• E3 post impressions
• Windows 8 Release Preview – It’s going to flop
• Valve is working on a Linux client – Escape hatch from Win8 much?
• Mass Effect – Most Important Sci-Fi series of our generation? Link
• Jonathan’s Random Topic – Let’s talk about Reddit

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• George Lucas Retires
• Viacom chief disappointed about mob mentality surround the SOPA defeat
• Megaupload shutdown did nothing to slow piracy, study finds
• Microsoft abandoning points by the end of 2012
• Lego partially influences Minecraft…which then inspires Minecraft Legos?
• Notch is going to fund a Pyschonauts 2?
• Bethesda releases PC-only Skyrim hi-res pack and creation kit
• Kinect for PC now available
• X-Box 720 rumored to not play used games – developers love the idea
• What are you playing?

 

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• Direct2Drive joins GameFly – looks like digital distribution is heating up Linky
  
• Steam sales increase 100 percent for the seventh straight year Linky
  
• Steam Winter Sale: anyone score any Phat Loot?Now that it’s 2012 – What is your game of the year for 2011?
• Thoughts on SWTOR – from beta to post launch model!
• SWTOR is the fastest-growing MMO in history? Over a million subscribers in just a couple days since launch! Linky
• Jonathan’s Random Topic

 

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• Favorite games of the fall season + impressions
• Next WoW expansion announced – Mists of Pandaria
• Star Wars The Old Republic coming on the 20th
• EA adds WB, Capcom and THQ to Origin
• Shigeru Miyamoto retiring from Nintendo Or is he?
• Ico Creator Leaves Sony, Team Ico
• X-Box 360 Fall Update – Likey? No Likey?
• Jonathan’s random topic

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• Steve Jobs died
• Battlefield 3 isn’t slated for Steam release – will Mass Effect 3 be? [link]
• Why no Steam Notch? [link]
• Jon Carmack complains consoles aren’t as powerful as PCs [link]
• but then shares that consoles are ‘better business’ than PCs for games [link]
• Witness – peering through the ‘Myst’ [link]
• Nintendo Files Patent For ‘Massively Single-Playing Online Game’ [link]
• Why game industry talent is going indie. [link]
• Portal’s free DLC – how’d you like it?
• Jonathan was right – codes to play games on consoles – Online Passes [link]
• Jonathan’s random topic

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