Capcom continues their media burst from CES today with a whopping 25 new screenshots from Flock, their first downloadable game for 2009. The game from developer Proper Games is due out this February and looks to be something that's out of the norm for a Capcom published title.

As we have mentioned before your task is your herd a number of farm animals, Lemmings-style, into a UFO through a series of puzzle-filled levels. While the game is scheduled for release next month there's been no word yet on pricing. We just hope Capcom released the PC version in a more timely manner than they did with the PC release of Age of Booty...which we are still waiting on, by the way.

The rumblings have been happening for a few months but today CCP announced that their next free expansion for their hit space based MMO EVE Online will be released to subscribers on March 10. On that same date, Atari will release the long awaited retail store version of the game that will contain the core title and all of the expansions.

The new expansion is titled Apocrypha and is described in the press release as the "most ambitious EVE expansion in the game's over five year history". New modular ships will be added to this new expansion along with wormholes in space that will take players to new and unexplored areas of the game's universe. There will also be a revamped way for new players for EVE Online to quickly get started to play the game. Mac games will be happy to know that the retail version of EVE Online will also contain a Premium graphics client for their hardware.

Blizzard continues to sneak out new screenshots for Starcraft II. The official web site for the upcoming sci-fi RTS game just added three more new screenshots which we have added to our gallery of visuals for the game.

Not only that but the web site is giving you the chance to pick which version of the Protoss unit Dark Templar will be put into the final game. You can see the two different versions right here. One has more of a costume look while the other exposes more of the alien's form. You can vote for either one or you can vote to have both models in the game (it would be generated randomly when you decide to build one in the game).

This heavily stylized cinematic trailer for Street Fighter IV gets players pyched to jump into the fight. The game is scheduled to release on consoles next month while a PC release will follow sometime after.

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Capcom is one of the few game publishers going all out at the Consumer Electronics Show this week and as part of that promotion they have released even more new action filled screeenshots of their long awaited fighting game Street Fighter IV.

We have added the 10 new shots to our already massive gallery of Street Fighter IV visuals which include this shot of...well...Fei Long after an all night drunk, apparently. The Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles get this game next month but PC owners are still wondering when our promised port will be coming from Capcom. Hopefully we will get some more info on that front soon.

If you want full 3D action for a ton of current PC games and don't feel funny about wearing some glasses to get the effect, then Nvidia has the new product for you. Officially announced today as part of the Consumer Electronics Show, the graphics chip maker announced the GeForce 3D Vision, a set of special glasses that enables people to see PC games in 3D if you have the correct GeForce GPU in your rig along with the right monitor.

Monitors from Samsung and Viewsonic support 3D game viewing through the new product along with Mitsubish HDTVs and DepthQ HD 3D projectors. A list of PC games that support the GeForce 3D Vision is available at Nvidia's web site. You can purchase the product now at Nvidia's web site and at select online retailers for $199. You can also purchase the product with a Samsung monitor for $598.

Just about a year ago, Boston based game developer Iron Lore closed its doors. It received praised for its products including its debut game, the action-RPG Titan Quest. However the company failed to get funding for upcoming projects it had been developing.

Now two former Iron Lore team members have announced they have bought the rights to two of Iron Lore's unfinished game projects and have formed Crate Entertainment to get these projects on the right track. Iron Lore's lead designer Arthur Bruno and artist Eric Campanella are currently working on the projects in the offices of Demiurge Studios. A feature article on Crate Entertainment at the Journal of New England Technology web site reveals that one of the two projects is yet another fantasy action-RPG called Black Legion. The game is currently being shopped around to publishers.

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A few months ago we posted up a feature story that took a look at many games that are currently being developed under the radar. We called them "Black Ops games" and since then we have dug even deeper and found even more game titles that as of this writing are currently being created under the cone of silence.

We got what little info we collected on these titles and brought them up into the light for all to see. They include a sci-fi shooter from a MMO developer, a next-gen strategy game, and a company that has raised over $100 million to develop two MMO titles. What is it that they and other developers don't want you to know about yet? Read on to find out more.

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As promised, developer Relic and publisher THQ have announced their multiplayer beta plans for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, their long awaited sci-fi RTS game sequel. In addition they have confirmed that the full game will ship to retail stores on February 23.

In a bit of a different move, the beta will be hosted via Valve's Steam service and will contain all four of the game's playable factions along with five multiplayer maps and support for the TrueSkill Matchmaking feature for Games For Windows Live. People who own Warhammer 40K Dawn of War Soulstorm will get first crack at downloading the beta on January 21. Everyone else can download the beta on January 28.

"Recession? What recession?" That's what execs at the game retailer Gamestop are bascially saying today. Indeed their press release that announced its holiday sales numbers for 2008 is actually titled "Gamestop Rises Above Recession". For the time period between Nov. 2, 2008 to Jan. 3, 2009 Gamestop's sales were $2.85 billion, a 22 percent increase from the same period last year. Same store sales were up 10 percent from the same period a year ago.

A PC game exclusive, Blizzard's MMO expansion World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, was one of the top five best selling games at Gamestop during the period. Activision's WWII shooter Call of Duty World at War was also among the top five.The news has set Gamestop's stock price up over 12 percent as of this news post.

These new trailer for Prototype show off different aspects of gameplay. Featured above is the straightforward trailer. Gameplay trailers demonstrate using claws and groundspikes to attack, super-powered freerunning, and bodysnatching to get around undetected. The game is currently scheduled to release this summer.

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The countdown has now ended and Activision has taken off the covers for the newly revamped Prototype web site with new info and screenshots from the upcoming open world action game from developer Radical Entertainment. The game was first announced back in 2006 via Vivendi Games before they were consumed by the Activision Blizzard merger.

The new screenshots seem to show a much dark color palette than previous visuals for the game but perhaps that's appropriate for a game that has you controlling a shape-shifting super powered amnesiac that's running wild in New York City. Originally set for release this past fall Prototype is now due for release sometime in the first half of 2009.

So, it's two thousand and nine. Sure, our digital minions are faster and more capable than ever before, but do you ever feel like you're missing out on the whole Gernsback experience? Where the hell is my flying car? This was supposed to be the future, but it's just.... now. We're still using magnetic media, transistors, and keyboards -- no fancy bubble chips, rod logic, or tactical neural implants (to quote Montgomery Scott, "The keyboard; how quaint").

So, what does 2009 have in store for us?

For one thing, Small Iron, and lots of it. Manufacturers and hardware vendors throughout the industry spectrum are anticipating a boom in the so-called "netbook" segment. Everyone from AMD and Intel to Acer and Asustek are gearing up in expectation of soaring demand for the ultra-portable/mini-notebook niches that were more or less defined by the introduction of Apple's Macbook Air and the subsequent introduction of the Atom and Eee PC. These certainly aren't desktop-replacement level equipment, but for folks who are frequently on the go and need something more robust than an iPhone or Blackberry, there's every expectation in the industry that these are the New BigSmall Thing.

Two new videos recently released for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. The first (featured above) discusses the game's unique game engine and how it will be improved from the first game. The second is a home-made holiday greeting music video entitled "Walking in a Deathmatch Wonderland." It's worth watching to get some first looks at the multiplayer action and to keep the holiday embers burning just a little while longer... using a flamethrower.

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If you are a Mac player and have been waiting to get your hands on a new native MMO to play on your hard drive your time has finally come. NCsoft has just announced that the Mac version of their super hero MMO City of Heroes is now out of beta and has gone live on their service.

The Mac version of the game is available only via digital download. The client costs $19.99 and includes 30 days of game time. The Mac version has some exclusive costume items as a well as an exclusive teleport feature that allows players to go directly to the last mission they had in the game. You can check out a hands-on preview of the beta version right here at Big Download.