Nexon’s booth had demos of their newest game Dungeon Fighter, a online game for the PC, to try out so I decided to give it a shot.

The game is an MMO with RPG elements so there are lots of people you can team up with. It’s a hack and slash adventure game with several different, fully customizable, classes you can pick from. Each class has its own specific weapons and special moves.

Syfy had slowly been building up its catalog of games since the birth of their website in 2008. It had regularly been growing throughout 2009. Now, with the success of the gaming portion of the site, Syfy is creating a site for specifically gaming, Syfy Games.

Though the Syfy website already has a number of games like Dark Orbit, Deepolis and 9 Dragons, they are going to be adding many more. Craig Engler, SVP and GM of Syfy Digital, let the world know about this move.

As video games become more widespread and enter our everyday lives, online gaming is quickly becoming the main form of entertainment for many people. Games like World of Warcraft or Second Life attract thousands everyday who spend hours in virtual worlds. Many people think this is just an escape from everyday life but for one games designer, this is just education for changing the world.

Jane McGonigal is a games designer and researcher who has been working on a theory about how virtual communities work and how they differ from the real world. Recently she had a very interesting talk at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference regarding how we could learn from online games.

Sony Online Entertainment announced today (March 11, 2010) that it will be adding a new Convorteum zone add-on to the EverQuest Underfoot PC game.

Players can now log into to the latest and best so far expansion for Underfoot, plus you will receive a free bonus item just for logging in.

The new Convorteum add-on consists of a new fortress constructed in effort to resist the wrath of Brell. Fueled by the resentment of his creator, The First Creation is plotting his vengeance and it is up to the players to overcome this challenge. It includes six new raids, several new quests and one new mission in addition to the previously released Underfoot content.

A couple guys named Ian and Brant Duncan have taken choose-your-own-adventures games to the next step and created one of the first ever live-action choose-your-own-adventure games called The Deepening.

In the game, a terrorist group has broken into a bank, is holding everyone hostage and has planted a bomb in the basement of the bank. You control the fates of the two officers set out to save the day; the by-the-book rookie, Stevenson, and the rebel, Bukowski. You make the choice between what they do and how they go about doing it, with each choice effecting whether or not they save the hostages or blow up in a huge fiery explosion.

All you Free Realmers out there will be happy to know that the game’s already huge environment has just gotten, well, huge-r.

Free Realms, the free-to-play online MMORPG has expanded the race car derby, Speedway Thunder. The additions, Kart Racers and Demo Derby Drivers, offer professional progression and allow players to do a bit of racing while earning trophies and quest rewards including wearables and car parts.

There seems to be a recent trend in turning books into movies or video games. In an attempt to turn at least part of the trend back on itself, one writer is working books into games.

According to an article in the New York Times, author PJ Haarsma was writing a sci-fi story marketed toward preteens that he wanted to present in a new way. So he coupled it with an online game. The book series and game is The Softwire’s Rings of Orbis. The first book is out and the online game is already up and running at The Softwire’s Rings of Orbis. The online PC game will be…

Massive Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs, are among the most popular genres and currently attract millions of users. One of the most popular, World of Warcraft, has recently surpassed nine million subscribers around the world. Users can trade goods and services in these virtual worlds and many times real money is used as the basis more »

Videogames are certainly a lucrative business and MTV has decided to continue investing. In the past, MTV has made various videogame-related business acquisitions like Harmonix (developer of Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Atom Entertainment and Gametrailers.com to name a few. It has now investing an astronomical $500 million for continued videogame operations

History and analysts are staked against media companies enjoying success with videogames but MTV has enjoyed considerable success with online properties like Xfire.com, Gametrailers.com, Neopets.com and Addictiongames.com and is betting big on its upcoming title, Rock Band. It is also focused on …

EA Casual, a newly launched arm of Electronic Arts, will be soon developing games based on popular Hasbro franchises. Hasbro and EA Casual have finalized a licensing deal. The games developer will churn out games for all conceivable platforms including consoles, web and mobile devices. This augurs well for EA Casual, as the label was born only in June 2007.

The quid-pro-quo end of the bargain means that even Hasbro would be allowed to make toys and traditional games based on popular EA games franchises. EA plans to release the first Hasbro-based games in 2008 though no word was given on when Hasbro will begin releasing EA-inspired toys.