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March 2012
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- March 31
- March 30
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- The Week in eSports (3/30/2012)
- Chris Metzen on Mists of Pandaria's story, and why the players are the real villains
- Minecraft update 1.2.5 adds more impatient cats, wilder Ocelots
- Ridge Racer: Unbounded PC City Creator doesn't work, patch incoming
- Double Fine success sparks Kickstarter boom
- We ask EVE Fanfest attendees what they think of DUST 514
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gets Arms Race mode and Aztec
- World of Warplanes getting dragon support? Happy March Fools day!
- Walk the Path of Exile during the public stress test weekend
- March 29
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- Why EVE Online is the best hangover game and the upcoming hazing of DUST players
- THQ lays-off 118 at Relic, Vigil as Warhammer 40K MMO Dark Millennium goes single-player
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 rumoured multiplayer and release date details hit official forums
- NCSoft explain why Guild Wars 2 collector's edition is more expensive in Europe
- The Indie Buskers want to turn your game ideas into real games
- World of Darkness players can try to stay human, but guns are only good as a "fashion accessory"
- Mass Effect 3 Operation Raptor multiplayer event kicks off this weekend
- How Team Fortress influenced Guild Wars 2's class system
- Team Fortress 2 update adds new hats and stat-tracking "strange parts"
- Now you can pay £32 to unlock everything in Battlefield 3
- March 28
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- Prime World's heroes give new meaning to "red versus blue"
- SimCity will require an internet connection to play
- Battlefield 3 PC patch will land tomorrow
- Help Hubble, win an iPad
- We ask every CCP man we can find whether DUST 514 is coming to PC
- Minecraft makes $80 million in 15 months
- Legend of Grimrock release date set for April 11, pre-orders now available
- The World Cyber Games are dead (to us)
- Age of Empires Online invades Steam
- March 27
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- ArenaNet president talks microtransactions and the risks of going subscription-free
- World of Darkness permadeath and politics: "Hanging out in bars could be a powerful play"
- Empire: Total War "still selling now as much as it was a year ago"
- Battlefield 3 PC patch delayed by console certification. "It's very frustrating," say DICE
- Good Old Games relaunches as GOG, will sell indie games and more current titles DRM free
- March 26
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- MLG 2012 Winter Championship - Day 3: MarineKing and DRG go the distance
- I hate Kaidan Alenko, but that's okay
- GAME enters administration, CEO quits, 227 stores close
- FTL is coming to Steam, Kickstarter campaign has five days left
- Prey 2 feared cancelled
- Grand Theft Auto V and Max Payne 3 to support multiplayer "crews"
- Starbreeze working on free to play game called Cold Mercury
- March 25
- March 24
- March 23
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- The Week in eSports (3/23/12)
- EVE Online's keynote: A recap in their own words
- What do game writers and designers think about BioWare changing the Mass Effect 3 ending?
- Release dates for Inferno and EVE Online's other major updates in 2012
- NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 680
- Max Payne 3 PC will have DirectX 11 support, new PC screenshots arrive
- CCP CEO: DUST 514 won't "affect your everyday EVE experience unless you want it to"
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 free XP weekend arrives, IW apologise to PC fans
- March 22
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- Rift prepares us for the coming of Maelforge, Dragon Lord of the Fire Plane
- Bring the pain to Big-Ass Monsters with our TERA beta key giveaway
- MLG Winter Championship starts tomorrow in Columbus, winter still missing
- Scoring assists with Prime World's support heroes
- Watch EVE Online's Fanfest live with CCP's Livestream
- Dota 2 China launch is "mandatory if we want DOTA to succeed" say Valve
- Total War: Shogun 2 patch adds 80-unit battles, 22 new maps, hundreds of fixes
- Star Wars: The Old Republic free trial kicks off today for new players
- Dota 2 patch files tease microtransactions: masks, taunts and Dr. Kleiner included
- March 21
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- Total War studio boss on Steam Workshop mods: "we should be letting people do this"
- Mass Effect 3 devs working on "game content initiatives" to clarify ending
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch 1.5 is out now, adds finishing moves and killcams
- Notch wants to make a Firefly-inspired sandbox space game like Elite "except done right"
- GAME delisted from stock exchange, files for administration
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta sign ups live, all Annual Pass holders will be invited
- Guild Wars 2 microtransactions work like EVE PLEX, claim ArenaNet. "Everyone wins."
- Dark Souls PC teased, "an announcement is coming" says official Facebook page
- March 20
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- One billion games of League of Legends played
- Druid class revealed for Dungeons & Dragons Online
- Mass Effect 3 Operation Goliath multiplayer mission is over, three million Brutes brutalised
- The Walking Dead gameplay footage leaks
- Tribes: Ascend patch adds new capture the flag map, more servers and balance fixes
- Sun reports terrorists using Call of Duty as training tool, global threat levels reduced
- Blizzard “very happy” with subscription model, say free to play can “burn out” players
- March 19
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- Ys: The Oath in Felghana now on Steam
- Valve on bringing the PC to E3
- Mists of Pandaria footage shows new zones, instances
- Baldur's Gate 3 "our long term goal" says Baldur's Gate: Enhanced dev
- Kingdoms of Amalur MMO due "later in the year" says artist
- Garrosh Hellscream is World of Warcraft’s new arch-villain
- Mists of Pandaria: Everything you need to know
- March 17
- March 16
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- The Week in eSports (3/16/12)
- Modding is amazing again
- Mass Effect 3 multiplayer data released, weekend event awards unique item pack for Reaper genocide
- Maple Story invaded by aliens
- Save the earth, then throw it at people in DC Universe Online's newest content pack
- Valve launches Steam Collections: hand-picked mod packs for Skyrim and Team Fortress 2
- Garry's Mod has sold 1.4 million copies, Garry releases sales history to prove it
- The Secret World takes Minecraft's crafting system and makes it better
- Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai: ten tips to help you take Japan
- Call of Duty: Elite still incoming. Activision "excited to do right by the PC gamers"
- Elder Scrolls Online could be announced in May
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown will support mods and have a "standalone PC tactical UI"
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch 1.5 beta adds spectacular stabbing and suplexes
- March 15
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- Indie Royale's St. Patrick's Day Bundle headlined by Hard Reset, on sale now
- Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition announced, coming this summer
- Notch, Bethesda, Freddie Wong, Robin Walker (oh, and us) to fight in Team Fortress 2 for charity
- CD Projekt co-founder: "I don’t want The Witcher to be sold by crappy stores"
- Risen 2 release date set for April
- Baldur's Gate site gets mysterious countdown
- Peter Molydeux's "MolyJam 2012" kicks off at the end of March
- Diablo 3 release date set for May 15
- March 14
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- Razer CEO ponies up $10K to fund Wasteland 2
- Chivalry: Medieval Warfare trailer shows olde FPS dueling, decapitations
- Portal 2 Puzzle Creator in internal beta testing now, will use Steam Workshop
- Roccat's new mouse features achievements, including one called "Sultan of Scroll"
- Mass Effect 3 ending outrage raises $30k for Child's Play charity
- Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Campaign kicks off, receives $500k in 24 hours
- Battlefield 3 patch incoming, new Close Quarters screens vandalise Ziba Tower
- March 13
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- Pro Counter-Strike player slams CS:GO: “It’s not fun. It’s a terrible game right now.”
- Sponsored: Why Titanfall is 2014's Most Anticipated Shooter
- Star Wars: The Old Republic free trial starts on Thursday
- Battlefield 3 producer on Battlelog: “We honestly believe this is the right way forward”
- Double Fine kickstarter project passes $3 million in donations, seven hours to go
- Pre-order Gratuitous Tank battles and get access to the beta
- Guild Wars 2 pre-orders come with beta access, £130/$150 Collector's Edition comes with big cat
- Is Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Arsenal Mode an attempt to level the playing field?
- Mass Effect 3 day one DLC files spotted on disk, Bioware respond
- PC Gamer UK Issue 238: how to redeem your Crusader King and Juggernaut codes
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 content collection to add maps and spec ops missions
- Origin delivers a broken Mass Effect 2 installer...in Hungarian [Updated]
- March 12
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- Some Mass Effect 3 multiplayer players losing multiplayer items, BioWare acknowledges
- New Spec Ops: The Line trailer shows brutal atrocities, stuff blowing up
- Sir, You Are Being Hunted: an open world survival sim with robots, top hats, tea and terror
- Diablo 3 PvP mode to arrive in post-launch patch
- GAME share prices collapse to all-time low
- Team Fortress 2 mod recreates Bomberman with Demomen
- Double Fine Kickstarter campaign ends tomorrow, Schafer makes last call for donations
- Mojang win the right to use Scrolls name
- March 10
- March 9
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- League of Legends Dominion post-mortem: parts of the development process were "painful"
- Lord of the Rings Online's Update 6 launches players closer to Rohan on March 12th
- Another Week in eSports
- Five things you need to know about The Old Republic's future
- Cliff Bleszinski to indies: "go with the PC"
- Valve on Portal 2's original opening, ideas for its many endings and the "Morgan Freeman sphere"
- Rainbow 6 Patriots lead devs get replaced. "We're evolving the vision," says Ubisoft
- Star Wars: The Old Republic has nearly 1.7 million subscribers
- Dota 2 and CS: Global Offensive to support the Razer Hydra. Your mouse will also work
- CD Projekt: "DRM does not protect your game"
- Tribes: Ascend release date set for April 12
- Steam Box: the truth, direct from Valve
- March 8
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- Romero: upcoming indies should stop "waiting for permission"
- Industry legends share their gaming inspirations
- “Hats are key to building an in-game economy.” Hard Team Fortress 2 stats straight from GDC
- Valve experimented with Portal 2 competitive multiplayer. Ended up "super chaotic but no fun"
- Rift is free for past subscribers this week, go play it!
- Skyrim takes Game of the Year at the GDC awards. Portal 2 scoops a triple
- Warface closed beta sign-ups now live
- Behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Old Republic: throwing people at the problem
- War of the Roses trailer has chivalry, stabbing
- Mists of Pandaria will fix Talents "once and for all," say Blizzard
- Gabe Newell listed among world's richest people, Valve estimated to be worth $3bn
- SimCity is "built to be moddable," say Maxis
- Bioshock Infinite's Motorised Patriot is evil robot George Washington with a gatling gun
- SimCity: Inside the GlassBox engine
- Notch: "If someone copies your game a trillion times, you won't have lost a single cent"
- March 7
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- Mass Effect 3 Narrative Mode and Action Mode explained
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution designer on boss fights: "we are truly sorry"
- PopCap releases Solitaire Blitz. It's predictably addictive
- The frustrating reality of Medal of Honor: Warfighter
- Planetside 2 creative director predicts an MMOFPS renaissance: "they’re really difficult to make, so good luck”
- Peter Molyneux leaves Lionhead and Microsoft
- World of Warcraft's revamped Scrolls of Resurrection let you instantly level a friend to 80
- Battlefield 3 themed DLC packs to add new guns and "the biggest map in Battlefield history"
- Intel Extreme Masters World Championship is underway, watch top e-sports talent in action
- Mass Effect 3 face import bug fix incoming, Bioware suggest alternative solution
- Maxis on SimCity: “we want to make the most responsive, most playful SimCity ever.”
- Kickstarter has raised an incredible amount of money for games: numbers inside
- 2011 was PC gaming's biggest ever year, says The PC Gaming Alliance
- Double Fine’s Stacking makes Steam debut at 33% off
- March 6
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- Celebrate Heroes of Newerth's 100th hero by trying him out for free! [Giveaway]
- Medal of Honor: Warfighter debut trailer confirms October release date
- Rift Executive Producer Scott Hartsman explains how dynamic content drives the world of Telara
- EA's latest studio will focus on a "new generation" of Frostbite 2 games
- City of Heroes Dev Diary: Designing Darkness Control
- Far Cry 3 will incorporate elements of the indie scene and social games
- Tribes: Ascend open beta update adds new map, badges and sonic punches
- Game of Thrones trailer and screenshots makes camp in Castlewood
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to arrive this summer, cross platform play dropped
- Assassin's Creed 3 co-op mode spotted in product listing
- Mass Effect 3 War Assets and Readiness: how multiplayer affects your ending
- How one Flash game is funding the "world's youngest dev's" education
- Blizzard's Morhaime, StarCraft caster Day9, Evil Geniuses CEO, and MLG chief talk eSports future
- March 5
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- Paradox Interactive announce The Showdown Effect, Dungeonland and RED Frontier at GDC
- Notch nets himself a BAFTA. PC Gamer offers congratulations
- Champion Roundtable: Fiora, the Grand Duelist
- Hitman: Absolution crowd tech teased with screenshot. Agoraphobics need not apply
- GDC 2012 has just kicked off. We're live on the show floor
- StarCraft Master will teach you multiplayer micro skills
- Watch The Old Republic's Guild Summit live all day
- Star Wars: The Old Republic 1.2 "Legacy" patch arriving in April, friend trials go live tomorrow
- Project CARS screenshots corner beautifully
- Valve rumoured to be working on "Steam Box" mini-PC
- March 3
- March 2
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- The week in eSports
- And in other PC gaming news...
- Worried about your Game pre-order? EA suggest some alternatives
- Eve Online to get Japanese release later this year, Fanfest kicks off in 3 weeks
- DC Universe Online Battle For Earth DLC release date set for March 13
- Mass Effect 3's reputation system explained
- Star Wars: The Old Republic white lightsaber crystals hitting shops soon
- Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion beta open to pre-order players
- March 1
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- We're attending The Old Republic's Guild Summit, what do you want to tell the devs?
- Line of Defense trailer—exclusive first look
- All Zombies Must Die! coming to Steam on March 12
- Assassin's Creed 3 is official, will be set in the American Revolution
- Gamigo services affected by "illegal intrusion"
- A Game of Thrones MMO announced, from the creators of Battlestar Galactica Online
- Minecraft 1.2 is out, build twice as high, tame ocelots, explore jungles and craft Iron Golems
- Kingdoms of Amalur DLC to add new continent more quests and personal keep
- Assassin's Creed 3 poster teases American Revolution setting
- Notes and highlights from the MLG Winter Arena StarCraft 2 tournament
