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Magicka: Wizard Wars will enter open beta on May 27, Paradox announced today.

Unreal Tournament is coming back in a big way, as a free-to-play shooter with a secondary mod market.

Panzer General Online, the free-to-play strategy game, has entered open beta. Those who participated in the closed beta get two extra tanks.

Castlestorm, the free-to-play tower defense game, is hitting iOS and Android this Thursday.

Smite has added another new character to its growing pantheon of gods: Osiris, the Egyptian god of the afterlife.

"As we head toward Season 2 of the Defiance television show, we expect that many new fans will want to join the world of Defiance, and having a system that allows them to experience the Defiance universe for free is good for everyone," Trion explained.

As previously teased, the next Tony Hawk game is made for mobile Tony Hawk's Shred Session is a brand new game developed by UK studio Big Bit. Planned for a soft launch later this summer, players will tap and swipe their finger on the screen to perform tricks.

Transformers Universe has opened its Founders program, offering tiers of packages with pre-paid season pass time, relics, and founders titles and avatars.

May 4 is rapidly approaching and that means it's almost time to celebrate Star Wars Day. It's only appropriate that BioWare get in on the fun, too, so the studio is planning a Star Wars Day celebration for Star Wars: The Old Republic with a double XP weekend and a free droid...

It seems a bit strange that Obsidian Entertainment would go from large-scale RPGs to a free-to-play tank MMO, but chief executive Feargus Urquhart explains why the move to Armored Warfare isn't that unusual.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has become free-to-play on iOS and Android, and Sega announced more content coming next week.

Toylogic's "large-scale multiplayer" free-to-play action game, Happy Wars, is jumping from Xbox 360 to PC. And oddly, it requires an Xbox Live account on PC.

Adhesive Games has deployed the April Update for its mech-based shooter, Hawken. The latest patch offers some adjustments to the game's economy, pilot progression, and some balance tweaks for the various fighting machines, but it also tosses in a new game mode: co-op team de...

Soulcalibur: Lost Swords launched this week, but connection bugs have rendered it unplayable for such a large audience that Bandai Namco has said it has "delayed" the launch.

League of Legends is getting a new champion, which Riot says is the first "true tank support" character.