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.

Futuremark Games Studio revealed their plans for a second downloadable content pack for their PC exclusive multiplayer first-person shooter, Shattered Horizon. Titled “Firepower”, the new downloadable content pack will add new weapons and grenades encouraging different styles of game play, providing the opportunity for new team strategies. The new downloadable expansion pack will be free for all players who own the game, just like the Moonrise map pack released in February.

Producer at Futuremark Games Studio, Jaakko Haapasalo, explained that since the launch of Shattered Horizon, they have shown their thanks to players who have supported them by releasing free downloadable content.

Ubisoft announced the Public Beta Test for their one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game developed by Eugen Systems, R.U.S.E. The game is now supported and available for download through Valve’s Steam platform.

R.U.S.E. allows the player to use their brains as the ultimate weapon to fight in a war where the ability to deceive and mislead the enemy awards success.

Players will have the opportunity to play with six unique factions in the public beta, and train themselves against the artificial intelligence before entering the multiplayer mode.

Dutch game development studio and publisher Two Tribes announced that the Nintendo Wii and iPhone hit Toki Tori will be released for PC on the 29th of January.

After the success of the award winning Puzzle Platformer Toki Tori on the Wii and iPhone/iPod Touch, Two Tribes is very happy to announce that the game will be released publicly for PC through Valve’s Steam service.

Creative Director at Two Tribes Collin van Ginkel said that Toki Tori has been adapted to meet the demands of the modern PC gamers. He also stated that the controls, graphics and audio of the game have been upgraded to take advantage of today’s PC hardware.

Half-Life 2: Episode One is a science fiction first person shooter sequel to Half-Life.

It is the first installment of Valve’s episodic trilogy series.

Published by Electronic Arts, the retail version of the game was released in June 2006, and also online via steam.

Half-Life 2: Episode one is developed by Valve Corporation and is powered by their Source Engine technology.

Half-Life: Blue Shift is developed by Gearbox Software and it’s an expansion pack for Valve’s science fiction first-person shooter video game – Half-Life. Published by Sierra Entertainment, the game was released on the 12th of June, 2001 and was the second expansion pack released for Half-Life.

Half-Life: Blue Shift uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine. The game was first announced in the Q2 of 2000 to be released as a Dreamcast port of the original version, but was later canceled, and the final product was brought to the PC.

Half-Life: Opposing Force is developed by Gearbox Software as an expansion pack for Valve Software’s science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. Published by Sierra Studio, the game was released on the 1th of November 1999 and was the first expansion pack ever to be released for Half-Life.

Opposing Force was first announced in April 1999. Gearbox Software was selected to develop this expansion pack in order for Valve to concentrate on their other projects. Half-Life: Opposing Force uses Valve’s GoldSrc engine, which is a heavily modified Quake engine.

Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the predecessor to the successful Half-Life 2. Published by Sierra Studios, the game was first released in November 1998 for PC and in November 2001 for the Playstation 2 ported by Gearbox Software. Half-Life uses a heavily modified Quake Engine version, which was named “GoldSrc” or “Goldsource”, and was able to render in two application programming interfaces, which are Direct3D and OpenGL. The successor of the GoldSrc engine is the Source engine ran by Half-Life 2. Half-Life won over fifty “Game of the Year” awards since its release, and sold over twenty million copies.

Half-Life 2 is a science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation and it’s the sequel to the successful Half-Life. The game was released in November 2004 after five years of development, but it could’ve been released one year earlier. It was delayed because of a leak into the internet of the game’s source code.

Half-Life 2 is available for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems and was ported to the Xbox, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in the Orange Box Compilation Package. The game won over forty “Game of the Year” awards for the year 2004.