The Donner Pass: Southern Pacific add-on pack includes:

• 140+ mile railroad line between Roseville Yard, California and Reno, Nevada including the world-famous Donner Pass.
• 5 diesel locomotives in early 1990s-era Southern Pacific livery:
• SW1500 Diesel Switcher
• GP9 Diesel Locomotive
• SD40-2 Diesel Locomotive
• SD40T-2 Diesel Locomotive ('Tunnel Motor')
• C44-9W Diesel Locomotive

5 Free roam scenarios:

• Colfax Depot
• Truckee Yard
• Sparks Yard
• Donner Pass
• Roseville Yard

6 Standard/Career scenarios:

• Doing it Right: Switching freight cars at Roseville Yard
• Get Involved: Helping a heavy train over Donner Pass
• Together as One: Rescuing a failed train
• Cold Play: Inspection of the line in winter
• Under Pressure: Drive a heavy train over Donner Pass / weather condition 1
• Grade Crossing: Drive a heavy train over Donner Pass / weather condition 2

Serving as the chief designer on Enemy Front is Stuart Black, whose credentials within the FPS genre include the acclaimed video game, Black. Having joined City Interactive earlier this year, Stuart Black brings an extensive understanding and creative approach to the genre heralds one of the most ambitious and gritty WWII action titles of 2012.

Enemy Front is the realistic tale of a hardened soldier dropped behind Nazi lines to engage in dynamic, diversified missions ranging from quick skirmishes, espionage assignments, and sabotage activities. The epic scope of Enemy Front spans several years and key battles as it progresses from the trenches of a desolate France right on through to Berlin and a secret weapons base. Once there, the player must thwart the plans for a terrifying weapon that will all but assure a global Nazis victory.

Enemy Front also features a complex plot that explores the notable historical threads of WWII to include the events that occurred in the Wolf’s Lair and the activities that surrounded the deciphering of the Enigma code.

Jagged Alliance Online Features

• Top-notch 3D graphics based on the Unity 3D engine
• More than 100 missions in all corners of the world
• More than 60 types of mercenaries with individual attributes
• Hundreds of different weapons and countless equipment items
• Expandable player-owned headquarters with many options for upgrading
• New tactical challenges from a variety of mission objectives
• Differentiated AI with a number of opponent types and traits
• Special PvP missions with an honor system for players

Any of you looking forward to this one?

“It is a pleasure to provide Square Enix with an exceptional game engine that will help them bring thrilling new experiences to legions of fans all over the world,” said Taka Kawasaki, territory manager of Epic Games Japan. “Many Western games have achieved great success with the Unreal Engine, and this milestone reflects the Japanese development community’s trust in our technical prowess. We can’t wait to see how Square Enix fuses the power of Unreal Engine 3 with its beautiful characters, enthralling storylines and fantastic gameplay.”

Details about the games using the Unreal Engine under this license agreement will be revealed by Square Enix.

Naturally, the trailer focuses on how pretty and tessellated everything is if you play the game on a fancy new Nvidia card.

While we don't have an Immortal spotlight for you guys to check out, there was some talk about him in a recent developer community update.

Hey! You know how when someone is "seeing things" it's considered a hallucination from a crazy person? Well, I've been seeing things lately. Not just your standard black spots out of the corner of the eye, but big stuff. Falling things, crawling things, totally uncool things. But I don't think they are hallucinations at all. I believe I have just become more in-tune with the world and my surroundings. I believe that there are big falling and crawling things everywhere and that only the chosen ones can see them. That's right bishes, I'm not crazy, I'm just special!

Did you hear that Canada is getting plastic money? Funky.

Here's a trio of "wrong" pics from spongehammer.

HEROES

• Added Alchemist!
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed the location from which Ice Blast fires.
  
• Ancient Apparition: Fixed Level 3 Cold Feet doing 1 too much damage.
  
• Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture damaging invulnerable/cycloned units.
  
• Dragon Knight: Fixed Elder Dragon Form attack properties getting lost when he is purged/repelled.
  
• Huskar: Fixed Burning Spears working against wards.
  
• Jakiro: Fixed Liquid Fire not working correctly against siege units.
  
• Kunkka: Fixed Tidebringer working against wards.
  
• Huskar: Fixed Inner Vitality being cast-able on yourself when Magic Immune.
  
• Necrolyte: Fixed Heartstopper aura being blocked by magic immunity.
  
• Nature's Prophet: Fixed the spawn location of the Treants in Nature's Call.
  
• Omniknight: Fixed the following ability interactions with Repel/Purge: Inner Vitality, Weave, Moonlight Shadow, Overload, Holy Persuasion, Warcry, Shadow Word, Focus Fire, Sukuchi, Berserker's Call, Chilling Touch.
  
• Pudge: Fixed Dismember lasting too long on Roshan.
  
• Pudge: Fixed Meat Hook interrupting allied channel abilities.
  
• Riki: Fixed Backstab on wards
  
• Sand King: Fixed Repel stopping Sandstorm.
  
• Sand King: Fixed a bug with Epicenter doing its Ultimate Scepter number of pulses regardless of level.
  
• Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock hitting invisible units.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos AoE stun not lasting longer with Scepter.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos not destroying trees
  
• Warlock: Fixed Fatal Bonds disabling Blink Dagger/Regen.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Fatal Bonds damage being reduced by resistance.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Rain of Chaos not doing any impact damage.
  
• Warlock: Fixed Golem's Immolation working against Ancients.
  
• Weaver: Fixed Swarm not latching onto magic immune enemies.
  
• Weaver: Fixed Swarm losing their attack ability ability once an enemy becomes magic immune.
  
• Witch Doctor: Fixed Paralyzing Casks stun lasting 5 seconds on Roshan.
  

"With $775 million of sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in its first five days, Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for three consecutive years across all forms of entertainment," said Robert Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard. "Life-to-date retail sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded $6 billion worldwide, which makes Call of Duty one of the most valuable entertainment properties in the world. We expect continued sales momentum, as reviews and audience enthusiasm suggest that this is the best Call of Duty game that we have ever made. Online play for Modern Warfare 3 is at record levels and we continue to see high online play for both Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which ranked as the #2 and #4 top-played Xbox LIVE games for the week of November 7, according to Major Nelson."

According to Microsoft:

• More than 7.0 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 by the end of launch day, November 8, a 19% increase over last year's 5.9 million multiplayer hours logged playing Call of Duty: Black Ops last year's launch day.
• More than 3.3 million unique gamers played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day on November 8 up from 2.6 million unique gamers for Call of Duty: Black Ops.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 set a new record for concurrent players on Xbox LIVE with 3.3 million simultaneous users on November 8.

Graphics

• HIS Radeon HD 6870 IceQ Video Card @ Benchmark Reviews
• Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 Super Overclock Review @ Hardware Canucks
• Sapphire 6970 FleX Battlefield 3 Edition @ PureOverclock

Motherboards

• MSI X79A-GD65 (Intel X79) Motherboard Review
• ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z @ PureOverclock
• ASUS TUF Sabertooth X79 review
• Asus Rampage IV Extreme X79 Motherboard Review @ eTeknix.com
• ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
• ASUS Rampage IV Extreme (Intel X79) Motherboard Review
• ASUS P9X79 Deluxe Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews

Storage

• Mushkin Ventura Pro 32 GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review @ OCC
• QNAP TS-219P II Network Attached Storage Review @ APH
• ADATA Superior SH14 500 GB USB 3.0 @ techPowerUp

Cases

• Cubitek Tattoo Pro Review at Overclockers Online
• Antec Performance One Series P280 Super Mid Tower Chassis Review

CPUs

• Intel’s NEW X79 LGA2011 Socket Platform and Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge-E Processor Reviewed
• Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition CPU @ Benchmark Reviews
• Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition (LGA 2011) CPU Review
• Intel Core i7-3690X Extreme Edition CPU @ Benchmark Reviews

Power Supplies

• Thermaltake Dr. Power II Review @ Neoseeker

Cooling

• Corsair H100 Liquid Cooling @ Rbmods

Memory

• Intel X79 Quad Channel and Z68 Dual Channel Memory Performance Analysis
• Corsair Dominator GTX8 PC3-19200 Quad Channel 8GB Kit Review

A recent Wired interview with director Guillermo del Toro touched on inSane, a videogame that he is working on with THQ and Volition. He also talks a bit about his upcoming giant monster movie Pacific Rim, as well as the many other projects that he's working on. Read on for the bits about inSane and last year's teaser trailer.

Wired.com: Are you still working on inSane, the videogame?

Del Toro: Oh yeah! Up until the end of pre-production on Pacific Rim, we were still going up to Chicago, to Champaign, Illinois, to work with the developer. And every week we have a conference [call] where we exchange ideas about the design, the gameplay, about the models. I’m taking it little by little. I think it’s going to be a fun, scary game. It’s a maiden voyage into the medium for me. I’m learning a lot of stuff.

Wired.com: What are you learning in this process?

Del Toro: I came to videogame development with a lot of humility because I didn’t want to come in with the attitude of, “Oh I know how to make movies, therefore I know how to make videogames,” which is a big mistake. I came in trying to learn a new medium because I think it’s going to be very useful for me as a storyteller.

With a videogame, you don’t have to solve one screenplay, you have to solve 20 screenplays, because you are giving the player the illusion of free will. If the character kills another character or destroys a building, the game goes one way; if the character doesn’t, it goes another. It keeps you very nimble.

I think that’s the biggest, and the most fun, lesson I’ve been getting. We’re being really, really nasty in the game. We’re really trying a lot of stuff that I don’t think would even fly in the movies. It’s still two-and-a-half or three years away, though, because videogame development is so long.

Thanks to Blue's News for bringing this to our attention.

I'd like your opinion on something, you fine folks you. I have been loving Skyrim, enough so that the first weekend alone I played 25 hours of virtual Skyriminian life and got to level 20. I have gone out of my way to avoid cheats, or cheats, or "exploits" but somehow my sneaky archer character still feels like cheats/exploits a bit; I don't even have to fight the majority of the time, I generally just sneak attack from a distance and take 'em down without losing an ounce of hp. I have to admit there are some annoying glitches I've run into. Try this: own a horse, fast travel to Bards Leap Summit. It's OK though because some of the other glitches even it out for me.

So here is what I need your opinion on: I already can't wait for the next Elder Scrolls game. Do I have a sickness?

Also, I can't believe there are already over 100 mods out for Skyrim! You can be sure I'll be keeping a keen eye on what looks good, and probably do a nice mod roundup in the not too distant future. In the meantime here is a handy dandy mod that lets you get a better view of the world, Google maps style. Happy post-Wednesday. I haven't had much time to play Skyrim this week, but soon another 20 levels shall come to pass!