When EVE Online began selling premium vanity items this summer, everyone lost their minds and rioted. Granted, these were $US68 virtual monocles and such, but they didn’t offer any kind of performance advantage. Another space-based MMO, Dark Orbit decided to offer a rare spacecraft with a value of €1.000 (roughly $US1,300) and found more than 2,000 takers. Willing seller, willing buyer and all that. More »
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Company of Heroes Online isn’t just a straight remake of the original, addictive real-time strategy game, it takes that experience and fixes almost everything wrong with it. More »
Electronic Arts tells Kotaku that while they’re exploring different downloadable game strategies, they do not plan to charge gamers for “traditionally free game demos”. More »
PlayStation Home is moving its social network toward the gaming space by releasing a real, honest-to-god video game through Home. Meet Sodium, “an arcade shooter in an MMO wrapper.” More »
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