Paradox Interactive today announced that the grand strategy collection Europa Universalis III: Complete will be released the 14th of October in North America and the 17th of October in Europe.

Included in the collection is the multiple award winning Europa Universalis III enhanced by the expansions Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine. The timeline of the original game has been expanded, forward through the Napoleonic Era to 1820, and backwards to let you start as early as 1399, while the Hundred Years War between England and France is still going on.

Strategy Informer recently met up with Lead Designer Scott Phillips and Lead Producer Greg Donovan from Volition for some extended hands-on time with Saints Row 2 and a nice chat about hot dog suits, sewage and laughing your ass off. And all with absolutely no bling in sight.

With Saint's Row 2 finished, we decided to ask about the possibility of Saint's Row 3, and Scott Philips told us that they will wait until players put their comments out for SR2 and collect that stuff and start working on it then, hopefully.

Midway recently released their FPS from 2005 as a free game. Be sure to grab it, if it sucks, all you will lose is some bandwidth.

Download the Area 51 full game here...

While still professing his love the PC, Bleszinski has come out defending their decision to release the upcoming sequel exclusively to the Xbox 360.

He says it allows them to "laser-focus" the franchise letting them deliver "an Xbox 360 game that kicks ass, plain and simple." It's a business decision, one they needed to take.

Steve Ballmer, the big cheese at Microsoft, has rebuked claims that they've been running out of ideas to boost console sales and just opted for price cuts.

He says that all the consoles are higher in price at the start and naturally they "always come down through the long cycle." XBL is going "gangbusters" too apparently.

2K Games have admitted that some texture issues "slipped by" them and that they are working hard to replicate any reported bugs found.

Fans have been grumbling that some areas aren't up to the visual quality of its Xbox 360 counterpart or at least in the demo; the Big Daddy being one of them.

In the aftermath of a great war, when your enemy has wiped out everything you hold dear, the time has come to regroup and strike back. Enlist in the Morphid army and use all the weapons and genetic powers at your disposal to eradicate the New Order menace!

Games Faction has released a playable demo for Project Aftermath, an Arcade RTS game where you command up to four squads of soldiers in exciting battles in a retro-futuristic world. Click here to download the demo.

A rather unpleasant and understandably horrifying bug glitch has been found much to the dismay of Rock band fans; it casts bands into digital oblivion.

Apparently it's caused by having a primary Live-enabled account and a secondary non-Live account, thus is contained to Xbox 360 gamers. No solution out yet.

Kotaku reports that Stan Bush, writer and creator of "The Touch" theme for the Transformers cartoon movie, is keen to get his classic cult track featured on Guitar Hero or Rock Band, and has sent a letter to Activision asking about the possibility.

"Yes, it would be wonderful to get "The Touch" in either one of those games. I've written to Activision, but wasn't able to get anywhere on it. I'd really appreciate any help," said Bush.

A number of online retailers have been exposing what looks to be the first ever expansion pack to Spore and they say it's coming November 18th.

From the title--"Spore Cute & Creepy Parts Pack"--it will likely involve spawning the most sickeningly cute of creations like... erm, a bunikittipup or something; yeah.