Square-Enix has just announced that The Last Remnant will see its PC debut in Spring 2009.

London (15th December 2008) – Square Enix Ltd., the publisher of Square Enix® interactive entertainment products in Europe and other PAL territories, today announces that the forthcoming Games for Windows® version of THE LAST REMNANT™ will be released across all PAL territories in Spring 2009.

From the makers of the FINAL FANTASY® series comes a brand new epic adventure. THE LAST REMNANT is a completely original adventure title, benefiting from the finest creative talent to build a lush, real-time fantasy world. The game's battle system has been carefully crafted to deliver a brand-new experience for gamers, as they control forces in massive cinematic battles.

John Yamamoto, president and chief executive officer of Square Enix Ltd. comments, “THE LAST REMNANT represents a significant step in bringing our titles to a global audience and to all fans regardless of the platforms that they own. Following the Xbox 360® release, we hope to reach a new audience with the Games for Windows version of THE LAST REMNANT and I hope that fans enjoy this exciting new adventure.”

For more information about THE LAST REMNANT please visit the official website at www.lastremnant-game.com

No word yet on any exclusives for PC gamers.

Potential modders have just gotten their grips on Left 4 Dead and one group in particular has laid out plans to create a mod for Left 4 Dead based around the movie Shaun of the Dead. The mod is titled Left 4 Winchester and seeks to create an experience like that seen in the comedy. The mini-mod is shooting for a short campaign that focuses on using the characters and melee weapons found in the movie.

You can find all the details on the mini-mod's homepage at http://left4winchester.net/.

PC users of Fallout 3 can now download the mod tool from Bethesda's site. Appropriately enough, it is called the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). To coincide with the release of the G.E.C.K, Bethesda has included a handy link to the G.E.C.K. Wiki which you can find below or through the hot link. So get to work modders and let's see what you can do.

You can find the wiki page at http://geck.bethsoft.com/index.php/Main_Page and the download at fallout.bethsoft.com/eng/downloads/geck.html.

The folks over at Wolfire are giving away free copies of their independent title Lugaru. To get a copy, just join the Facbook event and join the Overgrowth Facebook Page. Anybody who joins the group and adds the event will receive a free copy of Lugaru on Christmas Day.

You can follow the hotlinks above for all of the information on Lugaru and the required links. It is also worth mentioning that Mac, Linux and PC users are all included. So, if you have any of those systems it's worth checking out.

Bioware has let loose some details on their upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic title, the MMO that has the world going crazy about. This story-driven MMO, has been hidden in secrecy for so long that we now have a clue behind the minds of the game on what they are developing on.

“Our goal was to partner with a platform developer that knows online gaming and virtual world development, and the team at Simutronics has an excellent track record in that respect,” said Gordon Walton, Co-Studio Director at BioWare. “Their HeroEngine was specifically created for building MMOGs and it allows for a great amount of flexibility in the way our entire team collaborates.”

The unique collaborative design platform of the HeroEngine allows for development in real-time, enabling teams in different geographic locales to build the world and play the game live on the server simultaneously. Updates and changes to the game environment are instantaneous, negating the need for nightly builds and code crunching, which significantly reduces the notoriously long MMOG development cycle.

“The team at BioWare is creating an incredible experience, and we’re honored that they’ve selected our tool to help them build this epic world,” said David Whatley, Simutronics’ Chief Executive Office and HeroEngine Chief Designer. “We’ve invested years of experience and our passion for virtual world entertainment into developing HeroEngine, and we’re confident that fans and online gaming enthusiasts alike will be happy with the finished product.”

Paradox Interactive has released a new gameplay trailer for it's upcoming PC strategy game, Vae-Victis, weird name, I know.

Key Features:

• Governments that matter - Different, intuitive game play for Republics, Monarchies and Tribes. Republics are controlled by the five factions of the senate, Monarchies must keep fractious councilors in check, and Tribes must keep an eye on the clan chiefs.
• Laws and Decisions - Players can pass and revoke laws with great effects on the country, or make important one-time decisions.

Check out the trailer over at Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Paradoxplaza

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Te prestigious German Developer Awards have voted and named Sacred 2: Fallen Angel the "Best International PC Game of 2008". It seems to have also been nominated for a few other categories including...

• Best Game Design
• Best Story
• Best In-game Graphics
• Best Sound
• Best German Game of 2008

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is a hack-and-slash action-RPG with a rich story that takes place in a giant, open-ended and seamless world. This world contains massive dungeons, treacherous opponents and hundreds of challenging quests. Intelligent enemies, steadily adapting in number and difficulty based on player progress, challenge players in heroic single- and multiplayer battles for up to 16 gamers on the Games for Windows platform, and four-player cooperative games on consoles.

An update from the development team over at Wolfire share some new details about their upcoming PC and Mac title, Overgrowth.

Wolfire News Updates (more info at: http://blog.wolfire.com/)

Wolfire Releases a new Alpha
- New sky
- Sweet terrain shadows
- Higher detail terrain
- Ambient occlusion
- More objects, including new rocks, a “Joshua tree”, and a small bush.
- Instead of a single floating cube, there is now a nice little scene Aubrey whipped up using Phillip’s editor.

Also updates with the following...

Because Overgrowth’s gameplay will occur almost entirely in outdoor settings, the Wolfire team has made terrain their recent priority.  After achieving realistic terrain coloring in the Phoenix Engine, Wolfire decided to put the same care into terrain lighting effects.  In addition to adding high-detail terrain shadows from direct sunlight (http://blog.wolfire.com/2008/11/high-detail-terrain-shadows/), the engine now also accounts for ambient lighting and occlusion (http://blog.wolfire.com/2008/11/ambient-occlusion/). Combined these effects have resulted in surprisingly realistic environments.

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The Wonderland Online team has announced some 3 new items for its version 3.0 of Wonderland.

Wisdom Crystal
1. Double click the Maid Robot you have purchase and a Wit Maid manufacturing window will pop up. One Maid Robot and one Wisdom Crystal are needed to make a Wit Maid.
2. Click the Wit Maid and you may be surprised to find that the Wit Maid can talk to you.
3. Function 1: Players can store or draw pets at any time.
4. Function 2: It can be used as a mobile tent which allows players to deposit and draw items freely without opening their tent.
5. Function 3: Players can order human pets to do the manufacturing instead of themselves.

Boarded Voucher
1. Go find the sailor NPCs at the beach or docks and talk with them. The quantity of the tickets will differ according to the distance.
2. For teams, the team leader can give the NPC all required tickets so that all members will travel together.
 

For more information about the items read more below or head to the games official website.

Free to play MMO, Deco Online will be getting it's second update as announced by Joymax today. Entitled, "Part 2: Prelude to the Fall"...

Joymax, an independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment for the global market, has launched a new update for Deco Online, the free-to-play action MMORPG. “Part 2: Prelude of the Fall” introduces a number of rare weapons and stylish armor sets, as well as a variety of powerful new skills. Extending the level cap to 90, the update also gives players two new maps where they can test their adventuring mettle, “The Plain for Lapse of Memory” and “Curved Mountain.”

More information can be found at www.joymax.com/deco.