The arena of social gaming is a hotly contested one, with two equally enthusiastic schools of thought on whether or not they even count as MMOs. Regardless of your opinion, social gaming is here to stay, and more and more developers are turning their attention to the games (and the profits they potentially represent.) The [...]

German game-maker Bigpoint has just announced its forthcoming MMORPG based on the SyFy Channel’s popular Battlestar Galactica reimagining. The company, owned in part by NBC Universal which also owns SyFy and consequently the Galactica brand, plans on releasing the game later this year. Bigpoint representatives broke the news at GDC today.
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Welcome to Free for All, a weekly column highlighting the world of Free to Play/Freemium games! The new generation of free-to-play games are not only of the same quality as many “standard” MMOs, but they give players a chance to try them out before they ever spend a dime (if they choose to). I am [...]

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Sometimes you just need to sit down, slide a floppy into your A: drive, and enjoy gaming retro style. We know this all too well! That’s why we have a list of the best and brightest from days long gone. These are some of our favorite games of all time, and we’re sure that you’ll [...]

The relaunch of the print issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly is still in the future but so is EGMi, the electronic version of the print mag. Now a new YouTube video shows off more of what EGMi will look like in terms of its interface, animations and the way it offers info that’s different that [...]

On Monday we reported that Kalypso Media had taken over the publishing duties of Disciples 3 from its former publisher Strategy First. Today another Strategy First owned game, Jagged Alliance 3, also has a new owner in BitComposer Games. Indeed BitComposer claims they now own the full Jagged Alliance IP aside from a social networking-based [...]

If you want to check out an RTS game that uses deception and trickery as a key part of its gameplay, R.U.S.E. may be for you. Today the open beta of the game from developer Eugen Systems and publisher Ubisoft launched today via Steam. Anyone with a Steam account can now download the beta test [...]

Each day WoW.com will take you through all the blue posts and other Blizzard news from around the internet. From Ghostcrawler’s latest posts to the lowdown on StarCraft II and Diablo III, we’ll keep you informed.
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The background downloader has gone active tonight with a 77.5 MB partial file for the Patch 3.3.3 patching process. Don’t expect the patch to go live tomorrow, of course (if nothing else, scheduled maintenance isn’t long enough), but it looks like we may be within a few weeks of some nice new patch goodness, including [...]

Welcome to the Lawbringer, your weekly stop at the intersection of law and Warcraft. I am your crossing guard, trying desperately to not get run over myself.
First, I want to apologize for being a day late, but my week was spent preparing for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam. Unfortunately, the test was channeling Illidian. [...]

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Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight releases next week on March 16th, and this animated motion comic helps set the mood while bringing players up to speed on what’s been going on. Perhaps it’s a bit overdramatic, but it definitely gets the message that the world is in turmoil, and not everyone [...]

This morning, Sega announced that the first DLC add-on for Aliens vs. Predator will be a four-pack of multiplayer maps — the same four maps that came included in the European Collector’s Edition of the game. Specifically, Europeans will be able to pick up “Docks” and “Machine” (the regular multiplayer maps) and “Outpost” and “Hive” [...]

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Around these parts, we’re all avid supporters of a thick, lustrous beard. Though our tastes for the gaming industries various genres differ greatly, we can all get behind any game so long as it includes characters with copious amounts of facial hair. For this reason alone, a recent batch of screenshots has [...]

Signal Studios’ new game Toy Soldiers might sound like any other tower defense game at first glance, but it has art direction that will knock your socks off. It’s one thing to pit the Kaiser’s forces against the boys from England, but Toy Soliders turns them into little clockwork toys, full of cogs and springs. [...]

If you’re a Runescape fan, you’ll be happy to hear the latest news from Jagex. Runescape is jumping aboard the bonus XP event bandwagon, offering players a first ever Bonus XP Weekend.
From Friday March 12th until Monday March 15th, Runescape members will enjoy a heavy buff to XP points on all standard training skills. Whether [...]