No questions about it, Skrim has made a big impact in gaming. Bethesda's hit role-playing adventure is the second highest grossing title in 2011, and received 'Game of the Year" plus other recognitions at the 2012 Interactive Achievement Awards. Recently Bethesda released a custom content workshop called the Creation Kit, and within a week more than 2 million mods have been downloaded. Check out the press r ...

After three months of closed beta testing, Blacklight Retribution is now ready to let everyone else join in on the fun. The closed beta will end on February 17 at 5pm Pacific and players will be able to take part in the open beta on February 27. The open beta will include three new maps, custom-built Hero characters, the Data Node system, and much more. Check out this new trailer showing off the Bulldozer l ...

On November 6 of last year the forums of Valve’s Steam gaming platform were vandalized, followed by an intrusion on a Steam user database containing usernames, hashed and salted passwords, billing and email addresses, game purchase transcripts, and encrypted credit card info. The company started an investigation and required Steam users to change their forum passwords, which are different from Steam account ...

Straight from the ArenaNet Blog, the founder and President of ArenaNet Mike O’ Brien started off the Year of the Dragon with some very good news. Guild Wars 2 is expected to release later this year, and select press will be invited to participate in beta testing. March and April will see the studio increasing the size of their beta test events so more gamers can join in the fun. This is very good news to me ...

2011 was a pretty big year for DC Universe Online, and SOE has some pretty interesting statistics to share with us. Since launch, DCUO has seen: More than 3.5 million Heroes, more than 2 million Villains More than 1.8 million registered players on PC, and more than 2.3 million registered players on PS3 3.6 million days of playtime total by all players in-game More than 1,200 new NPC characters added since l ...

Recently, Blizzard Community manager Micah Whipple responded on Twitter about Diablo 3 coming to consoles which sounded very much like a confirmation. Unfortunately the tweet was taken out of context and only stating that a console version is still a possibility and not a reality. Here is a statement given to IGN about the matter: "Bashiok's response on Twitter was intended as a confirmation that we're acti ...

Window’s has confirmed in their CES 2012 keynote that Kinect will be coming to a PC near you on February 1 with a model that is different from the camera on the Xbox 360 console. Major Nelson tweeted the price featured on Amazon to be $249.99, making it $100 more than the console version. However, the Kinect on PC is an improved model with the nifty ability to detect objects near the camera lens. Source: G4 ...

SOE has announced their second DLC Pack for DC Universe Online will be called Lightning Strikes which releases later this year. Staying true to its name, Lightning Strikes will introduce Electricity Powers as an eighth power set plus new adventures with The Flash, the fastest man alive and protector of Central City. DC Universe Online has seen great success with going free-to-play, and paying $14.99 a month ...

Sony has some pretty good news to share about DC Universe Online. 1 million new registered players have joined DCUO with an even 50/50 split between the PS3 and PC platforms. I bought the game when it released originally, and was a paid subscriber for a few months. The game originally had a pretty sizeable community and now those numbers have risen to new heights as Sony tries to keep up with the increasing ...

According to Statcounter.com.  As of this month, Windows 7 has surpassed Microsoft's most popular operating system Windows XP. Since the launch of Windows 7, customers have been pleased with the operating system as Windows XP dropped down to 38.58% and Windows 7 rose to 40. 34%. Windows vista on the other hand didn’t stand a chance.  At its peek in 2008, Windows Vista never got any higher than 23% of the op ...