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  I Never Considered Running For Office Until Tera Came Along

  While players can still climb to the top of the pack through battle in upcoming fantasy MMO Tera the game’s political system makes for a much more impressive rise to power. In most fantasy MMOP games you create a guild, raise your levels, and then raid dangerous dungeons. In En Masse Entertainment’s upcoming game Tera,…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2011
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  Star Wars Stormtroopers Went to Best Buy, and This Happened.

  It’s a mild, late-fall night, the holiday season is in full effect, and you want to go get some soup at Au Bon Pain. Life is good, but for how much longer? Maybe you’re done with that soup and you wanted to go buy some DVDs. Well guess what, Miss Mary Mac, you picked the…

  By Chris Carolan Published December 21, 2011
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  Score the Winning Goal Right From Your Phone

  Remember the days when the only on-phone gaming option was that weird snake one where the little pixel ate the other pixels and got increasingly longer until it ran into itself and died? Well, the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY, which combines a PlayStation®-certified gaming device with the capabilities and portability of an Android smartphone makes…

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  Only Xbox 360 Owners Will Be Able to Use This Exclusive Final Fantasy XIII-2 DLC Weapon

  Remember when Final Fantasy games were a hot-damn, big-deal reason to get a PlayStation console? That era ended a little while back, and the very fact that Final Fantasy XIII showed up on the Xbox 360 meant that things would never be the same. Now that game’s sequel will be offering an exclusive weapon that…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 21, 2011
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  Who Says Star Wars: The Old Republic Will Inevitably Go Free-to-Play?

  With the assumption that BioWare’s new subscription-based massively multiplayer online Star Wars role-playing game will one day succumb to the dark side of free-to-play running rampant, commenter Odin believes The Old Republic could flourish under the archaic monthly model in today’s Speak Up on Kotaku. I honestly don’t know where people have inherited this bizarre…

  By Mike Fahey Published December 21, 2011
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  Fenix Rising DLC Adding Prestige Style Rewards to Gear of War 3 in January

  New skins? Yup. Fresh maps to battle it out on? Check. But, on January 17th, the third update to Epic Games’ best-selling shooter will brings a new multiplayer mechanic that’ll seem very, um, familiar to players of the Call of Duty games. The Re-Up system lets players who hit the level cap of 100 gain…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 21, 2011
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  Hearings on Controversial Internet-Regulating SOPA Delayed to 2012

  The fate of the Stop Online Piracy Act, which is not yet the law of the land in the United States, won’t be decided until next year. The House Judiciary Committee has postponed further debate until Congress returns from its winter break, according to the Washington Post The act, commonly referred to as SOPA, will…

  By Stephen Totilo Published December 21, 2011
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  Talk Amongst Yourselves

  Guile was the one character I could never beat Street Fighter 2 with. I don’t know what it is, but even to this day I am still unable to use Guile. I guess everybody has that one Street Fighter character that they just don’t understand. Who are you horrible with? Take this time to Talk…

  By Chris Carolan Published December 21, 2011
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  Christmas Comes To One of My Favorite Imaginary Worlds

  There are plenty of inventive places to visit as a gamer, plenty of places to get lost and create your own fiction. But once you ask to be able to fashion the world around you, that list diminishes. Fortunately, what’s left is pretty great. Take for instance Junk Jack, a hard-to-put down digging, crafting and…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 21, 2011
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  Wall Street Journal: Star Wars Game Is Actually An Attack on World of Warcraft

  It’s hard to untangle whether it’s a media creation or born of the competitive natures of gaming and business, but according to at least one newspaper the war between Activision and Electronic Arts continues to simmer. “With Star Wars EA is taking aim at Activision’s World of Warcraft game,” the Wall Street Journal reports. It…

  By Brian Crecente Published December 21, 2011
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  How the Makers of Mass Effect Use Tolstoy to Prove Video Games Are Art

  A while back, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts started up their Guru lecture series where greats from the world of film- and television-making would speak on their inspirations and insights from each medium. Now, BAFTA’s a clever outfit, one that’s given out awards to video games for the last eight years. Impressive,…

  By Evan Narcisse Published December 21, 2011
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  Winter is Coming

  Winter is Coming | And it is adorable. By Renaud Forestie This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  See How Star Wars: Galaxies Danced Out In Terror And Was Suddenly Silenced

  Not with a bang, but several bangs. Then a whimper. And a succession of people just standing around, awkwardly, wondering what they’d done with the last eight years of their lives. As you’re probably aware, last weekend the plug was pulled on Star Wars Galaxies, the long-running, mildly-popular but ultimately disappointing MMO that had managed…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  Forget Hats, Team Fortress 2 Now Has Official Wedding Rings

  Should you ever feel the need to propose to that special someone in the middle of a game of Team Fortress 2, you can now do just that, after developers Valve added an official wedding ring to the game. It’s called the Something Special For Someone Special, and is available as a crafted item. It…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  A Very Sword & Sworcery Christmas

  It’s a “cozy yuletide”, as only the world of Sword & Sworcery could imagine. [s:s&s]

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  This Might Actually Be The Official Zelda Timeline

  Since the series began, Nintendo has been coy on whether there’s an official timeline for The Legend of Zelda. They’ve said there is one, locked away in Nintendo HQ, but the fact it’s never been shared – and that each game seems so wildly different from the rest – has long clouded the topic. Until…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  Game Industry All-Stars Making an Epic Sci-Fi Comic…Game…Thing

  When Kendall Davis began work at 343 Industries, and got started on Halo 4, he probably didn’t think he’d end up quitting the studio and branching out to create an ambitious comic game with the help of an all-star game development ensemble. But that’s exactly what’s happened. Fine Art has the pleasure today of introducing…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  This Is Not The Mega Man Game You Were Looking For

  When a reader passed this along and said it was a “fucking abomination”, I thought, well, those are awfully strong words. A Mega Man game on the iPhone can’t be that bad, can it? Oh. Turns out that, yes, it looks quite awful. Capcom seem to have confused the iPhone, which is capable of playing…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  Metal Gear Creator’s Next Game is Set In a “Very Open World”

  Hideo Kojima, creator and curator of the Metal Gear franchise, sure loves a tease. Speaking with CNN recently, he starts to get into details about his upcoming game, then like all good teases do, pulls up short just before you get to the good stuff. Having shown it off last week with APCs and women’s…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011
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  Comic Sans Even Ruins Video Game Logos

  Ah, Comic Sans. The village idiot of fonts. While it normally ruins everything it touches, website Comic Sans Project are the font’s self-anointed “DEFENDERS”, replacing the logos of famous companies with, well, Comic Sans. You’d think it would look awful but, well, it often looks pretty great. Especially the PlayStation, Xbox and McDonalds ones. Comic…

  By Luke Plunkett Published December 21, 2011