The Patrol Zone

A newly released diary reveals Japanese dictator Hideki Tojo wanted to continue fighting despite the destruction wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by two American atomic bombs.

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Publisher Lighthouse Interactive and developer VSTEP have released a new update to their successful simulation hit Ship Simulator 2008. This highly realistic simulator puts players at the helm of some of the World’s most varied and detailed ships found at sea, allowing them to explore accurately recreated environments including the newly added Southampton, Marseille and San Francisco harbours. Ship Simulator is available in 20 countries and 7 languages, selling over 280,000 copies to date. This revolutionary simulator was released across Europe during the summer of 2007 and will hit retail stores across Canada and the U.S. in January 2008. This new update introduces multiplayer capabilities and a mission editor. Both of these features will be included in the North American release for Windows and is Vista compatible.

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Relic Entertainment has issued a Company of Heroes patch which updates the Opposing Fronts expansion pack to version 2.201.

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Shacknews reports that a “…job posting by Activision-owned, California-based Treyarch suggests that the studio responsible for Call of Duty 3 (PS2, PS3, Xbox, X360, Wii) is returning to the still remarkably popular World War II first-person shooter genre for its next project.”

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Can We Put the Testing Back In Beta Testing? Interesting article by Cameron Sorden at Random Battle.