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    WotC Confirms New D&D Edition

    It was inevitable sooner or later — Wizards of the Coast has announced they’ve begun work on a new edition of their flagship RPG, Dungeons & Dragons. The brand has taken something of a pounding in the past few years, as disgruntled fans unhappy with...

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    Yarr, Matey! The Most Pirated Games of 2011

    Piracy continues to be an ongoing concern for the gaming industry: TorrentFreak has collected the annual numbers for games torrented during the year. Unsurprisingly, PC games topped the list (the top downloaded PC game of the year, Crysis 2, had more than 3 times the...

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  • If you'd ended right here, Dragon Age 2, I would've said "Well, not great, but not too bad." But NO.

    Benton’s Best of 2011

    It’s that time of year again, when gifts are opened, snow falls on the ground, and year-end lists take up bandwidth.  I’m sure you’re sick of seeing lists all over the Internet, so I’m going to keep this one short.  Feel free to tell me...

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    The Old Republic is Out NOW!

    BioWare’s long-awaited MMORPG, Star Wars: The Old Republic, is out now! Early sales have been limited to keep a mass of players from logging in at once and creating a release-day lagfest, but with the beta, there are already 1.5 million players online. So pick...

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    G.I. Joe Retaliates, Rock Delivers One-Liners

    The first trailer for the upcoming sequel “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” is now online, heavily featuring The Rock in action one-liner mode as the Joes fight to clear their name and stop Cobra from taking over the U.S.  This trailer ain’t watching itself:  

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    The Spice Must Flow in New Mass Effect 3 Trailer

    A new gameplay trailer for Mass Effect 3 doesn’t show much in the way of actual play — notably, Shepard is outrunning, rather than fighting, his enemies — but it does show a rather cool scene of a male Shepard, along with James Vega and...

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