Savage 2: A Tortured Soul version 1.34 is now available, simply adding a new splash screen teasing an upcoming free content update for the action/strategy hybrid. The content update is previewed on 1Up. ...

This The Witcher Q&A on The Witcher Vault chats with Mateusz Kanik, asking the team leader on the D'jinni project about progress on this modification toolkit for CD Projekt's action/RPG, learning this will lead to additional official content for The Witcher as well as mods:Yes, of course...

The Hellgate: London Website has the release of the version 1.2 patch for Flagship's action/RPG after a couple of weeks of beta testing (users who applied the release candidate beta don't need this update, as it's unchanged). The patch notes outline what's changed in the patch, which is mi...

The Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare content that was released as paid-for DLC for the console editons of Infinity Ward's military shooter sequel is headed to PCs as a free download, thanks to a sponsorship by NVIDIA. PC Games has word, in their native German, on the plan, saying the release ...

Ten Ton Hammer reproduces a post from the Age of Conan Forums (vexingly user-only) saying that Funcom has promised to address inequities in attack speeds for female characters in their Hyborian Age MMORPG in an upcoming update. According to the explanation, this was not an intentional bala...

The Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Website has brief word announcing an update will occur over the next couple of weeks with engine enhancements for the action/strategy sequel: "We're going to be implementing a bunch of already written engine features and optimizations in the next couple wee...

CD Projekt announces the preliminary launch of GOG.com, a marketplace for "Good Old Games." The site, which will go live in September, will offer its titular good old games will all necessary updates to install and run them on current computers (including Vista support), completely ...

The World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Website announces that achievements will be added to World of Warcraft with the release of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Here's a bit:World of Warcraft’s achievements come in several varieties. Some simply require specific actions to un...

Activision Blizzard to suffer job cuts on mcvuk.com has word that the merger of Activision and Blizzard will lead to an "all-star team" of developers, but that "overlaps" will result in "redundancies," meaning that some people are going to lose their jobs: Here ...

The Ilya Chudakov Q&A on Adventure Classic Gaming talks with one of the folks from Step Creative Group, learning that the Russian developer has once again shut its doors. In spite of this, they report Akella has expressed a commitment to completing the much-delayed English edition of In...

Gamasutra has word that Microsoft has announced plans to introduce a Games for Windows marketplace similar to the Xbox LIVE marketplace. They also announce plans to offer a less console-centric Games for Windows LIVE service and confirm that they will be dropping the premium subscription fee...

The Battlefield Heroes Website follows the news that DICE's upcoming free-to-play shooter is delayed (story), saying that additional beta keys are coming as a consolation prize:Since there were a couple of disappointed comments to our recent news of delay (very glad to see so many people are...

An interview with World of Warcraft lead designer Jeff Kaplan on MTV Multiplayer from the other day (thanks Mike Martinez and Joystiq) reveals that Blizzard plans on implementing achievements into many games, including Diablo III and StarCraft II, which is not that surprising considering...

The Savage 2: A Tortured Soul Website has word that they are putting more servers for the action/strategy game online this week to handle demand: Due to tremendous response we have more players than expected. We will be putting more official servers online this week to handle the popularity!...

A recent Producer Note on the Star Wars Galaxies forums indicate that vehicular combat is soon to be added to Star Wars Galaxies (thanks Eurogamer) when they introduce "The Battle of Echo Base" in an upcoming update, hopefully giving the chance for your tauntaun to freeze before ...

Valve's announcement of this week's A Heavy Update for Team Fortress 2 includes word on another upcoming free-to-play weekend for the multiplayer shooter: "The Heavy" update is the largest update to Team Fortress 2 since it was first released as part of The Orange Box last October....

Massgate.net has news on plans to release "Arizona" and "Valley," two of the winning maps fro the official World in Conflict map contest: "The two map-makers Slepnyrl and Gozeus charmed the World in Conflict team with a well-balanced Tug of War map and a visually stu...

A post by Maxis to the Spore Forums has word that they are adding the ability to have up to five screen names per Spore account, responding to one of the criticisms of the life simulation (story), though they cannot pin down an ETA for this change. They will only allow one online account per...

Crymod Modding Portal says the Sandbox Editor and mod SDK for Crysis Warhead and Crysis Wars are in the works, as these tools were not included in the retail release of Crytek's shooter follow-up. They promise a release as soon as possible, and in the meantime point out the following for t...

The Age of Conan Forums have word that a server move is in the works for Funcom's MMORPG, saying they will look to get "healthy populations" going on servers both in Europe and North America. The update, by new Game Director Craig 'Silirrion' Morrison, says they are proceeding cau...

Obama And Palin Coming to 'Mercenaries 2' As Playable Characters has the report that US politicians Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are heading to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames as playable characters in an upcoming update. They offer gameplay footage showing each doing combat in scenes ripped ...

While the Mac Mini may have been left out of recent Apple announcements, the small, book-sized computer will see a refresh sometime in the very near future, according to AppleInsider sources. For the past several weeks, the spotlight has been on Apple’s notebook line. With brand new MacBooks and ...

Need a new cooling solution, even for overclocking? CT Electronics Limited, a Vapor Chamber (VC) cooling solution provider announced its GVC-1 graphics card cooler. Utilizing the Multiwick and Boiling-enhanced technologies (belonging to its own holding company, Convergence Technologies Limited), th...

The next version of Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 will support up to 256 logical cores. Microsoft has slowly leaked out information of Server 2008 release 2 at recent events like WinHEC and Professional Developers Conference, but Microsoft’s Mark Russinovich is now revealing just exactly how...

Bethesda Softworks Announces Creation Kit and First Downloadable Content for Fallout 3 announces plans to release additional content for Fallout 3 over the next four months, beginning with the release of the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) editing tools for Windows next month, followe...