Bungie, developers of the Halo series, have long been known for their special support for the community, and today is no exception; despite the game being published and owned entirely by Microsoft, who are meant to provide support for it, Bungie have released an update for the original Halo for PC. As well as fixing bugs, the game also removes the CD-Check, somethign which always annoys gamers who play a lot of different games.

They had no need to do this, but they did. Good on you Bungie.

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As we stated a while back, it was inevitable that GTA4 would come to PCs eventually, and now Rockstar have officially announced the game will be hitting PCs on November 18th and 21st in North America and Europe, respectively. The team say the game is looking good and playing even better on PCs so hopefully this will be a good solid release, free of bugs which frequently creep into PC ports.

Looking foward to it!

Fury, a PvP arena based combat MMO has struggled almost all it's life. After a prolonged and expensive development, the sales on release were poor, the number of long term subscribers even poorer, and the company's odd attempts at changing the business model even poorer still. It is unfortunate really; the game was actually a bit different from the norm, with some interesting combat variations, but alas, it was not to be, the servers are now in the process of shutting down, never to return.

Seems that no MMO can even hope to compete with WoW anymore....

CNET have word from Spore's producer that the game is set to go gold within a week, as well as saying how amazed he is at the dedication some players show in creating assets for the game. It's definitely worth a read, especiallyif you have been looking foward to Spore for the epic duration of it's development

EA Sports, the brand known for just making a similer game, with new updated stats, and then selling it for full price next year, is set to return to the PC after a number of years of absense.

We'll be seeing the likes of Fifa and Madden every year again then... apparently with enhanced online connectivitiy and other nice things like that

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There has been 3 fairly notable demos released while I've been gone, so here they are!

Galactic Dream: Rage of War, has had version 1.2 of it's demo released, and is described like this "Galactic Dream is a classic real-time strategy game with resource collection, base building, massive battles and pure destruction. The game features a Single Player campaign with varying objectives, from simple 'kill all enemies' to timed defenses, destroying or protecting certain targets to escort missions."

Space Seige, the space action/RPG has a demo avaliable too.

Time of War: "A modern day shooter featuring addictive old school gameplay, Time of War brings back the mindless fun of battling huge hordes of enemies, shooting big weapons and blowing everything up in ground shaking explosions."

Bungie's Inside Blog has been talking about their lack of plans for big announcements at this years PAX, but also mentions how they have 3 distinct, big projects on the way, some of which will be familier, some of which will be not... new IPs? Brilliant!

World of Warcraft fans have also been showing their sheer dedication to the game by paying silly money to get their hands on beta invitations for the up coming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. There have been sights of the beta access keys trading hands for up to $1000; just so that you can play the game a little early! It's utter maddness but some people really, really love World of Warcraft.

Finally, Star Trek Online is finally real, with the expected announcement that CRYPTIC studios are set to be developing the game.