Aaron Cohen (known online as Darkscribe), the current producer of Ultima Online, has released some details of a new client the company has been working on, entitled "Kingdom Reborn", expected to be released sometime in 2007.
The client is said to have been in development for the past eight months now, It is being completely [...]

While Far Cry’s multiplayer component was fairly sub-standard, Crytek have reportedly learnt their leason and designed the multiplayer mode for the much anticipated Crysis from the ground up, promising to be "something better than we’ve ever seen before!"
The game will feature the usual FPS multiplayer modes such as Tactical Deathmatch, Tactical Team Deathmatch, and Tactical [...]

Yesterday, Sierra Entertainment released the multiplayer portion of its critically acclaimed shooter, F.E.A.R. on the Internet for free. The game is known as F.E.A.R. Combat and has every feature of the multiplayer retail version, including weapons, maps, game modes, and the ability to use custom content.
Users are required to obtain a keycode for the game [...]

Bizarre Creations, makers of the massively popular Geometry Wars game available through XBLA, claim they are "beginning to feel the effects" of Mark Incitti’s freeware PC title Grid Wars and requested that the author remove the game from the internet for download.
In the email sent to Mark:
"We’re beginning to feel the effects of [...]

On Monday, Bethesda Softworks announced, in a press release, that all the actors that played the captains in the star trek films and series will be lending their voices to the forthcoming game, Star Trek: Legacy. This included William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Scott Bakula, Avery Brooks, and my favourite, Kate Mulgrew.
This, [...]

By now, most gamers know about Spore, the next game from Will Wright, designer on SimCity and The Sims. The game will let players create a custom-built microscopic germ that can evolve into a macroscopic critter that can walk on land, build its own cities, and eventually discover the secret of space travel.
In [...]

Sierra Entertainment announced today that the multiplayer portion of its highly acclaimed first-person shooter, F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), will be released for free online starting August 17. The game will be titled F.E.A.R. Combat, and it will require users to register for a keycode on the official website.
"We had a good multiplayer component and [...]

John Carmack, co-founder of id software, revealed that their next project will be a completely new game and not just another Doom or Quake. It will be an FPS and its focus will be on game-play, rather than on a new graphics engine.
Speaking during his keynote speech at the 11th annual Quake Con, [...]

An official post on Ubisoft’s message boards states that Splinter Cell Double Agent will be released on October 19, 2006. The Ubisoft Community Manager that posted this information did not list the platforms that it would be released on for that date, but there will be demos for both the Xbox 360 and the PC.
For [...]

Game developer & publisher Electronic Arts recently posted a list of games that will have their online gaming servers shutdown. Most of the games have already been shut down on August 1, and five other game will definitely be shut down by October 1, if not earlier.
Here is the full list of game servers that [...]