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Zen Studios announced the Epic Quest DLC for Pinball FX2 earlier in the week by dropping a trailer on us, and today the developer has shed some light on what exactly gamers can expect from the add-on. Zsolt Kigyossy, managing director over at Zen, checked in over on the PlayStation Blog today to properly introduce gamers to the DLC’s hero, Max. Like all knights, it is his sworn duty “to seek out evil, defeat it, and take its stuff.” So obsessed with the concept of building XP and hoarding loot is Max, that he’ll carry everything over to the next game should he be bested by evil or “just evil-looking” beasties.

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Everyone say it along with me: “Xbox, bundle Kinect with free games!” Look, it worked! Nice work, everyone. As seen in the link, Amazon is currently selling Microsoft’s …
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The Pinball Arcade (as opposed to just any old pinball arcade) is now scheduled for release in late March, according to the developer. Farsight Studios’ table game will …
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Alex Garden, the General Manager of Xbox Live, responded to the bevy of Live account security issues that have arisen these past months largely thanks to an exploit in FIFA 12. “While we here at Xbox have no evidence of a security breach in the Xbox LIVE service,” said Garden, “that is of little comfort to our members whose accounts have been compromised by malicious and illegal attacks.” By directly addressing the problem Garden took a decidedly different approach than Microsoft employed when they silently updated XBL security last month.

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Reverb Publishing (Dungeon Defenders) announced today that Sanctum 2 is in development at Coffee Stain Studios for XBLA, PSN and PC. The game is a direct sequel to April 2011’s Sanctum (pictured above), which was a mix of the FPS and tower-defense genres. Speaking with Joystiq, the publisher stated that they are targeting a 2013 release.

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FortressCraft (think Minecraft, only more, you know, fortress-ey) has become the first independent title released on Xbox Live to eclipse the $2 million USD sales mark. For those …
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Hawken, the upcoming mech title from Adhesive Games, is no longer Xbox-bound. Adhesive announced today that the title will head exclusively to the PC as a free-to-play game in December of this year. It will be published by Meteor Entertainment, which is actually a division of Adhesive.

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  Rayman 3 HD will set gamers back 800 MSP when it launches next month, Ubisoft told Game Informer earlier today. As was revealed a few days ago via …
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Budget-conscious gamers curious to discover what all the Xbox Live Gold fuss is about can find out by taking it for a free test drive now through Sunday. …
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Reverge Labs’ XBLA fighting game, Skullgirls, popped up on the Australian Classification Board’s website today. The Aussie government has handed out an M rating for the game. For …
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