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The Divinity Series Isn’t Always Divine, But I Still Love It Anyway
When Larian announced their new Divinity game yesterday, I felt an emotion for which I know no word. It was the sensation that combines unhinged fannish glee with abject terror and worry. In July, 2003, a friend gave me the gift of a new game for my new gaming PC. On seeing the box, I…
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Watch GOG.com’s Slowjamin’ Love Letter to Game Developers
It’s a tough world out there for game developers; There’s rampant piracy, an unstable economy and all sorts of things that can go wrong at a moment’s notice. Sometimes you need someone to snuggle up to you and tell you everything is gonna be all right. Shhhhhhhh…don’t worry baby. GOG.com is here for some sweet,…
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This Giant Robot Sculpture? It’s a Gaming PC.
It’s not often that I wonder if a PC might arise and, say, try to kill me. This one, though… this one makes that particular concern come to mind. Yes, this giant scrap robot is a computer, and a fairly powerful one at that. The creator of this immense work is a man of very…
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The Musical, Mind-Bending, Microbial Magic of Splice
Cipher Prime, the studio known for crafting stylish concoctions of simple gameplay and stunning sound sets bioengineering to music in Splice, an award-winning puzzle game coming to Steam for Mac and PC June 13. How are you at splicing strands of DNA? In Splice the player is cast in the role of a researcher, tasked…
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A Completely Unbiased Look at the Races of Guild Wars 2
While pouring over Starfleet Dental’s comprehensive guide to the races of Guild Wars 2, it helps to keep in mind that Humans were the only race available to play in the original game. So when they call the diminutive Asura an “anime abortion”, it’s nothing personal. I am sure the creators of this infographic did…
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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…
By Kate Cox
