When Mists of Pandaria launches as the first major World of Warcraft expansion in years, players of even the vanilla WoW will be able to try out the Pandaren race. “With the release of patch 5.0.4, we’re making all the races of Azeroth playable by anyone,” writes Blizzard in a blog post, “no matter which version […]
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Since Valve is run by evil geniuses, it’s inevitable that Half-Life 3 sleuths will pour over the trailer for upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive looking for clues. Better detectives than me will almost certainly find some, though whether these clues are legitimate or accidental will, of course, remain to be seen. Valve is showing off its Source Filmmaker […]
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Action-adventure game, Horn, may be a landmark title for tablet and mobile gaming.
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OnLive denies shutting down, but several sources report massive layoffs at the online gaming service.
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Assassin’s Creed III creative director Alex Hutchinson was so impressed by the combat in Arkham Asylum, he asked his team to do whatever it takes to make the new ACIII’s combat more in line with the Batman games. Arkham Asylum, says Hutchinson, “was one of the only fighting games that keeps things simple. No one admits […]
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The sequel to Castlevania: Lords of Shadows will be coming to PC according to the game’s developer.
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A man in Alabama is wanted for cooking meth. His name? Walter White – the same name as the lead character in AMC’s ‘Breaking Bad.’
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For all the problems gamers have had with Diablo III, Blizzard has done a good job about listening to fans, at least from what I’ve seen so far. I doubt it’s easy to take wave after wave and mob after mob of upset fans, especially if your legendary weapons aren’t up to snuff to match […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about pen-and-paper role-playing-games. For one thing, I’ve been trying to devise one that can be played with my kids – or at least my eldest, who is five. This is no small task. Or rather, it takes a very big idea and requires you to harvest out only the […]
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Developers need to make loot matter more in games, in ways that go beyond buffing stats.
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