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Gingerbread Studios announce Aztecs & terrorists in The Protector

Not your run-of-the-mill connection but Gingerbread are bringing gamers a mix of shooting, suspense, stealth and South American terrorism.

Players take the role of two alternating characters as they try to stop 'Scarlet Vengeance' from obtaining a powerful Aztec amulet - coming to Xbox360 and PC.

Konami unleashing Rock Revolution, the most "realistic rock game"

Yeah that's right, Konami are practising their room trashing skills to produce the 'ultimate' rock game supporting the most realistic drum peripheral.

Bass and lead guitar are in the mix as well as DLC for Xbox360 and PS3 versions, there'll be Wii and DS versions also expected this autumn in North America.

EA Mythic confirm regional Warhammer servers for Aussie gamers

You know that peculiar place that surfs all day and enjoys non-stop barbeques? That's right, Australia, well they're getting their own servers for Warhammer Online.

This is to help keep pings low as they would no doubt have to use U.S. servers, so Oceanic gamers can have the same "quality of game play" as the rest.

Sony announce their new big cheese of SCE Worldwide Studios

Phil Harrison held the Presidency position over at SCE-WWS until he left to take charge of the struggling Infogrames.

Now Sony has promoted Shuhei Yoshida effective as of today, he joined SCEI in 1993 and is now President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, not bad eh?

New Roogoo Trailer

South Peak Interactive have released a new gameplay trailer for Roogoo, which is set to be released on the Xbox Live Arcade and PC on 16th June, 2008.

New Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Screenshots

The Star Wars: The Force Unleashed screenshot gallery has been updated with 7 new screenshots.

New Tom Clancy's Hawx Trailer

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Tom Clancy's Hawx, which is set to be released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

New Whispered World Screenshots

The Whispered World screenshot gallery has been updated with 3 new screenshots.

Vivendi say Wrath of the Lich King coming this year, Blizzard quiet

Vivendi Games, which is set to merge with Activision, has stated the expansion is "scheduled to be released in the second half of 2008".

Despite this kind of statement talk, Blizzard refuse to speculate when the date for release is and are unlikely to wedge themselves in.

Steam's latest PC hardware survey is in, spleens to battle stations

Yes it's that time when the self professed elite can pick over an 'innocent' survey and proclaim their prophecies, or just get a quick dig at the enemy fanboi.

It does show some interesting things about the average PC that Steam have picked up on, some expected findings - others not so much.

Age of Conan hopes to 'break bread' between PC and Xbox360 users

Funcom have announced the Xbox360 version of their MMORPG is roughly a year behind the PC, and they aren't ruling out the possibility of a PS3 version.

The interesting part is Funcom's ambition to let PC and Xbox360 gamers optionally play Age of Conan together with friends "if they like to".

Brash Entertainment is developing Space Chimps for the Xbox 360

Brash Entertainment today announced the release of Space Chimps, a brand new action adventure game based on the CGI-animated Space Chimps film from the creator of Shrek, John H. Williams (Shrek and Shrek 2), Space Chimps the videogame combines the same colourful world and characters of the forthcoming film with a unique storyline that puts fans in the heart of the action with 11 levels of monkey fun and mayhem.

Funcom very confident there'll be no Age of Conan launch issues

Aside from being rather excited their greatest creation is almost ready to fling open its virtual barbarian gates, Funcom say they’ve taken many steps to keeps things running.

"The biggest issue is the unknown," says product director Jorgen Tharaldsen, speaking at the launch in Oslo, Norway.

New ARMA 2 Screenshots

The ARMA 2 screenshot gallery has been updated with 6 new screenshots.

EA CEO John Riccitiello: PC games market is too focused on retail

Despite retail sales showing a rather poor performance for the PC in the shops "it's been growing for several years" says Riccitiello.

Digital distribution services and subscription based games have gained the edge over traditional retail. The market has just shifted with the times, not shrunk.