To quote something I agree with "The stagnation of the game industry is dependant on the point of view of the individual". A good point, no game can satisfy the entire demographic just the same way as even the best movies are not enjoyed by everyone.

Jeff has been benchmarking Battlefield 2142 beta, and I have thrown up some of the first results here. We will add more up as soon as is possible. This first round is with the 7900GT and the Opteron 144.

Even though video and PC game developers debate about "visuals vs gameplay" when making their titles, there's no doubt that having games look their best is a big factor in any game's success. FiringSquad will be running occasional interviews with game graphics programmers to get their views on how they use the best of the latest PC hardware along with some predictions for things to come.

The world is full of Battlefield fans who claim to be #1 ... now we?re asking you to prove it. And if you can convince us that you are the one, we'll bring you on as a consultant for the next Battlefield project.

Games Radar

Picking up mere moments after the finale of F.E.A.R., the upcoming expansion, Extraction Point, seems to offer more of what made the original entertaining, but with some new twists. We got to play through three levels, including a church stage, a warehouse area, and a subway tunnel.

IGN PC

Here's some game Trailers for the Leipzig Games Convention that are worth checking out!

Team Fortress 2 - Character Classes Trailer Warhammer Mark of Chaos GC 2006 Trailer Enemy Territory: Quake Wars 'Strogg' Tutorial

The GC movie trailer for Unreal Tournament 2007 is now online, revealing more of the futuristic multiplayer first-person shooter sequel in the works at Epic Games. This two-minute clip comes in medium and extremely high resolutions to offer a bit of in-engine fly-by footage and plenty of action-packed gameplay sequences.

The Leipzig Games Convention has officially started and already there are a bunch of new screenshots to check out. We already have some new shots from Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, Gothic 3 , Neverwinter Nights 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Full Auto 2 , Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, Call of Duty 3, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Unreal Tournament 2007 and Paraworld on display;

Valve shows off a new Team Fortress 2 trailer exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the different playable classes.

GameSpot

At the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, Valve is showing new content from all three parts of its upcoming Half-Life 2: Episode 2 release. For Episode 2 itself, that means we got to check out footage of the combat engine in two key locations and a new trailer showing off the game's story.

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We get some multiplayer time with Halo 2 for the PC, but it's early. Oh man, it's early.

IGN PC

Here's some fresh new Metal Gear Solid 4 footage straight from the Leipzig Games Convention.

MaxConsole

Throw out the rules of engagement, this is all-out war! Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that Battlefield: Bad Company? is currently in development for the Xbox 360&E153; video game system from Microsoft® and PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. EA Battlefield 2

No update per se, this week, since today is the Annual Bungie BBQ & Pentathlon. We'll be in an undisclosed location 'til 8pm. A few snippets for the hardcore, nonetheless, but nothing for the mainstream consumer, who demands more answers, dammit

ThinkPad has kindly summarised Crysis Multiplayer in great detail for inCrysis.

Hello and welcome to the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter beta registration page. The purpose of this beta is to test the content of the MP Pack 3 (and have fun in the process).

Players have great expectations concerning 64-bit games. Following the release of the 64-bit version of Windows XP, some 64-bit games were produced. Since then, however, there is silence. Or is there?

Sierra has released the promised Combat version of F.E.A.R., the full free multiplayer component of this supernatural first-person shooter by Monolith Productions. Not for the bandwidth impaired, this monstrous download includes no fewer than 19 multiplayer maps playable in 10 game modes with a dozen different weapons, but it requires generating a free registration key at the FEAR Combat site to install.

Call of Duty 3 is going to be the next in the Call of Duty series, to be released for all major next gen consoles, Xbox 360, PS2 and Nintendo Wii.

Sierra has released new patches for F.E.A.R. to upgrade all US and European retail editions of the supernatural first-person shooter by Monolith Productions to version 1.07. This update makes the retail game multiplayer-compatible with tomorrow's free Combat game, along with adding three new maps (Depot, Stockpile and Waterworks), new server browser features, other enhancements, bug fixes, and more. As usual the patches are accompanied by corresponding Win32 and Linux dedicated servers and an updated public tools kit.