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Stargate Resistance, the third person multiplayer shooter, is officially on its last legs. The downloadable-only game is no longer available for sale and now the game's official web site has revealed that the multiplayer servers will shut down for people who have already purchased the game on January 15.

This news comes shortly after the game's original developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment won a court fight to claim the assets of Stargate Resistance back from Dark Orbit Games, who attempted to continue the game's development after Cheyenne Mountain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year. Even though it won the battle, Cheyenne has now also lost the war as the game license rights to the Stargate franchise have now expired.

The continuing saga of the Stargate game license took yet another left turn this week as a judge ruled that the assets of the multiplayer third person shooter Stargate Resistance be returned to the game's original developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment. The company released the digital download game earlier this year and then just a few days later filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Not long after that a group of former Cheyenne team members claimed to have taken control of future support and updates to Stargate Resistance. The group, which called itself Fresh Start Studios and then Dark Comet Games, indeed did release a number of patches and content updates to the game. However in August Cheyenne slapped the companies with a lawsuit saying the transfer of the game's assets was "improper" which the judge apparently agreed with this week.

The web site Nerdvana reports that even as Cheyenne wins this court case it is still under Chapter 11 and has a new receiver in place to handle its ongoing financial issues. There's no word on if Stargate Resistance will continue to be updated under its new-old owner. Adding to the problems is that the company's Stargate game license has now expired with its owner MGM althought Cheyenne's chairman and CEO Gary Whiting is claiming that the receiver is working to get that license back.

[Via Massively]

It was yet another fairly slow news day in PC gaming land. Is anyone surprised that Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam is being shown for the first time at the Tokyo Game Show?

• Lots of new patches are available via Steam for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, Garry's Mod, Fallen Earth, Gratituious Space Battles, and Stargate Resistance.
• Also the Steam release of Sacraboar has a new update that adds 10 new missions, new achievements, Steam Cloud supports and multi-monitor support.
• All of the Infinite Interactive Puzzle games, including Puzzle Quest 2, now have Steam Cloud support.
• The StarCraft II forums now have some answers to some common map editor questions.
• Want to make a mask that looks like Borderlands' Psycho Bandits? Here's how you do it.

The trials and tribulations over the multiplayer action shooter Stargate Resistance are not over yet, thanks to a new lawsuit from the game's former developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment against the game's new dev team at Dark Orbit Games. According to Courthouse News, shareholders for Cheyenne Mountain claim that members of Dark Orbit Games and Fresh Start Studios transferred the assets of Stargate Resistance illegally and for a fraction for what the game is worth.

Stargate Resistance was launched in February 2010 by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment as a last ditch effort to stay afloat after plans to make an MMO game, Stargate Worlds, fell by the wayside. It wasn't enough and Cheyenne Mountain filed for bankruptcy just a few days after Stargate Resistance was released via digital download. In March it was announced that development of the game would continue at Fresh Start Studios which was later renamed as Dark Orbit Games. The development team has released several bug and content updates for the game. However the shareholders of Cheyenne Mountain now say the transfer to the new company was "improper" and want the game's assets returned, along with $10 million in damages for "breach of contract, civil conspiracy, fraudulent transfer, tortious interference and unjust enrichment."

[Via Blue's News]

Our review of StarCraft II is still coming along. We don't want to be first; we just want to give you the best opinion of the game.

• Kind of a spoiler but there's a familiar looking character that pops up when you check out one of StarCraft II's campaign maps.
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• A new update for Stargate Resistance via Steam includes the addition of a new King of the Hill gameplay mode.
• Check out this chat in PC Gamer with Dave Johnson the creator of Counter-Strike's de_dust map (he works for Splash Damage now, by the way)
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The team at the new game developer Dark Orbit Games continue to put in new updates to the TV show based third person multiplayer shooter Stargate Resistance. Today a new patch was released via Steam that are apparently the first of many that will upgrade parts of the game.

This new patch brings higher detailed character models for two of the game's player classes, the SGC Soldier and System Lord Jaffa. There's also a new unlockable outfit for each model in this patch. In addition there's been some new achievements added to the game as well as some tweaks for the game's weapons and recoil animations.

Last week we reported that the TV show based multiplayer action game Stargate Resistance was now in the hands of new developer Dark Comet Games. Now the developer has issued its first update to the game via Steam and it adds a new "planet" (i.e. map) called Leonops to the title.

In addition to the new map, the update has some bug fixes and changes. It also allows players to get credit for "kill assists" (although not an actual kill score). Players who take on one of the game's healer classes will also get credit in their player score for healing other players.

[Via Blue's News]

The fairly confusing saga surrounding the release of the multiplayer shooter game Stargate Resistance took another turn today as it was revealed that a new game developer, Dark Comet Games, has taken over the continuing development of the title.

In a press release, Dark Comet Games said its company was formed by the original developers of Stargate Resistance under the direction of Firesky. The new company will continue to update the game with a new map and other new content planned for release "in the coming weeks". The game was first announced and released by Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment who later filed for bankruptcy last March. Previously Cheyenne stated the game's development would be moved to a new company called Fresh Start. It's likely Dark Comet Games is simply the final name for Fresh Start.

The press release makes no mention of the status of Stargate Worlds, the MMO game that Cheyenne was developing until it turned its attention to Stargate Resistance.

If you missed out on the first free weekend of play for Stargate Resistance. you got another chance. The game's official web site has announced they will launch a second free weekend for the TV show based multiplayer shooter beginning at 3:01 am Eastern time Saturday (that's 12:01 am Pacific time) and ending on 3:01 am Eastern time Monday (12:01 am Pacific time).

Just a reminder: the full game has three different world and allows the player to choose from six different player classes, an assortment of weapons, gameplay modes like Team Deathmatch, Capture the Tech and Domination and more.

[Thanks SGRuser]

Earlier this year Stargate Resistance was released. The downloadable third person multiplayer shooter based on the sci-fi TV franchise has managed to survive the shut down of the game's first developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment and has continued to be updated and supported by the aptly named new team Fresh Start Studios. This weekend the developer has opened up the full version of the game for anyone to play.

The free play weekend has already begun and will continue until 2 am Eastern time on Monday. People who decide to purchase the full game during the free weekend will be able to get a DLC update pack for free.

[Via Blue's News]