Nearly 10% of Brits play MMOs (and other curious stats)

Nearly 10% of Brits play MMOs (and other curious stats)

It’s official: Britain is nuts about MMOs. As if you needed clarification, according to recent market focus research by Today’s Gamers, there are over 4.2 million MMO gamers in Britain spending nearly £200 million on MMOs a year.

Martial Arts MMO beta-key giveaway

Martial Arts MMO beta-key giveaway

We like to give beta keys away on totalpcgaming.com, especially when it comes to more uncommon MMOs. Tian Long Ba Bu (or TLBB for short) is a Chinese Martial Arts MMO from changyou.com, featuring martial arts battles with up to 64 other players.
We’re giving away a job lot of codes ...

Windows 7 expires? Really?

Windows 7 expires? Really?

It’s 1 March and as all you tight-fisted spongers (including myself) that haven’t upgraded their Windows 7 release candidate will know, your perfectly legitimate trial OS expires today. At least you should know anyway, because for the last couple of weeks we’ve been subjected to a barrage of pop-up windows ...

More Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 content in 2011

More Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 content in 2011

It seems that Bio Ware fans can rejoice, as they can look forward to even more content for their favourite RPG’s next year. As part of their annual earnings report EA have announced that Dragon: Age Origins will be getting yet another huge PC expansion at the beginning of 2011.

Total PC Gaming issue #30 on sale today!

Total PC Gaming issue #30 on sale today!

Total PC Gaming issue 30 is now available on-line and from all good newsagents.
Included in this issue
All the biggest PC games covered including:
Splash Damage takes TPCG to the Brink
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands previewed
Napoleon: Total War multiplayer explored
New for PC it’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Reviewed
In-depth reviews and analysis including:
Supreme Commander 2 ...

DRM: Something’s gotta give

DRM: Something’s gotta give

Where do you draw the line on DRM? What Valve did with Half-Life 2 is a widely accepted practise today, even though at the time on-line activation was met with an unprecedented community backlash. Proper notification in the system requirements box would have softened the blow for many, especially those ...

Kirsten Dunst dances with hentai anime posters (Wii)

Kirsten Dunst dances with hentai anime posters (Wii)

Kirsten Dunst is wearing a bright blue wig as she dances through the streets of Akihabara while singing a cover of ‘Turning Japanese’ by the Vapors. She’s posing in front of hentai anime posters. She’s running through arcades and pachinko parlors. She’s partying with zombies in jumpsuits. Yes, we can ...

Borderlands General Knoxx DLC Dated and Priced (Borderlands)

Borderlands General Knoxx DLC Dated and Priced (Borderlands)

Borderlands Developer Gearbox Software have confirmed that the latest expansion pack for the game, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx will be released on the Xbox 360 tomorrow – February 23rd!
The DLC will set Xbox 360 Borderlands fans back 800 Microsoft Points – around $10 in real money ...

Catch the VanaFest Bug with FFXI Trivia (Final Fantasy XI)

Catch the VanaFest Bug with FFXI Trivia (Final Fantasy XI)

With a tiny over a week left until VanaFest 2010 commences, long-time fans of Final Fantasy XI might well be taking the opportunity to think back on the memories the game has produced. If those memories happen to include some obscure facts, you might be in luck with the VanaFest ...

IGN: Activision Passed on The Sims (The Sims)

IGN: Activision Passed on The Sims (The Sims)

The company could’ve snapped up Maxis and Will Wright’s Sim-based phenomenon, but decided against it.
Speaking at the Dice Summit 2010 in Vegas, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick offered a compelling history of the company’s origins and detailed some of its biggest misses through the years.
"All my ...

Just Cause 2 devs go on the hunt (The Hunter)

Just Cause 2 devs go on the hunt (The Hunter)

TVGB: "Just Cause series developer Avalanche Games is getting into the digital hunting business.
The studio has acquired full rights to The Hunter, Emote Games’ browser-based hunting sim that uses Avalanche’s game engine. From now on, Avalanche will assume all developing and publishing duties of the title, plans to ...

Harvest Moon Gets Played Alot Says Nintendo (Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility)

Harvest Moon Gets Played Alot Says Nintendo (Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility)

BeefJack writes: "It seems one of the most played games on the Wii is not from Nintendo, according to the companies own Wii Channel.
Natsume’s popular Harvest Moon series is entering its 12th year this year and with that comes the news that the average will player has logged ...

New trademark prompts thought of Eternal Darkness for Wii (Eternal Darkness II)

New trademark prompts thought of Eternal Darkness for Wii (Eternal Darkness II)

Nintendo was on a Gamecube Wii-make spree last year with their slate of New Play Control games. Things have since slowed down, but maybe Eternal Darkness will get a second chance on the market.
The rights to the term Eternal Darkness lapsed, but Nintendo re-registered the game’s name in ...

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Beats Down No More Heroes 2? (Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars)

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Beats Down No More Heroes 2? (Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars)

CoffeewithGames.Blogspot.com says, "On January 26, 2010, Wii owners in America were given two very anticipated games to buy, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars. Some Wii owners probably purchased just No More Heroes 2, some probably just purchased Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, and some ...

PC Gamer gets world exclusive for Fallout: New Vegas (Fallout: New Vegas)

PC Gamer gets world exclusive for Fallout: New Vegas (Fallout: New Vegas)

Our friends down the hall at PC Gamer are hard at work on what may be their ideal issue of all time. We can’t tell you much about their upcoming April issue. What we can tell you is that this month’s marquee story is the grand unveiling of Fallout: New ...