The open beta period for testing out Battlefield 2142 Update 1.50 is over, and the fruit of Digital Illusions' labor is ready for plucking. The latest build to Update 1.50 has been tendered as a Final revision, and players will have to patch their games in order to play the new community-contributed maps, Wake Island 2142 and Operation Shingle. But there are other features you've probably been dying to have since the release of 2142, so check the full story to see if your hopes have come true.

 

The moment of truth is at hand. If you didn't get to enter the few exclusive Beta tests of Crysis, then this news is for you. The Crysis demo was rescheduled for release today, and Crytek made good on their promise. Electronic Arts now has a taste of the PC community's most anticipated game for 2007 out on the most popular download portals in the Internet, and you could say hardcore gamers and hardware enthusiasts are flexing many a PC muscle in the 45-minute long, single-player demo.

As was reported a month back, the Crysis demo will sport the CryEngine 2 Sandbox editor, so budding modders and experienced modders can prime themselves for user-created content in the remaining weeks before the game hits shelves. Now servers around the world must feel the almost endless download strain once again, and avid torrent seeders will become the unsung heroes for those late in picking up the news.

Why? Because the demo, weighing in at a whopping 1.77 GB of compressed data, already has most of the popular, non-membership download sites at a crawl - which is an understatement in itself. This is why we've added a little treat for those who picked up this news here at QJ.NET: an FTP link to EA's own file hosting.