Here's a list of the latest news from the Gaming Industry for Wednesday 14th May, 2008

Ubisoft announced today that it will be releasing new patches for two of its recent PC releases, the first patch will bring Assassin's Creed to version 1.02, and the second patch will give an update to Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 bringing it to version 1.02.

Blizzard Entertainment and Vivendi Universal have released the 2.4.1 to 2.4.2 patch for World of Warcraft. This ~15MB patch focuses on gameplay enhancements, but also makes some UI adjustments and, of course, corrects bugs.

Download the 2.4.2 patch.

Lucas Arts and Traveller's Tales have released a demo of LEGO Indiana Jones. The game, due to be released this June, will follow the storyline of the three films. Visit the official site for more info.

Download the LEGO Indiana Jones demo.

Houser, the self confessed "conservative guy", hints of glimmering potential should such a corporate pairing come to pass.

However even with that implied with his comments to The Wall Street Journal, Rockstar Games would still be very much its own King creatively.

Funcom and Eidos announced today that the Age of Conan beta test has reached the 1 million sign-up stage, confirming that the game is one of the most anticipated MMO's to date.

“Funcom has not been able to find any higher beta numbers for MMOs in the western world,” said Morten Larssen, VP of Funcom Sales and Marketing. “We believe it represents the largest ever beta sign-up figure in the history of the genre.”

Blizzard Entertainment today announced its plans for the third BlizzCon gaming convention, to be held at Anaheim Convention Center in California on 10th and 11th of October, 2008. lizzCon is a celebration of the global player communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo franchises. In response to the demand to accommodate more attendees, this year’s event has expanded from two convention halls to three.

Ever the mega corporate optimist, EA has made a financial deal with various funding groups to help pony up the cash, an arrangement that expires January 9th, '09.

This is to further commit the publishing giant to their offer of TakeTwo which so far as met with disappointing results for EA.

Some individual has accidentally uploaded all game categories related to Microsoft’s Gamers Day 2008 (MGD08).

Of course users of the global digital spiders’ web, or the Internet, did the responsible and ethical thing by taking snapshots before making a virtual getaway.

Mass Effect for PC would have carried with it a new SecuROM protection programmed to require the user re-authenticate every 10 days.

BioWare have said they won't make this demand anymore, now it requires only to be re-authenticated when applying for downloadable content, take that DRM!