During this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo, I spoke with Turbine Communications Director Adam Mersky about  major changes to two of their most popular MMORPGs, Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online.
As it was announced on June 9th, DDO will experience an especially big transformation, adding a free-to-play (F2P) option with microtransactions. [...]

Montreal developer Ubisoft electrified a crowd of 5,000 on Friday night with its back-to-back presentations of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed II. The Sam Fisher game was first, with Creative Director Max Beland giving the presentation. He stressed that this Splinter Cell will change the way people play stealth-based games. According to Beland, typical [...]

Earlier in September I named Twisted Pixel as my favorite indie game developer of the month. It brings a unique style to downloadable titles that we don’t tend to get very often. I certainly didn’t expect to see Twisted Pixel’s next project so soon, but the developer sent out a press release this week that [...]

The finalists from XNA’s Dream-Build-Play contest are featuring their games at PAX this weekend. Dream-Build-Play is a competition for independent game developers to create games for the Xbox 360 using the XNA Game Studio software. This year there were 350 entries from more than 100 countries. First place wins $40,000 while second place gets $20,000. [...]

The 11th annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) starts today in lovely downtown Seattle. Over the next three days, throngs of gamers will fill the halls of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, sampling upcoming games, participating in tournaments, and attending special events. Yours truly will bring a few previews, pics, interviews, and news from [...]

If you’ve seen Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, you know how epic those films were. You may ask yourself, “Self, how much more awesome can those films be?” Well, try watching it with a full orchestra performing the score live.
On October 9 and 10, Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning score from the film [...]

If you happen to know anyone who looks like an incredibly hot, leggy bespectacled babe with extremely long brown hair, then give SEGA and Maxim a call since they may have a job for her. Or you can wake up from your daydream and continue reading this article. Anyway, the two companies are searching for [...]

We all have a collection somewhere in our homes. Old video games that we no longer play, crappy games that we received as presents and are still shrink wrapped, or games that GameStop can’t buy such as computer games. You want to get rid of these games but have been unsuccessful. Well, you’ll be able [...]

NCSoft and DC Comics have collaborated to create a limited edition comic book to promote the soon-to-be-released MMORPG Aion: Tower of Eternity. Not only will it come free with Aion purchases from GameStop (and Electronics Boutiques in Canada), but some copies will be available at this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo as well. Aion’s release date [...]

The highly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band will be getting a little help from their friends in terms of promotion. Brick-and-mortar electronics megachain Best Buy is planning a few events on September 9th, the game’s release date. Not to miss a chance for self-promotion, Best Buy will also be giving away 50 one-year memberships of [...]