Panau is a vast playground for players, stretching out over 1000 square kilometres (400 square miles), packed with dense jungle, arctic peaks, arid deserts and sun-bleached beaches, each populated with a variety of settlements in which to cause chaos. From ski resorts to submarine bases, towns and villages to a huge capital city, Panau is an island rich in variety. Each climate zone has its own unique weather system with dense snow falls creating picture postcard peaks and tropical thunder storms lighting up the night sky.

As Rico Rodriguez, the Agency’s most powerful weapon, players must take on the island and its military regime to track down Rico’s former boss and mentor, Tom Sheldon, who has gone rogue in Panau with millions in Agency cash and secrets. Using a unique grapple and parachute combination, there is no vertical limit as the air becomes your playground: grapple a passing plane in flight, hijack helicopters or BASE jump from the tallest buildings or mountains. Just Cause 2 offers players the freedom to tackle missions the way they choose and with over 100 vehicles and countless upgrades and collectibles, the choices are limitless.

We plan on shipping with the ability to play as Federation and play on the Klingon side. The Klingon gameplay is going to be drastically different to the Federation gameplay. It's going to be a lot more focused on PvP; their advancement is a little bit different - it is not a full-on story-driven game like the Federation.

However, you will have to unlock Klingon gameplay, which will apparently take several hours. Sounds pretty cool either way! While on the topic of STO, the official site has updates on ships, crew, and bridge officers.

Metal Drift is a vehicular sport combat game set in a distant future. You command an agile, high powered hover tank in a futuristic sports arena. Core game play centers on intense tank-on-tank multiplayer team combat seen through an immersive, first person cockpit. Layered on this is a goal-oriented game type that allows for high level strategy and team dynamics. Players can level up to unlock new ranks, weapons, and upgrades.

Each weapon and upgrade is specifically designed and balanced to allow different styles of play. Pair up the Stealth upgrade and the Shock Cannon to uncloak behind an enemy player and unload a devastating blow before disappearing again. Or choose the Sensor upgrade to see where all the nearby players are, and the Temporal Cannon to shoot them through walls! There are 56 possible combinations – choose whichever suits your strategy.

• Multiplayer team-based vehicular combat
• 5 Different arenas featuring multiple levels and boost tunnels
• Persistent leveling system – level-up to unlock new weapons and upgrades
• Stats and Leaderboards
• 56 Different tank configurations
• 18 Steam Achievements, with more coming soon!
• Unique energy management system – accumulate energy and then distribute it to weapons or use it to gain a speed boost!

TopWare Interactive has acquired the exclusive worldwide publishing rights to Scivelation, Black Wing Foundation’s ambitious, story driven, action game. Armed with the Unreal III Engine, Scivelation is slated for a mid-2010 release for PC and next-gen consoles. Scivelation will transform the Third-Person Shooter genre into an unrelenting interactive experience, hurling the player into a blockbuster journey, steeped in conflict and veiled in uncertainty.

Set in the distant future, Scivelation’s universe is a world born out of the ashes of conflict and misery. An oppressive global dictatorship, known as the Regime, has risen to power after the aftermath of the Apocalypse; aggressively seeking out and eliminating any opposition to their tyrannical government. With this capricious, dystopian reality as a backdrop, the player will take his or her place amongst the ranks of the resistance, waging war throughout the furthest reaches of the globe in this action-packed battle for freedom and survival.

Update: Scivelation was previously known as Salvation and based on the Source Engine.

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Space Fictoidals

• Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.
• Uranus (tee hee) is the only planet that rotates on its side.
• One Neptune year lasts 165 Earth years.
• Astronomers once believed a planet named Vulcan existed between Mercury and the Sun.
• Uranus' winter and summer seasons last the equivalent of 21 Earth years.

In RACE On, PC players can race on the circuits in 39 meticulously reproduced vehicles that are available in over 450 designs. 27 variants of 21 racing tracks guarantee hours of gaming fun. Apart from Imola and Okayama, glamorous raceways such as Laguna Seca, Road America, Sturup and Karlskoga also feature on the impressive list of tracks.

Drivers can compete against up to 24 AI drivers in the 17 different race classes, and can of course burn rubber against real players online! The new Dual Ghost mode offers players two ghost opponents to help improve both your own lap times and those of your opponent.

A realistic physics engine and a dynamic weather system that can change during a race, provides a totally authentic race atmosphere. Compulsory pit stops in the STCC races add an extra tactical component to the already exhilarating gameplay experience.

The demo features two game modes to test your l33t driving skills on.

At the start both teams still join up with infected or survivor sides, but from there on out everything's different. The maps are small, pulled from sections of Left 4 Dead 2's campaigns. In all there will be six maps, with two being lifted from the as of yet unrevealed fourth campaign. Since they're just small sections of the maps, there isn't all that much space to travel, which works with the game type's capture and return mechanics.

The focal point of each match is a generator. The goal of the survivors is to snag as many fuel canisters, visible through walls and highlighted in white, as possible from around the map and dump them into the generator. Each of the 16 total fuel pickups added put 20 more seconds on a clock that starts at 1 minute, 20 seconds. The catch is in addition to common zombies running around, the player-controlled boss infected are trying to choke, slash, and squish you to death. Does your team try and run as quickly as possible to grab and return cans, or do you stick together and make sure every return is a success? Is that even possible with boomers puking all over everything?

In the solo mode, you can build from a selection of over 500 buildings on real-world maps. In the online mode, you can collaborate to build famous landmarks, trade with other players, and get in-game tycoon games, new buildings, and many more downloads.

In the main game you build up your city in resplendent 3D from a selection of over 500 buildings, whilst trying to keep your population happy – in the beta players have managed to get up to 17,000,000 inhabitants in one city! You have to take account of pollution, traffic, trade and class to build that perfect city.

Cities are built on real-world 3D maps (such as Mount St Helens), and the game really reflects that scale, letting you zoom out to a Google Earth perspective or right into street level to watch your inhabitants going about their day.

If you want, you can go online and build your city on a planet with up to 10,000 other cities. Here you can trade excess resources, chat with friends, specialize your city to corner your local market, or build megastructures that aren’t available in the single-player game.