News::Flash Deal: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Available for $180

GamersNexus: "We don't normally post individual hardware sales given the popularity of our weekend hardware sale round-up, but this one deserved early note. TigerDirect is presently running a promotion on EVGA's GeForce GTX 660 2GB video card for $180 after a $20 MIR and $30 instant discount."



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News::Humble Double Fine Bundle Launches

Hardcore Gamer: The Humble Double Fine Bundle lets you name your price for Costume Quest, Psychonauts, and Stacking, while paying more than the average of about $8 gets you Brutal Legend, $35 gets you their Kickstarted Double Fine Adventure now known as Broken Age, and $70 gets you a shirt.



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News::Battlefield 4s Uphill Battle Against Call of Duty: Ghosts

Explosion.com's Dave Walsh looks at historical search data for both the Call of Duty and Battlefield series and details how Battlefield was once king before Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out and the challenges that the series faces against the Call of Duty juggernaut now.



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News::Eidos' Thief Through The Years

Known as the first real Stealth game Thief follows Garrett a master thief trained by a secret society. Thief: The Dark Project was the first game to feature a first person perspective not only did it challenge the first person market but it innovated some of the games that we love today. You can see that Thief influenced many games such as Assassins Creed Tom Clancys Splinter Cell and even the Hitman series. Lets travel through time and see Thief through the years.



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News::The Showdown Effect Receives Free DLC

Paradox Interactive has today unleashed a downloadable content (DLC) update for The Showdown Effect, the ridiculously explosive multiplayer action title from Arrowhead Game Studios. Featuring new stages, characters, and costumes, the update is available today for free to all players of The Showdown Effect.



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News::Blockbuster Movie Gets Game Tie-In

According to VG247, the Australian ratings board has revealed a game tie-in based on Guillermo del Toro's upcoming blockbuster Pacific Rim. Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification rated the game for release, listing moderate impact themes and violence, as well as online play for the tie-in. In March, Yuke's announced it had acquired the rights to the film.



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News::UK Charts - Dead Island Riptide Stays Top for Another Week

GodisaGeek: "Dead Island Riptide continues to eat up (sorry) competition at the top of the charts. Injustice: Gods Among Us also fights off (Im really sorry) stiff competition from Tomb Raider, but theres no new entries into the top 40, save for Soul Sacrifice, which enters in 26th."



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News::Call of the battlefield: 10 rules of modern shooters

OPM: The modern war FPS follows a strict set of rules American heroes, bad guys with funny accents: somethings have to happen if youre a modern world saving soldier. Here are 10 essential rules every shooter follows.



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News::More Features Revealed For Soldier Front 2

Aeria Games have just revealed more features in their upcoming, next-generation MMOFPS game, Soldier Front 2. Death Match and Team Death Match will be at the forefront of the extensive list of game modes, providing a competitive environments which FPS fans have come to love.



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News::Battlefield 4 new screenshot composite with a real baku image

New Battlefield 4 screenshot posted by the Battlefield' s official page on facebook the screenshot composite between a real baku image and a image captured from the game .



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News::He Said/She Said: Narrative in BioShock Infinite

VGW's Jen Bosier and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Max Parker dissect the narrative in BioShock Infinite. There are heavy spoilers within, so be forewarned.



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News::Don't Starve Lowers the Incentive for Real Life Chores

Ethan Moses: "Maybe sweeping more than once a week would make more sense if it was some sort of preventative measure against creepy ghouls or something, but seeing as it's merely a means of getting rid of cat hair leaves me less than motivated to do so."



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News::Fresh Batch of Watch_Dogs Previews Coming Friday 9AMEST

Several Media outlets were given a fresh look at the upcoming action adventure game Watch_Dogs, although no hands on time, previews will start on Friday May 10, 2013 at 9amEST.



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News::New Order Looks to Pull Wolfenstein Out of Under Appreciation; New Home Equals Perfect Medicine

VG Republic Writes: Bethesda is at it again, the company that is turning into the publishing gurus unveiled one of the most underappreciated titles from this current generation, a new Wolfenstein. The title, The New Order, was shown off on YouTube and Gamespot via a teaser trailer that can be seen below and it was also revealed that the title will be a cross generation title. The last Wolfenstein was a solid game releasing in 2009, but the issue is it released amongst one of the most muddled genres, the First Person Shooter, which seemingly doomed it from the start. Not only that, it was previously published by the same company that produces Call of Duty, Activision, and if that isnt enough it hit the market the same year as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which was one of the most influential titles of this entire era. So with a new developer teamed up with one of the best publishers on the planet, which is exactly what Wolfenstein needs.



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News::Why Spoil Games for People?

People play games and take in their information at their own pace, yet a misplaced spoiler can ruin that experience and the game's story. Spoilers typically suck for people, so why are there some that actively look for them, and then decide to share?



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News::Dishonored The Knife of Dunwall Pixel Judge review

Pixel Judge: "Normally I don't really like downloadable content, especially the stuff for RPG games that come out waaay after you finished it and inserts itself into random places in the main plot line (I'm looking at you, Dragon Ages and Mass Effect). Luckily for us, the people making DLC for Dishonored are of the classier sort and managed to crank out a plot related DLC called Knife of Dunwall."



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News::AMD talk up drive to transform AMD into a gaming company

PCG:While the arrival of the Radeon HD 7990 wasnt exactly a watershed moment in PC gaming AMDs statements surrounding the launch were intriguing. AMDs senior product manager, Devon Nekechuk, was adamant they were looking to transform AMD into a gaming company. From recent developments at the Texas-based company that transformation looks to be gaining pace.



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News::Electronic Arts registers domains for Battlefield 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20

Call it defensive or call it long-term planning, but Electronic Arts has gone out and registered dot-com domains for Battlefield 13 all the way through Battlefield 20. On May 2, EA registered each of the names through the brand protection agency Corporation Service Company (CSC), adding to its ever-growing collection of Battlefield-related web addresses which includes its crown-jewel Battlefield.com, a name that EA spent $80,000 USD to acquire.



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News::Don't Starve Review by The Black Panel

The Black Panel writes: Dont Starve is an interesting experiment and it certainly has a lot to offer. The unique crafting based gameplay may be easy to understand but it also offers a surprising amount of depth. The cartoony world is pleasant to traverse and the creature design is inspired. All these positives do wear off though when you realise that the game (as it currently stands) doesnt really have a point and there is little to keep you coming back for more.



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News::MTV- Runescape 3 Preview

MTV:With this summers release of "Runescape 3," the Jagex team wants to create player engagement in "a constantly evolving world" generated by player decision. Jagex design director Mark Ogilvie says that browser games, have gotten short shrift by the rest of the industry, but with "Runescape 3," the studio plans to show the genre can compete with AAA titles. With an updated interface and developed using HTML5, Ogilvie says that the MMO will offer plenty of player-centric benefits like community tools and a "tear and share" system (essentially, you can drag, resize, and snap-to menu elements and share your customizations with other players).



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News::Zeno Clash 2 Review - PCGMedia

Zeno Clash 2 is like walking in on your older brothers acid trip, and he's meowing at you, and you're like "what?"



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News::Hellraid Throws Techland's Dead Island Formula into a Fiery Pit

GR said, "You know what Dead Island, Techlands cooperative zombie adventure, has been missing this entire time? Hellhounds. The shambling undead and big, rusty trucks have been great and all, but fighting a legion of demonic warriors just sounds like way more fun than dealing with the pungent odor of rotting flesh. Thankfully, this Polish developer will be making that particular wish come true with its new, recently announced Hellraid."



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News::Gamespot- Zeno Clash II Review

GS:Just like its predecessor, Zeno Clash II is a mediocre first-person brawler memorable mainly for its psychedelic storytelling and art



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News::Sanctum 2 Developer Diary - Level Design (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "Naturally the level design part of a game such as Sanctum is incredibly important. Thats why it has to be even better in Sanctum 2! During the development of Sanctum 2, weve made design decisions that make the game much more action packed than Sanctum 1. For example, enemies can now attack the player, and they can reach the player even if they are standing on the walls. Because of this, we felt that we also needed expand on the complexity of the level design as well, as to keep the strategic elements on par with the action-based ones".



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News::Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon: The Movie

It's another Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon live-action parody, and it's just as amazing and cheesy as the other one. Everything about this is wonderful. "I'm just spinning my web, baby."

I really hope the potential sequel has flying cyber shark missiles now.

[Via Sucker Punch]

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News::According to a Japanese magazine leak, the first Compile Heart "niche" (with non niche talent) JRPG

News::411mania - Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review

411mania - One of the surprising best games of 2012 has just released its first DLC add-on, and its actually an entire new game! Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a standalone expansion that does not require you to own Far Cry 3 in order to play, has absolutely nothing to do with the crazy setting of the original, instead presenting an entirely new crazy setting guaranteed to change the way you look at the franchise.



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News::Valve met with Steam Greenlight devs - here's the report

GamaSutra - Valve hosted a developer chat today, which brought a whirlwind of ideas and discussion. Here are some of the biggest points that were covered throughout the 1 hour chat in condensed form.



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News::Why Candy Box became more social than 'social games

GamaSutra - Over the last week, the Twitter feeds of game creators and fans alike began to fill with a peculiar wave of notices about candy. Things like: "I've maxed out at 100 lollipops a second," and "I've now thrown 1000 candies on the ground, why am I throwing candies on the ground," and people answering frog riddles and upgrading their swords into better swords. It looked a lot like a Facebook game.



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News::The Worst Sims 4 Expansion Ideas

Game Informer - Todays announcement of The Sims 4 was exciting, but also inevitable. And just as sure as a new Sims game is the steady stream of add-ons that follow it. The team at Maxis considers many options when deciding what to explore in these expansion packs, and plenty of ideas never get produced maybe for good reason. These are the concepts that we imagine littering the cutting room floor.



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News::Mars: War Logs Review (Strategy Informer)

From Strategyinformer.com: "I utterly respect developer Spiders ambition in creating Mars: War Logs: an epic RPG for a reasonable price. Mass Effect on a budget. Yes Star Trek and Star Wars are great, but now and again a nice Starship Troopers 3: Marauder hits the spot. And why not? RPGs shouldnt just be the realm of big-budget extravaganzas and 2D indie titles. A straightforward, well told, imaginative, 3D action RPG for a modest price all too rare and thats what Mars: War Logs is meant to be. I applaud that vision, but Spiders havent quite nailed it yet".



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News::GameZebo: Fez Review

GameZebo: When Fez first launched on Xbox LIVE Arcade in April 2012, hope for a PC release was low. Creator Phil Fish dubbed it a console game specifically, with an experience crafted by the way players ingest it. While this caused some PC gamers to close the window on Fish and Fez permanently, those who have patiently awaited a change of mind have finally been rewarded with a Steam release. Time may not heal the PC-spiteds wounds, but giving into the joyful charm of Fez just might.



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News::GameZebo: Residue Review

GameZebo: I don't think I've ever played a game with a greater gap between concept and execution than that of Residue. I love the idea of a story-driven platform adventure based on the real-life environmental nightmare of the Aral Sea, which makes it all the more disappointing that everything about it is such an absolute mess.



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News::GameZebo: Empress of the Deep 3: Legacy of the Phoenix Review

GameZebo: Wake up, Empress Anna! Time to stop your evil twin sister again! Empress of the Deep 3: Legacy of the Phoenix from Silverback Games continues the tale from the first two installments of the series, with the malevolent Pandora harnessing the power of the Colossus and threatening to destroy the world. With the help of the guardians, though, you can resurrect the Phoenix and find your lost tribe. Who knew sibling rivalry could be so destructive?



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News::Simon Says: Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon Offers Fun in Abundance | GameNTrain

Simon looks at Ubisoft's latest release with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and see's how the game follows in the footsteps of the widely acclaimed Far Cry 3.



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News::GameZebo: Jelly Glutton Review

GameZebo: With the amazing success of Kings Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga, its only natural to see other developers try their hand at a level-based match-three game on Facebook: and thats what gamers have been given with Jelly Glutton. Jelly Glutton follows a little monster named Jelly that wants nothing more than to eat all of the sweet treats in existence, one match-three level at a time. Youll be able to help him fill his belly, and while Jelly Glutton may not be the most original game in existence, its still pretty fun to play.



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News::Man... this trailer.

News::Grand Theft Auto V: twelve new shots released

The post Grand Theft Auto V: twelve new shots released appeared first on Edge Online.

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News::Tomb Raider: Shipwrecked Map Pack Now Available

Square Enix have announced the release of the latest TOMB RAIDER multiplayer map pack: Shipwrecked. Available now on the Xbox Live Marketplace, PlayStation Store and Steam, the Shipwrecked Map Pack features two new multiplayer levels



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News::BenQ XL2720T Monitor Review | OnlySP

"Im dubious whenever I see a product labelled as gaming. A cynical person could see it as an easy opportunity for an obscene price mark up, like that fancy $100 designer label on a $10 shirt. A more optimistic person could see it as an easy way to distinguish the product as one for a more hardcore audience a serious product for a serious gamer, someone probably more serious than you. Me? I see it and say what kind of gaming? The needs of someone who plays MMOs are different from those of someone who plays online shooters, or indie platformers, or turn based strategy games. So what does the BenQ XL2720T 120Hz gaming monitor do to earn the gaming tag? Quite a lot, actually..."



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News::IGN Plays SimCity: The Solar Savior

IGN - A coal power plant in a region that doesn't harvest coal? Dumb. Watch Greg fix this elementary mistake.



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News::Saints Row IV: Hidden Propaganda

IGN - Did you catch the alien version of Rosie the Riveter in the new trailer? Our Rewind Theater did.



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News::Concept user interface shown for Alice: Otherlands, points to multiplayer

Alice: Otherworlds may have multiplayer



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News::GameZebo: Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon Preview

GameZebo: Get ready for a surprise reveal: Dracula is super-duper hard to kill. Even when the Lord of the Vampires is put out of commission (permanently or temporarily, depending on the mythology), his influence sticks around like a dark cloud. Ships suddenly seem to sail themselves, wolves start hanging around town, and bats seem to think they have the run of daylight hours.



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News::EA Sports and FIFA extend agreement until 2022

In a move that will shock absolutely nobody, EA Sports and FIFA have agreed a licensing deal that will run until 2022. This, of course, means the publisher will continue to develop fully kitted out football games for at least the next nine years. The agreement also gives EA the right to publish FIFA World Cup games and run the FIFA Interactive World Cup.



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News::EuroGamer - Zeno Clash 2 review

EuroGamer - There's a great moment in an early Simpsons episode, 'Lisa the Vegetarian', when after watching an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon Lisa notes the violence carries a serious message. Bart counters that it's just about laughing at people getting hit, and as he moves to leave the room Homer slams open the door in his face. The twin poles of chin-stroking and gratuity, brought together by slapstick - and a perfectly timed punchline. Violence as entertainment, in a nutshell.



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News::SimCity's Problems Have Caused This Family Nothing But Suffering

Kotaku - Meet the Rogers. They live in that tiny little house. One of the first families to move into my burgeoning metropolis of Windfall Islands, they are stalwarts of the city, having stayed in the same spot, in the same house, for what feels like an eternity.



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News::Defiance Review by The Black Panel

The Black Panel writes: Defiance has generated a lot of hype. Arguably it is the first true experiment in transmedia. The game (developed by Trion Worlds) and the TV series (produced by the SyFy channel) have been collaboratively developed from the very beginning, and there are even suggestions that developments in the game world will crop up in future seasons of the show. Unfortunately, the game itself is less than spectacular. Although it suffers from a general lack of polish, the things it does do well (especially the MMO elements) are pretty compelling.



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News::Sony to manufacture PlayStation 3 systems in Brazil

Good news to all you folks in Brazil as Sony intends to serve you better. The company will now be manufacturing systems in the country in an effort to drive down the cost of the system, and better support fans in South America.

PlayStation 3s with a 250GB hard drives will now run $1,099 Reais, which is roughly around $550 US dollars. There will also be a bundle coming out that will include God of War: Ascension for the same price.

As for other games, Sony promised localized versions of The Last of Us , and Grand Theft Auto V . This will be the first time a GTA game has been localized with text into Brazilian Portuguese too.

Sony's investment in the Brazil game market is part of a long-term commitment according to Andrew House, President and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. Their efforts are "expected to infuse the Brazilian economy with approximately $300 million over the next 12 months."

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News::According to a Japanese magazine leak, the new Dead or Alive 5 project that was previously teased is