Fans of Battlestations: Midway are in for a treat, as Eidos has released a mission pack to extend the life of your game. The mission pack contains a new single player and multiplayer map as well as a handful of new units to help you turn the tide of battle.


For those of you with the Steam version of the game, the mission pack will be downloaded within your steam client. If you have a retail copy of the game, head over to the Eidos Interactive download page. Note: You'll have to have downloaded the 1.1 patch to be able to use the mission pack.

Rand Miller and the devs from Cyan Worlds have announced that a new updating structure will debut in Myst Online: Uru Live later this week.

Instead of random updates, Cyan Worlds plans to introduce games updates in an "episodic" format. The idea is that all game updates for that month will be released within a single week in an effort for players to plan their schedules around the updates. The updates will include new content such as "new Ages, pages, clothing, character interaction, story revelations, artifacts and intrigue."

The debut episode will be called Scars, due to launch on May 19th, and will include the brand new Age of Minkata. To celebrate the arrival of the new chapter of the Myst saga, creator Rand Miller and a smattering of Cyan Worlds employees will take part in an in-game event. During this meet-and-greet session they will be interacting with other players, as well as taking part in a Q&A session, on May 24th at 9:00pm EST (US time) at "A Beginner's Bevin".

Gamers Reports has picked up on a story from foreign magazine Magaza Pelaaja which reveals the title of the next game in the long-running Splinter Cell series will be Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Sam Fisher once again joins up with the Third Echelon group in an attempt to help out an old friend in danger. This time around Sam has thrown the old nightvision goggles away, with the Magaza Pelaaja cover story stating that the game is taking a Metal Gear Solid approach as a vast amount of the title will take place in the daylight hours. The cover story also offers some tantalising snippets on the game's intriguing backstory:


While it has only been announced for the Xbox360, it's a fairly safe bet that Sam's next adventure will see daylight on a PC near you.

Blue's News is reporting that Eidos has set a hard release date for Lara Croft's 10th anniversary title -- the aptly named Tomb Raider: Anniversary -- for both European and US territories.

Euro fans (which usually includes us Aussies) will be able to get their hands on everyone's favourite pixelated dame from the 25th of May. US gamers will have to wait a little bit longer, with Lara's release coming on June 5th.


For more on Lara's forthcoming release, be sure to check out the updated Tomb Raider website.

Telltale games will conclude the first season of the episodic experiment that is Sam & Max with the sixth instalment, Bright Side of the Moon.

Bright Side of the Moon will unveil the mastermind behind the chaos of the previous episodes with a final showdown on the moon where Sam & Max will try to save the people of Earth from being forced into a life of hypnotic enslavement.


The Sam & Max finale is scheduled to hit the internet on May 10th. Check out the stack of screenshots and the game trailer on the Telltale Games website.