All about the announcement of the first expansion pack for Civilization 5, Gods & Kings.
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You Cast Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
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Manga & Graphic Novels
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Cage Match–2011!
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Tim Zahn’s “Judge’s Call”
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50 Page Fridays
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith collection
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When Dragon’s Dogma, an action/adventure game developed by Capcom, ships in July, there’ll be an exciting bonus packed along with the game. Today, Capcom announced that an online download code for a demo of Resident Evil 6, the next mainline addition to the long-running franchise, will be provided for every gamer who purchases a new copy of Dragon’s Dogma. A move like this isn’t underheard of in the videogame industry, and, in fact, has led to increased sales for titles like Crackdown (included a demo of Halo 3), Tobal No. 1 (Final Fantasy 7) and Zone of the Enders (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty) and is sure to improve exposure for Dragon’s Dogma, a new franchise from Capcom.
When Lord of the Rings Online first went free-to-play, I jumped on board, curious to see how well Turbine, the celebrated developer of other MMORPGs such as Asheron’s Call, could capture Tolkien’s legendary Middle-Earth. It’s not an easy task, as Middle-Earth is such a foundational part of my love for Fantasy that it would be near impossible to do justice to the world with a digital playground. Naturally, wanting to start life in The Shire, I created a cute Hobbit Minstrel named Cabenting, and jumped in feet first.
For hours afterwards, I was lost in Middle-Earth. Not just a digital playground version, but the Middle-Earth. I was in love.
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Skyrim is a huge hit on videogame consoles and the PC, now check out this hilarious and impressive “port” of the game to a TI-84 calculator!
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is being developed by 38 Studios and Big Huge Games (best known for their work on the original Dungeon Siege video game) and published by EA. This is the first game by 38 Studios, a development studio started by Fantasy heavyweights R.A. Salvatore (NYT Bestselling author and creator of the legendary Drizzt Do’Urden) and Todd McFarlane (comic book artist and creator of Spawn) as well as former baseball player Curt Schilling.
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Today Irrational Games made an announcement that’s sure to make fans of System Shock, the spiritual predecessor to BioShock, very happy (and enjoyably frustrated in the future!). It’s called ‘1999 Mode’ and it’s sure to make you cry.
EGM has confirmed that a demo of Mass Effect 3, the highly anticipated Action RPG from BioWare and EA, will hit the PlayStation Network and the Xbox Live Marketplace on February 14th.
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Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
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The more I think it through the more Atticus O’Sullivan seems the smart choice. I mean.. Aside...