During my Daily news dosage, I came across two lovely videos on CAPCOM’s latest Eastern RPG, Dragon’s Dogma. OXM editor Matt Lees explains in the first video a new feature called the Pawn system, which I personally thought is the most innovative feature I’ve seen in a video game in the past 10 years. There is also a second guide video on the classes and skills that you’ll find very interesting. Videos are after the jump. Guide to the Pawn System Guide to Classes and Skills Dragon’s Dogma is scheduled for release on May 22nd, 2012.

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Here is a brand new trailer for the forthcoming Game of Thrones RPG. I have great hopes for this game and pray it doesn’t disappoint. Epic music? Fantastic voice acting? Visceral action? Swords hitting things? People screaming? One guy (safely) lighting himself on fire? That’s either someone describing a typical Thursday at the ATLUS offices, or an apt summary of what folks will find when they check out the new “This is War” trailer for the upcoming “Game of Thrones” RPG. “Game of Thrones” is currently scheduled to release on May 15.

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Vic Ireland from Gaijinworks, and MonkeyPaw Games have decided to join forces, and bring us a great opportunity to show our support for the idea of bringing “Japan-only” RPGs to this side of the pond. MonkeyPaw Games has been hard at work securing the rights to several titles for the PSX that, up until recently, had been sentenced to a “import from Japan” fate. And Vic Ireland has been doing this for yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars. Wait, what? You don’t know who Vic Ireland is? For shame! For those of us that were fortunate enough to own a PSOne many, many years ago, Vic Ireland’s Working Designs was a godsend. Several games that had been released on the Sega CD (an attachment that allowed the Genesis to play CD based games), as well as others that had been hit with the dreaded “Japan-only” stick, were brought to the PSOne by Working Designs. And they did so in style. That right there is the Collector’s Edition for Lunar: Eternal Blue, a box filled to the top with collectibles, great artwork, a soundtrack CD, a pendant, and even a Hardcover Instruction booklet/artbook. Looks great, right? Well, I’m proud to own that one, along with the CE for Arc the Lad Collection and their final release: Growlanser Generations CE. After this, Working Designs had to go into the sunset, but with a new day came a new chance to make a change: Vic Ireland started Gaijinworks, a company that would carry on with the legacy of Working Designs while, at the same time, acknowledging the changes that digital releases have brought to the industry. Kickstarter has proved that when fans crave and desire a specific product, and you bring it to them, they will open up their wallets. Double Fine found success with their “we’re making an old-school point and click adventure game”, and Brian Fargo is now working on a sequel to Wasteland. Vic Ireland and MonkeyPaw Games are now askign for your money to open up the flow of JRPG releases, and their first release will be Class of Heroes 2 for the PSP . There are several levels for your pledges, and the higher you go, the better the rewards. The centerpiece of it all is a physical, UMD release of Class of Heroes 2, complete with a CE to do he game justice. Vic Ireland himself has this to say: We’re offering a Physical Deluxe Pack of Class of Heroes II for the PSP® system that will be the craziest Deluxe Pack we’ve ever done. And if you know our work at Working Designs, that’s a pretty high bar already. This will NOT have digital content you download. It will NOT have codes for in-game armor or weapons. It will NOT have a picture flip book passed off as an art book. It will not ship with DLC on the disc you have to pay for again later. It will NOT come in a tin box passed off as Steelbook. It will NOT be what’s usually advertised as a Collector’s Edition in 2012 – a wimpy, atrophied shadow of what a real Deluxe Pack should be. It will be an awesome Deluxe Pack with real, collectible, limited, awesome stuff based on the game, including an arranged soundtrack. Please, go over to their Kickstarter page and start making your pledges, so we can finally return to a golden age when THIS is how a Collector’s Edition looked like:

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It’s no big secret that Konami and Kojima productions are working on something big. Dubbed “Project Ogre” to be exact. While not a whole lot of information has been released to the public regarding what type of game or what type of genre it will be, we do know that Kojima Productions and Konami Corp are working on the next MGS. According to konami.com , the company is planning to hire for this new project. Read all about it and check out a “Classified” picture after the jump: Kojima Productions will be returning to the GDC Career Pavilion (March 6th – 9th) to search for skillful engineers, artists, and game creators including: Project engineers for the latest Metal Gear Solid targeted for high-end consoles and PC Engineers to help develop next-gen game engine technology for use with the “FOX Engine. Kojima Productions Brand Manager If you are interested in becoming part of our team, please visit the Konami Group booth, #1914, in the Career Pavilion.　We look forward to meeting lots of enthusiastic and talented candidates. I sure hope they hire the right guys for the job!

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Kojima Productions is Hiring New Recruits

This game is on my must have list and its looking better then ever. The trailer has 4 new playable characters to showcase as well as some of the colorfull envirorments. Borderlands 2 will be released on September 18, 2012 in North America and September 21, 2012 internationally! Read what Chris Faylor had to say on some of the major changes in Borderlands 2 after the jump. And that’s just the beginning. It barely scratches the surface of some of the underlying changes, especially when it comes to the way that characters grow and become more powerful throughout the game. Each character has their own unique Action Skill at the root of their multi-tiered Skill Trees, and as you complete more quests and kill more enemies and gain the necessary experience to start working down those Skill Trees, you’ll come across skills that do more than just add passive stats and perks — they change the way that character plays. Let’s talk about Salvador the Gunzerker, for example. When you trigger his Action Skill, he’s able to temporarily dual wield any weapons in the game. And if you just want to run and gun and blow everything up and cause as much chaos and destruction as possible, there’s a Skill Tree for that. Or if you want to make him more of a tactician and focus on nailing that one perfect shot for ridiculous damage and money, there’s a Skill Tree for that as well. And the same goes for the other characters. Maya’s Skill Trees and the way they alter her Phaselock Action Skill likewise enable players to customize the way she plays and the role she takes in battle, as do those of Axton and Zero. As our Game Designer Jonathan Hemingway puts it, Borderlands 2 isn’t just about making a few big changes and improvements, it’s about making thousands of little ones as well. Everything is being tuned, refined, improved and reworked, and in the coming months we’ll be talking much more about, well, all of that. It is nice to see this game getting the love it deserves and few game changers to keep it al interesting. Theres a killer pre-order bonus as well which gets you a Golden Vault key and some Golden guns to show off. More information can be found HERE

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The Marbians have crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico and need your help to get them home in this retro, marble-themed puzzle game. Fling and Flick the marble-encased aliens through 72 puzzling levels to get them back to their UFOs and on their way home! The Marbians is a physics-based interactive game, where players will send Marbians careening off walls and around obstacles to collect moon rocks, rack up points and bonuses, and reach their UFO homes. Smack your Marbian off walls at high speed for more points, collect all the moon rocks you can, and see your alien friends safely home! Now go read EdEN’s review here ! Winning this one couldn’t be easier…. We have 20 US codes to give away for this fun little game, and so we’ve come up with a few ways to give them away. See how after the jump! The easiest way to win is to be one of the first three people to answer this question correctly, and you’ll instantly win a copy of the game! (I’ll PM you a code here on the site.) Which level introduces a 2nd Marbian for us to control? Sorry, a little too late! Try your chance at Free Points Saturday next week! The answer this week was 11. The following 3 members got points for anwering correctly. Pedro The_Nmac SubMonkey You can also win by watching our quick news everyday this week for more chances at instant wins; visiting our chat room for random code giveaways; and by following us on Facebook , Twitter , and Google+ , and watching for special giveaway posts/tweets to pop up. Follow the details in those posts/tweets, and you could be playing The Marbians for free!

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Last week’s FPS seemed to be a bit harder for most than I thought it’d be. I was actually hoping that the “1 word” hint would have given it away, or at least made it heaps easier, but alas, 20 people got the points for it. Unfortunately, we’re back to the regular 150 points for the first 10 people to answer correctly. But for those who took advantage of FPS over the month of December, how well did you fair? Be sure to check the stats after the jump. As for this week’s question: This series was negatively parodied by a highly popular franchise throughout a number of its titles because of some shared traits, despite the fact that the two were completely different types of games. Regardless of the negativity surrounding a few of its entries, this series still has quite a strong following. What series is this? Question BONUS QUESTION: Send me a private message with the name of the series that parodied this one. You’ll get a bonus 50 points ! December Points Pretty interesting, as we’ve had a total of 9 people who didn’t miss a single FPS! Congratulations to those folks, as in December alone, they received 1650 free points! Here’s the list of winners and totals won: Name Points Kane112 EdEN kennygk Isli rann dragon290513 mowmow Grouken Diggitydave SubMonkey Salander xTONKONx UniFork Darklurkr23 premiersoupir wolfkin Jay The_Nmac chronorayven Cheeto Oly jamisonfitz Tosh bipple305 Nikibaby219 Gotenks266 goulfreak arsenalfox Hestar Henshin656 yetis_r_us Juan Morales Katherine Oriol FooBear408 Ishida Zero 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1650 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1350 1050 1050 750 750 750 450 450 450 450 450 300 300 300 300 300

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Konami shows off its latest assets for the newly announced Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance game. Below are the screenshots and a teaser poster of the game. Look closer and you can see Raiden’s incarnation on his sword! From his innocent days in Son’s of Liberty, to his epic return in Gun’s of the Patriots, and lastly what looks like Raiden’s “form” as seen near the ending of Gun’s of the Patriots. Screens are available after the jump. source: press release

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The Skyrim 1.2 update is now live on the PSN, and we can all get back to playing it… forever. UPDATE 1.2 NOTES (all platforms unless specified) Here’s the most important one, with the rest after the jump! Improved occasional performance issues resulting from long term play (PlayStation 3) Fixed issue where textures would not properly upgrade when installed to drive (Xbox 360) Fixed crash on startup when audio is set to sample rate other than 44100Hz (PC) Fixed issue where projectiles did not properly fade away Fixed occasional issue where a guest would arrive to the player’s wedding dead Dragon corpses now clean up properly Fixed rare issue where dragons would not attack Fixed rare NPC sleeping animation bug Fixed rare issue with dead corpses being cleared up prematurely Skeleton Key will now work properly if player has no lockpicks in their inventory Fixed rare issue with renaming enchanted weapons and armor Fixed rare issue with dragons not properly giving souls after death ESC button can now be used to exit menus (PC) Fixed occasional mouse sensitivity issues (PC) General functionality fixes related to remapping buttons and controls (PC) Source: Bethblog

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Skyrim Update is Live on the PSN

Jay, your friendly neighborhood Community Manager, here. As you may have noticed, I have been inactive for a few weeks due to a bad case of sciatica and not having the money for insurance, or a way of getting it taken care of (just self-administered physical therapy). Although it is still going to affect me for little while longer, it is easing up a bit finally. With that said, I would like to thank Tosh for doing these in my absence and congratulate the winners. As for this week’s trivia: This game was originally meant to be a PS2 sequel to the Resident Evil franchise, but during the prototype phase, it was deemed too much of a departure from the RE formula (and the survival horror genre in general) but was renamed and kept in production anyway. What was the name of this game? 150 points for the first 10 people/correct answers! Answer in the box after the jump. 3 words. Sorry, a little too late! Try your chance at Free Points Saturday next week! The answer this week was devil may cry. The following 10 members got points for anwering correctly. CHEETO dragon290513 Darklurkr23 Ajescent SubMonkey kennygk Kane112 The_Nmac Isli Grouken

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