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A Bad (or Possibly Good) Case of Mass Effect 3 Decision Angst
In today’s spoiler-free episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Ducce discusses the anxiety that rises while making game-changing decisions in Mass Effect 3. Is this immersion, or is he slowly going insane? I have for the first time in my gaming life been exposed to pure decision-angst. I have been playing through (what I…
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The Game Gear eShop Invasion Begins
The first handheld gaming device to go head-to-head with the Game Boy (the Atari Lynx barely counts) reaches out its electronic hand in friendship to its one-time enemy, as three Game Gear games become playable on the Nintendo 3DS. How humbling this must be. It’s okay Shinobi, Sonic the Hedgehog and Dragon Crystal; it’s not…
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The Game of Thrones RPG’s Combat Does a Fine Dragon Age Impression
You know what would be awesome? A game that played like Dragon Age but featured locations and characters from George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series of books (now a major television series). Watching this combat trailer for Cyanide Studio’s Game of Thrones role-playing game, I’d say that dream might soon be…
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