Vivendi has released a new v1.06 patch for Monolith's first person close-quarters combat experience FEAR addressing a loading issue with games saved before the 1.05 update and several other various fixes.

2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and 3D Realms today announced the first-person shooter Prey has gone to gold master and will be available in North America on July 11th and in Europe on July 14th. Developed by Human Head Studios under the direct supervision of 3D Realms, Prey will be available for Xbox 360? video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PC in both a regular edition and a Limited Collector's Edition.

In the spirit of celebration, NCsoft Europe and ArenaNet are inviting adventurers on the continent of Cantha to the Guild Wars Factions Dragon Festival, a summer festival with all the trimmings!

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STALKER is a game that captured our attention and imagination years ago. Now, after long development delays and rumors of publisher intervention, JCal sits down with the devs to ask how things are going.

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It's been a long time in coming (to put it mildly), but last week finally saw the release of a playable demo of the first-person shooter Prey. Elite Bastards take a look at graphics performance in the demo of this rather impressive take on the FPS genre to see how it shapes up on a variety of different GPUs.

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Defy the laws of nature in this gravity-twisting, portal-infested demo of Prey! Take Tommy through a meaty chunk of single-player and try two DM maps!

JCal snags early time with the Prey demo, giving his impressions (and minor spoilers) of the content in the upcoming download, as well as 43 screenshots of this Doom 3-powered baby.

Here's 14 minutes long video (114.7MB WMV) from the upcoming first person shooter Crysis. The video includes extensive in-game footage and suggests that we can expect a lot of things from Crytek's new game engine.

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JCal sits down with the Rainbow Six devs and interrogates them about why the Rainbow Six team is goig to Vegas, and whether or not you can use those fancy vision modes to see if the chump across the table is really riding Ace/King.

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Check out the latest screenshots from Microsoft's upcoming Halo 3 for Xbox 360 and download the new Behind the Scenes trailer!

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Video and PC games are a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry. So why don't they get the attention of movies or TV? FiringSquad interviews several members of the mainstream media, including reporters from Time, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly and more, to find the answers and see how journalism will cover games in the future.

Activision have released a new retail patch for Call of Duty 2, bringing the the World War II tactical shooter sequel by Infinity Ward to version 1.3. This release raises the "gamestate from 16k to 128k," addresses a PunkBuster GUID issue, adds loading bars and gameplay tweaks to maps mp_harbor and mp_rhine, and more.

Compared to the eternal wait between Half-Life and it's sequel, the quick appearance of Episode One to continue the saga of Gordon Freeman has been welcomed from most quarters. But how does the game shape up? Elite Bastards take a look.

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Bethesda Softworks have released the promised English non-beta patches for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, advancing the US and UK/Australian editions of their acclaimed first-person role-playing sequel to version 1.1.511. This release includes a few additional crash fixes and other improvements along with all the quest corrections, plugin tweaks and bug fixes from the beta update.

Before entering the real workforce, some of us hide away at Universities for longer than we need to; some of us back pack around Europe; some of us go and teach English in Asia; and just a very few of us end up in an eSports training facility honing PC gaming skills for the professional league. But is this more than just a post-teen diversion? How long can someone, a female someone, live the life of the corporate sponsored professional gamer - and what is that lifestyle like. With these questions in mind I emailed the four girlz from the Home of CHROME training house in Sweden.

Last Thursday saw the release of the first piece of Half-Life 2's episodic content from Valve, Episode One, which carries directly on from where Half-Life 2 itself left off. So, how does the game perform on a variety of different graphics hardware? Elite Bastards take a look.

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A new interview, possibly showing just how playable Halo 3 really is.

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StarForce team informed us they have released a special driver update for Microsoft Beta Testers who want to play StarForce protected games under Microsoft Windows Vista Beta.

Valve' Doug Lombardi tells us at FiringSquad why their first chapter in their episodic first person shooter will be worth the $20.

So check out this forum post from a [H]ardOCP reader (lowrider007) who owns a Ageia PhysX card. It seems that the "Cell Factor" game which is supposed to not run at all without a Ageia PhysX card can run just fine without it.