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The hardcore RPG fan may have a new banner to rally around.

Starting life as an MMORPG, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning has morphed into one of the more interesting original IPs to be released next year.  The game is being developed by industry newcomer 38 Studios and strategy game developer Big Huge Games.  These names may not carry much weight, but they have some serious big name talent working on Reckoning’s game world, most notably being revered fantasy author R.A. Salvatore and comic god Todd McFarlane who have created the game world and artwork respectively.  Lesser known, but still a heavy lifter in his own right, is Ken Ralston who was the lead designer on Morrowind and Oblivion.

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Free to Play? Make it so.

Cryptic Studios has announced that Star Trek Online will become free to play on January 17, 2011. This model has proved to be quite successful as Cryptic Studios' other MMO Champions Online has gone this route as well earlier this year.

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Blizzard recently announced the latest expansion for World of Warcraft. We break down what's new so you don't have to.

There was a whole mess of announcements made at this past weekend’s BlizzCon.  There was the revelation of a sweet collector’s edition of Diablo III and the news that it’s possible to get a digital copy of the game for free, but the biggest deal was the official revelation of World of Warcraft’s 4^th expansion: Mists of Pandaria.

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Side B of our 3 sided launch extravaganza includes talk of level 100 carrots, MMO failures and bitching about 3D, micro transactions and everything in between

In the second part of our PixlTalk 2.0 launch series, Nate hosts with Matt R, Stanton and Jason H sitting in for a talk concerning modern gaming.

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As confirmed by Realtime Worlds CEO, Gary Dale.

In a recent report on GamesIndustry.biz, Realtime Worlds CEO, Gary Dale confirmed that the beta for APB is coming next week.

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