The Big Round-up: Monday, June 2

Posted Jun 2nd 2008 12:30PM by Dan O'Halloran
Filed under: Downloads, Demos, Meta BD, Modern Warfare 2, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

	Final Battlefield 2142 patch adds new levels and more Battlefield 2142 didn't quite get the critical acclaim nor the sales of some of the other games in the multiplayer shooter series but the sci-fi themed game from developer Digital Illusions and publisher Electronic Arts kept its support for the game for a long time. Now with the development team moving onto new projects, the final patch for the game has been released and can be grabbed right here at Big Download.
	Call of Duty 4 bonus maps finally coming to PC June 5th Two months ago, PS3 and 360 gamers were offered a map pack for Call of Duty 4 called the Variety Map Pack. For reasons escaping human understanding, said pack was not available on the PC -- the platform on which Call of Duty originally made a name for itself.
	Plans for Frontlines: Fuel of War downloadable maps revealed THQ developer Kaos Studios released their first title, the near-future first person shooter, Frontlines: Fuel of War, last February. While the developer has released a number of patches to the game since then, Kaos is in the middle of preparing their first major update (1.1.0) that will add new features such as Punkbuster anti-cheating support, a new version of the game's server browser and more.
	More info than you needed about Red Alert 3's Soviet bulldog unit Electronic Arts updated the official Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 website with a robust profile of the bullfrog, a Soviet anti-air unit. The page features a brief clip of the unit in action, as well. This unit was also featured prominently in the developer walkthrough video we reported on yesterday.
	Dracula: Origin demo aims to scare you One of the most famous fictional characters ever created gets interpreted in a new adventure game. Dracula: Origin tries to give its own interpretation of the beginnings of the most well known vampire of all based, of course, on Bram Stoker's original novel. The game, developed by Frogware, has already been released by The Adventure Company but you can now download a taste of the game right here at Big Download.

	Street Fighter IV web site launched; possible release date? Capcom has been putting more and more effort into its PC game line-up but few expected that one of their most anticipated games, Street Fighter IV, would be released for our platform. Simply put, fighting games just don't appear on the PC. So we got excited when we first learned that Capcom's long awaited 3D (with 2D backgrounds) revamp of the Street Fighter series would be on a PC hard drive.
	New screenshots show off some of upcoming Hellgate London patch Flagship Studios released their action-RPG Hellgate London last October but the final result was a bit of a disappointment, both in critics' eyes and in terms of sales. However, Flagship continues to update the game with new patches and content and recently the developer posted up what they have planned for upcoming expansions to the game.
	1701 AD gets a new edition in the US with extra content Way back in October 2006, publisher Aspyr Media shipped 1701 AD to stores in the US. The historical empire building strategy game from German developer Related Designs (where it is known as Anno 1701) got a lot of critical praise at the time. Now Aspyr has officially announced plans to release a new edition of the game to stores this summer that will add some new content.