If you have been living in a cave you may have missed that Diablo 3 has been announced and blizzard has a small teaser website with 5 minutes of footage and artwork and hours worth of speculation all across the forums.  There really haven't been any major updates since the website went public. 

Execs at blizzard are saying the reason they are bringing back the barbarian is because they felt he could be done better.  They felt he wasn't done well enough in the previous games to take him out.  Blizzard has no plans however to bring back anymore of the previous cast members. 

One such member that will not be making a comeback is the necromancer.  Blizzard felt that they had done him correctly and he was near flawless in his design.  The witch doctor bears some of the similarities of the necromancer but many people argue that they feel it would be too watered down from the original necromancer to be of any use.  Only time will tell.

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Do you have an Nvidia card in your system.  Well chances are you have a defective card.  What kinds of odds.  Do you have an Nvidia 8400, or 8600 series card?  Sources have leaked information that all, yes every single Nvidia 84 or 86 series card may be defective.  That is a huge model lineup of possibly bad cards.  So all of you 8800, 9 series and mobile cards are lucky.  Well you guessed wrong too.  More research is citing that the faulty parts that were in the 8x series are also in pretty much every other Nvidia card up to the 9800. 

The faulty part basically deals with how the card cools down the card.  So the cards are actually melting due to faulty temperature management. Repair companies are seeing a huge influx of display problems with computers with any of the Nvidia cards.  The parts are based of the G84, G86, G92, G94 series type cards.  Nvidia has denied absolutely all wrongdoing.  They have only admitted to the bad mobile chip sets that were supposedly only given to HP as OEM parts.  This has also proven to be false as many other manufacturers are seeing more and more problems and in some cases have to exchange laptops at their own expense because Nvidia will no provide enough support.

A recent study however aims to prove otherwise. "Despite rumors of impending doom, PC and MAC games were being worked on by a whopping 70 percent of developers polled, with console games at 43%, 28% working on web-based games, and only 16% taking on handheld projects."

If you would like to dive into the market further you can always go to Game Dev Research's Website You do have to pay a small fee to access the full report.

This is definitely good news for PC gamers who can expect many more Call of Duty games (most likely Call of Duty 13, hunt for new content)

Source: Kotaku

Update time is rolling around again, and on the podium is the Heavy! It's all unveiled on Tuesday, August the 19th with a huge box of stuff to mess around with. We all expected the weapons, but for a new game mode to be released with this update and five maps from that new game mode (count 'em, FIVE!) it might just become a new trend for new game modes with the rest of the classes that come out. Another addition to the barrel of fun: a 'special' edition 'Meet the -' series with a supposed 'Meet the Team' video for our (overflowing) enjoyment. The entire update will be released piece by piece every day until Tuesday (today's update was the unique CP map cp_steel, where capturing a control point modifies the layout of the map, opening and closing routes for each team.

Keep an eye out on the Heavy Update Official Page each day for more info.