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Gothic Franchise Impulse Sale

Impulse has every Gothic title except Gothic 1 at 50% off (so Gothic II Gold, Gothic 3, Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods and Arcania – Gothic 4) for the weekend.

Reviewing Games is Hard

Noting they still don’t have a review copy of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, GameSpot’s Reality Check editorializes on why reviewing games is hard, though in actuality the editorial is about the difficulties of the pre-release review copy system. For…

Mass Effect 3 Magazine Preview Tidbits

New information on Mass Effect 3 is making the rounds, based on different magazine previews that are hitting the stands now. Kickarss.com offers a preview, presumably based on magazine tidbits but it doesn’t say. One of the main focuses of…

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Preview

GameShark is up next to preview The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and comes away impressed, noting it is “a title that should be on the short list of every self-respecting RPG gamer”. What’s different this time around is the level…

Dark Souls Previews

It seems a preview embargo broke on the console exclusive action RPG by From Software, Dark Souls, as we have a bunch of previews to share with you, all from journalists shown “Sen’s Castle”, also known as “trapped castle” for…

Lineage North American Servers Powering Down

Because the maintaining of servers is no longer financially viable for the Western markets, NCSoft has made the decision to shut down the North American servers as per June 29th. After much deliberation, NCsoft has made the difficult decision to…

Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword Reviews

We have the first batch of reviews for Sich’s standalone expansion Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, and it gives a mixed to poor impression of the game.  Eurogamer, 6. The closest thing to Warband’s tense and lucrative arena…

Din’s Curse: Demon War Review

411mania is next to review Din’s Curse expansion Demon War, and while they feel that the random nature of the game can sometimes lead to unfortunate results (overly difficult dungeons, losing NPCs), they like the game, giving it a 7.5.…

World of Warcraft Drops 600K Subscribers

Another tidbit from Mike Morhaine’s conference call with investors has surfaced – it seems that after hitting a 12 million-subscriber high around the release of Cataclysm, Blizzard’s total subscriber count for World of Warcraft has dropped to 11.4 million. During…

Diablo III Beta to Start Summer 2011

In today’s conference call, Activision/Blizzard’s Mike Morhaine announced that the Diablo III external beta should start this summer, while the company is currently doing extensive internal testing and still aiming to release the game this year, if they’re satisfied with…