News::Whispers in The Dark Ep. 51: Keith David Won't Sleep With Me

Rely on Horror: On the latest episode of the Whispers in the Dark podcast, the crew gets back together to talk about a whole bunch of things that have happened since our live episode. Kyle gives us the rundown of his PAX Prime experience, Whitney and I hook ourselves up to a dialysis machine, Zev becomes Microsoft's new CEO, and Rourke battles for more penises in media. And last but not least, too much talk about all of these damn video games that have come out!



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News::Malebolgia is a Ni No Nightmare

Rely on Horror: Ah, Steam Greenlight--a pool of excellent indie ideas and potential. Today's pickings, as always, comes from the horror genre. Taking place in the 19th century (and hell) Malebolgia caught my eye instantly due to its neat graphic style not seen too often in horror games. Malebolgia puts players into the armor of a fallen General as he works his way through a randomly generated demon fortress.



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News::Total War: Rome II Review - PCGMedia

There is a huge amount wrong with Rome II, and although it's easy to get caught up in the hype, as a strategy game it's pretty weak, and does little to innovate on the franchise. It falls into the same traps, and got delivered to us far too early, when it was in need of further TLC.



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News::Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Sales Shoot Past 1 Million

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot in an interview with Game Informer has stated that sales for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon have shot past one million units. The publisher will continue to release downloadable only titles with the success of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. The game is currently available as a download for the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and the PC. However, Guillemot hinted that the game might see a retail release sometime in the future.



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News::Total War: Rome II Review [Capsule Computers]

Editor Joe Morgan writes, "The Total War franchise has been delivering solid historical strategy games since the original Shogun: Total War was released back in 2000. Epic historical campaigns have been fought from feudal Japan to the Medieval period to the times of the Industrial Revolution and Napoleons Battle of Waterloo. One of, if not the, most popular games in the franchise gave players control of Rome, the nation that formed the cornerstone of how society operates today. With several games in the franchise getting sequels, fans have been clamoring for a return to Italy. How does the newest entry in the Total War franchise stand up? Is it a victory for the Empire or a dark stain on the name? Lets find out."



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News::Somebody Already Has An Xbox One

News::Let's Play Outlast: Destin Enjoys The Shower Room

IGN - In part 3 we head to the shower room where others in the world of Outlast spread cheer into our world... and by cheer we mean they scare us a bunch.



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News::CastleStorm game review (ActionRadius)

Only seldom games are able to pull off a genre melding formula successfully and CastleStorm seems to do with such an ease that it looks so well-crafted that will tingle the pleasure nerves of both fast paced action lovers, strategic thinkers and those seeking humor and fun out of a game.



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News::Diablo 3 Best Demon Hunter Builds For Inferno, Nightmare and Hell

SegmentNext - "The Best Demon Hunter Builds for Inferno, Nightmare and Hell difficulty in Diablo 3 with recommended active skills, passive skills, weapons and armor".



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News::Diablo 3 Best Witch Doctor Builds For Inferno, Nightmare and Hell

SegmentNext - "The Best Witch Doctor Builds for Inferno, Nightmare and Hell difficulty in Diablo 3 with recommended active skills, passive skills, weapons and armor".



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News::TSC Reviews - Irritum

When we were approached about reviewing a new Indie game covering the subject of mental health issues and suicide, I knew just the person to cover it for us here at TSC. Dr Dan from the PileOShame podcast is not only a fully qualified medical professional but he also loves indie games, so here is his first ever review for us at TSC.



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News::Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Levelling Guide

In Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, many are trying to find tips on how to level. This articles covers simple times every one should follow.



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News::Weekend Gaming Hardware Sales: $90 H100i CLC, $205 Board/CPU Combo

GamersNexus: "PAX generally introduces a couple of decent hardware sales from key on-site vendors. This year, Kingston posted a PAX discount code for memory, ASUS has a laptop up with a $50 MIR, and there's an AMD A10-6800K + board combo for $205."



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News::That's One Less Free-To-Play Game To Worry About

News::Xbox One leak: Someone's parents are going to get it

Woah. Check this out. Naughty kid.

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News::Battlefield 4 - Patrick Bach Interview: Dinosaurs, Netcode, High Value Targets + MOAR!

Jackfrags sits down for an Interview with DICE Executive Producer Patrick Bach - Battlefield 4 related things in this video; Netcode Improvements, BF4 Dinosaurs, Commander mutiny, High Value Targets, ADS sensitivity, Battlerecorder, esports, patches, spectator mode, submarines, new details about the game etc.



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News::Maurus X Mouse Review | WGTC

Chaz from We Got This Covered wrote: The longer you spend behind a mouse and keyboard, the more likely it is youll realize that youre going to need to upgrade your equipment. Sure, the mouse that you got in a package deal a decade ago will still work for gaming, but eventually youre going to want move up to some tools that feel just a bit better under your fingertips. The GX Gaming Series Maurus X is Genius latest device, and while it may not be the most unique mouse on the market, its certainly a nice little tool to add to your collection.



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News::GTA IV - "Giant Duck,Zebra,Ostrich And Tiger Animals" Mod Brings The Zoo To Rockstar's Title

DSOGaming writes: "ur reader 'Jonathan Gustafsson' has informed us about a new, hilarious, mod for GTA IV that introduces a giant duck, a zebra, an ostrich and a tiger to Rockstar's title."



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News::The Left 4 Dead Effect, pt 2

A little over a year ago, I wrote an article titled The Left 4 Dead Effect. It explored the awesomeness of the Left 4 Dead franchise and why it resonated so well with gamers. In an industry of true-to-life (or attempting to be) graphics, massively online multiplayer and soul-crushing plots, what makes a quirky game like Left 4 Dead so appealing? Even though it has hardly any of those features? I couldnt quite pin it down before, so I just left it at the unexplainable Left 4 Dead Effect.



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News::Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn review | SG Gaming Info

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is an enjoyable game with an easy to use combat system, multiple class options per character, numerous leveling options and an easy to enter open world group events. FFXIV: ARR is huge improvement over the original.



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News::PAX Prime 2013: Interview with Red Barrels on Outlast

Rely On Horror's Kyle Campbell attended this year's PAX Prime, and had an opportunity to interview creative director David Chateauneuf regarding their newly released horror game Outlast, as well as Red Barrels approach to survival horror. Matters such as what the initial idea behind Outlast was, and more, are addressed in this brief yet all-encompassing interview.



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News::Twinfinite's Drool Award Winners

Yami from Twinfinite writes: "Ah, once again its time to announce our Drool Award winners. We over-think who to give these to and only choose a select few to brand as drool worthy. Trust me when I say we can get into heated debates and take way too long to come up with the answers, so these games are the ones you should definitely keep your eyes on."



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News::Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn diary review Week 1 | PCGMedia

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is a game baptised by fire. After the extremely poor reception to Final Fantasy XIV in 2010, Square Enix made the brave, and risky, decision to demolish the original game and build it from the ground up. Three years later and A Realm Reborn is finally here, attempting to right the wrongs of its predecessor. Because of the sheer scale and variety of MMOs, its almost impossible to provide an informed, in-depth opinion of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn within a week of playing. Therefore, instead of a traditional review, PCGMedia will be posting a regular diary review each Sunday for the next few weeks. Each entry will explore what works, what doesn't, and whether the game is a worthy entry into the MMO genre.



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News::Diablo 3 Best Barbarian Builds For Inferno, Nightmare and Hell

SegmentNext - "The Best Barbarian Builds for Inferno, Hell and Nightmare difficulty in Diablo 3 with recommended active skills, passive skills, weapons and armor".



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News::Diablo 3 Best Wizard Builds For Inferno, Nightmare and Hell

SegmentNext - "The Best Wizard Builds for Inferno, Nightmare and Hell mode in Diablo 3 with recommended active skills, passive skills, weapons and armor".



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News::Shelter Review | HAL

Isaac Wagner: "I enjoyed Shelter as I played it, and the ending is a potent one that has something important to say about the world we live, but as I consider this game in retrospect, it's hard for me not to feel disappointed by the execution of such an unique experience. In the moment Shelter may trick you to care as it did me, but the reality is that this Might and Delight game simply has no fangs."



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News::Total War: Rome 2 Review - Gamers Heroes

Johnny Hurricane of Gamers Heroes writes: Total War: Rome 2 brings new elements to the Total War universes while improving on the older areas of the games. It doesnt matter if you are winning handsomely or losing sorely, Rome 2 is still great fun. I came, I saw, I conquered, and it felt good.



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News::Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist Review | GameGrin

Sam Fisher returns in the sixth instalment of Ubisoft's flagship franchise, which does its best in appeasing fans of the original stealthy gameplay and the more recent action orientated fare alike.



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News::Two Dark Souls II Trailers That Have Nothing to Do With the Gameplay

Dark Souls fans are a little apprehensive about the upcoming sequel. After the director Yui Tanimura used the words more accessible to describe Dark Souls II, fans were worried that the game would scrap it's devastatingly difficult game play in order to appeal to a wider audience. Tanimura has since qualified this statement by saying that accessible does not equate to easy. Still, the trailers released so far for Dark Souls II aren't doing much to quell fans' worries.



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News::BF4: "No plans" for submarines in base game, BF4 most balanced BF game weve ever built -- DICE

Battlefield 4: No plans for submarines in base game, BF4 most balanced BF game weve ever built DICE



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News::Lost Planet 3 review | Cheatmasters

By: avoiderdragon Lost Planet: Extreme Condition was one of the first games released by a Japanese company in the late 2000s that seemed to attempt solely at connect with western audiences. That could be wrong, but there have been plenty of titles later on released by Japanese companies since then, many of which are well-received games in their own right. The Lost Planet franchise is now on its third installment, and its no longer made internally by Capcom. The result of that collaboration is rather underwhelming, to say the least.



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News::Heres Something Awesome: Mercenary Kings

Mercenary Kings is the new gun slinging game from Tribute Games. It follows a Rambo-esc King or a Sonya Blade looking Queen as they take on missions in order to stop the evil CLAW gang and SAVE THE WORLD!



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News::Outlast | | ExtraContinue Review

"Outlast is the first game to ever affect me after the lights go off. Sometimes, I want to grab my camera, turn on the night-vision mode and peer into the darkness, but I know deep down, Ill have a pair of glowing eyes peering back at me." - James Black (ExtraContinue Reviews Editor on Outlast)



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News::Molyneux On Religion, Godus Crazy Single-Player

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "Peter Molyneux is up to his old tricks again, for better or worse. Hes gone gaga for Godus, and he wants the world to hear all about it. And who knows? Maybe this time finally, after years of squandering his legendary status on unfulfilled promises and mediocre games hes onto something. Godus certainly sounds fascinating, with Molyneux describing it as a massively polytheistic EVE-Online-inspired social experiment that seems destined for player-driven chaos. But there are still far too many question marks, with the Curiosity-born god of gods and an offline single-player story being the biggest. So I took my promise-weary, cynical heart to Molyneux, and heres how he replied."



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News::My Favourite Gaming Musical Moments

MasonicGamer: With the leak of GTA Vs soundtrack the other week it got me thinking about the importance of music in video games. Not just the sweeping orchestral scores, the tactical dubstep that seems to be everywhere or even the carefully chosen tunes for so many radio stations but a mix of them all together. Music can make or break a game and a really good choice of song can make a real lasting impression on a gamer. Here are some of my favourite musical moments from gaming.



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News::Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Ultimate Edition review - PCGMedia

As PCGMedia may have mentioned in our other reviews, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of our favorite games of all time but to be honest, as many of other fans may have done, we did not expect much from a Castlevania reboot developed by an obscure Spanish indie developer (Mercury Steam) despite the support they received from Konami and Kojima themselves. Lords of Shadow definitely does not deserve to be a Castlevania title due to its complete and utter deviation from the franchises traditional formula and mechanics. Why did we rate it so high then? Let me explain.



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News::AVGN braves the unholy tide of Tiger LCD games

I knew this day would come.

The Angry Video Game Nerd made a video about Tiger's line of LCD handheld games.

I've warned you all about the horrors of these infernal contraptions. I even pointed you in the direction of an online interactive museum where you could sample these foul devices firsthand and finally understand the suffering of children from the 80s and 90s. Now the Nerd has come along to lay down the law once and for all.

And he doesn't stop there. He goes after game.com and R-Zone as well. This is the Nerd on a rampage, and his vengeance will be bloody.

AVGN: Tiger Electronic Games [Cinemassacre]

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News::Sword of the Stars: The Pit Mind Games Review | PixelPerfectGaming

Sword of the Stars: The Pit Mind Games is DLC (Downloadable Content) that adds new content to an already robust game. The content update adds ten new levels, two additional classes, psionic power and a plethora of weapons.



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News::Bugbears Next Car Game Steam Greenlight Press Release

Press release for Bugbear's 'Next Car Game'



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News::Batman Arkham Origins Leaked Alternate Skins

GR - "Many of these are representations of what Batman and Robin has looked like in different comics in the main continuities, as well as the Elseworlds continuities."



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News::Weekly Digital: Breath of Fire II, I choose you

"Nothing else in the digital realm of games matters this week, because the greatest SNES RPG of all time has made its way onto the Wii U Virtual Console. Yes, I am of course talking about Breath of Fire II, a game very near and dear to my heart. If you can forgive the early 90s-era translation and the frequent random encounters, youll find a game with a surprisingly dark story, ripe with religious overtones (before Final Fantasy Tactics and Xenogears made it cliché), unique and personable characters and a neat town-building sidequest. Also, protagonist Ryu can morph into a freaking dragon. That alone should be worth the $7.99 price tag (or $1.50 if you own it on Wii). Now, if you dont have a Wii U, the Church of St. Eva will forgive your transgression if you look into some of the other cool releases of the week, most notably the return of psychological horror, point-and-click adventure game I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream on GOG.com. Other notables include the long-awai...



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News::5-Star Skill Players in FIFA 14

FIFPlay: Skill Moves are a great way to beat the toughest defenses on the pitch. Here is a list of 5-Star Skill Players in FIFA 14, each capable of performing the most complete range of Skill Moves available in the game.



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News::Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft hands-on: complex simplicity | Polygon

Polygon: "Blizzard's upcoming free-to-play game is the embodiment of the old adage about a game that's easy to understand but difficult to master, as seen through the lens of a collectible card game. Hearthstone's turn-based combat expands with every round at such an easy-to-understand and measured pace that it's easy to miss how complicated the strategy has gotten until you're planning several rounds ahead."



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