BioShock Infinite is taking everything we loved about the original BioShock, putting it on a flying city, keeping the psuedo-supernatural and political elements and exploring the breadth of the universe even further. Irrational Games has published a set of videos of what they’ve deemed the Heavy Hitters.

The Heavy Hitters are unique baddies that exist to augment the way to play the game, more specifically the way you approach firefights. The videos below show the first four of these Heavy Hitters and the team at Irrational talks about how each of them ultimately came to be.

The Motorized Patriot

The Handyman

The Boys of Silence

The Siren

Source – Irrational Games YouTube Channel

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When two Gods wait on the windowsill,
The wick of the world is burning, still;
But when one God in Triumph shouts
The candle of the world goes out.

- The Quartet For The Dusk Of Man,
Tycho Ephemerous Brahe

Penny Arcade‘s On The Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness follows Tycho Ephemerous Brahe, a book-wielding, shotgun-firing, smarty-pants and Jonathan Gabriel, a fist-wielding…well, he punches a lot of stuff (that’s mostly his only job). As the two-man team that is The Startling Developments Detective Agency, they work to save the world of New Arcadia from all manner of mysterious threats.

After some…”turbulence” we’ll say, Penny Arcade and the development studio for the first two games, HotHead Games, stopped production of Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness after episode 2. I seem to remember there being a planned 6 or 7 episodes and the world felt great sadness after PA announced the series would stop after Episode 2.

Episodes 1 and 2 were great fun set in a unique universe, and instead of abandoning such an interesting world prematurely, Jerry decided to continue the story in prose form, publishing chapters of Episode 3 as not to leave us hanging. I was sure it would continue in this way, and though it was upsetting not to play it out myself, I could still follow my favorite characters to the end of their story.

Then, on or around April 1st, the website RainSlickGame.com debuted. The screenshots were in a style unlike the past games and immediately the old-school looking Rain Slick 3 seemed like a cruel and elaborate April Fool’s joke. After a bit of digging (and really after seeing how intricate and fleshed out the site was), it was immediately clear that this was for real.

Set to debut during the Summer of this year, Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 3 will be released on the Xbox Live Indie Game Channel, Steam, Mac, iOS & Android. Episode 4 will be the last installment of the series and the current release date is sometime in 2013.

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Click here to check out the whole, full-sized gallery.

Source – Reddit

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Dr. Ray Muzyka, the co-founder of BioWare, released a statement explaining Bioware’s stance on the ending of Mass Effect 3. You can read the whole thing just below but the gist is that while they feel the game’s ending was handled well and critics loved it, they’re still going to do their best to bring more closure to the fans.

As co-founder and GM of BioWare, I’m very proud of the ME3 team; I personally believe Mass Effect 3 is the best work we’ve yet created. So, it’s incredibly painful to receive feedback from our core fans that the game’s endings were not up to their expectations. Our first instinct is to defend our work and point to the high ratings offered by critics – but out of respect to our fans, we need to accept the criticism and feedback with humility.

I believe passionately that games are an art form, and that the power of our medium flows from our audience, who are deeply involved in how the story unfolds, and who have the uncontested right to provide constructive criticism. At the same time, I also believe in and support the artistic choices made by the development team. The team and I have been thinking hard about how to best address the comments on ME3’s endings from players, while still maintaining the artistic integrity of the game.

Mass Effect 3 concludes a trilogy with so much player control and ownership of the story that it was hard for us to predict the range of emotions players would feel when they finished playing through it. The journey you undertake in Mass Effect provokes an intense range of highly personal emotions in the player; even so, the passionate reaction of some of our most loyal players to the current endings in Mass Effect 3 is something that has genuinely surprised us. This is an issue we care about deeply, and we will respond to it in a fair and timely way. We’re already working hard to do that.

To that end, since the game launched, the team has been poring over everything they can find about reactions to the game – industry press, forums, Facebook, and Twitter, just to name a few. The Mass Effect team, like other teams across the BioWare Label within EA, consists of passionate people who work hard for the love of creating experiences that excite and delight our fans. I’m honored to work with them because they have the courage and strength to respond to constructive feedback.

Building on their research, Exec Producer Casey Hudson and the team are hard at work on a number of game content initiatives that will help answer the questions, providing more clarity for those seeking further closure to their journey. You’ll hear more on this in April. We’re working hard to maintain the right balance between the artistic integrity of the original story while addressing the fan feedback we’ve received. This is in addition to our existing plan to continue providing new Mass Effect content and new full games, so rest assured that your journey in the Mass Effect universe can, and will, continue.

The reaction to the release of Mass Effect 3 has been unprecedented. On one hand, some of our loyal fans are passionately expressing their displeasure about how their game concluded; we care about this feedback, and we’re planning to directly address it. However, most folks appear to agree that the game as a whole is exceptional, with more than 75 critics giving it a perfect review score and a review average in the mid-90s. Net, I’m proud of the team, but we can and must always strive to do better.

Some of the criticism that has been delivered in the heat of passion by our most ardent fans, even if founded on valid principles, such as seeking more clarity to questions or looking for more closure, for example – has unfortunately become destructive rather than constructive. We listen and will respond to constructive criticism, but much as we will not tolerate individual attacks on our team members, we will not support or respond to destructive commentary.

If you are a Mass Effect fan and have input for the team – we respect your opinion and want to hear it. We’re committed to address your constructive feedback as best we can. In return, I’d ask that you help us do that by supporting what I truly believe is the best game BioWare has yet crafted. I urge you to do your own research: play the game, finish it and tell us what you think. Tell your friends if you feel it’s a good game as a whole. Trust that we are doing our damndest, as always, to address your feedback. As artists, we care about our fans deeply and we appreciate your support.

Thank you for your feedback – we are listening.

Ray

If you’re interested in what EA has to say about the whole thing, look at Scott Ramsoomair’s his rendition of what EA thinks of customer complaints, specifically those that start with “I bought your game and…”

Sources – Penny Arcade, Bioware Blog, VG Cats

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This is awesome in and of itself and if we’re lucky, it’s just one step on the road to bringing their Game Jam Sizzle Reel to the game proper. The game already has near-unlimited replayability, if they added even half the things featured in the Game Jam (things like Goblins, seasonal foliage and snow footprints to name a few) the game would more than double in replayable value.

Source – BethBlog

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When World of Warcraft came out, I had the luxury of trying out a friend’s copy before taking the $60 plunge myself (not counting the $15 subscription). This was in 2004, before free-to-play was a mainstream thing, before “trial” accounts, back when you could pay a month’s subscription fee to try out Final Fantasy XII. Luckily for Blizzard, I was hooked on World of Warcraft after playing just a few hours and later purchased my own subscription, but had I not tried it first, I likely wouldn’t have subscribed at all.

This weekend, Bioware is letting you “borrow” Star Wars: The Old Republic to see if you can justify the cost of a galactic epic to call your own. Even for a game as lauded as The Old Republic, I’m having a hard time making the initial investment. Give me a demo and you’ve broken and saddled me and my credit card.

The “free to play” weekend started Thursday, March 15 at 12:01AM CT and will continue through Monday, March 19 at 2:00AM CT. It takes some time to download, but it’s a small price to pay to start your very own Star Wars epic.

Source – Star Wars: The Old Republic Website

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Share this scientific discovery with the world for only $17.99 at the Penny Arcade Store!

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This particular episode of HAWP, the one concerning Uncharted 2, caught my eye. People have made connections between Nathan Drake and Nathan Fillion before but this video highlights them down to a bullet wound. Ash’s reaction to these particular revelations matches my own quite well.

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All of his work is done by hand with no casting or mass production. He cuts and forms the pieces of the armor out of foam allowing for a durable yet wearably light finished product. A full set of Commander Shepard Armor (with the M8 Avenger Rifle) is $1250 for the male version and $1350 for the female version. Ogle the finished products below, but be sure to click over to his blog for more progress shots than aspiring costumers could ever ask for.

Click over to the Facebook gallery to see more pictures of the armor in action. If you’re interested in some of his other projects, click over to his blog, Bioweapons.

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