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The first round of the MMORPG.com Player’s Choice Awards is now over and we’ve got the list of winners chosen by you, our loyal readers. See if your favorite game took home the prize!

Browser-based dragon training MMO Dragon Atlas is celebrating the opening of a third server ("Road of Bravery")this week with events and rewards and improvements to its existing tutorial.

MMORPG.com and Reality Squared games have partnered to bring you a special gift opportunity for their latest browser MMORPG – Nova Genesis! Each key will give you Gold, Anima, Phantasma and much more! Get your key now!

The Game Developers Choice Award nominees have been announced and a trio of big titles have been named. Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor has been nominated in five categories including Game of the Year. Destiny has also received a nod for Game of the Year and has nominations in other categories. Blizzard’s Hearthstone has also received nominations in multiple categories. The GDCAs will take place on March 4th.

Before Christmas, I met with Bandai Namco to see and talk about its new upcoming tank battler, Battleline: Steel Warfare. Expecting the standard half hour demo, I was pleasantly surprised to be treated to an enthusiastic 90 minute discussion of why Battleline is so much fun, and why its potential addictiveness should make World of Tanks worry.

Indie developer Stormborn Studio has high hopes its new RPG, Runes: The Forgotten Path, will let players find out what it really feels like to wield magic.

Browser-based, 2.5D MMO Nova Genesis launched its open beta Friday, hoping players will get into its hybrid sci-fi/fantasy world. The game features six races, a Hero system, and elaborate skill combos among other things.

Once upon a 2002, there was a little single-player RPG called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, which sucked up so much of my gaming time you’d think it could have moonlighted as an MMO. Fast forward to 2006 and then 2011, and you’ve got the fourth and fifth installments of The Elder Scrolls series in Oblivion and Skyrim, both vying for my attention almost as strongly as their predecessor.

Beamdog, the studio behind Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, has announced on its blog that a new game, "Project Y", is currently in development that will bridge the gap between Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition. In addition, the team will be revealing "Project: Beartrap" this summer, a completely new game from the ground up.

After twenty years in gaming, Zombie Studios is closing. Zombie is responsible for the creation of over thirty games, most notably for our audience, Blacklight Retribution. BR will continue thanks to Zombie’s retiring leaders handing the reins to former employees that have formed a new studios called Builder Box. Builder Box will be working cooperatively with Perfect World Entertainment to keep Blacklight Retribution up and running.