PC Gaming News - March 5, 2009

Well gang, it looks like you're not going to get rid of me, so here's to kicking off a permanent PC Gaming roundup. Just hang on as I get into the groove of shuffling around gaming and hardware news! Here are a few nuggets to get things just right...

46 Games Added to GamersGate This Week
As the heading states, online digital distribution site GamersGate is adding a whopping 46 titles to its library this week, with six new titles appearing today. Many notable PC gamers are now available to purchase and download including Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Painkiller Universe, Neighbors from Hell, Railroad Pioneer and many more. Today's offerings include Crime Stories, Crystal Key 2, Neighbors from Hell Compilation, Thandor, ThinkX and Traitors Gate 2.

Ten Free Days of Warhammer Online
Mythic and EA want your business, and to reel in your pockets full of dollar bills, the dynamic duo is now offering a ten-day free trial of the uber popular MMORPG, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Players that sign up for the 10-day free trial are eligible to participate in the current Bitter Rivals live event to unlock the soon-to-be-released Orc Choppa and Dwarf Slayer careers for head start play. To download the 10-day free trial, head here.

Silent Hill Homecoming Patched
Yesterday Konami announced that a new patch for Silent Hill Homecoming is available, resolving an issue related to changing the graphic resolutions. The patch automatically applies when users install the game for the first time. However, for registered users, the patch will automatically download and update the game the next time Silent Hill Homecoming loads and connects to the Internet.

Take The Path for $10
Tale of Tales reluctantly prices its upcoming game The Path for $9.99 after the creators said that they would rather just give the game away. Available on March 18, The Path is an "indie" horror PC game that calls itself a "contemporary interpretation" of Little Red riding Hood. " It features six sisters -Robin, Rose, Ginger, Ruby, Carmen and Scarlet- who are sent, one by one, to their grandmother's house on an errand. Grandmother lives on the other side of a path that is flanked by a dense forest, equally foreboding as it is inviting. Will the girls obey their mother's explicit command of staying on the path? Or will they stray and meet their doom? Do they really have a choice?"

Survival Mode Coming to Zeno Clash
ACE Team said that a new survival game mode will include a friends ranking system in the upcoming punk fantasy action/fighting game for the PC, Zeno Clash. Set to hit Steam and Direct2Drive this spring, the survival mode will feature the Unlockable tower Challenge, a new ranking system and ascending tower levels (Soul Calibur IV anyone?). Currently in beta, Zeno Clash will cost gamers $20, however the developers have not secured a "physical" publisher just yet.

Call of Duty: World at War Weekend Madness!
Activision fired over a little brief saying that gamers who play Call of Duty: World at World online will accrue twice their normal XP in all playlists. The Double-XP weekend starts tomorrow morning, and ends Monday morning PST. I seriously need to play this game, but I'm stuck on The Quest.

more to come...