Atari has released 12 brand new screenshots of their upcoming Alone in the Dark survival horror title. Check them out below:

More Alone in the Dark goodness here.

Valve’s Steam sales are doing extremely well as the company announced their digital sales will soon take over retail sales:

Right now we’re seeing close to 200 per cent growth in the alternative ways of connecting with customers.

It will actually pass over in the next three months, how much of our business is coming from retail versus how much is coming from other channels.

Valve also defended PC gaming, it’s kinda long, read it up here.

Amidst all the confusion, Ubisoft has announced their next Splinter Cell title is shaping up nicely and “still on track”. The developer team posted the announcement on the official Ubisoft forums:

 It’s been a while since our last message but we’re happy to say that development of Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction is continuing well and the game is shaping up nicely. The team here is very dedicated and focused to making sure that Conviction turns into an amazing experience of Splinter Cell.

There are lots of rumours flying around right now about Conviction’s development status and we can tell you that the gameplay has evolved, similar to what happens in every game’s development process, and you won’t be disappointed. We take your feedback from these forums very seriously and, although we can’t respond to each and every thing people say, we do take these posts into consideration when making the game.

Unfortunately we’re not able to make Ubidays this year but in the forthcoming months we’ll be back in touch to begin showing you this new installment of the Splinter Cell series.

In the press event earlier, Valve has revealed Pyro will be the next one to get unlocks & achievements in Team Fortress 2. The next Meet-the video will be of Sniper. As always, with Valve, no release date is certain.

EA has released the final version of v1.50 patch for Battlefield 2142. Changelog and download links below:

- Added community maps, Wake Island 2142 and Operation Shingle

- Added the ability to use widescreen resolutions.

- Added No Vehicles mode.

- Added Conquest Assault mode.

- Changed the volume control for the Commander Voice Over on request of the esports community.

- Changes made to pod steering mechanism to improve control while limiting pod surfing.

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At the recent press event, Valve has revealed plans to add lots of new and exciting features to Steam over the upcoming months. One of the most striking features is dubbed Steam Cloud; A feature that lets users access their save games/game generated data from anywhere using Steam.

All of the data will be transferred to Steam’s back-end once users connect to the service.

Steam Cloud will be rolled out first in existing Valve titles Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Counter-Strike will soon support the feature, and the upcoming Left4Dead will ship with it.

More additions include:

• Deathcam Screenshots for Team Fortress 2
• Recorded Demo files

Near future additions:

• Auto-updating
• System Requirements checker
• Community Calender function
• Official game communities
• Localized game pricing
• Shopping Cart
• More payment methods
• and more.

Full Steam ahead, indeed.

Another title annoucement from Ubisoft’s Ubidays 08 press event; Shaun White Snowboarding will be using Ubisoft’s DUNIA Engine (being used in Far Cry 2 and Assassin’s Creed) and land on PC, PS3, Xbox360 and Wii.

Press Release:

Today Ubisoft announces the development of Shaun White Snowboarding, a title destined to break all former action sports video game notions and redefine the action sports genre. The game will appear on the Xbox 360  video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system, Windows-based PC, and the Wii home video game system from Nintendo, and is scheduled for release in Holiday 2008.

Powered by the award-winning Assassin’s Creed engine for Xbox 360 and the PLAYSTATION 3 system, Shaun White Snowboarding truly captures the action sports lifestyle. Shaun White Snowboarding is being developed from the ground up for the Wii system, taking full advantage of the Wii Balance Board™ accessory and featuring its own unique storyline and adventure with Shaun White. Read the rest of this entry »

Valve has released an update for the BETA of Day of Defeat: Source Steamworks edition. Info about the update below:

Day of Defeat: Source Beta

• Fix for client crash in spectator gui
• Fixed third person tracers not drawing properly
• Reverting view position change when sniper zoomed
• Added cvars dod_playrivalrysounds and dod_playachievementsound
• Suicide no longer removes a kill
• Fixed bullet decals being misaligned when iron sighted
• Fixed being able to dominate a teammate if friendlyfire was on
• sv_friction and sv_stopspeed are now accessible again
• Reduced size of impact effects at distance
• Fix for deployed bazooka and mg having full mouse sensitivity
• Fix for iron sight deploy animation sometimes taking longer
• Player avoidance now prevents stationary players from occupying the same space
• Some particle systems updated
• Fixes to the custom map achievement

Grab the update from Steam.

Ubisoft has confirmed Beyond Good & Evil 2 in their Ubidays 08 press event. More details and related media to follow soon!

Virtual Villagers - The Secret City, Chapter 3 of the Virtual Villagers strategy game series is now available for purchase via Steam. For a limited time the latest release from independent game developer and publisher Last Day of Work is being offered for 10% off the regular price of $9.99. In addition, a “Last Day of Work Complete” pack — including all three Virtual Villager game chapters, plus Fish Tycoon and Plant Tycoon — is being offered via Steam for just $29.99.

Virtual Villagers - The Secret City on Steam ($8.99)