I've seen a couple blurbs about Windows 8 having a gaming download
service built right into it. If they actually follow through with it,
I hope its better than the abortion know as Games For Windows Live.

GOTHIC 4 : Arcania IGN Preview just a few days old.
http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/111/1116230p1.html
On the left of that page there are 9 Videos from the XBOX 360 (God save us
us )

I've downloaded the "SMRTER" mod for STALKER Call of Pripyat. It's
meant to introduce new weather systems and improve the graphics all
round (something that I am really keen on achieving).
I'm a bit put off by the warnings in the 'readme' though. The

I don't know if any of you are techies, and might therefore come across the
likes of StackOverflow, ServerFault and SuperUser... but the StackExchange
system has now been turned creating help forums for many other subjects,
including gaming.... so they now have the following ...

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=113768
One can dream at least.

According to an article on CVG, Valve has promised " At least three
big surprises" for gamers in the next 12 months.
It can't be anything to do with Portal 2 as that is now common
knowledge.

Ummm... did anyone else notice that August ended? Because it totally
slipped by me. Yeah, so this month's "What have you been playing..."
thread is a bit late. Damn that sunny good weather! Well, no worries;
Autumn will soon be here and I'll have no excuse not to remain huddled

This deal only goes until noon today, I think. Plus you get another 30
dollar mail in rebate.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.493756&nm_mc=
EMC-GD090110&cm_mmc=EMC-GD090110-_-EMC-090110-Index-_-combo-_-Combo493756-L0F

I bought Clear Sky when it first came out but couldn't get into it at
the time. The annoying timed missions put me off as did the poor
performance on my aging system. I decided to wait until the 'Complete'
mod was released before trying to play it again.