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Bioware’s Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games, wowed players with a new precedent in multi-layered decision-based action RPGs.  When gamers judge the quality of a game with dynamic story choices these games are still a unit of measure.  Bioware went on the set the complexity of their story telling methods even higher with Dragon Age and the Mass Effect games, the latter of which famed game designer, Cliff Bleszinski called “Star Wars for this new generation”.  Excitement is building for Bioware’s return to The Old Republic, but this time you won’t be returning alone – the game is an MMORPG, and everything Bioware has ever done has been leading up to it.

Cap and Mike passed the interview duties off once again to Colin, whose experience with Bioware’s titles runs deep.  Join Colin for an in-depth interview with Bioware lead writer, Daniel Erickson, and find out why this game will revolutionize MMORPGs, interactive storytelling, how it fits into the Star Wars cannon, and how they’ll finally bring the depth of tabletop role playing to video games.  (Cap’s note: Not only is this guy super-cool, but he sounds kinda like Henchman #24 from Venture Bros).

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And don’t forget to also check out our E3 coverage of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2:

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The first Force Unleashed took gamers and Star Wars fans alike by surprise.  Vader’s secret apprentice, Starkiller, massive twists and turns in the plot, and the destructive capabilities of the Force like never seen before… This game was off the charts!  But Starkiller died in the end, so how’s there a sequel?  Clones, baby!  And you thought Starkiller’s wielding of the Force was brutal before – you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

Mike and Cap have become totally jaded by Star Wars so they passed the mic off to stalwart videographer Colin Peterson to aptly wield his expanded universe knowledge… but will he use his powers for good… or evil?

Oh yeah, AND we’ve got a video for BioWare and LucasArts’ Star Wars MMO The Old Republic so check that out below:

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When was the last time you played a game like Gauntlet Legends, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, or Smash TV? No, not on an emulator, a NEW game. …Uh-huh, that what I thought.  Well get ready kids, ’cause co-op arcade monster slayin’ is back!

High Voltage Software, the guys who brought you Conduit and Hunter: The Reckoning are cooking up something amazing.  The game’s called The Grinder, no, it’s not a delicious Italian-style sandwich, it’s a mining machine that’s burrowed straight to hell and it let something nasty out.  Now you, as one of four comic book-style bounty hunter miscreants must save the day for cash and glory and leave a pile of otherworldly corpses in your wake.  Check out our hands-on demo of the game and see why it’s one of the forthcoming titles we’re most excited about:

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The classic James Bond FPS returns to Nintendo!  But how!?  How did GoldenEye make it past the legal nightmare of right and royalties and onto the E3 showroom floor again?  Simple: remake it from the ground up and put Daniel Craig in it.

The new game is an interpretation of the original shooter, both an adaptation of the 1995 movie and the 1997 game.  Can it possibly live up to the original, or is it just a pretender like the forgettable GoldenEye: Rogue Agent from 2004?  Cap and Mike have the answers.  Watch them try to kill each other (and a Nintendo representative) in an old-fashioned deathmatch:

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We waited eons for the first Fable to finally materialize on the original X-Box and it took four years after that for Fable 2 to rear its head, but now, only two years after that FABLE 3 is almost here!  The Fable series has always had very lofty goals and though it’s often criticized for reaching higher than it can actually achieve each game is immersive, exciting, and innovative. 

Fable 3 needs to prove that it’s not just a clone of Fable 2, and Lionhead Studios is aware of that.  Cap met up with the game’s Senior Artist, Jon Eckersley to find out not just what makes this game different from its predecessor, but what might make it the best Fable of all:

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The bulk of RPGs, particularly action RPGs have always focused on a Tolkien-inspired medieval setting and very few of them, if any, have focused on real historical settings and stories.  Goblins and elves and magic are cool and all, but anyone whose ever poured over a Viking comic or perhaps even an actual history book will tell you – fantasy’s got nothin’ on the brutality of the real Middle Ages.

The First Templar takes place during the 13th century and features 20 historically accurate locations. You take the roles of a French Templar and a noble lady who has been branded a heretic.  Going into E3 we were really excited to get the scoop on this new title from Kalypso Media and Haemimont Games (Tropico).  This is thier first action RPG and has a unique story concept that feels like an issue of Northlanders come to life (…well, different time period, but that same gritty, ball grabbing, historical realism that you just don’t see in games these days).  Even Assassin’s Creed needs a sci-fi plot to hold it together, The First Templar is the real deal.

We talked with Kalypso’s Mark Allen as he took us to the forests of Gaul and demoed for us fun action gameplay, innovative co-op, lush level design, a solid leveling system, and even found the time to trash talk Indy 4.  Aw yeah.

Now that you’ve seen that, check out the more action-packed trailer!

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UPDATE! We’ve got our first winner!  Congrats to Chris, you’re goin’ to Nerdapalooza!  We’ve only got one ticket left to give.  Hurry hurry hurry.

That’s right!  Here’s your chance to party with Nerdy Show and all the amazing bands at the largest nerd music festival in the world, Nerdapalooza!  We’re giving away two festival passes, it’s gonna be HUUUGE – have you seen the schedule?!

“How,” you ask, “do I score this awesome prize?”  EASY!  Just answer some trivia about our E3 vidcasts (up to vidcast 18) and send your answers to contest@nerdyshow.com along with your name.  The questions and other tidbits of information are in this audio greeting from Mike and Cap, hooray!

CONTEST ENDED – if you wanna hear the contest message fro some reason, click HERE.

Oh, okay, here’s a text version of the trivia questions, ’cause you’re the bee’s knees:

Q #1: What is an icy cold B.M.?

Q #2: What would Triforce Mike like to tap?

Q #3: What is a “cyberpunk Prince of Persia”?

Q #4: Who did Cap mistake for Mephesto on the Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 Poster?

Q #5: What game banner is shown before Mike and Cap come out of the warp pipe?

Q #6: What did Nerdy Show eat with Geoff Johns?

Q #7: What do zombie killers eat for breakfast?

E3 was two weeks ago, but our vidcast coverage continues!

By now you might know a heap of the cool stuff that was shown and announced, but not with the hands-on experience and developer interviews we can deliver – including behind-the-scenes with both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and The Old Republic, Fable 3, Goldeneye, the secrets of the Bethesda booth including Cap’s preview of Rage, a closed-door demo with High Voltage Studios, an amazing new feat of augmented reality, and MORE!  All that plus Mike, Cap, and Colin’s hi-jinx and their death-defying attempt to see Video Games Live during the last game of the NBA Finals.  The story continues… this week!

CLICK HERE for an index of our E3 adventures so far.

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Let’s face it, unless your a gothic otaku who loves emo yaoi draculas you probably haven’t given a shit about Castlevania in a long damn time.  That might change very soon. Castlevania:  Lords of Shadow is a drastically different Castlevania game.  It’s an over the shoulder cinematic adventure game à la God of War and is produced by a certain Mr. Hideo Kojima.  …Yeah, kind of a big deal.  It is cool?  Have a look:

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We love the Scott Pilgrim comics and we think we’re going to love the Scott Pilgrim movie.  If you’re not yet convinced, check out the international trailer with 1000% more awesomeness than the U.S. trailers:

Naturally, we’re super excited about this already video game-influenced comic and film being interpreted as and actual video game.  I mean, c’mon, that’s cool as hell.  But is the game as neat as we hoped?   Triforce Mike finds out:

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