World of Warcraft turns seven years old tomorrow. To celebrate, Blizzard has announced that players who log on between November 20 and December 3 will have a feat of strength added to their Achievements as well as a "Celebration Package" item. It's explained that "using your item will get the celebrations rolling by shooting off fireworks*, applying a (visual only) tabard to your character, and granting a 7% bonus to experience and reputation gains while active." A new television spot has also be...

After a raft of feedback that needed addressing, the highly anticipated Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta was recently delayed without a release window. Without much wasted time a date has now been revealed by Valve via Twitter, and that date is very soon: "The beta will be active for all current key holders starting Wed November 30th."...

Rockstar have launched a new series of Max Payne 3 trailers, focusing on a number of design and technology aspects of their forthcoming bullet-time shooter. This debut video showcases the impressive targeting mechanics, movement and animation, enemy intelligence and other innovations.

Max Payne 3 is set for a March 2012 release on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

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Super Meatboy is a fantastically fantastic indie title with some extreme, retro platform action. To celebrate the first anniversary of its release you'll find a great new pack of games on Steam including Super Meatboy itself as well as World of Goo, Braid, Machinarium and more. It's available until November 21 and is just $25. Additionally, this Saturday Team Meat will unlock "Super Meat World" which brings a huge number of user-created levels to to game. I already own most of those games, as w...

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Steam has been hacked and it has been disclosed that credit card numbers and other personal information may have been put at risk. Valve know that the hackers gained access to the encrypted database with this information, but are currently unable to ascertain if this database was lifted or if they will be able to break the encryption. This comes just days after the Steam forums were taken offline, the cause of which is believed to be an exploit in the old version of vBulletin that was being run. ...

If you haven't played Limbo on Xbox 360, PS3 or PC yet you're either crazy or don't own any of those platforms. Which probably means you have a Mac, but shortly you too will have no excuse not to play this indie masterpiece either. It has been confirmed that it will arrive on Mac before the year is out. "With the success that LIMBO has achieved, we felt this was the ideal time to fully regain our independence," said Playdead CEO, Dino Patti. "We are grateful to everyone who supported us over t...

Skyrim is out and boy is it creating some waves. A quick round-up of reviews reveals that it already has over half a dozen perfect-scores, amongst many others that are very near perfect. Here are just a few of them with some choices quotes that should get even those not particularly interest in the RPG genre excited about this game. Eurogamer: 10/10 - "It evokes a word that's overused in reviewing of all kinds: one that's best kept in the cellar in a plainly marked box and reserved only for th...

Skyrim's release date has been broken and is now being sold at EB Games, Game and Harvey Norman. For now, Harvey Norman is by far the best deal, but let us know if any other retailers such as JB HI-FI have gotten in on the action. Unfortunately for PC gamers, you'll still have to wait for the game's midnight unlock for Steam....

L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition is still 45 hours from release on Steam for Australia, priced at an astronomical $90. If you would like to play it right now and save $40, you can buy it using a US VPN from the US Steam store for $50. If you're not quite sure how to do that, have a quick look at this thread...