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Originally Posted by wraggster

What the hell is Bungie working on? Unfortunately that's not a question it'll answer at this year's E3.
Bungie's millions of fans will just have to make do with what 343 Industries is showing of Halo 4, because the original Halo-makers have confirmed they won't be doing any official business at this June's expo."We're not going to be at E3 in any official capacity this year," it confirmed

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Originally Posted by wraggster

BioWare has confirmed Mass Effect 3’s upcoming DLC the Rebellion Pack will arrive next week in North America and Europe.
A leak from Playstation Asia originally unveiled the upcoming content last week.
The multiplayer add-on hits PC and Xbox Live worldwide on Tuesday, May 29th along with a North American PSN release; and arrives a day later for European PS3 owners.
The pack includes the new Firebase Jade and Firebase Goddess environments, new Quarian, Vorcha, and Phoenix classes,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Developer Platinum Games has said that publisher Sega has delayed Anarchy Reigns in Europe and North America – despite the fact that the game is finished.
The date for the game has been changed to TBC even though, in Platinum’s words “our work on the game is finished, localized, and ready to go”.
Speaking on the Platinum blog, a representative added (as reported by Polygon): "That means 'to be confirmed', not 'to be cancelled'. We worked really hard to make sure everybody could

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Fez designer Phil Fish spoke this afternoon of how Fumito Ueda’s design philosophy on classic PS2 adventure Ico helped shape the final form of his revered XBLA puzzle-platformer.
Speaking at Nordic Game in Malmo this afternoon, Fish praised the people who inspired his approach to making games – naming Braun’s Dieter Rams as “maybe my favourite designer of all time”. A mark of good taste indeed.
But it was a 2004 GDC talk, during which Ueda coined the phrase ‘subtractive design’, that

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Originally Posted by wraggster

For a certain type of geek, nothing is more important than Dungeons & Dragons. In January, Wizards of the Coast announced that the next iteration of the game (referred to as D&D Next) was under development, and now they've released an open playtest. They hope to gather as much player feedback as possible to help refine the new rules.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...ytest-released