Dungeon Runners, the heavily satirical hack-'n-slash free-to-play MMO, has gotten even more chunky and delicious with the release of the third "Chunk". The chunk, which is a major content update (in the same fashion that NCSoft's own City of Heroes does Issues) includes all sorts of improvements and benefits for free members and paying members alike. There's a balancing of the PvP system, added membership benefits, new quests and NPCs (of course), and a variety of quality of life enhancements. Overall, it's a very solid addition to the game, and if you play Dungeon Runners, you'll be delighted with all the new stuff.

Welcome, Herr Doktor. No doubt you have at least sampled the waters of the new TF2 update, resplendent in it's new content. However, you are not concerned over the new Gold Rush map, or the new Payload gametype. No, you are most likely aiming to obtain your überweapons: the Blütsauger, Kritzkrieg, and Übersaw. Unfortunately, you have to complete the many new medic achievements, ranging from the incredibly hard to the very simple. Thankfully for you, Herr Doktor, we have compiled a guide to acquiring those achievements in the easiest way possible. We have already given you the first, second, third and fourth, so here is the fifth. Keep this in mind the next time we proclaim our love for you.

Strategy fans looking for an updated experience in Rome are in luck. On Thursday, Paradox Interactive's Europa Universalis: Rome was patched to version 1.2 via the in-game auto-update system.

Patch 1.2 includes the original Day 1 patch as well as updates to the look and feel of the Roman environment and compatibility fixes on Vista and Intel graphic chip systems.

Europa Universalis: Rome was released on April 15 to mixed reviews and fan reaction. However, it appears some of the issues gamers found with the title are being addressed with automatic patches like the one released Thursday.

Major changes can be found after the jump.

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Welcome, Herr Doktor. No doubt you have at least sampled the waters of the new TF2 update, resplendent in it's new content. However, you are not concerned over the new Gold Rush map, or the new Payload gametype. No, you are most likely aiming to obtain your überweapons: the Blütsauger, Kritzkrieg, and Übersaw. Unfortunately, you have to complete the many new medic achievements, ranging from the incredibly hard to the very simple. Thankfully for you, Herr Doktor, we have compiled a guide to acquiring those achievements in the easiest way possible. We have already given you the first, second, and third part of our guide, so here is the fourth. Keep this in mind the next time we proclaim our love for you.

Ubisoft's decision to remove the DirectX10.1 effects from the PC port of Assassin's Creed has generated a ton of controversy and now the patch has finally gone live. The 1.02 patch is now available to download from us and deals with a number of issues that have cropped up since the release of the game about a month ago. Ubisoft states the patch has "fixed broken post-effects on DirectX 10.1 enabled cards" but that's only kind of true; as we have reported the publisher has removed the DirectX10.1 support entirely.

The full details on the 1.02 patch are after the jump

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Welcome, Herr Doktor. No doubt you have at least sampled the waters of the new TF2 update, resplendent in it's new content. However, you are not concerned over the new Gold Rush map, or the new Payload gametype. No, you are most likely aiming to obtain your überweapons: the Blütsauger, Kritzkrieg, and Übersaw. Unfortunately, you have to complete the many new medic achievements, ranging from the incredibly hard to the very simple. Thankfully for you, Herr Doktor, we have compiled a guide to acquiring those achievements in the easiest way possible. We have already given you the first and second parts of our guide, so here is the third. Keep this in mind the next time we proclaim our love for you.

Team Rainbow is all patched up and ready to fight for your right to gamble, again. Yesterday Ubisoft released a beefy 90Mb patch for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 which addresses numerous bugs, while adding new features to the popular tactical-shooter.

Most notably addressed in the 1.02 patch is putting a stop to the notorious Crashdump generation problem found in the original patch that horded up as much as 1GB of hard drive space during game crashes.

Added to Vegas 2 with 1.02 are speech recognition features as well as KillCam and SwapTeam options for the SADS (Stand Along Dedicated Server). Other bug fixes included in the patch promise to end game crashes while using customizable weapons and minimizing XP losses during server crashes.

The full list of additions and fixes can be found after the jump.

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Many gamers have opted out of upgrading to Microsoft's latest Windows operating system, Vista, due to a myriad of complaints. In spite of supporting DirectX 10 exclusively, gamers were dismayed by the strange drop in performance when switching over to Vista. Gaming performance dropped down about 10 percent when run on Vista environments, as opposed to XP. Now that SP1 is becoming readily available for download, benchmarking is finally possible.

The folks at Extreme Tech tried out Vista SP1 and XP SP3. There are improvements for both platforms, but Vista easily gains the most in this first patch. Whereas before, games on Vista produced lower framerates, they now perform identically to XP games. With driver issues finally being resolved on the maturing Vista product, gamers may finally make the leap to Vista ... provided they aren't waiting for the next Windows OS.

World of Warcraft is a cultural phenomenon like no other. The continued patches from Blizzard, many of which add new content and improve the game overall, have only reaffirmed it each time as the king of MMOs. While the two-digit patches don't come all that often, the three digit patches do arrive with decent regularity, which is where 2.4.2 comes in.

Featuring a host of balancing changes and bugfixes that accompany any patch, 2.4.2 also changes how arena ratings work and changes profession cooldowns. The full patch notes, as always, can be found on Blizzard's site. You can snag the patch through our downloads section. But, of course, you already knew that.

Guitar Hero 3, while not as good as some other entries in the genre, is a solid rhythm-music game with a good song selection. While it may suddenly become impossible around the last set or lag when you perform star power, it still has the necessary Guitar Hero chops to be fun. For those who decided to pick it up on PC, good news! There is a new patch for the game, adding optimization for laptops and a "Front Row" camera to reduce framerate lag. Now all they have to do is make Through The Fire And Flames possible, and the game will officially be for the everyman! You can pick up the patch in our very own downloads section.

Welcome, Herr Doktor. No doubt you have at least sampled the waters of the new TF2 update, resplendent in it's new content. However, you are not concerned over the new Gold Rush map, or the new Payload gametype. No, you are most likely aiming to obtain your überweapons: the Blütsauger, Kritzkrieg, and Übersaw. Unfortunately, you have to complete the many new medic achievements, ranging from the incredibly hard to the very simple. Thankfully for you, Herr Doktor, we have compiled a guide to acquiring those achievements in the easiest way possible. We have already given you the first part of our guide, so here is the second. Keep this in mind the next time we proclaim our love for you.

A few days ago we reported that Microsoft had finally allowed folks to download the final service pack update (SP 3) for the Windows XP operating system. The release was delayed due to SP 3's incompatibilities with the Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System program. Well, according to a News.com story some PC owners with AMD based chips are reporting that installing SP 3 is causing their systems to be put into an endless reboot cycle.

A Microsoft rep states that the reason for this issue is because of " . . . OEMs improperly placing a Windows XP image created for an for Intel-based computer onto machines with non-Intel chipsets." If this unfortunate issue happens to you it looks like your only recourse is to contact Microsoft's support line. Hopefully no more bugs will be found in this final update to Windows XP; the formal support for the operating system is suppose to end in June although some PC makers are finding loopholes to continuing selling XP based PCs.

Welcome, Herr Doktor. No doubt you have at least sampled the waters of the new TF2 update, resplendent in it's new content. However, you are not concerned over the new Gold Rush map, or the new Payload gametype. No, you are most likely aiming to obtain your überweapons: the Blütsauger, Kritzkrieg, and Übersaw. Unfortunately, you have to complete the many new medic achievements, ranging from the incredibly hard to the very simple. Thankfully for you, Herr Doktor, we have compiled a guide to acquiring those achievements in the easiest way possible. Keep this in mind the next time we proclaim our love for you.

A few weeks ago Ubisoft announced that it would release a patch for their PC ports of their highly successful stealth action game Assassin's Creed. However, instead of fixing bugs or adding new features, the patch is to remove the support for DirectX10.1 graphics. According to the initial announcement about the patch the DirectX10.1 support in the game added "a render pass during post-effect which is costly."

While the patch has yet to be released as of this writing, some are accusing Ubisoft of playing hardware politics with this proposed DirectX10.1 removal from the game. Why? Because at the moment the only graphics cards in stores that support DirectX10.1 are cards from AMD's ATI unit (specifically the Radeon HD 3000 hardware). Performance issues with Assassin's Creed were reported on NVIDIA graphics cards. The problem is that Assassin's Creed is part of NVIDIA's "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" marketing program where the company makes deals with game publishers to add their logo and ad support for a number of PC games.

So did NVIDIA ask Ubisoft to remove the DirectX10.1 feature from Assassin's Creed? Officially the answer is, "No." TG Daily contacted both Ubisoft and NVIDIA reps and both denied any sort of external influence, saying that the decision was made by the game's development team. The author feels that the game simply was not finished in terms of proper code and that the programming team put in the DirectX10.1 support without making sure the game would work on normal DirectX10 hardware. It just goes to prove that developing PC games without taking the tons of different hardware combinations can still be tricky.

Update after update after update, it seems. Team Fortress 2, hot on the heels of the last patch, has received yet another patch. This one fixes some major issues, such as problems with two achievements, problems with the Kritzkrieg not behaving properly, and problems with players being unable to use the new medic items. Hopefully this has fixed most of the issues with the new patch, but after recent history, it's almost guaranteed there will be more issues.