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Multiplayer isn't a requirement to get all 1000 points.

Mass Effect 3 is one of the most highly anticipated games of 2012, but it hasn’t been without its share of controversy or concern amongst fans. There’s the confusing ability to play the game in three different modes that range from all action to all story. There’s been the uproar over the multiplayer DLC slated to be packaged with the upcoming release of action figures, and of course there’s been the concern over the inclusion of multiplayer in general. While the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 can impact your progression in the single player game, it’s not mandatory, and the achievements for the game reflect that.

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Ed Boon can't imagine leaving the series behind, but wants to diversify.

Since the early 1990s, Ed Boon has worked on the Mortal Kombat series almost exclusively. He created the arena-based arcade shooter The Grid back in 2001, but besides that, Boon (and most of the team that now comprises NetherRealm Studios) has been all about the gory fighting franchise. With the latest Mortal Kombat game selling over 3 million copies so far, it seems like a foregone conclusion that Boon and his team would want to get cranking on another iteration right away. Or is it? In a new interview, Mr. Boon talks just a bit about the future of NetherRealm.

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A nice freebee, or insidious anti-used marketing tactics? You decide.

Online passes are a touchy subject in the realm of gaming. Initially explained as a way to defer costs of running and maintaining servers and community for online multiplayer focused games, the pass has become something else entirely. Batman: Arkham City hid away the much-publicized Catwoman missions behind an online pass, and it seems like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is going the same route. Or is it?

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Rumor has it that the virtual currency system will be abandoned by year's end.

According to a source within the company, Microsoft's virtual currency system, Microsoft Points, will be phased out by the end of 2012. This will be implemented for Windows Phone, the Zune Marketplace and, of course, Xbox Live. At the end of 2012, all transactions will be based on each region's respective currency.

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Pump up your multiplayer squad with your toys!

EA is a company that knows how to best leverage their brands, and with Mass Effect 3 on the way, we’re already seeing the cross promotion blitz. If you played the demo for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning you’ve already unlocked some gear for the conclusion of Commander Shepard’s story. You’ll grab some more swag for playing through the Mass Effect 3 demo that’s coming on February 14. But the hardest of the hardcore fans have something special to open their wallets for: new action figures complete with DLC.

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