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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Announced

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During today’s Nintendo Direct broadcast, the Big N announced a new entry in the Mario & Luigi series of RPG games. Called Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, this title focuses on the brother in green himself – in fact, it all takes place in Weegee’s dreams.

Little is known as of now, other than that players will have to interact with a sleeping Weegee to solve puzzles and defeat enemies. Oh, and Mario’s also there.

Mario & Luigi: Dream team is set to arrive in North America this summer.

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PvP Brawling Now Live in Diablo III

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Blizzard has pushed patch 1.0.7 live in the Americas for Diablo III which adds a PvP system. After updating your version of Blizzard’s dark fantasy action-RPG you’ll be able to take part in one-on-one or three to four player free-for-all battles. Still in the works is a separate PvP mode, though the exact nature of that additional PvP is still unknown.

The 1.0.7 patch also makes significant changes to the Wizard and Monk classes as well as adjustments to the crafting and monster power systems, which you can read about in the official patch notes.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Ascend: New Gods is Free-to-Play on Xbox That's Still Fun

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Ascend: New Gods is everything that you’d expect from a typical action-RPG on consoles – it’s fast, smooth, and brutal as hell – but that doesn’t mean there’s a lack of innovation. It has a strong sense sense of creativity that isn’t present in most titles of its size, and that works to its advantage.

Don’t be thrown off by the free-to-play model attached to it either. It isn’t out to rip you off and isn’t “pay to win”, which it makes abundantly clear through its “money vs. time” monetization model. Souls are the only currency here, and there aren’t two kinds to differentiate between what is paid and what isn’t. This demonstrates the clear focus of design on being able to play through the entire game without needing to spend a cent.

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Obsidian Pitching New Star Wars RPG Game

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Speaking with RockPaperShotgun, Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart said that the studio is lobbying to develop a new Star Wars games for LucasArts, now wholly owned by Disney. The game the studio is pitching wouldn’t take place in the same time period as Knights of the Old Republic, though, as Urquhart views this as a bad pitch since The Old Republic didn’t perform exceedingly well.

Instead, Obsidian wants to make an RPG that takes place between Episodes III and IV, when the Jedi are being purged and the Emperor is further securing his empire. Urquhart added that Obsidian designer and writer Chris Avellone, who has written several Star Wars comics as well as Knights of the Old Republic II, has, “

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Final Fantasy Versus XIII Possibly Moving to PS4

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Another week, another batch of rumours about the status of Final Fantasy Versus XIII. The latest one to surface claims the troubled-title is now in development for the next-generation of consoles and will finally be released in 2014.

This claim comes courtesy of NeoGAF user Verendus, who adds that when the game finally does surface it’ll be without the Versus XIII suffix that it’s sported so far.

He purports that all this will be revealed later this year when the game gets another outing; as it currently stands we haven’t seen hide nor hair of the action-RPG since January 2011. This fits in with what we’ve heard previously; Square Enix has repeatedly asserted that the game hasn’t been cancelled, and the original plans for the Fabula Nova Crystallis series are still being followed.

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How Horrifying is Dead Space 3?

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Is Dead Space 3 horror or is it a straight-up shooter with elements of horror and some RPG-ish weapons-crafting thrown in?

This is the standard debate swirling around Dead Space 3, the question of whether or not developer Visceral and its overlords at EA have abandoned ‘scary’ in favor of ‘shooty’; whether or not environments like wide open tundra are a betrayal of the game’s dark-corridor roots.

New art released yesterday, from the book The Art of Dead Space, show the grand vistas that Visceral conceptualized early in the game’s life.

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Fire Emblem Awakening Review

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Far too few people have played the Fire Emblem series. A darling of the hardcore strategy RPG crowd – and one of the shining gems of the genre – the biggest hurdle the franchise has faced in terms of reaching a broader audience has largely been due to its niche nature and brutal difficulty. But with Fire Emblem Awakening, that velvet curtain has been pulled back, and the series has finally come into its own as something gamers of all proficiencies and backgrounds can enjoy. The folks at Intelligent Systems have created a remarkably accessible Fire Emblem experience, and they did it without sacrificing the intensity that FE loyalists hold near and dear. Boasting both the depth and nuance that tactical RPG fans crave and the ease-of-use and fluid tutorial system that newcomers require, Awakening is the ultimate portable strategy RPG, and the new crowning jewel of the Nintendo 3DS’s fledgling library.

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Path of Exile: A Truly Free-To-Play ARPG

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By Daniel Tack, Contributor Grinding Gear Games’ Path of Exile has a lot to offer hack and slash enthusiasts.  Blending aspects of Diablo II with concepts similar to the Final Fantasy sphere grid and Materia system, Path of Exile brings some other exciting features to the genre in the form of what can only be called “extreme” item customization and optimization.  Surprisingly enough, it succeeds at offering all of its action RPG content completely free, relying on contributions in exchange for cosmetics.
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When Downton Abbey Meets the Super Nintendo

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In perhaps one of the most brilliant moves in video game industry history, a man named Bill Kiley has married the greatness of the hit period piece television show Downton Abbey with the wonders of an SNES adventure game/RPG (via Kotaku).

You can see the results for yourself in the video below, from the awesome MIDI music to the surprisingly accurate fetch quests. Please keep in mind that the video does contain a subtle (yet obvious) spoiler from season three of Downton Abbey. Also keep in mind that the game (sadly) doesn’t actually exist.

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Wildman Kickstarter Will Remain Active

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Last week Gas Powered Games’s Chris Taylor announced significant layoffs at his studio only days after revealing a Kickstarter for an action-RPG called Wildman.

After posting a video update on Wildman’s Kickstarter page stating that the futures of GPG and Wildman were tied up in how much demand there was for the game, Taylor revealed in a Reddit AMA that the Kickstarter will continue for now.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games