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Top 10 Events to Look Forward to at E3
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Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite Slated for September 19th
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Star Wars Battlefront II Official Trailer
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Destiny 2’s First Trailer Sets the Stage
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Introducing Orisa, Overwatch’s Robot Tank Hero
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Jane McGonigal To Deliver Keynote Speech At PAX East

On March 11th, the Penny Arcade Expo East will start off with an address from Jane McGonigal, the Author and Game Designer behind the book Reality Is Broken, as well as the Halo 2 Alternate Reality Game I love Bees, and other ARGs which address real-world problems.  Full of positive energy about how games can bring out the best in us, and change the world for the better, expect McGonigal to deliver a keynote which will inspire attendees to “…bring our love of games to our real lives… unlocking our natural ability to be more motivated, more optimistic, more curious, more collaborative, more determined, more resilient and more ambitious”.

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Battlestar Galactica MMO Enters Open Beta Soon

With the recent and horribly unjust cancelation os Caprica, Battlestar Galactica fans have been left without a fix of their favorite sci-fi franchise.  Fortunately, a new MMO based on the series has been in development for a while, and it will hit open beta on February 8th.  Battlestar Galactica: Online will be a 3-D space shooter which lets players choose to play as a Cylon, or human to join in large-scale space battles.

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World Of Tanks In Open Beta

In online games, “Tank” usually means a warrior whose job is to soak up damage and hold enemy Aggro while the mages blast away.  Well there’s a new MMO where everyone’s a tank, and they don’t need no squishy mages to do the damage dealing! 

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Weekend Deals Friday January 28

Yesterday I remarked that there was a bit of a trend for Digital Distributors who seem to love discounting the Red Faction franchise; today that continues with Onlive who are selling Red Faction: Guerrilla for five dollars today only.  They’ll have a different Daily Deal all weekend, tomorrow it will be Metro 2033, and Sunday it will be Darksiders.  They aren’t revealing the prices until the day of, so check back with them each day if you’re an Onlive user.

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Weekend Deals Thursday January 27th

I suppose it’s Red Faction Day on the internet, because Direct2Drive and Impulse are both selling a different game in that series today.  If you want the original Red Faction, you can get it for $2.50 on Direct2Drive.com as their daily offering during THQ Week.  If you’re more into new and shiny games, you could opt to get the latest installment in the franchise, Red Faction Guerrilla at ImpulseDriven.com for five dollars.  Both of these are for today, Thursday the 27th only.  Now let’s take a look at what else is on sale this weekend.

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Homefront Takes “Viral” Marketing To A New Level

The upcoming shooter Homefront by Kaos Studios and THQ takes place 16 years in the future, after America has been invaded by Korea.  With the help of screenwriter John Milius who wrote Red Dawn and Apocalypse Now, the developers have created an elaborate speculative history to explain how this comes about. Part of the marketing strategy for the game deals with faux video footage of these fictional events mixed in with real newsfootage regarding North Korea.

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Champions Online Now Free To Play

The Superhero MMO, Champions Online is now free-to-play.  You’ll be able to access just about all of the content in this rock ’em sock ’em super slugfest for the low price of nothing!  After a year and a half of charging a monthly subscription fee to all players, the game is now divided into Silver Accounts which are the free-to-play members, and Gold Accounts which is the new term for paying a monthly $14.99 fee.

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Winter Voices Bundle Available

We recently reviewed the first episode of the French Indie game Winter Voices, and enjoyed it quite well.  It’s an episodic game which will be released in seven installments priced at five dollars each.  Three have been released so far, and the developer Beyond the Pillars has now bundled them together with a twenty percent discount.  That’s twelve dollars for the three episodes together; each has a play time of three our four hours.

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Midweek Sales January 25th

Dead Space 2 comes out today, but some unfortunate gamers don’t have the money to buy games at sixty dollar launch prices.  Fortunately there are plenty of midweek sales to provide cheap entertainment for those paupers who can’t afford a shiny new blockbuster.  

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Oddboxx Receives Widescreen Update & More

If you own the Oddboxx compilation of Oddworld games, you might have noticed some updates downloading today on your Steam account. The developer Oddworld Inhabitants has previously promised an update for Stranger’s Wrath, which will provide enhanced graphics, but today’s update is not THAT update.  Today players got a set of fixes and minor improvements.

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