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Tekken 6 Update Coming To Combat Online Lag

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | Namco Bandai has promised that an update to Tekken 6 is en route, one designed to “improve the online game experience”, a common complaint among reviews of the new fighter. More »
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Wolfenstein PC Patch Fixes In-Game Breaking, Lets Players Finish Game

9:40AM Michael McWhertor | The PC version of id and Raven Software’s Wolfenstein has graduated to version 1.11, fixing a small batch of errors that have plagued the Windows release and prevented some gamers from finishing the game at all. More »
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Patch Lets Left 4 Dead Out Of The Closet

2:40PM Owen Good | Steam put out a patch this evening solving a problem in the PC version of Left 4 Dead’s Crash Course campaign, whereby rescue closet doors would not open to let survivors out in Versus mode. More »
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World At War Map Pack 3 Releases Next Week For PC

8:30AM Owen Good | Patch 1.6, which includes Map Pack 3 for PC, deploys next week. This time I am going to get his name right and attribute the news to Josh Olin, the Treyarch Community Manager. More »
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In Case You’ve Patched Call Of Juarez Lately …

7:00AM Owen Good | Ubisoft’s put out word that any patches to Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, made available recently, were “wrongfully released” prior to Ubi’s deadline and are not the final version. That will be available “in the coming days.” More »
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Empire: Total War Getting New Units

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | Empire: Total War developers Creative Assembly have announced that, as part of an upcoming patch, a number of new units will be introduced into the game, free of charge. More »
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Fallout 3 Patch Makes Radroaches Shinier

11:20AM AJ Glasser | The latest patch for the Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3 fixes specular lighting problems, giving the game a significant graphics boost. Don’t feel bad – I had to Google “specular reflection” too. More »
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Blizzard Still Working On Diablo II, Wants Your Input

8:40AM Michael McWhertor | Before Blizzard puts the final touches on Diablo III, which we expect within the next decade or so, it’s patching up Diablo II. And Blizzard wants to know what you want to see addressed. More »
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Grand Theft Auto IV PC Gets All Patched Up

9:20AM Michael McWhertor | Rockstar Games has given owners of the Windows version of Grand Theft Auto IV a new title update, issuing a suite of bug fixes, tweaks, new options and new controller support. More »

Treyarch Explain Why It Takes So Damn Long For A PC Patch To Be Released

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Here’s how it goes: PC game is released, doesn’t work for a bunch of people, people start screaming for a patch. But just what’s required in releasing a patch? Allow Treyarch to explain. More »