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Hey, You Got Your Pokémon In My Kingdom Hearts
Meet the Dream Eaters, the monsters you’ll be attacking, breeding, and recruiting in upcoming action-RPG Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, which is out July 31 for Nintendo 3DS. Kind of remind you of a certain other Nintendo game, don’t they? Still, I’m psyched for this one. It’s looking more like Kingdom Hearts II than…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
Kickstarter Doesn’t Really Care If You Get Scammed Out Of $25
Worried about Kickstarter not caring if one of its projects steals your money? Well… you probably should be. According to Sunny Bates, advisor-slash-board member for the crowdfunding website, if you give your money to a project, that project gets funded, and you then get ripped off, you’ll be left to fend for yourself. “Here’s the…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
Valve Is Releasing Its Own Free Movie-Making Tool
This is the Source Filmmaker. It lets you use your PC to create animated short films. And it’s entirely free. This is the tool that Valve used to create all nine of its “Meet the Team” short films. Will yours be as hilarious? Only time will tell. “The goal of the SFM was to develop…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
The Best Skyrim: Dawnguard Videos I’ve Found So Far
Skyrim‘s first piece of DLC came out yesterday, and with it came a deluge of cool new videos to show off all of the cool new content. I’m still powering my way through Dawnguard, which Bethesda is calling an expansion pack. My review will be up Friday morning, so until then, check out some of…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
New Mass Effect 3 DLC Could Revolve Around Rogue Reaper
Mass Effect 3 could get a new piece of downloadable content revolving around a Reaper named Leviathan, according to files extracted by a BioWare forum poster yesterday. (Potential spoilers for potential Mass Effect 3 DLC follow.) According to the files, which were extracted from yesterday’s “Extended Cut” DLC and dumped on Pastebin, you’ll have to…
By Jason Schreier Published June 27, 2012 -
Watch Me Turn Into A Swarm Of Bats And Rip People Apart In Skyrim: Dawnguard
Here’s some video footage we just captured of Skyrim‘s first DLC, Dawnguard, which I’ve been playing today Watch me turn into a bunch of bats. Watch me drain peoples’ lives. Watch me re-animate dead bodies. No sparkles on this vampire, folks.
By Jason Schreier Published June 26, 2012 -
Playing A Vampire In Skyrim: Dawnguard
Crossbows, mysterious pale women, and a castle packed with nasty vampires: although the first few hours of Skyrim‘s first downloadable content start off a little slow, they’ve got some awesome things to offer—and they hint at even more to come. Dawnguard, the expansion pack-sized DLC that developer Bethesda releases today for Xbox 360 (and later…
By Jason Schreier Published June 26, 2012 -
Here’s Your First Look At Skyrim‘s DLC In… Action
This is Skyrim‘s first piece of downloadable content, Dawnguard, which comes out tomorrow for Xbox 360. I loaded it up for the first time about half an hour ago. Headed to the first new area, Fort Dawnguard. The video above shows what I found there. Enjoy your first look at Skyrim‘s DLC in action. (Exiting…
By Jason Schreier Published June 26, 2012 -
How To Turn Mass Effect 3‘s Shepard Into A Barbie Doll
Step 1. Get some clay. Step 2. Fashion the clay into a Barbie doll. Step 3. Hunt down a red wig for—you know what? Don’t even try this at home. Just check out how this blogger pulled it off Full pic (click to expand): Saving the galaxy, one Ken at a time. Commander Shepard Barbie…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
We Don’t Play Games The Way We’re Supposed To
Companies want us to play games one way. We actually play them another way. Today’s Dorkly comic (by Julia Lepetit) does a wonderful job of illustrating that point. Behold a few of my favorites: Check Dorkly for the rest! How Games Are Meant To Be Played vs. How You Play Them [Dorkly]
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
An Open Letter To The Creators Of Final Fantasy
Dear Square Enix, How you doing? It’s been a while. Last I heard, you guys had some money issues. Hope you’ve bounced back. Sold off some of those extra records in the attic. Took out a second mortgage on your airship. Made some Facebook games. Whatever. I’m writing today because you’re the vanguard of role-playing…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
Expanded Mass Effect 3 Ending Coming On June 26
BioWare is releasing the Extended Cut downloadable content for sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect 3 on June 26, it said today. You’ll be able to download it for free on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. It’s a whopping 1.9 gigabytes. “The Extended Cut expands on the endings of Mass Effect 3 through additional scenes…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
Hey Square Enix, Please Bring This RPG To The U.S.
This is Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. It’s a role-playing game made by some of the people who made 3D Dot Game Heroes and some of the people who made Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light. Nintendo showed it off during its Japanese livestream last night. And it looks wonderful. Let’s try to ignore the…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
The Need for Speed Movie Is One Step Closer To Reality
A couple of months ago, EA started expressing interest in a Need for Speed movie. Now it looks like it might be happening. DreamWorks has acquired the rights to EA’s racing franchise, the film studio said in a press release today. From the release: Brothers George and John Gatins developed the original story with George…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
Professor Layton Is Coming To Your 3DS in November [UPDATE]
Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle is coming to the U.S. this November, Nintendo said today. Released in Japan for 3DS last year, this is the fifth installment in the puzzle-heavy Layton series. It will be out in November. Nintendo will release new puzzles for the game, once per day for 365 days. Update…
By Jason Schreier Published June 22, 2012 -
May The Incredible Music of Final Fantasy Live On Forever
No matter how you feel about the current state of Final Fantasy—and if you’re a fan of role-playing games at all, you likely have some sort of unshakeable conviction about which was the best, which was the worst, and how Square Enix has ruined everything—there’s one fact you can’t deny: It’s got some awesome jams.…
By Jason Schreier Published June 21, 2012 -
Even Poetry Might Not Be Enough To Make TimeSplitters 4
TimeSplitters 4 is not in development. That’s been made clear But Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli still wants to hear how many TimeSplitters fans are out there, and so he’s put out a call on Twitter. In response, a large group of fans got together on Facebook in an attempt to beg the German studio to…
By Jason Schreier Published June 21, 2012 -
The Newest Tales Game Is Looking Pretty Gorgeous
Here are some new official screenshots for upcoming Japanese role-playing game Tales of Xillia 2, which will be released for PS3 in Japan later this year. Now since we still haven’t even seen the first Tales of Xillia here in the U.S., I have no idea if or when this will ever make it here.…
By Jason Schreier Published June 21, 2012
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