I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Blizzard has announced the banning of 5,000 StarCraft II players for cheating or hacking the game. With millions upon millions of copies of the game sold, 5,000 isn't a large percent of the player base; but this does s... more.

If you're a MMORPG player, you owe it to yourself to read Lum the Mad's blog. Lum has been around the MMO scene forever, prior to going to work for Mythic on DAoC and further MMO adventures. Last week when Final Fantasy XIV launched for the Collector's Edition, he uncovered startling signs that the game was... more.

Square's long-awaited sequel to Final Fantasy XI is finally out, but should you spend your time and money playing it? The answer to that question will really depend on how much of a blind lemming you are to the Final Fantasy games. I say blind lemming as that is the only way anyone really could choose to play Final Fantasy XIV over the multitude of actual working MMORPGs on the market. Square has ... more.

This isn't a joke. Lucasarts revealed via their Twitter/Facebook feeds that there will be an unlockable Guybrush Threepwood skin in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. For those unfamiliar with him, Guybrush is the main character in Lucasarts' classic Monkey Island series which has recently seen a revival due to Telltalle Games putting out a new episodic adventure and Lucasarts re-releasing the firs... more.

Capcom's sequel to the early Xbox 360 game Dead Rising is in stores today, complete with lightsabers. One of the big features of the game is the ability to create weapons out of nearly everything. Throughout the game you'll pick up various items and they can be combined in workshop rooms to create many different kinds of zombie-killing weapons. Naturally, the coolest one of these is the lightsaber... more.

There have been a couple known rounds of closed, completely NDA'ed, testing for The Old Republic so far. The first of which was just over a weekend followed by an apparent larger scale round. Now word is coming out that Bioware has added another batch of players to the testing pool. If you want to be considered, just head over to www.swtor.com and create an account (if ... more.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that Clone Wars Adventures reached 1 million players within a week of its launch. As part of the celebration all current players received a golden mouse droid pet. This immediately gives players a droid, which normally costs real money to purchase, and the droid is named 1M-AUS so it does commemorate the 1 million account milestone."Last year we set a re... more.

Over the weekend there has been a lot of confusion going around the World of Warcraft player base. Early in the weekend, MMO Champion posted a message stating that the expansion will launch on November 2nd. Immediately after that, Amazon.com began to email everyone who had the expansion pre-ordered and informed them that the game would ship on November 23rd, although most would not receive their c... more.

Roger Ebert's criticism of video games created a tsunami of responses in the online community. Understandably, many gamers were offended by his assertion that not only were video games not art, but they had no potential as such either. His piece on the matter was poorly constructive and didn't reach a definition of art to begin with. In addition to that, most of exposure to video games amounte... more.

SOE has released a "Director's Cut" of the awesome CG trailer Blur Studios did for their upcoming DC Universe Online MMO. There really isn't any new footage, but the trailer features Jim Lee and Blu Studios Director Tim Miller providing commentary over the video. Sony's DC Comics MMO comes out in November, and it's looking pretty cool so far. You're able to create a superhero in the mold of one of... more.