CNN Money reports that when you're a small business and you overlook a detail, it often goes unnoticed. When you're a multimillion or multibillion dollar business, it opens up the opportunity for someone to make you look foolish.

Game developer/publisher Ubisoft and, to a lesser extent, Microsoft are both feeling the sting of that lesson these days as the failure to purchase a URL prominently displayed in one of the Xbox's flagship titles this holiday season has turned the game into an inadvertent advertisement for a Web site featuring hard core pornography.

It seems that after HL2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Painkiller were leaked it is now the turn for World of Warcraft!!

The leak is about 2 GB in size and as one would expect for online play only! Rumors also say that some "l33t" people are currently setting up a server.

we wont be posting any links , so please don't ask or post links! I will leave the comments section open for now! unless we get muppets posting links.

Xbitlabs have thrown up a new article called Yet Another DirectX 9 Game: Lost Oblivion in Chernobyl were the guys at Xbitlabs Benchmark the leaked version of Stalkers with graphics cards from ATi , Nvidia and Volari! Here's a snip.

While hardware makers do not usually give on sneak-peak on their future products, software developers often provide such opportunity to some selected media just in an attempt to heat up the interest and show what they are ready to offer. Moreover, for some unknown reasons, pre-release versions of three games that were among the highly-anticipated titles by our readers were leaked by ?unknown hackers?. The games are: Doom III, Half-Life 2 and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Oblivion Lost. Were those leaks intentional or just a very negative concatenation of circumstances for game developers? That is something we will hardly ever know.

Thanks bigmacsc99 The latest version of the popular multiplayer mod for Vice City has been released just in time for the new year.

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Taken from Frag.Ops Site: Yes that's right, the long awaited 1.3 has finally come. Through a few inevitable problems came a few delays for what we hoped.

This just in from our bro's over at TweakHound.

April 1st? Doom 3? According to this it will be! Or is it one of those bad April fools jokes coming early? click on the Doom 3 Logo for more Info:

OK Peeps you can stop the emails, yes we know that STALKER: Oblivion Lost has been leaked, It's an early alpha build with a few maps and nothing more. This alpha version was leaked about 2 weeks ago and if you live in Russia, it seems you can buy a pirated version already!

we wont be posting any links , so please don't ask or post links! I will leave the comments section open for now! unless we get muppets posting links.

It was a great christmas and in a couple of days its New Year. For that reason I've been searching the web high and low for the latest game patches to have hit the web and grouped them all together on one page! there's about 20 in total.

Gamer's Hell reports that developed by Space Dream Factory, IFH (I've Found Her) is a space combat simulator based upon the popular Sci-Fi TV show Babylon 5. IFH: Danger and Opportunity is the prequel campaign to the main IFH campaign that hopefully will be made in the future. This is the first complete and playable game produced by SDF and made available to the public.

Gamer's Hell reports that Electronic Arts has released a third patch for Need for Speed Underground, the recent urban racing game by EA Black Box. The patch improves cheat detection functionality, fixes some hardware issues, fixes UG Mode Completion, fixes various stability issues, and more

Here's some of the latest games patches that are doing the rounds on the web.

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Just spotted this bit of Info over at Guru 3D for Half-Life 2 Valve's upcoming shooter!

I expected April; according to a forum member a source at ATI leaked the release date of HL2 as the 24th feb 2004, this came about as ATI wanted to pin down valve for the date so they know when they can package there high end cards with the game. Green-Pilgrim from our forums got the info from SKY'S Gamesville programme and there not normally wrong with there PC news..

TweakTown have snagged 6 Half-Life 2 Screenshots showing off in-game action from Valve's upcoming shooter!

While on the subject of the game, I just had a whole bunch of new Half Life II screenshots sent to my inbox from an anonymous source. The screenshots are from the demo dated October 7 2003, "Chosen 9" release.

Here's some of the latest games patches that are doing the rounds on the web.

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Independently developed online racing simulator Live for Speed has a new demo out: vS1E.

We have added a new car to a special Christmas version of S1! It's called the MRT5 and is our first real car in LFS - thanks to McGill Racing Team! .

Here's some of the latest games patches that are doing the rounds on the web.

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The playable demo for SpellForce - the Order of Dawn is now available, offering an opportunity to try out this 3D role-playing strategy game by Phenomic Game Development. Word is the massive download includes the tutorial, one single player map Rift and a two-player multiplayer map Ashvale.

The playable demo of Massive Assault is now out, allowing you to try out the recent 3D turn-based strategy game by Wargaming.net. This demo includes: 5 Training Missions, 3 Scenarios, 4 Epic Replays, and the World War on One Planet mode.

Here's some of the latest games patches that are doing the rounds on the web.

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3D Gamers is now participating in an alliance of gaming websites around the world that have agreed not to host any exclusive demos anymore, even after they eventually become public.