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Mass Effect 2 has sold over 2 million copies in its first week! These include worldwide sales of both the Xbox 360 and the PC versions of the game.

The game has also scored extremely well with critics, and enjoys a 96-point Metacritic rating, which makes it the second highest-rated Xbox 360 game of all time.

In addition the game has earned over 40 “Perfect” scores from various publications, and over 30 “Editor’s Choice” awards. The game and the words “Mass Effect 2″ were even in the top-10 trending topics on Twitter upon launch day, along with being the most-searched term on Google News.

Dr. Ray Muzyka, co-founder, BioWare and Group General Manager of the RPG/MMO Group of EA said, "Mass Effect 2 is poised to be one of the biggest games of 2010. We could not be more proud of the game's universal acclaim and early commercial success."

Here’s the Mass Effect 2 red-carpet trailer.

Via NewGameNetwork

Alan Wake 2 and 3 is something Microsoft is taking a “wait and see” approach with according to a new interview with CVG.

It’s already been stated in the past that Remedy hopes Alan Wake will be such a success that many more sequels will follow. And it’s common knowledge amongst those that have been following the game that Alan Wake is seen as the beginning of the storyline.

However, as usually is the case, Microsoft will wait and see how the first highly anticipated long-awaited Alan Wake is received sales-wise before commiting to more games in the series. It is currently set for release this Spring.

“It’s unique and gripping story – heavily influenced by pop culture classics – is brought to life using techniques reminiscent of modern movies and TV shows,” Microsoft product marketing manager Laura Disney told CVG.

“The goal of Alan Wake is create an intense experience for the player, and though ‘psychological thriller’ might not be a genre we are used to applying to games, Alan Wake is definitely not something you’ve experienced before.”

Speaking in our exclusive interview, Disney added: “As Robbie Bach announced at CES earlier this month, the episodic nature of Alan Wake will see DLC become available for title later in the year. As for a sequel, we’ll have to wait and see…”

Below you can watch the opening moments of Alan Wake.

Alan Wake’s opening cinematic cut-scene and gameplay intro.





Alan begins his terrible journey in search of his wife.

Alan investigates strange happenings in the woods.

Rusty got shot . . . is it a trap?

Via CVG

Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City has been announced for PS3 and PC! The release date is set for March 30, 2010.

This will mark the first time that non-Xbox 360 gamers will get the additional Grand Theft Auto IV episodes: The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

They will be downloadable via the PlayStation Network and Games for Windows LIVE. Each episode features the same highly detailed and immersive Liberty City that players know and love, with the Windows version gaining extras that include 32-player multiplayer matches and an advanced video editor.

The Lost and Damned is a dark trip through Liberty City's seedy underbelly as outlaw biker, Johnny Klebitz, fights to keep his gang together as a rift in the gang's leadership threatens to tear the brotherhood apart.

In The Ballad of Gay Tony, players explore Liberty City's high-end nightlife as Luis Lopez, struggling to balance the temptations of money and vice against loyalties to family and friends. Both episodes feature a slew of new vehicles and weapons, and each episode adds new activities including cage fighting, gang wars and BASE jumping.

Stargate Resistance has a release date of February 10th announced developer Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment (who is also making the troubled MMO based on the series called Stargate Worlds) and publisher FireSky.

Resistance is an online third-person shooter where players can choose one of two factions: The Stargate Command or the Goa’uld System Lords, and battle other players for dominance using Stargate’s to travel.

There are six character classes: Soldiers, Commandos, and Scientists on the SGC side, and Goa'uld, Jaffa, and Ashrak Assassins on the System Lords side.

The game will support up to 16-players at once and players can work in teams in any of the three multiplayer modes: Team Death Match, Capture the Flag and Domination.

Each class will also have it’s own unique mix of weapons, items and stats with various strengths and weaknesses to set them apart from one another and improve strategy.

Here is a preview video for Stargate Resistance.

“Stargate Resistance brings to our fans the kind of gameplay Stargate Worlds never planned to deliver," said Chris Klug, the game's creative consultant and the creative director for Stargate Worlds. "Resistance delivers the combat, weapons and tactics seen so often on the show that many of you have been asking for. I know this game will excite fans who have longed to go toe-to-toe with a Jaffa as well as those who always wanted to dominate the galaxy in ways the MMO could only hint at."

"I want to personally thank everyone for their enthusiasm and support. It's incredibly exciting to be releasing our first game as a studio, especially with such a great license," said Shane Hensley, President of the Studio.

Key features of Stargate Resistance include:

* Dominance: Battle for control of the galaxy as either the SGC or System Lords, wresting power away from your foes with each glorious victory!

* Dial It Up: Spearhead the assault by charging through the Stargate into enemy territory–drawn straight from the amazing Stargate series!

* Tactical Battle: Work with your teammates to defeat enemy players in a variety of multiplayer modes including Team Death Match, Capture the Tech, and of course, Domination!

* Game Play Variety: Master all 6 classes and use their unique abilities to turn the tide of battle. Earn experience with each class to advance through the ranks.

* True Stargate Weapons: Play with a vast array of weapons including the P90, Proximity Mines, Staff weapons, Sniper Rifle, .50 MG Turret and Anti-Cloak Sight, Ribbon Device and Ashrak Death Knives!

* Spectacular Visuals: Experience battlefields with jaw-dropping textures and lighting rendered by the Unreal 3 engine!

* Expanding Universe: New content including maps, weapons, and classes enter the fray through future expansions.

Tags are an essential part of nearly every Wordpress blog. Webmasters use tags to categorize posts. One side-effect of tagging posts in Wordpress is that these tags are sometimes indexed by search engines. Visitors from those search engines will then see a page containing excerpts of the posts that have been tagged with that tag.

This can result in two problems for the webmaster. Problem one is indexation. It can happen that a tag page gets indexed instead of the actual post. There are plugins that can deal with that problem by adding canonical tags to those links so that the search engines know that the post page should be indexed with priority for the keyword and not the tags page.

The second problem is that the tag page can irritate search engine users as they only see excerpts and not a single article. This can look spammy to some and might have a negative impact on a visitor’s perception of the page and the website in general.

We have posted an option to create custom tag pages in Wordpress back in April of last year and that method is still valid and working.

This method basically creates a new template file for each tag that the webmaster wants to customize. It can for instance be used to display an introduction to visitors so that they know what the page is about. This method allows the posting of media as well as text on the tag pages.

Posting those additional information can be beneficial to the search engine indexation of the tag page as well since it adds unique content to those pages.

The disadvantage of that method is that a new template file needs to be created for each tag that the webmaster wants to customize. This is impractical for websites with thousands of tags.

Another method was posted at the Likemind blog. This new method has been introduced in Wordpress 2.8. It makes use of a new tag variable called description which can be added to the tag’s template so that it will be displayed on the tag pages of the website.

Some Wordpress themes come without a tag.php file. If that is the case it needs to be created and modified to include the description. The easiest way to do so is to copy the index.php file and rename the copy to tag.php. The following code needs to be added before the loop in tag.php

<!–Start Code–>
<?php $tag_desc = tag_description(); ?>
<?php if($tag_desc) : ?>
<div class="tag-description">
<?php print $tag_desc ;?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<!–End Code–>

Each tag page will from then on display the tag’s description if available. Tag descriptions can be edited in the Posts > Post Tags menu in the Wordpress admin interface.

The benefit of this approach is that only one template needs to be created and that everything else can be handled from within the Wordpress admin area. That tag description can also be used as the meta description. There are some disadvantages though as it is difficulty to add formatting and media to the description (if at all possible).

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