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  BioWare Developers Discuss Ideas and Share Concept Art For the “Hypothetical” Next Dragon Age Game

  Some fine folks from BioWare held a Dragon Age panel at PAX East this weekend in which they emphatically did not talk about still-unannounced Dragon Age 3 Creative Director Mike Laidlaw, Executive Producer Mike Darrah, Lead Writer David Gaider, and Assistant Art Director Shane Hawco presented an array of slides, displaying and responding to fan…

  By Kate Cox Published April 10, 2012
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  We Don’t Always Beat the Ones We Love

  Sure, most of the time we do beat them, but sometimes we’re so busy loving them we never get around to it. Games, we mean. Commenter GiantBoyDetective wants to know if you’ve got a game you adore but never quite got around to finishing. It’s okay, it happens to all of us. Ever realize you’ve…

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  This Is What ‘reddit in Real Life’ Looks Like

  Why in the world was there a reddit booth at a video game convention this past weekend? A) To sell reddit swag. (They did.) B) To draw lines of people. (They did.) C) To let reddit workers meet real-life redditors in the flesh. (They did.) D) To run a low-tech Reddit-in-real-life using magic markers and…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 10, 2012
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  Now You Can Buy The Journey Soundtrack on iTunes

  Austin Wintory’s beautiful soundtrack to Journey is now available on iTunes and PSN for a mere $4.99. A worthy purchase if ever there was one.

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 10, 2012
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  Guitar Apprentice Makers Sue Ubisoft Over Rocksmith Patent-Infringement

  The British rock band Rocksmith aren’t the only ones suing Ubisoft over the French publisher’s guitar game Rocksmith. Now, the folks who make the instructional guitar game Guitar Apprentice have filed claimed patent infringement against Ubisoft over tech similarities to their own game. Both Guitar Apprentice and Rocksmith use a real guitar, plugged into a…

  By Kirk Hamilton Published April 10, 2012
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  Nine Comics That Will Magically Extend Your Life 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 April 10, 2012
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  Drawing Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Means David Marquez’s Girlfriend Has A Bigger Gamerscore Than He Does

  Part of Panel Discussion’s mission is to look at the ways and places where comics and video games intersect and here in Crossover, we’ll be talking to game creators about the comics stories and creators who’ve shaped their sensibilities. So far in Crossover, we’ve spoken to game creators about comics. This time, we’re talking to…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2012
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  Mad Magazine Declares iPhones One of “The 50 Worst Things in America”

  You know how some jokes make you laugh because they feel like they’re hitting on some essential truth? That’s how Mad Magazine’s skewering of Siri and Apple’s recent labor woes comes across in these fake ads from the comedy institution’s upcoming issue. The Foxconn scandals degraded some of Apple’s vaunted invulnerability and these faux advertisements…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2012
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  Panel Discussion Is The Strongest One There Is!

  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 April 10, 2012
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  California GameStops Now Have To Put DLC Warnings On Used Games

  GameStop stores in California will now have to warn you when their used games come with one-time-use online passes or additional fees for downloadable content. For the next two years, GameStop will be forced to put up signs both online and in California retail stores to warn that customers who buy used versions of games…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2012
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  The BioShock Party Was Stuffed With Cool BioShock Cosplay

  Mass Effect cosplay? Sure! BioShock cosplay? I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise. People love dressing up in all sorts of Steampunk garb, some of which intersects with the aesthetic of the BioShock games. But I didn’t expect to see much BioShock cosplay at PAX East this past weekend. There was, in fact, plenty… at…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 10, 2012
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  The 3D Castlevania You Always Wanted is in Minecraft

  Konami came close to a satisfying 3D Castlevania experience with Lord of Shadows, it was missing a certain something. Something that Nick “Nario” Hagman found in Minecraft by recreating the entire original game, block-by-block. Nick spent more than 100 hours over the course of 37 days putting Dracula’s castle together in Minecraft, painstakingly placing every…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 10, 2012
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  Anti-Gay Star Wars Complainers Now Complaining About Spambots

  Who is waging the public opinion battle between anti-gay “family values” groups and the video game creators who dared to allow same-sex romance in their massive new Star Wars game? The anti-gay crowd says the Star Wars defenders are getting help from spam-bots. (Would they be spam-droids?) Anti-gay controversy over The Old Republic began in…

  By Evan Narcisse Published April 10, 2012
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  The New Devil May Cry Seems a Lot Like The Old Devil May Cry

  Check out these new screenshots from DmC: Devil May Cry, the new action game developed by Ninja Theory and shown off at Capcom’s Captivate conference in Rome earlier this month. It looks bloody and action-packed, much like every other game in the gory, surreal series. Although this time protagonist Dante is apparently a terrorist. And…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2012
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  Crow Could Be the Greatest iPhone Game I’ve Played

  As the credits rolled I place my iPhone on the table, leaned back in my chair and attempted to work out in my head how to present Sunside Games’ Crow. I was having an incredibly difficult time of it, and now I realize why: Crow is much more than my Gaming App of the Day.…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 10, 2012
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  The Ever-Impressive New Steel Battalion Has Four-Player Co-op

  I’ve yet to see a trailer for Capcom’s Kinect-and-controller Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor that didn’t impress me. I’ve even seen people play this game and it doesn’t look dopey (it seems that you don’t use the Kinect all that much.) Today we’ve got two clips of the game’s four-player, online co-op. It looks as good…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 10, 2012
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  Resident Evil Chronicles HD Makes On-Rails Zombie Killing Look Good

  Heading to the PlayStation Network this June, Resident Evil Chronicles HD takes Wii rail shooters Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles, bundles them together, and makes them look like this. I never got a chance to play these two Resident Evil side stories, so I’m quite looking forward to a chance to get my PlayStation Move…

  By Mike Fahey Published April 10, 2012
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  Blame Capcom for No Watch This, Play This Today

  Our usual noon diversions will have to hold off today so that we can make room for all of the new trailers spilling out of Capcom Captivate

  By Tina Amini Published April 10, 2012
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  Uh-Oh. Lost Planet 3‘s Developer Made Some Pretty Bad Games.

  News of Lost Planet 3‘s announcement leaked earlier today, but here are the official screenshots, revealed by publisher Capcom at the Captivate event in Rome earlier this month. Development studio Spark Unlimited (best known for the poorly-received Turning Point: Fall of Liberty) is helming the title, a prequel to the first Lost Planet game. Which…

  By Jason Schreier Published April 10, 2012
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  Dragon’s Dogma Looks Stressful, Includes Fat Rats

  Bundled with the Resident Evil 6 demo this May is Dragon’s Dogma, a game as brown and green as Skyrim and, Capcom execs surely hope, just as interesting for fantasy game fans. Well, we can confirm from one of two new gameplay trailers released to day that the game includes large rats. Check that box…

  By Stephen Totilo Published April 10, 2012