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A brand new horror adventure title; Night Watcher (temporary name) based on the novel by Oleg Divov.
Info: 
The journalist Andrei Luzgin arrives in the town of Posolsk to find his missing friend. On arrival, he observed that something strange was happening in the city: people were disappearing without a trace. Corpses with terrible injuries were [...]

Everyone (well, most people) fancy Ray-traced games. Ray tracing will be the ultimate photo real leap for video games, unfourtunately, real-time ray tracing is not possible even with today’s hardware. According to Intel, we may see ray traced games in next 2-3 years. Interesting stuff.
PCGH: Are there game developers that already want to work with [...]

Valve’s Steam client has received a brand new update:
Steam Client

Fixed not correctly pausing any current downloads when launching a game
Improved cache mounting checks. This should decrease the startup time when launching Garry’s Mod
Fixed startup to only request info about apps once
Fixed rare cache corruption caused by defragging
Fixed vgui crash when hitting pageup/pagedown in a sectioned [...]

Discovery!, the new seek-and-find adventure game show from MumboJumbo is now available on Steam.
Hunt for the more than 1,000 hidden objects as you play across five different game modes and four fun mini-games.

Save 10% off the regular price of $9.99 when you buy before August 5th.

Ever fancy sending your DNA in space? NCsoft is offering Tabula Rasa players a chance to send their digitized DNA in space via a time capsule No, seriously.
Press Release:
Could you be the saviour of humankind? NCsoft®, the world’s leading publisher and developer of online computer games, has announced it will launch the “Immortality Drive” [...]

Valve’s team based shooter has recieved a brand new update and would you know it, the update nerfed the game. Pyro’s bonus HP gained by backburner weapon has been removed.
Team Fortress 2

Fixed team switches on Attack/Defense maps spamming the console
Fixed the Kritzkrieg not working on servers with crits turned off
Fixed some clipped localized strings in [...]

Activision canceled the publishing of Ghostbusters, but the game is still alive and looking for a publisher:
The company will not publish other titles that previously were part of the Vivendi Games portfolio and we are currently reviewing our options regarding these titles.

Spore is yet to be released, but that doesn’t mean EA won’t do each and every possible thing to milk it for all it’s worth. There are already talks of paid DLC as EA’s CEO John Riccitiello revealed in a conference:
I would love to imagine that two years from now or a year from now [...]

Continuing with the delays, Ubisoft has also pushed back the release date of their flight sim; H.A.W.X.
The game will now be zooming away sometime in early 2009.

In a conference call, EA announced the delays of Tiberium and Battlefield: Heroes. Tiberium is now scheduled for 2009-2010 release while Battlefield: Heroes will be debuting later this year.