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.

Interplay Entertainment and Beamdog finally announced a sequel to MDK. MDK2 is going to be released on the Nintendo Wii and MDK2 HD on Windows-Based PCs.

CEO of Interplay, Herve Caen, said that it is a great pleasure to announce that they are returning to the adventures of Kurt Hectic, Dr. Hawkins and the six legged gun-toting robotic dog Max. Co-Founder of Beamdog stated that MDK2 was a great title to work on and that they are happy to have some of the original team working on these new versions.

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.

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that the legendary war-based first-person shooter titled Medal of Honor is going to launch on the 15th of October, 2010 throughout Europe.

The shipping date will be announced today through an emotionally charged trailer called “Leave a Message”. The trailer will show a United Stated Army Ranger platoon heading into combat on a helicopter. The chaos and uncertainty of the mission is belied by the reassuring voice of one of the Rangers as he reaches out to his family back home.

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…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Surpasses One Billion USD in Worldwide Retail Sales

The Game Continues to Set Retail Sell Records

Activision Blizzard Inc. announced today that Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues to make retails sales crossing the One Billion USD mark worldwide, since its launch in November.

In the first five days of the game’s launch, it sold an estimated 550 million USD worldwide, surpassing five-day worldwide gross figures for such movies as Avatar, Harry Potter and others, according to the internal Activision estimates and box office mojo.

Flying Fish Works today officially released the first in-game video of their upcoming title “Hellion: Mystery of the Inquisition”. The video presents in-game sword fighting action footage and uncompromised “medieval” gore. Hellion: Mystery of the Inquisition is going to be released on the Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and PCs in the third quarter of 2010.

The producer at Flying Fish Works Maciej Kowalski stated that their intention is to show the world that Hellion is an extraordinary product, which offers a lot of fantastic stunning action and uncompromised game elements, making it a successful First-Person Game.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a modern horror first person shooter developed by Monolith Productions. Published by Vivendi Universal, the game was released in October 2005 for Windows, and was ported for the Sony PlayStation 3 in April 2007 and Xbox 360 in October 2006 by Day 1 Studios. There are two expansion packs for F.E.A.R. released by Timegate Studios, F.E.A.R. – Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate in November 2007. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the direct sequel of the game and was released in February 2009 by Monolith Productions.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) uses a proprietary engine developed by Monolith Productions, which later on formed a separate company named LithTech INC. to deal with the development of the engine.

An all-new Medal of Honor is coming in 2010, and for the first time in the 10 years it’s going to walk away from the World War II scene. Medal of Honor will take place in a war-torn Afghanistan in the modern days.

Electronic Arts Inc. revealed today that they will release an all-new Medal of Honor in the summer of 2010. The game will introduce the Tier One Operator, which is a unseen force controlled by the National Command Authority, who takes on missions no one else can handle. That’s why the development team has been working with some Tier 1 Operators from the U.S. Special Operations Community since the beginning to create a greater modern war experience.

Flying Fish Works are presenting their upcoming first person shooter at Game Connection in Lyon from 8th of December to 10th of December. The visitors will have the opportunity to be involved in the terrifying medieval world.

Hellion: Mystery of Inquistion is being developed for the Xbox360, Sony Playstation 3 and PC, and will be available in Q3 2010.

When the players take their hands on the playable demo, they will be able to escort Godric Of Glastonbury (the hero), on a journey to a Cistercian abbey in the medieval England.

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.