News::Little Inferno Review - Gamer Chatter

Euegen reviews Little Inferno for the PC



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News::New Phantasy Star Online 2 content coming April 10th

Check out brand new video and details of new content coming to Sega's Phantasy Star Online 2 at epicJRPG.com! Although the release of PSO 2 has been delayed in North America (as announced by Sega this week), it's likely that much of the content will also be released in the west once the game finally does make an appearance on PC (and Playstation Vita should Sega decide to localize it).



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News::Leviathyn Compromised Preview: Retro, Twin-Stick Action

Compromised is a twin-stick shooter available on PC and Xbox. Check out a preview of its April-bound multiplayer update here.



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News::Tomb Raider Review | GameCloud

Tomb Raider is an origin story that was designed to make you care, and with an outstanding performance from Camilla Luddington and the rest of the cast, it certainly appears as if Crystal Dynamics achieved what they set out to do. It is unfortunate that the game design never fully embraces the survival theme, and it remains slightly unsettling the way Lara moves so quickly from the emotional distress of her first kill into the headshot happy gameplay that the game delivers so well. It is worth acknowledging that this point is briefly addressed later in the game, which does help to improve upon the mixed translation between narrative and gameplay. However, as a whole the game still comes together exceptionally well to deliver an emotional story that is certainly worthy of the Croft legacy.



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News::Nvidia: PS4 GPU is more powerful than Xbox 720s GPU

Nvidia has revealed that PS4s GPU is 3x slower than Nvidias Titan. For a better translation make sure to check out the alt source I added.



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News::New Primal Carnage: Genesis trailer

Lukeworm Media has released a second video of their latest game. Check out the new clip below.



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News::Gamesradar- Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel Review

GR:Everything is better with a friend--especially blowing up bad guys. It's here that Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel shines the brightest, glistening with blood and gibs, like a Michael Bay movie on steroids. This sequel isn't deep or all that innovative, but odds are you won't have time to complain while you careen from one bloody conflagration to another, with barely a moment to breathe or take stock, delighting in wildly violent action each step of the way.



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News::PCGMedia - SimCity Video Review

PCGMedia will maximize density for betterment of Motherland.



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News::Bioshock Infinite Review - JPS

"After having two adventures through the destroyed city of Rapture, Irrational Games has decided to give gamers another look at the world of BioShock, but this time we take to the skies in BioShock Infinite. With promises of a brand new gameplay experience, an entirely original storyline, a new companionship system, plus some unique powers, the game quickly caught the interest of fans and newcomers alike. While the first two BioShock titles were critically successful, can BioShock Infinite live up to the hype or did it fly too close to the sun?" - JPS



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News::Level Up: JRPG News Recap for March 28th, 2013 - The taking a Massive Pay Cut edition

No time to browse gaming web sites during the day to keep up-to-date with the latest and greatest JRPG news? No problem epicJRPG.com makes it easy to catch up by bringing you a summary of JRPG news from around the web, all in one easy to read post! The following is a summary of JRPG news from around the web for March 28th, 2013, including updated information on the massive 60% pay cut which will be received by terminated former Square-Enix President and CEO Yoichi Wada as a result of "poor performance", and commentary from GamesIndustry International which notes that Square-Enix development studios in Japan have simply failed to match themselves to the challenge of developing on this generation of hardware.



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News::PS4 Vs PC Unreal Engine 4 Demon Knight Comparison

Gaming Blend "At first the PS4's Unreal Engine 4 demo looks like it contains the same kind of parity as the PC Demon Knight demo, but after things really start cooking and the effects start flying, we begin to see that the parity is not the same and there is an obvious gap in the visual fidelity between the PS4 real-time demo and the PC demo from a year ago."



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News::The not-quite-daily Steam spotlight 29/03

Well it's Easter and the weekend, which must mean sales!



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News::Episode 9: God of Origins: Virtue's Last Spoiler

Episode 9 of Game Podunk's official community podcast, starring various members of the community from staff to members. In this episode, we discuss what games we're currently playing, talk about video game prequels like the new God of War and Gears of War, discuss video game endings and how much we hate spoilers (Warning: Ironically, Mass Effect 3 ending spoilers abound between 40-42 minutes), and we answer some more community questions.



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News::BioShock Infinite review (HonestGamers)

Mike Suskie writes: "I'm used to BioShock games tucking their most important characters away in other rooms, so seeing Irrational put so much effort into someone who's at the very forefront from the get-go works wonders to make me feel more connected to the story's happenings. Booker may be the hero, and he's no slacker in the character development field himself, but Infinite is Elizabeth's show."



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News::D Pad D Bags Episode 134 - PAX East, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Kyle, Koz, and Scott regale us with stories from a weekend spent at PAX East. The guys dump on Hearthstone, praise the glory that is Soda Drinker Pro, and wax prophetic on their general apathy toward almost everything else at the show. Poor Anthony was stuck manning the news desk at the New York office, but hes got a lot to talk about in terms of things hes played since his last appearance on the cast. And Kyle still cant beat Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.



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News::Bioshock Infinite - All Collectible Locations (Voxophones, Infusion Upgrades, Sightseer)

There are a total of 141 collectibles in Bioshock Infinite. 80 Voxophones, 24 Infusion Upgrades, 37 Telescopes and Kinetoscopes. Finding all of them will earn you up to three trophies or achievements: Eavesdropper, Infused with Greatness, Sightseer. The first collectibles can be found in Chapter 2.



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News::New Magrunner Screens

Neocrisis: Through 6 new screenshots, Magrunner unveils today more of its environments, but also some of the characters and Lovecraftian creatures that will appear all along the story. In these screenshots, we can see Dax, the hero of the game, as well as Xander, one of the scientists responsible for the training program in which you're participating.



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News::Ushering in the New Era: Elder Scrolls Online Hands-On Impressions | Games Abyss

Matt Randisi writes, "My hands hovered above keyboard and mouse for the first time in a while, what must it have been? Two years, three years since I stopped playing World of Warcraft? It matters not, my faith in the smooth and successful transition from single player game to massively multiplayer online role-playing game for the Elder Scrolls franchise never fell from its resolute path. What I would soon find out is that I could not have been more right."



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News::Tomb Raider Sure Sounds Dark Without Context

GG3 has a story about Tomb Raider. Reliving the same experience, but without image, shows a surprising dark side to Lara Croft's origin. She seems to have no issue in killing seemingly innocent people.



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News::Sad You Weren't At GDC? Me Too. Let's Take A Virtual Tour Of All The Cool Stuff Instead.

This year's Game Developer Conference is about to end today, leaving behind great panel discussions and announcements, and also a lot of other cool stuff the were not shown on any stream.

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News::A New Week in Gaming Apps for an All-New Kotaku

This week's special late edition of the Week in Gaming Apps is brought to you by leaning how to use an entirely new publishing system on the fly. It's a learning experience. Oh my goodness these images are so big.

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News::'What We Want to Do is Scare the S--t Out of Players. So We'll do Whatever Is Necessary To Achieve That Goal.'

This is Outlast, a first-person, combat-free horror game about investigating an asylum.

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News::Defiance Beta Impressions | BagOfGames.com

Trion Worlds have been extremely impressive in their upkeep of RIFT. RIFT has a solid following and is currently the best alternative to World of Warcraft. Trion Worlds is now branching out into other genres while sticking to the MMO functionality. One such game is the soon to be released Defiance.



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News::Crystal Dynamics: Tomb Raider had best week one sales in franchise history

Tomb Raider has achieved the highest week one sales in the franchise's history, according to Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher. Speaking at a GDC panel alongside creative director Noah Hughes, Gallagher also revealed that Tomb Raider had the most successful launch of any game this year. "It's been the biggest week one sales in franchise history, and we're only a few weeks into that launch right now, and it's been the biggest opening so far in 2013," said Gallagher. "So, we're happy with the outcome. It's certainly in a place where we feel like we're on the road to achieving everything we wanted to."



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News::IGN- Incredipede Review

IGN:Incredipede manages to take the overdone genre of physics puzzlers and make it feel new all over again. Its tools are flexible enough to allow you to create a huge variety of monsters and levels, and its easy to get addicted to its sometimes-frustrating-but-always-gratifying levels. Few games have the creative flair both in visuals and design of Incredipede.



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News::Super Motherload Preview - GameRevolution

GR: "XGen Studios takes players to Mars to dig out the core of the planet and harvest every valuable resource within. We went hands on at this year's GDC indie showcase, GDC Play."



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News::The Case Of The Flawed Metacritic Study

A study looking into the hidden formula that drives Metacritic made headlines this week, but Kotaku has discovered some critical errors that call it into question.

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News::On the Air | Game|Life Podcast: The PAX and GDC Debriefings

We break down the aftermath of Penny Arcade Expo and Game Developers Conference on this week's Game|Life podcast.



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News::Here’s What I Want from BioShock Infinite’s DLC

News::BioShock Infinite Review - WGTC

We Got This Covered writes: BioShock Infinite more than lives up to the original, perhaps even surpassing the classic, by presenting a story for the ages and refreshingly unique gameplay.



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News::PCGMedia - BioShock Infinite review

Bioshock Infinite isnt just a shooter. Almost every single gameplay mechanic, polygon, and pixel of environment art exists for one reason and one reason alone: as a storytelling device. How much you enjoy a story can be very subjective. Characters, for example, can be relatable or totally unbelievable based on your experiences. To invest all of your efforts into telling a story is a risk few games take, but Bioshock Infinite bet the farm on it.



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News::Review: Dead or Alive 5 Plus

Last year, we returned to the sometimes strange but always beautiful Dead or Alive series; not in a leisurely beach title but in the series hallmark fighting genre. What we got was a deep, technical fighter that wasn't too technical and remained accessible to old and new fans alike.

This year, Namco Bandai has seen fit to port the title over to Sony's newest handheld powerhouse, adding a few modes specific to the features of the system. What we got was largely unchanged from the original, but still packed with plenty of surprises.

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News::Here's Shovel Knight, A Surprise For Folks Who Miss the SNES

Shovel Knight is one of the many indie games that caught my eye at last weekend's PAX East. It's the only one that had me thinking Zelda II, though the retro-loving developers at Yacht Club Games also cite DuckTales and Mega Man as influences.

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News::Tim Schafer Is Very 80s, And So Are These Other Movers And Shakers

This week at the Game Developers Conference iam8bit put together a great photo shoot opportunity for attendees where you could get done up in 80s fashion. They even had hair and makeup on hand to put it all together. The results are nothing short of fantastic.

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News::Making $10,000 through Diablo III

In a new article, the author wishes to discuss the ways off making money through gaming. One example is the infamous 10,000$ Diablo III player. Excerpt "Some of us remember the infamous player who made over $10,000 with Diablo IIIs real money auction house system. Some discussions followed on reddit, which the player took part in. There he said hed never scammed, botted or otherwise cheated at all in his efforts because trading in item markets is part of how he has fun, so it wouldnt make sense to cheat."



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News::From animal lover to virtual hunter

From a crouched position you move toward a jungle clearing. Left foot, then right foot; each step demonstrates restraint in the highest degree. A breeze travels through the overgrown leaves, causing the foliage to dance all around you. Tensions rise, anticipation builds. In a moment the wind stops, but the rustling continues. You are not alone. Your heartbeat elevates, its rhythmic drum becomes almost deafening against the natural tones of the jungle. Peeking through a gap between the branches, you spot a deer grazing in a lush glade.

The scene is picturesque, but fragile. You lower your torso to the dry earth with the grace of a swan. Noise is an unavoidable nemesis, but with a great deal of caution you successfully retrieve the bow from its position secured on your back. The deer's ears perk in response the quiet commotion.

In a last-ditch effort to collect your prize, you draw back the bow string and hold your breath. Three, two, one; in the blink of an eye, the suspense ends. The arrow slices through the air, entering the target. The buck lie motionless and a mix of triumph and sorrow paint the scene. Shattering the atmosphere, a familiar sound emanates from the screen. Up pops a 20-point achievement rewarding you for successfully hunting your prey.

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News::The Most Hysterical Video Games Set In A Prehistoric World

There's not a single video game with a prehistoric setting that takes itself seriously. All these games - mostly platformers - look cartoonish, have ridiculously wacky yet lovable main characters and never really cared about the few million years that separated dinosaurs and mankind.

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