Well looks like the a single level Demo of Serious Sam 2 has been released....
Luckly VoodooExtreme has plenty of Mirrors on thier Article. Which saves me the time and effort of making links to them.
You can also download the demo on FileRush: serious_sam_ii_pc_demo.exe
Paul Marino of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences produced, directed, and edited a music video to the song "So Cold" by "Breaking Benjamin" using the Source engine and Half-Life 2 content. It's definitely a must-see. I'm certainly impressed.
Download @ FileRush: I'm Still Seeing Breen
Read the full article here: Microsoft going the way of Steam
Wouldn't it be great if you could have a private network of computers among your friends or coworkers no matter where the PCs were, or how they were connected to the Internet? You can! Hamachi is a small application that provides exactly that. After installing their client, you're able to create "Virtual LANs" (not to be confused with 802.1q VLANs) between them. Think of it as a virtual ethernet switch connected to everyone you give permission to connect.
MG'ers, contact me for connection information to the MG LAN. 
I want to thank Doughboy for finding this one.
In another fleeting attempt to save their subscriber base, SOE launched a Publish 21 of their doomed game, Star Wars Galaxies. Details of the patch are in the full article.
If you're a player of Blizzard's World of Warcraft, you'll find this pretty interesting. There's an Open Source application on SourceForge called WoWMapView. It reads the map files from your WoW folder and lets you explore them in 3d space. It has no T&L capabilities, but it's pretty interesting to roam around. I especially enjoyed the Developer Island.
http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net/
Blizzard released the 1.5.0 patch to World of Warcraft, and their web site is showing the pain. Fortunately, the good folks at FileRush have already mirrored the patch: WoW-1.4.2.4375-to-1.5.0-enUS-patch.exe (52.3mb)
Clearing out the "Fog of War" and all of those other cheats don't sit well with the guys and gals at Blizzard. With tremendous help from the Warcraft III community, their anti-cheat taskforce was able to monitor and close exactly 53,928 Warcraft III accounts. Of those accounts, 8,168 users saw their CD keys banned for one month and 3,331 other users will now have to go buy a brand new copy of Warcraft III if they wish to compete online in the future.
The accounts that were closed were done so after careful monitoring. Blizzard has said that the accounts closed were done so after they were carefully monitored and all false reports were trashed without taking any action.
Well looks like Battlefield 2 is now Gold and the official release date is June 21.
See previous article for a nice teaser movie.
There's a new Battlefield 2 video floating around on FileRush. This video is very cinematic in nature, but shows real in-game action as well. Battlefield 2 is scheduled to be released sometime this summer (so the rumor mill says).
FileRush: bf2_op_high.zip
