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Command & Conquer Canon Retrospective

Command & Conquer has had quite the convoluted and bizarre history. With three separate timelines at this point, things can get a little confusing. After all, it’s been 15 years since the original’s release, and there has been 7 core games and 15 expansion packs. It’s not exactly an easy canon to get into. Thankfully, [...]

Formula 1 2010 racing game coming in September from Codemasters

Publisher Codemasters took over the game license for the Formula 1 racing league in 2008 but today they announced that they will finally release a PC game based on the league this September. The game itself is titled F1 2010 and will be the first Formula 1 based game released for the PC platform in [...]

The Queue: Ghostcrawler promised me a Sea Mouse

Welcome back to The Queue, WoW.com’s daily Q&A column where the WoW.com team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky will be your host today.
I’m using that picture of a Sea Mouse in The Queue today for a few reasons. First, it’s disgusting and I can’t wait to see all the comments. [...]

Two Bosses Enter: Garfrost gets Devoured, Krick and Ick face Tyrannus

Two Bosses Enter … but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW.com’s series of fantasy death matches. It’s a brand new season and a brand new format, introducing judges from WoW.com and the WoW community at large — and of course, your votes. Grab a seat, and let’s get ready to rumble!
Despite heaving all the [...]

Xbox Live Marketplace release schedule for March -

Though we already know the bulk of the March release schedule for new content on the Xbox Live Marketplace, Major Nelson’s blog recently laid out how the rest of the month will play out. Tomorrow, we’ll get our hands on Scrap Metal for 1200 ($15), next Wednesday will see the release of Perfect Dark for [...]

MMO Roundup: Olympic medalists, Warhammer 40k, and more

Sometimes you’d like to know that there are other MMOs out there, right? It’s not all WoW, all the time! Our sister site Massively can provide you with everything you need to know about all of the other MMOs around, past, present and future. Check out this roundup of the latest news from the wider [...]

Around Azeroth: Dragons in the mist

Deadlylupine of <Face Rollers> on Balnazzar snapped this shot of her drake rising through the mist in Terokkar Forest. “I happened to be flying in lovely Terokkar, and my Nether Drake was just so overwhelmed with light, he had to have a celebratory roar,” she wrote.
Do you have any unusual, beautiful or interesting World of [...]

The Daily Grind: GDC10 predictions?

With GDC 2010 officially beginning tomorrow, March 9th, we’d like to hear your MMO predictions. And remember, the wilder the better. Although, if you’ve got some inside info, we’re always happy to receive hints via our contact form.
Here are some of our predictions, see if you can figure out the wild crazy ones:

Red 5 Studios [...]

Cross platform play demos on PC, mobile phone and Xbox 360

Cross platform play between PC and Xbox 360 games has been few and far between in the last few years, but is Microsoft getting ready to make that happen more frequently? Our sister site Engadget points over to a recent demo shown on YouTube where a simple casual platformer game is seen being played [...]

Battlefield Bad Company 2 fights weekend server outages

Ubisoft wasn’t the only publisher experiencing server issues for their PC titles this weekend. The launch of Battlefield Bad Company 2 this past week saw what was an apparently unprecedented number of players for the modern day shooter sequel. We’ve already reported that the PC version leads the platforms in terms of number of players [...]

Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 22 – Feb. 28: Oscar primer edition -

[Image via The Stub]
If you’ve been avidly following the Hollywood scuttlebutt this past week, you’ve probably heard of an event which is unfolding at this very moment: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards. We know how badly you guys want to be able to talk about the Oscars whilst chatting over your place of business’ [...]

NintendoWare Weekly: Final Fantasy II, Max & the Magic Marker -

Sure, you could play Final Fantasy XIII on PS3 and Xbox 360 this week, but you could also buy a Final Fantasy game whose quality isn’t under any debate — partly because it’s really good, and partly because Final Fantasy II for SNES was released in 1991 and the debate has pretty much elapsed by [...]

Peek inside Lord of the Rings Online’s QA team

Working on a QA team is simultaneously one of the more important and least glamorous parts of any game’s development. On the one hand, QA has the important job of trying to make sure that everything plays smoothly and correctly; on the other hand, a QA team has best done its job when there’s [...]

Ubisoft DRM servers down; Europeans can’t play Assassin’s Creed 2

We had a feeling this might happen and what do you know? We were right. While the PC port of Assassin’s Creed 2 is not yet available here in the US, Ubisoft’s SINGLE PLAYER ONLY open world action game is available in Europe. And it looks like Ubisoft’s DRM servers, which were supposed to protect [...]

Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is packing its bags tonight, pre-flight -

Over the next two days, a significant chunk of the Joystiq staff will be boarding planes, trains and dirigibles, all heading towards the sunny environs of San Francisco for GDC 2010. Of course, the folks aboard the dirigibles will probably arrive a few weeks late, because airships outside of the Final Fantasy canon are awfully [...]

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