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BioWare: Don’t Delete Your Mass Effect 3 Saves After Finishing The Game [BioWare Suggests Keeping Mass Effect 3 Saves, Will A Future Release Use Mass Effect 3 Game Data?]

By on Friday, 3. February 2012

Even though Mass Effect 3 will mark the end of Commander Shepard’s story, BioWare is suggesting that there may be some unfinished business to take care in a future release. ME 3 Associate Producer Mike Gamble recently told GamerZines that it isn’t a bad idea for players to hold on [...]

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Skyrim Creation Kit ‘On Track’ For Tuesday Release [Pete Hines Says Skyrim's Creation Kit Should Launch On February 7, Teases A 'Special Surprise']

By on Friday, 3. February 2012

The floodgates are about to open, my friends: Bethesda’s VP of Marketing Pete Hines tweeted just a little while ago that Skyrim’s Creation kit is on track for release next Tuesday. That means that you better get some time in with your other games this weekend, because once that Creation [...]

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THQ’s Warhammer MMO Coming In FY 2014, Darksiders 2 In June [Metro: Last Light Hit With A Delay, THQ Teases Four Unannounced Titles Coming In FY 2014]

By on Thursday, 2. February 2012

Today was a day that THQ CEO Brian Farrell has probably been dreading all week. THQ released its financial results for the third quarter of its current fiscal year, and the results aren’t that great. THQ’s GAAP losses for the quarter were listed at 55.9 million dollars, which is a [...]

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Mass Effect 3 Demo Includes Free Access To Xbox Live Gold [Mass Effect 3 Demo Comes With Free Xbox Live Gold Access, But It Will Only Be Available For A Limited Time]

By on Thursday, 2. February 2012

In less than two weeks, BioWare and Electronic Arts will be releasing a multiplayer demo for Mass Effect 3 on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. Since multiplayer though PC and PSN is free, this is definitely something to get excited about – but what about those that are playing on [...]

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Seven More Publishers To Add Their Games To Origin [Electronic Arts Announces Seven New Publishers On The Way To Origin, Including Alan Wake Developer Remedy]

By on Thursday, 2. February 2012

You’ve heard all of the complaints already, but if Electronic Arts’ report from yesterday is to be believed, Origin is proving to be quite a popular service with PC gamers. With over 9 million registered users and 1 million of them using the service daily, publishers are beginning to take [...]

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Several Ubisoft Games Will Be Unplayable During Next Week’s Server Switch [The Settlers 7, Might & Magic: Heroes 6 Will Be Inaccessible During Ubisoft's Game Server Switch Next Week]

By on Thursday, 2. February 2012

Ubisoft’s restrictive always on DRM is about to become even more annoying, because it’s presence in some of Ubisoft’s games means that you won’t be able to play them while Ubisoft switches its game servers next week. That’s right, not even single player. Before you go entirely crazy and throw [...]

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Battlefield 3 & FIFA 12 Sell 10 Million Each, SWTOR Claims 2 Million Sales [Electronic Arts Posts Financial Results For Quarter 3, Origin Boasts 9 Million Registered Users]

By on Wednesday, 1. February 2012

It’s good to be John Riccitiello today, because Electronic Arts has issued its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year. Along with those results come sales figures for some of 2011′s biggest games, and there doesn’t seem to be much for investors to complain about. Hit the [...]

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Kinect for Windows Is Now Available for $249, $149 Academic Prices Coming Later This Year [Microsoft Launches Kinect for Windows; Spoiler Alert: It’s a Different Product than Kinect for Xbox 360]

By on Wednesday, 1. February 2012

One of the products that Microsoft mentioned during the poorly orchestrated Ballmer-Seacrest production of the company’s last CES keynote was the Kinect for Windows, a new peripheral that’s meant to bring Windows PC users various Kinect features. In case you already own a Kinect for Xbox 360 and think that [...]

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THQ To Lay Off 240 Employees, CEO Takes 50% Pay Cut [THQ Announces Big Cuts As The Threat Of A NASDAQ Delisting Looms]

By on Wednesday, 1. February 2012

We’ve got some more bad news coming from THQ. Hot on the heels of the announcement that THQ had been issued a stock delisting warning from NASDAQ, today the company confirmed plans to lay off 240 “selling, general and administrative,” employees worldwide. That definitely is not a good thing.

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Skyrim Update 1.4 Now Available On PC, Creation Kit Coming Soon [Bethesda Gives Us A Short Video Preview Of Skyrim's Creation Kit]

By on Wednesday, 1. February 2012

If you’ve been having any of these problems with Skyrim and you happen to be playing on PC, you’ll be pleased to know that patch 1.4 is now available through Steam. While it doesn’t offer too much in the way of major fixes for the PC version, this patch is [...]

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