The latest beta release of the free game Warzone 2100 Resurrection Project has been released. This RTS has been around since 1999. Originally developed by Pumpkin Studios (currently Pivotal Games) as a retail game, it was released to the public (GPL) in 2004. It is now developed by a fan base formed under the name Pumpkin-2.

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The latest development version (considered version 1.4 Beta 3) of The Battle for Wesnoth has been released. This is a fantasy themed, turn-based strategy game billed as having simple rules but strong AI.

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While not some attack or slur upon Blizzard Entertainment the Halifax bank, with the Bank of Scotland as a subsidiary, are blocking automatic monthly payments to the MMO. They cite that World of Warcraft is experiencing high incidences of credit card fraud.

They go on to state that its users themselves and not an issue with Blizzards online billing system that is the problem. While automatic payments are being stopped, customers can still subscribe to World of Warcraft but must first contact the Halifax or Bank of Scotland to authorise future payments.

Activision has enlisted the rock legends for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, you'll be reliving this legendary band on their path to fame.

According to Best Buy the rocking won't be limited to just strumming the guitar, hinting players will get to fill all the roles of legends Joey Kramer, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and Steven Tyler.

Microsoft has informed us this morning that it has extended its partnership with Paramount Pictures in the UK, which will see its catalogue of current and library films appearing on the Xbox Live Markerplace.

Joe Bennett recently reviewed Asterix at the Olympic Games for the Wii. Not only did Asterix surprise Joe with how enjoyable it ended up being, but it also surprised him with its main game not being a basic collection of mini-games replicating Olympic events. Rather than a rival to Mario and Sonic, Asterix is actually a Platform-Adventure game at heart with mini-games interspersed throughout. Find out more about how he felt by reading our review.

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Red Alert 3 was recently announced and we've all been trying to discover what little information we can about it. Hagren has informed us about some information he obtained from the PCGuru magazine article that revealed the announcement of Red Alert 3.

When I say East vs West, I mean that its Asia vs America. That's right, 2K games is having their basketball tournament, which has quietly been going on in both areas the last two months, end with an all-star game-esque game in New Orleans with the best American players against the best Asian players.

At the tournament the semi-finals for US players and the finals between the winners will take place. As an added bonus, the winners will get to play some professional players, Chris Paul, Rudy Gay, and Mike Conley. Though I can't imagine that would be much of a challenge.

I wonder if they'll play it on the 360, PS3 or PS2.

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As if life wasn't confusing enough, now Activision, our official #1 third party publisher in the states, decides to do this to us. The next Guitar Hero is going to be based around one band. Just one band. Now who has enough songs that are exciting and fun to play that could match, say, the previous Guitar Hero games?

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Bryan Brown played Requital from developer Primal Software. Designed as an open-ended RPG along the lines of Oblivion and Two Worlds (in design, for similarity in quality read the review), what does this game offer? Read the review to see what the author thinks.

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