The official website's crashed, but when it returns you can get further details there, and eventually, buy the game direct from the developers.

• All Previous Expansions - Includes the new expansion pack and all 15 previous expansions and content
• Amazing new zones – Players can dig into 12 new zones throughout the realm of Brell Serilis
• New Alternate Advancement Abilities - Optimize your character's power and strength with all new alternate advancement abilities
• New weapons and armor - Outfit characters with hundreds of new options
• Master Tradeskilling – Players can create powerful new weapons, armor and more with thousands of new recipes
• Extended Target Window - Track friends and foes with greater accuracy
• Achievement System - Display and manage your progress through the world of Norrath
• Mark of Brell in-game item – Users can teleport directly into the Underfoot zone (one per account, non-tradable)
• Legends of Norrath™ - Includes digital card game client and game scenario
• 500 Station Cash™ - Select unique virtual items from the in-game EQ Marketplace (no trade/non-transferable; no cash value)
• 30-day subscription included for New EQ Accounts - Included with valid purchase for new EQ accounts only (excludes existing EQ and Station Access accounts)

The League of LegendsCollector`s Pack, containing exclusive items such as 20 Champions, a selection of Runes and $10 worth of Riot Points, is now available for download at www.leagueoflegends.com. The retail League of Legends Collector`s Pack available at all major retail outlets for $29.99, additionally includes an exclusive poster-size fold out map of Valoran with detailed champion portraits and bios on the other side, a $10 pre-paid game card for in-game purchases and an exclusive champion skin.

In celebration of the launch of the game, Riot is unlocking all 40 champions for immediate play on October 27 for a limited time. During the launch celebration, Collector`s Pack customers will get an experience boost, allowing them to level quickly. After the Launch Celebration ends,the in-game store will go live and owners of the Collector's Pack will continue to have access to the exclusive items packaged in the collector's edition. All players will be able to unlock exclusive items and content through the in-game store by using Influence points earned by playing during the Launch Celebration and after, or by purchasing Riot Points.

"I am excited to welcome all gamers to join us in League of Legends, which builds on the fast-paced, team based, player vs. player gameplay pioneered in DotA-Allstars, one of the most popular mods of all time," Brandon Beck, co-founder and CEO, Riot Games, said. "The launch of the League of Legends Pre-Season marks the beginning to providing our dedicated community epic competitive online gameplay and exciting new content for years to come."

League of Legends will operate in seasons to help facilitate the best in competitive gaming and communities. The League of Legends "Pre-Season" will allow time for players to learn the game, build teams, as well as develop advanced strategies and tactics, when Season One begins in the first half of 2010. Players can also look forward to the addition of clans, teams, tournaments, ladders, draft mode, as well as additional content such as new Champions and maps, between now and the start of Season One.

Funcom is proud to announce the launch of an all-new free update for the best-selling massively multiplayer online role-playing game `Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures'. Update 5.6 `Nights of Lost Souls' introduces new in-game seasonal content, new quests and rewards, a new high-level dungeon and the highly anticipated Veteran Points system. To celebrate the launch of the new update, Funcom has also introduced significant discounts on all longer term subscriptions.

"It being that time of year, we employed a few tricks to provide our players with some special treats," says Craig Morrison, Game Director and Executive Producer on `Age of Conan'. "In this update we have added new seasonal in-game content where players will have to progress through three brand new quest lines and get to challenge the dark and mysterious ghosts of Hyboria's fallen warriors in order to collect the seasonal rewards. We are also very excited about introducing the Veteran Points system, which allows us to reward those players who have been sticking with the game for longer periods of time."

The new seasonal content will allow players to acquire appropriately themed loot such as the Unholy Backscratcher weapon as well as their very own pet demon. Players will also be able to discover a mysterious new location in Tarantia, a villa where dark and gruesome events are taking place. Another addition to the city of Tarantia is the Iron Tower, a high-level dungeon towering over the rooftops of Tarantia Commons – the city's slum district. The addition of the new dungeon, featuring a host of new and exciting encounters and loot rewards, brings the storyline of Tarantia Commons to its final conclusion. The Tarantia Commons location was added to `Age of Conan' in an update earlier this year.

The highly anticipated Veteran Points system, also introduced in this update, allows players who have subscribed to `Age of Conan' for one month or longer to collect exclusive rewards such as mounts, experience potions, teleportation abilities, special equipment and more. All players accumulate Veteran Points over time by staying subscribed, and these points can be used at special in-game vendors. These points are also awarded retroactively, so current and previous subscribers already have points to spend.

Players who decide to add more game time to their accounts will find that Veteran Points are now awarded in advance as well, allowing you to spend the points for the added months right away. With the new discounts recently introduced, signing up for longer subscriptions is now more rewarding than ever. Adding three months game time to your account now yields a 20% discount, six months game time yields a 30% discount and if you add 12 months to your account you get a whopping 45% discount.

Complete details about each doohickey can be found in the new newsletter.

Set in an isolated island society in 2045, Brink is a squad and objective based shooter that blurs the line between single-player and multiplayer with its fancy drop-in/drop-out gizmos.

Top priority at the EG Expo was to convey the game's SMART system ("Smooth Movement Across Random Terrain - thank you Bethesda marketing!"), which allows you to climb over objects at speed by holding a single button.

Wedgwood also reiterated the Splash Damage message from past sessions, however, noting that it's "not an auto-pilot". You can always specify what you want to do with manual controls rather than relying on it. For example, you might choose to crouch and slide under a security scanner in the airport level, rather than running through and setting off an alarm or using SMART to leap over the top of it.

Having played around with character customisation, Wedgwood dived into the Container City level, where he demonstrated how objectives are provided on a radial menu system that incentivises players to try new things - new classes, new tactics, new weapons and new tools.

The Dragon Age™ Toolset puts the power of the game developer in the palm of your hands. The Dragon Age Toolset will allow you to produce your own content including dungeons crawls , full-length campaigns, and even cut-scenes you can share with friends and the BioWare community. Key Features Include:

• Create New Adventures – Forge your own environments from your imagination, or use the rich set of Dragon Age locations and artwork as starting blocks to build new, original campaigns, quests, or cut-scenes.

• Stage Massive Battles – Test your might in battle by fully customizing the combat and creature AI, allowing you to create detailed action sequences full of heart-pounding warfare.

• Be the Director - Create your own stories with the powerful cinematics editor that offers full control of the camera, voice and lip syncing tools, and a full character creator.

• Content Creator's Community – Join the BioWare Social Network where you can easily find tutorials, share content, chat with other creators, and get content updates for the toolset.

"Ghost-Hunt" Event: Hunting ghosts and paranormal activity is currently all the rage and now you too can take your ghost-busting skills online in Cross Fire's exclusive stealth-action Ghost Mode. From October 26th to October 30th, all players that play one hour of Ghost Mode will receive 2 Halloween GP crates, per day played. This means that for each day players play Ghost Mode for one hour, they will receive two free Halloween GP crates (crates normally purchased with GP or "in-game points"). On Halloween, October 31st, playing Ghost Mode for one hour will earn you two free Halloween ZP crates (crates normally purchased with ZP, the cash-value currency of Z8Games).

In an overcrowded genre of music games, DJ Hero resides at the very top with the best of 'em. The original mixes are stunning and scratching the turntable is just as fun as it seems. It's not as full-featured as Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero 5, but the simpler presentation really works in its favor. Like an '80s arcade, mixmasters will be gunning for those high scores on the leaderboards. A little headroom has been left for improvement with a sequel, particularly in the head-to-head battles and the way leaderboards display scores. But DJ Hero is already the most exciting music game around and is guaranteed to get the party started. To paraphrase Run DMC: gosh darn that DJ made my day.

One has to wonder whether they'd be so enthusiastic had they bought it with their own money.

That digital shimmer effect doesn't half ruin the game's visuals.

We’ve just gotten off the phone to 2k Games, and it turns out that yes, the Australian Steam version of the game is a low-violence version of the game.

However, it’s not meant to be.

The full violence version of Borderlands was successfully rated by the Classification Board. Somehow the wrong version of the game has been uploaded for Australians via Steam. PS3 and 360 versions of the game are unaffected, and 2k Games Australia is working with Steam to resolve the issue in time for the game’s local launch in a couple of days.

Hopefully the fix will be a small patch to the existing install, rather than an entire new download of the game. Just to reiterate, Aussies will be playing the full violence version of the game, complete with gibs and all. This was simply an error in the process of uploading the game to Steam, nothing more, nothing less.

Metropolis Software, purchased in February 2008, was downsized over the year 2009 to around a dozen people still officially on the project in September. Prior to the recent Optimus acquisition and the subsequent market listing of the company, CD Projekt shut down Metropolis Software by letting the final developing and managerial staff go or giving them positions in CD Projekt and CD Projekt: Red.

The FPS Metropolis was working on, They, is said to be "on hold", but with no immediate prospects of the project being continued.

When contacted, CD Projekt offered the industry-standard "no comment."

Update: An expanded "no comment" comment:

"As the transaction between CDP Investment and Optimus is in progress, we do not comment on any information about the present or future situation in any company of the CD Projekt group.”

From an apocalyptic world full of undead, Kerberos Studios prepare for a weekend of horror as lite action/RPG title – FORT ZOMBIE is confirmed for a Halloween release.

Though the screams have died down and the immediate terror may have past, the sea of undead lurch forever forwards. Closer and closer they come. Make ready! For it is time to make a break from your latest hiding place. Grab whatever weapons you can find. Run and fight through the mass of undead. Make your way towards the last place of safety on Earth. Seek out precious caches of weapons, food and fuel, while rounding up the few people that remain. Rally them into a unit and begin the fight of your life.

Fort Zombie will be available on October 30, for purchase exclusively through all major digital distribution channels for the hauntingly low suggested retail price of $9.99 and €9.99.