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Game Vids: Special Edition

by Robin Parrish
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Game Vids: Special Edition

Mass Effect 3. Elder Scrolls 5. Forza 4. Uncharted 3. Prototype 2. Resistance 3. Batman: Arkham City. SSX. And a certain Guillermo del Toro game… Spike’s Video Game Awards aired over the weekend, and while few gamers or industry insiders consider the awards themselves to be all that prestigious, the industry does always take the opportunity to unveil a slew of new games for the coming year with fancy, big-budget trailers. Which are always much bigger news than the award winners. So here are some of the biggest games you have to look forward to next year. Start saving up now. (Note that most of these trailers are intended for Read more »

Guillermo del Toro Working on “Huge Games” with THQ

by Robin Parrish
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Guillermo del Toro Working on “Huge Games” with THQ

This is exciting news even for the non-gamer. Geeky director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth), aka “He Who Almost Directed The Hobbit,” is working with video game publisher THQ on several entirely new game IPs. Del Toro says that they will be “huge games, huge worlds, [with] long deadlines.” To drive that last point home, he says that three-year development cycles will be used for each game, so he doesn’t expect the first one to arrive until 2013. He tells MTV News that he can’t say much about this first game, but he describes it as “horror… but a very different type of horror game. It’s not survival horror. Read more »

An Open Letter to Lord of the Rings Fans Everywhere

by Dina Ely
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An Open Letter to Lord of the Rings Fans Everywhere

Dear Everyone Eagerly Anticipating the Release of The Hobbit, I am writing to you today with a message of hope – a shining light in the perpetual dusk, burning brighter than Eärendil – in these, our darkest hours. I too remember where I was that terrible day when Peter Jackson announced that due to his battles with New Line, he would not be directing The Hobbit. I was unpacking groceries, and when the news broke, I put down my cans of Progresso soup and wept openly over my box of Saltines. Since that day New Line and PJ have reconciled their differences, MGM has come out to play, and The Read more »