Merry Christmas from Total PC Gaming! We’re all well out of the office by now, and happily munching on Turkey and mince pies, but we just wanted to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Have a great holiday and see you in what promises to be an exciting 2010! The Total PC Gaming team

EDIT: After particulalrly high demand, beta keys are no longer available. They’re running out fast, but beta keys for Cities XL are still available, here on totalpcgaming.com. Simply send an email to tpcg@imagine-publishing.co.uk with “Cities XL Beta Key” in the subject header for a chance to get one - but be quick! Cities XL is the new city-building MMO with offline solo play from Monte Cristo. Check it out on the official website and our full preview here.

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Eidos has just announced the first batch of DLC for their online naval warfare game Battlestations: Pacific,  the Volcano Map Pack, featuring Volcano and Choke Point, two new maps for multiplayer. The first, Volcano ,  is designed for Island Capture, Competitive and Duel multi-player modes and set to the backdrop of a series of Hawaiian style volcanic islands at dawn. Island capture will see players battling to capture the islands and their huge ...

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Total PC Gaming magazine issue 14 goes on sale today! Get the lowdown on Diablo III with our exclusive first play, the dirt on Colin McRae DiRT 2 with our exclusive first look, we blow Call Of Duty: World At War open in our bombastic review and put four 24-inch monitors through their paces in our group test, plus more PC gaming goodness besides. Get 132 pages rammed with reviews, previews, indies, retro, modding, MMO and gaming hardware, a free ...

Bored? Got ten minutes spare and nothing to fill it? Ideal... Get yourself over to www.totalpcgaming.com's Top 50 Flash games to while away your time hitting high scores and generally japing about. You can find the link on the front page of our website. Among the top 50 are Battleships, Trials 2 and Pong - what more could you want?! You can impress your mates with your high scores or grab a screenshot for proof and head over to Total PC Gaming.com's forum to challenge other readers. Enjoy!