Star Wars: Galaxies, Shuts Down, 2011 - The Old Republic takes over

Star Wars: Galaxies, an MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe, has been set to be shut down on December 15, 2011. This is an obvious decision seeing as how there is a newer and far better looking MMO game coming very soon from the awesome game designers at Bioware: Star Wars: The Old Republic.




The Old Republic is an MMO set a few thousand years before the Star Wars movies; it is technically a sequel to the games Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotoR) and KotoR2. These two games were well received, but the second one had quite a few more flaws than the first and it was rushed out the door by its publisher, so the multiple endings that the game was supposed to have were never created.






Anyway, I can't wait until this awesome looking game is released, but it's still sad that Star Wars: Galaxies is going to be shut down because of it; not that I've played it or know anything about it, but it's sad for the people who play it and love it.





Source: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6321075/star-wars-galaxies-signing-off-dec-15
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Mass Effect: Genesis, DLC, Now available on 360 and PC

Mass Effect was released a few years ago for the Xbox 360 and PC. Mass Effect 2 was released, later, for only the 360 and the PC, as well; however, in early 2011, EA decided to release a PS3 version, containing any of the DLC (downloadable content) from the game that was already released for the other systems.

Mass Effect 2 may have been released on the PS3, but Mass Effect was not; Bioware has made their games to where they rely on the choices that you've made in the games before. Mass Effect choices carry over to Mass Effect 2. The reason Mass Effect is not on the PS3 is because Microsoft owns the publishing rights for the original game, while EA owns the publishing rights to any sequels of it.

Because of Mass Effect 2 being released on the PS3 without Mass Effect, they decided to go ahead and include something that allows the player to make choices without it just being a heap of questions thrown at the player; they made a comic called Mass Effect: Genesis.



Mass Effect: Genesis was only available on the PS3 version for five months, but it is now finally released on the 360 and PC for 320 Microsoft Points (360) or 320 Bioware Points (PC). If you don't feel like playing through Mass Effect again or you don't want to play it at all, then this four dollar DLC is a great choice; however, I recommend playing the first game, it's very impressive and the comic simply skips way too much of the original game's important and memorable parts.

Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/301847/news/mass-effect-2-genesis-comic-now-on-xbox-360/
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Marvel Universe Online, Trailer

Here is an awesome trailer for the new MMO, Marvel Universe Online. It has superheroes from a lot of the Marvel comics, movies, cartoons, video games, etc. It's awesome! Here is is:



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Marvel Universe, Free to Play

Marvel Universe, an upcoming Massively Multiplayer Online game, is going to be free to play. That means that there will be no monthly fee whatsoever; however, games like these suffer from the fact that they will need to continue to sell in game items and merchandise just to stay afloat.

So, is this a good idea? I think it is for the consumers, but will the game be good at all? We'll see...

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6310782.html
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The Mass Effect series developed over time

Mass Effect captured me a few years back when I played the first game on the Xbox 360. I though it was one of the most amazing masterpieces ever! I remember playing through every single random planet I came across that was able to be landed on; when I look back at it now, I think that if it were to be released in the current day that it would be met with heavy opposition, but for its time it was amazing!

I beat that game and eventually sold it at some time that I don't remember. A few years later, I had Steam; this is an online service that sells games on computers (Windows and Mac). I saw Mass Effect was on sale, so I decided to buy it again. I played it again, and had the same wonderful experience as I had the first time! I waited a few months and saw Mass Effect 2 was coming in a few months, so I replayed the game once more, and once again had that amazing experience!

When it was about one month before the release of Mass Effect 2, I had already forgotten a lot of the smaller story pieces in Mass Effect, and that is bad for this series; whatever choices you made in Mass Effect get carried over to Mass Effect 2! So if someone is dead in my play-through of Mass Effect, then they're dead in Mass Effect 2 as well! This can change the game a lot. So I replayed Mass Effect again, loving it like each time before!

I realized that I'd not done some stuff right in this final playthrough, though; so, I quickly replayed Mass Effect again. These two final play throughs took me about 100 hours, together! It was awesome the entire time!





Finally I had gotten Mass Effect 2 and began to play it; I was amazed the entire way through! I was so blown away by the exciting and awesome ways my playthrough changed things - the awesome fighting - the awesome missions in the game. There were no recycled locations, like in Dragon Age II; it was all new over and over! It was called the 'Avatar of video games,' by some critic I remember.





Now, I look forward to Mass Effect 3 and its amazing addition into this amazing series! I can't wait. :D

  
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Fan Made - Final Fantasy? - PREVIEW

There is a fan-made Final Fantasy game being made - it's called Final Fantasy : Zero!

It looks like it's coming along well - check it out here:

http://www.finalfantasyzero.com

AND on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/finalfantasyzero

  
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Art Exhibit at the Smithsonian - Are Video Games ART?

The Smithsonian is going to have a video game exhibit, displaying the years of the evolving art of video games. However, some people still argue that games are not art. How can they not be art? Some people argue that they have to be experience the same way for everyone who sees it, just they have to be able to interpret it differently.

The problem with that definition of 'art' is that you would not be able to consider any musicals, plays, video games, figure skating or anything of that sort a type of art, because each of them could be different at each performance - some people will say a line differently, be at a different spot than the last time they were in the play, they could not see that part of the video game.. there are just so many reasons why that would not work. I don't understand how anyone could argue that video games are any different than any other type of art.

Source: http://pc.ign.com/articles/116/1160394p1.html

  
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