Everybody among the e-sports community was wondering whether this would happen again, and now Valve have confirmed it. There’ll be another Dota 2 tournament this year, with another $1 million up for grabs.

Today we’ve got the first real detail on what’ll be happening with this year’s London Games Festival. It will be running between the dates of September 27th and October 28th 2012, and is looking to be the biggest to date as the organisers attempt to beat last year’s attendance of 75,000 visitors across 26 events.

I say strategists, but there’s really several types of games within Paradox Interactive’s arsenal these days. Anyhow, Green Man Gaming announced that former games manager for HMV has joined their ranks, but that’s boring… so here’s a quick post about a sale going on over there.

We recently got the chance to send a few questions over to 2 Dawn Games, who are currently developing Ravaged. We asked them about the game, Steamworks, and their recent decision to turn to Kickstarter for some final funding. Here’s how it went down.

When Dark Souls released on the consoles, many spoke of of a large number of virtual deaths. Now, the PC is getting a Prepare to Die Edition, complete with some new content.
There’ll be an enhanced PVP experience, “allowing players to more closely assemble battles against one another online in an all-out fight to the death that fans have demanded.” As well as being “finely tuned” for the PC.
“Our fans demanded to see this game brought to the PC, and the noise they have made was simply too loud and too …

Virtual bikers of the internet, Black Bean Games have footage for you. New footage, in fact. Today, they’ve released the very first in-game video from SBK Generations. Get on-board Max Biaggi’s motorcycle as he zips around Imola.

Cyanide Studio, known previously for PC delights such as Blood Bowl, are launching their latest title tomorrow, April 5th. Within the new tactical RPG, Confrontation, you’ll “take the lead of a troup of elite Griffin warriors infiltrating enemy territory in order to bring an end to the Scorpion threat.” Which certainly sounds like it could be an exciting task to undertake. And to get you into that world ahead tomorrow’s launch, they’ve released a new trailer.

PAX East is happening this week, and Treny Entertainment will be there to show off their upcoming Aquano DLC for Dungeon Defenders. But, there’s more Penny Arcade related stuff that’ll be actually entering their game this Friday, April 6th, in the way of four character skins from the Penny Arcade comic strips. They’re also going to be exclusive to the PC version of the game.

This week I’m joined by not only my full-time partner in crime, Dan, but also by another PC gaming buddy from all the way over in the US, Tyler. We discuss some news; the FBI using Unreal technology, a few April Fools pranks, a potential and ridiculous Modern Warfare boycott, and a hugely important idea that the British government has had to spy on us all every time we email, text, browse or call somebody.

This week’s episode was recorded a day late. It was also uploaded to the internet a further 4 days later. So, I apologise for that, but the main thing is it’s here now. This week we spoke about Ubisoft’s wise new idea to curb piracy, the hopeful introduction of tax breaks for the UK games industry, and Dan complains about the incompetence of a certain hot, lemon beverage that’s supposed to cure man-flu.