ATI has released Far Cry 2 hotfix drivers for Windows XP and Vista, improving DirectX 9 and 10.

PCGH has benchmarks comparing older drivers to these new ones using a Radeon HD 4870 X2, showing significant gains. Read more »

Publisher Ubisoft has joined with Adult Swim to promote tomorrow's arrival of Far Cry 2 on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. In addition to a downloadable tribute album entitled African Swim, the beloved network provided new clips of the open-world shooter.

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Ubisoft has released the first screenshots from the Far Cry 2 area of Home, the PlayStation 3's Second Life-ish virtual space and promotional platform.

A promotion for Ubisoft Montreal's sequel to Crytek's breakout open-world shooter, the space looks like it's taken straight from Far Cry 2's African battlegrounds--but with a few chairs thrown in to help the space's feng shui.

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Publisher Ubisoft has confirmed that the PC its open-world shooter Far Cry 2, which hits alongside the PS3 and Xbox 360 editions on October 21, will use a slightly different configuration of the SecuROM DRM technology found in Spore and Crysis Warhead.

Ubisoft forum manager bukowski113 posted the details on the game's official forum: Read more »

With just a few days left until Far Cry 2's retail debut on October 21, publisher Ubisoft just announced that the open-world shooter has gone gold and entered manufacturing.

Developed this time around by Ubisoft Montreal--the PC original was crafted by Crytek--Far Cry 2 will hit PS3 and Xbox 360 at $60, with the PC version coming in at $50. Additionally, those that pre-order the PC version through Valve's digital distribution platform Steam will receive $5 off. Read more »

Ubisoft sent along a new trailer for Far Cry 2, in the works at its Montreal studio. Viewers are introduced to the Jackal--the player's primary objective--and all the shady characters one must go through in order to reach him.

In development for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Far Cry 2 puts players in war-torn Africa on October 21.

Hardy LeBel has been around the multiplayer block. Lead designer on the original Halo multiplayer component, LeBel recently joined the team at Ubisoft Montreal to develop an online portion of Far Cry 2.

I caught up with LeBel at an Ubisoft event, where he told me why Far Cry 2 was one of the most challenging projects to tackle. We also went over the game's approach to level design, and why LeBel feels that faster is not always better when it comes to multiplayer shooters. Read more »

The star of Far Cry 2 (PC, 360, PS3) multiplayer isn't the modes, or the levels, or even the guns--it's the map editor.

After spending some time manipulating the editor with an Xbox 360 controller, I was very impressed. It is probably the most powerful FPS map editor that an eight-year-old could master in five minutes. Using a radial menu to select major categories--roads, buildings, etc--and sub-menus for smaller categories, I was able to assemble a mish-mash of huts and trees in seconds. Read more »

Publisher Ubisoft has released 15 new screenshots from Ubisoft Montreal's open-world shooter sequel Far Cry 2, providing a glimpse of the title's various multiplayer modes running on the PC.

Far Cry 2 arrives on October 21 in PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 incarnations.

Ubisoft has released a series of trailers from Far Cry 2, the shooter sequel for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Five videos come together to show one day and one night of in-game time while dispatching roughly 30 bad guys and handing out at least 25 explosions.

The demo-less open-world game, in the works at Ubisoft's Montreal studio, will hit North America on October 21 and Europe on October 24. Read more »

Ubisoft Montreal's upcoming open-world shooter Far Cry 2 (PC, 360, PS3) will have a full slate of multiplayer options, but won't come with a demo before or after the game's release.

"Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Diamond... and Uprising" will be available multiplayer modes, according to producer Louis-Pierre Pharand in an interview with EuroGamer. Capture the Diamond is capture-the-flag reworked to honor the game's African setting, whereas Uprising is "a modified version of a VIP [mode]." Read more »

Ubisoft Montreal's open-world shooter sequel Far Cry 2 (PC, PS3, 360) will hit North America on October 21 and Europe on October 24, the company confirmed today.

While Ubisoft only announced the European date this morning, the company has since informed GameSpot of the specific North American release date for the followup to Crytek's 2004 PC shooter Far Cry.

As Ubisoft Montreal continues to release new Far Cry 2 media, this trailer talks of the immersion elements in the open-world shooter that hits PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this fall.

As Ubisoft talks up Far Cry 3, the publisher has provided new footage from the console editions of Far Cry 2. The open-world shooter hits PC, PS3 and 360 this fall.

With Ubisoft Montreal's open-world shooter Far Cry 2 due on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this fall, narrative designer Patrick Redding has confirmed that a third Far Cry game is in the "preliminary stages" and will likely share the sequel's African setting.

"For us Africa still has a huge amount of promise," Redding told videogaming247. Read more »