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Dragon Age: Origins discounted until Thursday on Steam

kamograljll — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Steam is having a “midweek madness” sale on Dragon Age: Origins until Thursday at 4PM PST. BioWare ’s fantasy epic is discounted 33 percent, making the regular and “digital deluxe” editions $33.49 and $43.54, respectively. Of course, the discounts are to get you on the hook to purchase the game’s first expansion, Awakening , which releases today . But, just so you go into this with eyes wide open, DA:O is a long game — especially if you get the bundle stuffed with the extra DLC missions.

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Joystiq Podcast: Episode Zero

BestAnimalSex — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:45:00 +0000

Filed under: Podcasts Perhaps you’ve always wanted to get on board with the Joystiq Podcast but didn’t know where to start. Maybe you’re a long-time fan, but forget funny things almost as soon as you hear them. Or maybe you just have three spare hours and want to fill them with delight . For all of you, there is Joystiq Podcast: Episode Zero.

http://www.joystiq.com/podcasts/03-16-10-joystiqpodcast-e0.mp3

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You can expect ‘a lot’ of Just Cause 2 DLC

RezeptFreiCIALIS — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Say you were to jump a sweet speedboat off an even sweeter ramp, then climb onto that speedboat and shoot a rocket at a dude in a tower (which is a real thing that happens in Just Cause 2 ) for 15 to 20 hours. Afterward, if someone asked you how much more time you wanted to spend doing things like that, we imagine the answer would be “a lot.” Perhaps it’s no coincidence, then, that that’s exactly how much DLC lead designer Peter Johansson tells Eurogamer is coming to the Just Cause 2: “a lot.” And that’s on top of all the content already on the game disc, which, by all external signs, is pretty darn imposing. Johannsson claims that his 60-percent-complete save file is about 55 game hours worth of playtime, which, if you let the math play out, means that if you were to play all 100 percent of the game, it would take roughly 73,000 hours. Roughly. You can expect ‘a lot’ of Just Cause 2 DLC originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:30:00 EST.

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Brace yo’self: New EA Sports MMA screens might hurt

likossa odleski — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Click for bigger impact Though we don’t have any new gameplay details on upcoming grappler EA Sports MMA for you today, we do have a whole mess of new screenshots. The images feature everything from the usual “two sweaty dudes staring each other down” to the brand new “dude walking down a runway with fire shooting in the air” — there are even several images of MMA rings with the audience seated at dinner tables, presumably in the VIP section, watching the fight. Nothing says “Roman Colosseum” quite like eating dinner while watching two meaty gents beat each other into the mat! These stills beg the obvious question: Could the MMA game engine, with its crowd-eating technology, be used to create a fully-realized “Medieval Times” game? We think so. Gallery: EA Sports MMA (3.16.10) Brace yo’self: New EA Sports MMA screens might hurt originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST.

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North America getting its own Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP bundle [update]

fluidethipiet — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Okay, so North America’s limited edition Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker PSP pack doesn’t include an exclusive camo PSP , or a stand thingy, or a snakeskin-like carrying case. But it does include a “Spirited Green” PSP-3000 , a color previously unavailable in America. It doesn’t include a PSP Go, so we’re guessing the ” relaunch ” hasn’t begun yet. Launching alongside the standalone game on May 25 June 8, the pack includes said green PSP, a copy of the game on UMD, a 2GB Memory Stick Pro Duo, and vouchers for both an unidentified movie download (for US residents only) and exclusive in-game items in Peace Walker , for $199.99

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Pick up Guitar Hero 5 at a Guitar Hero 3 price today

freklinotka — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:19:00 +0000

Looking to add 85 new songs to your Guitar Hero library? Want a game that’s made for “Party Play?” Oh, sure. Admit it — you just want to make the ghostly Cobain avatar do your musical bidding. Well, whatever the motivation, you can pick up Guitar Hero 5 (the game only) for a pretty reasonable $28.99 today, thanks to Amazon’s Deal of the Day .

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God of War III launch trailer reveals violent tendencies of the PS3

JeffLatexx — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:55:00 +0000

There are a lot of totally awesome things in the God of War III launch trailer above: skydiving demigods, mountain-sized Titans, giant blue scorpions, and, of course, everyone’s favorite chained antihero, Kratos — to name a few. However, we’d like to specifically highlight the bit of PS3 marketing that ends all commercials for Sony-published games. This time around, it brags that the console only does “vengeance,” “rage” and “everything,” in that order

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GDC breaks attendance record: 18k geeks in da house

Amarikans Psihhlos — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:31:00 +0000

The 2010 Game Developers Conference welcomed 18,250 industry professionals , many of whom also moonlighted as alcohol professionals during the evenings, to San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center for another round of the annual meet-up. The record number surpassed last year’s total of 17,000 attendees. Next year’s show is already set to be tapped on February 28, 2011. A call for lecture submissions will go out sometime this summer. In the meantime, you can join the GDC circuit party and get your multi-core binary integration theory groove on at GDC Canada , May 6-7, in Vancouver

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Impressions: Need for Speed World

Aseessinas — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:56:00 +0000

It’s rare to get excited for a Need for Speed project. Sure, it’s a reliable franchise that’s spawned a number of good, and sometimes great titles as of late, but innovation is hardly its strong suit. Considering the series’ track record, I was surprised to find that one of EA’s most ambitious and innovative upcoming titles is Need for Speed World , a free-to-play massively multiplayer online racer for the PC. It’s the largest Need for Speed title yet, offering a potential platform for limitless updates, and it could easily become the last Need for Speed game EA will ever need to make. Imagine a world not unlike the one found in Burnout Paradise and Test Drive Unlimited

L.A. Noire isn’t your ‘average adventure game’

CardsBigLoverON — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:29:00 +0000

We don’t yet know precisely what to make of Rockstar’s upcoming L.A. Noire (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing), but after poring over a new Edge piece on the game, we think we may be getting a clearer picture.

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