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During the last days one just had no chance at all to avoid news about the closure of 3D Realms and the development stop of Duke Nukem Forever, the game we never really expected to come out anyway. First the gaming community was only mourning over the remains of the Duke, but then the focus shifted on the lawsuit that TakeTwo has by now filed against 3D Realms. more...

Word has spread that the PC version of the upcoming Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena would exploit the DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection. more...

Publisher THQ has now announced that they will have to close their developing studio Big Huge Games (Rise of Nations), if a sale can not be completed "in the near future." Also, THQ is intending to turn their studios Heavy Iron and Incinerator into independent developers. more...

Videogamer.com reports that online gaming start-up Gazillion Entertainment is titling themselves a "major player on the MMO market." According to them, this has a simple reason, namely that they have a ten-year license to make online games based on the entire Marvel universe. more...

Back in the times of the first Street and Virtua Fighters the beat ‘em up genre was immensely popular, but the last one-and-a-half decades showed a constant decline of the expiring star of videogames. Even though plenty of new game genres forced their way onto the market and into the homes of players, fighting games are partly responsible for their fall. In the end, they simply became too complicated and time-consuming for beginners. more...

Renowned modder's heaven moddb.com have just kicked off their 7th Mod of the Year Awards. In case you didn't know yet: moddb.com is an archive of thousands of mods and indie games for different platforms. The competition is very popular in the mod and indie scene because of the great prices (DVDs, software, and servers) and the fame you can achieve from winning in one of the most famous modding competitions in the gaming world. more...

Although the online game Age of Conan is not as prosperous as anticipated on the PC, developer Funcom is still determined to release the game on the Xbox 360. Erling Ellingsen, product manager of Funcom, stated this during an interview with MTV Multiplayer . more...