PcGameshardware has posted the first UT 3 picture. Click on the thumbnail for a bigger picture.

Microsoft has rolled out a Vista software update that, in part, addresses compatibility issues associated with certain "legacy" games. The update is not a response to Alex St. John's accusation that Vista's tight security could block popular online casual game networks; those remarks have been generally discredited.
The update improves support for the following titles: Age of Empires III (and The WarChiefs Expansion Pack), Battlefield 2 Deluxe, Dungeon Siege II, Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Family Feud Online, Flight Simulator X, Lego Star Wars, Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends, and Zoo Tycoon 2 (and the African Adventure, Endangered Species, Marine Mania, and Zookeeper Collection Expansion Packs). Source: JoyStig

During the Vista launch party in Munich, we had the opportunity to film an Age of Conan flyby demo running on a Nvidia G80-Card and Windows Vista. It shows real DirectX-10 graphics for the first time and although the resolution is not very high, it gives you a good first impression of the next generation visuals of the upcoming MMORPG-title. View the video at PCGH

Publisher Midway announced today during a press event that Epic Games' anticipated Unreal Tournament 2K7 has been renamed to the simpler Unreal Tournament 3. It was also announced that the game, which has never had a solid release date but was previously expected on the early side of this year, is now set to ship some time in the second half of 2007. ShackNews has more.

PCGH reports that first official Age of Conan Screenshots have been released to the web.
We could not verify that those pictures are indeed DX 10 picture but they are worth to take a look.
Head over to PCGH to see more Screenshots and don´t miss the official Age of Conan DX 10 Trailer

The Inq reports: If all goes well Company of Heroes should get the DirectX 10 patch by the end of March 2007. It might be the first commercial and available game to use the DirectX 10 rendering and the benefits of the DirectX 10 hardware. DirectX 10 patch will make the game look better as some eye munchies are possible with Direct X 10 only. The patch will make the rendering faster and the game should run quicker too. Overall you might not see the benefits in Frames per second as the new patch will do more then the DirectX 9 version of the game. The performance should level up but the game will look better.

Company of Heroes (CoH) is a World War II RTS game. You will be playing as a commander of US Able Company during World War II against the German war machine. Personally, I think there are too many ?cheap? World War II RTS games available. Will Company of Heroes join the black list of the poor WW II RTS games? Or will it join the ?List of Fame? next to the Command and Conquer series? Read on to found out.

We team up with Dell for a look at the five best-looking PC games on the market and five more on the horizon.

Mitsubishi's racing monster unleashed!

Kung Fu master unleashes Iron Fist fury

European gameplay teaser of THQ's FPS

Over the next two days, JCal will be taking a look at the most anticipated games that are set to be released this year. Up first are the console games. See JCal's top 20 most anticipated console releases in this article!

FiringSquad

As you may have read earlier, it seems as if American soldiers serving in Iraq got their hands on a beta of Halo 3. Here are two videos to further cement the rumors.

MaxConsole

Bioware released its sequel to the ever-popular Neverwinter Nights around Halloween. How does it compare to the original? And why did we take so long to review it? Read on to find out.

Bit-Tech

2006 has been an incredibly big year for the games industry?especially the console sector. We take a look back at the big events of the year and make some educated guesses about how 2007 will turn out.

ExtremeTech

A Wednesday morning, at 2am PST (Pacific Standard Time) on December 20th, we'll be going Live on Xbox Live Marketplace with the next in our series of Vidocs - a series of video documentaries about you guessed it, Halo 3.

First extended footage of GRAW sequel

Experience the nuclear horror from THQ

Guest author Daniel Pohl shares with us his insight into using raytracing for game rendering and how the increasing power of multi-core processors are helping bring it to a reality.

PC Perspective

A chunky update this week as we talk to Digital Domain, Machine Head and McCann Erickson about what it took to put together last Monday's Halo 3 TV ad, and we chat briefly about the secrets contained in the spot.