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Tera MMO Log Part Four: The Political Process Begins
It’s the final week of my coverage of En Masse Entertainment’s massively multiplayer fantasy role-playing game Tera. Normally at this point I would be sick to death of playing and eager to reclaim my free time. Instead, I find myself more invested in the game than ever before. Oh yes, it just got political up…
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The Witcher Creators Are Creating the Official Cyberpunk Role-Playing Game
At today’s special Summer Conference event, The Witcher developer CD Projekt revealed that their next big role-playing game is an official game based on the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing system. It’s being built by a second CDP Red team made up of Witcher veterans and will focus on letting players create their own characters to navigate…
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One Year Later, Did Nintendo Keep Their E3 2011 Promises?
For the fourth year in a row, we’re comparing E3 hype to gaming reality. Sony was the subject of our first investigation. Today we check out Nintendo and will follow with Microsoft’s E3 2011 promises on Thursday, at 1pm ET. Nintendo had two, maybe three focuses at last year’s E3 press conference. The most obvious…
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Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault Landing on PSN Later This Year
Ratchet & Clank has a 10-year anniversary coming up, and in addition to remastering and re-releasing existing games, Insomniac has announced an all-new game: Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault The developers promise a return “to the series’ classic feel, camera, controls and weapons,” while also adding as yet unspecified “online features” to the game.…
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DoTA-style Lord of the Rings Game Coming this Fall
Guardians of Middle-Earth, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, is going to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this fall. The game’s release is timed to tie in with the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, coming out in theaters this December. Guardians of Middle-earth promises to use Tolkien’s iconic high fantasy setting and…
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The World’s Largest High IQ Society Enters the Brain Game… Game
Since 1946 Mensa has been bringing together the most intelligent people in the world and convincing them to pay annual membership fees for a card that proves how clever they are. Now the world’s largest gathering of large IQ scores teams with Square Enix for Mensa Academy, a game aimed at training others to pay…
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UncategorizedAgent 47 Brutally Slaughters Nuns in the Bizarre Hitman: Absolution E3 Trailer
There are so many things wrong with this “Attack of the Saints” trailer for Hitman: Absolution, starting with the fact that the Saints don’t so much attack as they walk forward in slow motion as Agent 47 takes them out one-by-one. It seems silly to me that Square Enix decided to play up the fetish…
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