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Originally Posted by wraggster

Eurogamer has 500 beta keys for the Heroes of Neverwinter Facebook game to give away.
Heroes of Neverwinter has chewed 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons into more easily swallowed Facebook chunks. It looks like fellow Facebook game Dragon Age: Legends; cartoony and clean.
Battles are turn-based and tactical, and you can import your friends' heroes for use, earning them experience and loot in return. There's no word on what the level cap is.
You can meet other players in town hubs

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 will arrive on two discs when the game releases this October.
That's according to an image of a promotional poster being carried by Japanese blogEsutero (via PlayStation Lifestyle), which also says the PS3 edition will ship on one Blu-ray disc. We've contacted EA for comment.

Last year, Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi said that Capcom had to cut

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Originally Posted by wraggster

In case you didn't stay up for the Dragon Quest X reveal event last night, you can get your first look at the online RPG for Wii (and eventually Wii U) in the single screenshot released by Square Enix so far. It appears to be some kind of lobby, with a bunch of player characters just cold lampin'.

Players will be able to create their own characters, within five races: dwarf, elf, ogre, "weddy" (blue,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

If you've yet to play Batman: Arkham Asylum, or if you've wanted to try OnLive, today might be the day to pull the trigger. Having reached 45,000 "Likes" on Facebook, the service is now offering the game at the criminally insane price of $0.99 as part of itsLabor Day Sale. Simply enter the code "99cents" at checkout and Arkham Asylum is yours. Act fast though, the batty offer is only available today.

Additionally, having reached its goal, OnLive will now donate $1

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Originally Posted by wraggster

In January, Chillingo put out a PlayStation Minis version of the megahit Angry Birds. Then, in July, it was replaced by one published by original developer Rovio, with better load times and other improvements; however, since it was sort of a new game by a new publisher, players couldn't just update to the new one without paying for a second copy of Angry Birds.

PSN Stores finally got word of a kludgy solution,

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