Today, I saw a Circle Pad Pro, the peripheral that adds an extra analog nub to the 3DS, in person. It blotted out the sun and created a gravity well which engulfed all energy and matter. I looked deeply into it, and it looked even deeper into me. I know now, after looking at the Circle Pad Pro, what a small, insignificant little speck I am. What I’m getting at is that thing is a bit bulky.

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38 Studios founder and baseball World Series MVP Curt Schilling defends Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning’s online pass in the game’s official forum. Review versions of the anticipated fantasy title from the first-time developer recently reached a few critics. Those journalists discovered that some content on the disc would be hidden behind an online-pass code that will be included with new copies of Reckoning. Many gamers logged into the forum to complain about the choice to partition finished content on the disc. A frustrated Schilling hopped into the conversation to say that, “Day one [downloadable content], to be extremely and vividly clear, is free.” The former Boston Red Sox pitcher then explained that the team decided to implement this tactic as a reward for early adopters and not as a punishment for people who buy the game used. “Companies are still trying to figure out how to receive dollars spent on [the] games they make when they are bought,” wrote Schilling. “Is that wrong? If so, please tell me how.” [GamePolitics]

A rare-game collector promises to upload two different playable versions of the canceled Game Boy Color Resident Evil title if he receives $2,000 from interested fans. In the year 2000, Capcom scrapped plans to release this remake of the original PlayStation game. The likely reason for the cancellation is probably the same one you have in your head at the premise: How the hell do you remake Resident Evil for the lowly GBC? Well, we can finally see what the game looks and plays like if the fundraiser reaches its goal. As of this post, curious RE fans have contributed $1,598 for the chance to see exactly what kind of grainy, grimy mess this title ended up as. Typically it isn't legal, or even morally accepted in the pirating community, for a person to profit from an owned intellectual property in this fashion. Publicly, Capcom hasn't made any effort to condemn or endorse the fundraiser. As for anyone who plans to download the game to play on an emulator, that's a legal grey area, but I find it hard to imagine that the publisher would waste its money pursuing legal action against overly enthusiastic RE fanatics. Just don't tell the judge, "Jeff from Bitmob said it was all good, man," because I didn't say that. You can head to the Assembler Games forums if you wish to read the details about the two builds. [Destructoid]

The anti-gay group Family Research Council has taken umbrage with BioWare for its plan to include homosexual relationships in Star Wars: The Old Republic. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the FRC has a problem with equal treatment of the gay community. It’s this type of action that has earned the organization its designation as a “hate group” from the Southern Poverty Law Center. In a radio broadcast, FRC President Tony Perkins said, “In a new Star Wars game, the biggest threat to the empire may be homosexual activists!” Perkins went on to say that, due to complaints, BioWare would be adding a same-sex component to the romance gameplay in the massively multiplayer game. The Baptist Perkins then claimed parents were upset that their children would be exposed to this “Star Warped” way of thinking. Personally, I think Perkins is just doing this to get some Dark Side points in life's morality system in the hopes that he'll learn Force Lightning. [GamePolitics]

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