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ArenaNet’s official Guild Wars website has been updated with a new gameplay movie that was used to kick off last weekend’s PvP Extreme event.

Gamecloud is offering up a short preview of Turbine’s The Lord of the Rings Online, after seeing the MMORPG firsthand at the recent Penny Arcade Expo. Check it out: The PAX demo for Lord of the Rings Online showed off…

IGN Xbox360 is reporting that BioWare has begun expanding to handle development of Dragon Age, Neverwinter Nights, a Jade Empire sequel, and an Unreal 3-powered FPS/RPG hybrid. The article also claims that Jade Empire only sold 500,000 copies, which is…

Although the series technically didn’t include any RPGs, PC Gameworld has published an article that details the history of Sierra’s King Quest franchise and how PC gaming evolved after the first game’s release. A snip: Players would maneuver Sir Graham…

A handful of new images from Black Isle’s cancelled Fallout 3 “Van Buren” project have surfaced on the ‘net. The first four can be found within Obsidian Entertainment’s forums and the final image is over in the Nukacola forums. Sad…

In the twentieth community update for Dragonshard, Atari’s Shane DeFreest provides us with two new screenshots and the transcript of a recent developer chat at Dragonshard.net. Once again: Hello everyone and welcome to #Eberron. The official Chatroom of The Eberron…

A press release has been issued announcing a signature campaign protesting the Chinese government’s plans to limit the playtime of MMORPGs to a mere three consecutive hours. Chinese gamers launch protest over government plans to limit online game playtime Shanghai.…

Killer Betties has put together a preview of Auto Assault, after getting some hands-on time with NCsoft and NetDevil’s post-apocalyptic vehicular MMORPG, Auto Assault. Check it out: As you acquire “clink” (the slang term used for money in Auto Assault)…

USA Today has written up their own review of Dungeon Siege II, giving the action RPG sequel an overall score of 4 Their final paragraph to follow: While this fantasy game sequel doesn’t really offer anything new to the RPG…

Globetechnology was able to track down director Uwe Boll for a quick interview about the status of the Dungeon Siege movie and video games in general. A little something to start you off: Q: The world seems to still be…