- Hinterland Announced - Tilted Mill Entertainment announced Hinterland, a game that combines RPG and strategic base-building gameplay. The game will be available later this summer for under twenty dollars, through digital download.
- Two Worlds: Epic Edition Announced - SouthPeak Games today announced its open-world role-playing hit game will get a new release on PC with the upcoming Two Worlds: Epic Edition. Two Worlds: Epic Edition will contain the original game and the add-ons 'Tainted Blood' and 'Curse of Souls', putting the massive world of Antaloor and countless hours of adventuring into one tremendous package. The original Two Worlds gave players a huge world and hundreds of adventures to undertake. The expanded content of Epic Edition adds over 70 online quests, eight new multiplayer maps, an innovative player-versus-player challenge where opponents battle to control magical orbs within a variety of arenas, and introduces the town of Tharnburg where players can train their warriors in various skills and challenge other players to combat in the Gladiator District's huge arena. The expanded game will be available in August 2008.
- No Far Cry 2 Demo - Ubisoft's Clint Hocking confirmed that we should not expect a demo version of Far Cry 2, as this is another of those open-world style games the won't readily scale to a sample version: "One reason is, even if we were to give out what you played today - even if we put invisible walls around it and said, here's the demo, you can go anywhere you like inside these walls and play it how you want - that's potentially right there eight-to-ten hours of gameplay. I don't know too many people who are willing to give away a 12-hour game for free."
- Major Features Cut From Warhammer Online - Four cities and four classes have been cut from the game. Only Chaos and Empire capitals remain and Dark Elf Blackguard, Orc Choppa, Empire Knight of the Blazing Sun and Dwarf Hammerer have been cut.
- New Wolfenstein Details - This month's Game Informer contains first details about id/Raven's upcoming next-gen Wolfenstein game, running on id Tech 5 engine and set to release on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. The only real surprise is that B.J. is getting supernatural powers of his own this time around. The blurb also describes the environment as "one large city, which will open itself up as you progress through given missions and quests" both that there will be "randomly generated content" occasionally blocking your way.
- Sony Fixing PS3's Broken By 2.40 Update For Free - According to PS3Fanboy, Sony will repair any console bricked by the update free of charge, although there are supposed to be not that many affected.
- Fable 2 Details - OXM UK has some4 new details on the Fable sequel for Xbox360: "there are now four traits to consider when going good or evil with your character -- purity, corruption, kindness, and cruelty. No HUD will be included in the game, and there are no cutscenes either! Non-interactive scenes take up less than five in-game minutes. Oh boy! You can read the full info at the link, but it sounds great."
- Cheap Classic PC Games - Black Isle Studios' post-apocalyptic RPGs Fallout and Fallout 2 will be among the many long-lost PC titles soon re-released by Good Old Games, a new online venture from CD Projekt. Located at GOG.com and slated to launch in September, the online store will sell DRM-free digital downloads of old-school PC games at $5.99 or $9.99 a pop. A closed public beta will go live on August 1, with the site currently accepting beta applications. The site will initially carry titles from publishers Interplay and Codemasters, including the previously-mentioned Fallout series, MDK 1 and 2, Giants: Citizen Kabuto, Freespace 1 and 2, Sacrifice, Descent 1-3 and Kingpin: Life of Crime. While a full list of the store's launch offerings has yet to be finalized, other games slated to appear by September include Shattered Steel, Jagged Alliance 2, Redneck Rampage, Operation: Flashpoint, Colin McRae, and TOCA Race Driver 3. For more info check out this interview.
- Konami Sues Harmonix Over Patents Possibly Illegally Used in Rock Band - Konami has sued Harmonix for patent infringment via Rock Band in Texas Federal Court. Viacom/MTV/Harmonix have not commented yet as they have not received the court papers as of yet.
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