Dante’s Inferno Dark Forest Micro-Review: Much Power, Little Point

10:00AM Stephen Totilo | For about five bucks, a Dante’s Inferno player can have the most powerful Dante in the video games. More »

What The People Behind Mass Effect, Dragon Age Are Trying To Do

4:00AM Stephen Totilo | I spoke to the men running the studio behind many of the world’s biggest role-playing games a couple of weeks ago, to discuss a variety of things. I left with a bonus: The BioWare Vision Statement. More »

Now Everyone Can Be A Lord Of Ultima

5:30AM Mike Fahey | EA’s web-based strategy revival of classic RPG series Ultima has entered open beta, with thousands of players fortifying their towns for the inevitable invasion by everyone imaginable. Will you join the fray? More »

Is This The Release Date For Dragon Age 2?

2:40AM Mike Fahey | A blood dragon-emblazoned card tucked within retail copies of the Dragon Age Origins: Awakening expansion suggests that February 1, 2011 is a date of some importance to BioWare’s latest RPG franchise. Is this the release date for Dragon Age 2? More »

Command & Conquer Copies Ubisoft’s Awful DRM

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Well, here’s something that slipped through the cracks. While we were all busy condemning Ubisoft for its restrictive, must-be-online PC digital rights management, EA has crept in and done almost the exact same thing. More »

Drop Into Skate 3 In Early May

2:20AM Mike Fahey | Riding high on the failure of Tony Hawk: Ride and feeling absolutely no threat from Ubisoft’s upcoming Shaun White skateboarding title, EA gears up for an early May release for the third installment of the Skate series. More »

Mario’s Inferno Sticks It To EA’s Marketing Team

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Few trailers in recent memory have polarised gamers as much as EA’s Dante’s Inferno clip for the Super Bowl. Would you have liked it more if, say, Dante was not Dante, but Mario? More »

Battlefield Drops SecuROM DRM

3:00PM Luke Plunkett | The Steam version of EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 is about to get a new patch, and amidst the little tweaks and fixes is some welcome news: the game’s SecuROM DRM software will also be uninstalled. More »

Bad Company 2 Video Spoofs Modern Warfare 2’s “F.A.G.S.” PSA

12:00PM Owen Good | When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 riffed on rival Modern Warfare 2’s “Mapathy” promo last week, it could be seen as a playful poke. This, however – a comprehensive parody of October’s infamous “F.A.G.S.” video – is a straight-up nutshot. More »

Studios Dial Up Dollars From Smartphone Games

9:00AM TheWrap | There is one bright spot in the flailing video game industry, and Hollywood already has started taking notice. More »