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Its December and the new Warhawk Booster Pack - Operation: Omega Dawn should be out.

The features of the Booster Pack will redefine team tactics and introduce some new strategic elements.

The Pack will include six map configurations where warhawks can fly through in the night through the isolated factory world.

Players will be able to board the KT-424 Combat Dropship - it can transport up to seven troopers and a ground vehicle at one time, allowing for large scale invasions on enemy territories.

The Pack is available for download exclusively on the Playstation Store.

Key Features are:

• Invade Enemy Territories with the PMC-Dropship – Utilizing the tactical and physical capabilities of the new KT-424 Combat Dropship, players can swarm into enemy territories with a vengeance and dominate alongside their clan. Both an aircraft and a ground vehicle, the Dropship is the ultimate destructive weapon for massive assaults. Lined with powerful turrets for transported soldiers, the Dropship can carry up to seven troops and ground vehicles at one time.
• Dominate Opponents on a Brand New Battleground – Enter at your own risk into the new, night-time battlefield for Warhawk, Omega Factory. The largest map to date, the new environment leads troopers into an eerily dark factory world that includes six battlefield layouts and supports all of your favorite game modes from the original game.
• More Vertical Gameplay – Players’ fighting skills will be put to the ultimate test as the new map features more vertical gameplay, allowing for intense aerial combat via warhawks and the Dropship. The new map features environments that can only be accessed by airborne deployment such as raised platforms and rooftops of enormous war factories.
• Bonus Layouts for the Dropship – Experience total domination with bonus layouts that integrate the new KT-424 Combat Dropship into the 5 largest layouts from the core game for added replay value.

The cost for the pack is $7.99

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I think this is Volkan Kilic and Duy May from Germany who placed 1st and 2nd for Bomb N Dash

The GNGWC (Games and Game World Championships) grand finals were held on Dec. 4, 2007 in Seoul with more than 5,000 attendees.

The GNGWC started in Europe in August, then America, South East Asia, Japan, and Korea.

The Official Games for the GNGWC event were:

• Silkroad online
• Shot online
• Navy Field
• Record of Lunia War
• Bomb N Dash

For Record of Lunia War, Jin Sun-Woo from Korea won 1st Place.
In the War Rock match, the US team won 1st place, Poland 2nd.

For Shot online the Korean players won 1st to 3rd places.

Lee Sang-Kook from Korea won over Taiwan and Japan players. “I took the aggressive position as I usually do”, he said, “I did my best and I made myself believe that I would win”, he added.

Korea, Japan, and the US joined the grand finals with “ND” clan from Korea and “OS2″ clan from Japan taking 1st place due to technical issues that couldn’t progress the final match.

The GNGWC is ran by KIPA (Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency) to promote Korean online games to the global gamers.

In a joint partnership between PopCap and WorldWinner, the two companies have entered into an agreement where WorldWinner will become the exclusive provider of cash competitions on PopCap.

Games such as Bejeweled 2, Zuma, and Bookworm, as well as 25 other popular games will be offered on a special “Cash” tab on PopCap.

PopCap users will now be able to compete for cash with other WorldWinner partner sites such as AOL Games, GSN, MSN Games, and Pogo.

Check out PopCap.

For those that might not know what Aion: The Tower of Eternity is, be prepared to be drooling.

This is the latest trailer from the G-star 2007 gaming exhibition in Korea.

Another Aion trailer from G-Star.

The Korean software company, NCsoft, known for their top notch MMORPG games is bringing one of the most anticipated games to the masses real soon.

The closed beta testing in the states will begin early 2008 and will be released later in the year.

The new and mysterious Spiritmaster is a wonderful addition to the game. The Spiritmaster’s ability to summon and control elemental spirits of Earth, Wind, Fire, & Water is very powerful and necessary to win battles against your foes.

The Earth spirits are strong in defense abilities.

The Fire spirit in ranged attacks.

The Water spirit for healing.

The Wind spirits for melee attacks.

You cannot control different elemental spirits at the same time.

For those that have read all the way to the bottom, here’s a treat, dancing Aion characters.

Alienware and Intel are teaming up to bring an online game called Hyperblast to the netizens.

Hyperblast is a futuristic race track well players race against AI (artificial intelligence) drones. You can avoid the drones or kill them with weapons and weapons upgrade throughout the racecourses.

The courses become harder but the upgrades in the course are based on getting Intel tech upgrades in the game.

The game is reminiscent of the old 80s line based race games. The good thing about playing this game is that you have a chance to win Hyperblast t-shirts or if you finish the final track, you’ll be eligible to enter the grand prize draw to win a fully loaded Alienware Area-51 m9750 extreme gaming notebook with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor!

The bad part is that its only open to residents of European Union member states, Norway and Switzerland. The choice for a US Hyperblast page is listed in the game site but I am not sure why the US is not part of the contest.

The game prize will be held on Feb. 29, 2008.

To play: Hyperblast Game

For full terms and conditions: Rules 

All you pizza eating, grease loving, game players may now be in heaven.

In a news release today, Domino’s and Microsoft will be giving away 10 Xbox 360 consoles and Project Gotham Racing 4.

Between Dec. 1 - Dec. 12, participants can enter by going to Domino’s website.

The “XII Days of Xbox” contest will receive,  a 48-hour trial of Xbox Live Gold, and will instanly receive Xbox prizes.

Contest rules:

• No purchase necessary
• Must be at least 13 years of age
• Enter between Dec 1 - Dec 12

Enter at Dominos.

For those that are members of the online games portal site alaplaya, Christmas might be coming early.

The gamin portal is celebrating because they now have over 100,000 gamers signed-up since its launch three months ago.

The site will be giving away over £8,000 in cash giveaways. Registered users can win £350 a day through the online advent calender. The contest runs till the day before Christmas. Those registered users who do not win the daily big prize will still walk away with some smaller prizes and it promises to leave no-one empty handed when they log off.

The portals main games - Audition (a dance battle), Fantasy Tennis, and Come on Baby ( a racing game with the characters being babies.)

Audition is a popular online game created by Nexon of Korea. You might recognize the company if you’ve ever played Maple Story.

The manga/manhwa style graphics in the portal are suitable for all ages as well as fun and addicting in its playfulness.

Naruto fans, stop eating that bowl of Ramen and get to your Xbox Live, now.

Ubisoft announced the free download of the Japanese Voices for the Xbox 360 game, Naruto: Rise of a Ninja.

The downloadable voices include:

• Junko Takeuchi - Uzumaki Naruto
• Kazuhiko Inoue - Hatake Kakashi
• Chie Nakamura - Haruno Sakura
• Noriaki Sugiyama - Uchiha Sasuke
• Kujira - Orochimaru
• Akira Ishida - Sabaku no Gaara

To download the voices:

1. Sign-in into Xbox Live (Silver account required)
2. Start the game
3. In the main menu - go to ‘Xbox Live Marketplace’
4. Download Japanese voices package from the Marketplace
5. Go to options - Play Japanese voices - select ‘yes’

While Maple Story is free to play online, you can purchase additional features in the game.

A cool upgrade is the “My Boyfriend” and “My Girlfriend” feature which will have a special pointer that floats above your (online) significant other, letting everyone know who your beau is.

What about a Mushroom House Elf, a helper, that will mind your online store in MapleStory’s Free market area, even if you’re offline!

If you’ve been neglecting your pet and the pet has expired from your world, the new “Water of Life” option will bring back your pet to life for another 90 days.

A new map has been added to include an Asian world to the vast online world that is Maple Story. The new map features cherry blossom trees and misty mountains with new monsters and new quests to finish.

Maple Story players in Europe can play in 5 different languages - English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch.