Aurora Technology, a company based in China, has frozen game accounts of male players who play a female character in its in-house developed MMORPG King of the World. They say only female gamers can play as female characters, and they have to prove their sex with a webcam. Give me a break, some folks just like playing a hot female character in a fantasy game and they don’t have a valid reason for freezing those accounts! What about women who want to play a male character in King of World, do they get banned too?

Aurora Technology to its employees: Stop being a bitch and get a male character, you pussy!Source: Sony PlayStation Portable Slim&Lite PSP

In the first quarter of 2008 AMD will be releasing the new AMD Phenom processor, the very first Triple Core Processor. Crysis will be one of the games that will use the power of the new Triple Core. Don’t worry about the AMD Phenom Quad Core Processor, it’s still coming out this year. (more…)

End this year Medal of Honor: Airborne from Electronic Arts is hitting Microsoft’s Xbox 360, PC and Sony’s PlayStation 3. Today PC gamers are the lucky ones, because today EA has put a demo online with one mission from the game. In MoH: Airborne you play as Boyd Travers from the 82th Airborne division. Download the MoH: Airborne demo for PC here.

Ubisoft has announced that it’s joining the group of publishers working on PC based games for Windows’ Operating System. The first game that will appear under this Games for Windows brand is The Settlers: Rise of an Empire, which is coming out this fall. Train Simulator 2 from Microsoft will be a Games for Windows title as well.

Source: FiringSquad

Creative Assembly has announced that they are working on Empire: Total War for PC. This new PC game in the popular RTS serie will have different improvements, but also a new gameplayfeature. The biggest renovation in the serie is the opportunity to battle in the sea, and the weather will most likely be very important in this battle. After you fought a ship from the sea you’ll have to go onboard to kill the remaining enemies.

NCsoft has announced a Limited Collector’s Edition of Tabula Rasa. End this year the game will be launched and on the same day the collector’s edition will be available as well. The pack contains a making-of DVD and lots of extra in-game stuff. You’ll get secret cards as well, an Allied Free Sentients-field guide, Tabula Rasa dog tags, an AFS challenge coin and a neat poster. The box itself looks hot as well.

Electronic Arts has announced that they will be putting a special edition of Crysis in storeshelves. The game will cost sixty dollar in the US, which is only 10 dollar on the price of the regular edition of the game. For this ten extra bucks you get a book full of art, a DVD with tons of extras and a soundtrack CD. We don’t know if Europeans can expect this limited edition Crysis as well.

Epic Games has announced that it has bought the majority of stocks in People Can Fly, a Polish developer that became a well known name after the PC shooter Painkiller. That same studio helped Epic Games out with the PC version of Gears of War and now the two are working together on a complete new title that will be shown to publishers at the Leipzig Games Convention, but the public will most likely see nothing from this new game.

id Software has dropped a bunch of its classic games on Steam yesterday. Games like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3D are available for download on the digital gamestore. Too bad Quake IV isn’t in the store yet, but maybe they’ll put it up later. If you’re a die-hard id Software freak you can download a pack with multiple titles in it.

Konami has announced that they will have a playable Pro Evolution Soccer 7 demo at the Leipzig Games Convention in August. The PC and Microsoft Xbox 360 versions will be playable, there will probably be no chance to test the Sony PlayStation 3 version out. It will be the first time that the game will be playable for both press and the public.