Last month, Deep Silver announced plans to develop and publish Ride to Hell, an open world action game set in the American West of the 1960s and designed to give the player that Easy Rider feeling. Now the publisher has sent out the first screenshots from the game and they indeed have that look of being out on the open road.Set for release in mid-2009, Ride to Hell will have the player piloting one of these choppers across a vast landscape as they listen to hippie music, drink a lot and deal with other biker gangs out on the road. Will you drive your hogs well or leave them out on the side of the road? Hopefully we will get more info on the game soon....

We have fresh looks at the upcoming action RPG, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. The trailer mostly focuses on the updated graphics technology and new features such as combat while riding a mountable creatures. Then there are powerful spells that are enhanced through team play. Download the Sacred 2: Fallen Angel HD Trailer...

It's one of the few PC-only titles that we are looking forward to playing and it just went gold. Developer GSC Game World's first person shooter prequel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky has been cleared for duplication and will be published by Deep Silver in their first major game to be released in the US.Along with the "gone gold" announcement comes word on a slight delay in the game's release. Originally announced as shipping to stores on August 29, the game's new release date has been pushed back one week. It is now due to ship to stores on September 5. It's one of the few games that will ship with both DirectX9 and DirectX10 graphics so we expect that it will be used as a benchmark for some PC rigs....

Last week publisher Deep Silver launched a teaser site for "Project RPB", the code name for the next fantasy RPG project from developer Piranha Bytes. Today that teaser site has revealed the actual title of the game: Risen. The site now has yet another countdown clock which will expire in two weeks. It's expected that more info will be revealed at that time.As we reported last week, the the developer already has an extensive FAQ on the game on their site which states the game takes place in a "fictional medieval background on a huge volcanic island. in a new press release, Risen's basic premise is as follows: "the game's protagonist is shipwrecked after a storm and finds himself on a mysterious island. An active volcano dominates the scene. Ancient temple ruins have recently risen from the ground, and bizarre creatures infest the island." Again more info on Risen will be revealed later in August....

If you need to know the system requirements for a PC game chances are you might need a new PC to run it. So it goes with S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, the latest game in GSC GameWorld's post apocalyptic first person shooter series. Publisher Deep Silver just published the PC hardware requirements (minimal and recommended) for the game so you can see for yourself if your rig is up to snuff: MINIMAL Microsoft Windows 2000(SP4)/XP/Vista (SP1) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz / AMD XP 2200+ 512 MB RAM 10 GB free hard disc space 128 MB DirectX 8.0 compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 5700 / ATI Radeon 9600 Keyboard, Mouse LAN / Internet for Multiplayer RECOMMENDED Microsoft Windows XP/Vista (SP1) Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 / AMD 64 X2 4200+ 1.5 GB RAM 10 GB free hard disc space 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible card / nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT Keyboard, Mouse LAN / Internet for Multiplayer ...

The latest X3: Terran Conflict trailer shows off all the things players will be able to do in the upcoming sci-fi space simulator. Players will be able to build entire star bases, create their own trade companies and put together entire ship armadas for those "special" business negotiations. X3: Terran Conflict will also offer tools to help manage fleets while flying your own ship. For those who just can't wait for Terran Conflict, the original X3: Reunion can be found on Steam for $20.Download the HD X3: Terran Conflict Build Trailer (166 Mb)...

Piranha Bytes, the creators of the first three games in the Gothic fantasy RPG series, won't be back for the fourth installment but they are working on another mysterious project. Today that game, currently known only as "Project RPB" got a teaser web site and a countdown clock via the game's publisher Deep Silver.The clock indicates that more info on the game will be revealed in about a week. In the meantime the developer has an extensive FAQ on the game on their site which states the game takes place in a "fictional medieval background on a huge volcanic island." Some of the questions are rather lame ("Will the trees have leaves or pine needles?" They will have a mixture of both.) but for a game that doesn't have a real name yet there's a lot of info....

Publisher Deep Silver is making its big move to the US with the upcoming release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, the next game in GSC Game World's first person shooter series. The publisher just launched their official web site for the game and among other things revealed plans for a Collector's Edition of the title.Unfortunately, the Collector's Edition is for Europe only; you folks on the other side of the pond will be able to get an extra DVD with behind-the-scenes content and a map of the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.as a poster. The Collector's Edition will also come enclosed in a SteelBook (which sounds cool even though we don't really know what it means). The game is due out in late August in both Europe and the US....

Deep Silver unveiled a gameplay teaser trailer for their upcoming physics-oriented puzzle game, entitled Gravity. Gravity features over 100 levels that challenge players to complete physics-based tasks such as using ramps in different ways to properly guide a ball to a button and firing balls out of cannons and into buckets....

There have been tons of great cliffhanger endings in history. Will Han Solo get out of that carbonite casing? Will Captain Picard get free of the Borg? Who shot J.R. Ewing? Who is the final undiscovered Cylon? We can now add one more cliffhanger to this list. "What games will Big Download pick as the five most anticipated PC games for E3 2008?". Yes we know you have been waiting with baited breath to find out the answer to this hugely important question. Well, your prayers have now been answered. We have now arrived at our choices for the top five PC games we are most looking forward to seeing at the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit. Will the game that you are most interested in be on this list? Read on for the conclusion to our report. Again you can look back for our picks for 25-21, 20-16, 15-11 and 10-6. As we mentioned in our previous articles, these are just our predictions on what games will be shown at the event; many of these titles have not been officially confirmed to be at E3 as of this writing. Also, there's no Activision Blizzard titles on this list due to the new massive publisher bypassing E3 but a press conference by Activision Blizzard on Tuesday during E3 is highly expected to show some upcoming titles from that newly merged publisher. With that out of the way let's look at our picks for the next five games on our list....

So have you been itching for a game that recalls the Easy Rider era of the 1960s? Well, it's good news for you lot today as Deep Silver has just announced Ride to Hell, a new title from their own internal development studio that's set to be released in the second quarter of 2009.While no screenshots have been released yet, Deep Silver claims that Ride to Hell will attempt to bring an authentic 1960's biker feel to gamers. Players will drive several vehicles in the game's version of the American West in a free roaming world. The promise of dealing with biker gangs, hard drinking and experiencing the 1960's hippy music scene is also promised. It sounds different but specific gameplay details are still lacking....

Developer Egosoft has been working on their series of space combat-trading games for several years and now their latest game. X3: Terran Conflict, is due for release in late September via publisher Deep Silver. Today the official Egosoft web site posted up some impressive new screenshots from the new title that show off some of the new visual features.X3: Terran Conflict is supposed to have more missions to accomplish than any other game in the series and will conclude the trilogy that started with X2: The Threat and continued with X3: Reunion. Egosoft has also released a teaser trailer for X3: Terran Conflict that you can grab here at Big Download.Download the X3: Terran Conflict teaser trailer at Big Download now...

This is the first time any one franchise has dominated our Big Downloads list. It's been almost exactly one week since Blizzard announced Diablo 3, and since then everything with the Diablo name attached to it has blown out through the door.So four out of five of this week's top downloads are Diablo-related. We've thrown in the also-popular S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky trailer for some variety. To the Americans: have a great holiday weekend. To everyone else: have a great normal weekend! Diablo 3 Cinematic Teaser TrailerBlizzard has always been known for making lavish cinematics. Check out this gorgeous and forboding introduction to Diablo 3's story. Diablo 3 Gameplay TrailerNot much for flair and flash? Want to just get to the point? Download this for gameplay footage from Diablo 3. Diablo 2 Demo (Windows)After Diablo 3 was announced, everyone started playing Diablo 2 again. If you can't find your old discs, and aren't sure you want to spend any money yet, grab this demo. Diablo 2 Demo (Mac)Ditto for Mac users! Blizzard's a friend to Apple. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky Atmosphere TrailerS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl was praised for its deep atmosphere, inspired by a film of the same name by Russian art-house director Andrei Tarkovsky. Clear Sky aims to follow suit, as this video demonstrates. ...

When a trailer for an upcoming game shows no real gameplay features but still blows us away with just the game engine features, it has to be something special. Such is the case with the new "atmospheric" trailer for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, the upcoming prequel to GSC Game World's 2007 first person shooter.The over 5 minute trailer can be downloaded over at Big Download and shows off a number of the game's new visual effects compared to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game including more bump detail on the level textures, volumetric light sources, better rain and wet ground effects and even better character details. The game, to be published by Deep Silver, is scheduled to be released in late August.Download the new S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky trailer at Big Download now...

One game that is sticking with a PC exclusive (at least for now) is S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, the upcoming prequel to 2007's post apocalypse shooter from developer GSC Game World. While the first game was published by THQ, Clear Sky will be the first US game from European publisher Deep Silver.The game debuted at E3 last year and this year Deep Silver plans to showcase the game to the press at their E3 meeting room in mid-July. In the meantime, GSC Game World has released some new screenshots from the game showing off more of its graphical features (which apparently includes some guitar playing)....