Far Cry Instincts Predator

Slashgamer Writes: Uwe Boll's next masterpiece, Far Cry, went straight-to-DVD. Chances are you wouldn't buy nor rent the film and seriously, can anyone blame you? However, I bet you are a tad curious, I mean Uwe's films are for the most part, atrocious - so it's kinda like looking at automobile accident pictures on the internet. No matter how horrifying the images are - you somehow convince yourself to quickly look at one. Before you know it, you checked out the whole gallery. Anyway, if you want to briefly see how bad the Far Cry film ended up being and are a Netflix subscriber, you can now stream the movie online. Obviously if you have an Xbox Live account or a PS3 Netflix disc, you can also stream the movie straight to your console.

We didn't know anyone wandered into Far Cry 2's expansive, hojillion-hour-long single-player campaign and somehow managed to make time to check out the game's multiplayer offerings, but apparently there's a sizable community of online FC2 players out there. This group has been calling for more realistic match settings for quite some time -- players can apparently catch more lead than Sonny Corleone and walk away with little more than a scratch and an interesting story. Their pleas have been answered -- in a recent post on the FC2 community blog, the game's developers announced a patch which will, in addition to rebalancing the weapons in all multiplayer modes, add a more realistic hardcore setting to all match types. This mode will boost the damage for all weapons (ensuring speedier demises) and will let players tweak the spawn times (but not the spawn rates, whatever that means). They didn't specify which platforms the patch will be landing on -- hopefully, they'll be affording a hasty death to all three.

Updates are a complicated business. The issues that sometimes occur when games are released for online play can be complex to reproduce and solve. Then the testing and approval process needs to begin, and changes may have to be made. No one wants to release an update that doesn't solve all of the issues players are having - and, with this in mind, the wait for a Far Cry Instincts Predator update has been longer than usual. But the process is now complete, and the update will be released through Xbox Live at the start of next week!