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PAX 2010: Creators of Microsoft's highly acclaimed sci-fi FPS series delve into what it took to create its final effort in the franchise.

We grapple, leap, and uppercut our way through this retro sequel.

GameSpot's very own Editor-in-Chief Ricardo Torres moderates this 2010 PAX panel for inFamous 2 where we get to see the various incarnations of Cole in the making.

One of the most vital ingredients to all forms of life finally gets its own game.

PAX 2010: Sucker Punch Productions talks about the changes made to its super hero action game over a tumultuous three-and-a-half-year development cycle.

We try out the final DLC chapter of Dragon Age: Origins. Warning: this story includes spoilers.

We fend off the Brad-obsessed Japanese school girls in Twisted Pixel's upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game.

Find Nirvana

Find Nirvana

Find Nirvana

GameSpot gets an epic demo of the latest game from Junction Point founder and PAX 2010 keynote speaker Warren Spector for Epic Mickey.

We talk to Gearbox president Randy Pitchford about what we've all been waiting to hear about. Duke Nukem Forever from PAX 2010!

PAX 2010: A panel of independent developers discuss the pros and cons of starting out on their own and the obstacles they face without a publisher.

An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak has shed some light on the dark practice of installing stealth-mode P2P clients during game downloads and using unsuspecting gamers' PCs as 'bandwidth slaves.' The clients operate in the background and largely go unnoticed until problems arise that are caused by overactive uploading/seeding. While the Akamai NetSession Interface and Pando Media Booster are specifically called out, there appear to be other offenders as indicated in the comments left by TorrentFreak readers. A publisher called Solid State Networks is putting out a call for an industry-wide 'best practices' effort to promote transparency, control and privacy on behalf of gamers who are otherwise being abused for their bandwidth without their consent."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The video game music community is alive and well at PAX as we checked out panels for original 8-bit tunes and game music remixes.

Read about our eyes on with a very intriguing Portal 2 cooperative mode.

Rugby League Live's poor controls and lack of gameplay modes make it more of a dropped ball than a great try.

Warren Spector gives PAX Keynote atendees an epic surprise.

GameSpot's Ricardo Torres goes on a rampage in this video interview for Eat Them! at PAX 2010.

PAX 2010: Former GameSpot editor-in-chief, Red Alert 3 producer, and 2K Games publishing producer talks about the interaction between the three game-industry factions.