Brink is merely a week away. It's one of two big shooter releases I'm looking forward to this year, the other is unsurprisingly Battlefield 3. Most pleasingly, it was recently revealed how we'd get to play Brink multiplayer on the PC, and that's via cost free dedicated servers! The official statement from Splash Damage follows.....

It turns out that 2K Marin has gone the way of Infinity Ward. It has just been made clear that there will be no LAN support, and no dedicated servers for the sequel's new multiplayer component. The explaination given is a contradiction in itself, and reads "We chose to spend the time we had creating a solid game foundation and unfortunately that did not include LAN play or dedicated servers." Make of that what you will....