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It’s finally time for the third and final update to IGN’s rather extensive Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review in progress. Here, I’ll tie up some loose ends in terms of my feelings about the game leading up to rendering my final verdict. I’ll also answer more than a dozen additional reader questions and continue to tease you about my final review, which, by the way, goes up the afternoon of Friday, February 3rd, right after we do a two-hour livestream of the game right here on IGN.com…

It’s been over a month since the launch of BioWare’s stellar (pun totally intended) MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic. While the hardcore may have reached the game’s level 50 cap weeks ago, many more players are just now nearing the limit. At level 50, the dynamic of the game, especially the way in which your character progresses, changes drastically…

2012 marks a turning point for the Dirt franchise. After a sly late-year hint it was working on Dirt 4, Codemasters also announced Dirt Showdown, an arcade-centric answer to gymkhana’s inclusion in Dirt 3. Where Dirt 4 will stick to point-to-point rally, Dirt Showdown is about destruction, drifting, and big crashes…

Valve has a tradition of updating the Dota 2 beta every Thursday. Except when they don’t, which is sometimes. Today they totally did, though, and in today’s update they added Bone Fletcher (AKA Clinkz)…

In addition to Mass Effect 3 action figures bringing bonus content to BioWare’s next title, the Dark Horse-published Art of the Mass Effect 3 Universe book includes in-game bonuses. Readers will earn themselves a DLC code for The Collector Assault Rifle, which also came as a bonus in the Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition…

Mojang teased the new Jungle biome creature just yesterday, and have today loosed a pre-release of the client upon the Internet. Of course players ravenously downloaded it, and have since uncovered and even recorded this adorable new creature in video…

IGN rated Batman: Arkham City as a 9.5, but it didn’t win IGN Game of the Year. In fact, it didn’t even get nominated for IGN Game of the Year. Internally, this means not enough IGN editors thought Batman: Arkham City outclassed the competition to get the overall nod. Externally, a lot of Batman fan…

Turbine today announced the second expansion for Lord of the Rings Online since the MMO’s switch to free-to-play over a year ago. The expansion, Riders of Rohan, will increase the level cap to 85, send players across the Plains of Rohan and interact with the totally sweet Ents of Fangorn…

As heroes go, Jackie Estacado is pretty unappealing on the surface. The protagonist of the video game (and comic book) series The Darkness is a hard sell on two counts. First off, he’s a hitman turned mob don, whose day-to-day activities involve running a criminal empire. If that wasn’t bad enough, …

Valve’s Dota 2, currently in beta, is a beautiful, loyal recreation of the fan-made Warcraft III mod that spawned a sub-genre, and it’s still missing about half the original’s roster. It’s really good, as anyone who has played (or even watched) it can attest. But thanks to League of Legends, I just …