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New patches for Star Wars Battlefront are now online, upgrading the English and European editions of the sci-fi 3D multiplayer action game by Pandemic Studios and LucasArts to version 1.1. This is a major update, adding AI improvements, client fixes, server management enhancements, new server filter options, bug fixes, and more.

What's New:

• AI on Hard setting has been greatly improved.
  
• Ticket Counts for each map can be set by host in the Dedicated Server Management GUI.
  
• Spawn Invincibility duration in seconds can be set by host in the Dedicated Server Management GUI.
  
• Host can boot players in a live game using the Dedicated Server Management GUI.
  
• Host can ban players by IP using the Dedicated Server Management GUI.
  
• Host can boot players in a non-dedicated server session.
  
• Process for voting an abusive player off a game has been optimized.

Download: Star Wars Battlefront retail patches v1.1
News source: 3D Gamers

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In European terms, this figure is likely to be nudging 1.5 million, while US figures could well be in the same ball-park. To sell over three million copies across the world in its first few days on sale would be a truly unprecedented feat for Rockstar, and probably sets a new benchmark for consumer entertainment launches, never mind videogames, with each copy costing consumers an average of UKP 35.45 (according to ChartTrack data).

In gross revenue terms, the game would have generated around UKP 24 million in the UK alone over the weekend, and projected across the world that figure could be as much as UKP 106 million, or put in international currency terms, $195.5 million or 153.97 Euro. Put in context, if a movie were to gross that much at the box office, it would instantly be classed among the all-time greats - that's how big Rockstar's game has become.

Put into further context, ChartTrack figures reveal that only 10 PS2 titles have sold more in their whole lifetimes - two of those being the previous GTA titles, both of which have sold over one and half million copies each. San Andreas now appears to be on track to top them both and go on to become the fastest million seller ever in the UK.