News Roundup: The Dark Brotherhood Fallout

• AtomicGamer mirrored updated Mac and Linux demos for Penumbra: Black Plague v1.0.1 Mac, Linux -- and v1.0.3 Mac, Linux.
• New game updates from JoWood Productions:  The Golden Horde patch #1, Fate of Hellas patch #2; and Seven Kingdoms: Conquest v1.04 patch.
• For a comprehensive flight simulator, demo X-Plane 9.00.
• And turn-based armchair generals can demo Commander: Europe at War v1.06.
  
• Penguins Mania gets a playable demo, and NOMBZ: Night of a Million Billion Zombies! gets an updated one.

• Strategy Informer talks nuclear winter with Fallout 3's Vice Prez of PR and Marketing Pete Hines.
• Fantasy Wars might remind you of Battle Chess.
• Time to brush up on your swearing for Football Manager 2008.
• WarCry talk to City of Heroes Lead Designer Matt Miller and Senior Designer Floyd Grubb.
• Legit Reviews peers at the newest member of WD's 10,000 RPM SATA hard drive series:  Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB SATA Hard Drive.
• Killer Betties settles down with a review for Mythic Mahjong on the PC.
• With only a month to go until release, AtomicGamer previews Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.  Which is, sadly, something I cannot do myself.  Sniff.
• At 2.53GHz and $133.00, Techgage covers the "New Budget Superstar?" Intel Core 2 Duo E7200.

• VIDEOS -- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky DirectX 10 Features; Iron Man Behind the Scenes #3; Team Fortress 2 Meet the Scout; WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 Clinton vs. Obama; Speed Racer Trailer #2; Unreal Tournament 3 Xbox 360; Wheelman Gamer's Day and Making of Video.

• SCREENS -- Fallout 3; Alone in the Dark; The Incredible Hulk; They; This is Vegas; Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood; Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 2: The Phantom Fortress; TNA iMPACT!; Unreal Tournament 3; The Wheelman; Moon; Hellboy; 1942: Joint Strike.