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A bunch of the RPS posse are hitting up GDC, so the remaining blog squad coaxed me into the Forbidden Chatroom Of Mystery 2.0 as cover. They did so by tying my favourite piece of string to a string and dragging it along the floor, trapping me at the CMS and threatening to give me a paper cut. I am making the most of it by watching the latest Limit Theory dev update, and being gently lulled by Josh Parnell’s relaxing manner. Nothing in the world is bad when I can watch an open-world space game come together in blindingly pretty monthly lumps. It’s a good one as well, because it’s probably the first time we get to see what the game will be like to play.

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Beyond the pomp and circumstance, I always felt that theocrats were essentially bureaucrats with bigger hats. And I guess the hats are part of either the pomp or the circumstance anyhow – a Stovepipe of Circumstance +4 or a Zucchetto of Pomp +2. Nineteen minutes of Age of Wonders III footage introduces another kind of theocrat, one with honest-to-badness divine powers and inquisitorial tendencies. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the revived strategy game but spent my time in the soft-soled boots of a rogue rather than the hard-souled vestments of a theocrat. The video is in the form of a developer-led let’s play, showing a late-game battle involving an Eldritch Horror.

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Part way through this trailer for Orbit, a side-scrolling platformer about exploring a space ship, I noticed the particularly fine pitter-patter sound effect of the main character’s feet. The whole game sounds lovely; low drones and cavernous rooms and squeaky machinery and laser fields. “I wonder if it’s made by a sound designer,” I thought.

It is. I’m proud enough of myself for deduction that you should reward me by watching a video of it, embedded below.

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Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Nintendo has trademarked QOL in Japan. #Chrsitmasiscoming

— StreetsAhead (@Sab_Mas) March 18, 2014

@KingBroly They covered everything from portable gaming devices, stand alone gaming devices, to clothes, to merchandise, and beauty products

— StreetsAhead (@Sab_Mas) March 18, 2014

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Need for Speed movie makes $63.4 million during opening weekend. http://t.co/YEz9LCcp5b pic.twitter.com/dmnTJuh2s0

— GameSpot (@gamespot) March 18, 2014

Packing up and getting ready to go to GDC! The programmer / game designer will be there to show off Armillo's tech in the Unity Editor.

— Fuzzy Wuzzy Games (@FuzzyWuzzyGames) March 18, 2014