Today, the time has come for another confession - although I talked about Pirate Bay with my friends a lot, and I've been hearing about them for over a decade, I never used it to get illegal content. I never used it to get legal content, either, but every time I stumble into some news about them, I check it out. Just look at the Pirate Bay Bus, isn't it a beauty?

This week, the guys from Pirate Bay managed to win another legal battle, although the war is still far from over. Hear this - "With Swedish media outlets making the audio stream of the trial available, bilingual webheads have been translating and summarizing the day's action on the Web and—in a remarkable show of commitment to the cause—though hundreds of tweets."
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In an editorial released by The Pirate Bay earlier this week, they wrote "Our communication around the spectacle aims in no way towards an objective report on an external chain of events. Rather, the trial is a hub around which a whole new network of actors is instigated. Neither is the spectacle a question of old media against digital, social medias. Our social medias include a paper fanzine and a 32 year old bus, connecting us and others physically."

To draw the line, the Pirate Bay Bus is still rollin', and prosecutors got nothing yet, simply because in some countries, being a large media conglomerate doesn't give you any rights to hunt down people.

I know some may say Age of Conan is fading, but I am glad to see this game is still struggling to make it out of the dark zone it entered, mainly because various problems that shouldn't have been there after waiting for so long to see it coming out. Today, I just got a very interesting email, saying that Age of Conan update 1.4 is ready!

Since giving you all the details can become pretty boring, here's the short version of the entire mumbo-jumbo related to the Age of Conan update 1.4 details: "Today's update introduces several brand new high level dungeons to the Hyborian world such as ‘Xibaluku’, ‘The Slaugherhouse Cellar’, ‘Cradle of Decay’ and also opening up an additional part to the level 80 raid dungeon ‚Black Ring Citadel’. And there is a series of other significant updates to various game mechanics like raid loot options and GUI updates, PvP resources for tradeskills, tweaking of several raid boss encounters and quests."
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Just as a side note, it's rather strange to see the email arriving today, and the date on the official update page being 18. After all, I got the email straight from Funcom, and not some other third party. Anyway, leaving the 1.4 update, here's another great piece of news: sweepstakes!

What about the sweepstakes? Well, if you're based in the US or Canada, and you're at least 17 years old, you can win a kick-ass computer and some other goodies, as you can see here.

That's it for today's Age of Conan updates, so you may want to check out this game, especially if you missed it so far, because Age of Conan isn't going away without a fight!

First of all, I think we should remember the great man who was Collin McRae for a few moments. If it wasn't for him, I am sure that virtual racers would be really poor in terms of gaming experiences, because the Collin McRae games series is simply great. Now, DIRT 2 is coming to remember us again of a great man, and a great game...

...and all I can say is O-M-F-G!!! Is that screen for real? I guess it is, but if I take a closer look, I think I also see something I don't like in it. You know what's that? It's the "upgrade your one-year old videocard, bastard" feeling! Most of us had it at least a few times, usually before having the time and/or money to actually do it, so I won't get too deep here...
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Compared to the original DIRT game, DIRT 2 is expected to feature more cars, more real-world locations, as well as enhanced graphics, thanks to the updated version of the EGO game engine, previously used in Codemaster's GRID. The improvements won't stop here, since a lot of online features are also headed this way, but I think there's also one improvement we don't want - a better "minimum required system," I can bet on that one!

On the other hand, I still have my share of Burnout Paradise left to enjoy, and since FEAR 2 is headed this way for a review...I guess I'll have my hands full for a while, don't you agree?