News::Darkout PC Review | iGame Responsibly

Darkout is a sometimes fresh, sometimes derivative entry into the genre of 2D sandbox gaming. The litmus test for this type of game is and will remain Terraria. While Terraria itself could be considered a 2D version of Minecraft, it ended up as such a refined, focused game that it forged its own lineage. Does Darkout do enough to differentiate itself from Terraria or is it simply a clone?



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News::[Featured Gallery] World of Warcraft and Diablo III Fan Art Watch

Today we share some nice Blizzard fan art by Robert Maldonado (screen name d1eselart), an art artist from US who love painting from childhood. Roberts artwork includes everything from concept work and 3D models to fantasy paintings and fan art inspired by Diablo, World of Warcraft, and Starcraft. We caught up with him to find out more about him and his art. Enjoy his amazing Blizzard art below!



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News::Steam In-Home Streaming Explained

SteamOS is just hours from officially launching and one of the most common question users seem to be confused with is how exactly Steams In-Home Streaming feature will work. Will we need to be using a Steam Machine to play the stream coming from our high-end machine?



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News::More Strider screenshots

Strider Double Helix and Capcom Osaka has released a bunch of new screenshots related to their next side-scrolling platform game.



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News::Watch Battlefield 4...with Star Wars Sounds

The creators behind the Battlefield series are hard at work on Star Wars Battlefront and the anticipation for Battlefronts long-awaited return is practically killing fans around the world. Thats why Star Wars Headquarters has put together this video, showcasing Battlefield 4 with Star Wars sounds and the results arewell, judge for yourself! And, after watching the video, Im sure you will be just as pumped as we are about Star Wars Battlefront! What are you looking forward to most in Star Wars Battlefront? The epic space battles? The vehicles? Weapons? How about those lightsabers?



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News::Battle of Heroes Land of Immortals domain registration followed by Ubisoft trademark

Earlier this week, Ubisoft registered the names BattleofHeroesGame.com and BattleofHeroesLandofImmortals.com. But it's not just domains that Ubisoft is getting. The domain registrations have been followed by trademark filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. On December 10, 2013, the company filed two trademarks (US Serial Numbers 86139588 and 86139580) for "Battle of Heroes Land of Immortals" covering computer games.



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News::Dragon Quest X version 2 screenshots

Check out some new screenshots from Dragon Quest X version 2.



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News::DayZ Standalone alpha release might be imminent

Rocket himself leaked some information...well, almost!



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News::10 Problems with the VGX Awards

Original Gamer: "Last Friday, I read an article on Polygon about how Geoff Keighley and the VGA crew were going a different direction with the VGX. Apparently that direction was creating an award show that was hardly a show and raised the bar on cringey entertainment."



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News::Original Gamer - Battlefield 4 Review

Original Gamer: "Will the latest entry in the Battlefield series be the best, or has it finally shriveled in quality? Hopefully the game will actually be playable to find out."



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News::Game Buzz | Episode 58 - Fallout Boy

Dealspwn writes: This week on Game Buzz, we lament the demise of Blockbuster UK, chat about VGX and some of the reveals from that nadir of games entertainment, we mull over the Fallout 4 rumours flying about, and dish out some early opinions on the WildStar winter beta.



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News::Whats Kicking? Episode 7

For the seventh episode of Whats Kicking, were bringing you even more crowd funding campaigns that all need your help and support.



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News::VGU's Friday Night Magic | Episode 5, Kamigawa Rats

Welcome to VGU's Friday Night Magic, the weekly show that takes us on an adventure through the world of Magic the Gathering. Whether its Online matches, Campaign brawls or Sealed play, Friday nights will always be Magic Nights. In the fifth episode, we finally leave the plane of Ravnica and enter the illustrious realm of Kamigawa. Who will stand in our way to the white dragon scale?



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News::Mass Effect 4 Next Release From Bioware?

Since the recent release of photos depicting the Mass Effect development team as a part of the annual N7 Day Celebrations, gamers havent stopped talking about the upcoming game.



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News::Life Day Gear to be Embargoed After Current Run

BioWare have been under fire for a while, for their decision on letting embargoed items reaper on the Cartel market. Eric Musco answered an angry player on the official forums yesterday concerning this issue



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News::New option to buy 14,500 Cartel Coins for $99.99 in SWTOR

BioWare have added an option to the Cartel market for the big spenders. Its now possible to purchase 14,500 Cartel Coins for $99.99 ingame.



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News::League of Legends: The First 21 Days of Season 4s Preseason

Warp Zoned writes: "Its been three weeks since Riot Games released Patch 3.14 for League of Legends. The patch brought with it all of the changes players have been waiting for since the end of Season 3s Grand Finals. Included were changes to vision, the jungle, supports, and of course, all of the champion and item balance tweaks that come with any patch. For a quick review of what Riots changes were, check out my previous article What to Expect From Season 4. As wed all hoped, Season 4 seems to have made significant changes to the League of Legends world, while still keeping the game true to its core. The meta has seen a bit of a shift, and will likely continue to change as the new season grows into its own. Most notable at the moment, however, is the influx of supports and support players, as well as the champions who have become extremely powerful because of various changes, such as Evelynn and Shyvana."



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News::Get Loaded Deal Has Any 2 Sega Games For Just 8, This Weekend Only

GG3 reports the latest deals floating around. Online Store Get Games returns with yet another Get Loaded promotion that yields any 2 games from a selection of 16 titles, with tons of Steam keys in there. Perfect for anyone who missed a Sega game or two in the past. Be quick though, this one is almost over.



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News::Valiant Hearts: The Great War Fact Sheet Revealed

Following Electronic Theatres extensive coverage of Valiant Hearts: The Great War, publisher Ubisoft has revealed an updated fact sheet for the forthcoming videogame. Valiant Hearts: The Great War is currently in development at Ubisoft Montpellier, and is set for release next year.



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News::Call of Duty Ghosts Xbox One Update for December 12

December 12th brings up many updates for the Xbox One that attack stability issues, bugs, fixes and even some weapon balancing. The previous update on December 2nd was nearly half the size of this current update which leads us to believe that a great effort was put into this update that should correct many issues that gamers have been having the past few weeks.



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News::Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Passes 1.5 Million Registrations

Square Enix, Inc. and Square Enix Ltd., publishers of Square Enix interactive entertainment products in the Americas and PAL territories, respectively, have announced that Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has exceeded 1.5 million registered players since its launch. The combined total is across North America, Europe, Japan and PAL territories on both the Windows PC and PlayStation 3.



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News::Hardline 003: Best and worst of 2013, VGX, No Man's Sky

This week on Hardline, Conrad once again fills in for Hamza, who is off petting tigers on vacation. The gang chats about Spike's VGX awards show and how it can be improved going forward, the crazy-ambitious space exploration game No Man's Sky, the worst games of the year as well as our favorite moments of 2013, and Destructoid's game of the year nominations process.

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News::Why Payday 2 Fans Are The The Most Unpleasable Community Ever

Forget LoL, WoW or any other game condescend to a three letter acronym, Payday 2 has the most unpleasable fanbase. While it is a great game to play with mates, Overkill's grand larceny simulator has an issue with angry, unpleasant gamers who think everything is terrible, even as they enjoy the game.



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News::Demonicon The Dark Eye Review | PixelPerfectGaming

Demonicon The Dark Eye takes you back to the dark, gritty universe of The Dark Eye. It plunges you into a foreboding tale where every decision you make has a major impact on the world and the people around you. You are given full control over every conversation, allowing you to shape your own destiny anyway you see fit.



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News::The Art of Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag Now Available

The recently released Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag sees change for the videogame franchise with a harsh new setting in the Golden Age of pirates. Celebrating the change of scenery and era is a brand new hardback book dedicated to the art of the popular videogame.



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News::Capcom Announces New Modes for Ultra Street Fighter IV

Hardcore Gamer: Today at the Capcom Cup fighting game event, Capcom revealed two new gameplay modes for Ultra Street Fighter IV.



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News::$508 Cheap Bastard's Gaming PC Build That Plays It All

GamersNexus: "It's been a while since a true revival of our Cheap Bastard series of gaming PC builds. We recently posted a low-end League of Legends PC for $425 that can be assembled very quickly, but it was really spec'd just for low-end games. We had a recent forum request for a cheap PC build capable of Twitch streaming, YouTube video editing, and gaming for around $500. That's what this gaming PC tries to do. This Cheap Bastard's gaming PC build has no frills -- it just gets the job done, namely gaming on high settings, lightweight video rendering, and Twitch streaming for around $500."



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News::Fate Cast News: Fallout 4 is Real and No Mans Sky Revealed

Man, this week turned out to be pretty solid on the news front. In the week ending on 12-14-2013, we were shown a new trailer for The Walking Dead Season 2, found out that Fallout 4 is, indeed coming, and were lucky enough to find out about No Mans Sky. Also, I forgot to mention it in the news, but the release date for the Elder Scrolls Online is April 14, 2014.



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News::Need for Speed Rivals Review | T3

Arcade racers used to be a staple of your average high street games retailer - Need for Speed, Burnout, Ridge Racer, Midnight Club and countless others used to line the shelves. If arcade-style racing started with all these names on the grid, it seems now that Need for Speed is the last man standing.



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News::Astral Terra Dwarves Concept Art

Sandbox fantasy RPG Astral Terra gets some new character concept artwork, this time showing off one of the playable races as per popular demand in Astral Terra.



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News::The Stanley Parable Review | GeekedOutNation

The Stanley Parable, released in HD on the 17/10/2013, developed by Galatic Café with the original version developed by Davey Wrenden, was created from a Half-life mod for PC. The Stanley Parable is a unique game that has received a wide range of positive critical acclaim for being a very thought provoking game.



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News::The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II Weapons Concept Art

Indie developer NeocoreGames have released a bunch of work-in-progress concept artwork showing off some of the numerous weapons players can gets their mitts on in The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II.



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News::Sims Weekend Sale at Origin

Triverse writes, "Electronic Arts is having a weekend sale on Sims titles, including opening pre-orders for Sims 4. There are some great deals listed below, some titles/expansions are up to 50% off. Next week we are expecting the sale to focus on racing games but till then, why not grab some Sims 3 titles that you may be missing from your collection?"



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News::Can you embargo a pro-gamer from playing other games?

One of the most talked about things in the pro-gamerverse this week has been the controversial matter of brand loyalty. In particular; League of Legends loyalty. MMO-Play revealed the details of the leak and what it means for contracted Pro-Gamers!



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News::New Details Unveiled For The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II

Neocore Games announced today the key features of The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II.



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News::'The Division' devs talk driving, NPC-player interaction and police hostility

In our continuing reveal of new information about the highly anticipated game, The Division, we take a look at what developers are working on for allowing players to be able to drive cars, what NPC-player interaction may look like and if police NPCs will be hostile toward players. Mathias Karlson and Axel Rydby, who are the lead game designer and design director on The Division, respectively, discussed these topics beginning with whether or not independent NPCs will be able to help players.



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News::1985FM Podcast 66: WTS Photocopy of Link Between Worlds

If you had nothing special going on last Saturday, maybe you caught a glimpse of Spike's re-branded VGAs. 1985FM still feels dirty having witnessed it, so they talk through the emotions and try to see a future where VGX can't hurt us anymore. Link Between Worlds is amazing! Vasilis and Randy explain why the new Zelda 3DS game is just what the series needed. YouTube ad-affiliates are being pressured to drop monetizing of game videos. Nathan spoke with an Xbox One... Did it respond? Nope, and he'll tell you why he thinks Kinect 2.0 is broken. Also on the show... Community questions, what makes a game so "definitive" on consoles, when it's still better on PC, and how-to shop for paper, next-gen consoles on ebay!



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News::How to Get the 2015 Ford Mustang in Need for Speed Rivals

Hardcore Gamer: Earlier today, we broke word that EA had partnered with Ford to debut the 2015 Mustang in Need for Speed Rivals. How that would happen, however, was a little unclear. So here's the lowdown.



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News::Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure Explodes onto Steam

Hardcore Gamer: Courtesy of Devolver Digital, Mark Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under is now available on Steam for $7.49 (half off the regular $14.99 price tag).



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News::I Actually Played This Road To Hell: Retribution

The author intentionally plays bad video games for your twisted amusement. Tonight's episode: Road To Hell: Retribution



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News::Perfect World MMO launching next expansion this month

Perfect World International will receive its latest expansion, titled New Horizons, on December 18th. The update will bring a handful of new features, including the Reawakening and War Avatar systems.



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News::Blade Hunter Enters Alpha

Blade Hunter is an upcoming free to play sidescroller MMORPG featuring beat em up action gameplay. Currently under development by R2Games, the team behind City in Steam Blade Hunter has now officially entered Alpha testing.



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News::Razer Battlefield 4 Peripherals | AntiGravNet

We have taken a look at the Razer Battlefield 4 Collectors Edition peripherals and share our thoughts with you! The reviews are of the BlackWidow Ultimate keyboard, Taipan mouse and Blackshark headset.



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News::Some Killer 3D Art from Bioshock Infinite

Some 3D Fine Art of Bioshock Infinite characters, these characters were design by Gavin Goulden the lead characters artist at Irrational Games.



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News::140 PC review | CheatMasters

By avoiderdragon:If youre a fan of classic 2D platforming, then the slew of new indie titles coming out of the woodwork must have had you in a giddy state, like a dog wagging its tail when given its favorite chew toy or something. With each new title, the envelope is being pushed to different directions. Some of them ramp up the difficulty like I Wanna Be the Guy and VVVVVV, while others come up with new mechanics and narrative devices like Braid and Trine, and then theres this one that just looks very different. 140 is quirky in both name and looks, standing out in what is otherwise an old-school genre.



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News::Corsual In D - A Starbound Musical Production

Corsual's EXP writes: "Honestly, I never thought we'd pull this off. There's a lot to coordinate when attempting to perform a 20+ man Starbound Musical, and I had resigned to defeat before we'd even begun. And yet, for all of the issues that cropped up, we were able to perform a stunning set of Canon in D as our finale performance, and I thought I'd share it with you all here today."



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News::The Bureau: XCOM Declassified Get $12.50 Sale on Steam

Hardcore Gamer: The Bureau: XCOM Declassified has only been out for four months, but thanks to a Steam sale, can be yours for a mere $12.50.



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News::Intake Gets Better with the BE Aggressive Update

Hardcore Gamer: As far as arcade shooters go, Intake is one of the best.



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News::Muse 5 Pack headed to Rocksmith 2014

Hello Rocksmith 2014 fans! Its Friday which means Paul has given twitter a cryptic hint that definitely should resonate with longtime fans of both Rock Band and Guitar Hero: Its not just the Rock Band Forums meme of MOAR MUSE, though. Through a Steam leak TheRiffRepeater has seen that there is indeed a FIVE pack from MUSE on the way.



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