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Dark Souls II Director Wants Next-Gen Physics, Not Graphics

Dark Souls already looks pretty nice, so why waste those next-gen resources on graphics when they could be spent improving other things? Modern ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 19, 2013

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NES Nebula Charts Timeline of 700+ Games

Image Source: Pop Chart Lab NES games from nearly a decade of classics have been conveniently organized into this impressively thorough poster. The ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 18, 2013

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Nolan North “Couldn’t Believe” PS4 Gameplay

Image Source: IMDB Nolan North (and his golden voice) isn’t exactly a professional critic, but he’s seen the PS4 and he’s impressed. Being ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 17, 2013

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XCOM: Enemy Within Introduces the Paranoia-Inducing Seeker

Image Source: XCOM Wiki XCOM: Enemy Within will be deploying some new alien enemies, and at least one of them is going to ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 16, 2013

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Lord of the Rings Online Course Attracts 40,000 Students

Lord of the Rings Online is the subject of a college-level online course that follows Tolkien’s narrative across three mediums. Video games pop ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 16, 2013

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Naughty Dog Director “Blown Away” by Indie Games

Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann thinks AAA development studios like his own can learn a lot from the innovative stories of independent developers. Stories ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 14, 2013

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Fable Legends Aims for 5-10 Year Lifespan

Fable Legends is going to be the only Fable game for a while, so Lionhead Studios wants it to stay relevant until the ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 14, 2013

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Card Hunter Launches, Rolls for Initiative

Card Hunter has been slowly building hype for quite a while, and now it’s time to build some decks and go a-questing. Card ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

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Assassin’s Creed IV Trailer Highlights the Beauty of Next-Gen

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag‘s next-generation technologies are creating the most advanced Caribbean simulator a pirate could dream of. The tropical Caribbean region ...

By Brett Slabaugh Legacy AuthorSeptember 12, 2013

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