PC Perspective have thrown up their new article which looks at the first 64-bit game to have hit retail shelves Shadow Ops! Is the 64-bit gaming revolution really here? or a AMD/Atari scam?

If you have been following PC games at all recently, you'll have noticed AMD getting into a marketing swing promoting 64-bit gaming. As the new Microsoft XP 64-bit edition comes closer to availability, AMD is getting more and more anxious to show off their 64-bit advantage before it disappears with the arrival of Intel's desktop 64-bit processors

The multiplayer demo for Men of Valor is now online, offering the first opportunity to try out the upcoming tactical first-person shooter by 2015 that's set in Vietnam. The demo features a large urban map and a smaller jungle map, playable in Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Multiplayer Mission modes using three player classes (rifleman, machinegunner, and sniper).

After a slight delay, the promised multiplayer demo for Tribes: Vengeance is now available, allowing you to take the futuristic first-person shooter by Irrational Games into the online arena. This massive demo offers five different gameplay types playable on four maps: Cavern, Emerald, Isle, and Winterlake

Just spotted this bit of news over at Half-Life 2 Fallout!

As promised, subscribers to PC Gamer and others are starting to receive their early copies of the magazines containing the first Half-Life 2 reviews. Halflife2.net forum member Scrop has reported back on the first review from PC Gamer (UK)'s November issue.

The fifth phase of the Half-Life 2 preload begins to Steam account holders today. This will allow users to download the Counter-Strike: Source maps in encrypted form. No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased the game via Steam will be ready to start playing.

Our Doom 3 tweak guide will take you through every option available in the game, the console, config files, graphics, audio and input settings.

Our guide is ready to be used with the latest version of Doom 3 1.10.

Thankfully, all is well with the world. Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War does indeed contain violence, large men of the military persuasion, disgusting mutants, and so much more. What one could never assume just by looking at the title, is the sheer excellence of the game within, or that the era of total suckage for Warhammer 40000 titles is over. Relic Entertainment, after turning the RTS world on its head with the award winning Homeworld series, has managed to produce a Warhammer 40000 title that people will actually want to play.

Half-Life 2 Fallout has received word from Valve's Gabe Newell revealing the much anticipated Half-Life 2 retail and Steam (info) packages. Also revealed, the full version of CS:Source will be available to Steam purchasers next week!

Activision have released a new retail patch for DOOM 3, updating id Software's horror first-person shooter sequel to version 1.1. This non-beta release addresses a wide variety of issues with stability, interface, networking / multiplayer, rendering, localization and more (including one new single-player fix compared to the beta patch), as detailed in the accompanying release notes.

3D Gamers reports Codemasters has issued the first retail patch for Colin McRae Rally 2005, accelerating their modern rally simulation sequel to version 1.1. This release addresses a handful of graphics issues, corrects all engine tests to use the same amount of time, and fixes the randomized weather feature on online races.

LucasArts has issued the first patch for Star Wars Battlefront, upgrading the sci-fi 3D multiplayer action game by Pandemic Studios to version 1.00a. This release enhances NAT negotiation for online games, and applies a minor fix to the server browser screen.

3DCenter have updated their Doom 3 Investigation!

Newest insights invalidate parts of the theory in this article. We stated, that R420 is clearly slower in discarding pixels during the Z/Stencil-Pass. As a result, the whole rendering process would be slowed down. This doesn't seem to apply as strongly as we stated. The NV40 might have a lower peak-performance when discarding pixels, but possesses finer granularity. In the end there might very well be a small advantage for the NV40. There's also some situations where R420 can't use its HierarchicalZ mechanism.

The fourth phase of the Half-Life 2 preload begins to Steam account holders today.

This will allow users to download the majority of Counter-Strike: Source in encrypted form. No purchase is required to pre-load Half-Life 2, but is required to activate the game. The moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased the game via Steam will be ready to start playing.

Mario over at GenGamers has posted some new UnrealEngine 3 pictures!

The playable demo for Psychotoxic has been released, offering the first opportunity to try out the recent first-person shooter by NuClearVision Entertainment. This demo includes two levels from the full game titled 'Der Hafen' (the Harbor) and 'Die Kathedrale, zweiter Teil' (the Cathedral, part two)

We were invited by Atari to come and visit their ?Atari Proudly Presents? private presentation. Two people from Gameconnect including myself were present in Rotterdam. We had some interviews with the PR managers from Atari and Sega, a demonstration of Atari?s new upcoming title ?Football Manager 2005?, that goes gold on 5th of November, and got to play some other upcoming titles from Atari. There were multiple pc?s, Xbox with Live!, PS2 and Nintendo Gamecube?s present for gaming. In the rest of the article you will read all about our experiences, interviews and see photographs we took at the GameSyndicate.

Epic Games have released the Editor's Choice Edition bonus pack for Unreal Tournament 2004, expanding their futuristic multiplayer first-person shooter. The pack requires the latest (v3323 ) patch, and includes six new characters, three new vehicles (the Paladin, the Cicada, and the SPMA), and four unique new Onslaught maps.

3D Gamers reports Codemasters has released a multiplayer demo for Colin McRae Rally 2005, renewing the opportunity to try out their contemporary rally racing simulation sequel in development. This demo offers a new German track, the same Swedish track as in the single-player demo, and the Peugeot 206 car to take the game for an online spin.

Two major online gaming shops - GameStop and EBGames, have posted the possible contents that will be included in the Half life 2 Collectors Edition. Continue reading for more information!

The official 1.01 patch for RBR has been released on SCI's website ,

Fixes and updates
- Fixes Thrustmaster compatibility issues. Users will need the latest Thrustmaster drivers (10.0.5) from www.thrustmaster.com.