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PC Gamers Need to Take Responsibility For Their Community (813 diggs) There’s a theory that well-made games are natural anti-piracy devices —that if a game is “good enough,” people will buy it—or, in turn, if there’s suspicion it won’t be “good enough,” then people will steal it. It seems to me that there’s an issue of responsibility on everyone’s part, and few parties want to step up and take theirs.

Time Warner Cable Responsible for WoW Disconnections (818 diggs) [Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate] Jeff Simmermon, the Digital Communications Director for Time Warner Cable, has responded to the charges that TWC is responsible for the lags and disconnections plaguing East Coast World of Warcraft players. He took a look at the traceroutes posted on Blizzard's user forums and sent the response.

New Starcraft 2 Gameplay Footage!!! (1,295 diggs) See the ZERG in action. Finally! Lots of new Protoss and Zerg footage from the internal beta. Can't wait for this game, especially after seeing how smart the AI is and all the detailed animations.

‘Diablo III’ Rounds Out Trilogy, But Not The End Of ‘Diablo’ (763 diggs) Not much has been revealed about “Diablo III“’s storyline, but lead designer Jay Wilson did tell me that the game will round out the story arc set up by the previous two games. And while “Diablo III” ends the trilogy, fans needn’t worry — it’s not the final curtain.

Team Fortress 2 Heavy Update Coming Tuesday, August 19th (1,478 diggs) The update will include new maps, achievements, game modes, and weapons for the Heavy class.

NVIDIA PhysX Particle Fluid Demo (1,479 diggs) A tech demo based on particle fluids for NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated PhysX technology. This video was recorded on a machine running an NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 graphics card with Forceware 177.83 drivers and PhysX 08.08.01.

Team Fortress 2 Fiesta (767 diggs) A classic TF2 video.

LEAKED: Dead Space Beta Footage (634 diggs) Leaked beta footage of EA's new horror/action game, Dead Space, taken during a recent playtest session.

First footage of Quake Live from [HD Video] (1,026 diggs) The first footage of id software's upcoming Quake Live title from this past week's QuakeCon. This video is a duel match between two top Quake competitors, rapha and ZeRo4, in the $15,000 1v1 Quake Live tournament with expert commentary. Click the 'Watch in High Definition' link on the bottom right of the video for HD.

10 best upcoming PC games in 2008( All on 1 Page) (2,588 diggs) It’s been a while since we previewed what we thought would be the biggest games of 2008, so I thought it would be fun to take an updated look at the best the rest of the year has to offer. Things sure have changed! Obviously, games get delayed, but here are the ten biggest unreleased PC titles that we ’re looking forward to here at VE.

Half-Life 2: Civil Protection: On A Rail (1,316 diggs) By Ross Scott: Episode 4 of the comedy series "Civil Protection" based off the game Half-Life 2. In this episode, Dave goes on a short journey.

We Work for GLaDOS Now [Video] (1,902 diggs) A little song about the turrets in Portal and their old lives.

We Eat Flesh! [Video] (515 diggs) Francis Baconmeister Jr. loves meat, and he owns a meat-only restaurant to prove it. But what will happen when a bunch of hippie elves protest his fine establishment? And what on earth is his secret ingredient?

Mirror's Edge remade in Portal (865 diggs) Chell takes it to EA's upcoming game by thinking with Portals