Check Out Quesada's Marvel NOW! Variants

Marvel's Chief Creative Officer and superstar artist Joe Quesada is delivering the goods on some Marvel NOW! variant covers for All-New X-Men, Thor: God of Thunder, Fantastic Four, and Iron Man. Each variant has got a regular version and a sketch version, and all are pretty boss.

Check out which Marvel NOW! books we're most excited for!

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Blizzard’s Titan Has 100 Developers

Blizzard has revealed that 100 developers are now working on its next MMO project, codenamed Titan. In an interview with Curse Entertainment, Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo said “Titan’s still moving along. I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up that it’s around the corner or anything. It’s a very big project. It’s got a long ways to go. We don’t know yet when we’re going to really start releasing more information. We’re definitely dead in the middle of development at this point. I think we’re over 100 people now on the team working on it.”

When asked about rumors that Titan has been in development for six years, Pardo commented that “It depends on how you look at such things. When we first start a team, we start it really, really small. We might start with just a couple people. We talk about the concepts, we draw some concept art. It definitely has not been in core development for that long. I’d say core development is maybe closer to four-ish years, but even that was with a smaller team.”

We first heard hints of Blizzard’s next MMO back in December 2007, when Blizzard said its new MMO isn’t related to World of Warcraft. Blizzard later began hiring developers and WOW lead designer Jeff Kaplan began working on the project. Blizzard said in 2010 that the project was a long way off and the codename Titan emerged later that year.

Last year, rumors suggested Titan would be shown at BlizzCon, but were later debunked by Blizzard. The last time we heard the title referenced was during an Activision Blizzard earnings call last month when it was referred to as “an all-new MMORPG in the future” in reference to Blizzard’s release calendar.

Little is known about Titan, and it sounds like we might still have a long time to wait before concrete details are revealed. In the meantime, Blizzard released World of Warcraft’s Mists of Pandaria expansion earlier this week. For our thoughts so far, read our Mists of Pandaria review in progress.

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Commander Shepard Wins Xbox 360 Primary

In a shocking last-minute upset, Commander Shepard has pulled ahead of Halo hero Master Chief to become the Xbox 360 candidate in the 2012 Video Game Presidential Election!

After more than 1.8 million face-offs among dozens of candidates, Shepard barely pulled ahead of Chief, winning by a mere 344 votes, also edging out Garrus, Cortana and The Arbiter, among others.

Shepard won in a close race that was likely determined by anti-Chief attack ads paid for by the Mothers Who Need You to Clean Up Your Room. IGN approached Shepard for a comment, but his statement was unable to be heard from underneath the pile of rubble on top of him. Chief, meanwhile, has not been contacted as IGN has been unable to obtain his real name or a picture of his face.

Shepard joins Nathan Drake as the PlayStation candidate and Link representing Nintendo. A PC candidate is expected to be announced next week once the ongoing PC primary comes to a close, with multiplatform primaries to follow as well as vice presidential picks for all candidates.

IGN’s coverage of the election will continue, so keep an eye on our 2012 Video Game Presidential Election site for all of the action as it unfolds.

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The Last Guardian Still in Development for PS3

Work on The Last Guardian remains ongoing, with the title still scheduled to release on PS3.

That's according to Sony Worldwide Studios chief Shuhei Yoshida, who told Eurogamer today that the reason the game hasn't been seen recently is due to myriad technical issues.

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It turned out the technical issues are much harder to solve. So the engineering team had to go back and re-do some of the work they had done.

"The team is still working on it very hard, there are certain technical issues they've been working on," he explained. "That's the period of time when the game, looking from the outside, doesn't seem to be making much progress. But internally there is a lot of work going into creating the title."

Despite being officially announced in 2009, information about the highly anticipated title has been thin on the ground after it missed TGS 2011 and then was absent from E3 2012. Yoshida made similar remarks last month regarding technical problems, though his words today suggest the scale of the problems are much larger than was originally imagined, with the team having to re-do past work.

He said, "We had the game playable. At one point we felt that it would be produced for a certain time period. That was the time we prematurely talked about the launch window. But it turned out the technical issues are much harder to solve. So the engineering team had to go back and re-do some of the work they had done."

There's still no word on when we'll get our hands on the game, or even see it in action, but Yoshida reiterated that "The game is developed on PS3", so hopefully we'll see it before the next wave of consoles hit.

Just last week the trademark for The Last Guardian was apparently "abandoned", leading many to fear that the game was destined to become vaporware. Thankfully, today's comments suggest this isn't the case and we will see the title on PS3...eventually.

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EA ‘Keeping a Very Close Eye’ on Wii U

During its first quarter earnings call today, EA commented on its plans to support Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U. According to EA chief operating officer Peter Moore, the publisher is interested in the console and has plans to make announcements in the future.

“We’re keeping a very close eye on the platform,” Moore said before acknowledging the “lackluster response” Nintendo received coming out of E3. He added that EA has learned to “never underestimate Nintendo, as proven by the last generation.”

Moore noted that EA has “great franchises poised to be on that platform,” but that no announcements are ready to be made at this time. “We’ll probably announce more in the future,” he said.

During E3, EA announced that Mass Effect 3 is headed to Wii U. Since then, BioWare confirmed that the Wii U version will integrate Mass Effect 3’s extended cut endings.

The publisher is expected to make additional announcements leading up to Nintendo’s launch of Wii U later this year.

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