This edition of MMORPGLand includes a Final Fantasy XIV information conflict found between Square Enix's website and the pages of Famitsu, news on Battlestar Galactica, The Old Republic, Free Realms, a Japanese Wizardry MMO, and more.

BioWare's Christina Norman gives us an interesting look at the way Mass Effect feedback influenced Mass Effect 2 and how it will influence Mass Effect 3.

Direct2Drive has taken 50% off of SEGA's shooter The Club, dropping the title down to just $3.95 through the weekend.

Valve has revealed Steam's top ten sellers list for the week ending on March 13.

GamePro: We spoke to Heavy Rain creator David Cage at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco about what's next for him and his team. Cage mentioned cartoon games and interactive musicals as possible directions for the future...

Kotaku: Two years ago, Xbox Live gave away 72 limited edition Xbox 360 faceplates with a Need For Speed: ProStreet design. Some guy decided to get rid of his on eBay and has found it commands a price above $200. The seller, out of Queens, N.Y., billed it as an "extremely rare" collectible but listed it for $30. His co-workers advised him not to sell it for less than $60 so he moved the reserve price up. Then yesterday afternoon a bidder (wi
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NextGen Player writes: "Sony's Public Relations Manager, Kyle Moffatt, tweeted the top three software titles in Canada for the month of February. And the winners are..."

Direct2Drive has slashed the price tag on Icarus Studios' Fallen Earth in half as part of an extended promotion for the title.

GB writes: "THQ's upcoming post-apocalyptic first person shooter Metro 2033, is easily one of the best looking games of 2010. Now you can get your copy on Steam."

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward promising to cure the shooter's "mapathy" with some downloadable content on March 30, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 developer EA DICE has thrown down the gauntlet. The same day, March 30, will see DICE release its second "VIP Map Pack" for Bad Company 2, it revealed in a blog post titled "how to avoid 'mapathy' without paying."

Impulse has taken 50% off Tropico 3 as part of their weekend sale.

One of the extras that God of War fans loved in the past two titles are the costumes that are unlocked upon finishing the game. God of War III is no different as it too has unlockable costumes. There are six unlockable costumes in all and each of them has a unique power. Please remember by using costumes in your second playthrough, the ability to earn the trophies you might have missed will be disabled.

If you've been watching the development of Mortal Online, you may know that open beta has started at the beginning of February, and the guys at Star Vault have been hard at work improving and polishing the game. Players watching the progression of the game have been pretty curious to know when launch is. If you're in a hurry for launch to arrive you are going to be pretty happy. Word came to the Mortal Online site yesterday that the game will lau
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TopWare and Zuxxez has announced Battle vs Chess, this upcoming game that combines the classic turn-based strategy of chess with the animations and graphics of a modern video game.The game is due out for PC, Mac, Xbox 360, Wii and o DSandandin May 2010 at an unknown price-point. uring. Simply digitalizing it is not ne...

An editorial at Eurogamer delves into what Sony and Microsoft hope to achieve with their upcoming console motion control systems, despite entering the market several years after Nintendo set the standard. "The cards Sony has placed on the table this week suggest one answer to that question. It sees PlayStation Move as being an upgrade path for Wii owners — an invitation to the tens of millions of consumers who have invested in Nintendo's pl
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You just don’t see Apple’s iPhone being used as an enterprise phone by many companies, although some Fortune 500 companies have started bowing to internal pressure and deploying them as company phones along with the venerable BlackBerry. Despite this, studies show that the iPhone is still mostly used by people in the comfort of their [...]

After a month and a half of anticipation, Apple’s iPad tablet finally went up for pre-order on Friday, and early estimates indicate the device has been a runaway success. The first numbers that leaked out were that Apple had managed to sell more than 50,000 iPads during the first two hours it was available for [...]

A common complaint amongst gadget dorks, the iPhone has no user replaceable battery… and the iPad’s no different. However, a subtle change of wording in Apple’s Battery Replacement Service FAQ indicates that there is a difference in the way Apple will go about replacing iPad batteries: if your iPad starts experiencing diminished battery life, Apple [...]

When Google first released its Buzz social networking system, it tied it into GMail and immediately found itself the center of a privacy controversy. People were alarmed that a public social networking tool was integrally linked to a private communication tool. What went wrong? How did Google mess up so badly? On the first day [...]

Imagine a cellphone crafted with the same horological insidiousness of churning gears, analogue dials and mechanical parts as a Swiss watch. That’s the idea behind the Celsius X-VI-II’s mechanical cellphone, a $300,000 device that will likely only replace your iPhone if you’re a middle easterner oil shiekh with a jones for horology. The phone isn’t officially [...]

If you’ve got a point-and-shoot digicam, you may not have access to the best sensor out there, but you probably have enough software modes installed on your camera to make the most of it. Face detection. Smile detection. Red-eye reduction. Heck, you know the drill: your camera can probably detect just about anything. But can [...]

You don’t need to be a particularly astute analyst of the current tech landscape to notice that things are getting downright icy between Google and Apple. Although Google CEO Eric Schmidt was one of the first people to congratulate Jobs on the iPhone, Google’s own forays into the mobile phone arena with their Android operating [...]

Six months ago, Nokia filed a complaint against Apple, claiming that Cupertino had ripped off a number of Nokia’s mobile phone patents wholesale in creating the iPhone. Apple immediately counter-sued. Now, both companies are immersed in a huge legal battle that will take years to resolve. The heart of the issue is that Nokia says Apple [...]