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Online game maker Cryptic Studios said its most recent MMORPG, the Atari-published Champions Online, has garnered over 1 million created superhero characters, but the size of the subscriber base is unclear.

Cryptic is the studio that created the MMORPGs City of Heroes and City of Villains, NCsoft-published superhero properties that are still in development by other studios. Atari acquired Cryptic earlier this year as part of the publisher’s stronger focus on online gaming.

One way to build up hype for a multiplayer shooter before release is to offer gamers a demo or beta version. Fans have been pestering DICE about whether Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will receive either and today they offered up a pretty vague answer on the official BF:BC2 blog.

SWTOR fans all knew it was coming, but today finally saw the unveiling of the Jedi Knight class in BioWare’s upcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Jedi are, first and foremost, protectors of the galaxy. Through years of meditation and training, they hone their body and mind into harmony, making them a force to be reckoned with in battle.

VALVe has once again hidden many a secret in their latest update.

In order to obtain a "Gibus Hat" one must dominate a player who is wearing one.

The Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 has been very strongly censored. No gore, limited splatter effects, no decapitation and zombies bodies vanish very quickly after being killed. Uncommon infected also do not spawn in the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2, anybody joining Australian servers will not see any Uncommon Infected (eg Riot Police) during the game. The changes make the game much tamer than the original Left 4 Dead released last year.

The dark season of the year is coming closer and closer, and together with it the most scary day (or should we say night?): Halloween. The gPotato Europe team is going to take this opportunity to promote its free MMORPG: Street Gears…

The Golden Joystick Awards 2009 have just finished. Missed the live broadcast? Well, even though we should break out the discipline stick of pain, we’ll forgive you. Anyhoo, lets move on. If you were one of the record-breaking 1,223,646 gamers that voted, you’ll want to know who walked away with the shiny trinkets.

GOLDEN JOYSTICK AWARDS 2009 - WINNERS

Family Game of the Year

Winner: LittleBigPlanetFirst …

Strategy Informer:

"Obviously blowing the surprise of possible avatar award goodies wasn’t enough, as now determined data mining survivalists have uncovered what appear to be error messages.

These errors appear when gamers don’t have Left 4 Dead 2 DLC maps installed, with the code mentioning the ‘Miracle Pack’ and ‘Apocalyptic Pack’, and offers to download them."

A new update has been released for Trine, now available for download on Steam.

It’s that time of year again. A time when journalists and developers dust the cobwebs off their suits, drink free vodka until they upchuck on said suits and then pass out. As great as today’s Golden Joystick Awards are for us industry types, though, they’re even better for gamers. Because today is the day when over a million real gamers’ votes are transformed into little phallic-shaped awards.

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