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If you’re at PAX East, consider swinging by our own Jason Schreier’s JRPG Panel, Saturday at 10AM in the Naga Theater.

The Cosplay of PAX East, Day One

The first day of PAX East brought all manner of delightfully geeky, creative costumery to the Boston Convention Center. Our reporters at the event have been snapping as many photos as they can, all while keeping up with the hustle and bustle of one of the biggest video game conventions in the world. Here are…

This nifty-looking iPhone app breaks down all of Ni no Kuni‘s collectable familiars in a helpful guide.

Gazillion’s Marvel Heroes MMO officially launches on June 4. I’m not signing up until I can play as Squirrel Girl.

All the Fun of Quick Time Events, Without Those Pesky Events

Everybody loves quick time events, those timed button presses utilized in today’s high-tech interactive entertainment programs to help the user feel a modicum of control over grand cinematic sequences. the problem with quick time events, however, is that the graphical spectacle going on behind the prompts always threatens to steal attention away from important prompts.…

Her Amazing Dress is Made of Magic: The Gathering Cards. So Is Her Axe.

Meet Amy Demicco. She’s wearing the coolest dress in Boston this weekend at the PAX East convention. Her dress is made almost entirely out of playing cards for Magic: The Gathering. She estimates that she’s got about 800 cards in this ensemble, mostly in the helmet. Check out the video above and she’ll explain why…

Splinter Cell Blacklist’s Newest Trailer Shows Sam Fisher Getting Sneaky in Three Ways

It’s hard to know what to think about the next Splinter Cell right now. I liked Conviction but the last Sam Fisher game was a clear break with some of the series’ more iconic elements. Blacklist is clearly trying to bring some of that tech/stealth feel back while also expanding the options and scope of…

Picking a Graphics Card Can Be Hard. GPUBoss.com Can Help.

The graphics card marketplace can be quite confusing to the new PC gamer. There are no standardized labels, cards with the same number designation vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, and the internet is filled with people that swear their favorite piece of poly-processing hardware is the best. I’ve been buying cards for more than a…

Here’s Our First Look At Diablo III Running On PS3

Here’s the first sizzle-reel trailer for the PlayStation 3 version of Diablo III, which looks… well, about how you’d expect Diablo III to look, running on a PS3. The button assignments seem like a natural fit for the game, lending some credence to that theory that the game was designed with consoles in mind from…

Of Course You Want to Watch Nearly Seven Minutes of DuckTales: Remastered

Captured live on Capcom’s Twitch.tv stream earlier this afternoon at PAX East, seven minutes of gorgeous HD DuckTales remake footage is about all the average human can withstand without exploding, so Capcom trimmed it down to six and three-quarters. My favorite NES game of all time in the hands of WayForward, the 2D sprite artists…

Jason is out in Boston for PAX East, so no Random Encounters this week. Sorry!

Rock Band‘s Final Downloadable Song Is Absolutely Perfect

Back when I was in high school, we had the same DJ at every school dance. His name was Ben Skirvin, and as he was a DJ at a local radio station, he went by the handle “Swervin’ Ben Skirvin.” Not exactly the coolest DJ name of all time, but hey, it was southern Indiana…

This Is What One Guy Thinks the PS4 Will Look Like

Let’s all remember: we haven’t seen the PlayStation 4 yet. Along with games that were purportedly running on the system specs, Sony’s event last month only showed viewers the controller. So it’s still up for grabs as to what the actual console will look like. That means that renders like the one above are still…

Telltale’s The Walking Dead is coming to the PlayStation Vita later this year according to IGN.

Capcom Is Bringing DuckTales Back

Capcom announced today at their PAX East panel that they’re resurrecting the beloved DuckTales platformer. Developed by Wayforward and Capcom, DuckTales: Remastered is something of a remake based on the original Nintendo version of DuckTales. It’ll be out this summer for Xbox Live, PSN, and Wii U. DuckTales, originally released for the NES way back…

Capcom will re-release brawlers Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara and Tower of Doom on PC/consoles this June.

Gameloft’s World of Warcraft Clone Already Has a Collectible Card Game Spin-Off

Gameloft has gotten so good at making mobile clones of popular games it’s now cloning games from the future. This morning, Blizzard announced Hearthfire: Heroes of Warcraft, a digital collectible card game based on characters from World of Warcraft. Yesterday, Gameloft released Order & Chaos Duels, a digital collectible card game based on characters based…

You Can Literally Kill People With Dubstep In Saints Row IV

What does six minutes’ worth of a hands-off PAX East demo of the new Saints Row get you? Not much, but it’s worth sharing simply because of the expected, and utterly ridiculous weapons that were shown. Though, if you have a quick eye for details, you’ll likely have noticed most of this in the first…

The US release dates for Terraria’s console versions have been confirmed: March 26 for PS3, March 27 for Xbox 360.

Here’s Your First Look at the Free Left 4 Dead 2 x Resident Evil 6 Crossover in Action

As revealed last week, two of video games’ biggest zombie-centric franchises will be bumping uglies when crossover content for the PC versions of Resident Evil 6 and Left 4 Dead 2 hits in in two weeks. This video shows what it looks like when Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle take on the BOWs of Capcom’s…