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PAX East 2012: Mechromancer DLC Class Announced For Borderlands 2

Gearbox Announces Post-Launch Borderlands 2 DLC, Says Players Will Be Able To Customize Their Characters
By on Monday, 9. April 2012

Garbox took some time at its PAX East panel this past weekend to talk about Borderlands 2 and how the studio is going to support the game post release. Specifically, Gearbox said that it has plans to release a new class as post-launch DLC, but before you go crazy on [...]

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Newest Kinect Hack Controls Massive Organ

A New Kinect Hack Hooks Up The Kinect To An Enormous Organ In Australia, Raises The Musical Kinect Hack Stakes
By on Monday, 9. April 2012

Kinect hacks have come in all shapes and sizes, pretty much since the Kinect was released in the first place. A dizzying number of things have been done with the popular game controller, and the folks down in Australia may have done the biggest thing yet with it.

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Rumor: Wii U Will Cost $300 At Launch

Wii U Will Reportedly Only Cost $300 At Launch, Nintendo's Estimated Wii U Manufacturing Costs Detailed
By on Sunday, 8. April 2012

There are plenty of things left to find out about the Wii U, but perhaps one of the biggest mysteries is how much it will cost at launch. After all, the Wii’s inexpensive price tag contributed a lot to its astronomical success, and many are wondering if Nintendo is planning [...]

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Grand Theft Auto V Release Date Coming October 2012?

Rockstar Employee Lists GTA V As Coming This Year, Take-Two Declines To Comment
By on Sunday, 8. April 2012

As a blogger who occasionally writes about video game topics, I love it when video game developers put their résumés out there with accidentally reveal information about games that the public isn’t supposed to know yet. Case in point, Mr. Alex O’Dwyer of Rockstar, who accidentally listed Grand Theft Auto [...]

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Tomorrow's Mass Effect 3 Patch Fixes Face Import Issue

Mass Effect 3 Face Import Fix On The Way With Next Patch, Available On All Three Platforms Later This Week
By on Sunday, 8. April 2012

While tons of Mass Effect fans have been contributing to the hullabaloo about Mass Effect 3′s ending, some of you haven’t even started the game yet thanks to a bug that prevents players from carrying their Shepard over from Mass Effect 2. If you’re one of the people who has [...]

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More Evidence For PC Version Of Dark Souls Surfaces

Dark Souls PC Release Confirmed In German Magazine, Namco Bandai Remains Silent
By on Sunday, 8. April 2012

We’ve been hearing about a potential PC version of Dark Souls on and off for a couple of months now, but over the weekend some new and rather intriguing evidence for such a game popped up on the Internet. This new evidence seems to suggest that a PC version of [...]

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PAX East 2012: Epic Games Working On PC-Exclusive Game

Unreal & Unreal Tournament Developer To Return To Their PC Roots, Cliff Bleszinski Announces At PAX Panel
By on Saturday, 7. April 2012

Today, they may be best known for the Gears of War series exclusive to the Xbox 360, but back in the old days, Epic Games was a dyed-in-the-wool PC developer, behind such great hits as Unreal and Unreal Tournament. After a number of years with primarily console games, Epic Games [...]

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EA Faces Criticism From Family Values Groups Over LGBT Content

BioWare RPGs Draw Attention For Inclusion Of Gay Romance Quests, EA Management Refuses To Bend To "Political Harassment"
By on Saturday, 7. April 2012

Electronic Arts pleased quite a few gay gamers this year with the inclusion of gay/lesbian romance quests in Mass Effect 3, as well as some LGBT options in BioWare’s other space RPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic. This hasn’t pleased some right-wing political groups, who are pressuring EA on the [...]

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Sonic 4: Episode 2 Release Dates Announced

Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 Release Dates For XBLA & PSN Announced, Sega Makes A Surprise Reveal Involving Metal Sonic
By on Friday, 6. April 2012

After hearing about the game for months, Sega has finally announced a bunch of release dates for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2. Fans have been waiting nearly two years for the second episode in this barely episodic series, and in addition to announcing when Sonic 4: Episode 2 will [...]

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Torchlight 2 May Launch Shortly After Diablo 3

Runic CEO Suggests That Torchlight 2's Release Date Isn't As Far Off As We Think
By on Friday, 6. April 2012

For fans of dungeon crawlers, it doesn’t get much better than Diablo and Torchlight. Yes, I said Diablo and Torchlight there. What was once called “the poor man’s Diablo,” now has a sizable fan base, and this year, Diablo and Torchlight will be going head-to-head. There’s just one small problem: [...]

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