Yes, it is the time to show the others how tough you are in gaming and to do that you could start wearing one of these pin medals to remember us all about the endless epic battles you participated at and the high scores you reached, but hurry up, because this is a limited edition!

Console Wars I medals can be found at the Supermandolini online store from Greece and they come in metal with a cool gold finish, measuring 5cm x 2.5cm and wearing the symbol of the 8-bit Nintendo controller.

The price is about $27.

<-250x250 Square - left->The new free online version of the famous Battlefield video game will be launched by EA Games later this year and will be supported by advertising and micro payments, being a major step of the company into the new ad-driven revenue sources in Western markets.

But besides this aspect, the new type of gaming will surely become friendlier and more accessible, so you can forget from time to time about the complex games full of skilled gamers and requiring high-end PCs on which to play it after finding some free time to go to the store and search to buy it.
Ben Cousins, senior producer at Dice, has a word: “You will be able to play this game on grandma's laptop."

From the free Fifa game version available in South Korea, EA earns over $1 million a month via the in-game sales.
EA expects that the new version of Battlefield to have a larger impact on the masses than the current series sold in 10 million copies worldwide, because it is built to be simpler with more focus on fun than strategy.
For example, players will buy different item to customize their appearance but they won’t be able to get any advantages from buying weapons.

But what about the ads? Will they be annoying? Well, according to Ben Cousins these ads won’t appear during the play, but only on the official website and on the front-end of the game. Sounds cool!

Flagship studios are releasing the first major update for Hellgate: London under the name Stonehenge Chronicles.
It will improve gamers’ skills introducing new monsters, a PvP arena, improvements for the game’s interface, as well as new areas where gamers in multiplayer mode will have to finish different missions.

Stonehenge is a large hub where players will have access to a special portal from Templar Baze and several new gestures.
They will have new demons to face with and new objects to gain.
With The Caste Caves you will open four new and unique dungeons, one for each group of enemies - Beast, Necro, Spectral and Demon, while you will need to search and destroy the powerful overlord that controls each of the dungeons.
To be able to continue this adventure, you will also collect the four monsters’ heads.

Moloch’s Zair area will open only after all the heads are collected and players will have the pleasure to destroy the legendary Moloch from who will gain all the unique objects.
There are three mini-raid areas in The Wild which will pose different and hard to pass obstacles but as you accomplish this you’ll get all the important rewards.

Unfortunately you will need to wait a while until the bugs discovered in the Test Center will be fixed.

OCZ, the company awarded for its advanced hardware components has resented a new product intended to be released for the gaming sector soon, and consisting of an innovative input device that connects the central and peripheral nerve activity to the computer allowing you to control games with the power of your mind.

It is called the Neural Impulse Actuator and looks too futuristic but OCZ really made it capable of decoding neural signals and combine them with each other in order to build unique commands which are based on the brain’s permutation, eye’s and on the facial muscle activity.

It is designed as a band for your head integrating a wire and neural sensor pads, the actuator being capable of separating the electrical activities into three groups of neural and electromyographic signals.
According to OZC, the largest market sector targeted by the company is gaming and it seems that gamers will be able to combine the actuator with their mice to for shooting, running and jumping in First Person Shooter games.

The device is not too expensive and will be available at a starting price of $300.

Now is the time to find out who the finalists for the 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards in the Game of the Year and Innovation sections are.
The General Academy will start voting on January 21 and the winners will be announced on February 7 during the Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony in Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas.

Among the components of the General Academy Board of Directors are industry leaders Sony, EA, Microsoft, Nintendo, Ubisoft and THQ, but also members of the independent development community.
You can see all the nominations on the official website and these are the finalists:

Overall Game of the Year
• Bioshock
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Rock Band
• Super Mario Galaxy
• The Orange Box

Computer Game of the Year
• Bioshock
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Crysis
• The Orange Box
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Console Game of the Year
• Bioshock
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Mass Effect
• Rock Band
• Super Mario Galaxy

Handheld Game of the Year
• Drawn to Life
• Jeanne D'Arc
• Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
• Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
• Assassin's Creed
• Bioshock
• Rock Band
• Super Mario Galaxy
• The Orange Box