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Daily Scoop: May 15, 2012 – What are you playing today?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Nicole Kline

We’ve got three serious releases today: Diablo II, Game of Thrones, and Max Payne 3. Which of these games are you spending your hard-earned money on, and giving all of your time to? My answer is obvious: Diablo III. Though I do really like Max Payne… no! Don’t look back!

Let’s see, what are the deals today? Well, Amazon’s got Gears of War 3 on sale for $39.99. And Target has a plethora of games on sale in their video game deals event. Check out page after page of deals, including Dead Rising for $14.99, Dead Space 2 for $19.99, Dragon Age Origins: Ultimate Edition for $14.99, Mass Effect 3 for $39.99, and Uncharted 3 for $29.99. Scoop those deals up!

One gaming-related shirt for you today… (more…)

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Diablo III launches with a growing list of errors

Posted on May 15, 2012 by John Scalzo

Perhaps Blizzard overreached with Diablo III. In development for over four years (and possibly as far back as 2001), the game is more ambitious than anything the series has seen before.

Naturally, that has lead to a variety of error messages plaguing players on the game’s launch day.

Blizzard currently lists five errors in the game’s official forum, with Error 3006 being the most serious. Joystiq describes it as a game-breaking bug that occurs if a player swaps an equipped item with a Templar. After the error occurs, players are unable to log back in to Battle.net, even if they restart the game.

Blizzard is looking into to these errors and will hopefully have a fix ready soon.

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Daily Scoop: May 14, 2012 – On the eve of Diablo III

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Nicole Kline

Are you excited yet, people? It’s almost time for Diablo III to ruin your life. I know my boyfriend and I are thrilled at the prospect of all of our free time being smashed by this game!

Amazon’s got some new deals up today, some of which are pretty tempting:

Just one shirt today, and this one’s for Zelda fans… (more…)

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Crystal Dynamics buries Tomb Raider until early 2013

Posted on May 14, 2012 by John Scalzo

Darrell Gallagher, the Studio Head at Crystal Dynamics, has revealed that the developer’s long-awaited reboot of Tomb Raider won’t make it out this Fall as previously planned. Instead, the game’s release has been pushed back to early 2013 for “polish” and to implement some “finishing touches”:

We’re doing things that are completely new to Tomb Raider in this game and the additional development time will allow us to put the finishing touches into the game and polish it to a level that you deserve. We believe this is the right choice and I guarantee it will be worth the wait.

You know, the game looked pretty darn polished when Crystal Dynamics showed it off at last year’s E3 Expo. But speaking of E3, the developer once again plans to make Tomb Raider the showpiece of the Square Enix booth. To get the gamers of the world excited, they’ve released a new screenshot dubbed “The Reach,” which supposed to offer a hint as what the E3 demo will look like. Hit the jump to see Lara Croft make “The Reach.” (more…)

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Developing a “future generation” video game, LucasArts is

Posted on May 12, 2012 by John Scalzo

LucasArts has become the latest developer to jump into “future generation” game development after a job listing for a Graphics Engineer was discovered on Gamasutra. The game is described as an “Action/ Adventure Title,” but any further details are being kept tightly under wraps.

LucasArts hasn’t done much development in recent years, choosing instead to work with TT Games, BioWare, and Behaviour Interactive to create several new games based on the Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchises.

However, the company did internally develop Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II this generation. And the second one did end on a rather massive cliffhanger…

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New Releases: Diablo III, Max Payne 3, Game of Thrones, More

Posted on May 12, 2012 by John Scalzo

It’s finally time to give the devil his due, Diablo III will be available in stores this week. With a whole mess of big releases, this marks the end of the “new game drought” that has been plaguing gamers all throughout the month of April. And Diablo III isn’t even the only long-awaited return this week…

  • Max Payne is back for another round of stylized neo-noir action in Max Payne 3 for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360.
  • George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones makes the jump to the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 courtesy of Atlus.
  • The Test Drive series returns to its roots in Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends (PS3, Xbox 360).
  • Rising Star Games makes it US debut with Cave’s sidescrolling shooter Akai Katana (Xbox 360).
  • And there’s Battleship, the game-based-on-the-movie-that-was-based-on-the-board-game is now available for the 3DS, DS, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

This week is so chock full of new releases, there’s even more after the break! (more…)

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Face Off brings 1v1, 2v2 maps to CoD MW3 on May 16; Content Collection 2 coming May 22

Posted on May 12, 2012 by John Scalzo

Do you miss the olden days of FPS multiplayer when it was limited to 1v1 and 2v2? Well, Infinity Ward wants to bring those days back with Face Off Mode, the latest addition to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Two Face Off maps, “Erosion” and “Aground,” will be made available to premium Call of Duty Elite subscribers with an Xbox 360 on May 16. Face Off maps are designed to be “smaller, super-concentrated maps specially designed to encourage strategy, skill, and teamwork like never before.” All Xbox 360 owners will be able to try out these more intimate maps as part of Modern Warfare 3’s Content Collection #2, which will be added to the Xbox Live Marketplace on May 22. Two more Face Off maps, “Getaway” and “Lookout,” will also be included in Content Collection #2.

Five more maps will be included in Content Collection #2: three multiplayer maps (“Sanctuary,” “Foundation,” and “Oasis”) and two Special Ops missions (“Kill Switch” and “Iron Clad”). “Oasis” and the two Spec Ops missions aren’t available for CoD Elite subscribers yet, so it looks like the length of time that regular Modern Warfare 3 players have to wait to play these maps is shortening.

As always, PC and PS3 players will receive all of these maps at a later date.

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Little Orbit announces E3 2012 lineup

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Melissa Niedringhaus

Little Orbit today announced it’s product lineup for the 2012 E3 Expo.

First on the list is Young Justice: Legacy, which is a licensed action RPG based on the “Young Justice” television series on Cartoon Network. In the game, players control a squad composed of 12 possible characters from the series in locations all across the DC Comics world of Earth-16.

Next up is Mistborn: Birthright, an RPG based on the Mistborn series created by bestselling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. The game is set hundreds of years before the first book in the original series, and will put Allomancy in the hands of players as they take control of a young nobleman who must learn to use his newfound abilities to save his family. Mistborn: Birthright is due out in late 2013.

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