There's a brief bit of M.U.L.E. News on the Ozark Softscape Legacy Website, which is operated by the children of Danielle Bunten Berry (nee Daniel Paul Bunten), the late designer of the original M.U.L.E. (thanks Troll in the Corner and Mike Martinez). The update indicates a revival of the seminal strategy game may be coming:

We have opened the vault to our dad's extensive gaming portfolio and have been approached about making some of dad's old games relevant in todays gaming world with updated graphics and playability. It looks like M.U.L.E. is going to be the first one out of the gate. We're hoping for a revamped internet version late this summer.

Update: Apparently this was noted some time ago, but not here. Thanks Rhialto.

Star Trek D-A-C - PC and PlayStation Network versions to arrive in November announces a November release date for the Windows and PS3 editions of Star Trek D-A-C, the top-down space shooter that's currently only available on the Xbox 360. Here's a bit from Starfleet Command on this one:

Star Trek: D-A-C allows fans to directly control a variety of ships and pitch battles between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Up to 12 players can compete in thrilling team combat. There are three game play modes: Single player, online multiplayer and online co-op. For each mode, there are four different game types - Team Assault, DeathMatch, Conquest, and the all-new Survival mode, pitting players against increasingly overwhelming waves of enemies in order to set the record for survival time.

A Group Announcement on the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Steam Community Group outlines a change of heart about the topic the leadership of the group has had since visiting Valve Software and having their concerns about the zombie shooter sequel addressed. They describe why they feel better about things after this experience, and among the comments are those who are happy with this turn of events and those who feel the group's reps have sold them out. Thanks Dave.

The Impulse Website announces the roll out of Impulse Phase IV, offering the recently revealed update to Stardock's online service. Word is: "Impulse Phase IV is part of the ongoing series of major feature updates for the growing digital distribution platform. The new client presents a more streamlined experience for managing installed programs, has a much faster, easier to use store, and continues to improve on its unbeatable download speeds to customers." The "Ready to Play" matchmaking feature of the new Impulse is now in beta, and you can sign up for that here.

A new trailer from Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim is now available with another couple of minutes of gameplay from 1C:Ino-Co's RTS sequel due for release next week. The clip is posted for your viewing pleasure on the YouTube.

• Strategy First Complete Pack 2009 on Steam. Save 50% off the package price.
• All Strategy First Games on Steam. Save 50% off each individual title.
  
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• All SEGA games on GamersGate. Save 50% on all games (except preorders).
• Simon the Sorcerer on GOG.com. Save $1.00 this week (discount not reflected on the page).
• Darkest of Days on Steam. Save 10%.
• Zuma'a Revenge pre-purchase on Steam. Save 10%.
• Buy One, Get 50% Off Second PS3 Game Offer on Best Buy. Thanks Shacknews.
• $25 off Nintendo Wii Game Console with Wii Sports.
• Knights of the Old Republic on Direct2Drive. Save 25% this week if you register for The Old Republic community.
• Dawn of Magic 2 Pre-Purchase on Steam. Save 10%. Not in North America.
• Time of Shadows Pre-Purchase on Steam. Save 10%. North America only.
• Nation Red on Steam. Save 25% for the first week of availability and get features exclusive to Steam.
• Pre-purchase Majesty 2 on Steam. Get Majesty Gold Edition for free.
• Majesty 2 Preorder on GamersGate. Save 20%, get Majesty Gold, plus new GG bonuses.
• GOG.com's first anniversary promotion. Buy one, get one free. Ends 9/8.
• Dark Void Gold 4 Jetpack TV Ad. Outlines the preorder bonus.
• Free In-Game Bonus Items for CrimeCraft on Steam.
• Fallen Earth is now on sale at the Fallen Earth Store. Preorder bonus, and a 10% discount on multiple keys.
• Cities XL Limited Edition Pre-Order Special on Impulse. $10.00 off.

• Dragon Age: Origins on GameInfoWire.

• Madden NFL 10 AFL Legacy Pack Announced.
• The Rise And Fall Of The Dreamcast.
• Nigeria demands apology from Sony over PS3 price-cut adverts. No, really.

• iPhone OS 3.1 is official, available today. Thanks Mike Martinez.
• Never mind the iPods, there's a new Palm device. Thanks Ant.

• Meet the Action Figures- Jacob Norad's Team Fortress 2 customs. Baddassery of the first order. Thanks Ant…

Link of the Day: Play Land. Exceptionally professional. Thanks Ant and Digg…

Turbine Launches Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited Free-to-Play MMO announces that Dungeons & Dragons Online: Eberron Unlimited is live, offering the now subscription-free MMORPG. Here's the deal:

• DDO Unlimited’s New Content & Features – DDO Unlimited delivers a new class, increases the level cap to 96 ranks, introduces new adventure packs including a new 12-player raid, and features major combat improvements.
• The Fiercest Combat of any MMO – DDO Unlimited features an extraordinary heart- pounding combat experience that requires players to fully engage in the battle by relying on their wits and reflexes in real time. No more clicking skills and watching the action from the sideline.
• Mind-blowing Visuals – Explore a vast and dangerous online world that features the most advanced graphics in the industry and is stuffed with the legendary monsters, glorious treasures, devious traps, mind-bending puzzles and endless adventures from the world’s best known RPG.
• Full-featured MMO – Experience sophisticated systems found only in the best games including auctions, NPC hirelings, arena death matches (Player versus Player), crafting, and powerful social tools for finding a group, forming a guild or planning an epic raid!
• Easier Than Ever! – DDO Unlimited gets you playing in minutes instead of hours, using new proprietary Turbine technology. Creating a new character is incredibly simple with guides and templates that speed you through the process. Features an all-new new player experience that gives gamers their first taste of excitement quickly while teaching them how to play solo or with a group of fellow adventurers.

Geoff Keighley tweets and LucasArts re-tweets plans to unveil a new game on Gametrailers TV, which airs at 12:30 am on Friday. Word is: "LucasArts will announce a brand-new original game on this week's GTTV - with first footage. More details soon. (watch it)."

Develop has word that Gaikai is entering beta testing in Europe later this month according to an open letter from Dave Perry, one of the folks behind this cloud-based gaming service. Perry says stress-testing their servers and seeing how Gaikai runs on older computers are the two goals of initial testing. Word is US testing will follow the tests in Europe, and those interested in participating can sign up on the Gaikai website.

1C Company announces NecroVisioN: Lost Company, a prequel to The Farm 51's first-person shooter NecroVisioN to be released in the first quarter of next year. The game is set earlier in World War I when the supernatural elements of NecroVisioN are first uncovered:

MOSCOW - September 9, 2009 - Leading Eastern and Central European publisher, 1C Company, announced today the development of NecroVisioN: Lost Company - the prequel to the old-school, horror FPS. The game covers the events that happened before the original NecroVisioN. story began

The new game contains several unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements, as well as a new main hero that tells the original game story from an opposing perspective. Players can now take on the role of one of the WWI German soldiers that discovers the evil forces unleashed by the war, and starts to fight against them. Eventually they lead soldiers from all the nations gathered on the front through massive battles against zombies and demons. Finally players become the first Necromancer that will fight against Simon Bukner in NecroVisioN.

Key features:

    • 10 new levels in the single player campaign
    • 15 new characters
    • 6 new weapons
    • Variety of special weapon upgrades
    • New drivable vehicles to use in the fight including the FT17 tank and Halberstadt CL.II airplane
    • Several additional close combat techniques, spells and fatalities in single player
    • New, unique multiplayer mode: Gas Attack
    • 3 new maps and several new skins for multiplayer mode
    • New visual effects like enhanced depth-of-field, soft shadows and new shaders with optimized renderer and data loading system.

NecroVisioN: Lost Company is scheduled for release in Q1 2010.

Gametrailers has a boatload of new clips from Left 4 Dead 2 (and you can fit a lot of clips in a boat). Here goes: Campaign Start Gameplay, Carnival Gates Gameplay, Carnival Gameplay, Escape Gameplay, Axe Melee Gameplay, Bat Melee Gameplay, and Guitar Melee Gameplay.

Massively reports the latest entertaining intrigues to come out of the ruthless gameplay of EVE Online, CCP's sci-fi MMORPG. It seems a player elected to the Council of Stellar Management took advantage of the information about upcoming changes to which members of the council are privy to engage in some insider trading. This involved as much as 5 billion of the game's ISK, and as a result, the player has resigned, and further his accounts have been banned, as this falls outside of the skullduggery the game celebrates, and is a violation of the game's EULA.

• APB on Eurogamer.
• Assassin's Creed II on GameSpy.
• Avatar: The Game on IGN.
• Champions Online on GameSpy.
• Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight on NowGamer.
• Dragon Age: Origins on GameSpot.
• Guild Wars 2 on IGN.
• Left 4 Dead 2 on GameSpy.
• Order of War on 1Up.
• Shank on 1Up.
• Star Trek Online on IGN.

• New Dreamcast Game Coming This October.
• IGN Presents the History of Dreamcast. Thanks Mike Martinez.
• Ten Years On, Peter Moore Reminisces About the Dreamcast.
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey Ships For Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
• FIFA 10 To Feature My Live Season Premium Service.
• Contra Rebirth Now Available for Nintendo WiiWare.
• "The Beatles- Rock Band" Midnight Launch Event.
• The Beatles: Rock Band -All You Need Is Love on Xbox LIVE.
• 250GB PS3 Slim bundle for October.
• Spyn Doctor Games releases "Kuchibi" on Xbox LIVE.
• Meet: Tony Prince from GTAIV: The Ballad of Gay Tony.
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 Iceman and PAX 09 Xbox 360 Screenshots.
• Final Fantasy XIII PlayStation 3 Screenshots.
• Heavy Rain PlayStation 3 Screenshots.
• Xbox 1080 Game Console is Three Times the Fun.

• Microsoft Letting Patents Move To Linux Firms.
• Make the Most of Your DSLR.

• Study Reveals How Much Cellphone Radiation You’re Getting. Thanks Mike Martinez.

• Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck. Thanks Slashdot.
• Military spends $10M to build Web sites aimed at squelching anti-US messages.
• China's new online music rules a headache for search engines.
• 2010 could be the last year for IPv4 as we know it.
• Second Life median concurrency declines as bots-campers progressively purged.
• Comcast Simplifies DNS Redirection Opt Out. Thanks Ant.
• Enhance Your Gmail Inbox Using Labs Features.

• Microsoft sued over XP's "spyware" copy protection. Thanks Slashdot.
• Watchdogs urge judge to reject Google Book Search settlement.

• Windows 7 Reintroduces Remote BSoD.
• Microsoft, Cisco Issue Patches for TCP DoS Flaw. Thanks Slashdot.
• Services' E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to Prosecute. Thanks Slashdot.
• Antivirus Suites Block DSEO.

• AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! on Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
• Champions Online on YouGamers.
• Darkest of Days on Ars Technica.
• Mad Skills Motocross on Out of Eight.
• Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station on AtomicGamer.
• Out of the Park Baseball 10 on IGN.
• Section 8 on IGN.
• Wolfenstein on Sphinx's Sanitarium.

• ABS Canyon 595 Case on Bjorn3D.com.
• AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7 on PureOC.
• Chieftec BL-01B Bravo L-Type Case with VESA Monitor Mount on Big Bruin.
• Choiix Accu-Mouse on MEGATech Reviews.
• Cooler Master CM Storm Sniper Gaming Case on InsideHW and OverclockersHQ.com.
• Cooler Master Hyper N620 Case on Overclockers Club.
• Corsair Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case on Hardware Canucks.
• Eagle Arion ET-AR302-BK 2.0 Soundstage Speakers on Verdis Reviews.
• Intel Core i7 870 & Core i5 750 CPUs on TrustedReviews.
• GIGABYTE i5 P55-UD5 Motherboard on YouTube. (Motherboards.org.)
• GIGABYTE 9800 Silent Cell Graphics Card on X-bit labs.
• HTC Touch Pro2 Cell Phone (Sprint) on TechReviewSource.com.
• Intel Core i7-870 CPU on Benchmark Reviews.
• Intel Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 CPUs on Legit Reviews and X-bit labs.
• Intel Core i7 870, Core i5 750 CPUs and Lynnfield P55 Express Chipset on YouTube. (Motherboards.org.)
• iOne Gemini P29MT 2.4GHz Wireless Presenter Kit on ThinkComputers.org.
• Lian-Li PC-Q07 Case on APH Networks.
• Logitech Harmony 700 Universal Remote on I4U News.
• Logitech Pure-Fi Dream Digital Media Player on OCIA.net.
• Ozone Ground Level S Mousepad on Testseek Labs.
• Plextor PX-B320SA 8X Blu-ray Disc Combo on CCE Reviews.
• Sapphire Radeon HD4650 AGP Graphics Card on Rage3D.com.
• Sony VAIO AW Series Laptop on Digital Trends.
• SteelSeries 9HD Gaming Pad on PCShopTalk Forum.
• Thermaltake DH-202 HTPC Case on TechwareLabs.
• ViewSonic VPC100 Desktop PC on Digital Trends.

• Has 'beta' lost its meaning? Yes. What do I win? Thanks Ant…
• Extended play for 'Videotopia' game exhibit at Strong Museum. NY museum acquires a 114 game collection…

Today is the day for the release of the Beatles: Rock Band and the remastered albums. I'll pick up the game, that's a no-brainer, but I wonder if the albums will be a temptation too. We have most of the Beatles catalog on disc already, and were never struck by any audio shortcomings, but it will be interesting hearing the remastered versions. I'm sort of fascinated by the authenticity of the mono versions, but am probably not enough of a purist to go that route. Today is also the tenth anniversary of the launch of the Sega Dreamcast in North America... this is one of the few such anniversaries that seems short compared with my recollection: the Dreamcast was discontinued so long ago it seems like it must have launched two decades ago, rather than one.

Remastered Links:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez.
Play:	Naruto Ultimate Battle. Ragdoll Cannon: Level Pack The Wizards Notebook.
Links:	Hitler's Hidden City.
Science:	NASA's future manned spaceflight forecast: Bleak. "No bucks, no Buck Rogers." NASA strategy proposal aims for Mars over Moon. Thanks loonybomber. Severed Gecko Tails Have a Mind of Their Own. Which sell insurance.
Auction:	Xbox 360 -The Beatles: Rock Band: Limited Console.
Media:	Helen Keller Director's Cut. Kids In The Hall - Daves I Know.
Follow-ups:	Dumb Dogs. Equal time from last night. Thanks Hoop. Pawing at the cursor. Equaller time.
The Funnies:	Dilbert.