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Dragon Age III: Inquisition Is Official, Will Use Battlefield 3‘s Graphics Tech
BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah announced the game officially on the BioWare blog today. The game, called Dragon Age III: Inquisition, doesn’t have much further information beyond the title, which we first heard floated in an earlier leak of some information from a marketing survey. BioWare added in a press release that they are targeting…
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Metro 2033, Already a Book And a Video Game, Will Soon Be a Movie Too
Metro 2033 is getting adapted into a movie, it looks like. The game features a bleak, post-apocalyptic Moscow. The game itself, though, isn’t technically getting the adaptation. The book it was based on—also called Metro 2033—is. The Hollywood Reporter reports that the movie will be produced by Mark Johnson, who worked on Galaxy Quest and…
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Guild Wars 2 Developers Want Their “Endgame” To Be Part of the Whole Game
Massively multiplayer online games have this way of becoming a rush to the top. If a game has 50 levels, 49 of them will end up being considered inconsequential as players float up to the level cap and then stay there. As more and more players reach the limit, more and more of the game…
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Insider Trading Allegations Bring More Bad News For Funcom And The Secret World
Funcom, developer of modern-day MMO The Secret World, is just not having a good year. While the game itself is quite interesting, it hasn’t held the attention of players or subscribers, and poor sales led to massive layoffs, including the lead designer. Promised content updates have been repeatedly missing promised launch dates. Making it all…
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Hold Off On Trading In Your Wii for a Wii U If You Want To Be Able to Keep Your Data
GameStop may be offering a trade-in bonus on your Wii right now, but you may not want to rush to trade up for a shiny new Wii U just yet. Wii owners will be able to transfer their data—including saved games and purchased Wii Shop titles—from their Wii to their new Wii U, but there’s…
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How The Wii U’s Launch Price Stacks Up
As we learned this morning, the Wii U will launch on November 18, 2012—almost six years, to the day, after the Wii launched—and it will come in two versions, costing $299.99 and $349.99. Many of us had running bets or civil disagreements over our best guesses for the Wii U’s launch date and price. It’s…
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Nintendo Unveils “Nintendo TVii” App For Wii U
Nintendo unveiled the “Nintendo TVii” app for their new Wii U console today at their press event in New York. The app, which runs as a “second screen experience” on the game pad, is personalized to each member of the household, with a separate set of recommendations and favorites for each profile. It connects not…
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This Kid Gets To Sleep Inside A Video Game Every Night
A couple is expecting their second child almost any day now. In order to accommodate the baby, they’ll need to move their first child out of the nursery and into her own room. The nursery is Mario-themed. So what to do for the older kid room? Turn it into a full 360-degree surround representation of…
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How Video Game Fans Mourn the Death of One of their Own, Slain in Libyan Attacks
Grief, in an online community, can be a shockingly intimate thing. People who have known each other as a collection of digital avatars and assumed names gather together to mourn the genuinely painful loss of one of their own. The best and most generous parts of a community’s nature often show when tragedy strikes it.…
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Guild Wars 2, Log Three: I Made A Thing! Then Another Thing, and Another Thing…
Oh, dear. I have begun crafting. I put it off until I reached level 20 with my main, and truth be told it’s just as well. I’ve never yet sold or traded away any of the crafting materials I’ve come across (though I should really put the ones I can’t use into the guild bank),…
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There’s Not That Much Difference Between Guild Wars 2 Players And Lemmings
So, Guild Wars 2 has a lot of cliffs and high ledges in it. Really, a lot of them. Jumping up and climbing and platforming are a significant part of the experience. Unfortunately for players like me, unlike other games it has no safe fall skill you can train up. Falling equals falling damage and,…
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Waiting Around? Don’t Play Games On Your Phone; Just Play Games On The Traffic Light Instead
On the one hand, it seems a bit ridiculous. Who needs a game embedded in their walk light? Is the humble button not good enough anymore? Whatever happened to just waiting patiently for the light to turn? And yet on the other hand, the planner behind this German intersection may indeed have been onto something.…
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There’s More Information Than You Think Buried In Your World of Warcraft Screenshots
It turns out that there’s a lot more information captured in a World of Warcraft screenshot than most players would ever think to look for. A user at OwnedCore unearthed the invisible watermarks, which then spilled forth onto Reddit. The gist is that a screenshot taken inside World of Warcraft with its screenshot function includes…
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This Is The Movie We Would Get If Hollywood Got Their Hands on Day Z
The YouTube user who made the Dishonored “film” trailer earlier this summer has been busy. This one’s for DayZ, and it looks quite good. (Although I’d have to skip it; horror movies and I just do not get along.) There are dozens more at Bloodrunsclear’s YouTube channel. A small handful of fun ones are embedded…
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This Artist Makes Even The Horrors of Silent Hill Look Surprisingly Cute
Gorgeous prints of Okami, The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, while always welcomed, are not a rarity. Charming impressions of Pyramid Head, on the other hand, are a lot more rare. And, admittedly, with good reason. Artist Robin E. Kaplan, in her Etsy alias The Gorgonist, is a children’s book illustrator. She also has…
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Steam Users Can Now Buy To The Moon, A Game About Marriage, Memories, And So Much More
To The Moon is now available on Steam, and for its launch week it’ll only run you $7.99 instead of its normal $9.99. $10 gets you the version that also includes the soundtrack. That’s why To The Moon is in the news this week. But that’s not why people keep talking about it. I put…
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What the Hell is Going on in This Live-Action Guild Wars 2 Video?
ArenaNet had shut off their digital sales of Guild Wars 2 a few days after last month’s launch, explaining that the demand was simply too high, and existing players’ needs needed to be attended to first. Since then, they’ve gotten the servers sorted out, the trading post online, and (from my experience, at least) significantly…
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You Will Have to Pay Extra to Fight in Bin Laden’s Back Yard in the Next Medal of Honor
Zero Dark Thirty is a film coming out in December. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Oscar for The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty looks at the decade spent hunting down Osama Bin Laden, and the mission in which he was killed. Zero Dark Thirty is also now a map pack for Medal of…
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Think Your World of Warcraft Group Is The Best? Prove It In Challenge Mode.
The latest update to World of Warcraft, prepping the game for the changes to come with its Mists of Pandaria expansion later this month, brought a number of changes to existing systems. Several more will be coming when the expansion goes live on September 25. One new system rolling into the game with the pandas…
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