MechanicalLemon

Might as well post this here. A Dance With Dragons is done, apparently. For those that don't know, GRRM referred to ADWD on his blog as Kong, hence the picture. And here it is, confirmed by his publisher. Supposedly it's longer than A Storm of Swords. /giddy

Ha, I still have mine. I've got a bunch of old games still but the highlights are all three Mario games, all three Ninja Turtles games, Final Fantasy (that was hard to find), Battletoads, Zelda... Oh, and screw Battletoads. That game is impossible.

Achievements. Note: may contain slight spoilers. lol @ Maximum Brofist and Two Girls, One Boss

A very favorable preview from PCGamer. And here's a video showcasing in-game environments.

Dev Diary 5: Character Development & Items

IGN: Dungeon Siege 3 Reader Interview

Game of Thrones gets second season. Hell yeah!

Gamespot preview

I thought it was a clever way of establishing the lay of the land, I didn't have much trouble keeping track of the locations mentioned simply because of that, very slick. Indeed. I'm also surprised at the little details they've added. For those familiar with the books: -At :00 the metal band shows a dragon and a volcano, which depicts the Doom of Valyria -At :04 it shows the Targaryens conquering Westeros -At :44 you can see the three-headed dragon fighting off a wolf, a stag and a lion. Basically shows the Stark/Baratheon/Lannister rebellion against House Targaryen -At 1:24 can't really tell...looks like House Baratheon is crowned king?

They've updated their FAQ. It says the game supports 16:9, 16:10, and 4:3.

Anyone else completely love the The fact that it's different for each episode is pretty cool. Can't wait to see the Eyrie.

Watched the first episode. Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! So good!

Hi Dimitri, could we see some Reinhart art? Thanks!

Sorry, should I ask in the future? No worries, man. Just keep doing what you're doing. You are, after all, an Obsidian newsbot. It's your job to post any Obsidian-related news. :D But seriously, I don't mind at all.

For those that prefer Youtube, I've uploaded them to my channel here. Thanks for posting my videos on the PA forums, C2B. Edit: Kudos to the artist that did the effects for Reinhart's attacks. The teal lightning looks great. But I really love the whole black negative energy attack that he does. The look and animation reminds me of paint brush strokes. Looks very cool.

A VERY favorable preview from Destructoid. There are some minor spoilers about the beginning of the game. A few snippets: This makes me so giddy. HYPE!

May 14th? Hm....it's only about an hour's drive from where I live. On the other hand, I do have finals...Decisions, decisions. That said, I'm a big fan of Obsidian's artwork and would love the opportunity to see more of it.

Sierra/Activision That's...incredibly disappointing. Maybe no sequel is better after all. BLOODY SCREEN. SO REAL.

Currently replaying Arcanum for the 4th or 5th time as a melee technologist. Pretty fun so far. Love using grenades too. Man, I would kill for an Arcanum sequel. Anyone know who owns the IP?

Oh yeah. From this: to Covering her up was a good decision.

Anyway, three new videos. First up is this one featuring lots and lots of rolling. As someone on GAF said, is this the dev responsible for the infamous rolling video? Really good quality, by the way. Lastly, the first ten minutes of the game here. Credits to slimgrin and hangmans tree at BSN for the previous two videos. I think the devs confirmed that Shani won't be appearing in TW2, unfortunately. What a shame. Hopefully they'll tell us how that choice will be shown in-game during the conference next week.

Ahhh, beat me to it. There are some great screenshots in the article. Really gives the game a sense of scale..

So Polygamia.pl got a hands-on for the game and blogged about their experience. Google Translate The article has a bunch of screenshots (low-res, unfortunately) and I've picked out the more interesting ones (medium quality): And two short videos: and . Thoughts: -Awesome menu, awesome music. -Playing TW2 on a laptop? Sacrilege. -Really liking the skill trees. I know there's Alchemy, Magic and Swordsman. What's the fourth one? -Conversation skills! Wonder why DA2 didn't have them.

Well, that was only an issue with A Feast For Crows, right? Man, that book was a drag. The only saving grace was Jaime, Victarion and Asha, IMHO. For the first three books though, I felt that he dealt with the plot pretty well, especially with A Storm of Swords. Yeah, you can tell that Erikson's been heavily influenced by Glen Cook. Bridgeburners = Black Company. Supposedly Cook's writing two more books for The Black Company although there's no info about them other than their titles: A Pitiless Rain and A Port of Shadows.

Thought this was funny. Rainn Wilson is made for this throne. And from his Twitter @virumor: Malazan's pretty great. I'm currently reading Deadhouse Gates and apart from some minor confusions, it's a good read. I just wish Tor would finish reprinting the entire series with the new cover art.