LEGO Universe will let gamers have a hand in literally building their in-game universe. Although LEGO games (LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indiana Jones, LEGO Batman) have been popular on consoles, this is the first LEGO MMO.

The game will bring the LEGO play experience online, encouraging creativity and collaboration between fans all over the world. Within LEGO Universe, players will be able to create, build, quest and socialize together. As LEGO avatars, of course.

In LEGO Universe, players will be able to build anything from LEGO bricks, including their own avatar. Buying bricks and building involves "money," of course, but in a very LEGO sense: the game's currency is plastic, with players them use to buy bricks. Players can also find bricks in the persistent world, gain them by defeating enemies and completing challenges, or discover them a la treasure.

Lego Universe will be released for PC in 2009.

We have the first pieces of concept art from the game, as you can see below. You can click any of the

1. Heavy Rain (Sony, PS3), by Quantic Dream published by Sony: I signed my life away to promise I wouldn't reveal any details about this game. In fact I'm told Sony ninjas will hit me with poison shurikens before I can type the words to describe it, so I will simply say it's by far the most impressive thing I saw at E3. The first video below came out two years ago as a tech demo of Quantic Dream's animation system. The second video shows off what their system is capable of today. This isn't coming for a while yet but looks like it's going to be extremely interesting.

2. Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks, 360, PC, PS3): If The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was a little too orcs 'n swords for your taste (it was for mine), this revival of the classic post-apocalyptic RPG franchise will give you a chance to experience Bethesda's brand of open-world hotness. Born in an underground fallout shelter, you step outside for the first time as an adult -- into a world that's been picking up the pieces of nuclear holocaust for decades.

3. Left 4 Dead (Valve/EA, 360, PC): We've seen a zombie or two in the years we've spent playing games, but we've never seem them like this. Fast and brutal, the

Naturally, given our own obsession with videogaming, we've put together a list of the best games that the invite-only show had to offer so that you, the IGN faithful, know exactly what cool games to look for in the coming months and years ahead. As an added bonus, we've even included specialized platform-specific lists for the PC, PlayStation 3, PSP, Wii, DS and Xbox 360 crowd as a supplement our overall awards. That way everyone, no matter what their console preference, knows what cool games struck our fancy most.

The criteria we use to pick our E3 favorites are simple. With the exception of Best Non-Playable Presentation and Special Achievement in Innovative Design, all &quo

It was a PSP version when I first faced to it. Searching  the boss's weaknesses all night until the battery ran out, training the skill after the tumbles from the heavy artillery fire of a tank... It is the FPS now, but it is still real to me. In such a simulated environment, one would have an immersed sense.

Here are the screenshots of Pirus after the 3rd CBT in korea. Nice game, isn't it? Hopefully we'll taste them in next half a year.

The announcement of the SCI FI Channel MMOG has made a number of us come out and reaffirm our inner geek. A vast number of MMOG aficionados are also SCI FI channel fans, and so this combination seems like a match made in heaven. Luckily, our resident humorist Coyote thought so too and wrote up an article to test your funny bone. Check it out!

Blizzard’s VP of game design, Rob Pardo, was asked about the possibility of the developer creating the next Warcraft 4 real-time strategy (RTS) game in the popular series. While the MMORPG World of Warcraft has over 10 million subscribers, the franchise started out in the RTS genre, so will it be returning to its RTS roots? In an interview from last year he answered:

“Yeah, of course there’s a chance,” he confirmed. “The way that we develop things, each time a development team becomes available, because they’re done with creating the games that they’ve been doing, they have a lot of say over what their next game is. So what it would take is for one of our teams to decide that they want to make Warcraft RTS and of course, there’ll be some talk about doing that and I’m sure after StarCraft 2 ships, it will be one the ideas on the table for that team to do, but that’s pretty far off in the future and it would really be determined by a combination of the dev team and the company leadership.”

Mr. Pardo continued: “I think that one of the things that makes us ultimately successful as a company is that we’re more