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Blizzard: No professional LAN version of StarCraft II but …

It looks like the internet reports this week of Blizzard offering a “Professional Edition” of StarCraft II with LAN support for pro tournaments turned out to be bogus after all. Despite supposed translated reports about today’s Blizzard event in South Korea promoting the game’s launch (complete with StarCraft II-decorated 747s from Korea Air) that [...]

MDK2 coming back to the PC via download

One of BioWare’s first ever games was MDK2, the 2000 sequel to the hit (and pretty freakin wild looking) third person action game that was first made by Shiny Entertainment. Now publisher Interplay has announced that they plan to re-release MDK2 via digital download.
Details are scarce but the press release refers to the PC re-release [...]

Guardian of Light trailer raids some isometric tombs

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Lara Croft isn’t content to be limited to a single series. Rather, Crystal Dynamics is spinning her off into a new, isometric adventure called Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. In case you haven’t seen anything regarding it yet, this trailer offers a good peek into what you can expect from the [...]

Cities XL franchise bought by Focus Home Interactive; Cities XL 2011 in October

Earlier this year we reported that Cities XL developer Monte Cristo Games had shut down operations, leaving development of their city simulation game in limbo. Today Focus Home Interactive has announced that it has purchased the Cities XL franchise and will release the previously announced Cities XL 2011 this October. The announcement comes with the [...]

Steam puts several games on sale for today only

While the Steam PC game download service has put hundreds of its games on sale during its new summer sales event it continues to give several titles special treatment for one day only. From now until 1 pm Eastern time on Saturday the games below get an extra special price cut ranging from 33 to [...]

Download: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo

This is the playable demo for LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, giving players an early look at the game before it release in North America on June 29th. Continue after the jump for system requirements.
Download LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Demo (780 MB)
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Ancel working with small team on Beyond Good & Evil 2 | Joystiq

Earlier this month, Ubisoft assured fans that Beyond Good & Evil creator Michel Ancel was still with the company, and still toiling away at the sequel to the beloved action adventure game. Ancel himself emerged at the Montpellier in Game conference, detailing the development a bit.
Ancel told attendees that he’s working on a 3D version [...]

Preview: NHL 2K11 | Joystiq

2K Sports made the decision last year to place all of its hockey eggs in one basket: the Wii. 2K will only put out NHL 2K11 on Wii, in the hopes of re-evaluating its franchise before deciding whether or not to bring it back to other consoles.
The first thing we were shown at E3 were [...]

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift ‘Makoto’ DLC aims for August release | Joystiq

Although BlazBlue: Continuum Shift won’t be out in America until July 27th, Aksys has unveiled its DLC plans. Makoto Nanaya will be available as a playable premium DLC character in August. Makoto is fast, but has a short reach, making her ideally suited for aggressive players that play a more offensive game.
The DLC pack will [...]

The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Wrath report card — protection

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about warriors, who hurl themselves into the fray, the very teeth of danger armed with nothing more than the biggest weapons and armored with the absolutely heaviest armor we can find. Hey, we’re not stupid, we’re just crazy.

With patch 3.3.5 upon us and the absolute last raid instance [...]

City of Heroes offers up new Mutant powers

Even though City of Heroes is about to release a new expansion pack in August, the super hero MMO is still giving its players a chance to purchase some new content for their characters. Today publisher NCsoft announced that City of Heroes player can now access the new Mutant set of powers and costume sets [...]

Team Fortress 2 achievement map hit by laser cats

One of the best of Saturday Night Live’s digital short movies from Andy Sanberg deals with “laser cats” that have, well, questionable production values. Now it looks like a version of the cat has invaded a custom made “achievement map” for Team Fortress 2. In case you are not aware there are maps designed to [...]

Raid Rx: Healing the Lich King

Every week, Raid Rx will help you quarterback your healers to victory! Your host is Matt Low, the grand pooh-bah of World of Matticus and a founder of No Stock UI, a WoW blog for all things UI-, macro- and addon-related.

Welcome to the end boss. It is possible to heal through Arthas with a less [...]

Blizzard 2010 Global Writing Contest announced

Do you like writing? Well, if you do, and you like the various properties of Blizzard Entertainment (I’m going to have to assume that you do, what with this being a site dedicated to one of them and all), then good news, everybody! I’ve discovered a contest that will let you write about anything in [...]

APB’s voice chat feature will contain advertisements

With launch day closing in, crime MMO All Points Bulletin has been getting its payment scheme in order. The game’s pricing structure was revealed at the end of April, including several flexible pay-per-time and monthly subscription options. In addition, the game will have a currency called “RTW points,” which can be used for character customisations [...]

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