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Fans already expect Final Fantasy XIV to look great, but this video demonstrates some of the stunning visual differences between the early alpha version of the game and the beta. Hopefully it won’t be much longer before players can step into this world for themselves.
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Since Need for Speed World translates the long standing franchise as a massively multiplayer online game, racing will involve a bit more than drifting to corner sharp turns and drafting behind opponents. Players can equip themselves with special abilities to help knock out the competition. The first developer diary can be seen [...]

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If you don’t know about the FEAR series, chances are you have been living under a rock. It was a surprise hit for Monolith when originally released, and has been expanded upon over the years with expansion packs and sequels galore. FEAR 3 is due out soon (from a different developer, oddly enough), [...]

While Steam is offering sales of Capcom’s PC titles during its summer sale, Capcom itself has put several of its PC downloadable game titles on the price chopping block itself on their own online store. In most cases the savings are actually more than the ones that Steam is currently offering.
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Ready Check focuses on successful raiding for the serious raider. Hardcore or casual, from Icecrown Citadel to Ulduar, everyone can get in on the action and down some bosses.
Last week, I talked a little bit about tools and methods for getting that unreliable person to show up for raids. One of the specific tools [...]

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Over the past couple weeks Lord of the Rings Online players’ eyes have turned to the future, and this column with it. After all, with the beta for LotRO F2P edition in full swing and the recent news from E3 about this fall’s offerings, it’s kind of hard not [...]

Earlier this year, Mythic Entertainment moved to take over the management of Dark Age of Camelot in Europe from publisher GOA, and this week we’ve learned that they’re doing the same for Warhammer Online. In a brief announcement on WAR’s EU site, GOA states that the full operation of the game is being handed over [...]

For the five people who don’t know the reference, Aunt May is the mother figure in Spider-Man’s life. She provides him with several important functions, such as being frail, threatening death, and getting kidnapped whenever his motivation for fighting crime starts to flag. She also dated Doctor Octopus, but that was just strange. The point [...]

Welcome to Betawatch, Massively’s weekly report on the state of MMO betas. In each installment, we’ll report everything from the latest open betas, closed betas and even alphas in one convenient place. Plus, we’ll make sure to include as much info on each game’s current status, including projected release dates (if known) and links to [...]

Outspark introduced Divine Souls to us about three months ago, and things have been pretty quiet since then. That was changed today, when Outspark delivered a new teaser trailer, new screenshots, and a start date for closed beta.
Divine Souls is pretty straightforward: Choose one of three classes — a Fighter, Slasher, or Mage — and [...]

It has not been the best of times over at internet media company RealNetworks. The company, best known for its RealPlayer media software, has been cutting a number of jobs lately. This week Gamasutra reports that the company, citing unnamed sources, has decided to shutter its first party PC casual games division as a result [...]

Games that are coming out soon have a lot of unknowns that the average person might not know. Who is this character inspired by? Is all the talk of volumetric fog or cel-shaded graphics really worthwhile? Do the game mechanics really seem solid, or are they lackluster? In All You Need To Know we provide [...]

Thanks to Amazon, you can now enjoy Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII or a few other Square Enix PSP games without being plunged into a financial crisis as a result. The Deal of the Day offers Crisis Core, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions, or Star Ocean: First Departure for just $12.99 each, [...]

Wondering why we didn’t see a Kinect version of Guitar Hero or a Move-enabled Call of Duty at E3? COO Thomas Tippl told Gamasutra it’s because Activision is hesitant to dive into the motion market, mostly due to the high price point of Move and expected high price of Microsoft’s Kinect.

“I think as a publisher, [...]

As the first screens implied, the first trailer for Spare Parts confirms that its co-op protagonists (cotagonists?), Mar-T and Chip, are entirely adorable. Apart from this confirmation, the trailer also shows off some of the cooperative gameplay, which amounts to baddie smashing and platforming.