Even Balance has been contracted by Monolith to integrate PunkBuster into VUGames' FPS F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon). PunkBuster will be available for F.E.A.R. in an upcoming downloadable game update patch (thanks FEARHQ). We will of course have the patch available on our fileserver network when its released.

KOCH Media has released the first patch for EgoSoft's space-combat exploration game X3: REUNION. This update brings your European retail game to v1.2.01 and fixes several crash issues, improves storyline, optimizes performance and a few other tweaks. This updated patch now also works with Win98 SE & WinME. Read more for detailed fixlist and download links ...

Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience an unnatural level of psychological tension as they use their instincts, forensic tools, and melee combat to track serial killers and bring them to justice.

German publisher dtp has released the first patch for Frogwares' Jules Verne based adventure game 80 Days. This update brings your German retail game to v1.1, improves performance, stability, and adds a tutorial to the game. Read more for download links ...

SpeedTree will be made available for Playstation 3 game title developers under a Tools & Middleware license agreement concluded recently with SCEI. SpeedTree delivers low-polygon, highly realistic trees and plants, with adjustable wind effects, seamless LOD transitions, and a library of hundreds of tree models from more than 100 species.

Nintendo's official Wi-Fi Service website reveals that people who purchase Mario Kart DS may be experiecing problems in multiplayer as the "Global Wi-Fi Service is experiencing intermittent problems." The problems are only for Mario Kart as the only other multiplayer enabled title Tony Hawk's American Sk8Land seems to have a clean bill of health. There seems to be no particular reason for the hiccups but Nintendo asks to maybe move location or turn of interfering devices such as wireless LAN, microwave ovens, cordless devices, computers.

Aspyr announced today it will publish the PC edition of True Crime: New York City in January 2006. You are Marcus Reed, a former criminal turned cop, using and abusing your authority to hunt down the murderer of your mentor while cleaning up the 'hoods of New York City, from Harlem to Chinatown.

Delta Force: Xtreme brings Delta Force game back to life to face the enemy in over 60 levels of single and multiplayer FPS action, graphically enhanced, new maps, improved features, STATS and much more. Novalogic has released a new patch bringing your retail game to v1.6.9.3 and adds NovaWorld & multiplayer enhancements, balance tweaks, adresses several bugs, and other fixes (thanks 3DGamers). Read more for details and download links ...

SiN Episodes features the highly anticipated return of Elexis Sinclaire, the world's most dangerous and seductive biochemist, and the only man who stands in her way, John R. Blade. The sworn enemies face off in Freeport City, a near-future mixture of San Francisco, Tokyo and New York, all set inside the unrestricted SiN universe.

AhnLab today introduced its powerful HackShield technology to U.S. developers and publishers of massively multiplayer server-based computer games. The competition for monthly fees from online gamers is fierce and gamers will not spend a penny in an insecure virtual world, no matter how good the game is. MMOG publishers risk their entire investment from a single lapse in security.