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Assassination for fun and profit: Macon County

12 Feb Games and Gaming


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Becoming a Count at age eleven is hard work, especially when your uncle has a valid claim on your title and may just be hoping you get some intestinal worms and keel over in the next five years.

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New Mass Effect 2 DLC reunites you with Liara

25 Jul Games and Gaming

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Those who played Mass Effect 2 and were disappointed by Liara’s absence–your prayers have been answered by a DLC. (More info under the cut, including spoilers if you still haven’t picked up the second installment!)

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Those Damn Nazis Part 1: Nazis and Wolfenstein 3D

14 Jul Games and Gaming






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At least in part because of technical limitations, early games had opponents that were either absolutely equal to you (the other Pong paddle, for instance), or that were non-human or inanimate (Pac-Man’s ghosts, Donkey Kong and his barrels, Asteroids, etc.). At 8-bit resolution, it was difficult to distinguish the “good” humanoid figures from the “bad” ones — Luigi was, after all, just a recoloring of Mario in 1983′s Mario Bros. However, as technology flourished, plaerys could more easily distinguish human characters from one another. Suddenly, entering JUSTIN BAILEY in 1986′s Metroid meant a totally different Samus model, not just a palette swap. During the late 1980s, games began moving out of 2D and into 3D, with a first-person perspective being used in simulations like Battlezone. While the first First Person Shooter is arguably 1973-1974′s Maze War/The Maze Game, the FPS genre did not take off until the 1992 release of Wolfenstein 3D, which also introduced the most common FPS trope of all time: the Nazi villain.

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ESRB adds irony to the Blizzard RealID saga

ESRB, while replying to people who submitted concerns over Blizzard’s RealID fiasco, revealed their e-mails by hitting ‘reply all,’ or, “people concerned with their privacy lose their privacy because of being concerned with their privacy.”

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First Engie Unlock Revealed

6 Jul Games and Gaming News





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First Engie Unlock Revealed

The first Engineer-class unlock for TF2 has been revealed. As predicted based on the last video to be released, it’s a fancy-pants shotgun. It delivers critical hits that are directly proportional to the number of sentry kills and whether or not the Engineer’s sentry gun was just destroyed. It is meant to be a revenge weapon (called “Frontier Justice”), which begs the question: do these crits only come into play when the sentry is destroyed, or do they become instantly available whenever the sentry makes a kill?

In other news, the golden wrench has been confirmed, with 32 lucky players currently in possession of it. Only 100 people will ever get a golden wrench, and it is both craftable and droppable.