Tattooed homicidal freak or square jawed do-gooder? It's up to you how you play in Realtime Worlds' upcoming MMO action game. Whether you're a hardened criminal or a crime-fighting enforcer, the world of APB will have plenty of options for adventure. The upcoming massively multiplayer online action game from Realtime Worlds is looking to make some significant changes to the MMO landscape, thanks to obsessive levels of character customization and a mission structure that is dependent not just on non-player characters, but on fellow real-life players. Realtime Worlds' Dave Jones gave a brief demo of the game during today's media briefing at the Epic booth on the floor of the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

We take an updated look at this long-awaited strategy sequel from the proud new owner of the Disciples property, Akella.You know you're at GDC 2010 when you sit down and get a demonstration of the long-in-development strategy sequel Disciples III: Renaissance from its new owner, Akella. Yes, the Russian game company has assumed full ownership of the Disciples franchise--former publisher Strategy First has quietly bowed out of the picture, though Kalypso Media will help bring the game to North America. And in even better news, Disciples III's development is done--all that remains is localizing the game for countries other than Russia.

We take an updated look at this ambitious fantasy-themed strategy game at the 2010 Game Developers Conference. Is it the month of March yet? Check. Jam-packed Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco? Check. Watching an updated demonstration for the upcoming fantasy strategy game Elemental: War of Magic with Stardock frontman Brad Wardell? Check. It must be GDC 2010. And it must be time to get a progress report on this ambitious strategy game from the creator of the Galactic Civilizations series. And here's the first update: the first phase of the game's community beta, which takes place entirely using the game's fully-zoomed-out "cloth map" view, may be drawing to a close soon, and pending the community's approval, the second phase of beta may be starting soon.

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We join Richard the Lionheart on an alternate-history version of the third Crusade at GDC 2010. It's GDC 2010. There are a lot of games here. Games like Lionheart: King's Crusade from developer NeoCore and publisher Paradox. Lionheart will be a hybrid real-time and turn-based strategy game along the lines of the Total War series, and it will explore an alternate-history version of the third Crusade. In the annals of real-world history, King Richard the Lionheart arrived at Jerusalem at the port of Cyprus, but was unable to push further, and eventually lost the support of his partners and was, himself, captured. King's Crusade suggests a different outcome--a successful military campaign on the part of Richard to push through all of Jerusalem, along with a separate campaign played from the opposite perspective, namely that of Prince Saladin, who famously thwarted the Crusade.