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Lessons were learned after the successful Kickstarter campaign I think the question that most people asked themselves when they finishedBroken Age Act Iwas “Okay, so when am I going to get to play Act II?” The more pressing concern was “Will there be an Act II?” but thankfully Double Fine’s Tim Schafer says that the studio has made more than enough to complete Act II. Speaking to GamesIndustry International, Tim says the studio learned a lot during development; for instance, most development details were only given to backers, so when the decision came tosplit the game into two acts, non-backers were understandably confused....

We don’t know the name for it yet, but PSN will be updated tonight to provide both movies and TV shows to eager consumers. The service will allow for complete downloads and rentals from announced partners Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, Funimation, MGM, Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures. The best part is that the purchased media will be somewhat removable from the PS3. Patrons will be able to transport movies to their PSP, as well as their personal computers via USB....

All previous passes becoming free [Update:EA has commented about the price, indicating that all previous Online Passes will become free on both XBLA and PSN “over the next several weeks.”] It seems that EA wasn’t just thinking about the Xbox One when it mentioneddropping the ever-so-popular Online Passsystem that punishes consumers for purchasing a game used by adding an extra fee. On Xbox Live (sorry PS3 owners!) many of the Online Passes have been made completely free, asthis NeoGAF thread details....

Surprise! A newCall of Dutygame is coming out in 2025. Not surprised? That’s okay, nobody really is, but the fact that it’sBlack Ops 7directly afterBlack Ops 6is a bit surprising. This is the first consecutive release in theBlack Opsseries, following in the footsteps ofModern Warfare IIIthat launched directly afterModern Warfare IIa couple years back. 2025’sCoDiteration will be heading into the near-future of 2035, a big departure from BO6’s setting of the early 1990s, so expect some big changes when it comes to weaponry, aesthetics, setting, and more....

The plot thickens, almost literally You didn’t think it was over did you? Okay, so theMass Effect 3ending controversy is really over, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t fair few untold tales about it’s development. In an interview with videogame radio showVideo Game Sophistry, ex-BioWare writer Drew Karpyshyn sheds light on what were discussed as possible endings to theMass Effecttrilogy. It seems the initial ideas all placed a heavy emphasis on biotics and dark energy, with the Reapers acting as some sort of guardians to the universe....

Not a one-and-done At the PC gaming show this evening, Xbox’s Phil Spencer came out and introduced a few developers working on PC and Xbox One. One game in the presentation wasFable Legends, whichI liked the last time I played it. In addition to reiterating that the free-to-play title would allow for cross-platform play between PC and Xbox One, the presenter also noted that Lionhead has “years of content” planned for the game....

New Valkyria series game coming to PS4 I don’t know if it was theValkyria ChroniclesSteam release success or Sega just doing its regular couple years of apologizing with good releases before falling into a funk again, but there is a new, anime-as-hellValkyria Chroniclescoming out calledValkyria: Azure Revolution. It was announced yesterday for a winter 2016 release in Japan, but here are the first proper screenshots by way ofFamitsu. There’s alsoValkyria ChroniclesPS4 remasterscreenshots, but they don’t look much different than the PC version I’ve been playing all year, so it’s a bit less exciting....

Last week’sdebatewas a nostalgic nightmare that was about as heated as the current Presidential candidate debates. For a week straight we heatedly argued over which was the best multiplayer level for the Nintendo 64 FPS game that devoured many of our childhood Summers. Here I am thinking that the only threeGoldenEye 007level candidates that stood a chance were Facility Clinton, Library Obama, and John McComplex, with a slight Temple Nader possibility on the side....

In what may be the most predictable story of the day, Apple has announced the iPad 2. Hope you enjoy dropping ten billion bucks for the last one! The iPad 2 features an all-new design, as one might expect. It’s powered by a new chip called the A5 and features dual-core processors, with a CPU that runs up to two times faster and up to nine times the graphics speed. It’ll have the same “low power” as the A4 chip and will be the first dual-core tablet to ship in volume....

Wired Productions, the publisher behindGori Cuddly Carnage, has announced that the game’s tremendous amount of blood and gore has had to be censored in the Japanese version of the game. In response to the blood saved, development team members are donating theirs to the NHS. In anannouncement on Twitter, theGori Cuddly Carnage‘s publisher explained how the gallons of blood you see in all other versions of the title have been replaced in the Japanese version with “purple toy juice....

Anyone looking for a gritty, realistic, tactical FPS to sink their teeth into will want to keep an eye onGray Zone Warfare. If this sounds like your kind of game, we’ve compiled everything you need to know about it below, including its release window and launch platforms. What isGray Zone Warfare? Described as an immersive tactical FPS with a “maximum focus on realism,”Gray Zone Warfaresees you join a PMC sent to an island in Southeast Asia; one that was completely evacuated following a “mysterious event....

We’ve heard rumblings that Vancouver was focused on the Halo IP — could this be it? There’s anew webpagefor the Microsoft first-party studio in Vancouver. On it they claim to be making “core” games for Microsoft, and looking for new team members to help them do so. It could be that they’re working on a ‘core AAA shooter’ experience using Kinect. ANeoGAF member founda resume on developer Shawn Woods’ personal website, and on it they found mention of his current job as a art director/senior artist....

Party like it’s 1989 As part ofthis weekend’s Evo festivities, Capcom released a new trailershowing off two of the charactersheaded to its upcoming sequelStreet Fighter 6— and while Juri needs no introduction, (yeah, I still gave her one), there is more intrigue to be found in the formof aSF6newcomer, the vivacious Kimberly! Representing the good ol’ US of A, Kimberly is a young, energetic, and highly acrobatic woman who combines her love of music, paint, and martial arts to create street beats on her opponent’s bonce....