News::God Mode comes out this month for XBLA, PSN, and PC

God Mode is a third-person shooter that has you playing as a descendant of a god that has to survive the Maze of Hades. The game is being developed by Saber Interactive and Old School Games, and it's getting published by the JRPG lovers over at Atlus.

If you've been keeping an eye out on this one, then your wait won't be much longer! God Mode will be out on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam on April 19 in the US. The Steam version will run $9.99, but you can get it for $8.99 right now if you pre-order the game. The PlayStation Network version of God Mode will be out a week later on April 23.

Oh! Go check out the boxart. It looks bananas.

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News::Dark Souls II - World Gameplay Premiere on IGN tomorrow

Excited for DarkSouls2? Tune into IGN tomorrow 4/10 12PM PT for our world premiere 12 minute gameplay reveal.



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News::Interview with Darren Korb - Audio Director at Supergiant Games

From RaidWarning.com "I had the great pleasure of being able to talk with Darren Korb today and ask him a few questions about Games, Music and his path towards them. While we of course mentioned his work at Supergiant Games, including the highly anticipated Transistor and the acclaimed Bastion, I also wanted to find out a little bit about his background as a musician and a gamer and what drew the two together. I was not disappointed, and also learned that Darren Korb REALLY likes XCOM."



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News::A Regular Show game is happening! Yeah-yuh!

In what may very well be the greatest news of 2013 thus far, D3Publisher has announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to publish games based on the greatest television program about a pair of retro-gaming slackers who still live like it's the 80s. D3 most recently handled the distribution of the WayForward-developed Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?! , and all parties are hoping that some of that same magic will carry over to Cartoon Network's other prime time giant.

I've been waiting for this announcement ever since I was fortunate enough to interview series creator J.G. Quintel almost exactly one year ago. Regular Show is a vehicle for J.G. to incorporate all his favorite old-school pastimes, from cheesy 80s action movies to SEGA Master System gaming. A videogame -- and I don't mean those quick-and-dirty Flash games that flood the CN site -- in the spirit of his childhood favorites is the next logical frontier.

J.G. told me that if there ever was a Regular Show game, he would love for it to be either a classic brawler or a funky rougelike similar to ToeJam & Earl. Both styles sound like they could offer a wealth of possibilities, so I hope that D3 strongly considers those options when it shops around for a developer.

D3PUBLISHER AND CARTOON NETWORK TO DEVELOP AND PUBLISH GAMES BASED ON REGULAR SHOW [D3Publisher via Shacknews]

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News::Humble Weekly Sale features Blendo Games this week

Another week, another Humble Bundle. You all know the drill. Pay what you want, designate money toward charity, get games and soundtracks. Pay more than the average (currently around four dollars) to get bonus content. Take some time to note how much more Mac and Linux users pay than Windows users do.

This week, the Humble Bundle features Blendo Games, with the titles Flotilla , Atom Zombie Smasher , and Air Forte (video above) up for grabs. Pay more than the average to unlock Thirty Flights of Loving , which our own Patrick Hancock called an "incredible experience." Personally, I like the look of Air Forte, which appears to combine flying a biplane with primary education. Hit those verbs!

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News::OXCGNs Exclusive Deadfall Adventures Interview- Please dont expect it to copy Uncharted

OXCGN "When I first saw the Deadfall Adventures trailer I breathed a little sigh of joy. No space marine. No modern soldier. No blown up warehouses. Here was what looked like a First Person Indiana Jones game; a game with a sense of adventure instead of dread for the fate of the world. We jumped at the chance to discover more about the game and see what the developers were going to be striving for. Arthur Falkowski is the producer at The Farm 51, the Polish studio behind Necrovision and Painkiller: Pain and Damnation. Reinhard Pollice is the Business & Product Development Director at Swedish publisher Nordic Games. We asked them to elaborate on what we saw in the video."



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Surprises Still to Come, Storyline Twists to Shock Fans

On Tuesday, Senior Producer Ben Mattes shared additional details about the storyline found in Batman: Arkham Origins and how the team hopes to shock people with storyline twists.



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News::I Lost My Mass Effect Save, So I Gave Up On Finishing The Series

Kotaku - I used to feel like a Mass Effect fan. Like part of that community that gushed about their crush on Garrus, or commiserated over those lengthy elevator rides. I used to talk strategies and relationships and dialogue tree options with fellow fans, scrutinizing decisions with one another and theorizing about what would happen next. Even just comparing Shepards. Are you Paragon or are you Renegade?



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News::Awesome Battlefield 4 trailer parody

New Battlefield 4 trailer parody makes fun of the game's scripted events and "incredibly inaccurate AI".



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News::Bioshock Infinite Vigors Guide

This guide tells you all you need to know about Vigors in Bioshock Infinite. Possession Devils Kiss Shield Murder of Crows Bucking Bronco Shock Jockey Charge Undertow Return to Sender



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News::PCAdvisor- Train Simulator 2013: London to Faversham High Speed Review

PCA:Given that you're probably never going to be able to drive a real locomotive, or even get a in the cab, a simulation is the next best thing. Train Simulator 2013 is one of the best and most realistic, and the new London to Faversham route lets you grab the controls of a Class 395 'Javelin' on the HS1 route from the stunning St Pancras station as far as Faversham in Kent.



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News::Hating On BioShock Infinite

Game Informer - Having played through Irrational's latest politically charged adventure, I have some problems. Spoilers ahead, so beware. Let's get one thing out of the way here: BioShock Infinite is awesome. I plowed through it in a weekend and enjoyed the hell out of the experience. The torrent of superlatives being thrown its way are getting out of control, though, and I suspect that Irrational can survive a little reality check after being blasted by a firehose of Internet love for a solid week.



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News::[WKG] Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition Review

Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition is a remastered collection of the original game, the updated Atomic edition of the game and all of Duke 3D's official expansions.



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News::Mega64's super best Kickstarter, please give money

Sakred Diamonds sounds like the most original and revolutionary videogame of all time. It defies all comprehension. And Mega64 needs your help to make it happen. C'mon! You know that any project with Dave Grohl, Jr. on music duty is a guaranteed winner!

Just give them your money. All your money. Your pocket lint. A cheese curl. Pretty please?

MEGA64 "SAKRED DIAMONDZ" KICKSTARTER!! [YouTube]

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News::Where The First Mass Effect Failed, And Succeeded, According To Its Head Writer

Kotaku - Drew Karpyshyn was there at the beginning of Mass Effect, but he still hasn't played the end. He was lead writer on the first two games in the series, but has yet to see the third game through to its conclusion. He knows about the the controversy, about the cupcakes and the Extended Cut. But he just hasn't gotten around to setting down and saying goodbye to his Shepard.



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News::BioShock Infinite Video Review (Vivid Gamer)

Ryan of vividgamer.com writes: "After two delays, BioShock Infinite finally released on March 26 and I got together with Eric to give you our opinion on the most recent title in the BioShock franchise. We answer questions like: Did the delays hurt the game? How does Infinite compare to the original BioShock? Is the story as good as the original BioShock? Youll have to check out the video review to find out."



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News::Ex-Square Enix boss forecast Tomb Raider to sell 5-6 million units

Square Enix expected Tomb Raider to sell 5-6 million copies, according to departing company president Yoichi Wada.



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News::Call of Duty vs. Battlefield: How Gamers Ruin Both and Gaming

OXCGN: "As gamers, we often come to establish what we think of a game based on our previous experiences. Halo is better than Quake because the graphics are better, or, for a more ignorant comparison, World of Warcraft is the worst game ever cuz only nerds play that game. YOLO. Swagg. But what we fail to do is recognize the smaller accomplishments that actually construct a games personality, as I like to call it. Something that comparing a game to another simply just cant do."



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News::Mortal Kombat PC Announcement Imminent, Steam Directory Updated Last Friday

DSOGaming writes: "It's a great day today everyone. It seems that NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros will be announcing the PC version of Mortal Kombat 9 in the coming days, as the game's Steam directory has been updated last Friday."



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News::How BioShock Infinites Elizabeth Makes Her Mark

Game Informer - When I heard Booker DeWitt would always have the lovely and energetic Elizabeth at his side during BioShock Infinite, I was worried. Not because I didn't find Elizabeth magnetic (I did), but whenever you are tasked with escorting a character through danger, that companion can become a burden.



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News::My Wife, the Casual Gamer, Reacts to: Bioshock Infinite

FrontBurnr: Look out! There be spoilers below! That guy you are playing as, he doesnt like to ask questions, does he? I mean, he enters a building, ignores a man shot in the head and then willfully gets himself strapped into a chair and blasted so far into the air that the night becomes daytime. That pod could have came crashing back to Earth and he could have died. Thats really smart.



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News::Why You Should Play It- Ghostbusters: The Video Game

James Pungello of VGU.TV takes a look at the 2009 Ghostbusters game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC and why gamers should give it a try if they haven't.



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News::Blizzard Talks Hearthstone [Forbes]

We caught up with Hearthstone Production Director Jason Chayes and Lead Designer Eric Dodds to ask a few questions about Blizzards foray into digital CCG territory.



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News::Interview: Enrique Dryere of Triple-B-Titles (Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages) | Esperino

On the surface Ring Runner may look like a simple, yet stylish space shooter but scratch a little deeper and you'll uncover a rich story-driven campaign, online co-op and competitive multi-player modes, in-depth customisation options, all rendered beautifully and with such polish you'll question how a couple of ambitious upstarts were able to pull off so much with so little resources. Recently featured on IGN's The Next Game Boss, Ring Runner narrowly missed out on first place but in turn cemented itself as a title to keep an eye on. It gives me great pleasure to be able to speak with Enrique Dryere, Lead Designer on Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages.



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News::Slender: The Arrival -Review- TGeekND.COM

Josh checks out the Slender's newest scare fest.



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News::Warframe Review Pure|News

This game doesnt really make a good first impression, when you get in the levels, because the first planet is only the grinner, they are the most boring enemies and unfortunately the most common in the whole game; theyre just humans with guns, they have a few different types but theyre not all that interesting, there is a robot race which is pretty cool to fight and there are space zombies which are okay. All these races have different AI but the AI itself isnt anything special. The game play however, is freaking good let me tell you that, if theres one thing I can appreciate in a game its mobility and this game has it all, side rolls, back flips, wall jumps, wall running, sliding, jumping and sliding so you look like Bruce Lee jumping and shooting à lá Max Payne, this game gives you a lot to play with in terms of movement, in combat it gets pretty fun to use this to your advantage but there are not a lot of areas to do so, with that said, this game needed a better tutorial th...



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News::Cloudphobia Now Available Via Indie Royale Bundle From Publisher Rockin Android

Rockin Android announced today that their high-speed PC shoot-em-up, cloudphobia, is now available on digital distributors, Amazon, Desura and Gamersgate.



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News::Team Fariko wins the first Call of Duty Championship

Team Fariko Impact won big after three days of intense Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer action in the first ever Call of Duty Championship. 32 teams from around the world came together to battle it out, with the ultimate winners here scoring $400,000. Runner-up teams scored anywhere between $25,000, to $200,000.

You can see the final five hours of the tournament below, and I have to say some of those final plays are really intense. I do love watching a good match of Call of Duty.

Read more...



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News::EVE Online Odyssey Starbase Iterations Announced

EVE Online is a subscription-based, scifi sandbox MMO that is preparing to launch its nineteenth free expansion in June this year. Developer CCP recently posted a new dev blog discussing some of the changes they are hoping to make to Player Owned Starbases.



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News::Report: Next Xbox to use x86 AMD chip

Bloomberg is reporting that the next Xbox is set to use an x86 AMD chip. The anonymous source states that Microsoft will be adopting the AMD system-on-a-chip that combines "Jaguar" central processing units with graphics chips. With this move Microsoft would be dropping the IBM PowerPC tech used in the Xbox 360, which means the new system won't be backwards compatible, at least with current game discs.

The next PlayStation 4 is also using similar AMD tech. If this turns out to be true, then making multiplatform titles across the two next-gen consoles and PCs will be easier than ever before.

There's a rumored next Xbox reveal event in the works for May 21, so we'll know what Microsoft has planned soon.

Microsoft Said to Adopt AMD Chips for Next Xbox Console [Bloomberg]

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