Dave's Internet Games Blog April 2008 Archive

The promised update for Team Fortress 2 is now available via Steam, adding the new Goldrush map to this popular online shooter. Included in this patch are new unlockable weapons ... Read More

EA and DICE recently released some new media of Battlefield Heroes, their upcoming free installment in the Battlefield series. They're aiming for a cartoony look with low system requirements, and ... Read More

Although the number of people subscribed to games that charge monthly fees for access continues to grow, we've all heard protests from those that refuse to pay any kind of ... Read More

German game publisher Frogster Interactive announced today that Bounty Bay Online will now have a free server where people can play without paying a monthly fee. The server will have ... Read More

I've never had any problem buying digitally distributed games from US-based outlets like Steam and Direct2Drive, but apparently it's not always so easy for people that live outside of North ... Read More

One of the most common complaints I hear about using voice chat is that some people can barely be heard, while others are so loud that they blow your ear ... Read More

There's an interesting Q&A with Kevin Unangst, senior global director for Windows Gaming, over on Kotaku. Discussing the current state of PC gaming, Unangst seems to believe that the biggest ... Read More

We're learning more about upcoming changes Valve has planned for Team Fortress 2, notably the new Medic weapons and 36 new Medic achievements. Shack also has hands-on impressions of the ... Read More

As well as the PvP beta event taking place this weekend, Funcom has revealed their plans for an open beta of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, which will be available ... Read More

Another virtual world/social networking site for kids is now open to the public. Moshi Monsters lets you adopt and customize a pet monster, design a room for it to live ... Read More

We've all killed our share of zombies, so this game has turned it around and given us the role of a zombie, struggling to survive in a hostile world. Sonny ... Read More

Most people playing the game probably saw this coming, but Pirates of the Burning Sea, the recently launched naval combat MMORPG from Flying Lab Software, is going from 11 servers ... Read More

A small Swedish development company called Star Vault has announced that they're working on Mortal Online, a new fantasy MMORPG that hopes to offer gamers something different. They want to ... Read More

Funcom has partnered with Gamespot to open up the Age of Conan beta for a PvP weekend from Friday April 18th to Sunday April 20th. They'll be accepting 15,000 players ... Read More

Details have slowly been trickling out about the next expansion for World of Warcraft through the official site, game conventions, interviews, and staff comments on the always busy WoW forums. ... Read More

Are casual game offerings akin to Pogo.com and Club Penguin going to evolve into the MMOGs of the future? Nick Fortugno, creator of the ever-popular Diner Dash, seems to think ... Read More

Few MMORPGs use historical settings, and fewer still allow you to play a pirate cruising the Caribbean in a wooden ship, seeking gold and glory. Pirates of the Burning Sea ... Read More

Epic Games has launched another round of their famous Make Something Unreal Contest, with the usual one million dollar first prize. The contest is sponsored by Epic and Intel, and ... Read More

As is always the case on the 1st of April, jokes and spoofs of the games we love are in abundance. Blizzard has gotten into the spirit with a phoney ... Read More