Crystals of Arborea and Ishar 3 added to Ishar Compilation - Silmarils/DotEmu - $5.99
It's a great day to be an RPG fan! Starting right now our Ishar compilation is complete, featuring all four games of the series. And to make the news even better, the price remains the same - just $5.99! This also means that if you already purchased the Ishar 1+2 pack, now you can download all four games with no extra charge. Both games are first-person perspective role-playing games, letting you create a party and live out a solid storyline in a 3D fantasy world.

Personal Nightmare - 1989 - Horrorsoft/Adventure Soft - $5.99
Where else but GOG.com are you going to get 20-year old games? Personal Nightmare is the oldest game in GOG's catalog to date and the precursor to the acclaimed Elvira series. Personal Nightmare is a first-person-perspective adventure game from Horrorsoft, putting players in the shoes of a young man who returns to his home town to find his father, the local vicar, missing, and the town he grew up in much different - and more haunting - than he remembers.

The Pandora Directive - 1996 - Access Software/Wordplay LLC - $9.99
The Pandora Directive is the fourth installment of the awesome Tex Murphy series. As can be expected from a game with such an acclaimed pedigree, you'll find an involving story which is guaranteed to keep you glued to your chair, topped with some dark humor and well-designed puzzles. This time our favorite P.I. is hired by a man named Gordon Fitzpatrick to find his friend, Thomas Malloy. But, as always, there is more to this case than meets the eye. You can now get all four games in the series for just $5.99. If you already bought the collection when it just had two games, you can now get the two additional titles for free.

All Pinball Games 20% Off
Arcades may be having a tough time these days, but GOG.com keeps on pinballing. Starting tomorrow (so please don't talk about it until then! J) and running until Monday at 11:59pm Eastern, all of GOG.com's pinball games will be 20% off! That means you can get four classic pinball games that pass the test of time for just $4.79 each - that's four games for under $20!

Battlefield 1943 is a critically-acclaimed First-Person Shooter (FPS) multiplayer game that puts players in the middle of a dogfight on land, sea or in the skies. The game introduces two thrilling new modes that can be played across four classic Battlefield tropical WWII maps: Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Coral Sea. These maps are inspired by the award winning Battlefield 1942 game, but have been redesigned and reengineered using the DICE destructible Frostbite™ engine which takes down walls, blockades and cover spots, leaving players with almost nowhere to hide. The game delivers endless hours of social online gameplay – an extraordinary value at just $15.

The Coral Sea map which is included in the game will be unlocked as part of a worldwide community challenge, where players will work together to reach 43M kills on both Xbox LIVE and the PlayStation Network. To help gamers reach that goal, up to 24 players can play together online in countless matches. They will have the freedom to compete by land, air and sea as either the US Marines or the Imperial Japanese Navy. Whether they choose to play the role of a rifleman crawling through the trenches, a steel-fisted tank commander, or a dog fighting ace pilot, gamers will have the power to rule the Battlefield.

* Titan Quest - $3.99
* Red Faction Guerilla Pre-Order Bundle (RF1, RF2 and RFG) - $39.99 USD | $49.99 EUR | 34.99 GBP
* Sins of a Solar Empire + Entrenchment Bundle - $29.99
* Call of Duty 4 - $34.99
* Prototype - $44.99
* Street Fighter IV Pre-Order - $35.99
* King's Bounty - $19.99
* Majesty Gold - $4.99
* Flock - $7.50
* Unreal Gold - $7.49
* Unreal II - $7.49
* Unreal Tournament 2004 - $11.29
* Unreal Tournament GotY - $7.49
* Unreal Tournament III - $22.49
* Unreal Pack - $33.79

GREED features all ingredients to create an enthralling hack'n'slash classic. In the tradition of other critically acclaimed and proven genre colleagues you as the player will need to fight your way through masses of critters, robots, aliens and many other exotic adversaries while collecting unique items and skills thus leveling up your character. In contrast to the genre ancestors, the story of GREED takes place in an adult and mature science fiction scenario. In the futuristic universe of GREED the discovery of novel interstellar travel possibilities has lead to a new age of colonialization. The five largest colonial powers are entangled in a full-scale war over a new element called Ikarium, the recently discovered rare source of nearly unlimited energy. You as a former member of an elite military unit will fight a battle for your survival not know-ing that your actions will lead fate of all mankind into dramatic consequences...

GREED takes your character, chosen out of three completely different classes, through manifold levels and environments, all playable in three increasing difficulty levels putting even the toughest endgame player to a test - but as always, more pain con-tains more gain! Embedded in various scenarios, GREED throws waves of deadly foes in your way as well as screen filling end bosses. But don't despair! Helpful innovation can be found in numerous innovative features such as the unique dodge move, self-charging shields or destructible environments. The combination of the different character-specific skills and abilities in three categories gives you the diversity needed to conquer even the toughest foes. And if you need a little more support, GREED also features a cooperative multiplayer mode where you and your friends can show the universe what you are made of!

Features
• Hack'n'Slash in a dark science fiction setting
• A huge variety of different levels in three settings, each playable on three dif-ficulties, inhabited by fierce and deadly creatures and screen-filling end bosses
• Three entirely different character classes to choose from
• Upgradable skills in three categories per character class - the simultaneous use of these categories causes thrilling skill combinations
• Upgradable character attributes with direct game play effect
• Hundreds of partially socketed items to collect
• Online cooperative multiplayer mode for up to three players

* Star Wars: The Old Republic
* DC Universe Online
* Marvel Universe
* Heroes of Telara
* League of Legends: Clash of Fates
* Lego Universe
* Battlefield Heroes
* APB
* World of Cars

Ghostbusters proves to us that games can employ gameplay-physics and effects-physics all calculated by the CPU, leaving the GPU free to handle what it is designed for: Graphics. NVIDIA has a vested interest in PhysX, and they push it rather aggressively. A Quad-Core CPU is vastly underutilized in a lot of games, since the focus has been on graphics, and video cards have become so powerful. GPUs are so powerful, in fact, that designers are looking for something more to do with them. NVIDIA and AMD both want general-purpose computing to be done on the GPU, and that is great. But NVIDIA wants to push PhysX on developers and consumers to sell more NVIDIA-based video cards, not to improve gameplay based physics.
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Basically, any NVIDIA GeForce GTX series video card, and any Radeon HD 4800 or 4700 series video card should be able to run Ghostbusters with the highest possible settings at a high resolution like 1920x1200. If you are on a budget, the Radeon HD 4770 would be a fantastic choice. You can buy one now for $104.99 USD plus shipping. If your means are more sympathetic to your gaming needs, a GeForce GTX 275 or a Radeon HD 4890 would be good options as well, and should give you some future-proofing, should AA support be miraculously worked out. You can buy a GeForce GTX 260 for $154.99 USD plus shipping after a $20 MIR, or a Radeon HD 4890 for $169.99 USD after a $20 MIR, and it comes with free shipping. Any way you slice it, you are going to receive a great gameplay experience in Ghostbusters on every current generation video card from AMD and NVIDIA.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP or Windows Vista(R) (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
Microsoft DirectX(R) 9.0c (included & required for Windows XP & Vista)

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 3.2 GHz or AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3400+ processor
RAM: 1GB RAM
Video Card: 256MB NVIDIA(R) Geforce(R) 6800 GT or ATI Radeon(TM) X800
Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
HDD Space: 8GB (Plus an additional 800MB for Windows swap file)
Media: 100% Microsoft Windows compatible DVD-ROM drive
Internet: Broadband connection and service required for multiplayer

As the unlikely herd travels across the tundra and beyond, they stumble upon another world - a lush Dinosaur World teeming with jungles, mysterious plants, fierce dinosaurs, wild new adventures and several new friends. Taking on the role of more than six playable characters, including everyone’s favorite Ice Age friends and newly introduced characters, players master their unique skills and abilities across more than 15 action-packed levels. In addition to the expanded features of the single-player gameplay, for the first time in an Ice Age game, players can team up with friends and family in eight competitive multiplayer mini-games.

Minimum System Requirements for Demo:

* Pentium 4 1.8 GHZ or Athlon XP 2400+ or Higher Processor
* 512 MB of Ram (XP), 1 GB Ram (Vista)
* 2.77 GB of uncompressed hard disk space (Plus 400 MB for the Windows swap file)

*Supported chipsets for Win XP
- All Nvidia GeForce 6600 128 MB Ram and better chipsets
- All ATI Radeon X800 128 MB Ram and better chipsets

"The virtual currency, which is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate, will only be allowed to trade in virtual goods and services provided by its issuer, not real goods and services," the Ministries said.

The Chinese government estimates that trade in virtual currency exceeded several billion yuan last year, a figure that it claims has been growing at a rate of 20% annually. One billion yuan is currently equal to about $146 million.

The ruling is likely to affect many of the more than 300 million Internet users in China, as well as those in other countries involved in virtual currency trading. In the context of online role playing games like World of Warcraft, virtual currency trading is often called gold farming.

IncGamers also got a clarification from Blizzard, shortly after the interview, saying the choice of excluding a LAN feature "is because of the planned technology to be incorporated into Battle.net," a topic they will reveal more about at a later date.

The original StarCraft gained popularity largely because of the easy LAN mode, used on massive LANs like Dreamhack or small personal networks between friends, so this is a surprising move by Blizzard.