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Football (read: soccer, not hand-egg) fans, rejoice! SEGA and Sports Interactive announced today that Football Manager 2011 will hit PC and Mac before this Christmas. Even PSP fans will get some football love via download only with Football Manager Handheld.

A revamped training system, match engine improvements and real-time contract negotiation make the top of the list for new features. Hit the jump for the full press release and feature low down.

FOOTBALL MANAGER 2011 UNVEILED

Sports Interactive Confirm Football Manager 2011 Release This Year

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It’s official. Torchlight, the little Diablo-like game that could, is getting a sequel. “We’re so proud of everything Torchlight accomplished, and we feel that Torchlight II will not only give the fans everything they’ve asked for, but far surpass its predecessor in terms of fun, balance, customization, story, and just being a great game to play with your friends,” Runic Games’ CEO Max Schaefer said in today’s press release.

While Torchlight II includes the expected new character classes, an expansive overworld, new quests, monsters and countless new dungeons, it’s big ticket feature is co-op multiplayer. “We still are going to make the MMO,” Schaefer emphasized. “But it became apparent that Torchlight II was the logical next step for us given the phenomenal enthusiasm of gamers petitioning us for multiplayer.”

Torchlight II will make its debuts at gamescom 2010 in Cologne, Germany August 18-22 2010, and at PAX Prime in Seattle, WA, September 3-5 2010.

Worried about the original title’s success inflating the price of the sequel? Worry no more! Acording tot he press release, “Torchlight II will be sold at a low price point, and include a free matchmaking service for peer-to-peer multiplayer experience.” Torchlight II to “ship” in digital download from in Spring of 2011.

If you’re a PC or Mac gamer, you can’t tell us that you’re not excited to play StarCraft II when it launches on July 27. Still need to pre-order it? You can do so here and get it in your hands on July 27.

Yes, those are iPod earphones and an ominous message that something big at Valve is happening tomorrow. This can only mean one thing: Team Fortress 2 is coming to the Mac tomorrow. Here’s what the official Team Fortress 2 website had to say:

Big things are happening RIGHT NOW at Valve. Things involving cultivated tree-fruit. BIG things. Things that rhyme with “grapple.” Things that rhyme with “Speem Gortress zmavailable on the Babac.”

Not today. But tomorrow. BIG THINGS. Stay tuned…

Screen captures of supposed World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta invites have been making their way to infamous image board 4chan.org. While anything posted on 4chan immediately comes into doubt, we are sure that the friends and family beta is well underway.

Although this may seem like a good time frame for the Cataclysm beta to take place, some fake invitations are being sent out as well. While there may be some legitimate beta invitations floating around, the ones on 4chan don’t particularly convince us. Some of them are riddled with spelling errors and come from emails that blizzard wouldn’t use. You can find the supposed beta invitation posted on 4chan after the jump!

Have you received a Cataclysm beta invite? We’d love some shay spy cam shots sent to tips@vgtribune.com.

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Mac gamers only need to wait a few hours longer to download and enjoy Valve’s Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two on Steam. Available later today, Half-Life 2 will not only include “cross-platform support for Steam Cloud, allowing players to save their game progress on one computer, then seamlessly resume from that save point on another computer,” but also bring along with them “over 40 new Steam Achievements, which are available to all owners of these titles.”

Only 70% sure that you’ll be getting Half-Life 2 Episodes One and Two when they launch later today? Valve is happy to give you that extra 30% by selling both games at 30% off their regular price “for a limited time.”

STEAM FOR MAC LAUNCH: WEEK 3

Half-Life 2 Games Deliver Cross Platform Cloud Support

May 26, 2010 – The third round of Steam for the Mac launch titles are available now. This week’s collection includes the Half-Life 2 (HL2) series of games (Half-Life 2, Episode One, and Episode Two) and Eve Online: Tyranis. Read the rest of this entry »

As per Valves latest video release entitled ‘Free Yourself’, we now know that the award winning Half-Life 2 will be coming to the Mac tomorrow. Valves official video will follow shortly in this post.

Following the launch of Steam on the Mac last week, Valve have now released a new list of games that have been ported over to the Mac.

This first set of titles that allow for PC vs Mac cross-platform gaming include the co-op zombie hit Killing Floor, Altitude, and Madballs in Babo: Invasion.

“We were thrilled when we learned that Steam was coming to the Mac platform and started working on a native Mac version of Killing Floor immediately,” said John Gibson, President of Tripwire Interactive, creators of Killing Floor. “Steam’s advanced multiplayer support on both the PC and Mac has enabled us to bring Killing Floor to a whole new audience on the Mac and introduce them to the existing PC player community.”

For a limited time only and to celebrate the launch of these titles on the Mac, Killing Floor will be on offer with 33% shaved off the regular price. An Altitude Free Weekend promotion will run this Weekend and will be available with 50% off the regular price, along with Madballs in Babo: Invasion which will also have 50% off.

More single player games are also available today including Sam and Max: The Devils Playhouse Episode 2, Hearts of Iron 3, and more.

Another collection of titles for the Mac will launch next week.

For those people who own one of them things that has the same name as a common fruit will be happy to know that Steam is available RIGHT NOW, yes that’s right Steam on the Mac is available for immediate download from http://www.steamgames.com.

Never heard of Steam before?, well don’t worry Valve have you covered as it is will be showcasing new titles for the Mac each Wednesday with a barrel load available right now, full listings after the jump (It’s big).

But wait there’s more! Between Now and May 24th and you can buy a copy of Valve’s GOTY winning Portal for FREE! Where you can eat cake until your hearts content. VGTribune staff are very picky on their fruit consumption I’ll let you know. This offer is also good for Windows users too.

“The Mac is a great platform for developers,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “And it’s also great that we now have the ability to connect with Mac gamers via Steam. This is the beginning of a groundswell of games coming out for and fully utilizing the openness and power of the Mac.”

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Blizzard Entertainment has finally announced the launch date of the real-time strategy game  Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty.

This will be the first installment of the three-part sequel and will launch worldwide on July 27 for the PC and Mac.  It will retail for $60 in the US.

The game will also be available in a $100 Collector’s Edition that will include a 176-page art book and a flash drive preloaded with the original Starcraft and its Brood War expansion.