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| 1. | Much like last year, we are sad to report that this long time video game publication released its final issue this year: | ||
| EGM | |||
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Nintendo Power | ||
| Game Informer | |||
| GamePro | |||
| 2. | Video game makers suck at counting. Which of these is a properly numbered sequel? | ||
| Halo 4 | |||
| Grand Theft Auto V | |||
| Assassin's Creed III | |||
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Mass Effect 3 | ||
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By way of explanation.....
That's the sixth Halo game, the sixth GTA release and the fifth Assassin's Creed game. |
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| 3. | If at some point this year you were Axton, Maya, Salvador or Zero, what game were you playing? | ||
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Borderlands 2 | ||
| Far Cry 3 | |||
| Assassin's Creed III | |||
| XCOM: Enemy Unknown | |||
| 4. | As you probably noticed, as this console generation continues on, there's more and more sequels. Which of these hit original IPs from 2012 has you star as Corvo Attano? | ||
| Sleeping Dogs | |||
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Dishonored | ||
| Journey | |||
| Dust: An Elysian Tale | |||
| 5. | Mists of Pandaria is the _____ expansion for the 8-year-old MMO World of Warcraft. | ||
| 3rd | |||
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4th | ||
| 5th | |||
| 6th | |||
| 6. | DLC for this release includes Dawnguard and Hearthfire: | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops II | |||
| Mass Effect 3 | |||
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Skyrim | ||
| Dragon's Dogma | |||
| 7. | This TV show has been turned into a critically acclaimed episodic point-and-click adventure game: | ||
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The Walking Dead | ||
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |||
| Lost | |||
| Mad Men | |||
| 8. | Nintendo's Wii U kicked off the new console generation. After Wii Sports sold an estimated 921 million Wiis, this is the pack-in game with the Wii U: | ||
| Wii U Sports | |||
| New Super Mario Bros. U | |||
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Nintendo Land | ||
| ZombiU | |||
| 9. | The Year in Nolan North: Which of these games did the hardest working man in video game voice acting not provide his dulcet tones? | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops II | |||
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Borderlands 2 | ||
| Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale | |||
| Assassin's Creed III | |||
| 10. | 38 Studios, founded by former baseballer Curt Schilling, released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning to mixed reviews and middling sales, then promptly folded over missed loan payments to this state: | ||
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Rhode Island | ||
| Massachusetts | |||
| New Hampshire | |||
| Vermont | |||
| 11. | Connor, the protagonist of Assassin's Creed III, is also known by this name: | ||
| Kaniehtí:io | |||
| Kanen'tó:kon | |||
| Kanatahséton | |||
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Ratonhnhaké:ton | ||
| 12. | The Angry Birds franchise significantly expanded in 2012; which of these games does not actually exist (yet)? | ||
| Angry Birds Star Wars | |||
| Bad Piggies | |||
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Angry Birds Minecraft | ||
| Angry Birds Space | |||
| 13. | Apple named this app the most likely to drain your iPhone's battery by crowning it Game of the Year: | ||
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Rayman Jungle Run | ||
| Letterpress | |||
| Draw Something | |||
| Angry Birds Star Wars | |||
| 14. | In 2012, Kickstarter changed the paradigm for how games and even consoles will be funded in the future. What was the name of the proposed open-source system that had a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign that will supposedly see release in 2013? | ||
| OYUA | |||
| OYEAH | |||
| OYAH | |||
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OUYA | ||
| 15. | These 2012 sports games have the correct cover athlete listed, except: | ||
| Madden 13: Calvin Johnson | |||
| MLB 12: The Show: Adrian Gonzalez | |||
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NBA 2K13: Kevin Love | ||
| NHL 13: Claude Giroux | |||
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