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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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I’m going to be following news about this game pretty closely. Game Informer has a video interview with the CEO of Obsidian about the South Park RPG. Feargus Urquhart loves RPGs. As the lead designer on Fallout 2 and one of the founders of RPG-centric...

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Electronic Arts, soon releasing the MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, has previously said that they only need about half a million subscribers to make a profit.  So how many people did their recent beta attract?  2.4 million people registered for their recent beta, with...

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I would never have thought of it, let alone asked for it… and yet this is some kind of brilliance. Details are scant so far, but Trey and Matt are doing the writing and voices and it’s some kind of partnership with THQ (!) and...

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Is it EA?  Is it a shift in decision makers?  Is it just the changing market? Whatever the reason (or reasons), BioWare seems to be making some questionable decisions lately.  Mass Effect 2′s redesign (spoiler – I liked the game and approved, almost entirely, of...

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