http:/www.gamedaily.com/ Lastest PC Video Game News from GameDaily en-US Copyright 2006 AOL LLC. All Rights Reserved. editor@gamedaily.com Fri, 16 May 2008 11:15:01 EDT PC Game News GameDaily RSS Class http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.gamedaily.com/images/gd_feed_logo.gif http://www.gamedaily.com/ 65 35 GameDaily Home Page http://www.gamedaily.com/games/penny-arcade-adventures-on-the-rainslick-precipice-of-darkness/pc/game-news/penny-arcade-adventures-powered-by-torque-360 The upcoming RPG-Adventure game is the latest Xbox Live Arcade title to be developed using GarageGames' game engine. Torque 360 was chosen in part because of the engine's multiplatform support. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/pc/game-news/vivendi-games-posts-24-sales-decline-without-new-wow-expansion-in-q1- Emphasizing just how important World of Warcraft has become to Vivendi, the absence of a new expansion in Q1 dragged the games unit's sales down 24%. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/the-agency/pc/game-news/live-gamer-bringing-rmt-to-the-agency-and-free-realms Sony Online Entertainment realized a few years ago that people are just going to trade money for virtual items anyway, so why not make it legitimate and reap the rewards? http://www.gamedaily.com/games/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures/pc/game-news/funcom-posts-loss-1-million-sign-up-for-age-of-conan-beta While the company posted a loss of $3.13 million for the first quarter of 2008, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures has over 1 million beta sign-ups before the game's anticipated launch. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/shadowgrounds-survivor/pc/game-news/frozenbyte-working-on-original-ip-projects The Finnish developers of the Shadowgrounds series will now be focused upon creating game projects based upon their own original IP, although they're keeping details close to the chest for now. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/guild-wars-eye-of-the-north/pc/game-news/vivox-bringing-voice-chat-to-ncsoft-titles In games that tend to keep your hands occupied (get your head out of the gutter!) it's nice to have an option like voice chat to communicate with the members of your online guild. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/world-of-warcraft-wrath-of-the-lich-king/pc/game-news/blizzards-rob-pardo-keynoting-paris-gdc-08 The man at the center of the Warcraft and StarCraft franchises will be giving a Q&A session at this year's Paris GDC titled "In the Eye of the Blizzard: a Keynote Q&A with Rob Pardo." http://www.gamedaily.com/games/world-of-warcraft-the-burning-crusade/pc/game-news/mlg-launching-pc-circuit Teaming up with partners HP and Blizzard Entertainment, Major League Gaming will be launching its PC Circuit in San Diego on June 13 – 15 alongside MLG's Pro Circuit event. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/flyff/pc/game-news/galanet-offering-gpotato-game-cards-at-target Micro-transaction based MMOs are becoming increasing popular among teens who may not have ready access to a credit card. Because of this, Gala-Net is offering prepaid game cards at Target. http://www.gamedaily.com/games/burnout-paradise/pc/game-news/burnout-paradise-on-pc See PC gamers? Electronic Arts isn't withholding all of their franchises from the PC format. You'll get a chance to crash and bash by yourself or with friends with the game's expanded online modes.