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The Joystiq Show - 024: Kingdoms of Double Fine
by Jonathan Downin (28 minutes ago)
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In the second segment, Richard is joined by GameSpot's Kevin VanOrd and Game Informer's Philip Kollar to discuss Big Huge Games's sprawling role-playing game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Spoiler: It's pretty good.
Part 1 (1:03) - The news
Part 2 (24:24) - Review Roundtable: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
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Host: Richard Mitchell (@SenseiRAM)
Guests: Kevin VanOrd (@fiddlecub) and Philip Kollar (@pkollar)
Producer: Jonathan Downin (@jonathandownin - Game Thing Daily)
Production Coordinator: Richard Mitchell
Music: Trash80 and Broke for Free
View the full guest list, news topics, and stream the show after the break.
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See some stupid alien get curbstomped in the latest Mass Effect 3 trailer
by Ben Gilbert (54 minutes ago)
We don't know about you, but whoever that dude was in the previous Mass Effect 3 trailers sure looked out of place. We're feeling much better about this latest one, but that's at least in part due to an alien getting his face straight stepped on near the end. See for yourself! ... continue reading.
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Max Payne 3 shots pit Max against gravity, despicable pickup trucks
by Ben Gilbert (1 hour ago)
Max Payne's seen a lot in his day: Bull Bullets, garish Hawaiian shirts, delays. And now he's got a few more items to cross of his list, such as "angry man in pickup truck" and "face off against gravity -- and win," as you'll see in the latest volley of screens, just below. ... continue reading.
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Shank 2 review: Refined brutality
by Britton Peele (1 hour ago)
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Evidence would suggest that the developers at Klei got together in a board room and said, "Shank was really good. We should do another game exactly like it, only a little bit better." And wouldn't you know it, that's exactly what they did. Shank 2 could be mistaken for its predecessor at first glance, with similar 2D visuals and fast-paced violence. But look a little deeper and you'll find a little more meat, a little more nuance and, somehow, even more brutality.
Shank 2 (2/8/12)
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Yoshida: The Last Guardian still happening, but progress 'slow'
by JC Fletcher (2 hours ago)
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Yoshida reports that, after leaving Sony and becoming a contractor, producer Fumito Ueda continues working on the game as normal. His departure was "an arrangement so he could focus on the creative side," Yoshida said. "But his work and his presence on that team never changed, so it was just more a contractual rearrangement, and that was taken [by many] as 'he left.'"
Ueda is still in the office, "probably one of the people who works the longest hours," Yoshida said. Progress is still taking place on The Last Guardian, "but slow progress."
- Source: 1UP
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Skyrim snags another best of show gong at 15th annual AIAS awards
by Ben Gilbert (2 hours ago)
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The studio took home five awards in total for the dragon-infested, open-world RPG, alongside fellow multiple award winners Uncharted 3 and Portal 2. We've dropped a full list of winners after the break, but before you head there allow us to be outraged for you that Skyward Sword didn't win any awards. Outrage! How could they? Etc.
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- Source: AIAS (PDF link), Awards list (PDF link)
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Sony confirms 'LittleBigPlanet Karting'
by Richard Mitchell (3 hours ago)
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Reports were circulating earlier this week -- though they have since been pulled -- that the game would feature PlayStation Move support and a Move racing wheel peripheral, perhaps in the style of Nintendo's massively successful Mario Kart Wii.
Whatever becomes of the final product, the existence of LittleBigPlanet Karting is an interesting development considering that Sony already has a flagship kart racer, Modnation Racers (pictured).
- Source: @PlayStation
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Vita's Frobisher Says and T@g detailed, free in Europe
by JC Fletcher (4 hours ago)
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T@g is an AR app that lets you leave graffiti in real-world locations, which other Vita users can view through the app. Doing so earns you -- we can't believe we're about to type this -- currency called "t@ggits."
Frobisher will be a free download for European pre-orderers this month, and be available for everyone else (in Europe) in May. T@g will be on PSN in Europe in May and can only be used with the 3G Vita (because of its GPS use).
- Source: PlayStation Blog
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Blizzard taking Valve to court over 'DOTA' trademark
by JC Fletcher (4 hours ago)
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Valve, the document goes on to claim, hasn't used the word for anything yet. There's also a lot of history of Warcraft III, which is a really strange thing to read in a legal document. The case is in discovery now, with pretrial procedures taking place throughout this year and into next. We hope this court proceeding doesn't delay either of the games, as those companies are quite capable of delaying their games on their own.
- Via: NeoGAF
- Source: USPTO
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Ghost Recon Online closed beta starts March 5, check out the classes now
by Mike Schramm (9 hours ago)
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