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• Postcard from PAX: Sports Bar Discussions
• Kim Swift's Quantum Conundrum Was Clearly Influenced by Portal
• This is What an Extra $40 Spent on Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets You
• Postcard from PAX: The Best Revenge is Living Awkwardly
• Here's How PAX Attendees Can Get a Free OnLive System
• Super Monday Night Combat Brings Free-to-Play MNC to PC
• Postcard from PAX: No One Would Care if My Plane Crashed
• Sonic CD Port Headed to XBLA, PSN, iOS, PC, and More
• Nintendo Downloads Bring Gargoyle's Quest and a $2 Calculator
• Uncharted 3 Collector's Edition Has a Belt Buckle and Statue

Postcard from PAX: Sports Bar Discussions Posted: 26 Aug 2011 12:53 AM PDT Tonight some of the 1UP & IGN crew grabbed dinner at one of our favorite Seattle restaurants. To our delight, plenty of "interesting" discussions took place around us. You know the Penny Arcade Expo is in town when you hear gems such as, "I slay and I am content," or, "that raid was the raddest!"

Kim Swift's Quantum Conundrum Was Clearly Influenced by Portal Posted: 25 Aug 2011 04:35 PM PDT Just a few days after teasing that the new game from former Portal lead Kim Swift would be revealed at PAX Prime, we've got our first look at Quantum Conundrum. We knew it would be something "quirky" and aiming to appeal at "a more diverse audience," two things it seems to have going for it. As unveiled by GameSpot, Airtight Games' new project has you playing as a young kid visiting his uncle, who is an inventor. When things go wrong, he disappears and you're forced to find him. The game was clearly influenced by Portal, though that's hardly a bad thing. It is, like Portal, a first-person puzzle/platformer. Rather than have a Portal gun, players use the Interdimensional Shift Device, or IDS, which allows you to jump between different dimensions. Each of these dimensions has a different effect on the environment -- you can toss things in slow motion, reverse the gravity, and so on. By combining and using the unique features of each, you're able to make it through rooms of your uncle's massive mansion/laboratory.

This is What an Extra $40 Spent on Assassin's Creed: Revelations Gets You Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:46 PM PDT Like so many other games, you can opt to spend some extra cash on a collector's edition of Assassin's Creed: Revelations to get some extra goodies. In this case, however, you'll only be able to do it at GameStop. A listing for the Revelations Ultimate Bundle was discovered by Game Informer. For $99.99 ($89.99 for the PC version), you get two extras: a 7-inch tall Ezio action figure and a GameStop-exclusive da Vinci flying machine. The Ezio figure has interchangeable hands, an optional sword, and retractable blades. The flying machine is a replica of the one seen in Brotherhood and has both a 2-plus foot wingspan and a harness to hold an action figure of about 6-7 inches. (How convenient!) It's also equipped with a pivoting cannon that can fire spring-loaded projectiles. The included game is the Signature Edition, the same thing you get by simply pre-ordering the plain, $59.99 version of the game at GameStop. That means the bundle also includes everything from the SE, which was first announced in June: a bonus single-player mission, an extra multiplayer character, an animated short film, three weapon capacity upgrades, and a soundtrack.

Postcard from PAX: The Best Revenge is Living Awkwardly Posted: 25 Aug 2011 03:31 PM PDT One thing I've always appreciated about PAX is that the attendees are so darned normal. We're all nerds, sure, but the show is packed with folks who are basically just regular dudes and ladies chilling out and having a good time with friends. Unlike E3, Comic-Con, or even TGS, you rarely come into contact with high-strung basement-dwellers who are more concerned with racking up a suitcase full of free swag than with trivialities like "bathing" or "basic social graces." PAX is the essence of "laid back." That said, you stick this many geeks together and you're bound to encounter your share of awkward moments. Like here on the plane, where the aisle seat of my row went unoccupied, yet the guy in the middle seat didn't scoot over to give us both more elbow room. Instead, he set up the empty outside seat as his personal snack bar, stretching out in luxury while leaving me uncomfortably wedged between him, the window, and the fully reclined dude in front of me.

Here's How PAX Attendees Can Get a Free OnLive System Posted: 25 Aug 2011 02:59 PM PDT A nice bonus awaits those who are attending PAX Prime this weekend: a free OnLive Game System. OnLive is a streaming games service that first launched last year. Games can be purchased and then streamed to you without the game ever having to run on your end. In other words, you can play a high-end PC game with a relatively slow computer, tablet, or other supported device. It initially required users to pay a monthly fee, though that was quickly dropped. The Game System (formerly known as the MicroConsole) can be connected to a TV and allows for the entire catalog of OnLive games to be streamed to your TV. That includes any games you may have already purchased from them, as well as demos of all available games. Those who bought a physical copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution on PC can play that using the code they got free, assuming they didn't buy it at GameStop.

Super Monday Night Combat Brings Free-to-Play MNC to PC Posted: 25 Aug 2011 01:21 PM PDT Rather than develop a direct sequel to Monday Night Combat, Uber Entertainment has instead decided it likes the advantages of having a game on Steam, where it's free to update as often as it likes. As such, it's trying to turn its newest game into more of a service than a simple sequel, and it'll be one that you're able to play for free. The fundamental mechanics of Super Monday Night Combat are essentially the same as in Monday Night Combat, according to Kotaku. It's a third-person Dota-style shooter where you guide waves of robots into the enemy's base so you can capture their Moneyball while simultaneously defending your own base against the same. Plenty of things have changed including the addition of new maps, new characters, and differences in the original characters' abilities. There are three new characters: the Veteran (a husky wrestler with a grappling hook who likes close-range grappling), the Gunslinger (a less powerful sniper who can shoot faster), and the Combatgirl (a clone of MNC's Pitgirl who has her own turrets). They'll join the existing cast of characters who will undergo some changes, such as toning down one-hit kills so that the only way they're possible is to knock someone off the level.

Postcard from PAX: No One Would Care if My Plane Crashed Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:29 PM PDT I'm at San Francisco International, waiting for the plane for my flight to Seattle to empty its current crowd of passengers so I can board. It's an eerie sight here, though: I don't see a single member of the video game press. This is quite the opposite of how PAX travel normally goes. San Francisco is home to a high concentration of game writers, and normally the flight to PAX is a big cluster of nerds. Had those planes crashed, suddenly there'd have been a ton of game editor job postings on Craigslist. Not today, though. I see no competitors, no former comrades, not even my fellow 1UP/IGN cohorts. I imagine a bunch of people traveled a day or two ago to attend the PAX Dev pre-show event, while the IGN crew headed down early this morning to juggle Halofest duties. I haven't even gotten on the plane and already I see signs of how big PAX has become; it's such a massive event now that other events have fallen into its orbit. The rubber sheet of the game industry calendar has a massive weight warping it out of shape, and that weight was born of an Internet cartoon about dudes with Pac-Man shirts. I would not have guessed that, back in 1998.

Sonic CD Port Headed to XBLA, PSN, iOS, PC, and More Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:10 PM PDT The existence of a new Sonic CD port was teased earlier this week when it was listed as one of the games set to be at the Microsoft PAX booth this weekend. Sega has now formally announced the game, and it's coming to quite a few platforms. While Microsoft may have it exclusively for its PAX booth, it'll still be on PS3. The full list of systems it's coming to includes Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, PC (as a download), Android, and Windows Phone It's unclear if all of those versions will be released at the same time; it'll be coming to at least one platform before the end of 2011, complete with music from the original Japanese soundtrack.

Nintendo Downloads Bring Gargoyle's Quest and a $2 Calculator Posted: 25 Aug 2011 11:26 AM PDT A week after bringing us a 3D Classics version of Urban Champion, Nintendo's downloadable offerings this week aren't much more exciting. The most noteworthy of the offering might just be that calculator app we've all been dying for. The one big highlight is Capcom re-releasing its 1990 Game Boy game Gargoyle's Quest on the 3DS eShop for $3.99. It stars Firebrand, an enemy from Ghosts 'n Goblins who will also be a playable character in the upcoming fighting game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Other new additions include firefighting game The Ignition Factor on the Wii's Virtual Console (a SNES game from 1995), Let's Create! Pottery for DSiWare/eShop ($4.99/500 points), action game Magical Whip: Wizards of the Phantasmal Forest for DSiWare/eShop ($1.99/200 points), and shooter Kyotokei for WiiWare (500 points).

Uncharted 3 Collector's Edition Has a Belt Buckle and Statue Posted: 25 Aug 2011 10:32 AM PDT The contents of the inevitable collector's edition for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception have been revealed today, and as with many others, its big feature is a statue. The CE is collected within a recreation of a classic traveling chest, complete with magnets to keep the door from swinging open when you don't want it to. Inside, you'll find a 8.5-inch tall statue of Nathan Drake made by Sideshow Collectibles. There's also a wearable belt buckle, modeled after the one Nathan Drake wears in Uncharted 3, and the necklace he has with Sir Francis Drake's ring attached. The final component is a Steelbook case that Naughty Dog says is a first for SCEA; it holds both the game and some exclusive artwork. It's not the most mind-blowing of collector's editions, but it's also not priced as highly as some of the other high-end limited editions out there (like Skyrim's $150 CE). It'll be released on November 1 along with the standard edition of the game for $99.99.

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