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Tonight (3/12/2010) will be a STANDARD CONSTRUCTED tournament w/ NO entry fee; prizes are TBA.

Of all the MMORPGs vying for World of Warcraft’s crown, Star Wars: The Old Republic stands a pretty fair chance against Blizzard’s juggernaut. But being a contender doesn’t come cheap, as EA’s chief financial officer Eric Brown explained in today’s meeting with Wedbush Morgan Securities in New York. In fact, Brown called The Old Republic [...]

Game streaming service OnLive will launch June 17, offering PC and Mac owners the ability to play games remotely through their web browser at $14.95 a month.
Between a dozen and twenty-five titles will be available at launch, OnLive executive Steve Perlman told VentureBeat. The company has partnered with various publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, [...]

A massively multiplayer game based off popular science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica is due to launch this fall, license holder NBC Universal announced today.
A client-free and browser-based affair said to pack "state of the art graphics," Battlestar Galactica Online is being powered by Unity–the same technology used by EA’s broswer-based Tiger Woods PGA [...]

There’s a certain mystique that Klingons hold for Star Trek fans, having shown up for many different stories in every show and even several movies. That’s not even counting the fact that they have an entire language to back them up. So it’s probably not a huge surprise that the most recent Ask Cryptic has [...]

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike and Half-Life) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Portal 2 for shipment this coming holiday season. Portal 2 is the sequel to 2007’s Portal, which won 70 industry achievement awards. For more information, [...]

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This coming Friday (3/5/2010) will be a STANDARD BOOSTER DRAFT w/ an $11 entry fee; prizes are Ancient Ziggurat

Two weeks ago, Atari’s turnaround experienced a sizable hiccup when the publisher announced an annual loss of $319 million and the departure of high-profile executive Phil Harrison. Following the earnings announcement, Atari CEO David Gardner told GameSpot that the publisher had significantly cleaned house, canceling a number of projects and shifting the publisher’s focus to [...]

It seems that Activision considers World of Warcraft a "risk". The company yesterday filed its Annual Fiscal Report in which it listed the game in the ‘Risk Factor’ section:
‘Future increased consumer acceptance and increases in the availability such games or other online games, or technological advances in online game software or [...]

Welcome to the 20th installment of Ask Cryptic, where we put the questions you ask to our development team. In this issue we are focusing our discussion on Skills. Read more to learn about Star Trek Online!
alphadelta: Given that a focused build will be as powerful as any build available with no skill point cap [...]