The Zone

This is the closest we'll ever get to a Half-Life feature film. The brilliant folks at Purchase Brothers recently made the first chapter to their Half-Life: Escape From City-17 episodic series (we assume it's episodic seeing that Part One is firmly etched on the title, though the little teaser towards the end may just be a red herring) available on their official website and YouTube.

Truly a sight to behold. Amazing work, guys!

Lionhead Studios have reportedly received countless requests for a copy of the Fable II map of Albion on the community forums, and with the help of their in-house artists has came up with a 4000x4000 render of the Albion map, available for download at their official website here. It's a whopping 40MB file, so printing it out as a huge wall poster is no problemo!

PS3 users who logged into the PlayStation Network last night would have been prompt to update their PS3 system software to version 2.60. With this software update comes an optional 100MB+ download that will install the new Photo Gallery application to your Photo tab.

Also added to this release is the ability to browse the PlayStation Store without the need of a PSN account. Of course, if you wish to download content, then you'll have to sign up for an account to get started. Video files encoded using Divx 3.11 will now be playable on your PS3 console. Have fun!

Here's a small little indie game for you to kill time with. Just don't be fooled by Eversion's cute characters and colorful graphics, for nothing is as it seems in this platformer game.

Controls are relatively simple: Left and Right arrow to walk, Z to Jump, X to Everse, and ESC to Return to Main Screen. Eversion also comes with the following guideline: NOT INDICATED FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION.

To say anything more would be to spoil the fun. Enjoy!

Burnout Paradise is easily one of the best racing games of 2008, and we're looking forward to its PC incarnation next month. Taiwanese motherboard company Elitegroup Computer Systems appears to be equally excited too, which may explain the rather obvious "homage" of the game on the box cover of one of their latest motherboards. The similarity is quite uncanny, don't you think?

Owners of the US or UK edition of Fallout 3 will be in for a surprise when they next boot up the game on their PlayStation 3 as the version 1.1 patch is now live! Aside from adding 51 trophies to the game, the 24MB patch will also fix several issues that plague the original release, such as freezing during the GOAT test and pausing whenever the XMB notifications occurs.

I'm sure many of you would have already completed Fallout 3 (second or third playthrough, perhaps?) by now. Some may breezed through the main game, dabbling in a couple of sidequests as distractions, while others went the long route of making sure they find each and every thing the game has to offer.

The Capital Wasteland section of Planet Fallout is an awesome way to discover scenarios and points of interest that you may have missed during your adventure. Many Fallout devotees had contributed to the wasteland map (powered by Google Maps, if you didn't already know) with more information added daily.

Why not contribute things that they might have missed to share your discovery with the rest of the community? I know I will.

Even though there are many of us who are able-bodied, let's not forget the people who have not been able to enjoy life such as we do, and in particular, the story of KitsuneYume on the US PS3 boards has warmed up the hearts of practically any gamer who still has a soul in him (or her). Bedridden with Muscular Dystrophy, a muscular desease which slowly withers your muscles away, his passion for gaming is still burning brightly, and he's still able to catch up with his favorite PS3 titles using a specially designed controller (with his inputs) from GimpGear. To all the other disabled persons out there, this really is hope at work.

Check out his video after the jump, and a link to the PS3 boards here.

The Asus World GameMaster Tournament 2008 Malaysia Final comes to a close and the winners are announced. Who were triumphant? Who went home with the prize booty? More pictures after the jump!

As if the inclusion of the all-new Survivor difficulty mode wasn't enough, 2K Games has recently announced an upcoming add-on game content to BioShock for worldwide release this November 20th, exclusively for the PlayStation 3 version.

For only USD$9.99 in North America, you'll gain access to three unique Challenge Rooms that takes place outside of the main storyline. Each of the new Challenge Rooms offer not only new locations, objectives and artwork, but also new Trophies that can be earned from answering the challenge.

A special demo for Mirror's Edge, an upcoming first person action-adventure title developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE), will be available at the PlayStation Store (Oct 30th) and on Xbox Live Marketplace (Oct 31st) this week. The demo will feature the prologue of the game, a tutorial and a segment of the single-player story mode, giving gamers a taste of the game that's soon to be released next month.

For people who were disappointed with the recent E3 clampdown on skimpily-dressed booth babes, they could find some solace with the boothbabes at the TGS2008. Most of them were dressed pretty classily, though some dared to show off their midriffs. We weren't able to take pics of all of the booth babes due to lack of time (we were too busy playing the latest game demos and watching game trailers) but we still managed to compile an adequate pictorial collection of the booth babes of the show. 

Much more pictures after the jump! To view a larger size of the image, right-click and select 'View Image' in Firefox. 

Good things come to those who wait as the HD remake of the first Prince of Persia game will be available for purchase from the US Playstation Store this Thursday, October 23rd. Previously released back in June 2007 under the Xbox Live Arcade banner, this reimagined classic features an enhanced visuals on top of the same intricate level design, exciting swordplay, puzzle solving, and storyline from the original.

Yes, you read that right. Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars is a fan-made unofficial sequel to the first two Broken Sword adventure games by UK-based Revolution Studios. The dedicated folks of mindFactory started the project in year 2000 and the fruit of their labor is now available as a freeware download at their official site. The current release is for Windows PC, with possible ports to Mac and Linux in the near future. Voiceovers are entirely in German with optional English subtitles.