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Demon's Souls Servers Not Going Offline After All

Atlus Says Demon's Souls North American Servers Will Stay On For The 'Foreseeable Future'
By on Friday, 25. May 2012

After saying that the Demon’s Souls servers would be going dark at the end of this month, publisher Atlas has announced that they’ll be staying on for awhile longer. The news comes just days before the servers were set to go dark, so this is an announcement we’re sure will [...]

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LucasArts Revealing New Star Wars Game Next Week

LucasArts Set To Reveal New Star Wars Title Next Thursday On GameTrailers TV
By on Friday, 25. May 2012

If you’re feeling like you could use a pick-me-up after realizing that Star Wars Kinect was every bit as bad and bland as it looked, then you might want to check out Spike TV next week. It’s on that channel that LucasArts is revealing a new Star Wars franchise, and [...]

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Blizzard Insists The Number Of Diablo 3 Hacked Accounts Is 'Extremely Small'

Blizzard Responds To Fan Fears Of Widespread Diablo 3 Account Hacks, Gives Players Suggestions On How To Secure Their Accounts
By on Thursday, 24. May 2012

As with any online game, security is always a concern. This is especially true for Diablo 3, which requires players to be constantly connected to battle.net in order to play. Diablo 3, unsurprisingly, is extremely popular with PC gamers, which attracts all sorts of gold sellers and hackers who are [...]

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Skyrim Update 1.6 Adds Mounted Combat

Mounted Combat Being Added To Skyrim In Update 1.6, Bethesda Shares Full Patch Notes
By on Thursday, 24. May 2012

Slowly but surely, Bethesda has been adding all of that cool stuff we saw in its Skyrim Game Jam video to the actual game. We were already given kill cams for magic and ranged attacks and Kinect voice commands in previous updates, and today Bethesda announced that update 1.6 will [...]

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Entire 38 Studios Staff Laid Off, Big Huge Games Shuttered

38 Studios Lays Off All Employees At Its Rhode Island Studio & Big Huge Games
By on Thursday, 24. May 2012

Things just went from bad to worse for Kingdoms of Amalur publisher 38 Studios, it seems. New reports are claiming that the entire staff at 38 Studios has been laid off, and the developer of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Big Huge Games, has been shut down. Hit the jump for [...]

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First 22 Cans Project Out In 'About Six Weeks' Molyneux Hopes

First 22 Cans Project Dubbed 22 Experiments, Molyneux Explains The Concept & Gives Us A Rough Estimate For Its Release
By on Wednesday, 23. May 2012

Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny that Peter Molyneux has contributed his fair share of interesting ideas to the gaming industry. Sometimes these ideas work out well and other times they fall flat, but it’s obvious that Molyneux is a man interested in changing the way we [...]

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Rhode Island Governor Working To Save 38 Studios As Shutdown Looms

Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee Says 38 Studios Has Not Yet Received The Private Funding It Needs To Keep Going
By on Wednesday, 23. May 2012

Even though 38 Studios managed to make its overdue $1.125 million payment to the Rhode Island government last week, it isn’t in the clear yet. Now the task becomes finding private funding so the studio has the funds to continue operations, but so far, that doesn’t appear to be working [...]

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Ridiculous Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector's Set Announced

Capcom Reveals Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Box Set, Confirms Dates For Global Tournament
By on Wednesday, 23. May 2012

If you like Street Fighter and have roughly $150 to burn, then boy does Capcom have the perfect package for you. Instead of spending that $150 on bills, food or booze, why not put it toward Capcom’s new Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Collector’s Set? Check it out in the picture [...]

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Diablo 3 Becomes The Fastest Selling PC Game Ever

Diablo 3 Breaks PC Records With 3.5 Million Copies Sold In First 24 Hours
By on Wednesday, 23. May 2012

It appears that Blizzard’s decision to wait 12 years between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 ended up working out well for the studio, as Diablo 3 has broken sales records across the board and can now be called the fastest selling PC game in the history of mankind, and by [...]

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Incantor Puts New Touch Of Immersion On World Of Warcraft-Style Gaming

Currently Being Shown At TechCrunch Disrupt Is The Incantor, A Device That Ups Immersion For Some World Of Warcraft Players
By on Wednesday, 23. May 2012

Currently making the rounds on both TechCrunch Disrupt and Kickstarter is the Incantor, a game controller that promises a graphically boosted amount of immersion in some World of Warcraft players’ game. I say some, of course, owing strictly to the design of the Incantor.

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