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Dr. Greg Zeschuk muses that if their original Xbox RPG Jade Empire had of been held back as a launch title for the Xbox 360, its impact would have been vastly greater. Instead it released when the cycle was winding down.

The BioWare co-founder says it "would've been great to put off a bit" and polish it some more. The studio also missed a trick when Mass Effect missed its launch title window.

Sorry Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers but The Witcher 3 is exclusively next-gen hardware, and PC of course because that's "non-stop next-gen," remarked CD Projekt RED co-founder Marcin Iwinski.

Splitting it across the generations would lead to compromises that the studio won't make. It would take a "couple of years" to bring The Witcher 3 to Xbox 360 and PS3 - not worth it.

The next update to Gearbox Software's Borderlands 2 will be giving more room for us to cart round our loot, as well as more storage space and even higher ammo limits with "eridium maximums increased."

A full changelog is expected to be published "sometime this week" for everyone to stare at. The new Vault Hunter Krieg drops in May with the fourth and final story DLC in June.

Gearbox revealed the sixth playable character for Borderlands 2, which will be available in May for 800 Microsoft Points ($9.99 USD): Kreig, a Psycho who has become a "reformed" bandit - reformed only in that he's shooting with the Vault Hunters and not at them.

Deep Silver and Techland have released a new gameplay trailer for Dead Island: Riptide and in it we see John Morgan, the fifth available protagonist to choose from when battling the undead.

Riptide takes place on another island seperate from the original, which gave the studio plenty of opportunity to work in all new content without developing a full sequel.

Terrible news for Deus Ex: Human Revolution fans as while Square Enix and Eidos Montreal have announced a much improved Director's Cut, all the goodies are being kept exclusive to Nintendo Wii U.

It's revealed that boss fights have been reworked by the Montreal team so they aren't bullet-fests, although each boss still has to die because of the story. Energy recharges two cells as well now.

One of the first open world RPGs may be making a comeback this week at PAX East, as Ubisoft has teased Might & Magic X.

2K Games teased that a new Vault Hunter was coming to Borderlands 2 a few days ago. The publisher has now released a teaser trailer for that states that the debut of the new DLC will be at the PAX East panel by Gearbox on the 24th March.

Gamers have been enjoying the multiplayer portion of Mass Effect 3 for a year, and BioWare has released some of the stats accumulated in that time.

Obsidian Entertainment's Chris Avellone feels some advancements in the RPG genre are greatly better than others, as some are robbing us of the thrill we should get out of exploration and triumph.

The big offenders are the likes of journals and quest compasses planning our routes for us. These have been more for "player convenience," he says, but it waters down the RPG experience.