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Dishonored’s Knife of Dunwall DLC—due out next week—puts you in the boots of the hit game’s stealthy bad guy. See how Daud differs from Corvo in the video above.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers will be showing up for download on the 3DS, along with an old-school Kirby game and a sequel to Dillon’s Rolling Western. There’s also a new update for the stereoscopic handheld. Check out all the coming week’s digital Nintendo offerings right here

The newest trailer for Disney Infinity shows how you’ll be able to mash up characters and setting from The Incredibles, Monsters, Pirates of the Caribbean and more in the collectible figure game’s Toy Box mode.

Here’s Why Mass Effect‘s Villains Were So Excellent

Sometimes it got difficult to remember what evil looks like in the Mass Effect games. With all the soap opera of loyalty missions, interplanetary politics and romance plotlines in the three Mass Effect games, it sure was easy to forget what you had to save the universe from. Sure, the threat loomed large but doing…

Hey, Hollywood, Listen to What This Mass Effect Writer Thinks You Should Do for That Movie You’re Making

Studio heads, directors and agents haven’t been knocking down Drew Karpyshyn’s door. The man who was one of the Mass Effect universe’s chief architects knows that Hollywood will be looking elsewhere for the talent that will power the upcoming film adaptation. But Karpyshyn headed up the writing for the first Mass Effect game and part…

The New Novel by One of the Guys Behind Dishonored Is Dark, But Not How You Expect

Harvey Smith—who you probably know as a chief architect of Deus Ex and of last year’s hit stealth/action hybrid Dishonored—has made games about secret alien UFO labs and supernatural steampunk assassins. So you might expect a novel from the co-founder of Arkane Studios to be heavy with genre trappings and filled with fantastical imaginings. But,…

Hungry for more of From Software’s brutally abusive fantasy RPG world? Watch IGN‘s reveal of Dark Souls II right here. Dark Souls 2 Gameplay Reveal – 12 Minute Demo [IGN]

Apple Cleared of Blame, ‘Censored’ Comic Will Be Sold on iOS Devices After All

Yesterday, all of the internet was ablaze with the news that Saga #12—Image Comics’ sci-fi adventure drama by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples—was being blocked from iPads and iPhones by Apple. A new announcement from digital comics purveyor Comixology indicates that they, not Apple, were to blame. It also says that the comic will…

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“I think it had the first deaths by diarrhea or farts ever in video games.” Go to The Gameological Society and read this piece by Ryan Smith on Tattoo Assassins, the incredibly tasteless, Mortal Kombat rip-off that never got released.

Apple Bans Upcoming Issue Of Comic For Featuring Gay Sex

Tomorrow’s Saga #12—the latest issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ critically acclaimed series—won’t be available for purchase via comics-reading apps on the iPad or iPhone, because it contains images of gay sex. That means that folks who buy and read the sci-fi adventure drama via apps like Comixology won’t be able to do…

Where The First Mass Effect Failed, And Succeeded, According To Its Head Writer

Drew Karpyshyn was there at the beginning of Mass Effect, but he still hasn’t played the end. He was lead writer on the first two games in the series, but has yet to see the third game through to its conclusion. He knows about the the controversy, about the cupcakes and the Extended Cut. But…

Game Developer Magazine—arguably the leading publication for people for making interactive entertainment—will nolonger be printing physical copies of the magazine. The last issue will be printed in July. Best wishes to all those affected by this decision.

Tearaway—the super-cute papercraft game being made by the creators of LittleBigPlanet—will be coming out on October 22nd for PS Vita

Want to play Lost Planet 3? You’re going to have to wait a while longer, as the sci-fi shooter’s release moves from June 25 to August 27 in North America and to August 30 in Europe from a June 28th date.

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When I First Saw Mass Effect, It Looked Like This. I Didn’t Love It.

This artifact, which I dug this up out of my basement a few weeks ago, was where I first entered the universe of Mass Effect. It didn’t impress me much in 2007. Six years ago, the Microsoft PR machine sent out hard drives with the code for Mass Effect 1 to press for previews. Mine…

It’s just been announced that Blizzard—makers of Diablo III and Starcraft 2—just bought the technology and assets for the IGN Pro League eSports promotion

Months after fan voting ended, you can finally download and print the alternate covers for BioShock Infinite over at Irrational Games’ website

Director Shane Carruth—the man behind cult favorite indie films Primer and Upstream Color—names Portal and Grand Theft Auto IV as influences on his work in a profile on Vulture. As video game players become creators in other mediums, this kind of thing becomes less surprising. But it’s still cool to see.