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The next few months are shaping up to be pretty damn nice with all kinds of good stuff coming out. Plenty of stuff to tide you all over until Warhammer is finally out. Here's a quick run down of what is out now and what is coming up.

Tabula Rasa
Sci-fi themed MMORPG from the guy who made Ultima Online. It looks like a 3rd person type shooter like Gears of War but it still plays like an MMO. They just stopped offering the last set of beta keys, so it looks like it's back into closed beta unless you preorder. Full game is set to be released on October 16th.
Soma Says: The beta is fun stuff so far, but I can see this getting old fast. Seems way too buggy to be going live in just a few weeks so you may wanna hold off on a purchase. It's still a blast and I could see this tying up a few months as something new. Lack of PvP options really hurt this one in the long term.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Yet another sequel, and from the videos this one is smokin' hot. The team who made CoD2 is back again, and after being console-only on the last installment it's back on the PC. This one hits November 2nd.
Soma Says: Preordered. While I was never a huge CoD2 player, I've always played the the single player and loved it on these games. I'm sure I'll piss around with the MP for a while on this one too. Really though, this game just looks sweet.

Orange Box: Team Fortress 2
This one kind of snuck up on me, as I didn't think this was ever gonna be released. Building on the old Half-Life mod Team Fortress Classic (and the even older quake mode before it), this is a brand new multi-class fast paced FPS. They're putting it out with the latest expansion to Half-Life 2, so you get all kinds of other goodies with the game as well. It's full versions of all the Half-Life stuff so you don't need to already have any of it. Check out the videos and the intros for the characters. The demo starts on September 17th for preorders through Steam, and the full version is out October 9th.
Soma Says: Preordered it through Steam. This is gonna be a huge game, and it's shaping up to be really competitive. It's not RTCW, but it does have a lot of similarities and is actually a really good deal with all the other stuff bundled with it.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
New Enemy Territory game out from ~~Spam~~ Splash Damage. FPS goodness set in a futuristic setting that looks like Battlefield 2142 all over again. Usable vehicles also like BF2142. The demo is out now, and the full game is set to be released on October 2nd.
Soma Says: I really wanted to love this game, but it plays like BF2142 for retarded people. I still play Enemy Territory and even RTCW once in a while, but this one doesn't live up to either of those games. RTCW 2 is under development, and thankfully Splash Damage doesn't have anything to do with it.