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BioWare and LucasArts announced yesterday that they would be working on the new MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, also being referred to as Knights of the Old Republic 3. The news has been long awaited by the gaming community and has been rumoured for some time.

The game is set 300 years after the events [...]

Title: DOFUS
Developer: Ankama Games
Platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Release date: September 1, 2005
Genre: Fantasy Tactical MMORPG
Subscription: Free/£3.99 a month/£37 a year
Rating: PEGI - 12+
DOFUS, created by the Ankama Group, is the leading MMO in France, having won several awards, and has recently reached a landmark 10 million players since [...]

This year’s Tokyo Game Show is an opportunity for many games companies to showcase their upcoming projects. As such, there are plenty of trailers being screened for the press and public to view. Here’s a quick overview of some of the PC games shown at the event so far.
 
Prince of Persia
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Publisher: [...]

Square Enix, one of Japan’s biggest game developers, has teamed up with NeuroSky, the leading manufacturer in “wearable” consumer bio-sensors, to give us a game demonstration, using MindSet, on October 9th at the Tokyo Game Show.

The technical demonstration was performed on a Windows PC and featured the MindSet headset, which is capable of interfacing to [...]

Austria based games publisher, JoWood Productions have recently released a new trailer for their Gothic 3 add-on, Forsaken Gods. Gothic 3, a role playing game released in October 2006, received mixed reviews but was fairly successful, winning awards and being praised for its open-ended world, landscapes, and musical score.

It was announced in April 2008 that [...]

Games developer, Blizzard Entertainment, has taken legal action against MDY Industries, provider of the Glider bot, winning an estimated $6 million in damages. Blizzard claimed that the software infringed the copyright of their MMORPG, World of Warcraft and, in July, US District Court Judge David Campbell ruled that it broke the players’ terms of license.

Glider [...]

Bioware have been developing RPGs since 1998 and are responsible for big games such as Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Mass Effect. So, it was only a matter of time before their next roleplaying project began, this time in the form of Dragon Age: Origins.
This single-player [...]

With the popularity of comic to film conversions, and a whole range of video games, it was only a matter of time before the heroes and villains of DC Comics found their way into the MMORPG market. Sony Online Entertainment’s new Austin branch will be working on DC Universe Online, with the assistance of big [...]

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that they would be releasing both normal versions and collector’s editions of their World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King in North America, Europe, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Russia on November 13th. Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand will receive copies on November 14th. The expansion will [...]

In this instalment of eMagi’s preview of Wrath of the Lich King, we will be looking at vehicles, from the living to the mechanical and all that lie in between. Last time we focused on pets, taking a look at how Blizzard Entertainment have overhauled that system. It appears that won’t be the only thing [...]