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.

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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.

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

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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.

According to Amazon.co.uk Duke Nukem Forever will be released on 29 September, 2007 and can be pre-order now for £24.99.

Today at Microsoft?s Gamefest game developers conference in Seattle, the company will show off in its keynote address a different way to create console games that, if all the elements come together, will enable smaller developers, students and even game enthusiasts an easy and cheap way to make new games for its console.

An impressive tech demo for AGEIA's physics card is now being developed into a full game. JCal goes one-on-one with the lead designer of Artificial Studios to talk about their upcoming title.

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Next-Gen talks to Epic Games' Mark Rein, and three top dogs from Midway who have bet the farm on a studio-wide adoption of Unreal Engine 3.

Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.? (First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

Bungie's much-anticipated graphic novel of the Halo universe is being released and JCal gets a copy for review. Read on to see what he thought of the effort.

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