With Doom 3 and Half-Life 2 sitting on store shelves, it may seem like gamers don't have much to look forward to in 2005. Not so for Quake fans, who ... Read More

If you're tired of online RPGs that follow the EverQuest formula, Guild Wars could be the innovation you've been looking for. Over 400,000 people took part in the preview event ... Read More

After a long period of closed testing, PlaneShift is now inviting everyone to download the latest client and play the beta of this open source MMORPG. The game now has ... Read More

I know a lot of people found World of Warcraft under the tree this year, but if you're not too busy leveling to read this, you might want to sign-up ... Read More

Since the game's launch, quite a few players have found the PvP system in World of Warcraft to be rather under-developed. Of course, the full system has not yet been ... Read More

Valve has released a demo of Half-Life 2. You can play through some of the early levels and part of Ravenholm. Yes, a Steam account is required. The 751 MB ... Read More

If science has taught us anything, it's that you can never have too many high-tech peripherals enhancing your game experience. The latest toys for video games include egonomic input devices, ... Read More

With the release of World of Warcraft and EverQuest II, it has certainly been a banner year for MMORPGs. If you have an elf or a dwarf on your list ... Read More

First-person shooters are still immensely popular online, in part because they don't normally charge monthly subscription fees, and in part because broadband Internet has made them more competitive and fun ... Read More

Anarchy Online announced this week that they are eliminating monthly subscription fees for new players who sign-up between 15 December 2004 and 15 January 2005. The game client, not including ... Read More

While Blizzard cracks down on the exchange of game items for real money in World of Warcraft, Project Entropia has actually employed the concept as a revenue model. They recently ... Read More

Warner Bros. has announced that The Matrix Online will not be released in January as planned. The game is now scheduled to ship in Spring 2005. Apparently they are taking ... Read More

A reader brought my attention to a story on Sacramento News & Review about the popularity of FPS games and the ways in which America's Army may make use of ... Read More

Sony launched their new handheld gaming machine, the PlayStation Portable, in Japan today. They're hoping to compete with Nintendo, which dominates the world of portable consoles. What is interesting about ... Read More

Blizzard is reminding World of Warcraft players that selling in-game property for real money on eBay is against the game's Terms of Use. "Not only do we believe that it ... Read More

Apparently GameSpy, whose game matching service is intergrated into many titles, has increased its licensing fee for Mac games. Until recently Mac developers were given a discount to make up ... Read More

Blizzard announced recently that they've had to ban a number of players from World of Warcraft for using a hack that allowed their characters to run faster in the game. ... Read More

Most of the Star Wars: Galaxies community has seen this coming for some time, but SOE is now revealing details of the badly needed loot and combat revamps which are ... Read More

EA has released small patches for both Battlefield 1942 (6.4 MB) and Battlefield Vietnam (10.1 MB). The word is that a serious exploit was recently discovered. It would be interesting ... Read More