The idea of virtual worlds and MMOs based on established brands is not a new one, and Virtual Fairground is a company that’s been in the market for a bit. They’ve had the time to fine tune the concept and find exactly what they want to offer their audience. We spent some time with Maarten [...]

Alex Alvarez is one of those people who obsessively played games and constantly doodled in a sketchbook as a kid. He studied art, but with no one career-oriented channel for that creativity, he didn’t find himself making a living as an artist until he stumbled into a job working on comic books. A few years [...]

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Good morning, dear reader! You’ve got a lot to catch up on:

“PlayStation Move” is official name of motion controller
We touched it: PlayStation Move from every angle
Interview: Sony’s Scott Rohde on PlayStation Move

Gallery: PlayStation Move (Joystiq’s Photos)

That’s it, you ask? Oh, no — wait till you see what [...]

Sony will announce the “official” name for its PlayStation Motion Controller during its main event tonight (7PM ET) at GDC. In the meantime, let’s play a game!
According to our source, the official name for the device is one of the choices in the poll below — we’re not going to tell you which one, though. [...]

We had a feeling that this week’s Game Developers Conference would yield some major news concerning the upcoming OnLive streaming game service and we were not disappointed. At the VentureBeat@GDC keynote address today, OnLive’s head man Steve Pearlman stated the service would officially launch on June 17 at a basic cost of $14.95 a month. [...]

Last week, we reported that a revival of the once canceled action-adventure game Sam Suede would go on, at least for now, without any involvement from the game’s original writer Al Lowe. Lowe’s most famous game creation, the highly funny and adult Leisure Suit Larry series, was one of the most popular adventure game series [...]

Every week, we broadcast live from several places worldwide (several rooms, anyway) to present you with the WoW Insider Show podcast — an hour’s worth of WoW community discussion, covering everything from the week’s top stories here on WoW.com to emails from our readers to what’s been going on with our particular characters in Azeroth.
Along [...]

After several years of developing their projects on their own, 38 Studios, the game development studio founded by former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, finally has a publisher for its first game. Today on the first day of GDC 2010 it was announced that Electronic Arts has signed on to publish the game known [...]

It looks like the problems with the Battlefield Bad Company 2 official online servers that started this weekend have crept up again today. There was some downtime earlier today on the servers for EA’s recent first person shooter that the game’s official blog site said, “was caused by a routing issue outside of EA’s control.” [...]

It’s not so surprising, really, that Modern Warfare 2, arguably the world’s most popular video game, would recruit such a staggering amount of bodies for its perpetual online war. But, there it is: 25 million unique players, as revealed in a tweet from Infinity Ward’s community guy-at-large, Robert “fourzerotwo” Bowling. We’ve contacted Infinity Ward for [...]

Jagged Alliance fans have been waiting since 1999 for a new game in the tactical role-playing series — well, those Jagged Alliance fans that are still fans after all these years, anyway. bitComposer Games has acquired the rights to the series from Strategy First, announcing plans to release Jagged Alliance 3 sometime in 2011. The [...]

This year’s Game Developers Conference has barely started and already we’re anticipating the inevitable sequel, which promises to feature bigger news, improved visuals (we’re all working out for the next year) and dynamic crowd motion. According to event organizers, GDC 2011 will run from February 28 through March 4, 2011 at the Moscone Center in [...]

“I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.” – English
“Jestem dowódcą Shepard, a to jest mój ulubiony sklep na cytadeli.” – Polish (machine translation)
In a GDC 2010 session entitled “Localizing Large RPGs,” which forms part of an ongoing localization summit, BioWare localization project manager Ryan Warden eloquently explored the revered developer’s [...]

Welcome to another edition of the WoW.com Weekly Comic — Byron the Tauren Rogue!
Our bovine hero has managed to make a getaway — those poor cows are going to miss oggling that strapping young bull…oh well. Stormwind awaits its unexpected plundering!
Check out the full version right here, and tune in next Tuesday morning for [...]

From all accounts, sales of the new Aliens Vs Predator game from developer Rebellion and publisher Sega have been quite solid. Now the first person shooter based on the movie monsters is getting its first downloadable map pack on March 18, according to Sega’s European web site.
The four maps in the Swarm map pack were [...]