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Warmongering crashes Ageia.com
AGEIA IS TRYING to gain traction in the market in two ways: reducing the price of its part and expanding the amount of free content for the card.
May saw the release of the Physx-enabled free title Cellfactor Revolution. Then, Ageia entered the notebook market with its own Physx MXM module in August, followed by a price slash to 100 USD /Euro for a 128MB part.
Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Pack was released as a free download (featuring two maps), and the time has come for a third title.
Warmonger: Operation Downtown was released today, and the load on servers was such that ageia.com was unavailable close after the release. There was no reason to go and download the game from ageia.com, since numerous sites released the file.
We list some of links that are available at the moment. It seems that Ageia is gaining traction and the load has been overwhelming. µ
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I think there is an obvious reason for the high demand of the Warmonger release. Every single person or reviewing site that has a physics card is jumping at the chance to actually use it. 

Thus far they have only seen demos of the technology and I'm sure they are all waiting on actual game-play using the additional physics ge-whiz-bang card instead of the usual pointless tornado in the middle of a level throwing crap around for no reason or walls exploding into 10,000 pieces after being shot by a pistol pointless graphics shenanigans.
I actually find that quite funny; I never thought the demand for Warmonger would be so high on release, should be interesting to read the feedback and see if they learned from the mistakes in Cellfactor.

I'll get around to trying the full game over the weekend.