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Filed under: Sci-fi, Video, EVE Online, ExpansionsWhile the Dominion expansion for EVE Online has been focused on changing how alliances claim and hold territory in New Eden, CCP Games has also given the game quite a facelift. We've mentioned the updated starry backgrounds and shown you a bit about how the planets have changed before, but we came across something new today.While the footage put together by the players was great, CCP has...

Filed under: MMO industry, Opinion, The Digital ContinuumNowadays it seems like a newly released MMO has an estimated lifespan the length of a bag of chips left open overnight. That doesn't leave much hope for older MMOs, right? It appears that way, but games like EverQuest and EVE Online are doing well enough and they've been around for years. Sure, they may not be massive subscription behemoths, but they play home to thriving communities...

Filed under: Video Games, Breaking NewsFinally, a third party has confirmed what many have been saying for a while: Xbox 360 failure rates are much higher than the three to five percent Microsoft claims. Though not quite as high as the 30 percent some retailers have suggested, the 16 percent failure rate reported by SquareTrade is way beyond an acceptable rate. SquareTrade is an independent warranty provider, covering products after the...

The critics weren't kind to Damien Hirst's latest collection, which was exhibited at the Wallace Collection. It doesn't seem to have mattered. All news is good news in Hirst-land, as evidenced by the sales of his most recent effort. Hirst opened a new show yesterday at White Cube. Even if the media isn't crazy about his, the artist's collectors haven't ended the love affair. Five of the seven largest pieces in his new "Nothing Matters"...

Filed under: Cameras, Breaking NewsThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award contracts to design and build an unmanned spy plane they've dreamed up that will stay aloft for for an amazing five years. The pseudo satellite will circle the globe for years at between 60,000 and 90,000 feet, gathering photos, communications, and generally watching everything you do. The craft will have to answer a number of design challenges,...

Filed under: Meta BDThe Spike TV Video Game Awards were the source of a lot of new game announcements and reveals but they were not the only major news items in PC gaming this week. Let's look back at the past seven days at Big Download:Exclusives Big Versus: In our latest look comparing games we pit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare against Modern Warfare 2. Interviews: We chat with the people behind the upcoming shooter The Scourge...

Nobody wants to pay for iPhone apps, and some people simply don't. The good news is, you don't really need to: For almost every paid app, there's a free app that's nearly as good. Here are the best of the best.A lot of these apps will be familiar to anyone who's checked out our Essential iPhone Apps directory before, and yeah, there is a lot of overlap. What we've done, basically, is strip out the dollar signs from list, then fill in the...