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Get a look at new toys from the upcoming Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron game, shots of McFarlane Toys' Halo 4 figures, while Prototype 2 and Dragon Age: Origins tie-ins kick off Dark Horse's digital exclusives program.
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Tags 343 industries, activision, android, bioware, Dark Horse Comics, Dragon Age: Origins, halo 4, hasbro, high moon studios, iOS, microsoft, Non-Gaming Game News, radical entertainment, Toy Fair 2012, Transformers: The Fall of Cybertron

Activision and Beenox revealed the first official screenshot for The Amazing Spider-Man game tie-in today on the official Facebook page and, unfortunately, it's not as action-packed as we had hoped. That's not to say it doesn't look good - the suit is nicely detailed to match what we've seen in earlier shots, but I just wish there was more to look at. Read more...

Tags activision, beenox, Screenshots, Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man

Comedian Rob Riggle has something to say about the definition of "elite" in this trailer for the Modern Warfare 3 app and DLC subscription program.
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Tags activision, beachhead studios, call of duty modern warfare 3, call of duty: elite, infinity ward, PC, PS3, PSN, Rob Riggle, xbla, Xbox 360

Activision and developer Robomodo have released a batch of screens for the HD remake/best-of the first two games in the Tony Hawk series.
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Tags activision, PS3, PSN, Robomodo, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, xbla, Xbox 360

Prototype 2 in the comics, Remedy's "Alan Wake Merchandise Idea Challenge," brains are what's for dinner at Capcom's Tokyo bar, and more make up this week's non-gaming game news.
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Tags activision, Alan Wake: American Nightmare, capcom, Dark Horse Comics, Non-Gaming Game News, prototype 2, radical entertainment, remedy

Are you wildly addicted to tracking your Modern Warfare 3 stats on the go? Well, Activision and Infinity Ward have an app for that.
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Tags activision, android, call of duty modern warfare 3, call of duty: elite, infinity ward, iOS, iPhone / iPad, PC, PS3, PSN, sledgehammer games, xbla, Xbox 360

The first content drop is on the way January 24th. What's Activision got planned?
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Tags activision, call of duty modern warfare 3, Games For Windows Live, infinity ward, PC, PS3, PSN, raven software, sledgehammer games, xbla, Xbox 360

I've tried to consider some kind of devil's advocate post to the one you'll find here, some ironclad defense of Quick Time Events as a whole that could neatly justify their existence. Some shield of reason that might otherwise protect this go-to mechanic from—what is for me—what is becoming a ceaseless tide... well not rage, but frustration. For a while now, I been been somewhere in the continuum between "bored with" and "resigned to" the idea of QTEs pervading lazy and slapdash game experiences, but I think the last straw, the one that put me in the "fed up" zone was encountering it in a game that I liked, that otherwise had the mechanical and technical chops to keep me engaged.

It felt like the game in question stumbled or perhaps even lurched across the finish line, like one of those runners whose nervous systems go haywire at the end of a marathon. Not to sound overly-dramatic, but increasingly, when I encounter a QTE, it feels like not only a poorly-articulated piece of game design, but also a break in the contract established up to that point between the player and the developer.

Allow me to elaborate.
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Tags 3DS / DS, activision, Battlefiled 3, call of duty modern warfare 3, capcom, dice, Dragon's Lair, ea, infinity ward, PS3, Quick Time Events, resident evil 4, Wii, Xbox 360

The first community-created mode to get added to the game's multiplayer hoppers is ready to play, pretty cool.
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Tags activision, call of duty modern warfare 3, infinity ward, PC, PS3, Xbox 360

Community-created gameplay modes will be making their way will start making their way into the hoppers in the near future.
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Tags activision, call of duty modern warfare 3, infinity ward, PC, PS3, robert bowling, Xbox 360