Lucky owners of left for dead that own it on the PC will be treated to a patch for the zombie holocaust survival fest next week, courtesy of Valve. Unfortunately no word on a patch / update for the 360 version yet.

"For the patching, the real key is to patch more often and not wait for everything to accumulate," Faliszek posted. "Because of a perfect storm of events, this patch got larger than we would have liked and that really snowballed the time it is taking.

"The problem on the PC side was a few large bugs affected other systems that we were going to rewrite on the pc so we ended up waiting to fix a whole class of bugs instead of just individual bugs. The patch should be out this week.

"Sadly Microsoft has nothing to do with the PC patch... that delay is all us," he added. "The PC and 360 will be patched independently not sure where people picked up that exploit/bug fixing was tied together. Only the DLC will be simultaneous."

Sacred 2: Fallen Angel is set to see its latest update, including a beta version of the Sacred 2 network, as well as some Christmas spirit.

The big part of the update, which is 620mb in size, is the Sacred 2 network - an online community allowing players to communicate, and have ladders and high scores. You will be able to win ranks online, compare character and guild information or just use the network to chat and make friends to play with.

The update also brings 20 new enemies to fight, new weapons and armour, a new snow region and a new holiday quest line that rewards you with a festive set of armour.

The last remnant has been confirmed by Square-Enix to hit the PC shelves in Spring 2009. Said to be shipping with content not in the original Xbox 360 launch, guesses are that it will include the recently made available DLC. No official release date on a PS3 release, so you guys will have to keep your fingers crossed it'll be soon!

It's now been confirmed that Atari has picked up the publishing rights to Gas Powered Game's latest, Demigod. With an original release date of late 2008, it's been pushed back in April to a Feb 2009 launch.

Rockstar is planning to ship GTA4 with SecuROM, a piracy prevention product, to stop the game being illegally copied. Piracy is a big issue with PC games nowadays, but security has come a long way.

"We invest a considerable amount of time and effort to release each title, and employ a large number of people in the process. Having copy protection allows us to protect the integrity or our titles and future investments." Rockstar told IGN. "But at the same time we have worked very hard to ensure that our solutions do not persecute the legitimate players of our games."

Owners of the game will need an internet connection to register the game, and will need to keep the disc in the drive to be able to play the game. "GTA IV PC also requires a number of software installations, including Games For Windows, Adobe Flash, Internet Explorer, SecuROM and our Rockstar Games Social Club application."

Steam are at it once more. Not long after offering a Steam Collectors pack of their own games, now THQ is joining in and offering their pack.

You'll find 12 awesome titles in this pack; Company of Heroes, CoH: Opposing Fronts, Frontlines: Fuel of War, Full Spectrum Warrior, Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers, Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights, S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl, Titan Quest, Titan Quest - Immortal Throne, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War, Dawn of War Gold Edition and Dawn of War Soulstorm.

Looks like a good mix of games, and all for only $99, saving you a whopping $120 on retail pricing. Tis the season to be merry.

Activision has given budding creators a chance to create their own levels in Call of Duty: World at War PC version. With a fairly large 1.1gig download, and some extensive installing, this new tool will give you the ability to create some awesome maps to play with your friends. This file is currently available at Fileshack, and will be cropping up in other places on the internet as the day goes on.

According to a recent study of the gaming market, the PC gaming slice is the largest. Worth over $20 billion, it is said it will rise to $34 billion by 2012. It's also been recorded that since 2005, there has been more gaming PCs shipped than Wiis, 360s and PS3s combined. The tests were conducted by the research group JPR.

A patch for the PC version of Spore, Microsoft's creature creator has become available for download. This patch offers fixes for a few known problems, as well as giving a reward for those dedicated to the game. The reward in question is 24 new limbs to customise your little critters with.

The patch fixed these problems;
- Fix for esc key not bringing up Options in Galaxy Game Entry
- Fix for creator backgrounds appearing on small sporepedia cards
- Update to help keep achievements on the server in sync with achievements in the game

Valve are offering you a great new deal. Previously the Orange Box was one of the best value deals on games for money. Now, they bring you the 'Valve COMPLETE Pack'. Featuring 22 games, including the highly anticipated Left4Dead, there's a great selection on offer, all for only $99.

Valve says the total of all these games would come to around $235, which is about two and a half times more than they're charging for the bundle deal.

The full list of games can be found at Steampowered.

Football Manager 2009 has proved very problematic for PC gamers recently. Sega has acknowledged the fact that there are problems with authorising the game to be able to play it. They have stated that the chances of activating your game are increasing as each hour passes. Sega are putting this down to high demand on their servers.

"Sega are aware that there have been some problems with the activation of Football Manager 2009 today," it said in a statement. "This has been due to a combination of issues relating to the printing of key codes and the huge demand for the game.

"A solution is in place and is starting to clear the problem, we are confident that the issue will be solved today. The chances of successful authentication are increasing hourly. At this point consumers still experiencing difficulties are advised to leave a 10 minute gap between authentication attempts."

Steam announced that it's highly anticipated upcoming release Left4Dead made gold. For those who pre-ordered the game via Steam, they were given the demo early, as well as being able to pre-load the game allowing them to play at 12.01am on the 18th of November, as soon as it's available.

Blizzard is taking a page out of Microsoft's books that only just the other day banned a large amount of console modifiers. Blizzard is taking up the task to clean up their games by banning 350,000 StarCraft and Diablo 2 players who are using third party hacks.

The bans however are not permanent. After 30 days they will be able to create a new account. If those accounts play unfairly again then the ban will become permanent. "As part of our continued effort to ensure a fair and fun online experience for all Battle.net players, we have expanded our efforts to remove cheaters from StarCraft and Diablo II."