The Big Round-up: Friday, June 13

Posted Jun 13th 2008 11:45AM by Dan O'Halloran
Filed under: Biz, Downloads, Meta BD

Your daily wrap-up of the hottest stories in PC gaming in the last 24 hours.

	SimCity Societies demo released Strategy fans interested in management rather than supreme ruling are encouraged to try the SimCity Societies demo, which is now available on Big Download. The full version of Tilted Mill Entertainment's SimCity Societies was released on November 13, 2007.
	Supreme Ruler 2020 demo released Battlegoat Studios has released a demo for Supreme Ruler 2020, the strategy sequel to their critically acclaimed Supreme Ruler 2010. Multiplayer and Campaign modes have been disabled in the demo, but two single-player scenarios -- "Italy Votes" and "Preemptive Strike" -- are available for play.
	Camp Fatal1ty: A lot better than rowing classes Kids are out for the summer so their parents will likely push them against their will to go to summer camp. All that awful clean air, sun and "activities" are dreaded by their children. If you really want your kids to be happy to go to camp this summer, why not go to "Camp Fatal1ty"? Yes, your children can learn how to shoot each other via playing Epic Games' Unreal Tournament 3.
	GRID gets its tires patched Codemasters just dropped a patch (1.01, which takes the game to version 1.1) onto the Information Super Highway for their gorgeous racing game, GRID. The patch squashes several bugs on the windshield (i.e., other player's progress/positions are now correctly updated when you enter the race results screen; track and route options no longer change when host gets back to lobby in private/LAN) and fills the tank with numerous game-play enhancements (i.e., you can now look left and right while in bonnet camera; fix for missing Force feedback on Vista).

	Microsoft Game Studios shuffles employees Microsoft Game Studios revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that Shane Kim, formerly corporate vice-president of the studio, will be assuming the newly-created corporate VP of strategy and business development for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business.
	Hellgate London Abyss Chronicles teaser released While the gate (presumably in London) to hell was open, swarms of demons poured out and ravished the earth. Unfortunately, quite a few unwanted bugs slipped through as well. A teaser for Flagship Studios' Hellgate London Abyss Chronicles has been released, demonstrating some of the new features and fixes players will find in the upcoming Patch 2.
	Gaming doesn't make you a nerd... does it? A study out of Australia seems to have clinically "proven" what most of us already knew: gaming does not turn you into a social misfit or make you a nerd. At least that's what the "study" carried out by Daniel Loton, an Australian psychology graduate and long-time gamer, seems to think.