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3DS's Tag Mode Details, Is Confirmed For 3 Titles

What’s Tag Mode, you say? Why, we’re here to tell you just that! Wired has the scoop on various 3DS capabilities, which you can read in full here. As always, we bring it to you! Tag mode is a feature

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3DS's Tag Mode Details, Is Confirmed For 3 Titles

What’s Tag Mode, you say? Why, we’re here to tell you just that! Wired has the scoop on various 3DS capabilities, which you can read in full here. As always, we bring it to you! Tag mode is a feature

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Yoishi Wada Thinks Japan's Weak Spot Is Core Gameplay

Wada, Square Enixs’ president, divides game design into three distinct pillars: “the core gameplay element, community features, and the hardware platform it’s for.” While he thinks Japanese developers have the latter two down pat, he thinks improvements could be made

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Yoishi Wada Thinks Japan's Weak Spot Is Core Gameplay

Wada, Square Enixs’ president, divides game design into three distinct pillars: “the core gameplay element, community features, and the hardware platform it’s for.” While he thinks Japanese developers have the latter two down pat, he thinks improvements could be made

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Sonic Colors Preorder Bonus Is Terrible

Preorder bonuses usually reflect the interests of the players–usually, they’re just trinkets, or sometimes they’re a recreation of an in-game item. These bonuses usually produce acceptable, neat items which may incentivize you to preorder a game from retailer X over

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Sonic Colors Preorder Bonus Is Terrible

Preorder bonuses usually reflect the interests of the players–usually, they’re just trinkets, or sometimes they’re a recreation of an in-game item. These bonuses usually produce acceptable, neat items which may incentivize you to preorder a game from retailer X over

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First Two Dragon Age 2 Screenshots

Greywardens have just posted the first two screenshots of Dragon Age 2, which we’ve reproduced for you here. Don’t get too excited, though, because the screenshots are…tiny. Notice that the graphics are indeed nicer, but they’re still in the same

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First Two Dragon Age 2 Screenshots

Greywardens have just posted the first two screenshots of Dragon Age 2, which we’ve reproduced for you here. Don’t get too excited, though, because the screenshots are…tiny. Notice that the graphics are indeed nicer, but they’re still in the same

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New Info On Dragon Age II: Importing Origins, Conversation Wheel, More

OH BOY OH BOY, details are starting to trickle over the internets regarding the upcoming Game Informer issue on Dragon Age II…not to mention, I’ve been lurking the Dragon Age forums, watching David Gaider tell people tiny tidbits about the

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New Info On Dragon Age II: Importing Origins, Conversation Wheel, More

OH BOY OH BOY, details are starting to trickle over the internets regarding the upcoming Game Informer issue on Dragon Age II…not to mention, I’ve been lurking the Dragon Age forums, watching David Gaider tell people tiny tidbits about the

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SSF4 Avatar Costumes, Achievements

I’m not one to buy trinkets for my avatar–they’re freaking avatars, for christs sake, they don’t need to wear anything–but these upcoming costumes look really neat. Capcom has announced plans to release a slew of avatar downloads which include the

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SSF4 Avatar Costumes, Achievements

I’m not one to buy trinkets for my avatar–they’re freaking avatars, for christs sake, they don’t need to wear anything–but these upcoming costumes look really neat. Capcom has announced plans to release a slew of avatar downloads which include the

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EVO SSF4 Results: Daigo Wins, Justin Wong Upset

No real surprise on the winner, though it seems as if most people weren’t able to watch the stream during the last critical moments of the final battle between Daigo and Ricky Ortiz. If you missed the stream, we’ve got

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EVO SSF4 Results: Daigo Wins, Justin Wong Upset

No real surprise on the winner, though it seems as if most people weren’t able to watch the stream during the last critical moments of the final battle between Daigo and Ricky Ortiz. If you missed the stream, we’ve got

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A Few Facts About Dragon Age 2's Hawke

Game Informer has just published an article with 5 facts about our future Dragon Age protagonist, Hawke. Most of the facts are things we already knew if we’ve read the press release, or gone to the official Dragon Age 2

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A Few Facts About Dragon Age 2's Hawke

Game Informer has just published an article with 5 facts about our future Dragon Age protagonist, Hawke. Most of the facts are things we already knew if we’ve read the press release, or gone to the official Dragon Age 2

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Hesitations and Fears Regarding Dragon Age 2

Note: I tend to hype things a lot here at Nightmare Mode. But occasionally, I’m skeptical, too. Both can be fun! You may not have realized it or guessed it, but Dragon Age has been Bioware’s biggest game so far.

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Hesitations and Fears Regarding Dragon Age 2

Note: I tend to hype things a lot here at Nightmare Mode. But occasionally, I’m skeptical, too. Both can be fun! You may not have realized it or guessed it, but Dragon Age has been Bioware’s biggest game so far.

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Blacklight Tango Down First Impressions

It seems as if Ignition Entertainment wasn’t prepared for the number of people who were interested in this game, because finding a match proved to be insanely difficult today. Speaking to a couple of other people, I know that I’m

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Blacklight Tango Down First Impressions

It seems as if Ignition Entertainment wasn’t prepared for the number of people who were interested in this game, because finding a match proved to be insanely difficult today. Speaking to a couple of other people, I know that I’m

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