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NCsoft has revealed its MMO Aion: The Tower of Eternity will be flipping the switch to go free-to-play across Europe next Tuesday, February 28th. The changeswill take place in English, German and French at the same time on Tuesday; this on the heels of what’s being called a successful beta …

The latest effort in the Medal of Honor series has been revealed, along with word of its expected arrival in October of this year. Game Informershares that the upcoming issue of Official Xbox Magazine peels a tiny bit of the curtain back on the sequel to the 2010 series reboot. …

Medal of Honor: Warfighter due in October

Attempt to legislate video game sales to minors added to state budget woes

Crytek release free SDK with integrated GUI tools

Pre-registration discount still available to conference attendees until February 29th

David Solari has joined Cambridge publisher Jagex as chief marketing officer. Solari joins following 14 years at Codemasters. His most recent role was vice president and general manager of Codemasters Online Gaming. In that role, he oversaw the launc of Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, Archlord …

Latest updates and developments to be showcased at event

xaitMap and xaitcontrol to add features such as NavMesh generation and pathfinding

Blizzard Entertainment is the next major games studio to embrace free-to-play and will apply the model in an upcoming, as yet unannounced game, Develop understands. Following some eight years of success with its trailblazing MMO World of Warcraft, it is said that the California studio will expand business opportunities and …