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March 2011
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- March 31
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- Breaking: GameStop to buy Stardock's Impulse, Spawn Labs' streaming
- SOE closes three studios, lays off 205 employees, cancels the Agency - live games unaffected
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Rumour: major layoffs at Sony Online Entertainment studios
- Is city-building the next big craze in MMOs?
- Get exclusive 24 hour access to the Mythos closed beta
- Allods Online to launch with new expansion
- ArmA 2 creators reveal trailer, info for secret project: Take On Helicopters
- Batman: Arkham City a "huge technical challenge," 80% will be set on streets of Gotham
- Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City trailer commits zombiecide
- Dragon age 2 tweaks guide
- Super Meat World is "days away"
- Fable 3 system specs announced
- Mech lust continues: the first Hawken gameplay footage
- March 30
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- Who's playing the Darkspore beta?
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Just Cause devs announce Renegade Ops
- EA orders fan sites to pull Ultima IV
- Max Payne 3 screens emerge
- Homefront patch coming this week, spells bad news for cheaters
- Dirt 3 will feature banned Group B rally
- World of Warcraft guild challenges promise extra XP and gold for guilds
- March 29
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- The 5 StarCraft 2 players you should be watching – America & Europe
- Minecraft 1.4 update arriving this week, will add stats, achievements and wolves
- Trion explains Rift's first World Event in Patch 1.1
- Rift endgame revealed in new trailer
- Play with PC Gamer: Join our EU guild in The Old Republic!
- March 28
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- March 25
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- Full details on Lee-Sin, League of Legends' upcoming champion
- Heroes of Newerth's latest champion, Tremble, will shake up the lanes
- The weekend playlist
- And in other PC gaming news...
- EVE Online Fan Fest keynote live blog
- Just Cause boss says hiring hackers and better games will beat PC piracy
- Mass Effect 2 The Arrival DLC will have Shepard fighting alone
- Crysis 2 sign-in problems lock players out of multiplayer
- March 24
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- Duke Nukem Forever release date disparity demystified
- Post-PAX recap: "The Death of an Indie Studio" by Scott Macmillan
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- Editorial: What will the "next generation" of MMOs look like?
- First look at TERA's achievements
- Rift world war kicking off March 30
- F1 2011 announced, arriving September 23
- Duke Nukem Forever delayed, again
- Space Marine coming in August
- Team Fortress 2 selling $100, $20, $7 hats for Japan aid
- Eidos Montreal outsources Deus Ex--should PC gamers panic?
- March 23
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Steam update improves voice chat, plans to add video recording in future
- Left 4 Dead 2 Cold Stream map now in beta
- Gothic 3: Forsaken Gods Enhanced Edition out now
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit patch fixes video card crashes
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River specs and trailer released
- Space Marine will feature the hordes of Chaos
- Portal 2 "Panels" trailer hits
- Rock of Ages screenshots released. Features stone ball in severe pain
- March 22
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- Use console commands to enable hidden graphic settings options in Crysis 2
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- Scorpix, an exclusive hero reveal for Rise of the Immortals
- EA manager says $60 games are "exploitative"
- Unseen Valve concept art suggests brand new project. Spoilers: Gordon absent :(
- Trine 2 trailer has giant spiders and venus man traps
- Dawn of War 2: Retribution Last Stand update to add achievements and new wargear
- Babe slapping in Duke Nukem: Gearbox head clarifies strength of gesture, anatomical target
- Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike DLC out Friday
- Next Team Fortress 2 video will meet the Medic
- March 21
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Duke Nukem Forever multiplayer replaces flag with capturable, slappable women
- Minecraft documentary donors to get more goodies
- PC Gaming Alliance loses more members
- Prey 2 inspired by Blade Runner and Mirror's Edge
- Rift devs get help from a hacker and plug security flaws
- Interview: Op Flash: Red River creative director talks realism, co-op, and the state of PC gaming
- Hitman 5 ARG concludes with screenshot
- March 20
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- March 18
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- Hamilton's Great Adventure preview
- The weekend playlist
- The biggest name in e-sports heads stateside: SlayerS_BoxeR applies to join NASL
- Mass Effect 2 DLC The Arrival confirmed, out in 11 days
- Mythos to get European release in April
- [UK Facebook giveaway] Win Total War: Shogun 2
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River screenshots show lovely sunsets and WAR
- Monday Night Combat is free this weekend
- March 17
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- World of Tanks is out next month
- PC Gamer UK April Issue – Battlefield 3
- Dead Island screens have giant zombies and katanas
- BAFTA Video Game Award winners
- Hitman 5 clues include film festivals and mysterious photographs
- Valve hire Doug Church of Thief, System Shock fame
- Dragon Age 2 Facebook game is live
- Lego: Pirates of the Caribbean preview
- March 16
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- Total Fail: Shogun 2 patch locks out players. Gets fixed
- CCP still crazy, EVE Online devs to duel in chessboxing showdown
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- Operation Flashpoint: Red River creative director doesn't "get much fun out of military simulations"
- Ubisoft include pirated soundtrack as part of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood digital edition
- EA: The Old Republic will be the first MMO with a story, says WoW's plot is like "a shopping list"
- Prey 2 trailer features live action plane invasion
- March 15
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- March 11
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Josh and Lucas test League of Legend's new Co-op vs. AI mode
- Call of Duty: Black Ops is "the best-selling game in history"
- Forumite gets Dragon Age 2 ban after asking Bioware if they had "sold their souls to the EA devil"
- Batman: Arkham City release date set for October in UK
- Shazbot! Tribes: Ascend announced. Multiplayer-only, coming this year, has trailer
- New Batman: Arkham City screens send in the clowns
- Pre-order Total War: Shogun 2, get Team Fortress 2 items
- Shogun 2 won't have DirectX 11 support at launch
- What happens when Microsoft closes your company? Meet Dusty Monk, Windstorm Studios
- Rift Founders pricing deal extended
- Bethesda's Todd Howard: "Oblivion sacrificed what made Morrowind special"
- March 10
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- Rumor: Doom movie reboot in the works
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- Full details on Nocturne, League of Legends' next champion
- Why I'm so excited for Realm of the Titans
- David Cameron launches SpecialEffect centre for disabled gamers
- Take Two boss says review scores matter, and that "making good games isn't good enough"
- Portal trailer re-created using Minecraft mod
- EA: "It's totally conceivable that PC will become our biggest platform"
- Guild Wars 2 crafting system detailed
- Hawken: the indie shooter set in an astonishing sci-fi megacity
- March 9
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution out in Europe on August 26
- Football Manager 2011 update is live
- Crysis 2 demo patch fixes connection issues
- Microsoft: Games for Windows Live "Needs great games to take advantage"
- UK Giveaway: Win one of ten Rift goodie bags
- "What if Don Draper were a game developer?" System Shock designer Austin Grossman on his next novel
- March 8
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- And in other PC gaming news...
- Saints Row: The Third to drop multiplayer, keep co-op and add air strikes
- APB: Reloaded shows new Enforcer squad car
- Just look at it: Radeon 6990 defies sense, reason, benchmarks
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution coming in August
- The weird new world of World of Warcraft patches: smaller, leaner, faster
- March 7
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- March 4
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- Browder hints at Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm updates. Emphasises importance of e-sports
- Social game developers rage at GDC
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- Mass Effect 2 DLC revealed in Dragon Age 2 packaging
- Epic: latest Intel integrated graphics "don't suck"
- "There's a very good chance" of Spelunky HD on PC, says creator Derek Yu
- Homefront dedicated servers detailed
- Mark Rein calls for curated app store in Windows 8
- DICE on the decline of PC gaming: "Bullshit." Battlefield 3 will give "extra love" to the PC community
- Remedy say Alan Wake PC cancellation wasn't their decision
- Peter Molyneux working on 256 player Populous in his spare time
- Call of Juarez: The Cartel trailer
- Eve developer CCP has internal affairs division to monitor employees in game
- Bungie confirm their next game is an MMO
- World of Warcraft patch 4.1 will not feature Firelands raid
- March 3
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- GDC founder claims the player "has not changed in 30 years"
- Battlestar Galactica Online is going 3D
- Cliff Bleszinski at GDC: "If you are the face of the company you have to stay humble"
- 17 percent of Battlefield Heroes players want to buy advantages
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood DRM only requires internet connection on install
- Mojang's next game "won't have the viral success of Minecraft." Normal company would "probably do Minecraft 2" instead
- Battlefield Play4Free will be the "biggest Western free-to-play title in the world"
- New Guild Wars 2 profession revealed
- Free Guild Wars update to add new areas, heroes and quests
- Watch Valve demonstrate tech to control Portal 2 with your eyes
- Introversion: "It's unlikely that we'll work with Microsoft again"
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Depth trailer released. Play as a shark and bite your mates
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood trailer shows the Da Vinci Disappearance
- Valve announce Steam Guard
- Battlefield Play4Free developed with 10 to 15 percent of Battlefield 3's budget
- Independent Games Festival award winners: some categories not won by Minecraft
- Saints Row 3 is real, has a subtitle
- Braben keeps dream of Elite 4 alive
- Elemental dev: "Metacritic score of 56 means it gives you cancer"
- Elemental devs giving away sequel to "show fans we've learned from our mistakes"
- March 2
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- World of Warcraft developer praises Call of Duty's customisation
- Eve Online has over 360,000 players. 63,170 simultaneous users in January
- Blizzard: "The 'world' part of WoW is arguably its strongest asset. Original WoW had very poor flow
- Red Orchestra made a profit from pre-orders alone
- Minecraft iPhone port will be "more of a spin off of Minecraft" created by "another developer"
- Eve Online: "We are trapped by the reality that users can take down the system"
- Win the power of the cosmos with our Intel i7 giveaway! [US only]
- Microsoft: "PC gaming is not dead”
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Monaco: an indie game born from depression, roguelikes, and 14-hour workdays
- Team Meat describe nightmare Xbox development: "everyone should love on Steam"
- Elemental: Fallen Enchantress trailer shows off updated combat
- Call of Duty: Black Ops double XP weekend starts this Friday
- Battlefield Play4Free open beta arriving in April, early access for Bad Company players
- Notch on piracy: "if a pirated game is a lost sale, should bad reviews be illegal?"
- March 1
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- Inside the Indie Fund: a better deal for developers
- Shank dev claims platform exclusivity hurts digital sales
- Civilization 5 patch hits tomorrow
- Spelunky on XBLA features multiplayer; we want it on PC
- Stardock's Brad Wardell talks free-to-play and battling Steam
- Super Meat Boy PC sold more in two weeks than Xbox's total sales
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion expansion announced at GDC
- Crytek have no ETA on Crysis 2 demo SNAFU
- PC Gaming Alliance report shows PC gaming market booming
- Crysis 2 demo out now (updated)
