Thursday, November 7, 2013

News::The current Bandcamp Weekly is all about game music

Independent music enthusiasts (and especially those who follow game music) are pretty familiar with Bandcamp as a platform to get affordable music while giving the creators a greater cut than through traditional means. Perhaps less well known is the weekly podcast that Bandcamp produces, featuring discussion with artists and a sampling of music, occasionally revolving around a central theme.


Citing nearly $1.5 million worth of videogame music sold on Bandcamp, this week's podcast is focused exclusively on game soundtracks. Appearing on the show are Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy), Jimmy Hinson AKA Big Giant Circles (Mass Effect 2), Jim Guthrie (Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP), Laura Shigihara (Plants vs. Zombies), Austin Wintory (Monaco: What's Yours is Mine), and Disasterpiece (FEZ).


It's a great episode, partly for the discussion but largely for the awesome playlist of music underscoring the whole thing. It's worth a listen if you have the time.


The current Bandcamp Weekly is all about game music screenshot






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News::Nicole Review: Hitting the Books and the Streets | GamerTell

From the review, "Nicole begins with our heroine, Nicole Graves, arriving at college. Its her first time away from California, but fortunately she got into the Floridian university of her dreams. Her roommate Chandra is nice, shes learning the layout of the campus, and adjusting to her new life, when she receives some rather unfortunate news. It seems her school has a serial abductor on staff."



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News::Power Button - Episode 110: Zen Studios And The Art Of Star Wars Pinball: Balance Of The Force

A long time ago in an interview far, far away, Mel Kirk of Zen Studios joined us to discuss the new Balance of the Force expansion of pinball tables for Star Wars Pinball, Zen Pinball 2, and Pinball FX 2 for consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. He spoke to us of the secrets behind developing tables based on Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader, and Starfighter Assault and explained how the creation process happens. He told of forgotten lore involving dealing with LucasFilm and respecting the Star Wars brand and he even gave us a peek into the future of the Marvel pinball world with a discussion about the upcoming table based around Doctor Strange. Now you can hear this nearly lost episode of the Power Button podcast. Episode 110 has been waiting in the wings for clearance, but the time has finally come to release it into the world. Join us for an hour of Star Wars, pinball, and much more.



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News::VGU - Worms: Clan Wars Review

Team 17 get away with murder by gaming industry standards. Every couple of years they bring out a new Worms game and every year bugger all has changed. Oh yeah sure they add a new gun or two that no one will ever use but under the hood its just the same game it was back in the early 90s. The last title in the series, Worms Revolution, finally refreshed the classic Wormss formula and added dynamic physics, letting you drown the enemy worms a little bit before you smacked them into the ocean to drowned them properly. Revolution also brought with it the stellar commentary from Matt Berry playing the fantastic Don Keystone.



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News::Top 50 Games of the Generation: 20-11

Critically Sane continues its countdown of the top 50 games of the generation with number 20-11.



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News::PCGamer- Child of Light first look: tactical, turn-based combat in a beautiful fairytale world

PCG:Im floating through a dreamy artscape, whisking little heroine Aurora across a watercolour sky in a side-scrolling Eastern European fairytale. The villagers have been transmogrified into crows, crying caw as I pass, probably to say why am I a crow?



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News::720p? 1080p? ESRAM? Why it matters and why it doesnt

Gaming Trend Editor Ron Burke writes an in-depth piece on resolutions, their differences, the math behind them, and how all of it comes together to mean almost nothing.



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News::Where Should Call of Duty Be Set Next?

Critically Sane: "Call of Duty: Ghosts is in stores now and the general consensus is that it is more Call of Duty, with less new bells and whistles than past iterations. For die-hard fans, that probably isnt a bad thing; for the rest of us though, it sounds like Call of Duty needs a makeover. Fortunately the series has gone through this before, and the results were genre changing. With this in mind, there is no reason that history cannot repeat itself. But where does the series go from here? How does Infinity Ward and Treyarch shake things up again?"



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News::Where Should Call of Duty Be Set Next?

Critically Sane: "Call of Duty: Ghosts is in stores now and the general consensus is that it is more Call of Duty, with less new bells and whistles than past iterations. For die-hard fans, that probably isnt a bad thing; for the rest of us though, it sounds like Call of Duty needs a makeover. Fortunately the series has gone through this before, and the results were genre changing. With this in mind, there is no reason that history cannot repeat itself. But where does the series go from here? How does Infinity Ward and Treyarch shake things up again?"



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Review - Worlds Factory

Worlds Factory: "We reviewed Batman: Arkham Origins, the third entry in the Arkham series by WB Montreal. Will the new developer withstand the responsibility? In our opinion, it does."



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News::Creator of the original Madden NFL Football launches Kickstarter for Indie Sports Network

GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Madden NFL Football creator on his Kickstarter for a new street basketball series. Robin Antonick wants to create the Indie Sports Network where you can make money selling your game mods.



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News::You're going to want to watch this PS4 teardown


Sony and Wired invite you for a peek inside the angular next-gen game system known as the PS4. All its innards, including the CPU, GPUs, optical drive, memory, cooling systems and more, are on display in this video. Sony's Yasuhiro Ootori points out each part, piece by piece.


I'm surprised to see how clean and elegant the build is. Everything comes out easily, with no weird angles or hanging connections. The heatsink is particularly lovely.


What do you think?


You're going to want to watch this PS4 teardown screenshot






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News::Patrick Smith of Vectorpark on the IT Crowd, toy-boxes and his new game.


Out there, in the great world of development, there are publisher cities, mainstream towns, indie villages, and hipster hamlets. In the mountains and forests, the few remaining wild developers carve wonderfully bizarre and aberrant trinkets, until they’re dragged screaming into the mainstream. And Vectorpark is a shining, ragged example of the latter.


We’ve praised the company’s toyboxes – notably Feed The Head and Windosill – in the past. And even if you don’t know them, you might recognise his work from the playful gamelike menus for the IT Crowd DVDs. However, despite much critical praise, Vectorpark is notable for never having made the jump to the mainstream.


Given that, you might not be surprised to learn that Vectorpark has just two employees. They are the company President and the mail room clerk – and they’re the same man, Patrick Smith. And he hasn’t produced a game since 2011’s Acrobots.


Not that he’s stopped completely, as he tells us. “I’m hard at work, as we speak, on an interactive Alphabet. With any luck, I’ll be finished early-to-mid next year.” He’s more been focused on activities that seem more important to him, day-to-day. “Coding, doodling, staring at the ceiling. Occasional naps.” We can dig that.


It’s notable that Smith doesn’t seem to care whether he’s making games, installations or websites. “I took some breaks this year to work on some installation projects: one is a set of animated wallpapers for a restaurant in Brooklyn (Dassara), and the other is a collaboration with the illustrator Malika Favre — an interactive projection for a hotel in Amsterdam.”



Smith’s art is as outsider as his games.



He especially doesn’t seem to care about whether the work is generally well-received. “My stuff is on a slightly unusual wavelength, and not everyone is going to dig that. And that’s okay! Expecting everyone, or even most people, to love what you do is pretty unrealistic. If a thousand people in the world are receptive to my work, that still seems like quite a lot.”


But it’s key to him that he’s into the project. “Mostly, I’m just encouraged if I have a good idea, or a bad idea that I’m excited about.” For example, he found working on the IT Crowd fascinating, but difficult. “I love the show; it’s hilarious. So it’s pretty much the coolest freelance job I could ask for. It was something of a challenge to satisfy both myself and Graham (Linehan, the show’s creator), but he’s a brilliant guy, and the end result was better for it.”



Windosill, like all Smith’s games, is suitable – nay MANDATORY – for children from 1-100.



And, mostly, he’s excited about toy boxes as much as games. “Toy-like, because I’m partial to pointless, playful, and hopefully-beautiful trifles. Game-like, because a game provides a structure — a backbone — and gives the user a means of navigating through the experience. I think of puzzles as kinda like speed-bumps, designed to slow you down and make you participate with the environment.”


“But of course, not everything needs to be a game. Sometimes I’ll have the germ of something, that I know I like, but I don’t really know what it IS yet. So I have to step back and let it breathe a bit. It’s a mysterious process. I have things I started years ago that I still haven’t figured out what to do with.”


“I think it’s just my own personal inclination. I’m not terribly interested in puzzles per se, but I enjoy the way a system can evoke a sense of a larger reality. As a user, being invited to interact with that reality can be, in some cases, a fairly magical experience.” Indeed, the games that Smith himself plays fit with the ones he makes; currently, he says that he’s looking forward to Gorogoa, Kachina, and Hohokum. “Maybe I just like weird names?” he asks.



Staying on the outside certainly seems to give Smith a different perspective, free of the politics of the indie community. “From my point of view, I’m basically doing the same thing I was doing since before Windosill, before Feed the Head, back when I wasn’t even really aware of an indie game scene.”


“So, it’s kinda like living in the wilderness for years, and one day discovering an entire town has sprung up nearby. It’s great to have some neighbors, maybe you even make some friends, but at the end of the day you’re still growing your own food. Not that I have any idea how to grow food.”


We can’t have him starving. Somebody, anybody; feed the head.


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News::Humble WB Games Bundle We can be Heroes

"On this really special day, WB Games has introduced Humble WB Games Bundle! It is pay what you want, supports charity and you will get separated CD keys, so you will be able to give it to your friends."



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News::Crusader Kings II - Sons of Abraham - Developer Diary #1

Know all about what is coming in the next expansion Sons of Abraham for Crusader Kings II in this video developer diary.



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News::How to Survive Review | TwoDashStash

Hot off the success of Payday 2, 505 Games brings us How to Survive, a top-down shooter game that blends RPG, survival, and crafting elements with fast paced zombie killing action developed by Eko Software. In How to Survive, players will find themselves foraging for food, searching for water, finding safe shelter, and scavenging for supplies in hopes of escaping an archipelago that has become overrun with the living dead. The game includes a bunch of different elements that could make for a really compelling experience had they been fully developed and better executed.



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News::Battlefield 4 on Amiga 500 - Simulation

How does it look like if you take Battlefield 4 and strap the specs down so that you can meet Amiga 500 requirements like 640 x 256 pixels, 16 colors, 12 frames per second? A recently released video tries to show the outcome



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News::Mad Max - First Gameplay Footage Revealed [Off Screen]

DSOGaming writes: "Guru3D's member 'Stone Gargoyle' has spotted the first gameplay footage from Avalanche's upcoming sandbox title, Mad Max, captured by YouTube's member 'zoneofgamesru'."



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News::Call of Duty Makes Season Passes Respectable

Last year, I made the fairly pretentious claim that Call of Duty was now an institution, which is precisely the kind of Brobdingnagian, fatuously-important declaration you make about something that is A) extremely popular, and yet B) almost entirely unremarkable (even among folks, like myself, who are consistently interested in yearly CoD releases). We can all set our watches by the early November release of each new installment, and like most watches, the terminal process is unmoved by our critical platitudes. We say what we can to demonstrate that we still respect the series legacy, but that hasnt looked much more interesting in the last few years than well, here comes CoD, and well, there goes CoD. The time when I enjoyed talking about CoD as much as playing it has now passed on, bedecked with Egyptian cotton sheets and surrounded by loved ones.



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News::Call of Duty Ghosts VGA graphics performance benchmark review

Guru:For todays article will benchmark Call of Duty Ghosts. Join us in this preliminary article where close to 20 graphics cards are being tested with the new Call of Duty Ghosts. As such we'll take the more popular and modern graphics cards today and have a look at DX11 performance with the newest graphics cards and technologies. The new and popular title is looking great from a graphics point of view.



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News::AllRangeMode - Farewell to a Generation!

If you've played a Video Game in the last 8 years, come celebrate with us!! Farewell to a Generation!! If you like the show Subscribe on iTunes so we can keep delivering golden Videogame Entertainment! https://itunes.apple.com/gw/podcast/all-range-mode/id570777797



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News::Call of Duty Pro Gamers Angered

6aming's Jamie takes a look at what the new Call of Duty: Ghosts has done to the competitive gaming community.



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News::EVGA Teasing Leaks - Turns out to be GTX 780 Ti Superclocked

EVGA had recently taken to teasing images on Instagram which all of us thought was just the GTX 780 Ti Launch. Turns out its something more special: GTX 780 Ti Superclocked.



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News::Blackguards Arrives on Steam Early Access

Daedalic Entertainment has today launched Blackguards via the Steam Early Access programme. Set for final release in January 2014, the Early Access programme allows gamers to influence the development of Blackguards as well as accessing content that would otherwise be unavailable.



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News::MapleStory 2 Debuts, Beta Test Coming Next Year

MapleStory 2 finally surfaced today. Developed by N Square, a development studio that cooperated by NCsoft and Nexon, MapleStory 2 released the teaser site in Korea. This is the first time that we hear the official news about MapleStory's sequel.



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News::Behold Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm key art

Blizzard has revealed the key art for their upcoming project Heroes of the Storm, and it's basically a veritable "who's who?" of the Warcraft, Diablo, and Starcraft universes. Pretty m much every character in the portrait is actually a famous character, even the Night Elf lurking in the top left corner (Sylvanas Windrunner), readying her bow to strike Illidan down. Also, don't forget Nova, the star of the canceled Starcraft: Ghosts .


Growing up with Blizzard games, seeing Arthas next to Diablo is pretty crazy, and I hope the actual gameplay lives up to the premise. Stay tuned at Destructoid for a full report once a playable build is ready.


Heroes of the Storm [Twitter]


Behold Blizzard's Heroes of the Storm key art screenshot


Read more...



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News::Front Towards Gamer -- Battlefield 4 Review

Battlefield 4 explodes and implodes on certain areas, while retaining much of the predecessor structurally intact, for better or worse.



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News::Need for Speed Developed by EA Sports?

Future Need for Speed Titles will be published and developed under EA Sports, as an effort to boost their sales.



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News::GTX 780 Ti Nude Pics - PCB, Temp and Analysis

'Nude' Pics of Nvidia's Shiny New GTX 780 Ti have just been leaked. The Exposed PCB also allows a detailed chip analysis of the GTX 780 Ti.



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News::Call of Duty: Ghost dog tags income will go to charity

The company has announced that the sale of new dog tags of Call of Duty: Ghosts are not intended to make profit, but instead, will go to Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit organization, created by Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, organization that supports veterans.



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News::Top 5 Pirate Games

Lisa shows off her shanty skills to give us a look at the top five pirates games.



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News::Batman: Arkham Origins Review (ITF Gaming)

Brady Ruiters from ITF Gaming writes: o other game series delivers an authentic Batman experience better than the Arkham Series. The first game in the series introduced the Freeflow fighting mechanic which made everyone who picked up the controller feel like a badass. Players could attack from the shadows, be a master when in combat and utilise some awesome gadgets from the arsenal of the Dark Knight. The latest game in the series, Batman: Arkham Origins is a prequel that focuses on a younger, brasher Batman possibly during the very first of many long nights for the Caped Crusader.



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News::Tank Operations: European Campaign Release Date Revealed

Kalypso Media Digital has announced a publishing agreement with Linked Dimensions GbR to publish Tank Operations: European Campaign, a classically inspired turn-based strategy game for Windows PC. In Tank Operations: European Campaign, players will take on the role of a WWII Field Marshal, blasting through twelve campaigns in turn-based warfare.



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News::The Typing of the Dead: Overkill | CheatMasters

By avoiderdragon: The House of the Dead series will always be remembered by arcade goers who played it during a time when kids asked their parents for quarters to play on the machines instead of their credit card numbers for buying DLCs. The games were good fun and cheesy as hell, with bad voice acting and irreverent humor that actually enhanced the feel. However, it was the spin-off game released in 2001 for the PC and Dreamcast that truly captured the off-beat style, and the gameplay was actually quite good as well. Plenty of people learned how to touch type with it, and that makes it a good educational game. With this new title in the series, that same gameplay is now being introduced to a new generation.



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News::EverQuest Next Landmark Dev Diary Released

EverQuest Next is an upcoming fantasy MMORPG by Sony Online Entertainment. Recently the developer released its third video dev diary detailing resource gathering, tools, and landmarks. Tools being the focus, the devs discuss the pick, sickle, axe, and bucket.



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News::Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 Gets A New Developer Diary

Konami Digital has released a five minute development video, outlining the role of Dracula in its forthcoming Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 title.



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News::Call of Duty: Ghosts Multiplayer Changes | GameTrailers

A little bit of Modern Warfare 3 goes a long way in Ghosts multiplayer. Find out what has changed, for better and worse, in this discussion



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News::Bit Tech- Call of Duty: Ghosts Review

BT:Reviewing a Call of Duty game is a little like reviewing your fridge every twelve months. You know exactly what it does, and while you may not be able to recall precisely what's inside, you can probably hazard a fairly accurate guess. You know there's going to be a bottle of milk, a couple of beers, and a few putrefied mushrooms you should have thrown out days ago. Occasionally you'll discover some delicious bacon that you'd forgotten about, but more often it's a pot of low-fat yoghurt that's been left so long it resembles low-fat cheese, or a box of eggs that really doesn't need to be in there.



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News::Deadfall Adventures - Sahara Trailer

Nordic Games shared another trailer for the upcoming Deadfall Adventures.



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News::Mass Effect 4 Official Release Date Plenty Of Rumors

Mass Effect 4 or New Mass Effect? We do, however, have a few details about where the creators may intend to take the franchise. First, the only concrete information we have is that the game will run on the Frostbite 3 engine, so itll likely only be for next gen consoles. (Actually, the Xbox 360 and PS3 might be able to run it, but definitely not the WiiU). Second, the new game will definitely not be about Shepard. Bioware has constantly stated that ME3 was Shepards final tale very forcibly on both their forums and in interviews. Shepards story is over. Casey Hudson has publicly stated that not only will the next game not feature Shepard, but it will in no way imitate him/her whatsoever:



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News::Scourge of the Mandate offers free text adventure goodness

Perihelion are still after your money for The Mandate, with their Kickstarter halfway to its $500,000 goal with 25 days to go, and theyre offering more free goodies in the hopes of piquing your interest.



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News::11 New Games On The Indie Strategy Bundle

Techraptor- The Bundle In A Box returns to present the Indie Strategy Bundle. An assortment of 11 delightful, truly indie and impressively varied indie strategy games everyone can enjoy for the reasonable price of pay-what-you-want.The bundle, by a Kyttaro Games, in an effort to promote indie developers and quality games, is launching today and will last for 14 days and offer all games as DRM-free downloads, but not exclusively so; many games are also available on Steam.



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News::New free SimCity DLC sponsored by insurance company

Maxis continue their free SimCity DLC releases with the help of more in-game product placement. Weve had a car manufacturer and event toothpaste, now its the turn of an insurance company. Yes, an insurance company



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News::Newegg has a crazy sale on old Rockstar games for PC

Newegg is running a sale right now on some older Rockstar games for the PC. All of the games are digital downloads, and are up to 76% off. Titles available include the Max Payne series, Bully, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto IV, L.A. Noire, Manhunter, and Midnight Club 2.


Most of these are only three bucks, so go grab something. All of these are good games, and I'm sure you can skip a cup of coffee today to get yourself a video game. Max Payne is one of my favorite series of all time, and if you haven't played it you need to drop everything and spend $10.50 to get all three games. It's totally worth it.


Newegg has a crazy sale on old Rockstar games for PC screenshot






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News::Demonicon Review (PC) | CalmDownTom

"Demonicon, or to give it its proper name The Dark Eye Demonicon, published by Kalypso Media is an Action RPG based on the German pen and paper role playing game The Dark Eye. This game is a little bit different from what you will be used to with modern RPGs like the most recent Fallouts or Skyrim. This is evident as the story is very dark and the game is all about the story and your choices. The entire region has been taken over by demons and the only sanctuary is on the precipice of being ravaged by plague." Says CalmDownTom



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News::Batman Arkham Origins Review - Midlife Gamer

CraigieH says "Batman: Arkham Asylum is a game likely to be mentioned in many a Game of the Generation deliberation I know it is high on my own personal list. After an arguably diluted stretching of the formula in Arkham City, can the transition to Warner Bros Montreal inject some new ideas and energy into the formula? The, somewhat predictable, answer is that the new studio decides to play it safe yet, in doing so, crafts a solid game that is well worth your time, but may leave you feeling a sense of deja vu if you are familiar with the series."



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News::Top Ten: New Features in XCOM: Enemy Within

6aming's Mitch looks at the upcoming XCOM: Enemy Within expansion and picks out some of his favorite features coming to the strategy title.



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News::Call of Duty: Ghosts Video Review | IGN

Does the first next-gen Call of Duty live up to expectations?



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News::Achievement HUNT #2

This week's Achievement HUNT, brings you Geoff vs. Michael.



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News::Game Guys review - Battlefield 4

Yet another year is drawing ever closer to its close which means that, yet again, Activision and Electronic Arts have released the latest editions of their big-time FPS franchises of Call of Duty and Battlefield.



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