Aspyr Media this morning announced that Star Wars Battlefront has gone gold. The game, which allows players to re-live all of the epic battles from the classic and prequel Star Wars film trilogies, is scheduled to begin shipping Monday, July 18th. Licensed from LucasArts, Star Wars Battlefront was developed for the Mac by Beenox Studios.

Here are the final requirements:

Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.6 or later
CPU Processor: PowerPC G4/G5 or later
CPU Speed: 1GHz or faster
Memory: 256 MB or higher (512 MB recommended)
Hard Disk Space: 2.7 GB free disk space
Video Card (ATI): Radeon 8500 or better
Video Card (NVidia): GeForce4 MX or better
Video Memory (VRam): 64 MB or higher
Media Required: DVD Drive

Multiplayer Requirements:

Internet and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported
Internet play requires Broadband connection
Mac to Mac Internet play via GameRanger
Mac to PC play on LAN or Direct IP only

Be sure to check out IMG's preview of Star Wars Battlefront by following the link below.

IMG Preview: Star Wars Battlefront

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IMG has posted a review of Swoop Software's Kitty Spangles Solitaire. Here's a clip from the review:

Kitty Spangles exclusively follows the Klondike rules of solitaire. These are the same rules used on the ubiquitous Windows version of solitaire and arguably the most popular version of solitaire in the world. Very simply, you have to create four stacks (foundations) from ace up to king. You accomplish this by using the field (tableau) to organize your cards from king down to ace alternating black suits and red suits. Three cards are dealt at a time from the deck (stock).

IMG Review: Kitty Spangles Solitaire

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Red Orchestra, a WW2 conversion for Unreal Tournament 2004, has been updated to version 3.3. The update changes the physics of movement, updates the bot A.I., and speeds up the gameplay significantly.

A sample of the changes is:

• One beautiful new map, never seen before: Baksan Valley - go try it out!

• With full access to the UT engine, we have been able to throw in some major rendering optimizations. This is showing an improvement of up to 40% in frame-rates on lower-end CPUs. Additionally, a number of the maps have been further optimized for improved performance.

• Vehicle movement has been improved: the brakes on tanks now hold the tank from rolling down shallow hills - and they won't "spin" so easily!

Red Orchestra

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An fan-made campaign for Alien Swarm has been released. The campaign is named Phalanx and has six missions. From the research labs to the infested living quarters, it is highly entertaining.

Alien Swarm is a mod released for Unreal Tournament 2004. It features a top-down view and multiple unit gameplay.

To download the expansion campaign, scroll down to the links section.

Campaign Download

Phalanx Forum Thread

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