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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 28th August.
All-nighters are £15 per head, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total. If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
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| Starcraft 2 |
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Due to popular demand, it's now on all the gaming computers.
More than a decade in the making, the world's favourite real-time strategy game is finally returning. The original is still played by millions but this sequel makes the whole experience accessible and relevant to a whole new generation of players. A new non-linear storyline featuring the human Terrans (expansion packs will cover the other two races, Protoss and Zerg) teaches the ropes and adds to the series' mythos with stunning new cut scenes.
It is online that the game really comes alive though, with ranked matches that instantly connect you to a player of the same skill level. Starcraft 2 inclues the most feature packed multiplayer ever with a unique ladder system for ranked games, plus detailed matchmaking options, replay features and more. Whichever way you play though, the game combines all the action and immediacy of an action game with the complex strategy that has made the previous game such a legend.
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| MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries |
Last week we had a return to retro gaming, with this classic from 2002. Available to play on all the gaming PCs.
Play for fortune, not honour, as you become leader of a fledgling mercenary company in the latest standalone instalment of the critically acclaimed MechWarrior action-simulator franchise. Players control 100-ton "Mechs" while leading up to eight hired guns into the heat of battle in the quest for the all-mighty C-Bill.
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| Alien Swarm |
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This one went on the computers a couple of weeks back. Alien Swarm is a remake of the old Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, brought up to date in the Source engine.
The game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet's surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 31st July.
All-nighters are £15 per head, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total. If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
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We now have the new Medal of Honor Beta version on all PCs.
The beta test is running until 18th July. This new Medal of Honor is a "reboot" of the series - the previous games were set in World War 2, but the new game is set in modern-day Afghanistan.
The game is due for release on 10th October this year, on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. If you preorder from Gamestation on any format (for no charge), they'll give you a free beta key. Gamestation Swansea have provided us with 5 beta keys, so we have 5 accounts registered. To play, you can either use your own key/account if you have one, or ask one of us to log you in with one of the Crossfire accounts. Just remember that this is a beta test version, and as such it does have some bugs. So far though, it's shaping up to directly take on Modern Warfare 2 at its own game. Plus, it has a matchmaking option, but it also has a server browser :)
Big thanks to Gamestation Swansea for the beta keys. If you want to try out the game yourself, just pop in and ask.
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| Just a reminder to all.
If you'd like to get some gaming in at the cheapest times, not only is 5pm-9pm only a fiver on any night - we also still run the same special deal on Sunday mornings, four hours for a fiver.
Any Sunday 10am-2pm - only £5
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 | World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is now available to pre-order
Crossfire has teamed up with Gamestation, Swansea to offer you the chance to pre-order World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, with the choice of pre-ordering either the normal version or the Collectors edition, which contents have yet to be announced.
If you are interested in pre-ordering, either phone in to Crossfire or come to the store and ask a staff member, who will then take your name and phone number. In addition, if you text wowcata and your name to 07981136381 or you can just email your name and mobile number to wowcata@crossfire.uk.net. |
Whilst pre-ordering is now taking place, the final release date of Cataclysm has yet to be annouced. When it does, we will post up notification of the release date and the subsquent information of Cataclysm Release Night All-Nighter, being held on release day.
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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 29th May.
All-nighters are £15 per head, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total. If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
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| Novalogic Classics |
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For the retro fans, we're proud to annouce that we have added a set of classics from Novalogic to the games available to play from all computers. To add to the other retro games such as Doom and Quake, we now have:
• Delta Force and Delta Force 2, the classic FPSes from 1998/1999
• Armored Fist 3, tank combat sim from 1999
• F-16 Multirole Fighter, flight sim from 1998
• MiG-29 Fulcrum and F-22 Lightning 3, arcade combat flight sims from 1998/1999
• Tachyon: The Fringe, space combat sim from 2000
We also have Majesty, a classic RPG-styled RTS released in 2000 by Cyberlore Studios. This is the Gold Edition, which also includes Majesty: The Northern Expansion, released in 2001.
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| Lots More New Casual Games |
• Spectraball - 3D platformer
• Bad Rats - physics-based puzzler
• The Office - casual game based on the US version
• Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble - a card game, not what it sounds!
• Mayhem Intergalactic - planetary strategy
• Space Giraffe - abstract arcaded shooter
• Light of Altair - sci-fi colony building game
• Sol Survivor - turret defense action/strategy
• Reaxxion - Breakout clone
• Altitude - Biplanes for the 21st century
• Uplink - computer hacking sim, the first game from the makers of Defcon and Darwinia
• Elf Bowling: Hawaiian Vacation and Galactic Bowling - erm, yeah...
• Poker Superstars II, Texas Cheat 'Em and Luxor: Mah Jong - card games
• Luxor, Luxor: Amun Rising, Luxor 2 and Luxor 3 - casual games in the PopCap style
• Puzzle Quest Galactrix, 7 Wonders, Chainz 2, Planet Busters - casual puzzle games
...We've also slightly reworked the layout of the games menu to fit them all in. There's now a dedicated Retro FPS page, one for platform games, and a section each of puzzle and casual games. They all just about fit now.
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Office
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Altair
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Survivor
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| Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing |
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The first game add-on for Left 4 Dead 2 is now ready to play. It brings the original Left 4 Dead Survivors down south for a meeting with the L4D2 cast, while delivering new single-player, multiplayer and co-operative gameplay.
The Passing features 3 new maps, new weekly game modes (Mutations), a new "uncommon common" zombie class (the fallen survivor), melee weapon (golf club), firearm (M-60), support for infected bot play in Versus, 10 new achievements and more!
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| Lead And Gold |
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Big new set of games on all the gaming PCs... the first one up is Lead And Gold, a third-person team-based shooter. Relive the violent era of the Wild West with fast-paced gunfights; engage in gritty battles in beautifully rendered classic Western settings; test your mettle in genre-specific game modes and levels tailor-made for satisfying team play.
Lead and Gold features the unique synergy system, which provides power-ups to encourage co-operation and team tactics. This system accentuates the frantic shooter and objective-oriented gameplay by rewarding players who focus on cooperation and play as a team.
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| Lots of New Mini-Games |
• Aquaria - mouse-driven underwater platform-adventure.
• Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! - point-and-click adventure games, with tongue firmly in cheek.
• And Yet It Moves - physics-puzzle-platformer in a unique rotatable world of ripped paper.
• Chaos Theory - balanced mix of arcade gameplay and challenging physics-based puzzle solving.
• Machinarium - puzzle/adventure, following popular web-games Samorost and Samorost2.
• Windosill - physics-based puzzles in 10 different immersive, animated environments.
• The Path - short modern-day horror game inspired by older versions of Little Red Riding Hood.
• Zen of Sudoku - relaxing, easy to play version of Sudoku for the PC.
• Fish Tycoon - virtual fish breeding game. Cross-breed until you find the 7 Magic Fish.
• Plant Tycoon - gardening sim game. Experiment with rare and valuable species.
• Virtual Villagers: A New Home - nurture a tribe by teaching them the basics of survival.
• Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children - they land on a new part of the island: the West side.
• Virtual Villagers: The Secret City - a new part of the island to populate - the North side.
• Virtual Families - casual family sim that runs in true real-time. Adopt and nurture a needy person.
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Ben There,
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Time Gentlemen,
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Chaos Theory
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Virtual Villagers:
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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 1st May.
All-nighters are £15 per head, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total. If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 10th April.
At the time of posting, there are currently 2 spaces left for the Easter weekend all-nighter (Saturday 3rd April), and we're now going to run another one the weekend after.
If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
All-nighters are £15 per head, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total.
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| Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight |
C&C4 is the last in the series. It's a fairly major change from its predecessors - there's no base building, so it's closer to Dawn of War 2. It's on all our computers, so you can try it out. Just ask any one of us to log you in, because it's one of those games that forces you to always be logged in to the account (which is tied to the CD key, so you can't make your own account unless you buy your own copy of the game).
With a multitude of innovative new features to the fast and fluid C&C gameplay, Command & Conquer 4 offers players an entirely new way to play C&C. An all-in-one mobile base, persistent player progression across all game modes that is constantly updated in a real-time online profile, a 3-class system for each of the two factions, co-operative play, and a 5v5 objective-based multiplayer mode that promotes teamwork and social interaction, make Command & Conquer 4 unlike any other C&C experience.
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| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 |
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New vehicles like the ATV and a transport helicopter allow for all-new multiplayer tactics on the Battlefield. With the Frostbite-enabled Destruction 2.0 system, you can take down entire buildings and create your own fire points by blasting holes through cover. You can also compete in four-player teams in two squad-only game modes, fighting together to unlock exclusive awards and achievements. Battles are set across expansive maps, each with a different tactical focus.
Yes, you can destroy the terrain itself. Somebody camping at a sniper point? Blow the sniper point away with him still inside! Somebody hiding behind a wall? A tank shell will blow the wall away very nicely! It makes for a whole new way of playing, and there might not be much left of a map's buildings by the end of the game.
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| Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising |
A game about a fictitious conflict on one of the Sakhalin islands, a conflict that is in danger of erupting onto a global scale. Take the role of a US soldier fighting against outnumbering Chinese forces vying for control of the island.
The newer Operation Flashpoint game. We were asked to install it, so now we have.
Most accessible, engaging and visceral sandbox shooter. Includes over 100 authentically modeled vehicles and weapons. Control multi-component vehicles including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, APCs, attack and utility helicopters.
Freedom of play. Balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics with unscripted missions containing real objectives such as covering a friendly unit's retreat or conducting short-range recon patrols.
Squad-based combat. As an epic single and multi-player campaign weaves the narrative, fight as infantry soldiers in battle, drive tanks in armored assaults, and infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives and rifles to machine guns and grenade launchers.
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| Lego Indiana Jones 2 |
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LEGO Indy is back in his biggest adventure yet. Battle through all four movies, including all-new levels from the original adventures and new moments from The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull... or in true LEGO fashion, get creative and build your own levels to play with friends.
It's the latest action-adventure where you can build things out of Lego to advance through the game. Hey, it looks cool :)
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues is a comedic action/adventure game that combines the fun and creative construction of LEGO bricks with the wits, daring and non-stop action of one of cinema’s most beloved adventure heroes. With a unique, tongue-in-cheek take on all the Indiana Jones films – including for the first time ever Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – LEGO Indiana Jones 2 follows Dr. Jones’ escapades from the jungles of South America to the Peruvian Ruins and beyond.
Experience the most authentic LEGO experience yet as you design and build your own game levels brick by brick. Players can even fuse their levels with the ones supplied in the game to create a custom experience like no other.
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| FPS Creator |
FPS Creator sets a new benchmark in the game creation market by providing an easy-to-use yet highly flexible editing environment. As its name implies, this is a tool for creating action-packed FPS games with no programming or 3D modelling knowledge required.
Using an intuitive and visual Windows interface you literally paint your game world into the scene. A vast range of 3D elements are included allowing you to paint hallways, corridors, gantries, walls, doors, access tunnels, ceilings, lifts, transporters, stairs and more. Segments intelligently attach themselves to each other - paint two corridor pieces side-by-side and they'll snap together seamlessly. Switch to 3D mode and you drop in on your scene for pixel perfect placement of 3D entities. Place a light-switch on the wall and it'll intelligently control the dynamic lighting in the room.
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| Lord of the Rings: The Battle For Middle-Earth II |
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We installed this game a few weeks ago, after some gamers asked for it.
With all new content from J.R.R. Tolkien's original fiction, delve deeper than ever before and engage in new battles that go beyond the award-winning movie trilogy. Wage war in the North and assume command of the most storied civilizations in all of Middle-earth history the Elven and Dwarven armies or fight on the side of Evil with heroes and creatures that have never been seen in The Lord of the Rings films. Defend or overtake never before seen lands such as Dol Guldur, The Misty Mountains, and Mirkwood as you unleash powerful new weapons and abilities - summon dragons, cause volcanoes to erupt, or bring down a cataclysmic lightning strike.
But beware, with greater power comes greater adversity. Your enemies, commanded by a powerful new AI system, possess a greater tactical edge and more powerful spells. Will your armies have the fortitude to persevere?
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The next All-Nighter will be Saturday 3rd April (Easter weekend).
If you can't get here to pay your £5 deposit to guarantee your space, you can pay it via Paypal using the button at the bottom of the Pricing page - give us a call though before putting any Paypal payments through, to make sure there are spaces left.
The all-nighter is £15, or you can go for 24 hours for only £25 total.
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The winners of the February stats competition are:
First place this month: Bennyboy - 30 Pwnage Points
Second place this month: Joshikinz - 20 Pwnage Points
Third place this month: Sgt Welshboy - 10 Pwnage Points
and first place overall: Joshikinz - 25 points
Congrats!
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| Stats: All-Time Top 10 |
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8,263,663 |
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3,307,613 |
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2,098,652 |
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1,848,654 |
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1,612,815 |
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1,416,150 |
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1,394,128 |
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1,376,734 |
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1,314,642 |
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1,229,685 |
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| Stats: This Month's Top 10 |
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247,076 |
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213,100 |
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135,305 |
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95,189 |
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63,992 |
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57,200 |
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49,468 |
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42,259 |
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37,376 |
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12,496 |
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