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Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 Delivers Hack-and-Slash in a Flash
Dragon Age Legends developer EA2D turned over all of the assets to its Facebook strategy role-playing game to acclaimed Flash game developer Pixelante, and the action-packed Dragon Age Legends: Remix 01 is what they got back. Pixelante’s Evan Miller isn’t one to create slow, Facebook-style strategy role-playing experiences. EA2D already made that game, so when…
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Action-RPG Darkspore Is or Was Coming to Xbox 360, PS3
In his resume, level-designer Jordan Patz claims to have “worked with Maxis to modify Darkspore for release on Xbox/PS3.” Wasn’t that just a PC game? The résumé has since been modified: it now links to a YouTube video of a flying cat. Very Suspicious. [joystiq]
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Before Playing Gotham City Impostors Read Batman: Impostors
Want to get more out of Monolith Productions upcoming downloadable multiplayer game Gotham City Impostors? Then you’ll want to read Batman: Impostors, an epic four-issue story arc that first appeared in Detective Comics last year. Gotham City Impostors is a cunning way to deliver a multiplayer Batman experience without having to worry about who plays…
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Mass Effect Fans Worry That Expanded Gay Options Will Create Inconsistencies, Alter Canon
Mass Effect developer Casey Hudson’s announcement less than a day ago that same-sex romances would be given fuller and more explicit articulation in Mass Effect 3 has unsurprisingly ignited a spark among many followers of the franchise. In previous Mass Effect games, only female versions of series hero Commander Shepard have had access to homosexual…
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Darius Mason Didn’t Mean to Get All Those Martian Colonists Killed
In Red Faction: Armageddon, Darius Mason does indeed open up an ancient shaft on the surface of Mars, awakening a long-dormant alien race from its slumber to kill his fellow colonists in droves, but it’s not his fault. He was tricked. It’s all Adam Hale’s fault, though technically the blame lies on Darius’ grandfather Alec…
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An A Capella Group Pays Homage to the Portal 2 Turrets
This is an A Capella version of Cara Mia, the “turret opera” from late in Portal 2. I don’t really know why you’d sing this, but vocalizing music as beeps and boops is a big part of A Capella, so it works just fine. If you want to see the original, you can watch it…
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Now You Know Your Video Game ABCs
A is for alien, B is for Bomberman, and C is for Chun-Li. Do you know your video game ABCs? Artist Fabian Gonzalez knows his ABCs. He’s created a series of colorful character-specific alphabets featuring superheroes and Simpsons characters ,and now he focuses his talents on creating 26 video game themed letters for your viewing…
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Catherine Asks “Are You Committed?”
Last month Atlus asked Catherine fans to send in their video responses to questions about love and marriage. Those answers are now part of a brand-new trailer for the game, laced with some sexy new footage and packaged with new screens for those that could care less about other people’s marriage habits. I’m perfectly fine…
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Madden NFL 12‘s Franchise Gets Its Upgrades — by Popular Demand
When Madden NFL 11 released last year with a virtually unchanged Franchise mode, Josh Looman expected to hear about it. He just expected to hear it on the message boards. “I was hearing it in the grocery store,” said Looman a longtime designer on EA Sports’ bread-and-butter series. “If I wore a Madden t-shirt to…
By Owen Good
