Saturday, August 31, 2013

News::Titanfall hands-on - PCGamesN

PCGamesN: The best bit of Titanfall is losing. The game doesnt just end, you see. Instead, you have to flee to an evac point in the corner of the map without getting killed by the winners. Your team get bonus experience for every member that makes it to safety, and the opposition get experience for every one of you they can kill. What makes it so good is that every player has a jetpack-powered double jump and can wallrun. When the game ends your whole team turns around and begins leaping into the air, looking to get out of the fight they were eager to dive into a moment before. Players are springing through windows, running along walls, and generally making like Mirrors Edge. Its a wicked sight to behold. But theres so much else to love about Titanfall.



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News::The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt impressions | PCGamesN

PCGamesN: "After seeing The Witcher 3 I have a suspicion its something special. Its much more than a prettier looking, more open version of The Witcher 2. It looks like a game by developers who finally have the experience and resources to make what theyve always wanted: an open world RPG, full of choices with no right answers, the consequences of which can be brutal and far reaching. It also has exploding crows."



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News::Legacy of Gaming: Blizzard Entertainment

GamR Mag's Friday Legacy of Gaming takes a look at Blizzard Entertainment in anticipation for the release of Diablo III for consoles. "With the release of Diablo III for consoles looming over us with a giant PC shadow. I thought it was about the right time to take an in-depth look at one of the most dominant companies in the gaming world."



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News::Titanfall - A next gen experience as revolutionary as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Mirror: Titanfall will be something very special indeed - and will make most other shooters look very ordinary



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News::The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Review | DigiBytes

Is 2K's re-imagined XCOM prequel worth your valuable time and money? Here's what DigiByte's has to say about it.



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News::Shadow play: first look at Dragon Age: Inquisition in action | OXM UK

OXM UK: "Who expects the Spanish Inquisition? Pretty much everybody, as it turns out. BioWare's third Dragon Age is a predictable response to widespread disappointment over the second - it's the first game again, but shot full of horse testosterone and with the benefit of more recent thinking on open world RPG design. The developer has a slightly gentler way of putting this, of course. Inquisition is 'the game we've been striving to make since the series began', producer Cameron Lee explains when I stop by to see his latest work in action."



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News::Check out These Screenshots for Lost Planet 3s New Multiplayer Maps

Capcom just released some screenshots for their upcoming multiplayer map pack.



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News::XCOM's 'Flying Spider Shark' Wasn't Left on the Cutting Room Floor

News::Mega Man Creator Keiji Inafune Announces Kickstarter Project

On a panel hosted by US Gamer senior editor Jeremy Parish, Comcept CEO Keiji Inafune revealed Mighty Number 9, a new side-scrolling action game. Inafune says he's collaborating with other former Capcom employees to create a spritual successor to his his most popular franchise, Mega Man. He promises a classic experience that is also packed with revolutionary new ideas. Here is the game description:



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News::More Reasons to Love Titanfall - IGN

IGN: This is Xbox One's killer app.



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News::GameInformer- Dragon Age: Inquisition Preview

GI:BioWare just gave us a considerable amount of new information about Dragon Age: Inquisition for our September cover story, so the last thing we expected to encounter at PAX Prime was a brand new demo. BioWare exceeded our expectations with a 40-minute presentation packed with new content.



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News::Gamesradar- Dragon Age: Inquisition Preview

GR:Poor Crestwood. We wanted to save it from the burning fires of the Templars, we really did--but they were also attacking one of our Keeps, a valuable strategic resource. As the Inquisitor, we had to make a tough choice, and seeing as we needed to build and maintain an organization to take on the demonic forces of the Fade, that choice was obvious.



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News::The Next Dragon Age Is Crazy Ambitious | Kotaku

Kotaku: "Playable Qunari. Tactical top-down combat. Large armies and controllable keeps. A massive world that the team compares to Skyrim, complete with interactive environments and graphics that scream 'holy crap, this is next-gen.'"



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News::Destructoid- Dragon Age: Inquisition Preview

DT:As much as I love Bioware's style of creating compelling companions and giving the player agency to make choices that ultimately affect the overarching narrative, I have never been able to get into the Dragon Age series, no matter how much I've tried. This might be because I started with Dragon Age 2, and ended when I tossed my controller in disgust at the combat that seemed at turns frustrating and tiresome. I knew that beyond the repetitive battles there existed a truly interesting story with well developed companion characters, but the spawning waves of enemies seemed like such a lazy design choice and I couldn't forgive the game for wasting my time in that way.



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News::Dragon Age Inquisition Preview | PC Gamer

PC Gamer: "After a long period of relative silence, information is finally creeping out about the shape and state of BioWares next major RPG. I saw Dragon Age Inquistion at an EA event in London earlier in the week, the same information that will have as of the time this goes live just been revealed at PAX. Heres a rundown of my first impressions of the game which, although its more than a year from release, is looking far more fleshed out than I expected."



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News::Dragon Age: Inquisition brings playable Qunari, keeps and greater control | Polygon

Polygon: "BioWare calls Inquisition its biggest Dragon Age game to date. That's a common video game sequel claim, but at PAX Prime, the developer showed off a section of the game set in an area called Crestwood, a location that executive producer Mark Darrah said is bigger than the entirety of Dragon Age 2. As a result, BioWare has added mounts that helps speed up the travel across Inquisition's vast land. While not quite an open world, the areas of Dragon Age: Inquisition are massive and sprawling, and, based on the demo of Crestwood that BioWare showed at PAX, offer memorable moments of cresting a vista and seeing the vastness of Dragon Age's fantasy land."



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News::Warcraft Film Conflagration Based on Prince Arthas Menethil?

Blizzplanet received the Productiong Weekly #861 PDF from an anonymous source. The PDF file contains 104 film listings including the Legendary Pictures Warcraft film by director Duncan Jones. The PDF file indeed mentions January 13th and Vancouver. The description of the feature film describes the plot in the Human campaign played in the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos RTS game.



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News::The Beauty and Brutality of Dragon Age: Inquisition | IGN

IGN: "6 exceptional new things I love about this next-gen RPG."



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News::GamesRadar - We dropkicked a zombie into a wall of spikes in Dying Light

GamesRadar - Heres how a zombie invasion typically unfolds in a video game: Grab a gun or a conveniently placed samurai sword, then run straight into a horde of flesh eaters, annihilating everything in sight. Heres how a zombie invasion would probably unfold in real life: run. Hide. Stay alive.



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News::Eurogamer - Dragon Age: Inquisition Preview

Eurogamer saw Dragon Age: Inquisition in action during a recent preview event in London, where BioWare developers demoed a pre-alpha version of the game running on a high-end PC.



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News::Dragon Age: Inquisition - Keeps, Combat and Influence

The Average Gamer talked to Cameron Lee and Jonathan Perry about what the dragons and keeps actually do in Dragon Age: Inquisition.



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News::Dragon Age: Inquisition Says Goodbye to Claustrophobia, Hello to Tactical Combat

GS:BioWare wants players to be in full control in this role-playing sequel. Here's how they're planning to do it.



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News::PC confirmed as lead platform for Dragon Age: Inquisition

Lead platform confirmed, but BioWare promises that the "outcomes" of next-gen versions "should look the same".



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News::Shadow Warrior: Brutal Violence in a Beautiful World | Hardcore Gamer

14 years is a long time for a series to lie dormant, but there must be something in the air this year with both Rise of the Triad and Shadow Warrior getting rebuilt from scratch. The new Shadow Warrior de-ages Lo Wang a few decades, turning him into a smart-assed employee of Zilla Corporation, trying to broker a deal between Zilla and the possessor of a unique sword. Things go bad, demons attack, Lo Wang merges with a helpful demon and starts learning new skills and Ki powers, and a whole load of monsters get vivisected into their component parts. Shadow Warrior is bloody, brutal, violent, and surprisingly pretty.



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News::Dragon Age: Inquisition - 6 new screenshots

BioWare has released six new screenshots of upcoming action-RPG Dragon Age: Inquisition.



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News::Dtoid's community meetup plans for PAX Prime 2013!

PAX Prime 2013 is just three weeks away TOMORROW HOLY SHIT! As always, there will be a ton of games to see and play and panels and parties to attend, and we've listed the very best of them right here for your bookmarking convenience!


We've got meet-ups planned for just about every night, a panel on Sunday at 2 PM, a karaoke party Sunday night, and tons more fun stuff to do every day during and after the show. Hit the jump to see what we're up to!


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News::Qunari confirmed as fourth playable race in Dragon Age: Inquisition

The Qunari will be the fourth playable race in Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare has told VideoGamer.com.



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News::Confirmed: all 10 Battlefield 4 maps support all 7 game modes

DICE has confirmed that all 10 Battlefield 4 maps will support all 7 multiplayer game modes.



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News::When In Rome - Review | AACG

It is not that When In Rome is a bad game. When In Rome is indeed a very well-made game, but it lacks so much of originality and creativity that it just feels exactly the same as other Realore titles.



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News::Mew-Genics Trailer

Team Meat released a trailer for their upcoming game Mew-Genics. Its got cats, cute ones.



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News::Review: The Bureau XCOM Declassified | PushStart

For those that might not be aware, The Bureau follows the story of Agent William Carter, who is recruited by Dr. Faulke into a secretive bureau that was established to deal with a major scale Soviet attack on American Soil. However, once the threat appears to be extraterrestrial, XCOM is found by Dr. Faulke and with it begins William Carters treacherous journey, where he must learn the enemy, lead his operatives, and adapt to the aliens strategy in order to keep earth safe from an impending disaster.



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News::Baldurs Gate II: Enhanced Edition Gets 20 Screenshots

Overhaul Games released 20 new screenshots of the finally upcoming Baldurs Gate II: Enhanced Edition



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News::Aliens: Colonial Marines 75% off on Steam

Aliens: Colonial Marines is 75% off on the Steam store this weekend. It will set you back $4.99. All of the DLC is still the regular price, but for a full game the discount should be worth the price of admission. You may be able to overlook the general poor reception of the game as well with the offer that is in place.



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News::The Unknown Curse Of The Immortal Barry Steakfries

News::C-Wars Gets Greenlit on Steam, but Also Delayed

Onipunks roguelike Pixel Art RTS game C-Wars just brought some good news and some bad news. The game was greenlit on steam, but also delayed.



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News::Sable Maze: Norwich Caves - Review | AACG

Sable Maze: Norwich Caves could have been an amazing game if not for its lack of challenge - it is still very worth playing though as it is very captivating and very beautiful to play.



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News::IGN - We've Played The Elder Scrolls Online

IGN - And it's basically Skyrim with friends. That's pretty enticing -- even with a subscription fee.



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News::Black Ops 2 Origins Zombies Walkthrough

Black Ops 2 Origins Zombies Walkthrough will guide you through different waves of zombies and help you unlock different achievements and gather collectibles.



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News::Final Fantasy XIV Primal Guide Titan, the Lord of Crags

Right after the defeat of Ifrit, the next Primal that you have to take down is the lord of the crags named Titan. Compared to Ifrit, Titan has more mechanics that everyone needs to pay attention to. This fight will require more teamwork as one wrong move can wipe the entire party out. Fans of Final Fantasy XIV will find this fight a lot tougher than Ifrit, so watch out!



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News::MTV- 'Outlast' Hands-On - Pursued Through Prisons and Sewers

MTV:For all its hype and superlatives about demo participants soiling themselves, Red Barrels' first person horror game 'Outlast' has continued to keep up with expectations. That says something when my most recent hands-on session explored two of the most overused settings in horror gaming: the prison and the sewer.



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News::Lost Planet 3 Walkthrough

Lost Planet 3 Walkthrough will take you from the beginning levels of the game until the end and provide you with good tips on completing your own.



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News::New Releases For The Month Of September

The Tyuno Project: "Whats going on gamers! So summer is official over and school is back in session. But one thing that reminds the same are the new video games coming this month. Here are the new video game releases for the month of September. "



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News::Review: Open Me!

Augmented Reality games tend to be very hit or miss, with the majority falling squarely in the "miss" category. Either they don't quite fit well within the reality setting, or they don't do enough to capture your attention to keep you playing for very long -- and all of them seem to have issues with their core gameplay design of augmenting your reality.


Open Me!, however, hopes to eschew those hindrances with a unique take on the AR theme, while offering some truly challenging puzzles. Be warned though: playing this game can end up being more of a workout than you bargained for.


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News::Guns of Icarus Online (PC) | FTG Review

FTG Writes: And we went down in flames. Guns of Icarus Online has moments of that level of intensity in the team-based airship combat game. The airships themselves look like a cross between the first vessels that were sailing around the world and a dirigible. Players pick one of three roles to play on the airship either captain, engineer, or gunner, and enter the fray against enemy airships. The match options are the standard fare of deathmatch, capture the flag, or resource run. The matchmaking is well defined and easy to navigate, which is good because this is an online versus-only game. Guns of Icarus Online has a community of what youd expect, ranging from the really cool players to the people youd Falcon Punch in the throat if they ever spoke to you like that face to face. Oh, internet, you and your anonymity.



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News::Saints Row IV Review: Whoa - Pixel Related

With the heights that Saints Row the Third reached in humor and ridiculousness, it is hard to imagine where the game would go next. Volition and Deep Silver did not disappoint with Saints Row IV. The premise of this fourth entry is anything but simple, but the game manages to pull it off. After a series of improbable events, the protagonist (referred to as The Boss or The Playa throughout the game) finds himself/herself as the president of the United States. The presidential cabinet is filled with the main crew of the last game and other old faces stop by that fans of the series will remember. Oh and Keith David is the vice president. No, not Keith David voices the character, the actual actor is in the gamebecause why not?



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News::New info on the next game from Cliff Bleszinski on September 1

In a Tweet Cliff revealed that new informations about his mysterious new game will be revealed on september 1st.



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