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Our list is complete -- what's #1!?
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Abandoned Ware #3: RuneScape

By David Wolinsky | PC Articles | Feb 23, 2011 9:50 AM | Comment

Wikipedia says RuneScape has "approximately 10 million active accounts per month, over 156 million registered accounts, and is recognised [sic] by the Guinness World Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG." So why the hell hadn't I ever heard of it until last month? Well, a bunch of reasons -- but chief among them is the simple fact that MMOs have rarely (if ever) fail to ignite excitement in me. Read More »

Abandoned Ware #3: RuneScape

DICE Says Rivals Are "Treading Water," Studio Reveals First Battlefield 3 Gameplay Trailer

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 23, 2011 8:47 AM | Comment

Battlefield 3 isn't set to ship until September, but publisher Electronic Arts is already getting behind the DICE shooter and giving it a nice big marketing push. Today's updates include pre-order details, a jab at competitors in the crowded military FPS genre, and the first BF3 gameplay trailer. So what are you waiting for? Hit the jump and let's get rolling. Read More »

EA, DICE Talk Battlefield 3, Reveal First Gameplay Trailer

Command & Conquer Gets New Studio, Next Game in the Franchise Now in Development

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 22, 2011 12:44 PM | Comment

Nothing to see here is EA's clumsy response after launching a website yesterday that reveals a new Command and Conquer game is currently being developed by new studio Victory Games. The site and its details about the new C&C; game have since been pulled, but the web, she sees all, and she never forgets. Read More »

New Studio Takes the Reigns on Command & Conquer, Next Game in Development

Have a Dragonborn on 11/11/11, Win Loot From Bethesda in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 22, 2011 10:28 AM | Comment

Bethesda is turning the lights down low and playing some Barry White in hopes that Elder Scrolls fans will get to making little Elder Scrolls fans. The developer has announced a tongue-in-cheek promotion, promising loot to any couple that gives birth to a child on Skyrim's launch day of 11/11/11 and names their newborn... Dovahkiin(!), exclamation point not required. Read More »

Bethesda Announces Conception Quest Promo for Skyrim

Pirates Recruited for Risen 2: Dark Waters

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 22, 2011 8:24 AM | Comment

Deep Silver's open-world action RPG is getting an eye patch and a peg leg. Together with developer Piranha Bytes, the publisher has announced that Risen 2: Dark Waters will feature an all new pirate-based theme. Read More »

Deep Silver Announces Risen 2: Dark Waters

Mexico Seeks Ban on Call of Juarez: The Cartel

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 22, 2011 7:54 AM | Comment

The official announcement from Ubisoft and Techland and a handful of screenshots are all we've seen of the third installment in the Call of Juarez franchise, The Cartel. That's all the crime-ravaged city of Juarez, Mexico needed to seek an outright ban on the game. Read More »

Mexico Seeks Ban on Call of Juarez: The Cartel

Telltale Games Ready to Take on Dinosaurs, Zombies with Jurassic Park, Walking Dead Games

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 18, 2011 9:20 AM | Comment

The folks at Sam & Max studio Telltale Games are buzzing like the busy bees they are today with two more big announcements: Jurassic Park: The Game is set to launch in April, and Robert Kirkman has inked a multi-year deal with the studio to transform his zombie comic classic The Walking Dead into a video game. Read More »

Telltale Games Dates Jurassic Park: The Game, Annouces The Walking Dead

Valve Wants Fans to Create the Next DLC Pack for Left 4 Dead 2

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 17, 2011 12:01 PM | Comment

The next batch of DLC for Valve's zombie shooter Left 4 Dead 2 will be made by the game's community. In a surprise announcement on the official Left 4 Dead blog, Valve revealed it wants to take the ideas of a fan-created mod and shape it into the next DLC pack for the game -- and the studio wants your help to do it. Read More »

Valve Wants Fans to Create Next DLC Pack for Left 4 Dead 2

The Wasteland Needs a Hero in the New Trailer for id Software's Post-Apocalyptic Shooter, Rage

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 17, 2011 7:49 AM | Comment

Id Software's long-in-development new IP has already won enough awards to fill a sizable trophy case, and there are still eight months to go before the game is even released. Watch today's trailer for the post-apocalyptic FPS, and see why critics are so excited about Rage. Read More »

Id Software Releases New Trailer for Rage

The Interrogation Room: Rift

By Jeremiah Leif Johnson and Ryan Scott | PC Previews | Feb 16, 2011 7:00 PM | Comment

Mere weeks before the launch of Trion Worlds' upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game Rift, we've decided to take a deeper look at the game. Is it a WoW-killer? Is it simply a WoW wannabe? Or is it something else entirely? Well, we're not sure just yet... Read More »

The Interrogation Room: Rift

The Royal Palms Resort is No Place for Families in the Dead Island Premier Trailer

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 16, 2011 2:14 PM | Comment

Techland (Call of Juarez) launched the first trailer for its in-development zombie survival-horror game this afternoon, and our first look at Dead Island is a chill-inducing splendor. See the fate of one family unfold, Lost-style, after the jump. Read More »

Premier Trailer for Dead Island

George R.R. Martin's Fantasy World Comes to Digital Life in the First A Game of Thrones Screens

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 16, 2011 8:53 AM | Comment

Cyanide Studio is gearing up for the summer launch of A Game of Thrones: Genesis, and today the developer has revealed the first screens of its anticipated RTS based on George R.R. Martin's best-selling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Read More »

A Game of Thrones: Genesis First Screens

Old Friends Become New Foes in the Alice: Madness Returns Trailer

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 16, 2011 7:36 AM | Comment

The beautiful refuge that is Wonderland ain't what it used to be, and Alice is peeved. Check that: the dark turn of events in Wonderland has turned Alice homicidal, and in the latest trailer for American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns, the results are sanguinary. Read More »

Alice: Madness Returns Trailer

Engage in a Skirmish Before the Breakout of Total War in the Shogun 2 Demo Next Week

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 15, 2011 9:36 AM | Comment

So how's the AI? That's the question PC gamers have been asking since Sega and Creative Assembly announced the next addition to the Total War franchise, Shogun 2, way back in June. Today the publisher and developer announced gamers will get to find out for themselves before the full game launches in the Shogun 2 demo. Read More »

Sega Dates Total War: Shogun 2 Demo

BioWare, Felicia Day Team for Live-Action Dragon Age Web Series, Redemption

By Mike Sharkey | PC News | Feb 15, 2011 7:36 AM | Comment

Dragon Age is getting its own live-action digital mini-series. Actress Felicia Day, creator of Xbox Live comedy series The Guild, is sticking to her fantasy gaming roots and will star in Dragon Age: Redemption. Read More »

BioWare, Felicia Day Team for Live-Action Dragon Age Web Series

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