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Just a reminder that we are in the last day of running a contest where three lucky Big Download readers will be getting a boxed copy of Activision's new action game adaptation of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. If you want your copy it's time to head over to the official contest page, make a comment on that page (not this one) and then wait until after Nov. 21 where we will select at random three of the people who made comments. Those folks will each get a Quantum of Solace PC game copy. Good luck.

Activision and Treyarch have released the official mod tools for Call of Duty: World at War, allowing users to manipulate the game and create their own designs.

Download the Call of Duty: World at War Mod Tools (1.1 GB)
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Yet another PC game has been added to the growing list of titles that support the unique Novint Falcon controller. This time it's for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the multiplayer shooter released a year ago from Splash Damage, id Software and Activision. The free mod will be provided by the HaptX team.

The mod will be made available to download on Nov. 21 and will allow the player to feel the recoils of weapons and the feel of driving the various vehicles in the game. This mod also has support for HaptX's Force Balancing System which they claim "...allows for stronger recoils with less camera shakes. This allows the player to experience even more intense action without ever losing aim."

One week after the game shipped to stores, Valve has now made the PC version of Activision's Call of Duty: World at War available for purchase and download via their Steam service. There's no 10 percent deal on this new game, however. You will have to pay the full $49.95 purchase price as you would with the retail boxed version of the game.

All of the previous Call of Duty games, including last year's best selling Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, have been available via Steam for some time now. While there's no word yet on the new game's US sales, Gamesindustry.biz has posted word that in the UK, Call of Duty: World at War has outsold last year's Call of Duty 4 by a 2 to 1 margin in its first week.

Bond is back in action, and he's got issues. Quantum of Solace is the first video game to feature the Daniel Craig version of 007, which trades in the gadget wielding playboy from older films for a tougher, more reckless one. The game parallels the events of the movie, so it also picks up right where Casino Royale left off. Unfortunately, there isn't much of a recap, so people who either didn't see Casino Royale or have a foggy recollection of its events get thrown straight into the fight without a full understanding of what's going on. This feeling doesn't go away after the first mission. Even after sitting through each mission briefing in its entirety, we spent most of the time wondering why we doing half the things the game expected from us.

Just a reminder that we are running a contest where three lucky Big Download readers will be getting a boxed copy of Activision's new action game adaptation of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. If you want your copy it's time to head over to the official contest page, make a comment on that page (not this one) and then wait until after Nov. 21 where we will select at random three of the people who made comments. Those folks will each get a Quantum of Solace PC game copy. Good luck.

It's one of the most anticipated movies of the year and now Big Download is letting you play the PC game version. We have three copies of Quantum of Solace, the recently released James Bond first/third person shooter from developer Treyarch and publisher Activision that we want to give away to our readers and one of them could be for you. How do you win? It's pretty simple:

* To enter, post a comment on this contest page.
* The comment must be left before 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Nov. 21.
* You may enter only once.
* Three winners will be selected in a random drawing.
* Those winners will receive a boxed retail copy of the PC version of Quantum of Solace from publisher Activision (valued at $50)
* Click Here for complete Official Rules. You must be a resident of the US or Canada (excluding Quebec) who is 18 years or older to enter this contest.
Thanks to Activision and our sister site GameDaily for the donation of the prizes. Check out GameDaily's own Quantum of Solace console giveaway contest. Good luck.

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Earlier this week we reported that the Manchester studio of UK based Swordfish Studios had been bought by Monumental Games. Today Codemasters announced that they have purchased the second half of Swordfish, their Birminghham studio.

That part of Swordfish is currently working on the console game 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand for publisher THQ. Codemasters' press release said the studio will now work on unnamed original games for the publisher using their own in-house EGO graphics engine. Swordfish was one of the studios formerly owned by Vivendi Games that was not taken in by the merger of that company with Activision to form Activision Blizzard.

Earlier this week we reported that Ubisoft had bought Massive Entertainment after the World in Conflict developer was cut loose following the Activision Blizzard merger. Today half of one of the other developers that Activision Blizzard orphaned has also found a new home.

MMO game developer Monumental Games announced today that it had acquired the Manchester studio of UK based Swordfish Studios. According to Gamesindustry.biz all 26 team members at the studio will now join Monumental's team, growing its total membership to 100 folks. Swordfish was one of Vivendi Games' internal developers that was not taken in when the company merged earlier this year with Activision to form Activision Blizzard. Another Swordfish Studios team in Birmingham was not brought in by Monumental Games.

This patch for Call of Duty: World at War updates the game to v1.1. It enables mod support for both the Single and Multiplayer modes, and a license key will no longer be required to run a Dedicated Server.

Download Call of Duty: World at War v1.1 Patch (317 MB)
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