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Can I be excused? My brain is full.

The big kickoff to every QuakeCon is a keynote featuring id co-founder and all-around genius John Carmack. This year was no different, featuring Carmack’s musings on topics ranging all across the spectrum of programming and game development. Carmack got started after a few bits of news from id’s Creative Director Tim Willits and Bethesda’s VP of Marketing Pete Hines.

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This exciting shooter might not be for everyone, but it's still pretty fun and has a big heart.

The PSP localization gods are fickle beings.  Sure, they bless us which such cool games as Gungnir, Class of Heroes, and God-Eater Burst.  But at the same time they deny us such pleasures as Final Fantasy Type-0.  It seems no mortal can understand these deities’ mysterious ways.

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Get all of your QuakeCon news and previews here!

It’s that freakishly hot time of year in North Texas when there is little else to do but hunker down in a dark, air conditioned room and play video games with a few thousand of your closest friends. Luckily, QuakeCon starts tomorrow at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas and it should satisfy your needs to play some competitive games and try out some upcoming releases from Bethesda and others.  I’ll be right there with the sweaty masses as they queue up to get in to the infamous Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC) room and I’ll try to give you a feel for everything else happening if you can’t make it to the event yourself.

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Such a bizarre blending of existing game inspirations that it HAS to work.

Megabyte Punch – an up and coming self-described “Super Smash Bros. meets Mega Man meets Custom Robo” trifecta, is looking to be an absolute killer. The first thing I took notice of is the absolutely gorgeous art style. Megabyte Punch uses the Unity3D engine, and while it has been known for a while now that it’s a pretty powerful engine, I haven’t seen anything as impressive as what the team at Reptile Games have done with it. A unique spin on a classic visual style, an old school soundtrack made for the modern day, and a smart control scheme make Megabyte Punch worthy of your attention. The worlds look like someone took the stages from Knuckles’ Chaotix, extruded them into the third dimension, and dumped a comically sized vat of beauty on it. They’re a rigid, robotic cousin of the worlds of Sonic, and that’s not a bad thing at all - the levels all have multiple paths to the end, with different enemies, obstacles, and more along the way.

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