Minecraft Patch 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 is Now Available

This isn’t what I thought desert villages would look like.

Minecraft version 1.3.1 is now officially released for all you Minecraft fans to try out. This update is quite big and adds plenty of new features such as “demo mode for non-premium users”, “Adventure mode”, “trading”, various “Tempel” types, “Emerald Ore” and much more. They have also added cool little subtlety things like “water slowly drips through them when it’s raining” on leaves and cauldrons “slowly fill up when it’s raining”.

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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Overhaul 3.0 Mod is Looking Quite Pretty. Also a Trailer and Five Screenshots

Take a walk on the wild side.

Some of you might have tried The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Overhaul 2.0 mod which improved The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in may ways with new visuals and better gameplay. Now the guys behind that mod will be releasing a newer better version. The new version will be called Overhaul 3.0 and will go one more step further than before with even better visuals and game improvements. Theres is a new trailers and some screenshots which you can see below.

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The Secret World Free Weekend Next Week

The best thing about The Secret World.

The developers of The Secret World revealed during an official live stream yesterday that The Secret World will be open for anyone to play next weekend. From 3rd August at 4pm GMT until 6th August at 7am GMT. This is to celebrate the games one month anniversary (seriously?), Funcom will be doing events, giving players fireworks and other rewards for completing a series of missions. However more importantly people who want to know more about what the game is about or try out The Secret World will be able to do so over the weekend without paying a single penny a part from a bit of your soul.

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City of Steam Second Alpha Weekend is Now Available

I am glad this isn’t a swimming pool.

So you might be wondering what the feck is City of Steam? Is it some sort of Steam city building game? Well no its a free to play browser-based MMORPG similar in visual style and gameplay to games like Neverwinter Nights, Runescape, Baldur’s Gate with a bit of Vagrant Story. However what makes it different to these games is that it based on architecture and style of a steam punk universe. It is a pretty interesting take on the whole fantasy RPG theme.

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Payday: The Heist Mercy Hospital Map is Now Available

NHS staff were getting out of control.

Valve Corporation has previously stated that the new Payday: The Heist Mercy Hospital map is not a part of Left 4 Dead lore but it’s just an extra for players of Payday: The Heist. The Mercy Hospital heist is for anyone who owns Payday: The Heist. The map involves robbing the hospital for what I assume money or maybe medical supplies (vaccines?) I have no clue but It doesn’t really fit the traditional bank heist motif does it? I just imaging its a NHS hospital.

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Patch 1.7 is Now Available on Steam

That bear is packing some serious heat.

On Monday the latest beta update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was released over on Steam. The beta patch is for the upcoming 1.7 title update. Which is available for people to beta test on Steam with a full release coming later for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Currently this patch just seems to be a bug fixing one.

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