[Update: June 14 @ 6PM] This giveaway has ended. We will notify the winners shortly.[Original Story: June 12] Shacknews and Meridian4 have joined forces to give away three copies of ArmA II: Combined Operations.Combining the tactical-sim action of ArmA II and the ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead expansion, Combined Operations is the perfect package for those interested in joining the Shack Army.

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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 »

Yet more new ARMA 2 fixes, features and improvements have arrived today along with a bonus campaign in Patch 1.05, available now as a 270MB download from FileShack.

Patch 1.05 adds a mini-campaign 'Eagle Wing,' set several years after the original ending and casting players as the pilot of an AH-64 Apache helicopter--also new in this patch. Read more »

Bohemia Interactive's battlefield simulator ARMA 2 will receive free downloable campaign content as part of a large update scheduled for late December, the developer announced today.

The 'Eagle Wing' mini-campaign continues the story of one of ARMA 2's campaign endings a few years down the line in 2010, and sees players piloting the new AH-64 Apache attack helicopter in "two extensive new levels" Read more »

Bohemia Interactive has today released patch 1.04 for its battlefield simulator ARMA 2, available now for your downloading pleasure in a 134MB file over on FileShack.

Chief among the patch's changes are eagerly-awaited improvements to mouse handling and responsiveness, further crash fixes, and a smattering of multiplayer fixes. Click on through for the full changelog. Read more »

Now on FileShack is patch 1.03 for Bohemia Interactive's battlefield simulator ARMA II, improving the AI and bringing many fixes to campaign, multiplayer and co-op play.

Highlights include toning down the AI's cat-like hearing, autosave logic which avoids saving at unsafe times, crash and stutter fixes, and improved building destruction. Read more »

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Sorry! I've been playing the ArmA II demo, and it looks like I've adopted some of its odd, robotic speech patterns. With all the attention the game pays to realistic armed combat, you'd think maybe someone could have spent just a few minutes making sure the characters speak actual English. Read more »

Last week's Direct2Drive and Steam sales lists are in, and both Bohemia's shooter ArmA 2 and Related Designs' strategy title Dawn of Discovery performed well across both services.

Enticing weekend Steam sales also saw several titles shoot up to the top of Valve's list. The 50% off sale of Fallout 3 drew enough gamers to put it at the top of the charts, while the 2K Huge Games Pack saw plenty of action. Read more »

An updated version of the v1.02 patch for ARMA II is now available on FileShack, packing numerous enhancements and fixes over the previously released v1.02 patch.

Improved game stability and "newly implemented full support" for anti-aliasing are among the major tweaks developer Bohemia has brought to the PC military simulator. The patch can only be installed over version 1.00 or 1.01 of the recently released game, but retains multiplayer compatibility with all past versions (1.00, 1.01 and 1.02). Read more »

Now on FileShack is the demo for Bohemia Interactive's battlefield simulator ArmA 2. The whopping 2.84GB download contains one campaign mission, a multiplayer map with three game modes, the 'boot camp' tutorials, and oodles of weapons and vehicles.

Already released in Europe, ArmA 2 will arrive in North America through Steam on Friday, then hit retail shelves on July 7 courtesy of publisher Got Game Entertainment.

Got Game Entertainment has announced that it will be the North America publisher of Bohemia Interactive's battlefield simulator ArmA 2, bringing it to retail shelves on July 7.

While ArmA 2 is already on sale in Europe--published by 505 Games--and will be available through Steam from Friday June 26, NA retail release details were unknown.

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With ARMA 2 PC hitting Europe today and North America next week, developer Bohemia passed along a launch trailer for its self-described "ultimate military simulator."

There's also a "next-gen console" version in the works, though no release date yet.

With Bohemia preparing to launch its self-described "ultimate military

simulator" ARMA 2 on PC this summer, the studio has provided new screenshots and new details.

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Like many of you, I never bothered to find out why the military shooter ArmA was called "ArmA." It sounded like a typical reference to arms, and probably stood for "Awesome, really massive Armies" for all I knew. But there was a thought process behind this name, according to developer Bohemia Interactive.

"[When naming the title] it felt like almost everyone preferred something along the lines of Battleshock Operation Force 3: Read more »

ArmA 2 reinforcements have arrived, bringing fresh screenshots and a European PC release date of June 26 for Bohemia Interactive Studio's battlefield simulator.

The aircraft on show here are just several of the over 50 vehicle types at your disposal to help keep the peace in 240 square kilometres of fictional former Soviet state.

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