News::The genre jumping games that defied critics

The games that switched categories without skipping a beat - and were all the better for it. At a time when Activision pummels gamers with a brand new Call Of Duty every single year, its easy to forget that not every game franchise is Just Another First Person Shooter - and of those that are, not every one remains a FPS throughout their life. Some developers are happy to throw a few new levels and characters into their sequels, but some of gamings greatest series have survived and evolved by changing genre completely to keep things fresh. Here are six of the best.



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News::Dead Island Riptide - All Guide Book Collectible Locations

There are a total of 17 guide book pages in Dead Island Riptide. Finding all of them will earn you the "Professional Tourist" trophy or achievement. In the inventory you can see which collectibles you have already found. They are all numbered and you can identify missing collectibles easily. There is no free roam after the story ends, so you have to collect everything before completing the last chapter.



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News::New Camelot Unchained Update Features an Improved Building Demo, Livestream Shows Capture the Flag

Today City State Entertainment released a new Camelot Unchained update showing a new building demo, and broadcasted a livestream showing a capture the flag battle.



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News::Black Ops II's Uprising DLC out May 16 on PS3, PC

PlayStation 3 and PC owners of Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be getting the Uprising downloadable content starting on May 16. The DLC will run $14.99, includes four new maps, and the new Mob of the Dead addition to the zombies experience.

We reviewed the Uprising content, and as it turns out all the new additions are really good. Chris Carter loved the Mob of the Dead stuff, and found that "Treyarch had a lot of fun" designing the four new maps.

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News::You can now queue downloads via the PlayStation web store

PlayStation's web store now lets users add content they want to a download queue, meaning you'll now finally get automatic downloads whenever you next turn on your PlayStation 3 or PlayStation Vita. The downloads won't happen immediately, but it only takes a few minutes before your system will start the process.

It's not perfect yet, but pretty happy that Sony's web store has been slowly getting better.

PlayStation web store adds download queues and auto-downloading [PSN Stores]

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News::That New "Niche" JRPG Brand Doesn't Have Niche Talent

News::That XCOM FPS Isn't Dead. And It Isn't an FPS Anymore.

News::XCOM retitled The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, coming to multiple platforms in August 2013

2K Marin's original XCOM shooter has officially been rebranded to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, which has been hinted at for the past few months with domain name registrations and a teaser video a few days ago. It is due to be released on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the 20th August 2013 in North America and the 23rd August in Europe.



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News::Wargame: AirLand Battle video preview - PCGMedia

In this preview from PCGMedia, they run a full 1v1 match, including an introduction. The match was recorded live, and they didn't discuss tactics before they started. Everything you see here is organic, and you'll watch as they adapt to the opponents tactics. It's a high quality 1080p video with an introduction to the game. This presentation was based on beta access provided to PCGMedia by Focus Home Interactive.



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News::A look at Capcom's Lost Planet 3 | Game Guys

Scheduled for release on August 27, Capcom's upcoming title Lost Planet 3 shows the promise of a good looking and well-playing third-person shooter.



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News::Monaco: What's Yours is Mine Review | Gaming Trend

Gaming Trend: "Monaco: Whats Yours is Mine is yet another game that illustrates just what kind of gems can come out of the indie gaming scene. Its refreshingly original in terms of visual design, unique in its approach to the stealth game genre, and it offers a load of co-op fun that makes it an absolute steal at the default $14.99 USD Steam price, to say nothing of the price you get with the 4-title bundle option. Give this one a look, because so far its probably the best indie game to come out this year."



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News::Star Trek Review | Hardcore Gamer

Were only four months into the year, but Star Trek The Video Game is already aiming for worst game of 2013. It has some production values and I give it credit for not directly following a film, but it falls completely on its ass in every category. Generic shooting, incredibly poor artificial intelligence and glitchy bug-ridden gameplay amounts to nothing more than a meager attempt to cash in on next months film.



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News::(WGB) God Mode - Review

Baden of WGB writes: "Do you like running? How about gunning? This is the beginning of the official description for God Mode, and it pretty much sums up the entire game in just two short sentences. This is a self-contained Horde mode in which the developers want you to have fun simply blasting things into oblivion. In name and action its a nod back to the simpler days of games, and that quickly proves to be its biggest strength and its worst weakness."



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News::Character Select: GLaDOS

GodisaGeek: In her own words: Youve been wrong about every single thing youve ever done, including this thing. Youre not smart. Youre not a scientist. Youre not a doctor. Youre not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong? If you havent played Portal, this article will ruin it for you. Either way, read on, because if you havent played it, you deserve to have it ruined for you. Where did your life go so wrong?



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News::SimCity The Vanishing Act

With the recent release of the 2.0 patch, SimCity should be better than ever, but the troubles continue for Maxis' city building simulator. And with the closure of SimCity Social, is the future of SimCity in question?



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News::Dead Island Riptide Zombie Profiles

All zombies, all the time...



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News::The 39 Steps Releases on Steam with Sale Pricing

The Story Mechanics in conjunction with KISS Ltd. have released the adventure game The 39 Steps on Steam with limited time pricing. From now until May 2nd The 39 Steps is available for $11.99 instead of the normal $14.99, and it includes both PC and Mac versions.



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News::Rev3games- Lost Planet 3 Preview

Rev:Lost Planet 3 is kinda what happens when you combine Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, and John Carpenter's The Thing. So, needless to say, Max Scoville is pretty excited. Learn about the game's strucutre, plot, world, and newly-unveiled multiplayer mode in his interview with the game's producer Andrew Szymanski.



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News::New Neverwinter Trailer Shows Devils

Perfect World has released a new trailer for Neverwinter showing off devil-worshiping cult and demonic creatures. Victims of the Spellplague flocked to Helms Hold in search of treatment and safe haven, but what they discovered was a horrific truth about the stronghold. The traitorous Succubus, Rohini, now controls a devil-worshipping cult and her devilish minions who terrorize the once peaceful region. Will you lead the charge to slay Rohini and her minions?



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News::IndieGameMag Let's Try - Cloudphobia

Cloudphobia is a beautiful horizontally-scrolling shoot em up which recounts your struggle as a pilot to set free a girl who is able to control the power of the machines. Players will be confronted with five stages with a 3 minute time limit for each level. Protect your mothership from destruction but at the same time reach the boss before time runs out.



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News::Ragnarok Online 2 Set to Commercial Service on May 1st

Fast-paced 3d fantasy MMORPG Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second, the sequel to world-renown titl Ragnarok Online, announced that it will come to commercial launch on May 1st.



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News::The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot Debut Gameplay Trailer Revealed

Today, after several months locked firmly behind closed doors, Ubisoft unveiled the first gameplay trailer for The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot. Developed by Ubisoft Montréal, the videogame puts players in an outrageous medieval fantasy world called Opulencia where wealth, status and looting are the name of the game.



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News::Borderlands 2 SHiFT Codes given out today for free in-game gear this weekend

New SHiFT Codes are now available for use inside Borderlands 2. Each code can be redeemed a single time in order to obtain a golden key inside the popular co-op shooter. The SHiFT Codes will be active for gamers to claim throughout the weekend.



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News::Defiance Review | GameCloud

Defiance is a transmedia experiment that promised players a massively multiplayer world that would co-exist in real time with a television counterpart of the same name. However, at the time of writing this review there have been two episodes aired and a major patch release, and so far the game has failed to deliver on this premise. If anything, the experience is only being hurt by its connection with the show, but its still early days, and there still lies the potential for this promise to be fulfilled. The game itself has a rugged charm that can be addictive at times, but its also full of technical problems. Unfortunately, the console versions have a lot more issues, so if you want the best experience possible, we recommend you play on PC. In time, its possible the game could grow to become a competitive place holder in the genre, but its not likely the potential of transmedia will be realised with Defiance.



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News::Counter-Strike: GO Operation Payback Offers Financial Support For Modders

Gaming Blend "Valve has announced Operation Payback, which is a celebration of custom maps made by the community that's being sold for a fee. The money goes to the creative map designers to took time out of their life to create the maps you enjoy playing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive."



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News::Age of Empires II HD Review - Games Per Second

Age of Empires II is back and better than ever. Developer Hidden Path Entertainment took the real-time strategy game we love, remastered it in HD and launched it as a Steam exclusive title on April 9, 2013; aptly naming the game Age of Empires II HD. Whether youve heard of this 1999 classic before this or just found out about it, were ready to tell you what we think about Age of Empires II HD.



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News::Exclusive - Batman: Arkham Origins Screenshots

Game Informer - Game Informer subscribers have already gotten an eyeful of Batman's new prequel game, Arkham Origins. Now it's time to spread the love to everyone on the Internet.



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News::The 5 Worst Video Game Exploits By Players

Dan from DC writes: Humans are pretty amazing creatures. In the short time weve been on this planet weve come to master the skies, the sea, life, death and outer space. There is literally no limit to what mankind can accomplish and with medical and, with technological advancements being what they are, who knows where well all be in a thousand years. (If we havent blow ourselves apart.)



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News::Stealth Bastard Had To Change Its Name To Appear On Sony's PSN

News::Gamocial | Review: Trion Worlds Defiance (the Game)

The Gamocial team reviews every aspect of Trion Worlds' new MMO-shooter, Defiance. Everything from the PvE elements to competitive multiplayer and beyond are analyzed and rated for this game. Learn about the pros and cons of Defiance by reading the review.



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News::CoD: Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC Review - Eskimo Press

Black Ops 2 gets another dlc expansion in the form of Uprising. As weve come to expect from CoD dlc, the pack comes with 4 maps for the competitive multiplayer, and a new chapter for the Zombies portion of Black Ops 2. Does Uprisings content add enough to the game for players to invest?



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News::Farts And Burps Are Orc Attack's Main Gameplay

GG3 gets a trailer for Orc Attack. This hack and slash title has a bit of a different take, as this time the Orcs are fighting the humans, instead of the other way around. They also seem to attack the other way around.



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News::GameCenter CX - Episode 157 - The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse!

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News::CVG - Lost Planet 3: Capcom explains why story is just as important as action

CVG - This is a daring change of direction for Lost Planet. While the first two games were essentially fast-paced arcade shooters, the third is much slower and darker, with a focus on atmosphere and storytelling. You're still fighting aliens with conspicuous glowing weak spots on a frozen ice planet, but the tone, pace, and general feel is totally different - a result of development duties being passed on, for the first time, to a studio outside of Japan.



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News::Deponia And Word Wonders Are Germany's Best Games

NoobFeed.com reports on the German Computer Games Awards, where 2 local titles have received high praise. Daedalic Entertainment continues their critical acclaim for their adventure titles with Best Game for Chaos on Deponia, while iOS title Word Wonders receives Best Mobile Game.



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News::Don't Worry Guys, Mother 4 Is In English

News::The World of Warcraft movie just got a VFX supervisor.