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September 2, 2012

How Cave Johnson’s talking head got cut from Portal 2

Cave Johnson, the eccentric, unstable president of Aperture Science, was going to have a more purposeful role in Portal 2, writer Erik…

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To the Moon hits Steam September 7, next episode incoming

After teasing in April that a launch would happen “soon,” Freebird Games’ To the Moon is officially hitting Steam on September 7….

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Watch a live stream of Joystiq’s PAX panel with Erik Wolpaw, Tim Schafer, Kotaku [Update: It’s over!]

Joystiq’s Ben Gilbert is sitting down with Valve’s Erik Wolpaw (writer on the Portal series), Double Fine’s Tim Schafer (company president and…

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Halo 4 adds Grifball to the multiplayer menu

Community-created mode Grifball is graduating to the big time in Halo 4. 343 Industries revealed during PAX this weekend that the popular…

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Monster Hunter Frontier G announced for April 2013 in Japan

An expansion to the 2007 Monster Hunter Frontier game was announced today at the Monster Hunter Frontier Appreciation Festival in Tokyo. Monster…

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Runic’s post-Torchlight 2 plans: Mac port, patches, and a trip to the mountains

Runic’s CEO Max Schaefer seems both simultaneously relieved and nervous as he sits in the Torchlight 2 booth at PAX Prime 2012….

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Tour Mojang’s pop-up museum: view the beautiful lawsuit docs for Scrolls, the insides of a Creeper

Mojang’s more than just the studio that birthed Minecraft – it’s also the studio that birthed the amazing fan art you see…

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Cardboard Children: Libertalia

Hello youse. This week I can finally talk about Libertalia, and that’s exactly what I intend to do. It’s the strongest game…

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! Black Mesa Source: A Release Date !

I have the most terrible guilt about gazumping Jim’s sterling Sunday Papers, but I do so with signficant news. SIGNIFICANT. So significant…

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Here’s what we know about the Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes trailer

The complexity and depth of Metal Gear’s fictional history and lore rivals that of any RPG worth its salt, and as a…

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Weekly Webcomic Wrapup is Maddening

Madden NFL 13 launched earlier this week, and hit some fairly impressive sales numbers. By all means, the game is a hit,…

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Second generation Razer Blade upgrades innards, lowers price

The original Blade laptop from Razer may only be six or so months old at this point, but six months is essentially…

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Firefall beta opens up its item store, sells Founder’s Packages (on sale now)

Red 5 Studios is once again showing off its open world, free-to-play MMO Firefall (currently still in closed beta) at PAX, and…

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Big Fish Unlimited makes a splash on Android by streaming games from the cloud

Big Fish Games, proprietors of casual gaming, have released a new app on the Google Play store: Big Fish Unlimited. From within…

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September 1, 2012

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes — Open World “Prologue” To Metal Gear Solid 5 Features Vehicles and More

At Pax 2012 today, legendary game designer Hideo Kojima showed off a big chunk of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. The game…

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes debut trailer shows off the Fox Engine

Penny Arcade Expo attendees were treated to the very first footage of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes. Running on a PC with…

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes shown off at PAX

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima showed off the first gameplay footage of his latest in the stealth-action series Metal Gear Solid:…

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Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes gameplay footage sneaks out of PAX 2012 [Update: Now with official footage!]

What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is the very first gameplay footage of Kojima’s next non-Raiden oriented entry into the annals…

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