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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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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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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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Turn-based! And LOL at the fifth class! Matt MacLean is the lead designer on the game and he sat down with us to talk about the tone of the overall game, the mechanics of combat, and what the South Park RPG has learned from Final...

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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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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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