It's official: Britain is nuts about MMOs.

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.

Where do you draw the line on DRM?

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 big PC expansion at the beginning of 2011. The game is currently only imaginatively titled “Dragon Age Title TBA” but it’s definitively on the EA PC release schedule for January-March period of 2011. But the ...

As part of the campaign efforts for Star Trek Online (you can read our current thoughts on the game here), Star Trek fans are being invited to be part of an attempt to beat the world record for the 'largest gathering of people dressed as Star Trek characters' on February 14th at 1.00pm on London's Millenium Bridge. Star Trek fans can dress as anything Star Trek related and representatives from the Guinness Book of records will be on ...

We’ve known for some time now that Steam is growing in importance as a means of delivering PC games content, and the latest Steam figures for 2009 seem to bear that out. Valve announced that over 25 million people have Steam accounts, with 10 million of those users also having Steam Community profiles. Overall the service saw a 25 per cent rise in users from the previous year, and the figures for concurrent users are equally impressive-peaking at 2.5 million. Average ...

Lost your original Mass Effect save? Fancy an alternate Shepard to your own? Or maybe you've played the original game on 360 and you want the PC version of Mass Effect 2 with the same choices?

Bioshock 2 is officially DRM-free! Effectively, anyway: 2K games made the announcement on the Cult Of Rapture Website, stating that "There will be no SecuROM Install limits for either the retail or digital versions of Bioshock 2, and SecuROM will be used only to verify the game's executable and check the date." It's still limited by standard Games For Windows Live, though the 15 activations available can be reset with a call to ...

Tomb Raider's protagonist Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider series has won no less than six certificates in this years Guinness World Records, Gamers Edition. They include "Most official real-life stand-ins in a video game", "Highest grossing computer game spin-off" and "Most recognisable female character in a video game". These and more record-breaking entries can be seen in the Guiness World Records 2010 Gamer's Edition, available from bookstores and online today. Of course, we'll be so bold as to assume the main reason why you clicked on this news item is to ogle the current Lara croft model/gymanst, Alison Carroll. The people at Guinness World Records appreciate this too, which is why they've kindly provided us with a small gallery of photos. Enjoy!

If like us you’re looking forward to getting your hands on Bioshock 2 on PC, you might be interested in pre-purchasing it on Steam, as you’ll not only get 10% off the regular price but net yourself a free copy of the original Bioshock as part of the bargain. Should you already own a copy of the game, you can share the love and, using Steam’s Gifting function, send ...

According to veteran developer and head of Gas Powered Games Chris Taylor, the future of gaming lies with PC rather than in consoles, which will eventually become a closed and obsolete avenue for development. “Anytime you have a propriety system it’s like a benevolent dictatorship - there are some short term benefits to it, but they fall down in the long run,” Taylor told Total PC Gaming magazine in a recent interview. “That’s been the way it’s been over ...

While unlike Modern Warfare 2 Battlefield Bad Company 2 will be having dedicated servers on PC, gamers and clans won’t actually be able to build their own but will have to rent servers directly from DICE authorised host. The code needed to build and set up dedicated servers is being withheld and won’t be released with the game. This is a first for the Battlefield series as both Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 both launched with those files ...

Looking forward to the release of Mass Effect 2 at the end of this month? In case you weren't excited enough, fans of the series should know that Bioware has just announced an exciting addition to the Mass Effect series.

The recent Eve Online expansion, Dominion, has given rise to player corporations trying out the new sovereignty system with truly stellar-scale battles.

Id Software’s forthcoming post apocalyptic shooter Rage has shifted publishers from EA to Bethesda Softworks, and is now being published directly under their ZeniMax stable-mates. When id was acquired by ZeniMax earlier this year Rage’s publishing rights originally stayed in the hands of EA, part of a legacy deal with the publisher. All that has changed with Bethesda taking over all the sales and marketing duties on the game and EA will not be involved in Rage going forward. No details on ...