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EVE Online developer CCP Games has announced a partnership with Epic Games China that will bring Unreal Engine 3 technology to their forthcoming console MMOFPS known as Dust 514. Set in the same universe as their successful PC MMORPG, Dust 514 is a console-only title that will enable players to interact with EVE pilots as [...]

We spent some time talking with Cryptic’s Craig Zinkievich at GDC today, and got some fun new information on Star Trek Online.
The most exciting thing was news of a new playable faction in Star Trek Online. We can expect that sometime “within the year”, and we as players get to help decide. Borg, Romulan, [...]

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 [...]

Champions Online’s upcoming Revelation update is coming very soon and Cryptic’s answered a bunch of (somewhat random) community questions regarding the substantial free content add-on. We’re not sure if there was any kind of theme to this Q&A other than, “Hey, what would you like to know about Revelation?” Perhaps there were a couple people [...]

Recently we spotted an interesting post from Bill Roper, Design Director for Cryptic Studios‘ MMO Champions Online. On his Facebook page he showed a slightly blurry picture of a developers booth with the simple caption “GDC 2010: The developers of our Facebook Game.” Sure enough you can now play a Mafia Wars style Facebook game [...]

The Battlefield series has been running for quite a while. The last big entry in the series, Bad Company, was a console exclusive, much to the disappointment of PC gamers everywhere. DICE broke the exclusivity with the sequel, thankfully, and now PC owners are treated to the best Battlefield since Battlefield 2. However, under the [...]

Last January, rumors hit the internet that UK-based developer Rebellion was about to close its Derby studio, which made the critically slammed shooter Rogue Warrior. Now the Develop web site reports through unnamed sources that not only is the Derby studio shutting down but that their Oxford headquarters will be letting up to 20 staff [...]

We’ve seen a number of game developers leave huge publishers and development teams to strike it out on their own. The latest such group to do so is Supergiant Games, formed by three former members of Electronic Arts’ Los Angeles studio. The trio’s previous credits include working on the Command and Conquer RTS series.
The company [...]

As previously rumored, LucasArts has just announced plans at a GDC 2010 event to release The Secret of Monkey Island 2: Special Edition, a new graphical remake of the classic 1991 adventure game. Our sister site Joystiq reports that the remake will be a little different than 2009’s relaunch of the first Monkey Island game. [...]

It has not been an easy time for fans of Battlefield Bad Company 2 to play their new first person shooter online. The game’s main servers were down for part of the weekend and earlier this week the servers went down again for an extended maintenance period. Now comes word tonight (via the game’s message [...]

One of the more controversial folks in PC game development is Derek Smart. Founder of the development studio 3000AD he’s best known for the space-based games like Battlecruiser, Universal Combat and others. He’s also known for his rather frank and open opinions about the PC game industry and other subjects. More recently he has turned [...]

Ubisoft’s new take on putting in an “always on” online connection as their DRM set-up for PC games hasn’t really worked well in practice so far as attacks on their DRM servers in the past few have prevented many people from playing the games they have paid for. For Futuremark Games Studio, makers of the [...]

Wow. There have certainly been a ton of Mac-related game news stories this week. And guess what? We’ve got another one to chew on. This week the folks at Razer, best known for their extensive family of PC gaming mice, used the Game Developers Conference to announce their pledge to add more support for their [...]

Two of the biggest game developers on the planet are announcing a big team up today at the Game Developers Conference. Epic Games has announced that game studios who license Unreal Engine 3 from them will now have native support for Valve’s Steamworks series of tools built into the engine, free of charge.
Unreal Engine 3 [...]

Ubisoft already has enough problems with Silent Hunter 5. The recently released latest game in their WWII naval simulation series had some launch issues related to the game’s use of the “Always On” DRM set-up. Now comes word via a German web site that the Collector’s Edition of the game has been pulled out [...]