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    Obsidian CEO Talks Planescape Sequel

    Saw title. "O_O"'d in real life. Clicked on the article. Read the bolded summery. Immediately mentally added 'Andy Chalk' as one of my most hated people in the world. ;-)
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    Star Wars Goes Fantasy RPG With Custom Figure Set

    So, by Fantasy, you mean traditional Medieval Fantasy. Because Star Wars, while well enough fitting the more classic definitions of the Space Opera genre, also fits nicely into the genre of 'Science Fantasy.' But yeah, the figures are alright, but they're not really heavily re-imagined at...
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    Moon Director In Running to Take Over Wolverine Movie

    Given my opinion on Moon and the last Wolverine movie, this sort of seems to me like a Mozart taking over concert direction from Britney Spears or whatever pop music star we're hating on justifiably today.
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    Assassins and Apocalyptic Wastelands Get Nod for Writers Guild Award

    Bioware has an actual core writing staff that largely sticks with the studio from game to game. That isn't the case with most studios, where writers are contracted to draft a story on a game-by-game basis. So, it would make sense that they aren't in the WGA, yep.
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    Star Trek Computer Now a Reality

    I admit it. That was actually pretty cool. Creating a Star Trek styled interface even makes a bit of sense, given it was designed with touch in mind - even if only make-believe style on a TV show. Buttons are nice and big, only see what you need at the time, etc...
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    Rumor: BioWare Mystery Project is Call of Duty: Mass Effect

    You know, that wouldn't surprise me at all. I'm pretty certain Bioware has stated in the past that they have no intention of ending the Mass Effect games with Mass Effect 3 - that would just end the Shepard storyline. What I fully expect from the studio is that their general Sci-Fi games (ie...
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    Microsoft Announcing Hardcore Kinect Titles Next Year

    I guess I'm looking forward to finding out how in the world Steel Battalion will work with Kinect... Maybe I'll find out next year.
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    #IamSpartacus Campaign Supports Airplane Bomb Jokester

    Reasons why I love Twitter memes...
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    Ninjas Save Man From Mugger

    What? Why did the muggers run away? If whole school came out, as we all know according to the law of Conservation of Ninjutsu, the muggers should have won.
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    BioWare: 17 More Dragon Age Games Coming

    That's pretty much the response I would have expected. Dragon Age is more or less a generic fantasy setting tailored by Bioware, which means that they pretty much can do whatever they want with it. Just consider how many campaigns are set in the primary DnD settings, how many stories there are...
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    Civilization V Coming to PC This Fall

    Civilization Series = Awesome Hex grids = Awesome Civ + Hex = Overload of excessive awesome? ... ... I think so. ... Is it fall yet?
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    Gears of Mass Effect

    Yes. This. Heck, I pretty much hate DnD. I've played it, but I really rather dislike it. I dislike it for the over-focus on stats, and most of the groups I've played in have barely had any focus on roleplaying/story at all. Those only served as a vehicle to get us into some random dungeon to...
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    CoD Fan Site Pays For Posts

    What? I demand The Escapist also do this. I have a few more steam sale games I want to pick up. :-P
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    234: Kill Billy

    Wow, I don't know how, but I managed to miss this article when it was originally up. That is a shame, as it was absolutely fantastic, well written, and thought provoking.
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    50 Years of Space Exploration on One Map

    Very cool stuff. And that center-of-the-galaxy picture is absolutely wallpapered.