Orion: Prelude has made a splash at EuroGamer 2010 and has released some music and video footage of a technology demonstration. The developers of the previously announced commercial release have also revealed their plans for adding a new cooperative game mode to Orion: Prelude.

"We are happy to announce an extremely exciting game mode for 'ORION: Prelude' - Cooperative mode. While we can't talk TOO many details about this new mode yet - you can rest assured that you will get to play a variety of missions with your buddies and take on hordes of Dinosaurs and waves of Aliens.

- 4 player support.

- 5 Missions at launch -structured maps at launch.

- All of the core features of 'ORION: Prelude' will be utilized - including the items and abilities, vehicles and anything else you could possibly use in the competitive game modes."

A music track composed by Marcus Zuhr exclusively for EuroGamer has also been released.

Be sure to drop by the Spiral Game Studios forums and let them know what you think of their tech release!

Empires has released a new version of their mod adding new features, graphics, weaks and bug fixes. You can download the patch to the new version for client at the Empires website.

Below is a list of fixes and changes as they appeared at the Empires homepage:

Empires 2.27 Changes

Added:
+ Lua chat hooks.
+ Lua traces and player messages.
+ Commander can promote any member of squad to leader.

Removed:
+ Research initialization.

Modified:
+ Lowered latency effect on semiautomatic weapons.
+ Changed Ranged Cannon cycle time to 1.5 s from 2.0 s.

Fixed:
+ Scout not being hidden on minimap.
+ Team with no barracks was bleeding past last ticket end losing.
+ Spawn protection enabled outside of barracks. Minimum time set to 1 s.
+ Wages showing being visible to enemy.
+ emp_canyon and emp_crossroads.
+ slua_file not working on dedicated servers.

Team Fortress has been updated with the Man-Conomy update bringing a horde of new features to the multiplayer platform. What is a Man-Conomy you ask? It refers to a brand new player trading mechanic that has been added allowing players to purchase items for the game by using the Mann Co. store while playing the game! Players can also trade and customize items.

Here's a change log list of the heaps of new features included in this update:

- Added the Mann-conomy.
- Added 65 new items (hats, weapons, tools, minigames, gifts, crates).
- Added the Mann Co. Store & Catalog.
- Added Trading.
- Added Item customization.
- Additional TF2 features
- Added new auto-team-scramble system:
- Set mp_scrambleteams_auto to 1 (default) to automatically scramble the teams if the criteria is met
- Set mp_scrambleteams_auto_windifference to set the number of round wins a team must lead by in order to trigger an auto scramble (default is 2)
- Updated how Spy disguise targets are selected to more randomly distribute the selections
- Fixed the FreezePanel background not using the correct color if you were killed by a player or building on your own team
- Server browser tweaks
- It will now encourage you to add servers to Favorites or Blacklists after you have a good/bad experience on them.
- The Server Browser now automatically closes after successfully connecting to a server (opt-out via the Options-Multiplayer->Advanced dialog)
- Achievement tuning
- Demoman achievement "The Stickening" changed to 3 from 5.
- Heavy achievement "Krazy Ivan" changed to 50 from 100.
- Medic achievement "Consultation" changed to 3 from 5.
- Medic achievement "Peer Review" changed to 10 from 50.
- Medic achievement "Placebo Effect" changed to 2 from from 5.
- Medic achievement "FYI I am A Medic" changed to 1 from 5.
- Medic achievement "Family Practice" changed to 5 from 10.
- Soldier achievement "Geneva Contravention" changed to 3 from 5.
- Scout achievement "Strike Zone" now counts assists.
- Scout achievements "Fall Classic" and "Foul Territory" are fixed.

Underhell mod is under development for Source offering a completely new experience with totally custom content and was recently updated with a brand new prologue trailer and screenshots.

"Underhell will be a kind of community project, taking with permission many models and textures, mixing them with the core of the smod, adding new maps and new features and content to give a new experience to the player. The story remains hidden for now, but will be revealed later, the mod is ACTIVE, all codding is done, and modeling too, only animating and mapping missing, so if anyone interested, post in the English forums. The back Idea of the mod is mixing The Grudge, The Ring, Fear with Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Identity, and many other great games and movies, horror and sci-fi games and movies that we all love, mix them and add many things, you obtain Underhell, a Sci-Fi Horror First Person Shooter."

The mod also features custom voice acting as well as custom textures, models, characters and storyline. So keep an eye out because this one will definitely be worth downloading.

The Outbreak: Condemned mod team has been hard at work to bring you their frightening mod presentation and have now released a new media update and demo release announcement! The Outbreak: Condemned ModDB profile was recently updated with some tasty screenshots and announcement of an immenent mod demo.

"We were very surprised at how much our fans liked this old demo, but now get ready to see a completely new and evolved mod. Work on the new Demo is coming along great, me and the team decided we wanted to share with you an up to date version of the mod, with a brand new level familiar to fans of the old classic series."

So keep an eager eye out for the new Outbreak: Condemned mod demo release as it is sure to be out in the very near future!

Marco Spitoni of Cee-Gee.net has endeavored in the making of a short fan movie based on the Half-Life universe. The project is titled I'm the Freeman and it looks extremely promising!

Check out the trailer and then be sure to stop by the wwwCEEGEEnet Youtube Channel to make it known what a great job he has done!

Dystopia 1.3 has been released to the public! Dystopia is a total conversion of the Source Engine, continuously under development by Team Dystopia, which places the player into tense combat situations in a high-tech world spanned by computer networks.

"After 1 year, 7 months, 9 days and some amount of hours -- we have released our latest version of Dystopia to the public, 1.30. This new version brings Dystopia to an upgraded engine, which has allowed us to fix numerous bugs, add in many new visual effects, take advantage of new communication protocols among other things. We have also updated a lot of our existing content and given the public a new map, Fusion."

Downloads are available through the Dystopia Steam page as well as automatically through the Steam platform itself if you already have Dystopia installed.

E.Y.E has been under development by Streum On Studio for many, many months and the dev team has recently updated their ModDB profile with an entire gallery of never before seen screenshots.

"And the Techno-Prophet said to the crowd: "Screens thou shalt watch."; and all watched."

So by all means, feast thine eyes.

Be sure to check back as we will be eagerly awaiting any announcement of a release date for E.Y.E.