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Sega have announced the release of the eagerly anticipated Medieval II: Total War, the follow up to one of the most critically acclaimed PC games of all time, Rome: Total War.

The fourth instalment of the multi-million selling Total War strategy franchise evolves the genre to a whole new level with the most epic and cinematic 3D battles ever seen on PC.

Set in the darkest and most chaotic era in European history, Medieval II: Total War's campaign spans over 500 years.

GSC Game World using Steam to distribute strategy title

Ukrainian publisher GSC Game World has joined the ranks of companies using Valve's Steam platform to digitally distribute its software.

Valve claims that titles promoted through Steam are available to some ten million potential customers.

GSC's PC strategy/role-playing hybrid Heroes of Annihilated Empires will go on sale from 22 November priced USD 39.95.

"We are very happy to start working with Valve to distribute our latest creation via this mighty online distribution platform," said GSC CEO Sergiy Grygorovych, adding that he hoped the relationship with Valve would be useful "both now and in the future".

Steam's profile has been raised in recent months as major publishers including Take-Two and Activision have looked to the service in a bid to expand the audience for their PC games.

GP2X Adds Linux Flavor to Game Console Mix

You want games? Whoa, Nelly! The GP2X plays straight ports of PC games such as "Quake" and "Doom," plus it can use emulators such as MAME, SNES, Atari, Sega Megadrive, Genesis and GameGear. The GP2X file archive has hundreds of free games, while sites such as ROMNation offer thousands more.

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Latest City of Heroes expansion now out

Today marks the release of NCSoft and Cryptic Studios' eighth free expansion for City of Heroes. Issue 8: To Protect and Serve brings new mission styles, new story content, and a veteran awards program to one of the most successful comic-book themed PC games ever. Issue 8 also reintroduces the newly-revitalized Faultline neighborhood as a brand new city zone now that the zombies and other evil beings that plagued it have been kicked out.

One of the new features in the expansion is the veteran awards program. This feature gives a wide-variety of veteran rewards for players who have had a City of Heroes or City of Villains account for at least three months. The rewards are given in increments of three months or active play and include special powers, base items, badges and costume pieces such as wings.

City of Heroes Issue 8 goes live today

NCsoftÂ® and Cryptic Studios today released the eighth free expansion to City of HeroesÂ®, adding new mission styles, new story content and a veteran rewards program to one of the most successful comic-book themed PC games ever.

Issue 8: "To Protect and Serve" delivers a host of new features starting out with a wide-variety of veteran rewards for players who have had a City of Heroes or City of VillainsÂ® account for three months or more. The rewards are given in increments of three months of active play, and include special powers, base items, badges and costume pieces such as wings. The veteran rewards program is retroactive by player account and rewards will be applicable to all characters within each respective account.

Building on the tradition of super-powered crime fighting, Issue 8 is introducing Safeguard Missions where heroes will be given a limited time to halt major crimes being committed by super-powered villains and their henchmen.

UK games chart: FIFA 07 gets second wind

There's a new number in this week's ELSPA UK games chart, but it's a familiar face: EA's FIFA 07(DS, GBA, GC, Mob, PC, PS2, PSP, Xb, Xb360).

The reason for its second-half resurgence? It seems supermarket discounts have boosted sales (a price of 30 still fitting it within ELSPA's 'full price' criteria).

EA's street racing game Need For Speed: Carbon (DS, GBA, GC, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xb360, Xb, PC, PS3) stays at number two, with Microsoft's Gears of War,

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