If you're one of the 5 remaining PC gamers that has never played Team Fortress 2, you can do so for free this weekend on Steam. It's also on sale for just $10, half the normal price. This, along with the fact that they are doing the long awaited class updates for demoman and soldier are likely to have a lot of people playing once more. Go check it out.

As is no surprise for many by now, the PC version of CoD: MW2 has turned out to be a fairly obvious port of the 360 version. IWNet servers are the only servers that people can play on, as dedicated server support was left out. This has led to cheaters and griefers abounds on servers and users with no option other than to simply leave the game, since there are no server admins or bans. In a developer chat, Infinity Ward employees were quoted as stating that the PC version had new features such as "mouse support" and that 100ms pings during their in house testing with people in the same room with one another were "great". Now, I think I can safely say that mouse support isn't new to either PC gaming, or even their own two game franchise and also that 100ms of latency between two people in the same room is not great.

Also, have a look at the popup and you can see that despite not being a game for windows live, MW2 for the PC still contains the 360 code and error screens. I guess it would have been too much work to remove them while they were making the PC port from the console version. All this for the wonderful price of $60 dollars when just about every other PC game ever made has been $50 or less? Do yourself a favor and pass on this one for the computer.

This weekend is an Unreal Tournament 3 free weekend on steam. If you are interested in buying the game, this is a great way to get a feel for it. From now until Sunday, the full game is free to download and play.

Maybe you even just feel the need to let off a little stress from the work week by shooting the heck out of random people (and if so, it's better for everyone to do that in a game).

The new DLC for FEAR 2 has been released, and features additional singleplayer story and multiplayer game modes. The story follows the actions of a combine soldier through the madness that is left in Alma's wake. The DLC is currently on sale on Steam for $9.99, and for those that don't already have FEAR 2, it is on sale for 25% off until September 10th.

You can also check out the launch trailer, right here.

Amidst the flurry of news and announcements at Blizzcon this year, there are also a few things that have made their way to us through other means. As seen in this post, the WoW community manager has confirmed that Blizzard's new MMO that is in the works is indeed not going to be based on any of their existing IPs, and that it is still very early in development.

At the convention itself, they have also gone into a bit of detail as to what features Battlenet will have in the future. Battlenet 2.0 as they are calling it will launch with Starcraft II and support many more features than the standing system. The friends list will, for instance, show what games your friends are in and let you join in with them. It seems they are taking a cue from Xbox Live/PSN/Steam in this department, making it much easier for people to get together and stay in touch, as well as just quickly play games together.

Atari and Cryptic studios announced today that Champions Online has gone gold. This is particularly interesting since the open beta for the very same game begins today as well. While I don't think that anyone was really under the impression that open beta tests right before release were really for anything other than promoting the products, it seems like a very "interesting" time to announce it's gold status.

Of course it's always possible to have big patches on the first day it's open for the retail release, which is currently slated for September 1st.

Iceberg Interactive announced today from Haarlem, The Netherlands that retailers across the UK are now carrying their Horror Co-op FPS title Killing Floor.

The game from Tripwire Interactive includes both single and multiplayer modes, and has a persistent advancement system across various perks. If you're a fan of shooting zombies (as very well you probably should be) you can find out more about the game at the official site.