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TERA: Launch Day Trailer

Posted: 02 May 2012 07:02 AM PDT

Launch Day Trailer

En Masse Entertainment has released the official day of release trailer for TERA. The new video celebrates the launch of TERA on May 1st.

Guild Wars 2: Dunking on Nooblords in Tyria

Posted: 02 May 2012 03:29 AM PDT

Dunking on Nooblords in Tyria

We spent some time doing PvP during the recent Guild Wars 2 beta weekend event and today we're sharing our report on the experience.

Star Wars: The Old Republic: Should SWTOR Go Free-to-Play?

Posted: 02 May 2012 03:19 AM PDT

Should SWTOR Go Free-to-Play?

In this week's Star Wars: The Old Republic column we discuss whether or not SWTOR should make the switch to the free-to-play business model.

Anarchy Online: Wayback Wednesday with AO Devs

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:57 AM PDT

Wayback Wednesday with AO Devs

This week's edition of Wayback Wednesday features a venerable old game, Anarchy Online. Grakulen is joined by Anarchy Online's Game Director Fia Tjernberg and Dave Williams from Funcom. Check it out to find out what they discussed and experienced during Wayback Wednesday with AO Devs.

Iris Online: Screenshot of the Week: Iris Online Edition!

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:18 PM PDT

Screenshot of the Week: Iris Online Edition!

We've got another special edition of our Screenshot of the Week contest for you this week. This time, we'll be focusing on gPotato's Iris Online and the recently launched Lost Temple of Atlantis update.

League of Legends: $3M On the Line in Season 2

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:05 PM PDT

$3M On the Line in Season 2

Riot Games and the League of Legends team have announced that the total prize purse for the Season 2 World Championship and Regional Finals totals $3,000,000, with over $5,000,000 in prizes leading up to the finals.

Lord of the Rings Online: SOTW: LOTRO Anniversary Edition Winner's Announcement!

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:55 PM PDT

SOTW: LOTRO Anniversary Edition Winner

We recently partnered up with Turbine for a special Screenshot of the Week contest to celebrate The Lord of the Rings Online's 5th anniversary, and today we're ready to announce our winners!

League of Legends: RTSGuru.com | Customized Champion Figure Give Away

Posted: 01 May 2012 12:39 PM PDT

RTSGuru.com | Customized Champion Figure Give Away

RTSGuru.com editors want to be the first to introduce you to Nko-ennekappao, the masterful polymer clay artist behind some of the craziest and most ridiculous recreations of League of Legends champions we've ever seen. Today's your lucky day because they're working with Nko to giveaway three of these wonderful creations. The winners will get to choose the champ they want designed, and Nko will make them.

Diablo 3: Auction House & Global Play FAQs Released

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Auction House & Global Play FAQs Released

As we near the release of Diablo III, the team is giving players more information about in-game systems and about specific game play issues. The team has released a pair of FAQs to help players with the Auction House and with the specifics of how players on a global basis can connect with one another.

The Pride of Taern: Closed Beta Access Key!

Posted: 01 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Closed Beta Access Key!

MMORPG.com has been given an exclusive key code granting access to the Pride of Taern closed beta test. Hit the link for the key and instructions!

The Pride of Taern: Worldwide Opening Day May 4th

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:55 AM PDT

Worldwide Opening Day May 4th

The Pride of Taern team has announced that the game will officially hit retail release on May 4th. According to devs, Taern a throwback to "the classic, isometric cRPGs with mature storyline that gives players a variety of moral choices."

Elsword Online: Celebrating Its First Anniversary

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:33 AM PDT

Celebrating Its First Anniversary

Kill3rCombo has announced a series of both in- and out-of-game events to celebrate Elsword's first anniversary. Devs will also be sponsoring a contest to award five lucky winners a Nintendo Portable Gaming System.

Hellgate: May Events Detailed

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

May Events Detailed

T3Fun has announced the new events for Hellgate players that will happen during the month of May. The Daily Hunt and Level Rush events make a return. In addition, the team will be implementing a series of weekend sales on items of interest to players.

End of Nations: RTSGuru.com | The MMORTS Dilemma: Part 3: Progression

Posted: 01 May 2012 09:11 AM PDT

RTSGuru.com | The MMORTS Dilemma: Part 3: Progression

Bigger guns, better blades, and epic armor: watching your character evolve is one of the more fun parts of any MMO game. RTSGuru.com editors take a look at how progression will work in End of Nations. Check it out at RTSG!

EVE Online: The Silver Lining

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 01:18 PM PDT

The Silver Lining

In today's One Jump Home, we don our tin foil hats and jump into the exciting world of EVE Online political machination. See what we've got to say and then weigh in with your own thoughts in the comments.

Guild Wars 2: Beta Rage!

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 12:50 PM PDT

Beta Rage!

Over the course of this past weekend's first major Guild Wars 2 closed beta event, players were often faced with inexplicable error messages that, of necessity, resulted in BETA RAGE! Read more about what we think of this phenomenon and then weigh in with your own thoughts in the comments.

General: The Art of Video Games: Pac-Man to Mass Effect

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 01:04 PM PDT

The Art of Video Games: Pac-Man to Mass Effect

Despite what Ebert says, there is no question that there is art in video games and it's beautifully illustrated in a new book. Today we take a look at "The Art of Video Games" and give it our full review attention. See what we discovered.

TERA: Launch at Long Last

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 10:34 AM PDT

Launch at Long Last

The day has finally arrived that TERA fans have so long anticipated. Today marks the official retail launch of TERA. We've got a few thoughts to share about TERA so keep reading!

War of the Immortals: Free Adventurers Mantle!

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 04:38 PM PDT

Free Adventurers Mantle!

MMORPG.com has been given a limited number of gift keys for War of the Immortals MMORPG by Perfect World Entertainment! The gift key will grant you a special "Adverturers Mantle" which features great stats and binds to your character. Get your gift key now while supplies last!
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Will LittleBigPlanet Karting Fulfill Our Mario Kart Wish List?

Posted: 02 May 2012 06:00 AM PDT

Several moons ago, we at 1UP compiled a list of suggestions to improve the reliable-but-predictable course of Mario Kart, even if the series' continuing colossal sales would likely have our advice fall on deaf ears. That's okay, though; as Marty Sliva pointed out in his preview of Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, Mario might not hold the kart racing crown for long. While Nintendo's made a habit of sticking with their successful tried-and-true formula, former competitors have shown that kart racing can still surprise us -- like Crash Team Racing and Diddy Kong Racing, to name a few. While these games didn't create a 20-year legacy, they managed to nip at the heels of their Mario Kart corollaries by taking a refreshingly different approach to the cartoonish motorsport.

United Front Games' upcoming LittleBigPlanet Karting doesn't divorce itself entirely from Mario Karting; the game still features drifting, boosting, and a collection of weapons remarkably similar to those wielded by members of The Mushroom Kingdom. But in applying the crowdsourced creativity of LittleBigPlanet to the karting genre, United Front Games might be able to defy expectations with a racer that promises to surprise, despite its very familiar trappings. Though Sony didn't show enough of the game for me to for a definitive opinion, I can at least reach back five months into the past to determine if LBP: Karting will fulfill our karting-based desires.

The Unfinished Swan Brings a New Angle to First-Person Puzzlers

Posted: 02 May 2012 05:59 AM PDT

Last week's Sony event didn't offer many surprises, creatively speaking. If I'm permitted to err on the side of glibness, seeing two clones of successful Nintendo series and yet another God of War didn't inspire the strongest feelings of inspiration in me as a gamer. I would have handled this sameness with the expected reluctant tolerance, but my first appointment landed me in a conference room with the folks from Giant Sparrow, an internal Sony developer nearly ready to release its first game, The Unfinished Swan. This first-person puzzler raised my standards for the remainder of the event, and with good reason: I definitely hadn't seen anything like it before. The other titles on display? Well... not so much. If anything, you can credit Giant Sparrow for giving me unrealistic expectations and a distaste for the familiar over the following 48 hours.

Okay, so maybe the idea isn't entirely new; a video showing off The Unfinished Swan's tech has been floating around for a little over three years, but somehow managed to escape my attention entirely. The main conceit of Swan involves navigation of a completely negative space via blobs of black paint, which can be launched into the white void to reveal the surrounding environment. But really, what good are words when a video can convey this concept much more effectively?

Is Black Ops 2 America's Metal Gear Solid?

Posted: 01 May 2012 11:32 PM PDT

For all intents and purposes, war has changed in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. For the first time in the series' history, developer Treyarch is taking the reins and steering the COD franchise into the near future: A time when the battlefield conflicts of 2025 are settled through a combination of military-grade robots, human infantry, and deadly advanced weaponry. If any of these ideas sound familiar (and they should), you've probably played a lot of games in the last ten years... but it's the specific, and unexpected, connection to Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series that strikes me as the most interesting aspect of Treyarch's latest addition to Call of Duty.

These connections are more likely coincidences than a blatant crib job, but as Call of Duty tries to free itself from the shackles of conventional sequels and continue its legacy as a premier blockbuster, you can't help but see the connections between it and Metal Gear. I see five distinct similarities between Black Ops 2 and Metal Gear (especially Metal Gear Solid 4), and to my mind these connections can only benefit the series.

Snarf that Scarf: Gaming's Coolest Scarves

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:24 PM PDT

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Snarf that Scarf: Gaming's Coolest Scarves

Because all video game characters really need is some comfortable neckwear.

By: Nicholas Gasse May 1, 2012

Hipsters. Fashionistas. Grandmothers. These folks come to mind when you think of scarves in the real world -- not exactly an enviable group, by any means. But in the land of video games, only the baddest of asses don these squirrely pieces of woven fabric. Sure, your average video game protagonist may be protected by high-powered armor, or equipped with latest in devastating weaponry, but it takes someone with real guts to save the world while rocking a swanky scarf as the centerpiece of their ensemble.

Neurotic ninjas, femme fatales, space gunslingers -- just a few of the hero archetypes that prove wearing a scarf in the world of video games is not only a fashion statement, it's a sign of awesomeness.

Black Ops II Takes Call of Duty Into the (Near) Future

Posted: 01 May 2012 02:05 PM PDT

Call of Duty Black Ops II

Ahead of the world reveal scheduled to take place tonight during the NBA Playoffs, Black Ops II has already been confirmed as the next game in the Call of Duty series. This was expected to be the case at least as far back as February, although we now have some firm details we could only guess at previously.

It has since been pulled, but for a brief period of time the U.K. website for Black Ops II was online. A November 13 release date was listed alongside a description that fills us in on the basic setup for the game: "Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare." A few screenshots were leaked (via Kotaku) as a result of the site's premature launch giving us a look at the quadrotor seen in an FPS Russia video the official Call of Duty site has been linking to recently. The preview image for tonight's reveal trailer on YouTube, which was uploaded privately and could not be watched, shows skyscrapers burning in the background in a scene that would not have been out of place in Modern Warfare 3.

Quantum Conundrum: A Nerd Stereotype Turned Video Game

Posted: 01 May 2012 01:20 PM PDT

John De Lancie plays the role of an omnipresent disembodied guide voice in Airtight's Quantum Conundrum: The direct GLaDOS analog in this Portal-parallel puzzler. I forget the character's name -- Professor something-or-another -- but it doesn't really matter, because all I can hear when De Lancie speaks is Star Trek: The Next Generation's all-powerful trickster Q guiding me through a series of increasingly complex puzzles before dropping the other shoe and leaving me stranded in the Delta Quadrant, or sitting in a movie theatre sharing popcorn with the Borg Collective, or something. And I'm sure the developers were aiming for this precise effect with the actor's casting. Lots of video games have tried to make players feel like the Captain of the starship Enterprise, but none have ever taken this route to get there.

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