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Crytpic Studios dangled some interstellar combat footage as well as screenshots and concept art for its Star Trek Online massively multiplayer role playing game. The footage was revealed at a ceremony presided over by Spock actor and Star Trek film director Leonard Nimoy at a Star Trek convention last week.
Check it out here.

CDC Games, a pioneer of the “free-to-play, pay for merchandise” micropayments model for online gaming has announced that its upcoming title, based on the popular Digimon franchise from Japan, has been ranked number one by Chinese players via online recommendation on the most popular Chinese search engine, g.baidu.com.
The Digimon online game is scheduled for release [...]

So the idea was to find and collect letter shapes formed by the corpses of Elites and Spartans (those are playable characters from the game). What they got was a full alphabet, including numbers and even a few punctuation marks!
Take a gander at this monumental achievement by clicking on this link.

Now that DC’s got some of its self-respect back, what with Batman: The Dark Knight making all sorts of noise all over the place, they’re launching DC Universe Online.
It’s a make-your-own-hero (or villain) sort of massively multiplayer role playing game, and it’s been three years in the making. It will be available to Windows PC [...]

Square is indeed porting the original Chrono Trigger RPG to the Gameboy DS, and if you’re a big nostalgia fan like me, the fact that they didn’t give the graphics a drastic makeover only adds to the excitement.
Square has added a new dungeon, wireless play functionality and touch screen capability, but aside form that it’s [...]

Sorry boys, though rumors have been popping up of the next installment in the beloved Half-Life franchise being announced at E3 2008, Valve marketing head Doug Lombardi have put those rumors to rest.
Instead, Lombardi turned attention to Valve’s latest offering, the cooperative zombie romp Left 4 Dead. Oh well.

You might not have noticed for all the hype over GTA4’s monster release, but Funcom’s Age of Conan massively multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) has been quite the blockbuster as well, passing the 400,000 unit mark in just a few days. That ranks it among the best-selling PC games of all time.
And the critics seem impressed [...]

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. You play it by… not playing? You join, you browse the internet doing everything you usually do (or not), and your online actions are translated into in-game events like level-ups, missions and apparently even some kind of PvP melee combat.
It certainly brings new meaning to the term “browser-based [...]

 It’s about time we had something other than dragons and spaceships to populate our MMORPG gaming worlds.
Recent trends have increased the viability of online games featuring Asian, particularly Chinese, historical characters and gameplay elements. Hollywood is partly the reason for this, with box-office hits like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:, “Hero” and the recent “The Forbidden [...]

So according to Blizzard Entertainment, the number of its Chinese concurrent users for the massively mulitplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusades have passed the one milion mark–the highest ever rate since they launched the game there in 2005.
Be prepared for a tidal wave of web-jokes about everyone in China doing something at [...]