Last January at CES 2010, PC gaming controller maker Razer announced a partnership with Sixense to release a motion sensor-based PC game controller. A prototype of the device was demoed at CES using Valve’s first person shooter Left 4 Dead 2. Now Razer has announced that the SDK for their still unreleased PC motion controller [...]

It looks like the long awaited family friendly MMO Lego Universe is getting closer to its launch. Today our MMO sister site Massively reports that the first invites to join the closed beta test of the game are beginning to be sent out to the first wave of selected testers.
That’s a good sign that [...]

Looking forward to The Secret World? Funcom has been great lately about giving us bits of information to tide us over, and the latest news is no exception. TSWOnline.de recently chatted with Martin Bruusgaard, Lead Designer for The Secret World.
Bruusgaard delved further into the game, expanding on small details we already know, such as [...]

The team at the DRM-free PC gaming download site GoG.com are taking a bit of a break from adding new games owned and/or developed by Activision with their newest entry. Today they have added the underwater action shooter game AquaNox which was first released in 2001 from developer Massive Development (not to be confused with [...]

Last night, during the — super awkward — Final Fantasy XIII launch party in San Fransisco, Sony’s Rob Dyer took a big shot across the bow of any Microsoft representatives in the audience by promising a pending announcement of exclusive content for the PS3 version of the game.
Today, on PlayStation Blog, Dyer revealed that the [...]

Speaking at GDC 2010, 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel discussed the game industry’s typical publishing model, why it doesn’t work for independent developers, and how the newly established Indie Fund will fix it. According to Carmel, publishers offer too much money to indie developers and take too much in return, relegating developers to the role of [...]

Wayne Barlow’s ‘Cerberus’ … gross

Held in conjunction with the Into the Pixel and Video Game Art Show exhibitions, San Francisco’s Hotel des Arts is dedicating its entire fourth floor to “The Making of Dante’s Inferno” through April 2010. We’ve got a sneak peek at the art on display in the gallery below, but if you [...]

Our very own Gregg Reece is a new father, which got me thinking about names for babies. Some names are just plain awful, like my poor father-in-law named Hubert. Some names are passed down in families, with varying degrees of suitability — naming my sister after our great-grandfather probably wouldn’t have worked if he hadn’t [...]

15 Minutes of Fame is WoW.com’s look at World of Warcraft personalities of all shapes and sizes — from the renowned to the relatively anonymous, from the remarkable to the player next door. Tip us off to players you’d like to hear more about.
The Syndicate first came to our attention a couple of weeks ago, [...]

EVE Online developer Xhagen, commenting on the EVE Insider Dev Blog last night, has released the minutes for the February 18 – 20 Council of Stellar Management summit, calling it “the best summit so far.”
Player response to the summit was equally positive, with CSM attendee Tim “Sokratesz” commenting “I was very skeptical initially, but the [...]

Happy birthday, Runes of Magic! Frogster is celebrating the first anniversary of its immensely popular free-to-play game all this week.
The party started earlier today and will continue through next Monday, March 15th with a wide array of events both in and out of the game. For starters, all players will enjoy double XP for MOBs [...]

It’s been an incredibly busy and surprising week for PC games and GDC hasn’t even started yet:. Let’s check out what’s been happening in the last seven days:
Exclusive features

Star Trek Online review: We give our final verdict to Cryptic’s latest MMO effort.
Boot Disk: Our retro games feature checks out Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2.
All [...]

Electronic Arts and Digital Illusions have to be happy with the PC sales success of Battlefield Bad Company 2. The modern day-themed first person shooter is once again on top of Steam’s weekly top 10 best selling games list (as determined by revenue). Gas Powered Games’ RTS title Supreme Commander 2 is in second place [...]

Apparently shooting people and firebombing businesses are not enough for players to be interested in getting Mafia II. The long delayed open world crime action game from developer 2K Czech and publisher 2K Games will also have some extra stuff for players to collect; specifically in-game Playboy magazines from the game’s time period.
Over 50 of [...]

Axes, maces, lightning, fire, frost, and wolves, and best of all, Windfury. It can mean only one thing: enhancement. Rich Maloy lives it and loves it. His main spec is enhance. His off-spec is enhance. He blogs about the life and times of enhance at Big Hit Box and pens the enhance side of Totem [...]