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They come in threes: Game of Thrones RPG, MMO, and social game invading Westeros
Remember the opening of A Game of Thrones? That spooky forest, that lone patrol from the Wall, the creeping sense of dread as they approached a camp full of mysteriously dead bandits? I loved it. All...
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EverQuest II going free-to-play next month
Another day, another MMO goes free-to-play. Sony Online Entertainment continues its transition away from the subscription model by doing away with EverQuest II’s traditional subscription-only servers,...
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EA forum bans reportedly locking users out of games
A number of Battlefield 3 users have reached out to Rock, Paper, Shotgun to report that they had been banned from playing the game for alleged behavior violations on EA’s forums. RPS cites three...
View ArticleFour Syndicate operatives, eight minutes of cooperative rata-tata-tata
A new Syndicate gameplay video depicts a four-player co-op mission that takes on a hallucinatory quality as the camera rapidly cuts between different players machine-gunning security guards, while HUD...
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Razer Blade gaming laptop prototypes stolen
Razer recently announced that a pair of prototype Blades, the company’s upcoming gaming laptop, were stolen in early November in a break-in that appears to have specifically targeted at the...
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Stardock arrives on Steam, starting with Sins of a Solar Empire
Now that Stardock has sold its digital distribution business to GameStop, it was only a matter of time before we saw games like the stellar space war strategy Sins of a Solar Empire pop up on Steam,...
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Good Old Games, maybe not so old anymore
Good Old Games has announced its intent to pursue newer games and “exclusive release opportunities with certain developers,” according to a GOG.com press release. The shift is part of an overarching...
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MechWarrior Online to be powered by CryEngine 3
Piranha Games and Crytek have announced that MechWarrior Online will use Crytek’s CryEngine 3 for development on the F2P mech sim. It’s welcome news for gamers who feared that F2P MechWarrior would...
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GOG director explains the distributor’s new direction, how “good old”...
Last week, Good Old Games announced a shift toward games that are not quite so old. I asked Good Old Games’ Managing Director, Guillaume Rambourg, what this means for the core of the business, classic...
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Heroes of Newerth director talks about mentoring
As action-RTS Heroes of Newerth prepares to introduce new features and a few surprises at Dreamhack, Director of Operations Brad Bower talked to us about how S2 is developing the game by providing...
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Orcs Must Die! review
Orcs Must Die! has done something I’d thought impossible: it’s a tower defense game that actually gets deeper and more rewarding the longer you play it. The joy comes not just from the sadistic...
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Tactical Advantage: How visuals can affect strategy games
Rob Zacny gathers his troops in our monthly Tactical Advantage column to examine the complexities of strategic gaming and development. This month, Rob explains how pretty visuals don’t necessarily...
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Frozen Synapse developer talks business and the F2P dilemma
Frozen Synapse developer Paul Taylor, from Mode 7, wrote a “mini-postmortem” at Games Brief on how business and design considerations influenced the game’s development and marketing. He explains why...
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PSA: Amazon offering heavy discounts on popular PC games today
As Joystiq has noted, Amazon’s bargain bin is particularly well-stocked for PC gamers today. There’s a good mix of fairly recent hits at deep discounts, and slightly old games for a few bucks apiece....
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Jagged Alliance: Back in Action hands-on preview
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action simultaneously attempts to recreate and reinvent the king of the tactical RPGs, Jagged Alliance 2. After a few hours with a preview build, I’m surprised at how well...
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Major League Gaming’s Winter Arena StarCraft 2 tournament starts tomorrow,...
The 2012 Major League Gaming Pro Circuit comes to New York this weekend with the Winter Arena tournament. 32 Starcraft 2 players will compete for a total prize purse of $26,000 divided among the top...
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Notes and highlights from the MLG Winter Arena StarCraft 2 tournament
Last weekend, I spent a few hours watching the MLG Winter Arena on the MLG’s pay-per-view streams and I have to say, as someone who has always been a bit leery of eSports and does not particularly...
View ArticleThe week in eSports
We’re still waiting on the MLG StarCraft 2 Winter Arena videos go become available for free (that happens on Monday), but in the meantime you can check out the highlights from the Leenock – NaNiwa...
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Blizzard’s Morhaime, StarCraft caster Day9, Evil Geniuses CEO, and MLG chief...
For the first time, the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference on Saturday played host to a panel on eSports to discuss what they are, why they are enjoying such a tremendous period of growth, and what...
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Rift Executive Producer Scott Hartsman explains how dynamic content drives...
As extra-planar invasion-themed MMO Rift passes the one year mark, I caught up with Executive Producer Scott Hartsman to dive deep on one of Rift’s more unique aspects: its dynamic world. In our chat,...
View ArticleAnother Week in eSports
The American eSports fan faces a dilemma tonight. Do you brew coffee and stay up until the Intel Extreme Masters finals start at 3 AM Eastern (9 AM Central European Time), or do you go to bed early...
View ArticleThe Week in eSports (3/16/12)
As we head into the last weekend before the MLG Winter Championship in Columbus next weekend (and hot on the heels of the IEM tournament) a small group of players are gathered at Full Sail University...
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MLG Winter Championship starts tomorrow in Columbus, winter still missing
The MLG isn’t about to let a little thing like 84-degree temperatures stop them from having their Winter Season championship in Columbus, OH this weekend. Over one thousand players will compete for...
View ArticleThe Week in eSports (3/23/12)
Obviously, the biggest thing happening this week is the MLG Winter Championship tournament, which is getting started right now in Columbus, Ohio. You can find more on that here, with links to the...
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Notes and Highlights from the MLG Winter Championship – Day 1
The first day of the MLG Winter Championship had some great match-ups and, if the rest of the competition maintains this quality, we should be in for a memorable weekend. With four HD StarCraft 2...
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MLG Winter Championship Day 2 Notes and Highlights: IdrA’s Very Bad Day
The MLG Winter Championship at Columbus concludes today, starting at 10 AM Eastern and the Championship Finals commence at 6 PM Eastern. Before we find out who this season’s top StarCraft 2 player is,...
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MLG 2012 Winter Championship – Day 3: MarineKing and DRG go the distance
In the final day of competition at the MLG Winter Championship, there was a sense of inevitability to most of the matches. MarineKing (Korean Terran player Lee Jung Hoon) and DongRaeGu (Korean Zerg...
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THQ lays-off 118 at Relic, Vigil as Warhammer 40K MMO Dark Millennium goes...
THQ announced today that it has laid-off 118 full-time staff at its highly-regarded Relic Entertainment and Vigil Games studios. Vigil was the hardest hit, with 79 of the layoffs, as its Warhammer MMO...
View ArticleThe Week in eSports (3/30/2012)
I’m not going to lie: I’m pretty happy with my coverage of the MLG Winter Championship last weekend. But nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes, so I thought I’d call you attention to five of my...
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Blizzard reveals Battle.net World Championship, aims to crown global...
With so many leagues around the world, each with its own championship, it’s impossible to say who is the world’s best StarCraft player. It is a game without a clear champion. Blizzard aims to fix that...
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Wargame: European Escalation free DLC adds co-op play and new maps, 40% off...
I loved Wargame: European Escalation when it first came out, but I was disappointed by its abysmal skirmish options. You could play one-on-one versus the AI, but you could not play co-op with friends...
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Ready Up – Springtime for MarineKing in NYC, winter for PartinG and DRG...
I hope you like StarCraft II, because it dominates the eSports schedule this weekend. There are two concurrent events this weekend: Dreamhack EIZO Open in Stockholm, and the MLG’s StarCraft II Spring...
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MLG 2012 Spring Arena 1 – Day 1: The more things change…
The first day of the first MLG Spring Arena was a reminder that StarCraft II sometimes seems to be changing faster than it actually is. Coming into this event, PartinG (Won Lee Sak, Korean Protoss)...
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MLG 2012 Spring Arena 1 Day 2: HuK finished, DRG survives to fight another day
At the end of Saturday’s competition, before the 2v2 mini-tourney started, most the Spring Arena competitors found themselves in a kind of limbo as the MLG sorted out who had done well enough to make...
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Battle Report: DreamHack crowns ThorZaIN, DRG dethrones MKP at MLG Spring Arena
This weekend promised to be a great one for StarCraft II fans, and it did not disappoint. On the one hand, MLG Spring Arena 1 wrote another chapter in one the best stories in eSports right now: the...
View ArticleSTALKER 2 finally dead, developers move on to another apocalypse with Survarium
If this post eventually descends into a stream of profanity or a black pit of despair, I apologize, but it is difficult to face such dire news: STALKER 2 is cancelled, and the team has moved on to...
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Ready Up – League of Legends and MLG unite, Heart of the Swarm comes to MLG...
It’s a bit of a quiet weekend for eSports, but DOTA 2 fans will at least be able to watch several games in the ProDOTA 2 Worldwide League. It’s a new league, but a number of major eSports teams from...
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Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion preview
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion’s new Titan-class capital ships can single-handedly tilt the balance of war. I learned this when attacking an enemy’s forward base with a near invincible trio of...
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Ready Up – Red Bull Battlegrounds brings StarCraft 2 to Austin City Limits
It might seem like a quiet time in eSports, with the MLG now looking ahead to its Spring Championship in Anaheim (June 8 – 10), and with the GSL season having just concluded with MVP’s victory over...
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Ready Up – StarCraft 2 and League of Legends unite at MLG Spring Championship...
Another MLG season draws to a close this weekend in Anaheim, and a look at the offerings illustrates just how much the MLG has changed over the course of this one spring season. League of Legends...
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MLG Spring Championship 2012 Day 1: An embarrassment of riches
Would it be churlish to ask the MLG never to host a major event on Pacific time ever again? Because the last StarCraft 2 matches just finished an hour ago, and now I’m watching the sun come up outside...
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MLG Spring Championship 2012 – Day 2: You come at the king, you best not miss
Yesterday’s games at the MLG Spring Championship comprised probably the best single day of eSports I’ve seen. The afternoon was full of some incredibly tight League of Legends matches and a lot of...
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MLG Spring Championship – Day 3: Twist endings and hard-earned victories
If you were to look only at the championship winners who came out of MLG Spring Arena this weekend, you might think there were no real surprises. DongRaeGu winning a StarCraft 2 championship is just...
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4.7 million watched MLG Spring Championship, previous viewership records...
2012 has felt like a breakout year for eSports, and MLG just released some huge numbers to prove it. Last weekend’s MLG Spring Championship absolutely crushed the viewership totals of the MLG’s entire...
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Ready Up – StarCraft 2, LoL, and Dota 2 pros head to DreamHack Summer
Did last week’s MLG Spring Championship leave you thirsting for more eSports? Then DreamHack Summer 2012 has you covered. With well-attended tournaments for StarCraft 2, League of Legends, and Dota 2,...
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US StarCraft 2 champion ViBE on going pro, winning US title, and raising his...
Dan “ViBE” Scherlong enjoyed a convincing victory at the USA Nationals StarCraft 2 tournament at the MLG’s Anaheim Championship earlier this month. On his way to finishing first among American...
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Ready Up: MLG Summer Arena starts today, we have free HD codes
Major League Gaming’s summer season starts on Friday with a StarCraft 2 Arena tournament, and we’ve got some premium passes to give away to PC Gamer readers before the tournament starts on today at...
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Ready Up: MLG hosts first LoL Arena, HD code giveaway, plus SC2 at Assembly
Major League Gaming hosts its inaugural League of Legends Arena tournament this weekend, hosting pro teams Azubu Blaze, Team Black, Curse Gaming NA, and reigning MLG LoL champs Team SoloMid. The...
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Planetary Annihilation preview—when strategy worlds collide (with moons)
From their moonbase, yellow can start dropping fresh troops right on top of red. To paraphrase George Carlin, Planetary Annihilation is proof that at some point, someone was playing an RTS and thought,...
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Planetary Annihilation interview
Uber Entertainment’s Jon Mavor spoke with us for two hours about RTS games, his history with Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, and his plans for Planetary Annihilation. We’ve edited that...
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