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Ask Cryptic fields Champions Online Revelation questions

Champions Online’s upcoming Revelation update is coming very soon and Cryptic’s answered a bunch of (somewhat random) community questions regarding the substantial free content add-on. We’re not sure if there was any kind of theme to this Q&A other than, “Hey, what would you like to know about Revelation?” Perhaps there were a couple people [...]

GDC 2010: Back to basics for next Red Faction game?

2009’s release of Red Faction: Guerrilla was something of a sales disappointment for publisher THQ but the company is confident the sci-fi shooter game franchise still has some life in it. Our sister site Joystiq reports from GDC 2010 that the next Red Faction game, currently due for release in March 2011, will hearken back [...]

EA: No Project Natal support for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 -

When Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 was revealed to have PlayStation Move support, we wondered why EA would support every other motion-controlled peripheral (all two) and not Microsoft’s Project Natal. So we hit up EA for an answer. As it turns out, EA just wasn’t “in a position” to add Natal support to Tiger Woods [...]

Mass Effect 2 DLC ‘Kasumi’s Stolen Memory’ lands on Apr. 6 (don’t forget!) -

While Mass Effect 2’s in-game DLC pipeline, The Cerberus Network, continues to transport new weapons (and soon, a new vehicle) to players for free, BioWare has announced the game’s first pack of paid downloadable content. “Kasumi’s Stolen Memory” finally completes Commander Shepard’s dirty dozen, adding a confident female thief to your anti-Reaper repertoire. It’s currently [...]

Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto reveals Metroid: Other M’s cinematic inspirations -

Yoshio Sakamoto has had a rather diverse career with Nintendo, having worked on games like Metroid, WarioWare and Tomodatchi Collection. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata asked the Metroid: Other M producer to speak at GDC to “explore the secret of creating games for such a dynamic range of titles.”
One of Sakamoto’s greatest inspirations seems to be [...]

Gaikai and InstantAction team up for streaming, embeddable games -

If InstantAction.com’s CEO Lou Castle is to be believed, we’re apparently going to be playing games pretty much wherever we want in the not-so-distant future. He’s just revealed plans (via IndustryGamers) to relaunch his site with a new business/distribution model and a partnership with game streaming service Gaikai. In addition to the already existing model [...]

Scattered Shots: Marksman 101

Welcome to Scattered Shots, written by Frostheim of Warcraft Hunters Union and the Hunting Party Podcast. Each week Frostheim uses logic and science mixed with a few mugs of Dwarven Stout to look deep into the Hunter class.
Marksman was the original hunter raiding spec back in vanilla. After falling out of the top spot [...]

WoW Moviewatch: The Shadow of Dawn

The Shadow of Dawn was the entry to Alienware’s Rise to Power from Blackhand Pictures. The story is essentially about a human Alliance member who gets sucked into the Lich King’s web of tyranny, only to eventually be freed by Tirion Fordring at the Battle of Light’s Hope Chapel.
The video is [...]

The Art of War(craft): Introductory guide to fighting rogues, Part 4

Zach thinks rogues are dastardly, sneaky and will backstab you at the first opportunity. Take this guide, for example. Rogues just ambushed Zach with a ton of useless information. I mean, they’re just stabby little things, aren’t they?
This final part of our exceptionally long introductory guide — who would’ve thought rogues could be such a [...]

Funcom Community Managers talk about upcoming projects

Julie and Fran of the No Prisoners, No Mercy podcast had some special guests on their most recent show, to the delight of the Funcom fans in their audience.
Funcom Community Managers Glen “Famine” Swan and Oliver Kunz visited the podcast to discuss The Secret World as well as Rise of the Godslayer, the upcoming expansion [...]

New TERA screens revealed

Publisher En Masse today revealed three new high resolution screen shots of Blue Hole Studio’s forthcoming action MMORPG TERA: The Exiled Realm of Arboria.
“TERA is a new class of MMO that combines the depth and flexibility of online PC games with the lush graphics and immediacy of console action games,” said Dr. Jae-Heon Yang, CEO [...]

Report: Rebellion cuts 20 staff, Derby studio shuts down -

Rebellion has allegedly let go approximately 20 staff from its main studio in Oxford, UK, while its Derby location has been shut down, reports Develop. Rebellion, which most-recently released Aliens vs Predator, has yet to confirm the details
As is typical with these types of stories, it’s hard to tell if the layoffs were part [...]

GDC Hands-on: Joe Danger (PSN) -

Hey PS3 owners, have you been waiting for the PSN equivalent of Trials HD? Well, Joe Danger’s for you. Have you been waiting for a new side-scrolling Sonic the Hedgehog game? Then, Joe Danger is also for you. How about an HD version of Canabalt? Yep, Joe Danger is your game. Or, have you been [...]

Capy porting Clash of Heroes to PSN and XBLA -

If, for some reason, you didn’t purchase and love Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes on DS — or even if you did — you’ll have the opportunity to buy the puzzle RPG on two new systems this year, in glorious hand-drawn HD. Capybara Games has revealed a new PSN/XBLA version of Clash of Heroes, [...]

Tomb Raider games and Last Remnant on sale via Steam today only

The PC game download service Steam continues its week long sale of games from Square Enix and their Eidos brand today with price cuts on a number of games in Eidos’s Tomb Raider series. There’s also a discount on 2009’s fantasy RPG The Last Remnant.
From now until 11 am Eastern time on [...]

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