Elite Bastards have investigated ATI's 'Chuck patch', released at the tail-end of last week, looking at how the game both performs and looks using this new driver and the added ability to use anti-aliasing alongside High Dynamic Range rendering which it brings.

After a lot of testing and tweaking, my 13-page Oblivion Tweak Guide has finally been completed. My main aim in writing this guide was to sort out the fact from fiction by personally testing all the .ini file options and performance tweaks floating around and document only the safe, working ones; to accurately describe all the in-game settings correctly; and draw together all the available sources of optimization and troubleshooting information into a single reference source which will remain up to date as we find out more about this amazing game. There are no 'magic' tweaks which instanly double your FPS, but I genuinely believe that if you go through and follow the advice in the guide, your Oblivion experience will improve.

When it comes to outdoor visuals, there aren't many games out there today that can match up to Oblivion. But with all that eye candy comes a huge hit on frame rate, and thus, many of you are in the market looking to upgrade.

Elite Bastards take a look at a game that has garnered a lot of attention since its release, and rightly so - The latest game in the Elder Scrolls series, Oblivion. To give the review a slightly different flavour, they've tried to offer some insight into whether this game is of any interest to those who wouldn't normally 'do' RPGs.

The playable demo for Tomb Raider: Legend has been released, offering the first opportunity to try out the imminent third-person action adventure sequel by Crystal Dynamics. This demo contains one expansive mission set in Bolivia where your objective is to find an ancient artifact.

A single-player demo for GTI Racing is now available, offering the chance to test-drive the Xpand Rally-engine Volkswagen-specific racing game. Word is: "In the totally hot demo players will find single player mode, with possibility of racing against AI opponents in one of 5 modes on 3 different tracks. There are 3 pre-tuned cars available: Golf I (134 BHP), Golf V (200BHP) and New Beetle RSI (301(BHP).

The playable demo for Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords has been released, offering an opportunity to explore the acclaimed 4X space strategy sequel by Stardock. In this demo you can play as the humans against three other races on a small map with all weapons and techs in three years of game time (~140 turns).

Bethesda Softwork's Pete Hines gives us some hints on the future of their acclaimed fantasy RPG.

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Condemned: Criminal Origins, a suspense-filled, first-person psychological thriller game, allows players to experience an unnatural level of psychological tension as they use their instincts, forensic tools, and melee combat to track serial killers and bring them to justice.

This is some extremely cool material from Crytek's DX9/10-capable CryENGINE 2.0. EA has also released an official, extremely high-resolution variant of the GDC movie trailer (50MB).

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Human Head's Tim Gerristen tells us all about their long awaited Doom 3 engine powered sci-fi first person shooter.

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In case you missed it, id Software has recalled the Quake 4 1.1 patch as "There is a problem with the widescreen functionality that may harm a user's monitor". If you have the patch installed it is recommended that you neither enable or disable the widescreen support. An updated patch is expected soon.

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Electronic Arts has released new patches for Battlefield 2, bringing the 3D multiplayer action game by Digital Illusions to version 1.22. You can upgrade from the previous v1.21 or any older version, and this update addresses server stability, several exploits, rank up messages, several gameplay issues, and more.

Due out this week are Far Cry Instincts Evolution and Far Cry Instincts Predator, with the first coming to Xbox and the latter to Xbox 360. Not really sure what the difference between the two is, or what these games even offer over last year's Far Cry Instincts? David has put together this interview with Ubisoft producer Bertrand Helias telling you all about the two games.

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This year's GDC afforded us the opportunity to see the product of their hard work. While we have yet to see their next game Crysis up and running, what we saw of the engine is plain sick.

Black Bean has issued a playable demo for Evolution GT, offering the first opportunity to take the imminent contemporary racing simulation by Milestone for a spin. This demo contains the Barcelona, Corse (short & full), Albacete and Cote d'Azur tracks drivable with five different cars in quick race mode, as well as a career mode with tutorial.

Oblivion is the 4th major game of the massive RPG elder scrolls series, and as we've come to expect with Bethesda Softworks, it's a work of phenomenal beauty.

Outspoken president Randy Pitchford talks about the Brothers In Arms series, hints about future games, and gives his impressions on the next-gen consoles and PC gaming.

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This patch adds several enhancements allowing deathmatches with more flexible settings against both live opponents and AI. Additionally, new chess-style game limit feature being offered to players thus strictly determining entire duration of any single game.

Our revelation that we were working with a team at Microsoft to bring Halo 2 to Windows Vista raised a ton of questions about the team handling it, so we sat down with Jo Clowes and Matt Gradwohl, who'll be responsible for making sure it's the best game it can be.