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SWTOR: What Can I Do at Level 50?
It's been over a month since the launch of BioWare's stellar (pun totally intended) MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. While the hardcore may have reached the game's level 50 cap weeks ago, many more players are just now nearing the limit. At level 50, the dynamic of the game, especially the way in which your character progresses, changes drastically...
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Minecraft Will Never Be Finished
While Markus "Notch" Persson may have been the developer and Internet superstar behind Minecraft, the reigns were handed over sometime around 2011's Minecon. Notch's friend and long-time partner, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten, is taking over as lead developer on Minecraft.
Speaking with Gamasutra, Berge...
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Two Dirt Roads Diverged on a Muddy Track
2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana's inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes...
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Clinkz Added to Dota 2 Beta
Valve has a tradition of updating the Dota 2 beta every Thursday. Except when they don't, which is sometimes. Today they totally did, though, and in today's update they added Bone Fletcher (AKA Clinkz)...
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NCsoft Seeks to Block the Release of Tera
Bluehole Studio's upcoming MMO Tera could find itself missing its launch in May if NCsoft has anything to say about it. The publisher filed a trade secrets and unfair competition lawsuit against the Tera developer, which it alleges is made up of former NCsoft employees "who quit to go into business ...
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Pre-Order the Mass Effect 3 Art Book and Get a DLC Gun
In addition to Mass Effect 3 action figures bringing bonus content to BioWare's next title, the Dark Horse-published Art of the Mass Effect 3 Universe book includes in-game bonuses. Readers will earn themselves a DLC code for The Collector Assault Rifle, which also came as a bonus in the Mass Effect 2 Collector's Edition...
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm?
It's a problem that most massively multiplayer online game developers might surrender vital organs to have: over the past 15 months, Blizzard Entertainment's 400-lb. virtual gorilla, World of Warcraft, has dropped from 12 million to a pitiful 10.3 million global subscribers (as of November 8, 2011, ...
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Rayman Origins Coming to PC
Fans of old-school 2D platformers rejoice! Rayman Origins, which scored a whopping 9.5, is headed to the PC. Via Twitter, the announcement even includes a release date March 29th.
According to the press release, players can "have up to three friends join the game at any time as Globox or as one...
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Prototype 2: The Figureheads of NYZ
In just a few months, Prototype 2 will be upon us and we'll all be running through New York City tearing bad guys apart with arm blades and disgusting tendril moves. When that happens, you're not going to have time to sit down and ponder how the cast of this title let their world get into this sicke...
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The Upcoming Minecraft Creature is...
Mojang teased the new Jungle biome creature just yesterday, and have today loosed a pre-release of the client upon the Internet. Of course players ravenously downloaded it, and have since uncovered and even recorded this adorable new creature in video...
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Gadgets Dictate Tactics in Ghost Recon
Explosions, mountainside helicopter chases, and gunfights erupting amidst civilian streets punctuate Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier's more dramatic moments. But the methodical tactics required to decompress a dangerous situation quietly creates the kind of memorable scenarios that inspire more pride than a well-placed bullet...
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Arkham City of the Year Awards
IGN rated Batman: Arkham City as a 9.5, but it didn't win IGN Game of the Year. In fact, it didn't even get nominated for IGN Game of the Year. Internally, this means not enough IGN editors thought Batman: Arkham City outclassed the competition to get the overall nod. Externally, a lot of Batman fan...
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The Old Republic: Fear of the Finale
I skipped my 10 year high school reunion. Travel was expensive, all I owned were t-shirts and unfashionable jeans, and I think I was supposed to water a friend's plants. That's what I told myself, at least. But really I didn't want to be reminded of a time when I was drowning in a sense of opportuni...
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LOTRO Expansion Announced: Riders of Rohan
Turbine today announced the second expansion for Lord of the Rings Online since the MMO's switch to free-to-play over a year ago. The expansion, Riders of Rohan, will increase the level cap to 85, send players across the Plains of Rohan and interact with the totally sweet Ents of Fangorn...
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Warp: To Kill or Not to Kill?
There are a lot of games featuring aliens on the various download services, as well as a lot of action puzzlers. So for an alien-centric action puzzler to capture your attention these days means it's got to bring some style and personality to the table. From what I've seen, Warp - coming to PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live later this year - does just that...
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There Will be No BlizzCon 2012
Blizzard has announced that there will be no BlizzCon 2012. Instead, the next convention for all things Blizzard will take place in 2013. Blizzard explained that the need to focus on development of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III was more of a priority...
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The Darkness II: The Human Inside
As heroes go, Jackie Estacado is pretty unappealing on the surface. The protagonist of the video game (and comic book) series The Darkness is a hard sell on two counts. First off, he's a hitman turned mob don, whose day-to-day activities involve running a criminal empire. If that wasn't bad enough, ...
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