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Minecraft Snapshot 12w04a

Minecraft 1.2 is looking promising, with a new mob, fire-able explosives, new AI and more!

For a full list of new features, check out the wiki here

Metro: Last Light, E3 Trailer

That's right, MechWarrior returns as a free-to-play online game!

The game will be released in mid 2012, and is running on the CryEngine3. With new Urban environments, and lots of action, this could be the re-boot to the MechWarrior series.

Diablo III's senior developer, Steve Parker, has left Blizzard potentially causing further delays on the release of the highly anticipated game.

There are many speculations as to why he left, most significantly the amount of minor changes being made to the game before it is publicly released.

...still no release date.

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MegaUpload has been shut down by the US goverment, with four of its executives arrested

The site and it's operators have been accused of $175 million in criminal proceeds and could be facing 50+ years in prison for charges of racketeering, copyright infringement, conspiring to commit copyright infringement and money laundering.

This weeks Minecraft snapshot includes a bunch of cool new features including this jungle biome!

List of changes:

Ladders regained their collision box, and vines are climbable when they have a solid block behind them

Added jungle biome (requires a new world) with new tree and leaf types

Updated language files

Dispensers will place mobs instead of releasing the spawner egg

Zombies have new path-finding AI

Wolves have new AI and can be bred (when tame)

Get the snapshot here: Client, Server

The way cool Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet might be a big iPad competitor, and absolutely the best Android Tablet on the market.

PIPA has collapsed!

18 senators have announced their opposition to PIPA after January 18th’s mass protest. SOPA will have a hearing in February, but is also losing support; three of the twelve original supporters have now stepped down. It looks like our voices are being heard, excellent work internet!

I am Alive is an exciting new game being developed by Ubisoft, set in the fictional American city of Haveton during a world-wide cataclysmic event. The point of the game appears to be puzzles, survival, and exploration. It's scheduled to be released in the first quarter of this year.

Skyrim DLC?

Us Skyrim players are all wondering about potential future DLCs, this picture might give us a clue as to what we should expect.

This is an gate to outside Skyrim, with an invisible barrier, will it lead somewhere in the future?

Interstellar Marines is an in-development shooter set in a massive, futuristic, non-linear world. It is being developed by Zero Point Software, an independant development team with real skill and passion for game development.

That's right, Halo 4 is on it's way. Being developed by 343 Industries, the official summary is