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• The Last Remnant PS3 Chances Looking Grim

  
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  For those who have been waiting ever so patiently for the PlayStation 3 release of Square Enix’s 2008 JRPG, The Last Remnant, well..you might just be waiting forever. According to  at Andriasang.com , it seems Square Enix has canceled the PS3 version and isn’t even bothering to tell any they did so. In the ...
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• Primal/Within: Showdown at the Castle of the Overmind, Part 3

  
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  Part 1 and Part 2 . Last Friday’s session was the final confrontation of the campaign.  It was supposed to be an Epic battle between an Avatar of the setting’s  sentient Dungeon and the PCs. I had a game plan, but it didn’t play out as I wanted…again. The fight ended up being hard and climactic… and ...
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• Where’s The D&D App?

  
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  It’s been almost a year since I first asked this question of my gaming group, and Malcolm Sheppard’s new post just reminded me that I should be asking all of you: Where is the D&D App for the iPhone and iPod Touch? I get why Wizards yanked PDF support. I do. I don’t agree, necessarily, but that’s not ...
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• The best of WoW.com: November 24 – December 1, 2009

  
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  Filed under: Online , RPGs , Meta (about Joystiq) , MMO Patch 3.3 is just around the corner in the World of Warcraft , and WoW.com is there as usual: we’ve got lots of information about what’s coming in the new patch, including the new Icecrown raid instance , the cross-realm Dungeon Finder system, ...
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• Dog Town: Stripped

  
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  Dog Town is a pure punk roleplaying game set in the seedy underbelly of dangerous and decadent 1970’s New York. It is a homage to gangsterism and street life as portrayed in uncompromising films such as Goodfellas, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, Taxi Driver and Carlito’s Way. What is in those films is in the game and in ...
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• British Man Arrested for Stealing Virtual Goods

  
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  Yep. You read that right. This morning I found an article from Murad Ahmed in The Times that said that British police -- specifically the Central Police e-Crime Unit -- have arrested a man for phishing for login and password information for the online role-playing game RuneScape. If the charges are proven true, ...
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• No mere myth: Nintendo brings ‘Heracles’ to U.S. shores

  
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  Nintendo is bringing a popular Japanese roleplaying game series to the U.S.  for the first time when Glory of Heracles launches Jan. 18 for the DS and DSi handheld systems. The game is inspired by Greek mythology and written by Kazushige Nojima of Final Fantasy fame. The traditional roleplaying game ...
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• The RPG Campaign as Episodic TV: Two Techniques

  
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  In addition to the regular D&D game I run, I’ve just started up another tabletop RPG campaign using the Geist system. Like many of White Wolf’s “limited series” games ( Promethean , Changeling ), the concept is incredibly provocative. You died, and in the moments of death, a being “more than ...
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• The best of WoW.com: November 24 - December 1, 2009

  
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  Filed under: Online , RPGs , Meta (about Joystiq) , MMO Patch 3.3 is just around the corner in the World of Warcraft , and WoW.com is there as usual: weve got lots of information about whats coming in the new patch, including the new Icecrown raid instance , the cross-realm Dungeon Finder system, new ...
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• November Board and Card Game Patents

  
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  African American board game system and method – You just know it’s going to be a good patent when it starts off trying to copyright itself (which, afaik, is impossible). A trivia game celebrating African-American culture, etc. Includes an electronic assistant to display the answers. The assistant doodad gets ...
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• Four new heroes to embark on Puzzle Quest 2

  
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  Have a look at the just-released screenshots for Puzzle Quest 2 (plus some concept art of a lighthouse). Do you see all the cool new stuff Infinite Interactive is doing in this sequel to the game that busted match-3s out of the match-3 ghetto? Me either. But I suppose thats okay. Infinite Interactive monkeyed ...
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• Fantasy Land

  
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  I am deep in Fantasy Land right now. Still trying to finish my Undead game of Disciples II , though I limited it to just an hour tonight now that Im off of vacation. I think Ive just got a couple of missions left, but thatll take weeks at that rate. Im very bemused that we happened to talk about it at gaming the ...
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• Screw the Hiatus

  
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  One way or another, the long unwanted hiatus is over. My PC is still busted, but as an alternative to more weeks of not gaming at all, I’m looking instead at games I can play with my working hardware. To wit: World of Warcraft. I’m not paying for it right now, but I started a trial and am fooling around with ...
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• New Paizo Class Playtests Continue

  
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  Today, the playtests for the new Paizo Advanced Player’s Guide classes continue with the Summoner and the Witch .  ( Previously, it was the Cavalier and Oracle .)  Go get ‘em, it’s a free download from all from the Paizo store. I was really looking forward to the Summoner, since I put a lot of work into ...
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• Mongoose Publishing Doing Grand

  
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  Mongoose Publishing has posted their 2009 “ State of the Mongoose Address ” and it’s great to see a RPG company doing so well! In general, they say “you have to work hard but you can still do well in RPGs.”  They’ve grown to 14 full timers and have a huge roster of games going on. Highlights: A bunch ...
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• A topic for the BattleTech games

  
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  Submitted by Gaming Briefs and Nostalgia BitsHere are two videos of BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk’s Inception and Revenge:These were early precursors to the kind of strategy games that Command & Conquer would set the standard for later on, made by a game developer called Westwood that later merged with EA in ...
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• Special Features (Slasher Flick RPG) Review

  
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  Available at RPGNow.com Okay, my last few reviews have been pushing the horror envelope rather well. I’m here to today to say that this puppy fits to horror like hockey masks and FOX News. What we have today is a mini-sourcebook for Slasher Flick. This system’s game focuses on slasher horror and its ...
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• More Game Jobs

  
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  Fantasy Flight Games is recruiting for two additional positions: a Fiction Editor [PDF] and a Roleplaying Game Producer [PDF]. The former will work on the company’s line of novels and graphic novels, while the latter will usher games through design, playtesting, approvals, and printing. Catalyst Game Labs, too, ...
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• Adamant’s Extreme Sale

  
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  Through tomorrow (Monday, November 30th), Adamant Entertainment is running an major sale on its PDF products , with every single one of them just $1.00. This includes not only the company’s existing products, but also the brand new Rebels of Mars for Savage Worlds and Fell Beasts for Pathfinder RPG.
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• Twenty One Turn Hero Minigame

  
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  The world is in turmoil! THE SORCERER discovered a 21 turn spell that will destroy the world! YOU as a hero need to defeat the sorcerer! Good luck hero! This is a game for single player where you becomes the unfortunate hero that need to defeat the sorcerer that wants to destroy the world with his 21 turn spell!
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