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Originally Posted by wraggster

Just as E3 was ending last week, Major League Gaming's Spring championships were getting underway in Anaheim, California. Blizzard held a press preview during the opening hours of the tournament to show off the new units and features coming to Starcraft 2's multiplayer component in the upcoming Heart of the Swarm expansion.

Each of the three races in the game has a few new units and abilities

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Originally Posted by wraggster

The new emphasis on collecting coins in New Super Mario Bros. 2 may seem like an insubstantial change for the series – after all, there have always been coins everywhere, and it's always been a good idea to collect them. But I think that this subtle shift in goals subverts the nature of Mario more than it seems to.

The chief goal in Mario games has always been survival. You're expected to traverse the level,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Lionhead designer Ted Timmons says he learned a lesson after showing offFable: The Journey to the public for the first time at E3 2011. "It's fine to be on rails," he says a year later, at the tail end of E3 2012. The spin-off was famously labeled as "on rails" by the public thanks to an early demo, and Timmons told Joystiq that while the team was surprised at the response, they eventually

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Looking to spend (or earn) some real-world cash in Diablo 3? Now you can, because the real-money auction house is now live. As the completely unambiguous title suggests, the real-money auction house allows players to sell their in-game items for real cash, which can be converted to Battle.net Balance credit or transferred to PayPal.

As we reported earlier this week,

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Originally Posted by wraggster

A week after announcing Just Dance 4 and Just Dance: Disney Party at E3, Ubisoft revealed Just Dance Greatest Hits today, which will launch June 25 for Kinect and Wii. The $40 product will include over 30 tracks from Just Dance andJust Dance 2, with three tracks from Just Dance 3.

Just Dance 1 and 2 never launched on Xbox 360, so that makes sense, but for Wii owners it's just selections

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