The streets of Goldshire were littered with scantily clad Night Elf, Draenei and Human women. Low level alts dotted the tables of the Lion's Pride Inn watching pixelated naked ladies dance for their pleasure. While I tried to convince myself that the countless wiggling Draenei butts in my face weren't a dream, I heard a very familiar phrase as a level 1 Priest emerged from behind some barrels near the staircase: "Hello, I'm Chris Hansen. I'm going to need you to take a seat."



My brand-new Paladin snuck towards the back of the Lion's Pride Inn (past the naked bodies dancing on every surface in the place) and watched Chris Hansen threaten the residents with Dateline: Azeroth. "I have the chat logs right here", he said to a Hunter attempting to make the moves on a feral Druid, before proceeding to read back some of the socially-questionable exchanges made between the two.

This was a troll of epic proportions. Goldshire on the Moon Guard RP server is famous for its "special" brand of role-play, often involving ridiculous metaphors and WoW characters dancing in underwear--it was only a matter of time until someone tried to clean up the place Chris Hansen-style.

In front of me, a naked Draenei and Night Elf started to dance on the tables asking for tips. One of them was bold enough to ask Chris Hansen if he wanted a dance. Fortunately, Chris was able to resist her feminine charms and got back to business. "Sir...we have some videos we need to show you." Chris had turned his attention to a Rogue who was trying his best to buy a Draenei girl a drink. Unfortunately for the Rogue, Chris had other plans.

Chris' speeches and threats to the residents were drawing a crowd. Was it possible that he could talk some sense into this ERP'ing crowd? If he could redeem even that single Warlock asking the Druid for a night out, his efforts would be worth it--or maybe the naked Gnome streaking through the streets of Elwynn, yelling that he needed a woman.

"Sir, she's 317. That's a child in Draenei years", Chris continued on his mission to save Goldshire from it's debauchery. Unfortunately, the Human responded by emoting /rofl and applauding Chris' attempts. A few Draenei strippers inched closer to the conversation and started to dance on the tables. A Warlock tried to convince Chris to join her upstairs. The Rogue that Chris was chastising didn't take the accusation of chatting up an underage Draenei seriously and continued on.



As I left the Inn to continue exploring the post-Shattering Elwynn Forest, I turned back for just a moment and saw that Goldshire had taken hold of Chris as well. He was stripped down to his boxers dancing on a table next to the Draenei. No one is safe from the clutches of Goldshire--not even Chrishanson the level one Human Priest.

The latest patch for ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead will add vehicles and weapons from Private Military Company, giving players a preview of the new features included in the expansion.

Patch 1.56 will add Private Military Company Lite to Operation Arrowhead. This adds all of the new units, vehicles and weapons from Private Military Company to the game. The models will be of a lower resolution and sound quality than ordinary vehicles and weapons, but will handle just as they will in the expansion, letting players try out the new content before laying down any money for it.

The patch also adds the ARMEX Multiplayer Armory, which dynamically generates multiplayer missions for up to eight players and includes all of the weapons from ARMA 2. The patch also makes a few balance changes and bugfixes.

The Steam version should update automatically. If you don't have the Steam version of the game then you can download the latest patch from the ARMA 2 site. There's plenty more information about Private Military Company right here. The expansion is due out later today and will be priced at £8/$10. The launch trailer is embedded below.

It's time to grab the grog and hoist the mainsail, Pirates of the Burning Sea has gone free-to-play. More details and a trailer for the game are buried below.

This swashbuckling MMO lets you play as a scurvy ridden rogue of the high seas or a member of the national forces tasked with keeping the Buccaneers at bay. There's plenty of sword fighting and naval combat, and an extensive PvP component in which national forces and pirate fleets fight for control of the Ports of the Spanish Main.

The game's free to play, but Premium items will be on sale in the Treasure Aisle item shop, and you'll still be able to pay a subscription to become a member of the Captain's Club, which entitles you to faster experience gains and a discount at the item shop. For more information point your spyglass towards the Pirates of the Burning Sea site or check out the trailer below.

Earlier we reported on the huge patch that hit Battlefield: Bad Company 2 today, saying that it was in preparation for the upcoming map pack and Vietnam expansion. Now DICE have revealed the dates for both releases. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam will be available on December 18th and VIP Map Pack 7 will be out tomorrow. There's a new trailer below showing off some of the locales we'll be getting in the new map pack.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam is available now on the EA store for £9.99/$14.99. Tomorrow's map pack will be completely free.

The great thing about Garry's Mod is that it simply gives you an arena and gives you all the tools needed to build anything you want. Many Garry's Mod players have found that the best part of building something is the bit at the end when you use a nuclear bomb to blast it to smithereens. Read on for a selection of the biggest and best Garry's Mod explosions.

1. Nuking a Desert Highway

2. Death to the Barrel Towers

3. 2000 Crates, One Shockwave

4. Precisely 1701 Cars Totalled

5. The Bigger They Are...

GamersFirst boss Bjorn Book-Larsson has been talking about some of the things we can expect to pay for when APB is relaunched next year as a free-to-play title. He talks about some of the differences between free and premium accounts, and about plans to charge for advanced customisation options.

Writing on the recently launched APB blog, Bjorn outlined the sort of benefits players can expect to receive for upgrading to a premium accountm saying "the perks usually involve things like making larger clans (like in WarRock), creating and controlling clans, or otherwise giving you various unique options and rewards (though they have to be meaningful in order to make sense)."

He goes on to explain GamersFirst's plans for customisation in the game. "For APB we have another great feature (and challenge) that we have to take into account as we design the new Basic vs Premium accounts - the customization system. The customization system can generate incredibly complex objects that at runtime get pushed to all the other players in a session, which means that the more complex the customization, the more stuff has to be pushed to everyone in a particular game.



"Therefore one of the original RTW guys (now contracting with us) Johann, came up with what we think is a really elegant solution to the problem of getting flooded with complex content; instead of limiting what you can customize as a free player, you will be allowed to customize almost anything, but you will not be able to store (and share) complex customizations above a certain complexity level unless you are a Premium player AT THE TIME OF CUSTOMIZATION.

"This has several benefits, first it would limit the amount of content pushed to everyone else in the game from free players (which would reduce the amount of loading required), but it would also let you be Premium for just one month, create a lot of customizations that month, and then use those items later on (even if your Premium membership has lapsed)."

For more on GamersFirst's plans to resurrect APB, check out our own interview with Bjorn Book-Larsson.

The stupidly cute Moonkin Hatchling pets are now available to buy in World of Warcraft. For each one purchased between now and December 31st, half of all the proceeds will go to the Make a Wish foundation.

The goggle eyed bird things can be bought from the World of Warcraft Pet Store for $10/£9, with half of that going to charity. There's a Horde and an Alliance version of the pet, who has a habit of planting flowers around your character and "gladly /dances with any willing partners." A similar scheme last year added the Pandaren Monk to the store, raising $1.1 million dollars for the Make a Wish foundation. Here are a couple of images showing the new pets strutting their stuff.

Battlefield Play4Free is a free to play Battlefield game that uses Battlefield 2's maps and Battlefield: Bad Company 2's weapons and class system. A closed beta for the game kicks off tonight for all those lucky players invited.

If you want to know more about the Battlefield Play4Free, check out our preview, or head over to theBattlefield Play4Free site. If you haven't received an invite yet, don't fret. Minecraft creator Notch might be able to help you out.Notch announced on Twitter earlier that he'd received a bunch of keys from EA. Too many keys, in fact. He's planning on giving some away once the beta goes live. if you fancy grabbing one, keep an eye on Notch's Twitter account and his blog.

The latest update for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will prepare the game for the release of VIP Map Pack 7 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam, due out later this year. Read on for the full details.

The huge 2.6 Gigabyte patch also adds a few basic fixes, listed below. You'll find the full patch notes over at the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 blog.

Acog and Red dot scope now equippable on MK-14 and G3.
Fixed an issue where the Bullet Tracers wouldn't display
Fixed an issue where Play Now wouldn't work
Added Ticket Count for Conquest end of round.
Added the server info to the objectives screen.

The patch suggests that the free Map Pack 7 update could be out very soon. The map pack will bring popular Battlefield: Bad Company maps like Oasis and Harvest Day to Bad Company 2.

The Vietnam expansion is scheduled to arrive later this year and will cost about $15/£10. Check out our Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam preview for a taste of the jungle warfare contained in the new add on.