Grand Theft Auto IV Update Released

Updates to Grand Theft Auto IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

General

  • Convert all region SKU’s into the same SKU
  • Include support for all languages within single exe

Controls

  • Allow controls to be double mapped on keyboard
  • Added option in controls menu to disable mouse controls in helicopters
  • Adjust keyboard control sensitivity in hood cam view in vehicles

Multiplayer

  • Security Updates to deter cheating in multiplayer
  • Hosts can now immediately Kick users from their games in Lobby and in game via Cell phone without having to rely on peer voting
  • Fixed a bug in Cops ‘n Crooks mode where Host would drop out and prevent remaining players from leaving game

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ALL / Off With Their Heads / Shot Baker (East Coast)

ALL ALL have announced their first East Coast shows there in 7 years. ALL will hit Cambridge, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Brooklyn in January 2010 with Scott Reynolds on vocals joining Bill Stevenson (drums), Karl Alvarez (bass) and Stephen Egerton (guitar).

After years of hiatus, ALL reunited at 2008’s Riot Fest in Chicago, setting the stage for additional shows in Japan and in Denver later that year. In July of this year the band headed to their homeland, Southern California for a series of shows, where they were joined by Descendents band mate Tony Lombardo at two shows.

Update: Support on the run will be provided by Off with Their Heads and Shot Baker.
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Bomb The Music Industry! (Bring Your Own Band Tour)

Bomb the Music Industry! have announcced the Bring Your Own Band Tour. They explained:

I thought this would be a fun way to wrap up the year, exactly how it got started – with me (having no ideas what I’m doing regardless of what country I am in), an iPod and a guitar. Also, this will be the first iPod tour in the states in over two years, since the release of Get Warmer.

1) IF YOU HAVE AN INSTRUMENT AND WANT TO PLAY A SONG OR THREE BRING IT ON DOWN! This offer is open for all of our shows, but sometimes shit needs to be mentioned again for people who have missed it. Also, you’re really contributing if you bring some shit into these shows.

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Shattered Horizon Update Released

Updates to the Shattered Horizon have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Shattered Horizon

  • Frames Per Second-counter, press F4 to toggle on/off
  • Memory allocation improved
  • Ambient Occlusion set off as default
  • Fixed: Strange behavior of astronauts during end round fadeout
  • Fixed: Incorrect ‘ selected’ voice in team selection screen
  • Fixed: Rare bug of grenades flying through walls
  • Fixed: Bugs in visual settings (AO and post processing was not always saved)
  • Fixed: Rare crash bug (‘scene manager not found’)

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Dashboard Confessional / New Found Glory (acoustic)

Dashboard Confessional In light of canceling their initial tour due to a family issue, Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory will reconvene in smaller venues for an acoustic tour beginning later this month. Dashboard will be supporting Alter the Ending, just released this week, while New Found Glory continues to support Not Without a Fight.

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Gallows to join Billy Talent/Alexisonfire/Against Me! for Canadian Tour in 2010

Gallows has announced that they will be joining the forthcoming Canadian tour with Against Me!, Billy Talent and Alexisonfire. The band said this:

Just announced on stage in Toronto: We will be coming back to Canada next March for the Billy Talent/Alexisonfire/Against Me tour. We’re super stoked to be on this, hope to see a lot of you there.

The British hardcore/rock outfit are currently on the road with AFI in support of Grey Britain.
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Dirtnap Records celebrate 10 Year Anniversary with free sampler

Dirtnap Records is celebrating their 10th anniversary with a free downloadable sampler and Portland, OR area shows. The Portland-by-way-of-Seattle label is home to bands like The Exploding Hearts, The Briefs, Epoxies, The Marked Men, The Girls, Mean Jeans, The Spits, Modern Machines and many more.

The Dirtnap Records 2009 Sampler features tracks from bands such as Marked Men, Mean Jeans, High Tension Wires, and the Girls, as well as unreleased tracks by Mind Spiders and White Wires. Grab the sampler here.
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Hellfish signs The Mistake

Hellfish has signed The Mistake. The hardcore band formed around 2001-2002 and features former and current members of Throwdown, Eighteen Visions, Enewetak, Welcome To Your Life, Amendment 18, Culture, Until the End, Monument To Thieves and Adamantium. The band promises “short, fast, pissed hardcore and punk with the signature orange county metallic hardcore of the late 90’s early 2000’s

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Loïc Rossetti joins The Ocean

The Ocean has announced that Loïc Rossetti has joined the progressive hardcore/metal outfit. Guitarist Robin Staps had this to say:

Having Loïc in the band enables me to do what I’ve always been wanting to do with this band. His voice is strong and expressive and his variety of tone and the ease with which he switches between different vocal styles really amazing. There are no limits anymore. His screams are devastating, but his most valuable quality is his singing voice, which we will employ much more on the upcoming album.

The band is currently working on two albums to be released in March 2010. They issued the 2CD Precambrian in 2007.
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