PAX 2011: Borderlands 2 Is Bigger, Better, and
Bad-ass-ier

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Borderlands 2 is no herp-derp sequel; there's a lot more going on in Pandora this time around.

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PAX 2011: The Secret World Has Pregnant Zombies

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Not only does The Secret World feature an epic story, class and level-free character development, and big production values, it also has zombie-philiac monsters.

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PAX 2011: The Secret World

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Video: Halfbrick's latest Jetpack Joyride in
action

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Video: Halfbrick's latest Jetpack Joyride in action screenshot

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The last time I saw Halbrick's Jetpack Joyride it was called Machine Gun Jetpack. That was back in March, when the Australian developer had brought out an early version of the iOS game to show us at GDC.

Months later, the final game -- which hits the App Store on September 1 -- isn't a wholly different experience (it's still a "runner" game), but the months of polish sure do show through. While my full review won't be up until next week, here's a quick video look at the game in action to get you prepped for its release.

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Score big at PAX for sweet SSX snowboard USB
stick

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Score big at PAX for sweet SSX snowboard USB stick screenshot

If you're at PAX Prime this weekend and you've got reservations about the new SSX, let Electronic Arts ease your mind. A portion of the game's vast mountain ranges is playable at the event in Seattle this week. Do well enough, and you might even score some sweet schwag.

Only one drop from the game's nine mountains is playable on the PAX show floor, a steep course found on the Himalayan Makalu mountain peak. It's a trick run, and Electronic Arts is offering up a sweet snowboard-shaped SSX USB stick to anyone who can break 100,000 points. I walked away from my demo with fewer than 60,000, so no USB stick for me. But I did walk away with these pictures, a grim reminder of what could have been... if I wasn't so bad.

If you're at PAX this weekend, try your hand at the demo and see if you can score yourself some sweet schwag. Let me know what you think of the demo, too; I think it feels solid, and as an SSX fan I'm more than ready for the game's release early next year.

Check out our recent interview from gamescom for more on SSX.

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Rock of Ages' two-player split screen... rocks

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Rock of Ages' two-player split screen... rocks screenshot

Surely you've heard about Rock of Ages, the upcoming boulder roller coming to Xbox Live Arcade from Atlus at the end of this month. I had a really great time playing with Wesley today in the game's two-player split screen mode.

We first did a bit of warming up with the game's Skeeball mode. This mode is simply both players rolling down a hill, screen split, trying to mow over targets. In the end you'll actually try to roll into holes on a ramp, all with assigned point values, just like the skeeball you'd find at an arcade. It sounds a bit plain, but it's good fun.

The War mode mixes tower defense with rolling...combat? There's two phases. In the first you'll spend points to lay down obstacles to protect the path that leads to the gates of your tower's door. What you're trying to do is block your opponent's boulder with like elephants and buildings and explosives, with the boulder breaking a bit from each instance of contact. The other phase is where you control your boulder, steering to the best of your ability to avoid obstacles and bash in the door of your opponent's castle at the bottom of the path. Get inside, mow down the guy inside, and you've won.

These modes alone are worth the 800 Microsoft Point asking price. I think this would make for an excellent late evening game with a friend after you've had a few drinks. Slow your roll and check Rock of Ages when it comes out on August 31.

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Pictures of the crazy PAX show floor

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Pictures of the crazy PAX show floor screenshot

The show floor at PAX is absolutely nuts, just like it always is. It's crowded, flashy, fun and sometimes kind of smelly. Still, we're having a great time here.

Luckily they gave us media members time to run around the floor before the floodgates opened, and that's when we shot these pictures. In one of them you can actually see the line to get in from this morning.

You'll see lots of the booth spectacle in this gallery. You'll also see Nick being Nick in a few. Don't miss the new Crazy Taxi either.

There's more from us coming soon from PAX. Stay tuned.

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Gotham City Impostors 'Fumigation' mode revealed
at PAX

Gotham City Impostors 'Fumigation' mode revealed at PAX screenshot

I'd already gotten my hands on the standard team deathmatch mode for Monolith's Gotham City Impostors earlier this year. It's Bat on Joker action, with Dark Knight and Clown Prince knock-offs trying to take each other out with an assortment of standard guns and wacky gadgets.

At PAX this year, Monolith has revealed a brand new mode, "Fumigation." Basically your standard control point or domination game type, Fumigation has players fighting over three "Gas Blasters." Controlling a point will cause it leak out your own team's gas, the ultimate goal complete saturation; the first team to 100% saturation wins.

In my hands on I joined up with the Jokers; the model dressed up as a Joker told me to do it, and I felt threatened into it. We battled on the "Crime Alley" map, the infamous Gotham City location perhaps most famous for being scene of Bruce Wayne's parents' death. In the light of day, the gritty locale wasn't as foreboding as you'd expect… the trampolines (which any player could use to bounce to reach greater heights) didn't help matters.

It was a close, tense match from start to finish, with the Bats putting up a good fight against our white-faced jesters. While we took a wide lead as the Jokers for the duration, we couldn't quite reach 100% saturation before the time ran out, throwing us into a three minute sudden death. It was then that the Bats stepped up their game, reclaiming a large percentage of the map's gasses. We held strong, running down the clock, winding up ultimately with a draw.

While its core and modes may be similar to other shooters (controlling nodes and points seems as old as time itself at this stage), Gotham City Impostors has a decidedly crazier slant. With zip lines and throwing axes as special skills… and trampolines for god's sake! The game won't be out in time to pull your attention away from the big holiday shooters (it's out next year), but Monolith seems on the right track towards offering up a wild, fun multiplayer alternative.

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First moments of The Old Republic's Eternity
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First moments of The Old Republic's Eternity Vault quest screenshot

Were you not able to make it to PAX this year and it's killing you because you absolutely needed to see some more Star Wars: The Old Republic? No need to worry your little hearts over it, because BioWare was thinking of you guys too. Everyone who was able to make the trip to PAX has an opportunity to see the entire live playthrough of a high-level operation called Eternity Vault. But BioWare knows that not every single one of their fans can make it, so they prepared a special developer walkthrough of the first opening moments of the quest.

Now, when I say first opening moments that's putting it very minimally. You get a whole segment where the group is getting the quest, escaping from the ship, landing on a planet in a space pod, watch lots of baddies get annihilated and then see some serious teamwork in order to destroy a giant droid. Through this whole ordeal BioWare's Dallas Dickinson explains the finer details to us. And to think there is a whole lot more to this operation!

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The Fall Trilogy Chapter 3: Revelation

The Fall Trilogy Chapter 3: Revelation is third sequel of addicting and challenging The Fall Trilogy point and click adventure type hidden object games series from Download Games 24. After a new fall, you wake up in a Victorian house. A letter briefs you for a new mission in the The Fall Trilogy 3: Revelation! The lady of the house urges you to take care of her husband and pleads for your help.

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