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Next Generation Xbox reveal- we’re liveblogging it here!

Mike Dunn — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:14:42 +0000

Today’s the day that Microsoft finally reveals their next-gen hardware to the world-at-large! Join us here as we liveblog the event for you so we can all laugh, cry, and be amazed (hopefully) with the one of the new boxes we’ll likely be playing games on for years to come. Will it need a persistent internet connection? Does it use blu-ray for disk storage? Will it be easier to develop for? We should find out all this and more today!

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Konami to broadcast E3 showing on CBS

Ron Burke — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:01:51 +0000

Konami is ready for E3, and they are looking to involve the public in the fun. This year around they’ll be giving us coverage on CBS TV stations nationwide! What will they be showing? A brand new trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, an exclusive look at the next Pro Evolution Soccer title, a peek at Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and other major announcements. The sweet part is that all of this will hit just prior to E3, so we’ll nab em and make sure you get to see them right here at Gaming Trend. It’ll also be on Gamespot and Xbox Live, but hey…the awesome happens here.

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Blizzcon 2013 tickets now on sale

Victor Grunn — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:02:28 +0000

You legions of Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo fans, take note! Blizzcon tickets are now on sale. As always, it’s best to act fast if you want to attend this convention, as these have of habit of selling out rapidly. A second batch will be sold on April 27th at 10am PDT, with 500$ dollar charity dinner tickets going up for grabs May 1st at 7pm PDT. The standard tickets cost 175$, but I’ve always heard from people who’ve hit this con that there’s a whole lot of fun to be had – along with some game incentives, of course.

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Gaming Trend Podcast 04/02/2013–GEE DEE SEE!!!

Atlas Burke — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:24:07 +0000

Welcome back to the Gaming Trend Podcast. Atlas returns to host the show after spending last week on assignment in San Francisco at the Games Developers Conference. With him this week are Victor Grunn and podcast first-timer Sean Lama! Join our intrepid trio as they work their way through what they’ve spend the last two weeks playing, Jeff gets really excited about last week’s announcement of Supergiant’s next game, Victor explains how you can play while you pee, everybody weighs in on Battlefield 4, and we finish it off by grilling Atlas about GDC. If you like the podcast you can send you comments to podcast@gamingtrend.com, or simply leave them below.

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Warface Producer on lessons learned in Russian beta test

Atlas Burke — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:41:45 +0000

Russia has been good to Wim Coveliers. The latest project for the producer at Crytek, a free-to-play browser-based shooter titled Warface, has been in open beta on Russian servers for several months now, and he claims that having such a large beta test has been incredibly helpful. While the game was originally slated for release only in South Korea, the team at Crytek realized they could justify a wider release. “We thought, ‘why should we bother limiting ourselves to Asia for this game and why shouldn’t we make it a global product?’”

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Hawken producer’s thoughts on lore, balance, and launch

Atlas Burke — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:59:08 +0000

Jason Hughes’s voice failed about ten minutes into the interview. It was Friday morning–the final day of GDC– and so it really shouldn’t have been a surprise to anybody. As a producer at Adhesive Games, he’d spent most of the past week talking with fans, press, and other developers. I offered to pause so he could get some soothing tea, but he decided to soldier on, laying out both the history and future of his team’s free-to-play mech shooter Hawken.

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Piranha Games outlines future plans for MechWarrior Online

Atlas Burke — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:24:11 +0000

If you’ve ever read any of my work here on Gaming Trend, you know how much a fan I am of the MechWarrior franchise. I’ve been playing these games since I was knee-high to a grasshopper, so you can only imagine how excited I was when I got the chance to talk with Russ Bullock and Bryan Ekman, the President and Creative Director respectively of Piranha Games–the studio behind the latest re-imagining of my beloved MechWarrior. When asked why they chose to revitalize the long-dormant Mech combat franchise, Bullock said “MechWarrior is an extremely strong brand. The genre never died,” before explaining that though the MechWarrior games had all been hits, Microsoft had been too busy with other projects to generate another title in the series.

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NetherRealm wants Injustice: Gods Among Us to be a “cinematic experience.”

Atlas Burke — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:25:28 +0000

While attending GDC, Gaming Trend got the chance to talk with some of the developers at NetherRealm about their upcoming DC Comics-inspired fighter Injustice: Gods Among Us, as well as to see the game in action. During the course of the talk two things quickly became apparent. First: the developers really know and love the DC Comics universe, and second: they really like watching the DC characters destroy everything around them.

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Mojo Game Studios reveals gameplay of Cradle – A Gaming Trend Exclusive

Atlas Burke — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:18:06 +0000

As you might expect, GDC is a pretty great place to meet aspiring game developers, and while here at GDC, Gaming Trend found a chance to talk with Pittsburgh-based Mojo Game Studios about their first project: Cradle.

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This isn’t Vampire Diaries, it’s DARK

Sean Lama — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:49:48 +0000

The stealth/action/RPG gameplay of DARK will present players with a host of ways to defeat enemies in vicious Vampire style, the trailer sent out by developer/publisher Kalypso Media today highlights some of the skills you will have at your disposal.

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The trouble with public perception and gaming

Sam Vary — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:05:29 +0000

This week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Mike Capps, the illustrious former president of Epic Games, held a panel to discuss the fact that a lot of powerful people would like nothing better than the banishment of explicit games, and what industry figures can to do to curb that problem. Participating in the discussion along with Capps were Ian Bogost, a professor at Georgia Tech, and Daniel Greenberg, an RPG designer and game scripter, with numerous projects including work for The Walt Disney Company.

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Inspiration and intrigue — Kentucky Route Zero at GDC 2013

Atlas Burke — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:44:03 +0000

Day 2 of GDC continues with a talk by Jake Elliot, one half Cardboard Computer, the team behind the enigmatic Kentucky Route Zero. According to Elliot, the team’s fascination with ’60’s experimental video and focus on character driven mysteries instead of puzzles were instrumental to the both the game’s financial and artistic success.

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Indie games need “curators, not journalists” — Cavanagh and Porpentine at GDC 2013

Atlas Burke — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:33:58 +0000

Gaming Trend is live at GDC, bringing you the highlights of all the talks we can squeeze into our schedule. Our coverage continues with a bit of a surprise. The talk had the innocent-sounding title “Free Indie Games: Curating the DIY Revolution,” and we went to the talk expecting to hear about how the website freeindiegam.es operates. What we got instead was twenty-five minute screed against mainstream games, mainstream game publishing, Apple and capitalism.

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Metal Gear Solid V moves from rumor status to official project at GDC

Sam Vary — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:45:54 +0000

The annual GDC (Game Developers Conference) has been rocking and rolling in San Francisco all this week, and an exciting announcement today from Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima confirmed that a fifth game in the series was officially in the works, confirming what many people had suspected (and fervently hoped).

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Work smarter, not harder — Klei Entertainment at GDC 2013

Atlas Burke — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:45:33 +0000

Mark of the Ninja was one of the breakout indie games of past year — a stealth game with a surprising amount of polish. Why is it surprising? Because the developers used almost no overtime, and managed to keep their non-work lives intact instead of demanding long work hours from the development team.

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PAX East panel discusses future of multiplayer for Halo 4

Sam Vary — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:39:46 +0000

More exciting news from PAX East this weekend, this time revolving around a panel held by 343 Industries regarding Halo 4 multiplayer. Since the game’s release on November 6, 2012, 11.6 million players have spent time on the servers, and 11.7 billion kills have been recorded. The discussion included announcements regarding a new player ranking system, additional maps, and tons more still on the horizon for the king of sci-fi shooters.

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Gearbox announces new Borderlands 2 loot at PAX East

Sam Vary — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:44:52 +0000

PAX East 2013 has been in full swing all weekend, and an exciting announcement from Gearbox and 2K Games revealed a bevy of new options that players will have access to in Borderlands 2, including a sixth playable character class, 11 extra levels of experience, and more.

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The console version of Diablo 3 will succeed in ways the PC version could not

Sean Lama — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:16:12 +0000

Diablo 3 on the PC was wildly successful and sold a boat load of copies, but it was also wildly hated on for having server-related technical issues during its launch week, for requiring a network connection at all times, and for the real money Auction House which ushered a legitimate pay-to-win model into the game. Ironically enough, due to hardware limitations, the console version will not have any of that.

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Splinter Cell Blacklist walkthru of Abandoned Mill level

Ron Burke — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:44:47 +0000

Undoubtedly for GDC fun, the folks at Ubisoft have released a new trailer to show of the rapidly-approaching Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist. This trailer is a walkthru of a level called “Abandoned Mill” with commentary showing us some of the new tricks Sam has up his sleeves for all play styles (Panther, Ghost, and Assault) this time around. If you’ve not been keeping up with the title, here is a nibble on the backstory:

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Capcom out in full force for PAX East 2013

Sam Vary — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:33:19 +0000

This year Capcom will be bringing their A-game to PAX East, with a host of presentations and playable demos of some of their most hotly anticipated titles. A presentation in the Phoenix Theater on Friday from 12pm-1pm EST will kick off the event, featuring Capcom producers and product managers who will provide some exclusive sneak peeks on some of the biggest games they’ll be releasing in 2013.

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