Public beta arriving Rift

Telara is open to all Trion Worlds announced today its intention to open all the magical world of Telara for 6 days, before long, with a public beta of the Rift, the new MMORPG in development. The Open Beta for the game then start Tuesday, February 15th at 19:00 and continue until Monday, February 21 at 19.00, for a total of six days in which players will have free access to game servers.

2 playable factions, the first 42 levels of play, 3 Arena PvP zones and dungeons to explore the elements that are Trion Worlds offers users the most curious, to participate in the beta that should register on the website www. riftgame. com / betasignup. Rift, in full, then come March 4 on the PC.

• Rift's 7th Beta Event to be Open (07/02/2011)
• Rift open beta to begin February 15 (07/02/2011)
• Should RIFT go dark? (07/02/2011)
• Rifts Gets Six Day Open Beta From Feb 15th (07/02/2011)
• Rift Beta 6 Weekend (07/02/2011)

The dates of BlizzCon 2011

Blizzard has announced the dates of the next BlizzCon will be held in Anaheim, California, on 21 and 22 October 2011. Cost and availability of the tickets have not been announced, as well as content that will be shown at the event. In 2009, a bench press were Cataclysm World of Warcraft and Diablo III class of Monaco.

In 2010 was again the turn of Diablo III, with class and Demon Hunter Arena PVP Battles. We hope that this time the third chapter of this historic series is present in the form of an announcement of the release date. Maybe Blizzard will also show something of its next MMO or successor, if there ever will be, World of Warcraft.

• Get your BlizzCon on Oct. 21-22 (07/02/2011)
• BlizzCon 2011 announced for October 21-22 (07/02/2011)
• BlizzCon 2011 Announced: October 21 and 22 (07/02/2011)
• BlizzCon 2011 confirmed for October (07/02/2011)
• BlizzCon 2011 dates announced (07/02/2011)

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The Italian monthly charts: January 2011

A month packed with the figures released today by AESVI also publish the Italian charts for the gaming software on a monthly basis. Sales more consistent focus of course for those titles released over the Christmas period or earlier, such as Gran Turismo 5 and Call of Duty: Black Ops, while still in the charts several rocks as Wii Fit and football titles.

Rank gennnaio 2011 Top 10 Console: Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) Wii Fit Plus + Balance Board (Wii) Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3) Kinect Adventures + Kinect Just Dance 2 Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood FIFA 11 (PS3) Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Kinect Sports Top 10 PC: World of Warcraft Pre Paid Card 2 months Football Manager 2011 The Sims 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 The Sims 3 Late Night Assassin's Creed FIFA 11 World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Top 10 Lych King DS: New Super Mario Bros.

Free map for AC: Brotherhood

The Facebook page of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is close to the remarkable number of 1 million fans. To celebrate the event, Ubisoft will give gamers a new multiplayer map: Venice by Night. UbiWorkshop also will conduct a commemorative t-shirt and will offer special discounts for 24 hours. Other initiatives will be launched and made notes on the same social network.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was one of the great masterpieces came out last fall and on the "pages" of Videogame Source has been awarded an outstanding 9 / 10.

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Ubisoft Announces Call of Juarez: The Cartel

A western to modern, from California to Mexico arrived today rather a surprise announcement by Ubisoft Call of Juarez: The Cartel, the third installment in the series of FPS to Techland's Western setting. Again developed by the talented Polish team, The Cartel is in this strange environment, mixing elements from the scenario in a modern western classic, featuring a story that takes us from the heart of Los Angeles in California to Juarez, Mexico.

Xbox TV Channel in autumn?

It seems that Microsoft is willing to enter the world of pay-TV via the Xbox 360, which in future will be able to see a lot of shows and streaming content. A leaking the news would have been a popular presenter American, Conan O'Brien, contacted by Microsoft to collaborate on the project. Apparently O'Brien refused the offer.

"The project is very interesting, but not what I want in this moment of my career," said the showman. Currently, Microsoft is already offering Sky Sports and ESPN via Xbox Live for Xbox 360 Americans, but negotiations to win new content is constantly changing. As for Europe, especially Italy, everything is silent.

• Before Conan found TBS, Microsoft tried to snag him for Xbox (07/02/2011)
• Microsoft insists autistic Xboxer is a cheat (27/01/2011)
• Microsoft planning an exclusive TV channel for Xbox Live subscribers? (02/12/2010)
• Microsoft hits autistic Xboxer with cheat evidence (28/01/2011)
• Circboard Brings Easier Text Entry To Xbox 360, Just Needs Investors (07/02/2011)

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Tim Schafer: self-censorship limits the humor in video games

Too many precautions by the authors In fact, the players standing a long time wondering what happened to the freshness of the narrative or dialogue sharp and stinging of the old Lucas adventure games in the market today and Tim Schafer, the protagonist of their development of such glorious titles, seems to have an explanation.

According to the head of Double Fine, game designer of several adventure games in their heyday, a kind of self-censorship imposed by the developers themselves, nowadays, would place great limits to the possibilities of expression of video games, especially by diluting the power of these very humorous.