If you've yet to experience the horrors of simulated war, Arma 2 developer Bohemia Interactive is lowering the bar to entry. Today at E3 it announced Arma 2: Free, a free version of the battlefield simulator which doesn't have its every feature but certainly has enough for a jolly good time.

Arma 2: Free gives you Arma 2's full multiplayer side, complete with the mission editor, and dedicated server support. There are, of course, a few drawbacks. Arma 2: Free has lower-quality graphics, as you can judge see in the screenshots, no support for user mods which add new external content, and lacks the regular campaign. However, you'll still get to play user-made single-player content and it is, after all, free. Read more »

Though it was previously announced for release on November 24, the 'Private Military Company' DLC for ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead (or Combined Operations), has been released after a slight delay. You can grab the DLC through Steam or directly from Bohemia Interactive. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter is a big one, with media for Zen Bound 2, Dirt 3, Music on: Electric Guitar, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, NBA 2K11, Majesty 2: Monster Kingdom, Dead Meets Lead, ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead DLC, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1, Trials HD, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Rift: Planes of Telara, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, TumbleStone, and Raving Rabbids Travel in Time. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new content Gran Turismo 5, Dead Space 2, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, Rift: Planes of Telara, Sonic Free Riders, MapleStory, Def Jam Rapstar, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part 1, MotionSports, Epic Mickey, and Shogun 2: Total War. Read more »

Bohemia Interactive's hardcore, cult-hit Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead will soon expand once again, with a new "Private Military Company" add-on coming late next month.

Arma 2: PMC will launch on November 24, for $9.99 (USD), adding "exotic" equipment and a new storyline to the Arma 2 universe. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Another day at Tokyo Game Show 2010 and another packed Daily Filter. Today we've added new screens and video for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, NBA Elite 11, GoldenEye 007 Wii, ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, 4Story, Phantasy Star Portable 2, Spare Parts, Vanquish, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XI: Scars of Abyssea, The 3rd Birthday, Front Mission Evolved, Monster Jam: Path of Destruction, and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

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Mount up, PC gamers. The 'British Armed Forces' add-on for Bohemia Interactive's ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead has been released for $9.99.

With the latest add-on for ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead already announced, we've been clamoring to see more of it. Thankfully, developer Bohemia Interactive has complied with our wishes and released a trailer for the upcoming add-on featuring the British Armed Forces.

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

We've got yet another monster of content for Daily Filter as assets continue to flow from Comic-Con 2010. Today we've added new screens for Lionhead's Fable 3, the ARMA 2 expansion Operation Arrowhead, scratching sequel DJ Hero 2 featuring newly added pro DJ QBert, PlayStation Move's Kung Fu Rider, screens from the action-MMO Tera and PureSim Baseball 3. Read more »

The Brits will deploy to ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead's fictional setting of Takistan this August in a downloadable content pack announced today by developer Bohemia.

The 'British Armed Forces' DLC will add Her Majesty's finest to the standalone military sim expansion pack, complete with six of their weapons, two new vehicles, another two helicopters and special Brit versions of the Apache, Chinook and offroad car. Read more »

If Brian's Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Field Report got you interested but you haven't bought it yet, a sizeable demo for the game came out today. Weighing in at 3GB, it packs the singleplayer mission "Coltan Blues" from the main campaign, the "Little Bird" scenario, three tutorial Boot Camp scenarios, three multiplayer modes, and the mission editor.

You can grab the Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead PC demo on Fileshack now. Read more »

Everybody's been playing Crackdown 2 but from the sounds of it they won't be much longer. San Diego-based comic Christian Spicer adds his voice to the disappointment Garnett, Brian, and Jeff express over the sequel. But it fares better than Deadly Premonition did with Jeff. Not to worry, ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead and DeathSpank help Whatcha Been Playin finish strong. A trio of awesome strategy games perfect for a long summer's playcation fills out this week's Cannata-ford a New Game. Your comments on 3DS pricing and requiring a complete game one save to play White Knight Chronicles 2 kicks off the Warning before getting to topics like what makes an MMO good and the viability of an honor system difficulty mechanic in open world games. Brian brings it home in the Front Page with news including the announcement of Dragon Age 2, four DLC packs coming for Red Dead Redemption, E3 Game Critics Awards winners, and more.

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A lot of times we play games not for preview or review, but just to have fun (Shocking, we know!). Field Report provides our first-hand experience with the latest games.

Bohemia Interactive's ArmA 2 is billed as the "ultimate military simulator" and they aren't kidding. I've been playing shooters for a very long time and recently the modern military shooter is in demand. I had dabbled with Operation Flashpoint back in the day, but my computer was never beefy enough to run it well. Now, equipped with a decent machine and a new copy of ArmA 2: Combined Operations, I venture into the brutal, unforgiving world of realistic military combat. Read more »

A launch-day patch accompanied the release of Bohemia's standalone expansion ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead yesterday, a 142MB download over on FileShack.

Unlike recent ARMA 2 patches, Operation Arrowhead patch 1.52 is not compatible with the Steam release, which is updated automatically. The following fixes and tweaks are deployed, plus ARMA 2 patch 1.07 will be automatically installed if needed. Read more »

A new ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead trailer introduces the army native to the standalone expansion pack's fictional setting of Takistan and reveals its retro arsenal.

"The Takistani Army is equipped with a mixture of Cold-War-era equipment of both Eastern and Western bloc origin, supplied during the interregnum of 1988-91," says developer Bohemia Interactive, including FN FALs and AKS-74s plus T-34, T-55 and T-72 tanks, not forgetting Mi-24D helicopter gunships and SS-1c Scud-B missiles. Read more »