Category Archives: PAX East 2013

If you didn’t make it to PAX East – I think that’s a good 99% of us, right? – then you’ll be pleased to know that Cliff Bleszinski’s story time keynote is available through the break for your viewing pleasure.

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BioShock: Infinite director Ken Levine believes games should be designed to account for all sorts of extremes of player behaviour.

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At PAX East, Firaxis showed a brief teaser trailer which was described as heralding the developer’s next big project. The teaser hasn’t been released yet but Kotaku has an off-screen version. If it’s not a a sequel to 2012′s XCOM: Enemy Unknown, then it’s something very closely related.

Just a little blip out of BioWare’s PAX East panel: Mass Effect series executive producer Casey Hudson made a brief mention of the upcoming Legendary Pictures film adaptation.

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Mass Effect’s first trilogy is over, but it won’t be forgotten. Check out a lovely farewell video from the BioWare team, and some interesting statistics from the final chapter.

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CCP has announced and dated the 19th expansion for its nearly decade-old but only more interesting MMO EVE Online.

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The next Mass Effect game will be “something fresh and new”, while the team that made the last three games takes a break to develop an all-new IP.

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Gearbox has detailed another piece of Season Pass DLC for Borderlands 2, along with some other upcoming updates, promising a new weapon tier, a second new game plus mode, a level cap increase and even more DLC to come.

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Here’s what you’ve been waiting for since you first fell in love with XCOM: Enemy Unknown and regretted having to leave it at home every day; the Firaxis strategy gem is headed to iPad and iPhone, with no feature left behind.

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Woah, now here’s a thing – Borderland 2′s sixth vault hunter is a playable version of one of the franchise’s most recognisable enemies, the Psycho Bandit.

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At its PAX East panel, Firaxis put a release date on the Brave New World expansion for Civilization 5, and revealed a cool little crossover.

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Dust: An Elysian Tail could be released on Steam as early as next month, according to developers Dean Dodrill and Alex Kain during their “Making of Dust” PAX East panel. Dust 2 was also teased but nothing further on the matter was revealed. The game is playable at the Microsoft booth this weekend during the event. Thanks, NeoGAF.

343 Industries hosted a Halo 4 panel at PAX East yesterday, during which the developer revealed new content for April, and the fact the game has seen 11.6 million unique users connected to Xbox Live who have played in any mode – not just multiplayer. This figure also includes guest accounts.

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Capcom has announced at PAX East that DuckTales Remastered is in development from WayForward. The remake of the 1990 title will be released on eShop for Wii U, PSN and XBL this summer. A trailer is below. Also announced was Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara which comes with Tower of Doom and Shadow of Mystara – which was outed last week – for PC, PSN, Wii U eshop, and XBLA. It is out in June and will boast four-player drop-in/drop-out online co-op.

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PAX East talks are being livestreamed on Twitch. You can get the full EST schedulebelow, which includes sessions from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, one on the making of Dust: An Elysian Tail, NVIDIA and more. The livestream of Blizzard revealing HearthStone: Heroes of Warcraft and Storytime with Cliff Bleszinski have ended.

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Blizzard has revealed its new title in the works at PAX East, and it’s a free-to-play affair called HearthStone: Heroes of Warcraft.

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Wizards of the Coast has announced that Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers is due this northern summer, heading to Android for the first time alongside iPad, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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The PAX East trailer for Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix has been released. The game contains HD versions of the original Kingdom Hearts together with the portable versions released before Kingdom Hearts 2. It’s out now in Japan and should be heading west sometime in early fall. Thanks, Gematsu.

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Microsoft has revealed more of its PAX East line-up today, and other than the already mentioned Halo 4: Castle Map Pack, the Gears of War: Judgement Maxim Map Pack will also be on the floor. State of Decay, Max: Curse of the Brotherhood, Motocross Madness along with Windows 8 and Windows Phone games will be shown as well, as will Age of Empires 2: HD Edition. A panel titled “Halo 4 Multiplayer: Past, Present, and Future” will be hosted in the main theater by 343 Industries’ Frank O’Connor, Kevin Franklin, Dan Ayoub and David Ellis, as well as Certain Affinity’s Tom Potter. You can find out more through Mr Xbox Live himself, Major Nelson, over on his blog.

Transistor is the new title from Supergiant Games, and you can play an early build of it this week at PAX East. The reveal trailer and screens are below.

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