Another lawsuit over player likenesses has been filed against EA, this time pitting over 6,000 retired NFL players against the company in a class-action lawsuit regarding content in Madden NFL 09.

According to IGN UK, the lawsuit claims Madden NFL 09 uses statistics and positions of NFL veterans but, in an effort to circumvent paying licensing fees, EA Sports changed uniform numbers and removed names from the players. Read more »

Some say Weekend Confirmed sounds like a morning show and this week it truly is as we recorded early to help Jeff get a head start on his journey down to San Diego for Comic-Con. With Garnett and Brian up early too, the caffeine-fueled show gets started with a flashback as World of Warcraft has gotten its clutches back around one of the guys. There's also a new perspective on DeathSpank, Singularity, and this week's Cannata-ford a New Game by unanimous decision: Alien Swarm. Your feedback on how value figures into your assessment of a game came across loud and clear and it provides the springboard to lead into the Warning. This week it's a look at some of the crew's favorite games growing up and "next-gen" faces a reckoning. June's NPD sales figures lead the news in the Front Page and Brian also has a complete report from EA's summer studio showcase.

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The PC version of Raven Software's time-bending FPS has been updated to version 1.1, bringing along two fixes.

Singularity Version 1.1 Patch Notes
• Texture streaming: some players have experienced a streaming bug that occurred on higher resolutions after playing for extended periods. This has been fixed. Read more »

It's a holiday weekend in the US and Weekend Confirmed celebrates with a massive show that includes the debut appearance of Shane Bettenhausen. He slips right back into form with Garnett, Brian, and Jeff and they launch into Whatcha Been Playin with a quick catch up on Final Fantasy 13 and few other releases from earlier this year before moving on to current games like Singularity, Crackdown 2, and Puzzle Quest 2. The group tackles the PlayStation Network Plus offering and getting the right pace to creating sequels in the Warning, along with some of your responses to last week's show. And has a full Front Page to close things out with everything from the opening of the WoW: Cataclysm beta to what may be up with Lionhead's Milo project, and a quick Starcraft 2 features round-up. Remember to hit the official show story comments to join the conversation.

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As part of the Perils of Summer sale on Steam, a new set of deals has been unleashed for the day. For the next 24 hours of so, gamers can snag some digital game goodness at low, low prices.

Notable standouts include the Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack from Telltale Games for $11.90 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising for $4.50.

For today, your options are: Read more »

Singularity's multiplayer is the focus of a new trailer, detailing the two very different sides in the mutants vs. humans class-based multiplayer of Raven's sci-fi shooter.

"The multiplayer in Singularity is all about territory," says design lead Gustavo Rasche. "On one side you have these mutant creatures that inhabit the island of Katorga-12 and then on the other side you have the soldiers that are sent into exterminate them." Read more »

Not only is the Time Manipulation Device in Raven Software's Singularity a powerful... well, time manipulation device... it also manipulates gravity.

A new Singularity trailer shows how the stylish high-tech, time-twisting glove in Raven's shooter has an 'Impulse' function to shove, phase-shift or just plain 'splode foolish foes.

The "Time Manipulation Device," as the handwear is technically called, will also be used to slow time plus age and revert objects--making it a must-have accessory when exploring a mysterious island that plays host to top-secret Soviet Cold War experiments. Read more »

You know, that fancy "Time Manipulation Device" found in Singularity can do more than just age and revert things. It can also slow them down, as trailer demonstrates:

This new trailer for Singularity, Raven Software's new FPS, shows how the player can use the Time Manipulation Device to age and revert objects, people, and more in-game.

A new trailer for Raven's Singularity shows off some CG action as a secret Russian test facility slingshots between two different time periods.

Our hero manipulates time in two key ways: turning shattered glass into a delicious bottle of vodka and aging an enemy soldier from a healthy combatant to a pile of harmless bones.

For a limited time, purchasers of the Xbox 360 version of Raven's time-bending first person shooter Singularity will receive a mail-in voucher for Radical Entertainment's super-powered open-world action game Prototype.

Singularity will be released on June 29, 2010 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Prototype, meanwhile, was released on those three platforms in June 2009.

[Update - 12:30pm CST] Activision has confirmed to Shacknews that Singularity PC "is still happening" and "is a simultaneous ship" with the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 versions.

[Original] Raven's sporadically postponed time-traveling shooter Singularity has a release date of June 29, publisher Activision has revealed via a new trailer that premiered on GameTrailers. Read more »

On top of confirming plans to release a number of high-profile titles across 2010, mega-publisher Activision Blizzard has also outlined when they should hit.

A new Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising patch has parachuted onto PC to deploy scores of fixes and free DLC, available in a 245MB download over on FileShack.

The patch for Codemasters' shooter bundles the 'Overwatch' downloadable content pack free of charge--which cost $5 when it hit Xbox 360 in December--to add two new multiplayer games, a pair of multiplayer modes and two Fireteam Engagements. Read more »