Tuesday, October 29, 2013

News::Top 5 Horror Games You Probably Havent Heard Of

Halloween is coming up, and while the kids are preparing their costumes and most other people are hitting the theaters for the latest formulaic scary movie, gamers are stuck re-playing the same old horror games or sloppy rehashes. For people who want something a bit new, here are five horror games a mixture of classics and newer titles that you probably havent heard of.



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News::Infinite Crisis - Closed Beta Phase Announced

Warner Bros and Turbine announced, together with Electronic Sports League (ESL), the launch date of the Closed Beta Series for Infinite Crisis, the all-new multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game set in DC Comics legendary Multiverse in development by Turbine, the studio behind free-to-play online games such as The Lord of The Rings Online.



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News::Football Manager 2014 Review (Invision Game Community)

Ladies and Gentlemen; the time has come again to dust off your best suits, polish your shoes and to put the champagne on ice as you prepare to take the hot seat in the number one football management simulation game. Thats right Football Manager Fans; sports interactive are back with the latest edition of the hit game, Football Manager 2014 and its just as addictive as ever before.



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Review | GamerLimit

GL - "Arkham Asylum and City were among my favorite games during the respective years of their release. They were simple, fun, and provided a great look into the twisted world of Batman and the various facets of his psyche, shown in the form of the games villains."



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News::Blood Knights Trailer

Trailer for the action rpg to hit Xbox Live Arcade on November 1st. PC and PS3 to follow on November 13.



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News::Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Gameplay Review | OutsideXbox

Assassin's Creed 4 tells the story of Edward Kenway, a Welsh privateer-turned-pirate who gets caught up in the centuries-old conflict between the Assassins and the Templars. Edward is an interesting addition to the Assassin's Creed character roster.



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News::'Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag' Review - An Assassin's Life For Me | Forbes

Assassins Creed 4: Black Flag is built on two fundamental assumptions. The first is that you can build a game on all the basic structure of its predecessors while making it feel completely different, and the second is that pirates are awesome. The simplicity of the second bolsters the riskiness of the first.



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News::Lost at sea? why BioShock and Irrational could become victims of their own success


Every important game franchise starts off as something smaller. With Call of Duty, it was 2007′s Modern Warfare that ended its history with World War 2 and sparked this generation’s obsession with high-tech global war. Bethesda did the same for open-world fantasy with Oblivion, and Naughty Dog for third-person world-hopping with Uncharted. And Irrational did the same with BioShock.


BioShock’s success story isn’t unique, but like every super-successful series, there comes a point where the shine that made the original such a stand-out success – be that on new console, or in the world of games in general – starts to rub off. Innovation gives way to formula; novelties become familiar. The games become automatic purchases for a fanbase that knows what it wants and what it can expect to be given, and the studio becomes known as ‘those people that do that game’.


BioShock got hit with that criticism early on this generation, when instead of jumping off from the original to new horizons, 2K Marin developed a sequel once again set in the dank corridors of post-collapse Rapture. Infinite took the franchise further with Columbia, even while taking criticisms from fans and critics that the series’ staple mechanic – the interplay between guns and Plasmids/Vigors – didn’t make as much narrative sense as in Andrew Ryan’s congruously transhumanist Utopia. Now, with the release of its first piece of story DLC, Burial At Sea, BioShock is going back to Rapture for a third time, tossing another troubled hero with a murky past into the middle of a superpowered gunfight with enemies we’ve battled before.



At around two hours long, it’s a compact, challenging and typically well-written BioShock story. But as a fan of the series, there’s a niggling voice in my head that wants to know: is Irrational becoming ‘that BioShock studio’?


The Rapture you explore in Burial At Sea isn’t, to give it its dues, a simple copy-paste job of the city you’ve seen before. Speaking with the DLC’s producer, Don Roy, he explains that the sections of the city that Booker and Elizabeth can explore have been completely rebuilt.


“We do art completely differently to BioShock 1,” he says. “We can now have vistas; when you look out the window, those are 3D models [that you're seeing]. Inside, we took lessons from Infinite’s town centre and fair – how we populate a world and how we tell a story through the people in that world. Now we can go back to Rapture before the fall and show what the citizens were like before things went bad.”


The new Rapture blends gameplay from the original and Infinite – although the balance is definitely slanted towards Infinite’s combat-heavy style. It’s also less claustrophobic, aside from its new open areas in which jarringly lucid and non-murderous citizens gossip and talk politics. It has also taken on Infinite’s vertical gameplay, thanks to the inclusion of freight hooks and sky-lines. Visually, Rapture feels softer and darker – just different enough to sell the idea that the story is playing out in one of Elizabeth’s alternate realities.



But the problem is that, for all those subtle pieces of visual storytelling, this is still Rapture. After the DLC’s opening, in which a decidedly prickly Elizabeth gives Booker a new case to investigate, he follows her out of his gloomy office and into the glittering brilliance of Rapture, all golds and reds and turquoise ocean views. It’s cleverly directed and beautiful. But all I could think as the scene played out was how much more breathtaking it was seeing the city for the first time, from the window of the bathysphere as it descended from the lighthouse to the sound of Andrew Ryan’s opening ‘Sweat Of His Brow’ monologue.


Burial At Sea’s opening is clearly designed to call the original BioShock’s to mind, and playing off that kind of nostalgia is a common theme throughout the DLC. Irrational producer Roy goes so far as to call the game an “ultimate love letter to the fans”. But that’s a double-edged sword. There’s always a thrill to revisiting an area you’ve explored before and seeing it in a new light – the brief jaunt through Rapture’s corridors in the closing moments of Infinite’s story produced a great fan response, according to Roy. But more than once, Burial At Sea strays from a tribute into pure fan-service. Of the two new weapons, one is the Tommy Gun from the original BioShock, and Booker only receives one new Vigor to fight splicers with, which leaves an awful lot of slack to be taken up by the new story and the backdrop of Rapture 3.0.


The next instalment of DLC continues the story and for the first time lets you play as Elizabeth, making use of her ability to create dimensional tears. But with such a focus on Rapture, even with Infinite’s new mechanics and a new protagonist, aren’t Irrational worried about typecasting?


“Our main focus is always ‘what compelling story can we tell?’” says Roy. “That doesn’t have to be a BioShock game; it really lives and dies with the direction that Ken [Levine] wants to go.”



When I ask if there aren’t certain things that fans expect from the studio – first-person viewpoints, guns, superpowers – and whether the studio could ever stray away from this formula, he is more evasive. “To be honest with you, I don’t know. The only thing I know is that we’re not bound by any rules. It’s what’s necessary to tell the story we want to tell, and that could come about in a lot of different ways. We’re not closed off to any options.”


I hope that turns out to be true. But I’ll throw down a gauntlet and say Irrational will never send its next Jack or Booker into a globe-spanning, third-person treasure hunt, and another to say that Nathan Drake isn’t ever going to topple the leader of a fascistic dictatorship with bees hatched from his forearms. Developers playing to their strengths is what gives gaming its most successful franchises – straying away from them and onto another series’ turf just doesn’t happen that often.


Burial At Sea is exactly what many BioShock fans will have wanted, but despite the studio’s reassurances it still raises questions about how bound Irrational already is by its past successes – and how that will affect its games in the future. No doubt, another romp around a retro-futuristic dystopia, gunning down human crazies with one hand and fire-blasting automatons with the other would reap a handsome return for the studio. But the same would have been true of Uncharted 4 – while Irrational has given us essentially more of the same with its latest story, Naughty Dog gave us The Last Of Us.


Most gamers will give Burial At Sea a free pass for wearing its fan service on its sleeve, and for being DLC rather than a full-release game. That’s fair. But as a fan of the franchise, watching it step, however briefly, backwards rather than forwards is uncomfortable. That tantalising set-up of countless worlds to explore at the end of Infinite makes a return to Rapture feel like wasted potential; a studio resting on its laurels, sticking closely to formula and declining to push boundaries in the way that earned the BioShock series the reputation it has today. That’s a familiar road for successful series – I just don’t want it to become BioShock’s.


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News::Review: Red Sabre: Takedown Review (New Gamer Nation)

Anyone who has been a longtime fan of first person shooters will be familiar with the Rainbow Six series. Everything from its atmosphere, tactics and realism was a mainstay in the tactical shooter genre. It has, however, been several years since the release of a Rainbow Six game, leaving somewhat of a void in the tactical shooter front. So with the release of Takedown: Red Sabre, perhaps some life can be injected into tactical shooters.



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News::Need for Speed Rivals - Ultimate Cars, Speed and Rivalry Trailer

Trailer shows new footage and addresses the rivalry in the game.



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News::Guild Wars 2 Tower of Nightmares DLC Live, Preview New Screens

The steady flow of content updates for Guild Wars 2 hasnt slowed since this past summer. The latest update marks the third just in October, and is called Tower of Nightmares, which is a fitting name for a Halloween week DLC release. Head on down past the break to check out the new screenshots.



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News::Battlefield 4 Review | Digital Chumps

The gameplay in Battlefield 4 has improved significantly, especially when it comes to controls, non-linear movement/decision-making and overall feel to the game. Last years Battlefield 3 was a bit of a lopsided affair, as the campaign was a stale, linear mess in comparison to the refined multiplayer experience.



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Review | Edge

Batman protests when Commissioner Gordon suggests he might be a murderer. Thats not how I do things, he growls. But it is how he does things; hes killed three or four people this very Christmas Eve, all because Warner Bros Games Montreal has given him a device that can suspend hoodlums from gargoyles placed just beyond the boundaries of the map.



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News::Battlefield 4 Review | The Slanted

Building a realistic shooter is an extremely volatile situation, if DICE or any other developer ever created a truly realistic war-game it would be unplayable, a terrifying horror unleashed into the gaming world. So the content has to be drip-fed, diluted and made manageable while being as entertaining as possible; and hopefully tell a story to go along with all of that destruction.



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News::Face Noir [Review] | Mash Those Buttons

Fixing a phone with candy? Stay classy, point-and-click games.



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News::German PC website recommends BF4 on PS4

A German PC gaming site goes as far as recommending Battlefield 4 on PS4 rather than on PC, unless you have a 1000 configuration.



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News::NGB | Football Manager 2014 Review

On the whole, Football Manager 2014 impressed, and the love for the Football Manager series has definitely been rekindled. There was a definite fear factor with this years title that it wouldnt cut the mustard, changes would be make for the sake of changes and that itd be another year of incomplete seasons. But, making a lot of the deeper features so much more accessible have given the game a new edge. If you were worried about previous versions of the game and thought that the series had run its course, then think again. Football Manager is back and its better than ever.



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Review | Spong

The Batman: Arkham series is treading water. It doesn't seem to have travelled far between Arkham City and the latest game in the series, Origins. The good news is that it's in a pretty decent spot for a paddle.



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News::Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag is this the Assassins Creed game weve been waiting for?

Below is a collection of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag Lets Play videos. Whaling, treasure hunting and open-world swashbuckling action are all featured in these commentary videos. Does Assassin's Creed IV actually live up to the hype?



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News::Why and how 'Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag' is better with PS4

Today, Assassin's Creed 4 is available across the country and if you have yet to purchase the game, one of the questions you may be pondering is whether or not waiting for the next-generation version of the game is worth it. The short answer to this is yes. Assassin's Creed 4 is by far a better, more enjoyable and more immersive game on PS4, the system we've played it on, than it is on current-generation hardware.



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News::How Ubisoft humbled themselves in 'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'

Some publishers, developers and franchises can tend to become a bit complacent or arrogant when they've had as many installments as the Assassin's Creed franchise has had, but Ubisoft undoubtedly has delivered one of its most impressive games to date, and the developer's humbleness has a lot to do with it. When we talk about humbleness, it definitely is a weird trait to associate with a video game, but that's what we saw in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.



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News::Vandal- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Review

Vandal:Prepare to sail the seas in this ambitious and entertaining adventure, a real pirate simulator visit places where dream and live the most spectacular battles, in one of the best installments of the saga.



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News::Battlefield 4 Review | OXM

OXM - "If theres one thing you can expect from a Battlefield game, its destruction. In our first moments with the newest addition to the series, we escaped from a sinking car by shooting out its windshield, blew up a looming helicopter, and slid off the roof of a crumbling five-story building, only to survive to fight another day."



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News::Neverwinter Shadowmantle Expansion Revealed

Perfect World Entertainment, Inc. and Cryptic Studios have announced Shadowmantle, the second free expansion to Neverwinter. Featuring the new Hunter Ranger class, and currently available on Neverwinters public test shard, Shadowmantle releases later this year.



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News::Battlefield 4 Review | CheatCC

CCC Says: "Bullets are snapping by my head; I better get behind some cover. Theres an incoming enemy helicopter to my west, and snipers in the building to my east. Im a sitting duck out here in the open. Its time to find a defensible position. Tanks have blown the building closest to me all to hell. I better make a run for the intact bunker down the hill. Im surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned, and Ive been hit. Im gonna take as many of these sons of bitches with me as I can. Its a good day to die This is the life of a Battlefield player."



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News::Nintendo confirms that sexy The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 3DS XL bundle for North Ameri

News::Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut Is Locked At 720p On PC, No Graphics Options Provided

DSOGaming writes: "And another ones bites the dust. We are pretty sure that a number of PC gamers was waiting for the Director's Cut edition of Deadly Premonition to hit their platform. Well, it appears that if you were one of them, you'll have to deal with a locked resolution and the absence of graphics options."



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News::Deadly Premonition Comes to Steam

Mike writes, "Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut, the cult classic by Swery65 is about as close to matching the tone of Twin Peaks as any game has gotten."



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News::Battlefield 4: China Rising expansion pack releases December 3

Battlefield 4: China Rising, one of the first expansion packs due to release for this month's top multiplayer shooter, will become available to Battlefield 4 Premium members on Tuesday, December 3.



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News::Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Review | NowGamer

Pirates are ruddy brilliant, arent they? Why there arent more pirate games well never know; something about riding the open sea, smashing boats to bits and claiming all that lovely booty just works. So yeah, more pirate games please.



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News::Halo: Spartan Assault Coming to Xbox One, Xbox 360

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, Microsoft has announced that Halo: Spartan Assault -- the top-down, twin-stick shooter previously exclusive to Windows Phone, Surface, and Windows 8 -- will be released as an Xbox One and Xbox 360 digital download this December. A price has not yet been confirmed.



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News::Assassins Creed IV: Enormous, but ultimately empty | ARS

At this point, Assassin's Creed should be much smarter. It should do a better job weaving its modern-era storytelling into its 18th century romps, rather than yank us out of the exciting stuff to hear endless, confusing diary entries from Desmond Miles every once in a while. It should shrink its island-hopping enormity for the sake of better-choreographed missionsones that we might actually play the way they're designed if not for the morons holding post. And it should make us feel excited to be bloody pirates, not bored with all-too-somber brooders or all-too-obvious archetypes. Instead, what should have been a rollicking thunderstorm of open-seas adventure will probably make players seasick with disappointment.



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News::Disco Takes Over the Indies

On this week's episode of theMulticast, we kill things violently, take down Verdun, and welcome our new best friend Erik Asmussen of 82apps. Playing indie games is not all sunshine and lollipops. We cover a few good ones and one bad one. To no one's surprise, Corib3ar brings with her yet another way to kill cute things. One of these days she will be tricked in to an intervention. However, this game looks to be a good time. Find out what she likes about it. Phalanx then brings Verdun to the table. That very table we burned down, Verdun and all. For an alpha looking for funding, the core mechanics need a lot of work. That said, we are working on a Civil War game. Should be just as exciting. After the jump, the real star of the show joins us. Erik Asumussen is the developer of Disco Dodgeball. One of the most fun multiplayer games we have played this year. Erik shows how a very simple concept can be the base of a very meaty game. In last week's show, we talked about how much we enjoy...



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News::Final Exam Preview | GamingLives

GamingLives takes a look at the upcoming 2.5D side-scrolling hack-and-slash-em-up from Mighty Rocket Studio and Focus Home. "Final Exam looks like it could be a decent multiplayer game for when youve got some friends round and want to try something new."



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News::MMO Halloween Events Suck

Blaine Smith of XMMORPG Writes: If I was more intelligent Im sure I could have created a slightly more appealing title but nothing else summed up my opinion more than simply saying Halloween events in MMO games totally suck



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News::Football Manager 2014 Review - Zero1Gaming

Paul Izod reviews Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2014



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News::Fondling Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures

A game about a guy who makes videos about video games. Our Fondling video series lets editors play the games for your entertainment purposes. They come in many flavors, but all taste equally sweet. Watch Ken die over and over in this punishing platformer.



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News::Reiza Studios' Ayrton Senna game unaffected by GT6, still in development for PC

VVV: "Following the surprise revelation that content relating to Ayrton Senna is on the horizon for Gran Turismo 6, a thought immediately popped into my head: what does this mean for the Ayrton Senna licensed game in development by Reiza Studios? Speaking to VirtualR, Reiza Studios confirmed that Senna's inclusion in GT6 will not affect their project: "We have exclusive rights for Senna on the PC platform. GT6 is naturally PS3 only," they confirmed."



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News::Football Manager 2014 Review - The LAD Bible

According to Steam, I played 496 hours in FM13 and 878 hours in FM12 which shows just how addictive these games can be to a football fan. I, like many, have already spent a considerable amount of time in the series that places you in every fans dream, being a manager. So whether you play it in your pants or you suit up for the cup final; is this years FM worth buying right now or is it too similar to last years iteration? Heres our review:



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News::Battlefield 4 Dog Tags Locations

The Battlefield 4 Dog Tags Locations will help you find all of them in the game and give you tips on finding them.



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News::Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Review - The Digital Fix

In retrospect, Assassins Creed IIIs Ratonhnhaké:ton (Connor to his friends) was such a downer. Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a tough act to follow, a smooth-talking rogue whose story we saw from youth to old age and all the escapades in between. In comparison, Connor was a stoic character with one single thing in mind tracking down his devilishly charming father Haytham Kenway. Well, at least we know that charm runs in the family as Edward Kenway, grandfather to Connor, headlines a return to the carefree boisterousness of Ezio and Assassins Creed IV is all the stronger for



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News::3Djuegos- Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag Review

3D:Black Flag is an excellent adventure of pirates, do not lose the essence of the series from Ubisoft but manages to bring enough new as to remain cool. The exploration is great, and although we do not agree with the reduction of the general difficulty with some problems such as derivatives of AI, the fact is that the campaign is exciting and addictive and the multiplayer is a very good level. So the next installment of Assassin's Creed is able to maintain the outstanding quality standards of the franchise, and is absolutely essential for any fan of the action-adventure genre.



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News::Mega Man board game shows off Proto Man mini

Jasco's Mega Man board game is shaping up quite nicely, with a new miniature shown off in the form of Proto Man. A Kickstarter is also planned this week to help fund more extras like this, but rest assured the board game is coming regardless of the crowdfunding operation.


For those who are wondering, the "give our fans a Break" line in the Twitter announcement refers to Proto Man's alias in Mega Man 3 -- Break Man. He uses this disguise to hide himself from Mega Man and company.


MegaManBoardGame [Twitter]


Mega Man board game shows off Proto Man mini screenshot






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News::Less is more: Assassin's Creed IV and the modern world

[Editor's Note: Our copy of Assassin's Creed IV came in late and, as a result, the review by Conrad Zimmerman will be late as well. We hope this piece by Chris will help tide you over.]


It turns out Ubisoft made good on its promise to not shove the modern day portion of Assassin's Creed IV down your throat. Throughout my time with the game, there are only a scant few portions that require you to venture outside of the exciting, debauchery-filled life of Edward Kenway, and into the present day.


But you know what? I actually spent a lot more time in it that I had initially planned, because the developers made an interesting call -- they made the real world sub-plot ancillary to the core game. And it was the right choice.


Less is more: Assassin's Creed IV and the modern world screenshot


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News::Do Giveaways Provide Enough Incentive To Make You Try An MMO Game?

The MMO world is filled to the brim with competition. There are dozens of popular publishers, just as many popular developers and thousands of MMORPG games available. But what drives you to try a new MMO game? Would you consider playing a game purely because a website offered some free items or an experience point bonus?



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News::Ginx- Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Review

Ginx:With yearly, core instalments of the main game, plus handheld spin offs, comics and books, Assassin's Creed is one of Ubisoft's biggest franchises. The size and scope of the games increases year on year, but recently there's been grumbling that the plot has become too complicated, hard to follow and samey. So is the newest instalment, Black Flag a change of pace, or more of the same?



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News::SpazioGames- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Review

SG:Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is not a trivial Assassin's Creed 3.5, as we had a little 'ironically suggested when the game was announced. Quite the contrary: it is a game that performs some important steps forward compared to its predecessor, making it better in every point of view.



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News::Check Out These Screenshots Of Battlefield 4, 1080p On Ultrawide

GameRanx, by Ryan Parreno We have a collection of screenshots for Battlefield 4 culled from a high end PC. i7 + GTX Titan + a 29 inch LG Electronics IPS monitor. This is probably the best the game can look short of 4K.



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News::Battlefield 4 Walkthrough

The Battlefield 4 walkthrough will guide you through the entire single player campaign and provide you with tips on completing your own playthrough.



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News::Battlefield 4 has a 119MB day one update

DICE has released a 119MB day one update for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 4.



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