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Another Dungeon Siege 3 trailer, another character unveiled. In this case, it's the archon known as Anjali. Turning into flame spirits, casting fire magic to wreck foes, and smacking unruly skeletons with a magical staff seem to be her fortes. As always, lots of beautiful in-game footage of the character in action, but little in the way of actually showing how they play. For example, is the transformation like switching stances, or is it a spell learned later on?

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Magicians are usually, within canon, the strongest of any character. After all, channeling the powers of the elements is a bit god-like. This trailer for Dungeon Siege 3 unveils the mage character, Reinhart, and he seems suitably powerful. Teleportation, blasting enemies with entropy, and creating natural elements seem to be his particular fortes. Much like the previous character trailers, this one gives a good look at the character from outside the player's perspective. Don't expect to see much more than some slick monster murder.

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Guns are not something you normally see in a fantasy game, but Dungeon Siege 3 has them. Specifically, the character Katarina has them, and she's not afraid to blast her way through hordes of foes. This particular trailer gives a glimpse into her different roles, with the overall feeling being that of a ranger with companion pet. It's a character unveiling, so don't expect much except for some pretty stunning artwork and cool set pieces.

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Dungeon Siege 3 will have support for up to four players in co-op mode when the fantasy action-RPG is released on May 31. However there's been some chat online about how the game handles co-op experience points for players. Recently there's been talk that if you join in one of Dungeon Siege 3's co-op games online, your character won't be able to get XP from that game match.

As it turns out it's not as cut and dried as the initial reports stated. Destructoid has word from the game's associate producer Nathan Davis of developer Obsidian Entertainment that there is in fact persistant XP for your character. The way the game will handle it is that you will have a separate character for Dungeon Siege 3's single player and create a new character for any multiplayer games you want to participate in. Davis says, "Co-op players can absolutely expect to have the loot and experience they gain in multiplayer games to be saved to their multiplayer characters." There will also be unique multiplayer rewards as well. We will have to see if players will go for having separate character for their single and co-op game experiences.

No one likes to hear about an accident that hurts people, not even on a movie set that's being directed by Uwe Boll. However that's what happened on the set of Boll's latest film, In the Name of The King 2, a sequel to the film that's loosely based on the Dungeon Siege game franchise.

Entertainment Weekly reports that a leaking propane container caused an explosion Tuesday on the set 45 minutes outside of Vancouver. The explosion injured six workers with minor burns and one broken leg as a result. The reports states that there will be no criminal investigation of the accident.

In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale hit theaters with a massive thud back in January 2008. The film, based extremely loosely on Gas Powered Games' action-RPG series, only made $10 million worldwide in theaters compared to its budget of about $40 million. Oh, and it was directed by Uwe Boll.

So with all of that, there should be no risk of Boll making a sequel, right? Wrong. Apparently In The Name Of The King 2 (ditching the Dungeon Siege title completely) will start filming with Boll again in the director's chair in 2011. Bloginity reports that Dolph Lundgren has the "honor" of playing the lead; a modern day man who gets somehow sucked back into time but is placed 50 years after the events of the first film. Except that he finds out he was actually the son of the character Jason Statham played in the first movie and then sent forward in time to escape some evil and .... oh, we already have a headache thinking about it.

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This Dungeon Siege III trailer is interesting. On one hand, it's delightfully minimalistic, showing off only gameplay and keeping all potential chatter to a minimum. On the other hand, the slow-down bits are extremely choppy and concerning, only two classes are shown, and the art design is rather generic. Despite this, it looks like loads of fun and full of that good ol' monster hacking we know and love. It's just a shame that the original developer, Gas Powered Games, couldn't return for the third game in this beloved franchise.

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You are seeing a lot less of the "PC gaming is dead" pronouncements lately from the so-called pundits. In fact a case is being made that games on the PC platform are experiencing a boom. That's the view of Gas Powered Games' head man Chris Taylor. In a chat with Eurogamer, he predicts that the upcoming PC release of the action-RPG sequel Dungeon Siege III will sell as well as the console ports.

Taylor says the popularity of Valve's Steam PC game download service is part of the reason behind his optimism, stating, "I would say put down even money that we'll see the PC version competing against the console version when it comes out next year." Further down the road, Taylor says we will see more high end browser-based games coming in the next decade, saying, "It's a matter of time before you're playing a game of the quality of a triple-A game that we know and love, like a Supreme Commander 2 or a StarCraft II, in a browser experience."

Fans of the Dungeon Siege series of fantasy action-RPG titles just got a big wallop of a surprise this morning. Today VG247.com is reporting that Square Enix will be publishing Dungeon Siege III, the next full game in the series.

However the main developer behind the game won't be the title's originator Gas Powered Games but Obsidian Entertainment, makers of the just released Alpha Protocol and the upcoming Fallout New Vegas. The press release does say that Gas Powered and its founded Chris Taylor will be involved in a supervisory role in Dungeon Siege III. Look for support for four player co-op in the game as well. There's no word on a release date.

Update: We now have the first screenshots of the game

With Supreme Commander 2 due for release in less than a month, developer Gas Powered Games is apparetly wasting no time in letting folks know about their next project. VG247.com has revealed that Gas Powered's head man Chris Taylor used his personal Facebook page to declare, "Another busy day, can't wait to announce our next big thing on the 15th... I hate keeping secrets."

So let the speculation begin? Could we see a new game in the Dungeon Siege series? Perhaps we will hear about Demigod 2? Maybe something totally new. It's not likely to be a sequel to Space Siege which is considered to be the developer's one failure of a game, at least in terms of sales.