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Super Meat Boy Content Complete

Which, Edmund McMillan tells us design neophytes, isn’t quite done. It means there’s still testing and weeks of being certified by WiiWare and PC, which means certified for WiiWare so it can be something like a lead platform. Anyway, a

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Super Meat Boy Content Complete

Which, Edmund McMillan tells us design neophytes, isn’t quite done. It means there’s still testing and weeks of being certified by WiiWare and PC, which means certified for WiiWare so it can be something like a lead platform. Anyway, a

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Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta starting August 31st

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxEvGj6Axs&fs=1&hl=en_US] It’s hard to muster up a lot of enthusiasm for Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s newest foray into the world of the massively multiplayer. On one hand, it sure is pretty. And everything I’ve read about it has been

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Final Fantasy XIV Open Beta starting August 31st

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syxEvGj6Axs&fs=1&hl=en_US] It’s hard to muster up a lot of enthusiasm for Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix’s newest foray into the world of the massively multiplayer. On one hand, it sure is pretty. And everything I’ve read about it has been

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Stand on a Rubix Cube, and rotate ninety degrees

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxzYJviPoo&fs=1&hl=en_US] And where will that get you? Well, somewhere an awful lot like Nudo, a charmingly inventive little platformer imagining how cool it would be if levels worked kind of like Rubik’s Cubes. You may have seen it other places,

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Stand on a Rubix Cube, and rotate ninety degrees

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jxzYJviPoo&fs=1&hl=en_US] And where will that get you? Well, somewhere an awful lot like Nudo, a charmingly inventive little platformer imagining how cool it would be if levels worked kind of like Rubik’s Cubes. You may have seen it other places,

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New Neverwinter has a lot of potential

If there’s one game that keeps me coming back to it, it’s Neverwinter Nights. While it often gets overshadowed by its 2/2.5 edition based cousins, Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter has its own charms that has brought me back

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New Neverwinter has a lot of potential

If there’s one game that keeps me coming back to it, it’s Neverwinter Nights. While it often gets overshadowed by its 2/2.5 edition based cousins, Baldur’s Gate and Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter has its own charms that has brought me back

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The Friday Post: On Time Edition

I know! I know! This is fucking incredible. I’m posting our weekly collection of links n’ stuff, and I’m posting it on time, too! Even though I’m sneezing at a sneeze per minute ratio faster than some very slow electronic

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The Friday Post: On Time Edition

I know! I know! This is fucking incredible. I’m posting our weekly collection of links n’ stuff, and I’m posting it on time, too! Even though I’m sneezing at a sneeze per minute ratio faster than some very slow electronic

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Etrian Odyssey 3 character video explains subclassing

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj9COPsEsoc&fs=1&hl=en_US] I admit it, I like D&D. Tabletop role playing, the nerdiest of hobbies, is in my stable of issues. And as a fairly munchkinish player, I have to say I’m a big fan of multiclassing. Being two things has

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Etrian Odyssey 3 character video explains subclassing

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj9COPsEsoc&fs=1&hl=en_US] I admit it, I like D&D. Tabletop role playing, the nerdiest of hobbies, is in my stable of issues. And as a fairly munchkinish player, I have to say I’m a big fan of multiclassing. Being two things has

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Pokemon Black, White to be different

And not different in that some Pokemon aren’t in one version that are in the other. Oh no. Oh no. We’re talking actual differences. See those two areas above? Well, the city’s going to be in Pokemon Black. The forest

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Pokemon Black, White to be different

And not different in that some Pokemon aren’t in one version that are in the other. Oh no. Oh no. We’re talking actual differences. See those two areas above? Well, the city’s going to be in Pokemon Black. The forest

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Atlus announces new games…in Japan

And they get to share a post until they’re announced in America. On the plus side, they look to be pretty fascinating titles. The one getting all the press everywhere is Catherine (whose Famitsu preview was lovingly translated by the

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Atlus announces new games…in Japan

And they get to share a post until they’re announced in America. On the plus side, they look to be pretty fascinating titles. The one getting all the press everywhere is Catherine (whose Famitsu preview was lovingly translated by the

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First Costume Quest trailer packed full of whimsy

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npbz3ZER0UU&fs=1&hl=en_US] Whimsy! That mythical thing that made Harry Potter great, and made Psychonauts the game it was. Whimsy, charm, whatever you will, it’s something a game either has or doesn’t. And it can be the difference between a fantastic experience

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First Costume Quest trailer packed full of whimsy

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npbz3ZER0UU&fs=1&hl=en_US] Whimsy! That mythical thing that made Harry Potter great, and made Psychonauts the game it was. Whimsy, charm, whatever you will, it’s something a game either has or doesn’t. And it can be the difference between a fantastic experience

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Torchlight 2 trailer really confirms multiplayer

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANrBkLnJ1ZY&fs=1&hl=en_US] Torchlight 2 will have multiplayer. Take that, Jeff II of metacritic review posting! YOU BETTER GIVE THIS ONE TEN OUT OF TEN, OR YOUR INTEGRITY WILL BE OUT THE WINDOW. Yeah, I mean, it’s not that exciting a trailer.

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Torchlight 2 trailer really confirms multiplayer

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANrBkLnJ1ZY&fs=1&hl=en_US] Torchlight 2 will have multiplayer. Take that, Jeff II of metacritic review posting! YOU BETTER GIVE THIS ONE TEN OUT OF TEN, OR YOUR INTEGRITY WILL BE OUT THE WINDOW. Yeah, I mean, it’s not that exciting a trailer.

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