Hello from Anaheim! The first of the Diablo III panels for the day, the class panel, just let out. There's a lot of juicy details to report, including on the newest class, the Wizard. So let's get to it.

We are always wary of so-called "value priced" games. Unless they are pre-packaged versions of older games we love, the term "value priced" usually means "crappy". Hopefully the new Activision published game Secret Service will be an exception. The first person shooter will be priced at just $19.99 for the PC version.

The game depicts a fictional attack on Washington DC as your Secret Service character must fight to protect the US government and its leaders. The press release does state the game does not have the approval or input from the real US Secret Service. No development team is named but our press release does state it has "story and level design contributions" from former Naughty Dog team member Daniel Arey. The game will be released sometime later in 2008.

[via email press release]

Ruthless gangs as diverse as the ones found in Saints Row 2 all have their squabbles, but at least they can all come together to face a foe greater than themselves: the city police.

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It's been a busy week for the stock market, most of it bad. Thankfully the folks at Valve know that everyone appreciates a sale and this weekend's game on sale via Steam is the original Peggle title from Popcap. The casual arcade game is normally $9.99 but you can grab it for just $4.99 this weekend. The sequel, Peggle Nights, will be released on Steam on Oct. 15

That's not all that's gone on at Steam, however. The download service just added a number of older Ubisoft games to its line-up, including both expansion packs for Heroes of Might and Magic V, The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition, The Sum of All Fears and Brain Spa. All of these games are 10 percent off their normal prices on Steam until Oct. 17. You can also pre-order Far Cry 2 via Steam and get $5 off its normal price until its release on Oct. 22.

You want more? How about that World of Goo, the award winning indepdent puzzle/construction game from the two man dev team called 2D Boy, will make its worldwide debut via Steam Oct. 13? Pre-orders for the game are being taken for $19.99 and the Steam version will contain achievements via Steamworks. Finally, pre-orders are being taken for Egosoft's X3: Terran Conflict, the space trading-combat game. The release has now been confirmed for Oct. 17.

Blizzard revealed a new player class for Diablo III during Blizzcon today but it had even bigger news for its upcoming sci-fi RTS sequel Starcraft II. Our sister site Joystiq reports from Blizzcon that the game will actually be released as three separate titles. Whaaaaaaa? Yep, that's how we feel.

Apparently, Starcraft II's three playable races (Terran, Zerg, and Protoss) will have their own separate stand alone retail game release. There's no word on which will be released first and how long people will have to wait in between game releases. And no, there's no word on a release date.

As promised earlier this week, the folks at Tilted Mill did not waste any time in releasing the first free content expansion for their fantasy RPG-village building sim Hinterland. The full game was released only last week but this new content update is now available via Valve's Steam client.

As we previously reported, the new content update adds wo new characters (the Archer and the Dwarf Warrior) along with new features like creature specific item drops, a new character info screen, auto-equipping, acquiring resources through economic means and more. In addition, the update adds French, German and Spanish language support for the game along with numerous balance changes and bug fixes.

These StarCraft II gameplay trailers were shown at Blizzcon 2008. the first video features the Zerg against Terrans, while the second has the Protoss taking their turn beating down Terran Marines.

Download HD StarCraft II Blizzcon 2008 Gameplay Trailer #1 (77 MB)
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It looks like the launch of Warhammer Online has been Electronic Arts' biggest success in the MOM genre to date. The fantasy MOM developed by Mythic Entertainment has now registered 750,000 players in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories (Australia and New Zealand) since launching last month, according to a press release issued today.

Of course, having high initial player participation doesn't mean you will be keeping all of those players and we are approaching the time when the 30 day free period included in the game's box is going to run out for those players. We will soon see if the churn rate is acceptable to Mythic and EA but for right now having three-quarters of a million players online is certainly an achievement.

It was revealed at Blizzcon 2008 that the Wizard class will be making a return in Diablo 3. These videos show first looks at how the class will play in the upcoming, highly anticipated, action RPG. The gameplay trailers are a little show plenty of action and powerful spells.

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Download HD Diablo 3 Wizard Gameplay Trailer #1 (41 MB)
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Remember earlier this week when it was revealed that Ubisoft didn't want to release a day-and-date PC version of Tom Clancy's EndWar because they were afraid of piracy and its effects on the console versions? Well as it turned out the just-gone-gold code of Bethesda Softworks' Fallout 3 has indeed shown up on some pirate web sites and BitTorrent locations..except it's not the PC version but the Xbox 360 port (it's more than likely that the leak came from someone who got the code from one of the game's replicating plants).

Our sister site Joystiq got a "no comment" from Bethesda Softworks on the subject but apparently the publisher has been active in sending out cease-and-desist orders to any site that hosts the Xbox 360 code. We think that piracy is bad no matter what the platform but it does show the PC game market is not the only one that's affected by such actions. That calls into question Ubisoft's reasoning for holding out on an EndWar PC port. Just sayin....

BlizzCon is well underway but Blizzard hasn't forgotten those that can't attend. The official web site for Diablo III has just been updated with info and new screenshots of the just revealed third player class, The Wizard. The screenshots show only the female form of the class; the male version apparently is being kept under wraps.

The dozen and one screenshots show off the wizard dealing some damage with various powers and are among the best looking shots yet released for the game as the character is shown using several of her various powers. Again, stay tuned as our team will be giving hands-on impressions of the game later this weekend.

Congratulations, soldier: you survived another week. It's Friday afternoon, and instead of going out partying with your friends, you're anxious to get home, sit down at your computer, and play some new games. Sounds fun! Too bad you're broke. Lucky for you, PC gaming has an impressive library of classic games that are available online for cheap. Hang out with us every Friday so we can take you on a guided tour of some of the greatest bargains available throughout the many tubes of the Internet.

Welcome Big Download's Virtual Bargain Bin, the cure for your weekend gaming woes. This week's classics: BioShock and the Grand Theft Auto Collection.

This video demonstrates the use of the Far Cry 2 map building tools. A user creates an entire level with incredible detail. Time is sped up so that an hour's work is shown in under five minutes.

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When it was announced that Bethesda Softworks' next major internal game project would not be a new Elder Scrolls game but a continuation of the Fallout RPG series first created and published by Interplay, many were excited and some were concerned. The small but rabid fan base of the first two games questioned whether the new development team was going to "get it" in terms of Fallout's humor and game style, especially since none of the original Fallout team members was going to work on the new game.

Soon those fans, and everyone else, will know whether or not the long awaited Fallout 3 will live up to its own promise as well as the legacy of the first two games. So far it seems like Fallout 3, while certainly different than the first two games, will carve out its own legacy very nicely. Big Download was able to get Bethesda Softworks PR head Pete Hines on the horn briefly to answer some post-gone gold questions about the game as well as some other topics.

Prince of Persia gets a little mellow at the 2008's Tokyo Game Show. This trailer shows off the gameplay, special abilities and a little combat from the upcoming action game. For those who are curious, the music playing in the background is "Breathe Me" by Sia. The game is scheduled to release this winter on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

Download HD Prince of Persia TGS 2008 Trailer (115 MB)