Here’s a story that got away from us but we are just catching up to reporting on it. A few days ago, the first English language beta testing began for Need For Speed World, the upcoming online persistant racing game from Electronic Arts. The game, previously known as Need For Speed World Online, will be [...]

Launched two years ago at GDC, the non-profit group the PC Gaming Alliance has been trying to both study the PC gaming industry as well as suggest improvements to help expand. Today the organization announced the results of their 2009 Horizons report, a research study on PC gaming revenues. The press release that announced the [...]

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 [...]

City Interactive is a Poland-based developer-publisher who seems to be the master of budget (i.e. not very good) first person shooter titles. Titles like Battlestrike: Force of Resistance, Terrorist Takedown 2: US Navy Seals and Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island make the company sound like the game version of the Syfy Saturday night movie.
Their [...]

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 [...]

As Steam shows no signs of slowing its dominance of digital distribution for PC (and Mac!), it’s only natural that more niche services would arise; not really to oppose, but to compliment Valve’s service. Enter Desura, a distribution platform similar to Steam, save for one important aspect: It’s focused on independent game developers.
Primarily, Desura will [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly look at the world of the death knight.
With Patch 3.3.3 on the PTR and looking closer and closer to going live, the buzz around death knights is just about where you’d expect it to be, squarely on the frost talent tree. This is especially true of frost DPS. While it [...]

We continue through a very busy March release time table with a stand alone expansion to a hit 2009 RTS game, the long awaited PC port of an open world adventure game and more. In addition to the titles listed below, Atari will release a retail version of Telltale Games’ second “season” of its Sam [...]

We knew that developer Blue Byte Software had brought in former Ensemble Studios head Bruce Shelley to help in the design for The Settlers 7 in an effort to expand the game’s US audience. However we don’t think that he had in mind the plan to make the US box artwork for the game look [...]

The third season of the web series The Jace Hall Show has posted up its sixth and (for now) final epiosde (it’s just going on hiatus) but the IGN-sponsored web site managed to get a first look at an unannounced and unnamed game from publisher Warner Bros. Interactive (where Jace Hall used to be president [...]

Supreme Commander is back, but it’s a very different game from what fans might expect. All the main features are present: A strategic zoom that allows players to see the entire battlefield; hundreds of autonomous units on screen at once; gigantic and powerful experimental units (minus the game-ending mothership) and finally all the gameplay features [...]

It’s debatable whether or not the server crashing this past week was a symptom of Battlefield: Bad Company 2’s success. What isn’t debatable is the game’s explosive debut on the UK’s Chart-Track all-formats chart. The multiplayer-centric shooter, which we’ve been thoroughly enjoying, outsold the original Bad Company’s launch week numbers almost 3 to 1. According [...]

Rising Star Games has taken an unusual, cost-effective step to get Fragile Dreams into Spanish-speaking homes. In collaboration with fansite DSWii.es, Rising Star is helping a group of 50 fans produce their own translation of the game’s 35,000-word script. The translated text will be made available from DSWii and Rising Star’s site following the European [...]