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Is it possible to build real life pictures with the Crysis engine Cryengine 2? A nice to watch screenshot contest in the crymod forums is worth a look. PCGH covers the best submissions so far.

Microsoft has sent out the official details on the Gears of War re-release, the re-release is due out on June 24 for $39.

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Killzone 2

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Maifa 2

Mercenaries 2

Bourne Conspiracy

Star Wars: Force Unleashed

World of Goo

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift

Pixeljunk Eden

Silent Hill Homecoming

Siren:New Translation

Rise of the Argonauts

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Lego Indiana Jones (6)

Boom Blox 8

Civilzation Revolution 8

Lostwinds 8

Baroque (5)

Iron Man (2)

Soul Bubbles (7)

Noitu Love 2 (7)

Track and Field (7)

1942: Joint Strike (4)

Commando 3 (6)

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Time Extend: Star Fox 64

The Making of: Carmageddon

What are the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? Mario Kart Wii remains number one in the Wii chart. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare — Game of the Year Edition shoots for the first spot on the Xbox 360 chart. On the PS3 chart Grand Theft Auto IV rules supreme.

Wired writes:

The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into.

In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as "Defiant" and "EBK" expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has garnered. In the call, the pair bounded freely between jubilant excitement over the impact of their attack, and fatalism that they would soon be arrested for it.

"The situation has kind of blown up here, a lot bigger than I thought it would," says Defiant, a 19-year-old man whose first name is James. "I wish I was a minor right now because this is going to be really bad."

The two hackers are members of the underground group Kryogeniks…

Hello Stephen. Your car is ready and waiting." What? Hello? Me? The latest instalment in Codemasters’ Race Driver series may not have become self-aware (yet) but there has been a change in emphasis.

Long-time fans may recall the often risible narrative that accompanied the earlier games, with the story relayed in ham-infested cutscenes, which history now judges as somewhere between mildly tolerable and a bit wank.

Memorably, there was one game in which your character was perennially harangued by a drunken Scotsman when all you really wanted to do was race a car.

Not any more. You are you and if you can’t find your name amidst the myriad of audio files - or if you fancy a more informal approach - you can opt to be known as one of several nicknames, be it Ace, Boss, Chief, Captain, Spanky or Stud.

Is it possible to build real life pictures with the Crysis engine Cryengine 2? A nice to watch screenshot contest in the crymod forums is worth a look. PCGH covers the best submissions so far.

According to information we came across in Taiwan, AMD/ATI is gunning for a sizeable launch of the new product generation, with Radeon 4850 512 MB boards leading the charge. However, the exact price has not been set yet, even if it is certain that the GDDR3 512 MB version (codenamed Makedon) will debut in a range between $179 and $219. If you ask us, we believe that the board be priced exactly at $199 (US, CAN) as well as 199 Euro.

TDK is expanding its family of solid state disk (SSD) drives with a microSATA version that will be available with 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB of capacity. Don’t expect a lot of performance or a low price, but these drives promise enough reliability for 10 years of read/write cycles and are small enough to fit into compact handheld devices such as MP3 players and MIDs.

The SSD HS1 series is TDK’s first product that comes out of a joint-venture with PQI, one of the first companies that have presented consumer-targeted solid state disk drives about three years ago. What makes this new series special is its size and the fact that it is based on the 1.8" microSATA specification, which defines the currently smallest SSD devices with a SATA interface.

GameSpot writes:

"When Mass Effect was originally released last November on the Xbox 360, it unveiled a vast, beautiful galaxy populated by diverse, fascinating alien races. Players stepped onto this stage as Commander Shepard, a hero at the vanguard of humanity’s ascension in the arena of galactic politics, and thus began an epic story bolstered by engaging characters and rich, branching dialogue. Exciting combat and robust skill management completed the package, but it was not without flaws. Many small issues have been addressed in the PC release, and the result is a more streamlined, more playable version of one of the best role-playing games in recent memory.

The Good

* All the awesome stuff that made Mass Effect on the 360 great

* Tech/Biotic power hotkeys make combat fast and fluid

* Numerous small improvements add up nicely.

The Bad

* Still hampered by graphical hitches

* Brief, intermittent load screens."