The developers of the best-selling franchises like Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and Team Fortress, and also leading technologies like the Steam Platform, and the Source Engine, Valve, announced a sequel to one of the most played mods worldwide, Dota 2.

Dota 2 will be released for Windows-Based PCs, and MACs in 2011 as a totally new, retail game. It will feature a unique combination of online real-time strategy and role-playing action that has made the mod popular in the first place, with tens of millions of gamers worldwide, expanding each and every day.

Vuzix Corporation is a leader in video eyewear who has announced today that their highly-anticipated PC Versions of Augmented Reality Wrap 920AR Sunglasses are now shipping to research and industrial orgranizations and also universities.

Vuzix Corporation expects to ship to its retail partners around the world in the first quarter of next year, 2011.

The Augmented Reality Wrap 920AR Sunglasses are the world’s first mixed reality sunglasses that enable the users to witness realistic world environments and computer generated imagery.

Blizzard Entertainment announced the release date of the Cataclysm expansion pack for the popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft.

The Expansion pack will be released on the 7th of December, 2010, on a DVD-ROM available for Windows-Based PCs and MACs. The expansion pack, Cataclysm, will also be offered in the online digital Blizzard Store.

The CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Morhaime, said that Cataclysm includes the best content they have ever created for World of Warcraft, and that with the help of their beta testers, they are putting the final polish on it.

Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising, and SEGA of America, announced today that the new and second downloadable map package for the Aliens vs Predator first-person shooter will be released on the 7th of July, 2010, for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game console, The Sony PlayStation Store for the Sony PlayStation 3 video gaming console, and Valve’s Steam platform for Windows-Based PCs.

The Bughunt Map Pack is the first newly developed downloadable map package that will include four brand new maps and weather types for the game.

The Electronic Arts Studio named DICE, announced today the very first Multiplayer Expansion Pack for the hit military first-person shooter entitled Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Gamers will be able to experience an all-new war environment, Vietnam. They will be able to take the perspective of either a U.S. Marine or North Vietnamese Army Soldier (NVA) on the hostile combat environment of the Vietnamese jungles.

The Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam digital expansion pack will deliver non-stop action in sandbox environment with punishing jungles, powerful air invasions and guerilla tactics of an unpredictable enemy.

One of the leading video game publishers worldwide, Activision Publishing, and Microsoft, announced today that all Call of Duty game add-ons and downloadable content packages will be first released on the Xbox LIVE Online Entertainment Network exclusively, courtesy of the multi-year agreement between the two companies.

The agreement officially began in 2009, and now extends for all downloadable content packages for the mega-blockbuster Call of Duty Franchise throughout the year 2012, which includes Call of Duty: Black Ops.

The special interest media group, Future, confirmed that the June releases of its Official Xbox and PlayStation Magazines in the United Kingdom will reveal the first in-depth previews of the upcoming title Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Future’s Official PlayStation Magazine and Official Xbox Magazine will deliver the first hard facts about the game directly from the studio of the developers in California. Teased from the Call of Duty: Black Ops trailer, gamers will no longer have to look at the rumors on the internet. The Call of Duty: Black Ops first-person shooter is expected to release on the 9th of November, 2010 according to the announcement trailer.

The name of the new upcoming Call of Duty game by Treyarch is “Call of Duty: Black Ops”. Call of Duty: Black Ops is expected to release on 9th of November 2010, as stated on the official site callofduty.com/blackops.

A developer blog post stated that Treyarch are very excited to reveal their latest development, which is Call of Duty: Black Ops, and that more details are going to be unfolded in the future at callofduty.com/blackops.

Activision has stated earlier that Treyarch will be developing a new title in the Call of Duty franchise this year, while Infinity Ward works on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Flying Fish Works officially released abstracts from the developer’s diary on their upcoming game titled “Hellion: Mystery of the Inquisition”. The developers allow us to have a deeper look behind the scenery while they talk about the vision and their motives to create Hellion. The game is in development for the Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and Windows-Based PCs.

„Hellion: Mystery of the Inquisition” – The Vision

Imagine 13th century Europe. The cruel times of religious wars, crusades, great battles, the splendor and supremacy of the Holy Roman Church and the order of the Templar knights… Imagine a world of completely different goals and values, full of blood and darkness… And imagine yourself as an armed man of the newly formed Inquisition whose task is to expel evil from the hearts of men…

2K Games announced that the highly anticipated sequel to the 2007 Game of the Year, Bioshock 2, is now available through the world for the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Windows based systems. Bioshock 2 delivers a single-player and a multi-player game experience that is a highly addictive first-person shooter, following the steps to its predecessor that shipped more than three million copies worldwide.

President of 2K Christoph Hartmann stated that BioShock represented a watershed moment in the gaming industry when it illustrated that games can be viewed as art – both in design and in the rich depth of the narrative.