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Far Cry was one my best ever played games. If you still haven’t got around to playing one of the defining games of recent years however, or if you just don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, then now is your chance. FilePlanet is offering a full version of the game to download for free.

The downloadable version of the game is ad-supported, which is a bit of a hassle, but when you’re getting a game of this quality for free you can’t really complain.

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Statetris is an interesting game mixing aspects of the popular game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, you position states/countries at their proper location.

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Gabe Newell, President of Valve Software, has said that Microsoft’s choice to limit DirectX 10 to Windows Vista was “a terrible mistake”.

He said that the decision has affected the industry as a whole, as there are only a small percentage of players that can use DirectX 10. At least, that’s the case according to the latest Steam Survey, which has over one million samples.

Only 2.3 percent of users have a DirectX 10 capable PC – i.e. a system with a DirectX 10 graphics card that’s running Windows Vista. In total there are around eight percent of systems in the sample with Windows Vista installed, while over 90 percent of the sampled systems are still running Windows XP.

Apparently, when developing a cross-platform title, developers look for the lowest common denominator. Because DirectX 10 isn’t supported by neither Microsoft’s nor Sony’s latest consoles, developers are apparently reluctant to take it up according to Newell.

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The pneumatic experts at Festo have taken a big step towards making the most real-life racing game experience, and the extent of on-road feel of their new contraption looks very impressive. Festo uses Fluidic Muscles and mechatronic systems to give users a true sensation of either driving or flying, depending on the software being used. It’s really more of an industrial simulator than a game, and we’re pretty sure it costs a bit more than a Playstation 3. Either way, we’ll need to come up with a business case to AOL for buying one for the Autoblog team.

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EuroGamer has just leaked new, pre-beta Crysis footage and it’s definitely looking better than ever.