Wondercon 2012 is underway at the Anaheim Convention center in Southern California, and we're there. The con was traditionally held in San Francisco, which is actually causing a bizarre boycott of sorts this year by some hipster fans up there who feel betrayed by its move. Despite that, the con is going on with some huge panels today including Ridley Scott bringing some new Prometheus footage, and... more.

If you never owned a Dreamcast, then chances are you never experienced Yu Suzuki's epic Shenmue. The sequel was ported to the original Xbox, but wasn't a huge seller; which means the series has remained fondly in the memories of Sega fans. It was one of the last big franchises to hit a Sega platform before they ended their hardware.Over the years it's been pretty popular to troll Sega fans wit... more.

Over the last week or so there was a rumor of some kind of Baldur's Gate announcement coming. Fans were wishing that it would be a Baldur's Gate III announcement, but what we're getting is almost as cool...Coming exclusively to digital distribution platform Beamdog is an Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II. The updates are being develope... more.

If you're like us and hopelessly hooked on Mass Effect 3 you go through withdrawals when you have to leave your house and turn off the game. Well if you have an iPhone or iPad you can download the Mass Effect 3 Datapad and take part of the game with you.While most of it is promotional fluff, the app has one real awesome feature. You can use it to slowly increase your Galactic Readiness. That a... more.

If there's one game franchise that's sorely missed, it's MechWarrior. While the Xbox had a couple of third-person action games set in the universe, neither one filled the gap caused by the lack of a true first-person MechWarrior title in the same style of the classic MechWarrior 2.Well we're finally getting a successor to that classic PC game in the form of MechWarrior Online, and the devs sho... more.

It looks like EA and BioWare are taking notice of subscription numbers that aren't growing. To try to entice new players to try out The Old Republic, they are having a "Weekend Pass" free trial weekend. Starting tomorrow when you can download the client, people who sign up to play for free over until Monday.You can sign up on the official site, an... more.

Apparently Blizzard is so close to finishing Diablo III's single player campaign that they're dropping PVP for launch. That's what they announced on the game's official site, citing that PVP just wasn't up to their standards of quality and instead of continuing to delay the game to perfect PVP, they'll add it in at a later date:Today, we wa... more.

On February 1st, EA proudly announced that Star Wars: The Old Republic had reached 1.7 million subscribers. Now nearly a month later EA has revealed new subscriber numbers...and they haven't changed. There was no increase or decrease in the number of people playing TOR, which technically isn't a good thing for such a big game that was just released.VentureBeat has the more.

A former World of Warcraft Game Master has sued Blizzard for copyright infringement over the voice of the baby Merloc. Amanda Lewis claims that Blizzard is profiting off her voice, which they used for the baby Merloc:While working at Blizzard, Lewis says, she received an email requesting voices for "World of Warcraft" creatures. ... more.

As part of this week's Guild Summit in Austin, BioWare has released a new trailer for the 1.2 Update. The video shows off the first footage of the new Warzone, Operation, and Flashpoint in the update, but the big reveals come with the new Legacy system unlocks.In the trailer you can see a couple of the new race/class combinations (a Sith Pureblood Jedi and Chiss Smuggler), mailboxes on ships, ... more.