The massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, Star Wars: The Old Republic, developed by BioWare Austin, secured wins in four of its six nominated categories at this evening’s third annual Game Developers Choice Online Awards, including the categories for Best New Online Game and Best Online Visual Arts.
Riot Games’ League of Legends also received top honors in both of its nominated categories, securing the win for Best Live Game and Best Community Relations at the 2012 ceremony, …

Blizzard Entertainment has informed gamers regarding a security breach in its gaming service, Battle.net.
The video game developer and publisher has notified players of World of Warcraft and Diablo III that hackers accessed email addresses and hashed passwords, but clarified that they do not contain financial information. Now it urges users to update their accounts and modify passwords.
According to Blizzard’s post on Battle.net, hackers infiltrated its North American servers, which cover …

Diablo 3 has gathered ten million registered users since its release a few months earlier.
Diablo 3 is a swords and spells game that entices players who love to play heroes and fight a bunch of mystic enemies.
Since its release in May, the video game has already assembled ten million players and now brags that it has gained more users than its in-house rival: World of Warcraft.
At the same time, more than one million World of Warcraft users dropped out during the last three months, which …

Incantor – New Online Game That Transforms WoW into Reality! / image via Kickstarter

Have you ever wanted to have a magic wand with which to make spells and to defeat your friends, obviously in play? A new Kickstarter project of those from MoveableCode is likely to turn into reality if it will receive funding from Internet users.
Incantor uses a motion-sensed wand trough, which its users can make gestures translated in virtual spells by using a smartphone. With that smartphone, you will …

Get Ready To Suit Up for World Of Warcraft On Your Mobile Phone

If plans don’t get shot down, developers of the popular World of Warcraft are going full blast to allow the game to be played on mobile devices.
World of Warcraft developer Blizzard Entertainment has revealed to BBC that demand for a mobile app for the game is pressuring the firm to go ahead with the portable version, even as it confirmed that its subscriber force, which peaked at 12 million in 2010, dropped slightly to 10.3 …

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After the deadly massacre carried out by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last month, sellers in the country will be ceasing sales of violent video games, various reports note.
Supermarket chain Coop Norden is apparently organizing the effort to stop selling the World of Warcraft series, the Call of Duty series, the Counter-Strike series and other violent games.
According to Gamers Globe, …

Prisoners in China are being forced to play online games to amass currency used in virtual worlds which are then sold for real-world money, a report from the U.K.’s The Guardian revealed on Wednesday.
Citing a source named Liu Dali by the site, the report says that prison guards made about $767 to $930 every day from the currency earned by inmates.
“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labor,” the source reportedly told …