We've heard numerous rumblings of Microsoft gearing up to finally enter the handheld gaming market full steam, but none of them has panned out yet. We still don't know what Microsoft's exact plans for a portable Xbox are, but Microsoft corporate VP Shane Kim says that it's no longer a matter of "if," but "when" and "how.'"

Speaking to Destructoid about Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, producer Craig Derrick from LucasArts explained the motivation behind updating the game. He goes on about the main reasons for the decision, but citing digital distribution as an important factor in making the Special Edition possible, the producer adds that digital distribution itself increases interest in retro gaming.

A day after Bethesda launched their various Game of the Year and Deluxe packages of Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as digital copies via Steam, then came the announcement that Bethesda Softworks and 2K Games are teaming up together to provide bundles for BioShock AND The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Usually, when a good title is announced to have a sequel, fans take it as good news. That's not the case apparently for Left 4 Dead's (Xbox 360, PC) community base. Over at Steam's Community Groups, some 15,000 members (and counting) are calling for a boycott of Left 4 Dead 2, and with a lot of reasons to back them up. Not getting why they're all so upset? Let them count the ways. After the jump that is.

EenVandaag, a Dutch current affairs TV program, recently conducted a survey on their youth's downloading habits. What the survey found was that a whopping 93% of the youngsters download content in a manner that most laws would consider illegal, citing the use of BitTorrent among other popular download programs.

Total recall for Terminator Salvation on PC as Evolved Games received numerous complaints of error messages when installing the game. The publisher has now pulled out all retail copies of the game to fix the defect that "occurred during replication".

It was a very pre-mature knock out for Britain's Ricky Hatton in his "fight" against the Pacman, Manny Pacquiao, and I say that's a darned good way to end this week in gaming news (the astounding fight, I mean, not Hatton's shocking cuddle time with the floor), which, in itself also saw an intense fight in and out of the ring. From big games' updates to last-minute reveals, this edition of the QuickJump QuickPeek is a definite winner. And we've got it all stored here for you. Quick as a flash, like the Pacman's deciding left hook.

And so the Survival Pack for Valve's Left 4 Dead has finally landed - for free! Coupled with this news is that of a special new price for both the retail and Steam versions of the game. You can check out the list of new things you can do in the Survival Pack, as well as the new price details, over at the full article.

*UPDATE* A patch has been rolled out for the PC version's DLC to squish some issues.

Genuine adventure games are far and few between in this day and age, this is one reason we've kept a close eye on Thesis from Track 7 games since running across it at the now infamous E3 2005.

We sat down with Track 7 General Director Fayez Daud and asked him to give us the latest on this Greek epic.

The first-ever gameplay footage for Watchmen: The End is Nigh was revealed during the VGA event. The game is set for an episodic release starting March of next year on PSN, XBLA, and Steam. Yes, it's a downloadable game; and for a downloadable game, this is pretty kick-ass. Who watches the Watchmen, they ask? You, that's who. Or at least, about to in the full article.