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The free-to-play first person shooter Alliance of Valiant Arms from developer Redduck gets regular content updates and tomorrow the game will be adding a new map for its players. The map is called Death Valley and unlike previous multiplayer maps for the game this one has been designed specifically for co-op gameplay.

The game's US publisher NHN USA has sent Big Download an exclusive developers diary from Redduck's level designer Junghun Kim as he explains how the A.V.A dev team designed the Death Valley levels We also have some exclusive screenshots and a new trailer showing the level in action. Players will get access to the new map tomorrow via ijji.com.

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For some odd reason the zombie trend in both games and in pop culture in general has no signs of dying off anytime soon. Today NHN USA announced that their free-to-play first person shooter Soldier Front has become the latest game to add a gameplay mode that features some kind of zombies or infected folks.

The new Zombie Mode lets one player become the infected while the other players remain human. The goal is for that one play to start infecting the other normal participants with its zombie infection until all of the players become hungry for human flesh. The new mode also includes some new weapons such as the Devil Uzi designed to help take out the flesh-eating monsters.

Last year, NCsoft successfully launched Aion, their fantasy MMO with Crytek's CryEngine as its basis. Now another Korean based publisher has announced plans to release Project E:st, a fantasy MMO from publisher NHN that will used the second generation version of the CryEngine. The game will launch first in Korean and the plan is to release the game later in the US and Europe.

There's little info on the game itself in the press release other than it will be developed by Polygon Games. However a gameplay trailer will be shown next week at the Game Developers Conference at Crytek's booth. The game will enter closed beta testing in Korea later this year.

In the latest salvo made in the graphics wars, AMD today announced that they are cooperating with a number of game developers to make their PC games work well on DirectX10.1. AMD claims that only their ATI Radeon graphics cards offer full "top to bottom" DirectX10 graphics support.

The specific games mentioned as receiving full DirectX10.1 support from AMD are Battleforge, the fantasy RTS game from Phenomic and Electronic Arts, Stormrise, the sci-fi RTS game from The Creative Assembly and Sega and the little known RPG title Cloud 9 from NHN Games. AMD has also released a small "Ping-Pong" interactive demo to show off their use of the DirectX10.1 demo. The demo requires Microsoft Vista Service Pack 1. and ATI Radeon HD 3600 series or an ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics card with at least 512MB of video memory, the ATI Catalyst 8.3drivers or higher, a dual- or quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM. Folks without those requirements can download a video showing the demo in action.