D2D is onto the fifth and final week of it's 5 Year Anniversary $5 Game Sale, this time giving several war titles the Lincoln treatment.

Highlights include 90% off Battlestations: Pacific and over 80% off on titles Company of Heroes Gold and Supreme Commander Gold.

Ten games in all fill the war list, with 20 other titles from all genres still being offered at $5 including Bioshock, Mount & Blade and The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena.
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WorthPlaying writes: "In its goal to increase western development efforts aimed for the global markets, Square Enix has signed a strategic partnership with Gas Powered Games and announces development has begun on the next installment in Supreme Commander real-time strategy series."
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TXB reports: Today we have received notice that Aspyr has decided to delay the launch of the Xbox 360 Version of Supreme Commander. The previous launch date was set for the first part of April, but at this time an updated launch date has not yet been announced. All we do know is that together with their partners Gas Powered Games and Hellbent Games, Aspyr still plans to release Supreme Commander later this spring or early summer
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GamersGate press release:
"New York, USA (January 16, 2007) ¿ Leading global download portal GamersGate announced today that it has entered an extensive PC digital distribution partnership with publisher giant THQ Inc.

The initial agreement includes worldwide access, excluding Australia and New Zealand, to Company of Heroes®: Opposing Fronts and Supreme Commander®: Forged Alliance as well as the original titles Company of Heroes® and Supreme Commander.

In addition, several catalog titles like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and Full Spectrum Warrior® will be made available on the platform as well as recently released Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights and upcoming Frontlines: Fuels of War."
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Yahoo has announced their Games of the Year awards, which culminated in their 2007 Overall Game of the Year. Here are the categories, winners and runners-up:

¿ Best Action Adventure Game: Super Mario Galaxy
¿ Runners-Up: Assassin's Creed, The Orange Box

¿ Best Online Multiplayer Game: Halo 3
¿ Runners-Up: Call of Duty 4, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

¿ Best Racing Game: Forza Motorsport 2
¿ Runners-Up: DiRT, Project Gotham Racing 4

¿ Best Sports Game: skate
¿ Runners-Up: FIFA 08, Madden NFL 08

¿ Best Shooter: BioShock
¿ Runners-Up: Call of Duty 4, Halo 3

¿ Best Party Game: Rock Band
¿ Runners-Up: Guitar Hero III, Warioware: Smooth Moves

¿ Best Role-Playing Game: Mass Effect
¿ Runners-Up: The Witcher, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

¿ Best Strategy Game: Supreme Commander
¿ Runners-Up: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, World in Conflict

¿ Best Overall Game: Super Mario Galaxy
¿ Runners-Up: BioShock, Rock Band
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ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users voted for Call of Duty 4, 1279 for Halo 3, 1192 for Assassin's Creed, 837 for "None of the Above", 716 for BioShock, 710 for Crysis, 627 for The Orange Box, and so on. The rest of the results can be viewed in ActionTrip's voting poll section.

¿ People's Choice: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
¿ Runners-up: Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Crysis, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box

¿ Game of the Year (ActionTrip Staff): Portal
¿ Runners-up: Mass Effect, Halo 3, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher

¿ Best Action Game: Halo 3
¿ Runners-up: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, God of War II, BioShock, Crysis

¿ Best Strategy Game: World in Conflict
¿ Runners-up: Supreme Commander, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

¿ Best RPG: Mass Effect
¿ Runners-up: The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

¿ Best Sports Game: FIFA 08
¿ Runners-up: SSX Blur, NHL 08, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

¿ Best MMOG: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
¿ Runners-up: Tabula Rasa, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

¿ Best Rhythm/Music Game: Rock Band
¿ Runners-up: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

¿ Babe of the Year: Joanna Krupa
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The decision is in and the staff of G4 X-Play has named its Game of the Year!
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Philips and Codemasters today announced that amBX patches will be available for Codemasters titles Overlord on November 16th, and Clive Barker's Jericho by the end of the year.

Shorthand for 'ambient experiences', amBX extends the gaming experience by allowing developers to use light, color, sound, rumble and air flow through enabled devices like LED colour-controlled lighting, rumble peripherals and variable speed desktop fans.
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Nov 13, 2007 Epic PC RTS Supreme Commander has been re-confirmed for Xbox 360 - though it's making the trip to console without its original developer and publisher. The Total Annihilation spiritual sequel was developed by Gas Powered Games and published by THQ earlier this year, and received high praise for its stupidly-big battles and no-frills approach to RTS combat. The 360 versions is being published by Aspyr and co-developed by Hellbent games in Vancouver. We hope it's up to the task ... » Read More

Officially confirming previous statements by Chris Taylor of Gas Powered Games, publisher Aspyr Media has announced that PC real-time strategy title Supreme Commander is in the works for Xbox 360. Vancouver-based Hellbent Games, founded in 2006 by former Rockstar Vancouver/Barking Dog Studios designer Christopher Mair, will be handling the port.

Due in early 2008, the Xbox 360 port of the game will feature newly-created units, maps, multiplayer modes, and interface and HUD elements. Xbox Live-based online multiplayer will of course be supported.
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Developer says Xbox 360 is "platform of choice".

The developer behind PC RTS Supreme Commander has confessed that he is working on a console version of the game.

In an interview with Pro-G, Chris Taylor, founder of Gas Powered Games and the man behind Dungeon Siege, classic PC RTS Total Annihilation and its recent spiritual successor Supreme Commander, said that the Xbox 360 would be the most likely console destination for the game because "it's the platform of choice for moving stuff from the PC".

Speaking on the issue of controls with RTS games on consoles, Taylor said: "I use the football analogy. The first RTS game was the kick and then we had to take the ball a few more yards down the field every iteration. We're getting closer and closer to that touchdown. We may be a few more iterations of the UI and interface before we get there."
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Gas Powered Games has moved quickly to follow up Supreme Commander's release in February with Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, which is due this November. Forged Alliance is more expansion rather than full-blown sequel. THQ explains it's a standalone title that's compatible with the original RTS "enabling all-new strategic options." The game follows the story of the original title in the aftermath of the Infinite War, and features a new single-player campaign, a new faction and over 100 ... » Read More

The GPGnet Forums have word that there are no plans to implement DirectX 10 support in Supreme Commander:
"Despite the best efforts of our own team and our partners from Microsoft and Nvidia, the timing simply did not line up. The availability of DX10 hardware, final releases of Vista itself, and the solid drivers simply did not line up with the necessary time frames in our development cycle. Having missed that window, our dev team has focused on graphical improvements that will benefit a far wider audience than the still very small but growing segment of Vista users with DX10 compatible cards. Having missed that window, the resources necessary to integrate the tech do not make sense compared to what can be accomplished for that greateraudience."
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A new patch for Gas Powered Games' RTS introduces the Google Map-style feature that GPG's Chris Taylor revealed was in the pipeline earlier this ... » Read More

Supreme Commander managed to outsell Blizzard's World of WarCraft in its first week. Here are the NPD's top-10 best selling US PC games for February 18 - February 24th.

1) World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi $36
2) Supreme Commander - THQ - $48
3) World Of Warcraft - Vivendi - $20
4) The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts - $37
5) The Sims: Life Stories - Electronic Arts - $35
6) The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - $30
7) Battlefield 2142 - Electronic Arts - $39
8) Deal or No Deal - Global Star Software (Take 2) - $20
9) MS Age Of Empires III - Microsoft $48
10) MS Flight Simulator X Deluxe - Microsoft $67

But the Burning Crusade still managed to take the top spot
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Gas Powered Games has unveiled a Google Maps-style feature for its recently released RTS Supreme Commander that will shortly be released for the game in a patch. FiringSquad.com reports that the developer has built a map of Earth via which players can discover stats on any registered Supreme Commander player. In addition, the map can show the likes of multiplayer matches currently in progress - which it's said you can join in with by clicking on the match location - and the Supreme Commander ... » Read More

A playable demo for Supreme Commander is now online, allowing the chance to take this futuristic real-time strategy game by Gas Powered Games for a spin. This demo allows you to test the Cybran Nation, one of the game's three playable factions in the early stages of the single-player campaign, as well as a skirmish map entitled "Finn's Revenge" in three different difficulty levels.
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Microsoft is hoping to see more titles released simultaneously on the Xbox 360 and Vista platforms, according to Rick Wickham, director for the Windows Gaming business.

Wickham indicated that a number of PC and Xbox 360 titles will launch at the same time this year, although he added that it was essentially a decision left to individual third-party publishers.

The initiative is just one of many designed to marry the two platforms, along with games that are playable across both formats and the adoption of Xbox Live features into PC gaming.

Achievement points, a key aspect of Xbox Live play, are also set to be incorporated into PC games and Windows Vista over the coming year.

Microsoft hopes to entice a majority of game developers to release titles under the Games for Windows branding, building a portfolio of titles. Games on show at the event included Crytek's Crysis, Funcom's Age of Conan, Flagship Studio's Hellgate: London and Gas Powered Games' Supreme Commander.
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Christmas has come early this year. To keep us patiently waiting for Supreme Commander in 2007, Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games have given us a new trailer for their sci-fi strategy game. The clip is a teaser at a modest 45 seconds, but shows how the player is more than just an unseen presence in the midst of battle. Check the Movies tab above, launch the video player, and select "Supreme Commander- trailer ... » Read More

This fresh gameplay footage from Supreme Commander, the spiritual successor to RTS cult hit Total Annihilation, isn't just for show - it's a voiced walkthrough of some of the basic tasks and procedures you'll be undertaking when the game's released for PC next year. Hit the Movies tab above and select "Supreme Commander - tutorial 11-20-06" to watch the educational ... » Read More