Monday, February 4, 2013

News::The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is official

The Witcher 3 is indeed the game CD Projekt RED has previously teased for a February 5 reveal.



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News::LEGO City Undercover assembles a new trailer

LEGO City Undercover assembles a new trailer screenshot





The new trailer for LEGO City Undercover is out, and it's a bit like the one released last year; showing off some story elements and some gameplay. The narrative deals with the conflict between legendary LEGO cop Chase McCain and his criminal nemesis, Rex Fury.


In typical LEGO fashion, the game is goofy as all hell, and looks really fun, provided you're willing to buy into the idea of walking, talking toys.


As if right now, this GTA style game is a Wii U exclusive.






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News::Gatecrash 'Rally and Rout' event deck decklist and review

Examiner's David Leavitt writes: ""Rally and Rout" is one of two new event decks from Wizards of the Coast's latest "Magic: The Gathering" set "Gatecrash" ("Thrash and Thrive" is the other)."



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News::Gatecrash 'Thrash and Thrive' event deck decklist and review

Examiner's David Leavitt writes: ""Thrash and Thrive" is one of two new event decks from Wizards of the Coast's latest "Magic: The Gathering" set "Gatecrash" ("Rally and Rout" is the other)."



via N4G: pc news feed http://n4g.com/news/1167023/gatecrash-thrash-and-thrive-event-deck-decklist-and-review

News::'Heileen 3: Sea Maidens' Latest Addon For The Popular Heileen Series Now Available

"Over the past couple of years we have seen a stark increase in the number of Japanese dating sims making it to the Western market. Its been an interesting melding of cultures and for the most part they have proven rather popular. Winter Wolves have been developing their Heileen dating sim series for quite some time now and have managed to create a rather successful franchise out of it. Heileen 3 was the studios last release within the series and has only just seen a new expansion that drastically increases the size of the game." - Alex Wilkinson



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News::New Images for Wildman

Following up their interview with Chris Taylor, Skewed and Reviewed have posted a selection of images from the pending game Wildman.



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News::TERA Starting F2P Without a Cash Shop

TERA Rising goes Free-to-Play tomorrow, but today we learned that the Valkyon Outfitters, TERA's in game cash shop, won't be ready at this time. What does this mean for the financial stability of this MMO? Is TERA making a grave mistake?



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News::'Croixleur' Review - Vermillion Vortex Of Death! | The Indie Game Magazine

"The flash of steel, the weight of a well-balanced (and enormously over-sized) sword in your hand, the bloodthirsty war-cries of your enemies cut short as their life-threads snap with the slice of a blade ah, the beauty of the battlefield. Croixleur, a new PC hack-and-slash action game developed by Japanese developer souvenir circ. and localized in English by Nyu Media, reminds gamers that battle doesnt have to be blood-and-gutsy to be darn good fun." - Kim Berkley



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News::MP1st | Crysis 3 Multiplayer Beta Impressions

MP1st - "The Crysis 3 multiplayer beta is live and is here to stay until the 12th of February, one week before Crysis 3 officially launches on the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 19. What do we think of it so far?"



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News::Interview with Nathan Fouts of Mommys Best Games (The Married Gamers)

The Married Gamers writer, Addam Kearney, has a chance to interview Mommy's Best Games, Nathan Fouts.



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News::New MLG Pro Circuit Layout Revealed

The 10th Annual MLG Pro Circuit will deliver an unprecedented event experience with a completely redesigned layout and both VIP and General Admission ticket options. Spectator passes for the Winter Championship will be available Tuesday, February 5 at 5pm ET online.



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News::Free to Play Unlimited : Ep. 27: Neverwinter, War Thunder, RaiderZ, KingsRoad, Transformers Universe

Free To Play Unlimited with Oxana is the exclusive FreeMMOStation.com webshow about free MMORPG and F2P games. The team will bring you exciting news, quizzes, the most anticipated games and more. In this episode Neverwinter reveals its beta dates and founders packs, War Thunder flies into open beta, RaiderZ gets its first expansion (Broken Silence) and Wizardry Online is finally released. The First Look is dedicated to the impressive KingsRoad, a f2p browser-based game for fans of loot and Diablo. In Face Off, two free online shooters go head-to-head: Absolute Force Online and District 187: Sin Streets. The Most Wanted game of the week is Transformers Universe, from the makers of RuneScape.



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News::Oculus Rift: Virtual Reality worth the excitement | Bag of Games

If you're old enough to remember the early 90s when the term "Virtual Reality" entered the public consciousness then you'll recall that our perception of the future was that powerful, affordable VR technology was right around the corner. Instead, technology moved toward enhancing graphical fidelity, adding more triangles to our polygons, increasing frame rates and eventually settled on charging us for horse armor and map packs, prohibitive DRM and requiring a constant internet connection to play single player mode. Headset displays have existed on the fringes of video game culture for quite some time but they have always been too expensive or simply not technologically sufficient to garner more than a passing nod of interest. Enter the Oculus Rift, a surprising leap forward on the technological front which eschews the "distant screen display" or previous VR goggle headsets and instead provides a 110 degrees of visibility with built in low latency head tracking.



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News::Boycott Dead Space 3?

EA has decided to include Micro Transactions in Dead Space 3 to bypass earning it with skill. 8bitbot is wholly against this. Check our video to see why.



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News::Sim-plicity: I am a naked Hugh Hefner

PC Gamer - Quick history lesson for you youngsters reading this: Hugh Hefner is a wealthy publisher who made his fortune founding a mens magazine called Playboy that featured pictures of nude women. For even younger youngsters: magazines were these things made of paper that people bought when they wanted to look at pictures of nude women before the Internet was invented and filled with pictures of nude women. And, for those of you so young you havent been born yet, the Internet was a thing we used for looking at pictures of nude women before the images were holo-beamed straight into our cranial implants from the pornography satellite orbiting Jupiter.



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News::Rumour:The Witcher 3 to be featured on cover of March Game Informer

Translation; CD Projekt RED representive;It's gonna be "of a different character than all our other announcements so far, and at the same time typical for the biggest hits in the game industry. The message will be directed at the biggest international gaming market - American gamers - so you can expect solid information on February 5th in the evening(polish time)" Game Informer cover reveal is tommorow, February 5th.



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News::New screenshots have surfaced for the Deadpool game

New screenshots have surfaced for the Deadpool game screenshot


A bunch of new screenshots have been revealed for the upcoming Deadpool game by High Moon Studios, and man do they look interesting.


First off, we have full confirmation of the existence of Cable, which totally speaks to the X-Men fanboy in me who thought he was pretty much the coolest thing ever for many years. (A time-traveling cyborg? How can you go wrong?)


Other, less obvious shots involve Deadpool having a little fun in a kid's ride, slicing and shooting up some dudes, and fighting an enemy that looks suspiciously like Mr. Sinister. There's also some concept art, involving an arena with a broken Sentinel head, and some pretty badass cityscapes.


I'm interested in seeing how this one turns out. I love the Deadpool IP, but it's really easy to overdo it -- plus, High Moon really needs to nail the action mechanics on a technical level to keep me interested. We shall see!


Deadpool screenshots [All Games Beta]


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News::Still flying: Why I play EVE Online

Josh Derocher from Destructoid takes a look at the world of EVE Online and tells us what makes this world so compelling, and why he keeps playing. This crazy sandbox is filled with tales of pirates, thieves, griefing, and war. It has an insanely steep learning curve and it can sometimes take years to get a character that can pilot the high-level ships. The tutorials are lacking a lot of detail, and the developer's response is essentially "Here's a Rubik's Cube, now go f**k yourself."



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News::Witcher 3 confirmed, is next-gen, featured in Game Informer

CD Projekt RED has, for awhile now, been expected to announce The Witcher 3. An official announcement should be arriving tomorrow, but Game Informer has already confirmed the news.



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News::A Plastic Gun and a Plastic Visor: Creating the Half-Life 2 Virtual Reality Mod

Nathan Andrews believes in virtual reality and the Oculus Rift, and he's already adapted Half-Life 2 in its entirety.



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News::The Witcher 3 revealed complete with bearded Geralt

The Witcher 3 revealed complete with bearded Geralt screenshot


The new issue of Game Informer has apparently gone out to digital subscribers, and on its cover is a brand new game: The Witcher 3. The folks at NeoGAF have uploaded the cover art in full as well as the first details on this seemingly next-gen, open-world title.


After the teaser message hidden in the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer was found, the inevitability of this new installment seemed all the more inevitable. So while this is the kind of news we might nod to approvingly, I'm more interested to see what it actually looks like. Especially after hearing about CD Projekt Red's REDEngine 3 created for "vast open-worlds with improved tools spanning truly nonlinear stories that are based on real player choices and consequences."


The Witcher 3 Announced: Game Informer March 2013 Feature [NeoGAF]






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News::The Free Webgame Round-Up

PC Gamer - Today is a good day for hiding, escaping, approaching and, er, shooting coloured blocks to make them disappear. Youll find all that and slightly more in the following webgames, a couple of which are brought to you by the letters G, G and J, which collectively stand for Global Game Jam. Read on for horror, HORROR, and maybe even some HORROR, plus a game that is basically Tetris With Guns.



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News::Black Ops 2: Getting Prestige Without Killing - the Ultimate Prestige Challenge

GR - "Want the ultimate challenge in Black Ops 2? Why not try gunning for a Prestige without killing anyone?! Yes, it's possible!"



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News::Exclusive: Notch no longer funding Psychonauts 2

After a year of hope and speculation, GamesBeat has learned that Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson will no longer personally finance a sequel to Double Fine's much-loved action/platformer, Psychonauts.



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News::Teleglitch Review at CalmDownTom

Difficult. Original. Compulsive. Ugly. All of these are words you could use to describe Teleglitch.



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News::Dont Starve Preview Learn, Adapt, or Die | JTM Games

"Klei Entertainments Dont Starve is an unapologetic game that revels in its old-school sensibilities. It doesnt hold your hand with tutorials and how-tos; it instead drops you in a randomly generated map and leaves you to figure out how to survive on your own in this harsh new world." - JTM Games



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News::NZ Gamer - MAG II Gun Controller Preview

NZ Gamer - Despite my decade-long hand-eye-thumb coordination training, first-person shooters on a dual-stick controller just dont feel right. I can take a perfect headshot while jumping off a careening Warthog, thanks to my dexterous digits, but at the end of the day its a very unnatural skill Ive manifested. If you were to give me a real gun and chuck me into wartime Afghanistan, Id probably have the accuracy of a one-eyed muskrat.



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News::Why You Should Play It: Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Check out this new feature that aims to convince you why you should give Torn Banner Studios' hack-and-slash title Chivalry: Medieval Warfare a shot.



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News::Torasko - Review: Omerta: City of Gangsters

Is Omerta: City of Gangsters worth picking up, or should we rather let it sleep with the fishes?



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News::GDC 2013 Panel: 2K Games Examines Gameplay Violence in Context

Plus Ubisoft Montpellier Discusses the Mythology of ZombiU



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News::Depth and accessibility can be friends, says Tropico dev

GamaSutra - As a huge fan of the Tropico city-management series, I was hugely intrigued to hear that developer Haemimont Games was trying its hand at the 1920s mafia setting. Omerta: City of Gangsters puts you in the role of an up-and-coming mob boss, as you attempt to rustle up support, take out the neighboring families, and secure your own crime empire.



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News::Dead Space 3 demo 'close to 2M' downloads

Joystiq - EA revealed nearly two million people have already downloaded the Dead Space 3 demo, at least 10 percent more than the total demo downloads for Dead Space 2.



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News::Interview With Craig of DarkCryo Regarding Their Shiny MMO: Firefly Universe Online

Well it seems there is something shiny going on in the Firefly universe again. We had the privilege of speaking with Craig Redl of DarkCryo about their upcoming game Firefly Universe Online, or FUO for short. Craig gave us some insight into development as well as future plans. They intend on using much of the fans input to help create the ultimate fan game for this epic series. Ultimately, all that matters is we seem to be getting a gorram game devoted to Firefly. In my opinion this is the best thing that could happen aside from a season 2 being announced of course. DarkCryo will be unveiling a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the game tomorrow with a goal of $200,000.



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News::Halo PC version hopes are dashed with Microsoft's resounding 'No'

Microsoft have confirmed that the recent rumours of a Halo PC port are just that: rumours. Halo won't be making a PC appearance anytime soon.



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News::Call of Duty: Black Ops II Battle of the Sexes 2013 and Some Tournament Info.

Kuma Wrote: Good Morning gamers and welcome, it has been a long time since we all enjoyed a good battle between ladies and gentlemen in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The founder of this great event is DrNikki who leads EliteGirlGamers on Facebook and they are all about, providing a platform in which people can find new friends to play online games with. It is merely here to encourage positive interactions between men and women in the gaming world. That is all right by me and so far the community had been going strong. My role in this whole epic battle is pretty much commentator and stream personal on my page at twitch.tv/kumakreations. Thanks to the awesome Cod Cast mode on Call of Duty, it is easier to get a view of everyone on the battlefield; as well as their commentary instead of playing and just being on one side. It was the first battle last night and it ended with the best of 3 rounds with the men taking the Win 3-0. There were many close calls all around, but I guess the fel...



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News::A Tribute to XNA

Scott from The Controller Online writes: "If you spend a lot of time on the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, you may know that the main set of tools that developers use to create the XBLIGs you love is a Microsoft product called XNA. Recently, an internal e-mail from Microsoft leaked out stating that they would be ending development on the XNA platform on April 1st, 2014."



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News::Lets Rank The Elder Scrolls Games, Best To Worst

Kirk Hamilton- "We here at Kotaku have been having a lot of fun with rankings lately, from Halo to Grand Theft Auto to Final Fantasy to Pokémon. And now, it's time to rank the big daddy of single-player RPGs: The Elder Scrolls series."



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News::gamesGRABR is a Gamers Social Network

A Social Network for gamers.



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News::Spoiler Alert: Far Cry 3 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)

There are plenty of moral decisions to weigh down in Ubisoft's epic first-person shooterwhen you're done hunting sharks and crocodiles, that is.



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News::PCGamer- Crusader Kings 2: The Republic Review

PCG:The large-scale grand strategy of Crusader Kings 2 can feel Game of Thrones-ian in its web of intrigue and plotting. The Republic expansion takes place on a smaller scale. At times, its petty inter-family squabbling feels more like medieval Eastenders. Brilliant.



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News::GameZebo: Freefall Tournament Review

GameZebo: As space programs around the world continue to make advancements towards expanding the reach of the human race beyond the stars, have they ever thought about the repercussions, or the potential threat of an all-out space war? Well now might be the time to start planning ahead. Freefall Tournament is a frantic web-based third-person shooter, set in the throes of space, where no one is safe from a rogue laser blast.



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