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So it's been a monumental few days for the guys and girls at ArenaNet and NCsoft, on Wednesday evening at 6pm GMT the flood gates opened and the much anticipated great Guild Wars 2 beta signup marathon began.

In just 48 short hours the gates were supposed to close (6pm GMT today), at which point the above image was tweeted out, they had reached a whopping 990,152 sign ups. SWTOR as a comparison managed to bag 1.5 million sign ups in the first 2 months they were open.

It must have been agony for the hardworking folks that had been hyping up the beta sign ups for the whole of those 48 hours, to be so close to 1 Million that they could touch it! It was announced that the sign ups would stay open longer, all hell broke out, twitter was on fire with #GW2beta and #GuildWars2 hashtags, facebook went crazy and the Ducksboard site that was hosting the...

TESTIFICATE BABBIES!!!!

As you may or may not know, Mojang have been releasing "snapshots" of the version 1.2 they are working on, and Multiplay have recently announced they are supporting snapshots on their servers.

With the announcement of this next big patch, the BOON Control Minecraft server will be coming back online for the next few months. We will be starting up with a brand new map so that we have the new biome types (don't worry, the old map is saved for later as there was a large build on it). Access will be, as always, limited to existing members of the BOON Control guild/community via a whitelist system. Sorry to anyone who wishes to join the server, but due to the popularity of random griefing in Minecraft, we keep our server limited to guild members or long time community members.

For anyone interesting in joining us (if you meet the "long time community member" criteria) then check...

The BOON Control members invited over to Germany last year had the pleasure of spending a week with these guys at Gamescom 2011, and this video shows how much they love what they do and how much they want to make it an awesome game.

The below video isn't some scripted press release, this is how they are when ever you talk to them about GW2, chilling playing the game, standing at a bar, eating lunch or just passing time chatting, they really have alot of passion about what they do. <3

BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic has hit the ground running. As part of itsholiday-quarter financial announcement this afternoon, publisher Electronic Arts announced that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game has sold more than 2 million copies.

Additionally, of the 2 million copies sold, EA said 1.7 million are "active" subscribers of The Old Republic. That figure is well ahead of the 500,000 subscribers EA previously said it needed to make the game "substantially profitable."

"Star Wars: The Old Republic is developing a committed community of players," EA CEO John Riccitiello said of the game's launch and success thus far. Riccitiello also reiterated that The Old Republic is the "fastest...