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Valve’s anti cheat software mistakenly banned legit Modern Warfare 2 players from playing online.
Well, Valve was so sorry in fact that they gave two copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to those affected, one to keep and another to give as a gift via Steam.
“Hello, recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of [...]

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has released today and is set to um set the world on fire with its awesome RTS’ing.
And if you haven’t got the collector’s edition, you’ll be missing out on: Jim Raynor’s dog tag, USB memory stick, soundtrack, comic and art book, soundtrack and guest passes for SCII and World of [...]

Check out a new behind the scenes video of Dragon Age II.
The video, courtesy of GameInformer, details how video, audio, and animation are coming along, and takes a closer look at the evolving combat gameplay.

YOu may have seen the original developer diary, but what you haven’t seen is over 2 minutes of additional content.
The video also goes behind the scenes at Codemasters Birmingham, and shows how all of the cars and circuits were recreated in the game, with former Formula One driver Anthony Davidson, who worked as a tech [...]

It’s all in the land of rumor-ville, but VG247 says that GTA V will be set in Hollywood.
VG247 doesn’t cite any sources.
However, a source close to Eurogamer has told that GTA V will indeed be set in Hollywood.
Stay tuned.

Codemasters’ SVP of production Jame MacDonald has told Develop that new iterations of Race Driver: GRID and Operation Flashpoint are in development.
The games are currently in development at the company’s Southam studio alongside DiRT 3.
“We’ve got a major launch with F1 coming up in September and developed at our Birmingham studio,” said MacDonald, “and we [...]

THQ has announced that Warhammer 40K: Space Marine will be headed to PC along it’s official PS3 and Xbox 360 only release.
Relic boss Jonathan Dowdeswell said: “The loyal PC audience is incredibly important to us here at Relic so we are delighted to be able to announce the PC version of the game.”
THQ’s Travis Plane [...]

BioWare already announced a new DLC, Lair of the Shadow Broker for Mass Effect 2.
But what slipped everyone’s attention are some cool new weapons, spotted afterwards in screenshots by a fan.
BioWare’s Jarrett Lee over at the games forum posted new information on the weapons pack:
“As Christina [Norman of BioWare] tweeted, some of the new guns [...]

When asked in a fan Q&A session at US PlayStaion Blog, Ubisoft confirmed that “there are plans in the works” for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood DLC.
Let’s hope that Ubisoft doesn’t sell us a game and makes us pay to unlock the “corrupted” story memories via DLC.

Surprise, surprise. You can take part in space battle in BioWare’s upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Sean Dahlberg. BioWare’s community manager, has revealed on the MMO’s official forums, “Space combat is an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game of storytelling, questing, and ground-based combat. In space combat, you fly your personal ship to [...]

Visceral has announced at Comic Con 2010 that the Dead Space franchise will get a animated movie and a graphic novel.
The animated movie is dubbed Dead Space Aftermath. The story revolves around the response team to Aegis VII, sent in by the government (although not known by the crew), to get exposed to Marker shards.
The [...]

BioWare has announced a new DLC at Comic Con 201 for Dragon Age: Origins.
You may want to sit down for this. The DLC features no story elements whatsoever. Except, 1UP reports, that “the DLC is designed to be for high-tier characters to traverse a punishing dungeon against high level enemies …… the focus of [...]

Rahul Sood, founder of Voodoo PC and current CTO of HP’s gaming business, has written on his blog that “there was a project that got killed at Microsoft [which] was designed to allow console gamers and PC gamers to interact and battle over a connected environment.”
This project was killed because PC players “destroy[ed]” the console [...]

2K has detailed what you can expect out of the Mafia II demo that will hit August 10 2010 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
You’ll play a level called “Buzzsaw”, which takes place during “the summer of the 50s”, Joe and Henry are to take out a mob boss called “The Fat Man”.
The demo will [...]