Gaming News

A new BF1942 mod has been released for alpha testing. Star Wars Galactic Conquest puts you in the world of George Lucas, flying speeders and Tie Bombers, manning laser turrets, or you can camp with a sniper rifle if that is your bag.

At just short of 300MB it is not small, and the alpha code is a little laggy, but certainly worth a go.

Microsoft have now released DirectX 9.0b for general download. Grab the installer, and that will perform an online installation of just the parts that are needed.

New map out for BF1942 - Battle of Britain. Axis fly in and aim to destroy key allied buildings. Allies must prevent this. Download from our FTP Server.

The popular BF1942 mod Desert Combat has been updated to add support for the recent v1.4 patch of the main BF1942 game.

You can grab the updated Desert Combat from our FTP Server (version 0.38a, weighing in at 326.8MB)

There is a new patch out for Battlefield 1942 - version 1.4.
You can grab it from our FTP Server.

Note that the current version of Desert Combat will not work correctly with BF1942 v1.4 - an updated version of Desert Combat is expected shortly.

The changes are mainly bug fixes and minor gameplay enhancements.

DFC have been accepted as an affiliate of GAME - the web site of the popular retail chain. We get a small commission on sales generated by our site, which may well come in handy when the pizzas are delivered at the next LAN :)

See the affiliates page for details.

We've also applied to Dabs for partnership. As a clan, we do spend quite a lot of money at the two places, so recognition of that with a small commission would be most welcome.

It was another good CS night over at GAME.NET. Turnout was better than previous weeks, and a good game was had by all.

Check the diary for the next BF1942 games.

Fancy a good game of CS? How about a bit of Ghost Recon? If so, head over to GAME.NET and check out the diary of events. There is plenty going on, and DFC members are to be found getting thrashed on GAME.NET servers.

For the weekly Ghost Recon event run by DFC's Mesmer and Trebz, check out the event forum thread.

Well, after a long absence, the DFC web site is back - this time in PHP/MySQL format. I suppose we'd better start playing some games to write about again :)

As a result of the uncertainty of the future of BarrysWorld, the DFC site has moved to MesmerWorld. MesmerWorld offers ASP and database which will enable DFC to continue with its active content.

BarrysWorld have recently launched their Team Registration service. Any BarrysWorld member can register a team, which is made up of any number of BarrysWorld members.

DFC have registered themselves. Find our details here.

You can also view the full Team List

Not that we had anything to do with it or anything ;-)

England 2 - 3 Portugal,
England 1 - 0 Germany,
England 2 - 3 Romania.

Once again we fail at football. :-(

EvilGoblin has gone and gotten himself a girl....those of you who know Gobs to be the vulgar and smelly little man that he is will be shocked at the amount of effort he puts in to be charming in her company.

The courtship was well worth the price of admission as two more drunk people have rarely been seen together. Nice one. :-)

This site has today moved home as part of the BarrysWorld hosted site restructure. If anyone notices any problems with the site as a result of the move, eg broken links, please mail Mesmer.

The Easter LAN party at Bob's (aka Lynx) was a resounding success. Much beer and food was consumed by all, and many games were played....including the hugely popular "bar football" game :) Thanks to Ben (Ted the Dog) for a celebrity appearance, and the rest of the DF Clan for making the effort (even Friday's footy was great !). Quake 3 Arena put in a healthy (and surprisingly popular) showing......and of course lots of UT was played by all. Unfortunately driving games were a bit thin on the ground, but a few decent Motocross madness tournies satiated some of the angst. The longest "sess"'s however, have to go to the mammoth AoK games that seemed to go on forever,.....certainly into the early hours of every morning that I can (barely) remember !! I am crap at AoK, but I enjoyed them immensely. A good time seemed to be had by everyone that turned up.....thanks to Bob for his hospitality again......and to everyone that made the weekend a success.

Gobs not only smells of poo poo but is also a sweaty hob-goblin from hell - he is also ugly , can't play games to save his tribe and doesn't even know what a beer is - need we say more ? Anon ====

The traditional Easter LAN Party is on at Bob's this weekend. In other news, Gobs smells of poo poo.

Congratulations to Fox and his new wife on the happy occassion of their wedding. A splendid day was had by all - as usual the Desert Fox members were the last to leave the party after dancing and drinking the night away.

Happy 2000. At least somebody remembers the good old Quake news page. Last week on DF Clan... The Clan were hiding out in old man Jeeper's beach house while the Feds investigated DF_Mesmer for arson and burglary. Hearing about their glorious leaders plight, the clan rallied at Newark rail station and proceeded to the West bay. Under cover of moonlight they tried to break into the high security stockade containing the falsified ars-burglary evidence planted by Agent Manson Mildew in a vain attempt to cover his own tracks (see episode II(12)). Could the Clan escape the beach house, using DF_Wij's new found Age of Kings skills ? Or were they destined for another night of DF_AngryDaz's tales of the time he got a frag. Watch this space for news of this week's enthralling adventures...

DF are now to enter the MCW Cup straight into round 2 following the pulling out of a couple of clans. Therefore, our first game in the competition is on Tuesday 30th November at 8:00pm against HSC (see fixture list).