Those who are still having a good ole time in Fable 2 might have a reason to keep it in your system for just a little bit longer. Over at Lionhead Studios’ official blog, the company is teasing a “big” announcement for the game that will apparently be happening next week.
Normally, we don’t like to [...]

Bethesda Softworks announced yesterday afternoon that Fallout 3 has had a very successful launch period, shipping 4.7 million units to retailers worldwide.
Released on October 28 in North America at midnight store openings in over 2,000 retail outlets nationwide jammed with fans eager to get the game, Fallout 3 quickly became one of the industry’s top [...]

Note to self: Don’t create a program that lets you run bots inside World of Warcraft. Not that I would ever know how to do it, but it’s one of those just in case scenarios.
The MMOGlider program was a simple one. It lets players set their characters to do the monotonous stuff, such as finding [...]

Abyssal Technologies announced this afternoon that their new game engine, the Abyssal Engine, is now available for licensing. The engine is available for commercial and independent developers alike, and can be utilized on a number of genres thanks to its tool kit and rendering engine.
“We are delighted to be able to offer a professional, extensible [...]

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is having a pretty good first week for itself. So good, in fact, that the game has registered over 500,000 new players according to numbers released today by Mythic Entertainment and EA.
“In just one week we have a half a million people playing WAR online, and the ranks of Order [...]

Well, no on can say it’s unfair. Those annoying little gold farmers trying to make a quick buck off of other people’s laziness are apparently going to have a hard time pulling that off in Warhammer Online. Mythic co-founder Mark Jacobs has written an extensive piece on the topic (cliff note: he hates it) and [...]

Trion World Network announced this morning that it has closed a Series C funding round in the amount of $70 million. The funding efforts were co-led by Act II Capital as well as an unnamed financial institution. In addition, all of the investors from the previous round also contributed.
“Trion is a pioneer in the video [...]

Funcom announced this morning that Craig Morrison has been named the new producer and game Director for their Age of Conan MMO. He replaces former director and Funcom co-founder Gaute Godager, who left the company earlier this year.
“Taking on the position as Producer and Game Director on Age of Conan is a great challenge but [...]

BioWare anounced this morning at the PAX 2008 that they will be releasing a toolset for their upcoming PC RPG, Dragon Age. The set, designed specifically for the PC, will give players developer-grade tools to produce custom content as they see fit.
If you happen to be at the show, you can check out the Dragon [...]

Whether you hate them or not, people who sit around all day and gather gold in various MMOs are a wealthy bunch (or at least the owners of said companies). Against all odds, people have managed to turn fake money into $500 million in real money. A BBC report looked into this oddball phenomenon, finding [...]