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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."

Here’s the brand new trailer to Fracture.

"The allure just isn’t there anymore for the Final Fantasy titles and we have to ask why."

s0rethumbs looks at what holds the Final Fantasy series together. You can guess their conclusion isn’t the game names. They think it has more to do with Square having a blond moment in design and creativity.

Atlantis. The Holy Grail. That episode of Star Trek where Captain Picard dresses in drag and does the macarena. They are things lost forever to the cruel winds of time, and yet they continue to capture the imaginations of successive generations. Gaming has its own graveyard of historical curios: half-born ideas and ill-fated projects that fell to the red pen of a corporate accountant. They’re called vaporware, and it looks like the Wii is on the cusp of its first two vaporware titles: the elusive Project H.A.M.M.E.R. and the mysterious Sadness.

But as GamesRadar patiently wait to hear the final fate of those two titles, they decided to cast a tearful eye over past Nintendo games that were coldly struck down before they ever had the chance to fill a gamer’s day with sunshine, to place a smile on the face of a child. These, friends, are the games that never were.

The lawyer for a 25-year-old New Zealand man who pleaded guilty to beating a police officer and stealing a patrol car has blamed his client’s crime in part on playing Grand Theft Auto - and the judge apparently agreed.

Official software sales rankings do not reflect true success of format, says nVidia.

Manufacturer Nvidia has blasted claims that PC gaming is dying, insisting that ChartTrack and NPD data fail to provide a full account of the strength of the format.

Official software sales rankings do not reflect true success of format, says nVidia.

Manufacturer Nvidia has blasted claims that PC gaming is dying, insisting that ChartTrack and NPD data fail to provide a full account of the strength of the format.

"This started out as a rumor today, but Intel has since more-or-less confirmed that licensing discussions between Intel and Nvidia for Intel’s next-generation processors are not going well and the resulting conflict could have implications for high-end gaming PCs"

Antwerp (Belgium) - Recent advances in general purpose GPU computing are beginning to shift perceptions in supercomputing applications. Belgian researchers have assembled a relatively simple enthusiast PC with an emphasis on graphics processing capability, which beats a multi-million dollar supercomputer in its target application.

Great news! Heads up that the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Variety Map Pack sponsored by NVIDIA will be available worldwide for PC players next week on June 5th!