That's right, kiddies. Less than a month to go before you too can find out how badly Crysis will destroy your rig. C'mooooooooon AM2+ boards...

"The demo will consist of the entire first level in Crysis’ single player campaign, 'Contact,' giving gamers first-hand chance to experience the open-ended level design and a chance to put their PC hardware to the test."

Bioshock's officially activated on Steam. If you pre-loaded the game, you can now play it, no wait required. If you haven't checked it out yet, definitely hit up the demo. Also don't forget to use the beta nVidia drivers or the AMD/ATi hotfix.

I played through the demo on my rig using the latest official nVidia drivers (162.18). I used a combination of high settings at 1600X900 & got 30-60fps. I'm doubting that the beta drivers will improve my performance all that much, but I don't really intend to buy the game anytime soon; even though the demo was pretty kick-ass.

Looks like PC gamers will finally be able to own match up against their console adversaries in cross-platform play on UT3 thanks to GameSpy. All five hundred of those PS3 owners, anyway.

"The partnership will span both the PC and PlayStation 3 platforms within Unreal Engine 3, enabling PlayStation 3 and PC online functionality. This feature, along with communication tools and competition applications, will also be available to Unreal Engine 3 licensees."