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The Secret World’s Lead Designer Leads Me Straight Into Hell

In room 13 of the Overlook Motel on the scenic Savage Coast of New England there’s a doorway that leads directly to hell. If I had to sum up the setting for Funcom’s massively multiplayer supernatural roleplaying game The Secret World in one sentence, that would probably be it.


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The Divinity Series Isn’t Always Divine, But I Still Love It Anyway

When Larian announced its new Divinity game yesterday, I felt an emotion for which I know no word. It was the sensation that combines unhinged fannish glee with abject terror and worry.


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Watch GOG.com’s Slowjamin’ Love Letter To Game Developers

It’s a tough world out there for game developers; there’s rampant piracy, an unstable economy and all sorts of things that can go wrong at a moment’s notice. Sometimes you need someone to snuggle up to you and tell you everything is gonna be all right.


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Bring On Shootmania, A Shooter Without Guns

Red guys fight blue guys in what may be one of the more ambitious games on the horizon, the goofily named Shootmania. It’s a heavily moddable shooter from the people who made DIY racing sensation Trackmania and are even cooking up a modern-day RPG Maker called Questmani.


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This Giant Robot Sculpture? It’s A Gaming PC.

It’s not often that I wonder if a PC might arise and, say, try to kill me. This one, though… this one makes that particular concern come to mind.


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Tera MMO Log Part 4: The Political Process Begins

It’s the final week of my coverage of En Masse Entertainment’s massively multiplayer fantasy role-playing game Tera. Normally at this point I would be sick to death of playing and eager to reclaim my free time. Instead, I find myself more invested in the game than ever before.


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The Musical, Mind-Bending, Microbial Magic Of Splice

Cipher Prime, the studio known for crafting stylish concoctions of simple gameplay and stunning sound sets bioengineering to music in Splice, an award-winning puzzle game coming to Steam for Mac and PC June 13. How are you at splicing strands of DNA?


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A Completely Unbiased Look At The Races Of Guild Wars 2

While pouring over Starfleet Dental’s comprehensive guide to the races of Guild Wars 2, it helps to keep in mind that Humans were the only race available to play in the original game. So when they call the diminutive Asura an “anime abortion”, it’s nothing personal.


May 24, 2012
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Tera MMO Log Part 2, Supplemental: Look At All That Rested XP

The plan was to spend a series of four consecutive weeks playing En Masse Entertainment’s massively multiplayer online fantasy role-playing game Tera, reporting back every week leading up to the final review. Then all hell broke loose.


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My Entire Diablo III Play Through In Under Five Minutes

Last week I played through the entire story of Diablo III with my Demon Hunter. It took me some 15 hours. Now you can watch the entire thing a little over four and a half minutes.