And the award for the best Christmas tree of 2011 goes to this awesome Portal tree. We loved the Vader tree, but this is even cooler. ... more.

I really wish we were joking about this, but we're not. BioWare has teased the first big content patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic by releasing one image from the expanded Karagga’s Palace operation that will be added next month. At first, the image doesn't look too exciting as TOR is filled with giant robot bosses you have to de... more.

Just before the game launched, an analyst estimated that The Old Republic may have upwards of 1.5 million players already in the game. Now that the game launched, EA has confirmed that there are 1 million people playing the game and according to them that makes it the fastest growing subscription MMO i... more.

League of Legends is a free to play MOBA (Massive Online Battle Arena) with about 15 million players. Since a majority of those players don't pay anything to play the game, it's a little tough to staff a large GM staff to police them, so Riot games has come up with a Tribunal system that allows the players to discipline each other. When someone does something unsportsmanlike in a game, such as lea... more.

I guess this must be a sign of the game's success, as Trion Worlds has informed RIFT players that they've had a compromise of their account database. An email was sent out to anyone who ever had a RIFT account late last night that detailed the nature of the compromise: We recently discovered that unauthorized intruders gained access to a Trion Worlds account database. The database in question c... more.

The other day, EA released some images of the Jedi vs Sith "freeze mob" they pulled off in Times Square for the release of The Old Republic. Today a video of the event was released, and you get a really good look at both the Jedi and Sith costumes they created for the big night. The Darth Malgus is particularly good, ... more.

When Star Wars Galaxies was shut down last week, there was a promise of a "memory book" coming soon. No one really knew what it would be, and today they posted the massive tome in the form of a 200MB PDF on what remains of the game's offic... more.

In a really good retrospective on Star Wars Galaxies over at Industry Gamers, SOE's overlord John Smedley expressed regrets about some of the decisions that were made in the course of the game's life. In addition to saying that if he were to do it all over again he would have delayed the game a ... more.

Now that The Old Republic is out, the next big MMO on the radar is ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2. In an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, an ArenaNet developer confirmed that the game will finally begin closed beta tomorrow: We will officially enter Closed Beta Testing this Friday. I... more.

With Star Wars: The Old Republic officially available to everyone now, BioWare has created a short documentary about the game. Where Blizzard puts a "making of" DVD in their WoW Collector's Editions, BioWare didn't do that with The Old Republic; so this little promotional piece is probably the closest we're going to get. It runs eigh... more.