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While the ancestry of MMOs were played via text-only clients and thus didn’t have to worry about it one way or the other, the modern generation of games has either a first-person view or a third-person view. (Experiments with a second-person view were briefly carried out via webcams, but it proved distracting.) And [...]

If it’s not too dated, you can feel free to do the Dr. Evil voice as you read the announcement in your head. Star Trek Online has reached one million registered accounts, an impressive milestone for any game. The announcement follows in the vein of Cryptic’s announcement that players had created over one million characters [...]

Love is in the air in World of Warcraft and the event has completely changed this year over previous years. WoW.com has the latest on this Valentine’s Day-themed event.

Fool for Love Achievement: If you are into holiday achievements, the Overachiever guide has all of the details.
Love is in the air FAQ: Answers any event [...]

Not everything in Star Trek Online is fighting when it comes to space. Sometimes, you turn and a lovely sight such as the one captured above will greet you. While this image was captured during the open beta, these types of stunning views are still there, waiting to be discovered by Star Trek Online’s players. [...]

If you were one of the people lucky enough to get into one of our two Aika beta key giveaways, you’ve probably been enjoying the chance to see what the most recently announced title from gPotato has to offer. The promise of large-scale PvP always gets people excited, after all, and it doesn’t hurt [...]

One of the biggest differences between EVE Online and most other MMOs is the lack of a humanoid avatar. Even when you’re docked up in a station, you can’t leave your ship and walk around. The detailed avatars we create on starting the game are not so much avatars as passport photos; seen only as [...]

Zodiac Online, the free-to-play offering from Ingle Games, entered closed beta early last November. Since then the folks at Ingle Games have been hard at work refining things, fixing bugs, and just generally preparing to move to the next phase.
That next phase will arrive in just a few short days: open beta begins February tenth. [...]

Aion team member Tamat is back with the first Eye on Community for February, in which he answers player questions and talks a bit about what the developers have in store.
This week’s player question was regarding the fort timer surveys from a while back, and Tamat revealed that they’ve finished looking over the surveys and [...]

“Get a life”, “Get a first life”, and so on, and so forth. If you’re involved in virtual environments, you’ve probably heard this phrase a lot. Wagner James Au of New World Notes suggests that people who use those phrases are among the least likely to ‘have a life’ themselves.
Well, we’d say he’s half right. [...]

Last July it was announced that the action figure company NECA would release action figures based on BioShock 2. Now comes word that those action figures have begun to ship to stores. Obviously their release are being timed with the release of the 2K Marin-Digital Extremes first person shooter sequel.
In fact one of the figures, [...]

While technically Heroes of Neweth has been in closed beta for several months, it’s been pretty easy to gain access to the beta for S2 Games’ upcoming Defense of the Ancients-inspired multiplayer RTS game. We’ve been awaiting word on when when the final commercial game will be released and in a recent fan podcast call [...]

A while back it was revealed that the just launched MMO Star Trek Online would be getting a tie-in novel from Pocket Books. Now more info on that tie-in novel, The Needs of the Many, has been posted on the web site of Pocket Book’s parent company Simon and Schuster.
The novel itself seems [...]

There’s no doubt that one of the most well known and most influential game series of all time are the Tomb Raider titles from Eidos (now owned by Square Enix). Now comes word that a limited edition book, The Art of Tomb Raider, is being prepped for release early in March.
Published by Dreams and Visions [...]

Usually open world action games don’t get the demo treatment but that apparently won’t be the case with Just Cause 2. The upcoming sequel to the Avalanche Studios-developed game will indeed be getting a playable demo.
The info comes from the Twitter page of Eidos community manager Mike Oldman who later “tweeted” that the demo would [...]

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