Team Fortress 2: Gold Rush Update (www.steamgames.com/goldrush) is now available, free to owners of Team Fortress 2 via Steam, a leading online platform for PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide. The Gold Rush Update introduces the new Gold Rush map and Payload gameplay style, the first set of unlockable weapons, and a new set of achievements for the Medic.Valve also announced a worldwide Team Fortress 2 Free Weekend will begin Friday at noon PDT, and will include access to the new content released today in the TF2: Gold Rush Update. Using the functionality made available through Steam and Steamworks, all of the files needed to join the Free Weekend are available for pre-loading now. Read More...

Dragonball Teaser Poster So all you DBZ fans out there, looks like 20th Century Fox could be starting the promotions for the new live action film. As the movie poster thumb shows. Oh, let me say that the date on the side is not the release date for the film, just the date that this poster was found. Still no official word on if it is real or a fan made one based off the Japanese one that has been spread amongst the interwebs. Who knows any more in the day of photoshop where even real images look like they are photoshop fakes. Read More...

Realistically Painted Bowser So it looks like it is becoming a big new fun thing to redo some classic characters and make them look real. That is, photoshop a person to have the actual body type of say Mario or Homer Simpson. If you haven't seen them ye, I will warn you that they are kind of creepy to look at. Just think how a real person would look if they had their proportions and brace yourself. This new one though is a nicely painted version of how Bowser would look if he was actually in the real world. Read More...

If you've been following Spore like I have, then odds are you've heard rumors about a Creature Creator coming out soon. Well everyone - I'm glad to say that in today's press releases, Maxis announced that it is most definitely real. The free demo version of Spore's Creature Creator will be available for download starting June 17 from Spore.com and available with The SimCity™ Box which ships to stores June 23. The free demo contains 25% of parts to make your very own Spore Creature. Read More...

Peach, Samus Return To Feast Upon The Living Alright, so you se this cool pic of Zombie Samus right? Unless you have images turned off, of course you do. You can actually se the other one, Peach, if you follow the link below. Both really well done pieces of art in my opinion. I know it's not 100% gaming news, but it was worth note. I can't wait to see if there is more. Marvel Zombies is one of the coolest comics I've ready in a while. Read More...

GET READY TO CELEBRATE 4 DAYS OF PEACE, LOVE AND ROCKETS! If you're a local DFW gamer or stalker of the Dallas based Lan event, Quakecon, then boy do I have great news for you!! id finally announced registration dates for Quakecon - April 30th at 9pm EST (8PM DALLAS TIME) For those of you unfamiliar with Quakecon, it is one of the greatest BYOC's you can attend in America. Hosted by the video game developers, id, Quakecon has set the marker for BYOC lan events and tournaments. And best of all.... Read More...

Lucky gamers at Comic Con (Javits Center in New York) this past weekend were the first to try out Metal Gear Online in North America. Read More...

Q Entertainment and Valve today announced availability of Lumines(TM) on Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world. Lumines, the critically acclaimed music-based puzzle game. Please visit www.steamgames. Read More...

Resident Evil O Wii Only In Japan So when I first heard of this game coming out, I got excited. Cause at the time, it was just announced that they were working on putting out the WiiMake of this good old GameCube game. If only they would have left it that way. The making it seem like it was coming out everywhere. Well things have changed and it is only slated to come out in Japan. That put a sad face on me. Read More...

The Rising Eagle: Futuristic Infantry Warfare Website announces this multiplayer first-person shooter is now a free game. All maps, full multiplayer features, and unrestricted online play. The 1.5 GB download is also available from ComputerGames.ro, FanGaming, and Gamer's Hell. Read More...

Resistance FOM 2 Teaser So if you haven't seen or heard about Resistance, one of the best Launch titles for the PS3, you need to get out more. Or at least surf the net more. It is really worth it if you have not given it a good old college go. I won't say it is the Halo of the PS3, but Resistance is a great game. And well, here's the teaser for the sequel to the game. It's not game play footage or anything, it is mainly just a "Hey Look At Me" kind of thing. Read More...

Interesting Poll Results So I was trolling along the interwebs today. After reading more about the a$$ clowns that beat the girl over MySpace sh*t. I'm thinking about the world and where we are headed. Then I see the above poll results from WhatThePlay.com, then I realized that we truly are into the downward spiral. Look at the stats and then continue down with me to the next paragraph. Ok, so on the offence meter, the violent one is near the bottom of the list. Read More...

EA Games to Use Unreal 3 Engine If you haven't picked up Unreal Tournament, I would highly recommend it. It is a great game and it is an awesome engine to putter around with. Actually working on a full game mod with a armature development team. From what we've got so far, this engine is phenomenal. The image is not a rendered 3D film, but actual gameplay graphics. Now onto why I've been giving some good ass kissing to the engine and the actual topic of this Narticle. Read More...

GTA IV edited for Australia - Australian gaming citizens; you're getting a very special edition of Grand Theft Auto IV. It's still packed with "strong violence, strong coarse language, drug and sexual references", but it's clear something has been cut. Read More...

Epic Games has now launched their new "Make Something Unreal" PC game mod contest. Sponsored this time by Intel, the contest will give aspiring game creators a way to win cash and prizes for making mods based on Epic's Unreal Tournament 3. Over $1 million in cash and prizes will be given to the winners and just like the first "Make Something Unreal" contest (for mods made with UT 2003/2004) the new version will have a grand prize of a full Unreal Engine 3 license for the overall best mod. Last time the winner was Tripwire Interactive for their Red Orchestra mod; they later formed a full dev team and released the game as a stand alone commercial title. Judging will begin in June 2008 in the first phase of the contest; the final winners will be determined in fall 2009 after all four phases are complete. Read More...