Patch version 1.505 of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is now available for download. It’s 56MB and corrects a number of bugs, including gameplay errors and crashes in both single and multiplayer, as well as adding functionality to multiplayer. You’ll be glad to hear that it’s backwards compatible with version 1.504 though, so there won’t be the same savegame issue we had with the previous patch. Download it from the Clear Sky website.

Jack Thompson, the US attorney and anti-video games activist, has been permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court. This follows an approval from the Supreme Court for a recommendation to permanently disbar Thompson in July and includes an order for Thompson to pay legal fees amounting to nearly $45,000.

Thompson’s response was to send a press release to Kotaku stating that, “This past Friday Thompson filed a federal civil rights action against The Bar, the Supreme Court, and all seven of its Justices. This rush to disbarment is in retribution for the filing of that federal suit.”

In light of the warnings Thompson has been given in the past few years that he has come to the fore - including a reprimand by Judge Ronald Friedman in 2006 stating that he found statements made by Thompson “unprofessional and contemptible” – we think it was a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ it would come to this.

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!

A sequel to Valve’s Portal has been announced – but not by Valve. Portal Prelude comes from a three-man dev team that have been working on an unofficial prequel to The Orange Box hit since January. It’s a bigger game that harks back to a pre-GlaDOS era, it’s coming very soon (end of September/October time) and best of all, it’s completely free! All you need to play it is Steam and the original Portal game. Check it out here.

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Catch up with the latest PC Games gossip in our third Total PC Gaming podcast. Listen to myself (Ben), Russell, Dave and Andy talk games, games, bikini armour, games, Warhammer Online, games, banter and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Also, plenty of messing around and sounding stupid (but well-informed stupid) on an international broadcast medium. Like we’ve got any personal street cred to lose anyway…

Download and listen to it here. If you’re listening on an iPod or via iTunes, you can get the enhanced version, complete with images for the bikini armour parade. Bonus!