Halo 3 at E3 Considering the massive hype surrounding Halo 3 before the E3, Microsoft didn't really offer much of a show when it comes to their prime X360 title for 2007. » MORE

»	Jun 15, 2007 Alan Wake is Vista-exclusive Sweet gentle Jesus on a box of Cheerios! Alan Wake is Vista-exclusive. YouGamers: So - last two questions, we promise! The biggest things with PCs at the moment are Windows Vista and DirectX 10. » MORE

»	Jun 05, 2007 Wii Kicks PS3's Butt in Japan! Reaffirming its supremacy on the Japanese market, Nintendo Wii is currently outselling Sony's PlayStation 3 five to one. The company reportedly sold 251,794 Wii consoles during May, according to Tokyo-based research firm Enterbrain Inc. » MORE

»	Apr 27, 2007 More Wii's Pliiz Nintendo President Satoru Iwata promises to boost Wii production levels within the next month, due to "abnormal" shortages and intense demand for the hip new console (news comes via Yahoo). » MORE

»	Mar 28, 2007 PS3 Reigns Throughout Europe Having sold an estimated 165,000 PlayStation 3 units during the first two days after the console's launch in the UK, Sony is now gleefully claiming they've sold 600,000 units throughout the rest of Europe. » MORE

»	Feb 22, 2007 Mercenaries 2 Becomes A PC, 360 Title Despite being announced as a Playstation 3 title, Mercenaries 2 has today been confirmed for the PC, Xbox 360 and the venerable PS2 as well. EA and Pandemic Studios break the news. » MORE

»	Jan 10, 2007 iPhone + Apple TV =iWin? The geek world has been swept by the nerd equivalent of a continent-sweeping blastwave as Apple has announced two new products at the CES 2007: the iPhone and Apple TV. » MORE

»	Dec 05, 2006 Mornin' So they set up this fancy new mail protection software for our mail server. And you know what it does? It lets spam through and bounces back all the actual e-mail. » MORE

Nov 15, 2006

North American Playstation 3 Launch Halved?
Boomtown is quoting an industry analyst who claims that only 150,000-200,000 units (that's only half of the scheduled launch quota of Playstation 3s in the US and Canada) will be available on the day the next-gen system hits retail outlets across the Atlantic.

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Nov 11, 2006

Playstation 3 Launches in Japan, No More Units Left
The Playstation 3 has launched in Japan, and wouldn't you know it, it's completely sold out already. Shocker. Here's a snip from Eurogamer that might sort of shed some light on the situation: The uncertainty about the number of units going on sale may have convinced people to stay at home.

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»	Jul 14, 2006 Video Game Sales Rise 25% in June Good news for the gaming industry. After months of declining year-on-year sales for video games, things have drastically improved in June. "NPD has reported $844. » MORE

»	Jun 06, 2006 PCs' key role in HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war According to News.com, PCs are emerging as a battleground in the budding war between two technologies vying to be the standard for high-capacity DVDs--and take the lucrative mantle of next benchmark in optical storage. » MORE

»	May 01, 2006 Dawn of War - Dark Crusade Announced THQ and Relic have unveiled a second expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, entitled Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade. The add-on is expected to ship this fall. » MORE

»	Mar 20, 2006 Terra Formations Revealed Terra Formations is an upcoming game that mixes several genres - RTS, RPG, FPS and MMOG. Hm, maybe they should've also thrown in a dash of The Sims. That would be a good way to boost sales. » MORE

»	Feb 28, 2006 The Return of Micro Machines Talk about a blast from the past. Reports are coming in that Micro Machines, the wacky mini car racing series, will be arriving to PC, PS2 and PSP platforms. » MORE

Feb 03, 2006

Rise of Legends Third Race, the Cuotl!
Zilor writes "Third Race Revealed, The Cuotl, are freaking awesome, like the dudes from Stargate but Mayan/Aztec. Apparently, a Cuotl starship crashed on Aio killing off most of the actual Cuotl aboard, so they decided to make themselves out to be gods to the humans in the jungle area they found themselves in.

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Jan 13, 2006

Xbox "Modders" Face 17 Years in Prison
In many ways, this is outrageous. It's a brutal reminder of the bad side of capitalism. Two owners of a Hollywood video game store, as well as a third man, were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for modifying Xbox video game consoles to disable copy protection, and preloading copyrighted games onto the machines for sale.

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»	Nov 16, 2005 Mornin' About the NVIDIA ads plastered all over the game world in The Matrix: Path of Neo... Remind me again, when have the machines in The Matrix become such huge fans of NVIDIA cards. » MORE

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