In an interview translated from a Chinese gaming site, it has been revealed that Planetside 2 will be free to play. Planetside-Universe has confirmed with John Smedley that the game will be free to play but that "the specific details of the charges has not been determined".

Smedley indicated that he was unwilling to reveal any details about the F2P model but did drop a small hint in the form of "we like League of Legends a lot".

Additionally, Planetside Universe found out that the team is shooting for beta by the end of this year but will not commit to anything more than "It's ready when it's ready and we are proud of it."

Producer promises to do right by the character following the X-Men Origins: Wolverine debacle.

Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has been talking up plans for a Deadpool movie, stating that the filmmakers will endeavour to do right by the character having made a hash of 'The Merc with a Mouth' in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool.

"He was treated totally wrong in the Wolverine film" she told Total Film. "And yes we will redeem him."
 

Donner said there is still a fair way to go before the film goes into production, explaining "We have a few more things to do, and then it's up to the studio whether we're going to move forward or not."
 

But Ryan Reynolds is still attached to play Wade Wilson should they get the green-light, and Donner sounds optimistic on that front, stating "I'm pretty excited. We have a good script and a good director."

As previously reported, that director is Tim Miller, the special effect wiz whose previous credits include X-Men and X2.

BioWare has unfortunately had to delay beta testing invites for players in Europe who were hoping on getting their hands on Star Wars: The Old Republic a bit early.

Says BioWare:

"After a lengthy discussion here at the BioWare offices, the decision has been made to postpone the proposed Game Testing invites for EU players for a number of reasons. 

Firstly, there's a new build of the game on the horizon. This is a major build, meaning there will be character wipes and a new client to download. As you may be aware, the current client download is around 27GB in size. If we were to invite players en masse today, those players would have to download the entirety of the client to access the game. There's every chance that later this week, the service will go offline and this new version will be rolled out, meaning everyone currently in Testing will have to not only download the entire client again (another 27GB download), but will also have their characters erased and have to start afresh. This is a relatively large amount to download in such a short space of time and not an experience we want new testers to be exposed to.

Secondly, this new build will bring about the first localised versions of Star Wars: The Old Republic, which means those of you that speak French and German will have the chance to play the game in those languages, for the first time ever. We're extremely excited to be able to offer this to our players and as such, we're keen to get a lot of feedback from European testers in particular."

We don't have any info on exactly when European players will be able to get their hands on the game, but we have every confidence that BioWare and EA are doing everything in their power to get the beta out there to as many players, globally, as possible.

In the meantime, however, check out http://www.swtor.com/ for more information on the game.

Modder packs PS3 and Xbox 360 into a single tower.

Finding a place to put your Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 can be tough at times, but Reddit user timofiend has made the predicament entirely obsolete with his amalgamation of video game greatness.

Tucked within a single desktop tower, timofiend packed all of the required internals to run both consoles, while managing to keep the heat dissipation at a desirable state.

If you'd like to venture into the realm of awesomeness yourself, timofiend will soon post the necessary documentation to follow in his footsteps.

The system requirements for id Software's shooter revealed and FFS!!!   My PC won't run run it either… 

Curious to know what kind of hardware you'll need to run Rage? id Software's post-apocalyptic shooter is set to be released on October 4 in North America, and the official hardware requirements are now out in the open. This will be the first game to be released using id's Tech 5 technology, and it should be very interesting to see how it performs out in the real world.

Considering id Software's history at setting new industry standards for visual quality with past titles like Doom 3 and Quake, this might be a game worth upgrading for.

How do you stack up to the requirements?

Minimum

• OS: Win XP SP3, Vista, Win 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or Equivalent AMD
• Memory: 2GB
• Hard Disk Space: 25GB
• Video Card: GeForce 8800, Radeon HD 4200

Recommended

• OS: Win XP SP3, Vista, Win 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad or Equivalent AMD
• Memory: 4GB
• Hard Disk Space: 25GB
• Video Card: GeForce 9800 GTX, ATI Radeon HD 5550