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  Looks Like Sega’s Publishing Ron Gilbert’s New Adventure Game

  If you follow all-around funny guy Ron Gilbert on Twitter, you’ll have noticed that the beloved adventure game designer has been doling out sneak peeks at the playable characters that will be appearing in the game he’s making with Double Fine Productions. Well, the intrepid folks at Sega Bits have matched up the jagged outlines…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  From Dust Is Now Available on the Chrome Store

  Eric Chahi’s distinctive god-game From Dust is now available through the Google Chrome store for a discounted price of $9.99. The game was one of the more pleasant surprises of last year.

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012
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  I Played XCOM: Enemy Unknown With An Xbox Controller. It Works.

  Given its pedigree, you might expect XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the October-scheduled throwback to a classic computer strategy game, to be playable only by mouse and keyboard. Can’t work any other way, right? I played the new turn-based strategy game on a PC last week in Santa Monica. I played it with an Xbox 360 controller…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012
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  Major League Baseball 2K‘s Cancellation Looms on Grim News from Game’s Creators

  Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of 2K Sports, notably left Major League Baseball 2K out of its planned releases in its coming fiscal year in a call with investors today. Kotaku asked Take-Two Interactive if it could confirm the end of the series, and it released this statement: “Our legacy Major League Baseball agreement will…

  By Owen Good Published May 22, 2012
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  Please Stop Complaining About Sequels That Change Things Up

  What’s the better game, a sequel that merely enhances ideas established in previous games, or one that goes in a completely new direction? Commenter DanimalCart is tired of people complaining about sequels that aren’t just more of the same. Something has been bothering me in the wake of the release of both Max Payne 3…

  Speak Up Published May 22, 2012
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  Indie Gem J.S. Joust Is Flagrantly Cloned [Update]

  Die Gute Fabrik’s hugely enjoyable screenless indie game Johann Sebastian Joust is the latest victim of app-store cloning. An iOS game called Papa Quash released yesterday apes not only Joust‘s core mechanical idea, but shamelessly lifts its marketing, imagery, and overall vibe. Both Joust and now Papa Quash are games that are played outside of…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012
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  X-Com First Person Shooter Severely Delayed Yet Again

  The bold first-person shooter take on classic strategy game X-Com, long in development by BioShock 2 creators 2K Marin, has been pushed back another year by publisher Take Two to some time between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012
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  Five Comics That Question Everything You Know This Week

  If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  Rainbow Bridge: Marvel and DC Comics Bring Same-Sex Superheroes into the Spotlight

  This morning, the ladies of ABC’s The View were talking about a celebrity wedding. Happens all the time, right? But the celebrities in question were the X-Men, not the Kardashians. And the wedding? It’s going to be super-fast adventurer Northstar marrying his longtime boyfriend Kyle. Definitely not your typical talk-show fare. While this storyline was…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  The Massive Delivers a Chilling, Water-Logged Look at the End of the World

  Most pop-culture apocalypses crank up the volume, right? Whether it’s alien invasions or natural disasters, the end of civilization as we know it tends usher in a whole lot of noise pollution. So, the palpable silence left by mankind’s near-extinction happens so quietly is one of the best things about The Massive Now, of course,…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  Marvel Heroes‘ First Gameplay Trailer Features Wolverine, Black Widow and Some Clown Named Deadpool Kicking Ass MMO-Style

  After a long time fighting secret development wars, Gazillion Entertainment is finally letting the world look at the massive multiplayer online game featuring dozens, maybe even hundreds of Marvel Comics characters This quick teaser packs in a few Avengers, a couple of mutants and two of Marvel’s biggest bad guys. Marvel Heroes has a storyline…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  Protecting a World That Hates and Fears It, Panel Discussion Starts Now!

  Are we still pretending that comics and video games don’t have anything to do with each other? Not anymore, we’re not. Welcome to Panel Discussion, where the focus will be on comic books and sequential art, whether they connect directly to video games or not. Confused? Read this

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  If You Have a TV Nearby During E3, Turn on Spike TV

  In two week’s time, the E3 press conferences will be over. You’ll have seen the biggest newest from Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft. You’ll know all about the Wii U, the next big things for Xbox 360 and the future of PlayStation. But how will you have seen this news? If you are near…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012
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  I’m Actually On the Bandwagon for a Vita Game Called PulzAR. Join Me?

  The first time I saw the word PulzAR on a list of upcoming PlayStation-brand video games, I laughed. Or did I scoff? One of the two. PulzAR?? Really? Having played Halo, I should know that you can’t judge a game by its name. I didn’t have to. PulzAR, I would soon learn is an augmented…

  By Stephen Totilo Published May 22, 2012
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  Okay, Sure. Maybe The Kinect Can Teach Me Kung Fu.

  “It’s just good for dancing games.” That’s been the unofficial but commonly held belief about the Kinect for a good while now— Dance Central and Just Dance have long been the most impressive games to play with Microsoft’s motion-detector. But what about a fighting game? Specifically, a kung fu fighting game? Several fitness games have…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012
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  Three Dollars Adds a Pack of Penthouse Pets to Saints Row the Third

  THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today’s release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint’s Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players’ gangs with a quartet of models from America’s minor league nudie mag. Minor league might be a little harsh, really. I’d say that Penthouse has…

  By Mike Fahey Published May 22, 2012
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  Layoffs Hit Star Wars: The Old Republic Developers

  It’s been a roller-coaster ride for the sprawling Star Wars-based MMO from EA Bioware. The Old Republic‘s solid debut couldn’t help the game from losing a sizable chunk of players. Now BioWare Austin is losing some of the developers that helped build the game, too, according to a statement issued today by BioWare founders Greg…

  By Evan Narcisse Published May 22, 2012
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  Kingdoms of Amalur Developer Lays Off Some Employees After Missing Payroll

  The future continues to look grim for Rhode Island game developer 38 Studios. After missing a May 1 loan payment and failing to make payroll last week, the beleaguered studio has had to lay off some employees. Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee confirmed to local network WPRI yesterday that 38 Studios would be letting an…

  By Kate Cox Published May 22, 2012
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  Ghost Recon: Future Soldier: The Kotaku Review

  Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon franchise has always occupied the “tactical military shooter” space a bit uneasily. The series initially focused on brutally lethal engagements in long, outdoor spaces but with the Advanced Warfighter games of the mid-2000’s evolved to cast the player as a technologically enhanced one-man army, pitting him against tanks, helicopters, and platoons of…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published May 22, 2012
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  Rap Videos Straight Out Of Skyrim Are Surprisingly Familiar

  Alcohol, bragging, dancing women, reappropriation of the word “word”…this rap video featuring MC Dovahkiin, also known as Big Dragonborn features all the necessary components for a modern rap video. I suggest you stay until the end, where the female rapper steps in and stylistically puts everyone else to shame (the experience just would not be…

  By Tina Amini Published May 22, 2012