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Gaming
Anthony Silva

InJustice gets a date!

When Easter is on the horizon, it must make you rack your brain about what to get that special nerdy someone in your life, right? Sure you are. Well worry not friends; InJustice: Gods Among Us will be released in April 2013, as announced today. Alongside that announcement, WB Interactive and DC Entertainment released a

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BioWare Founders Retire

After seventeen years at the helm of the company they founded, founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk announced their retirement from BioWare today. “This has been an incredibly difficult decision to make,” Muzyka said in his blog post; “after thinking about it for many months, I made the decision to retire from videogames back in

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Nintendo Details Wii U Launch – November 18, 2012

We know what, where, and when, but did Nintendo really address the concerns and answer the questions they needed to?

Assuming you haven’t been living under a rock for the past 27 years (29 if you reside in the swanky, get-every-awesome-piece-of-electronics-first Asian market), you will be fully aware of the fact that an impending Nintendo console generation launch is a big nerdy deal.

Well, it’s big nerdy deal time again. Nintendo will be launching its questionably-named Wii U Console in North America on Sunday, November 18th. This news comes as a result of a well-publicized meet-and-greet thrown by NOA earlier this week in New York, and broadcast via Nintendo’s increasingly impressively effective website, www.nintendo.com

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Source Filmmaker Making Gamers Into Animators: Some Personal Favorites

In connection with the release of “Meet the Pyro“, Valve also released the same video-making program previously utilized for their cinematic trailers and videos by Valve animators for years.  The program is called Source Filmmaker and available for free download on Steam.  According to Valve, many of their popular videos such as Portal 2‘s Cave Johnson

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Valve’s “Big Picture” – Steam to be Available on Your TV

Valve announced a major addition to their game management client Steam today: “Big Picture”. This new aspect of Steam allows users to access their PC/Mac Steam games on their HD TV.  Interface with game controllers will also be available too, though it seems that right now only the XBox 260 controller is compatible. Big Picture

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Battlefield 3: Armored Kill DLC Releasing Soon

On September 4th, DICE and EA announced a new DLC coming to their popular war first-person shooter, Battlefield 3. Get ready gamers, because war and FPS games are certainly going the route of, “how big can I make this multiplayer map?”

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Bethesda Announces Next Skyrim DLC: Hearthfire

With the first Skryim DLC Dawnguard just released a few weeks ago on PC (what happened to the PS3 players, Bethesda?), it was surprising to hear a few rumors this week about Bethesda announcing their next DLC.  But nevertheless, Bethesda sent out a press release this morning announcing the newest Skyrim DLC, Hearthfire.

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INJUSTICE – Enter the Catwoman

First seen at this years E3 2012, INJUSTICE is shaping up to draw plenty of comic fans come release time. The ever-evolving roster has a new addition today: Catwoman, bringing us to 9 of the rumored 28 characters. Joining a cast that includes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Harley Quinn, Solomon Grundy, Nightwing, and

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Gaming
James Trauben

Darksiders II brings Death to life

People called the original Darksiders “derivative,” presumably because the solid gameplay beneath the cartoonish bombast of “Grimdark Zelda” was too openly reminiscent of other good games. Not that design inertia is an uncommon sin – just because an idea is original doesn’t necessarily make it good. But though Vigil Games’ first entry was certainly a

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