Dan Quick returns again to cover for Paul Nowak, and this week, the Gaming Podcast is offering free copies of The Darkness II Limited Edition, which comes with the main game and some free DLC. The guys are giving away an Xbox 360 version and a PlayStation 3 version. To win, just listen to the podcast and post what your favorite scary movie is.
The game news this week includes:
* Ex-SCEE senior VP Phil Harrison joins Microsoft’s European team
* DOOM developer John Romero has “plans” for “old school” shooter
* EA defends Mass Effect 3 From Ashes DLC data being on disc
* Notch settles with Bethesda over “Scrolls” trademark
* DICE: 2GB RAM won’t be enough for next gen consoles
* Angry Birds theme park to open in Finland
* GAME puts itself up for sale, GameStop interested
* Diablo III release date announcement “in a few days“, no PvP in launch version
And yes, they know that the announcement was just made today – May 15th release date for Diablo III.
How do composers make the iconic music tracks from games that we love? And just what makes them so memorable?
Twitter is blowing up right now
All games coming to PlayStation
Next Xbox will have steam
Next Xbox niche and only for “gamers who want it” (it’s a really powerful pc or a steam deck type portable, or both)
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
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