Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was just updated again, making a number of changes and additions to the game. The default map has been switched from Inferno to Train, which appears to be a far better recreation than Inferno, apart from the fog issue. There are also a bunch of new weapons: the Para, the TEC-9 Pistol, the SG 552 (pictured), and the AUG....

I've spent the last three weeks getting married, going on a honeymoon, diving The Great Barrier Reef and getting The Bends. It seems a lot went on while I was gone, but rather than spam your RSS, Twitter and Facebook feeds with a dozen new articles, I thought a summary of those stories would be best, prior to business as usual.

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Care of Koroush who runs tweakguides.com, NVIDIA has published a Skyrim tweak guide at GeForce.com. "The aim of this guide is to allow you to better understand and utilize all of the configuration options available in Skyrim, as well as a selection of advanced tweaks to enhance the game." It's a good one to check out for those PC gamers wanting to squeeze as much joy as they can from Bethesda's acclaimed RPG. You can find it by clicking here.

Thanks to AusGamers for the heads-up, and...

After the blunder that was Skyrim 1.2, Bethesda has quickly struck back with another update for the massively popular fantasy RPG. Of particular note: dragons should not longer fly backwards and player resistances should now be working again. There's a couple performance tweaks in there as well.

• General stability improvements
• Optimize performance for Core 2 Duo CPUs
• Fixed Radiant Story incorrectly filling certain roles
• Fixed magic resistances not calculating properly
• Fixed issue with

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Finally, Batman: Arkham City recieves its desperately needed PC patch via Steam auto-update, fixing the crippling DirectX 11 performance issues that most people with a relatively new video card have been expieriencing. "We have just released a patch for Batman: Arkham City PC that provides fixes a variety of DX 11 issues, as well as fixes for a few other non-DX 11 related issues." Don't get too excited quite yet however, because the DX11 fixes implemented in this patch only take care of those of...

At approximately 6pm AEST on December 6th, that's Tuesday next week, Battlefield 3 will be updated with a 2GB client patch as well as a server update. The reason for such a hefty client patch is that it contains content required for BF3's Back to Karkand expansion. For a long list of specifics explaining what fixes and changes have been made, read on.


Bugfixes

• Fixed a problem with spawn timer now showing blue border on startup and lost spawn point
• Fixed a problem where player

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Yesterday's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch has fixed some issues but created a whole lot of new ones, players are reporting. Character resistances no longer work in post-patch, meaning you'll have no protection from fire, ice, magic and so-forth - leaving you to take full damage. Oh, and dragons can fly backwards now.

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Skyrim is awesome. But sometimes more frustrating than awesome. Thankfully, an important patch for the acclaimed RPG arrives tomorrow and it includes slew of important fixes and improvements for the Xbox 360 and PC. PS3 owners already have their patch which dramatically raises performance on the system. Here's some of what you can look forward to:

• Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3)
• Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed

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The first client patch for Battlefield 3 is to be deployed on PC over the next few hours, and boy is it hefty. Squad refinements, performance enhancements, crash fixes, and a whole slew of gameplay balance adjustments have been included. Find the full patch log below for your reading pleasure.


A detailed look at Squad refinements Today's PC client patch features numerous tweaks to Squad functionality and is part of our ongoing efforts to make it easier to play with friend...

RAGE had a few problems at launch, but it has been patched! Huzzah! Included in the additions and fixes are vsync and texture cache options within the menu, as well as the ability to set your own anisotropic filter level. It's noted that for those of you with AMD/ATI cards who are having a ton of issues, you should paste +jobs_numThreads 0 into RAGE's launch options within Steam for a temporary work-around. For the patch notes in their entirety, with extra information and instruction, make sure y...

Map sharing features, 3v3 matches, 4v4 matches and Facebook support are just some of the nifty feature additions and improvements heading our way in the next StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty beta patch. With any luck, we'll see it land sometime this evening or tomorrow. Hit the jump for the full patch log.....

Hidden Path Studios, in collaboration with Valve, have just updated Counter-Strike: Source with a slew of new features and functions. 144 new achievements, a new 'domination and revenge' system and player stats are just some of the updates made......

Having trouble with performance playing Splinter Cell Conviction with an older graphcis card? How about playing it at all with a brand new GTX400-series? Or is it simply that you wanted to use an Xbox 360 controller but the button mapping is all out of whack?

Whatever your your problem with Conviction's PC release, you might soon have better luck. Ubisoft have just sent out patch 1.02 addressing those issues, and others. But no, they haven't patched out their despised DRM, so expect more problems in that department. Hit the jump for the full list......

Over at the Electronics Arts UK forums, a DICE representative has produced a long, long list of issues hampering Bad Company 2 at present. Astonishingly, every single one of these issues has also been responded to with a 'status' to give those concerned a genuine idea of when or how it's going to be fixed. In some cases, though, there's acknowledgment and dismissal - which is most unfortunate......