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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 [...]

Will one of the best sci-fi TV series of all time finally get a good game tie-in? German-based game publisher BigPoint hopes to do just that with the announcement today at GDC 2010 of plans to release Battlestar Galactica Online, a browser-based MMO based on the the “reimagined” TV show that had a five year [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While Blur’s aesthetic is devoid of rainbow bridges and adorable car-icatures, it’s undoubtedly a kart racer — albeit one that feels like it was made for people who don’t like kart racers. Or those bloody blue shells.
The power-ups you’ll pick up on the track can still knock competitors straight to last place, but opponents’ fates [...]

Ubisoft today offered up a bit of an explanation to those of you on PCs yesterday who were desperately trying to play the publisher’s games with the cumbersome new DRM (Assassin’s Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5), only to find yourselves unable to authenticate said DRM because of the outage. Apparently it was (gasp!) … [...]

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” [...]

World of WarCrafts spotlights art and creativity by WoW players, including fan art, cooking, comics, cosplay, music and fan fiction. Show us how you express yourself by e-mailing lisa (at) wow (dot) com with your not-for-profit, WoW-inspired creations.
If your ticket to a heart-pumping raid soundtrack is MrVoletron’s WoW-flavored remixes, then you’ll undoubtedly be a [...]

Wowcrendor’s back with another installment of his satirical How-to series. This episode is focused on the wide world of crafters and gatherers, with How To Win At WoW Professions. Don’t worry — it’s really hard to actually win at professions, so you can think of this videos as something more like [...]

Every Monday evening we’ll be putting out a big long list of WoW podcasts that were published the week (and weekend) before. This is the first edition of the list, so we’re probably missing a few — although our Twitter friends were very helpful in making sure we were complete as possible!
If you don’t see [...]