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Originally Posted by wraggster

BioWare fans looking for the complete Mass Effect 3 experience face an alarming outlay.
Destructoid totted up the added cost of buying every pre-order incentive and every piece of DLC available across the market.
And in Mass Effect 3’s case, many DLC offers come only as part of hardware bundles featuring certain Razer products.
The short story is that to buy absolutely everything including every single DLC offer comes to an eye watering $870, or £549.
Here’s the complete

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Originally Posted by wraggster

EA's space-age campaign has already had an astronomical effect, with pre-orders placing ‘well ahead’ of where the publisher was at the same point with Mass Effect 2.
The publisher has been sending weather balloons into space with copies of the new game and GPS devices attached to them. Consumers can track their movements on the Mass Effect website and try to find them when they land.
On top of this, Electronic Arts is building a ‘triple-A campaign’ to support the game, the publisher

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Originally Posted by wraggster

More than 50,000 copies of haunting PC adventure Dear Estherwere sold in its first week on sale, developer Dan Pinchbeck has confirmed.
Thechineseroom's game, which began life as a Half-Life 2 mod, was released on February 14 and recouped The Indie Fund's £30,000 investment in the game in five and a half hours. In a post on the game's official site Pinchbeck reveals that those strong initial sales continued throughout its first week on Steam.
"The game has been successful far beyond

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Originally Posted by wraggster

Free-to-play mech game receives $10m in funding

Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in funding for free-to-play online mech-'em-up Hawken.
Meteor's subsidiary studio, Adhesive Games, is currently developing Hawken for release on 12 December, 2012.

Backers include Benchmark Capital and Firstmark Capital, both early funders of the free-to-play blockbuster League of Legends.
“We are seeing the rise of the direct-to-consumer model, where all is downloadable

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Originally Posted by wraggster

As much as I'd like to feel sorry for the decimation of Cybertron, home of my childhood heroes, developer High Moon studios left me craving even more destruction with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes place during the final hours of a civil war that eventually destroys the planet. The Decepticons have won,

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