News::Dreamcast Prototype Back From The Dead, Free To Download

News::Disney Characters Without Their Beards Are Frightening

News::No Mans Sky Developers Assess Damage After Destructuive Flood: Well Come Back Stronger

Christmas Eve is not always happy for everyone, and Hello Games, the 4-men team that impressed everyone with the trailer of the ambitious No Mans Sky was hit by a disaster yesterday as a river broke the bank near its office in Guildford, UK. Today the small developer gave some detail about the damage they suffered, and promised to "come back stronger"



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News::Three Terrible Games to Play Instead of Celebrating Christmas

Hardcore Gamer: The holiday season is upon us, and thanks to increasingly rampant commercialism, its better than ever before. Unfortunately, the whole friends and family thing hasnt quite died off yet, and Christmas is still very-much infested with cheek-pinching, mistletoe-dodging, and gift box-shaking aplenty. However, thanks to some advances in technology over the past few years, acknowledging your family during these trying times is a Facebook like away. Dont let them fool you into caring. Instead, play some video games. Awful, disgusting Christmas-themed video games.



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News::16-bit RPG demake of Gone Home coming

The first-person exploration game Gone Home is receiving a 16-bit RPG demake from a dedicated fan.



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News::The LEET Pure PC ($1,799.00) - A PS4 And Xbox One Killer For Your Entertainment Room

Home theatre PCs (HTPCs) have been around for more than a decade, but they remain fairly niche additions to your living room or entertainment room. This is despite the fact theyre actually more flexible in many ways than consoles or smart TVs. What if you could have a high-end gaming PC connected to your TV and living room sound system instead of a console, Blu-ray player or media streamer? Thats exactly what LA-based PC manufacturer Steiger Dynamics proposes and builds its incredible systems made to order.



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News::Assassins Creed IV Black Flag Freedom Cry DLC Review | COIN-OP TV

Overall, Freedom Cry is a solid piece of DLC, well worth the $9.99 price tag.. Fans of the franchise will enjoy the new aspects to naval and hand-to-hand combat and the score is simply fantastic.



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News::Opinion Telltales Approach To Game Of Thrones

GI - "I was more than pleasantly surprised when HBO's adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones turned out to not only be competent, but a good experience in its own right that complements the property and offers its own merits. Now Telltale Game is taking a turn at the trough with a game based on the show. Despite the pedigree of all of the principals, I'm currently not optimistic about the project."



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News::Borderlands 2: How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day DLC Review | TheEscapist

It's Christmas Time in the Borderlands, and they're ringing in this new year with the latest holiday-themed DLC in the series, How Marcus Saved Mercenary Day. True to form, it looks like the forecast for the third Headhunter pack is going to be boxes, guns, and more exploding snowmen than you can shake a boom stick at.



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News::STR CAST Episode 08: Str-N-Gameanon I - Game of The Year Edition

Special Guest Host Carl Houtz of Gameanon & The Nerds Discuss: Their picks for Game of the Year, the NSA invading online gaming, and necro fetishes. HOSTS: Carl Houtz, Salvador Madrigal, Brian Acebedo & Samson Lancaster



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News::Gorogoa first look: a charming and beautiful illustrative puzzle game | PCGamer

A little boy is standing next to a street sign looking dejected. The source of his sadness is obvious: the sign shows an archway leading to a lush garden, but the wall next to the boy is blank. I'm playing Gorogoa, an illustration puzzler (sound the new-genre klaxon!) built around seeing connections between different pieces of Jason Roberts beautifully drawn game world.



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News::Top 10 Hearthstone Moments of 2013

8CN: Back in August, Blizzard invited people to play a humble, little digital card game called Hearthstone. Whether or not anyone expected it, even in closed beta it's grown to be one of the most popular games in the world. With so many people streaming and recording their games, we decided to put together a list of our top ten favorite moments.



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News::David Jagneauxs Top 5 Games of 2013

David Jagneaux of The Koalition writes: "There were a lot of great games this year. People say that every year of course, but I really mean it. Gamers across the world had RPGs, shooters, adventure games, action games, platformers, MMOs and everything in between. On top of all that, we saw the launch of the next generation of gaming consoles, handheld consoles like the Vita and (especially) the 3DS actually got a lot of use in my house and the last generation shows no sign of slowing down. The PS4 and Xbox One are great pieces of modern technology, but they don't really have the super-mega-hit games to back them up quite yet, so you won't see any of those games on my list."



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News::The winner of Destructoid's best of 2013 community choice

The Last of Us is as close to perfection as a videogame can get, and many, many of you agreed with that sentiment; in fact, it received more votes than BioShock Infinite, Super Mario 3D World, and Grand Theft Auto V combined!



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News::Best Game Name of 2013

Good titles are a minority in the video game industry, so Hidden Audio Log takes a second to congratulate the best game name of this year.



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News::The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode One: All That Remains Review | DigitalTrends

DT - "Over the last few years I have reviewed hundreds of games and movies. Thats not hyperbole either. Im not claiming to have reviewed billions of things, but in the hundreds is an accurate figure. And of them all, this may be the easiest review Ive ever had to write."



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News::Top 10 Battlefield 4 videos of the Week #6

The weeks' top 10 Battlefield 4 videos as sent in by the community.



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News::World of Warplanes Review Flying for Free | TechnoBuffalo

Whether its planes or tanks, Wargaming has always been really, really good about keeping things approachable. That remains true for World of Warplanes. Fly a few tutorial levels and youll be up-and-running in a snap.



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News::Assassin's Creed IV Freedom Cry: DLC That Digs Deeper | USGamer

USG - "My aspiration for the Assassin's Creed series is to be action games that speak to something deeper about the era they inhabit. While the first Assassin's Creed kicked off the age-old war between the Assassins and the Templars, the conflict in that game was more nuanced."



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News::Worst Game of 2013

This year wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, so Hidden Audio Log is "proud" to reveal the "winner" of the worst game of this year "award".



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News::Five Facts - Left 4 Dead

Jack and Geoff talk all things Left 4 Dead in this week's episode of Five Facts!



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News::Guilty Gears Dizzy Makes A Cameo In A DOTA-Like Game

What Sega is doing with Chaos Heroes Online is pretty interesting. They licensed the rights to the PC game better known as Chaos Online in other regions and added Sega crossover characters. Now, Chaos Heroes Online is getting guests from Guilty Gear.



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News::Will Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition Be The Best Diablo Yet?

Grainger Games looks ahead to Diablo III: Ultimate Evil Edition on the PlayStation 4 and wonders whether the smash hit will be the greatest console MMO ever.



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News::The Walking Dead: Season Two: Episode One Review - Duuro Magazine

Duuro says: "The Walking Dead: Season Two: Episode One shoots for the stars! Now that the first episode of the second season or call it sequel, just released and by the looks of it, we are going to crya lotagain. "



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News::Is Dark Souls Going Mobile?

"From Software created a cult hit with its punishing console strategy fighter Dark Souls and ahead of the game's sequel - releasing in March - comes some interesting comments from publisher Namco Bandai."



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News::HonestGamers Review // The Walking Dead: Season 2.1 - All That Remains

Gary Hartley Writes: Clementine will have to do things to survive. They wont be pretty. They will be your fault.



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News::Deadly Premonition Review | PCGamer

PCG - "Listen up, fans of intriguing storytelling, because I have a great game for you. Oh hang on, I should have been more specific. Im looking for fans of intriguing storytelling who also enjoy cars that drive like shopping trolleys with a stick jammed in one wheel, intermittent game crashing, an excess of QTEs and some frankly tedious game mechanics."



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News::Hysteria ensues; Muse DLC comes to Rocksmith 2014

"One of the biggest English musical exports since Iron Maiden is making its way to Ubisofts Rocksmith 2014, as a special Muse pack of songs is now available for download for the guitar teaching game. Spanning most of the bands career, the downloadable pack features Supermassive Black Hole, Stockholm Syndrome, Time is Running Out, Hysteria and Muscle Museum. Muse is no stranger to the music game genre, with their big hit Knights of Cydonia making its way onto everything from Guitar Hero to Rock Band and even last years Rocksmith." - Andrew Martins



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News::What we want from Mass Effect IV

How do you follow an act like the galaxy's most high-stakes game of three-card monte? Apparently by completely starting over. BioWare has long insisted that Mass Effect 3 marked the definitive end of Commander Shepard's story arc, regardless of whether you picked the green pill, the red pill, or the blue pill.



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News::Review: Goodbye Deponia | oprainfall

oprainfall's Brad Williams writes: "Goodbye Deponia is a very pretty but very ugly game. The third and final act in the Deponia series sees main character Rufus and his friends, Goal, Bozo, and Doc, trying to save the titular world before it is destroyed at the hands of Elysium. Through the course of the adventure, Rufus will encounter characters from past games, both friend and foe, and have to thwart the Organon military to save the world."



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News::Nosgoth Concept Art illustrates Sentinels, Sommerdamm and more

Free-to-play multiplayer action title Nosgoth gets a bunch of fresh concept artwork today, and you can peruse them in detail right here to prepare yourself for the impending conflict between vampires and the humans who hunt them.



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News::PC Version of Lego Marvel Super Heroes on Amazon for $12

Hardcore Gamer: LEGO Marvel Super Heroes has gotten a lot of praise on our podcast, and it delivers the same kind of LEGO thrills that people are used to from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones incarnations.



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News::Train Simulator Review | PCGamer

Robert Stephenson and the Reverend W Awdry are rotating in their resting places. The latest edition of the worlds favourite train simulator contains no steam locos whatsoever. Significant new features are pretty thin on the ground too.



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News::Let's Play Cloudberry Kingdom Part 4

The idiots are back for another round of Cloudbery Kingdom. Without their fearless leader, what hope do they have?



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News::Monster Legends Tips and Tricks Guide - Hints, Cheats and Strategies

WP - "Monster Legends is a new game by Socialpoint, the makers of Dragon City, that came out for Facebook first, and is now out for iOS, and eventually for Android as well. The gameplay follows Dragon City, as well as many of the other dragon- and monster-breeding games out there, but with an added battle component a la Pokemon, allowing you to battle your monsters against other players and in quests."



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News::Call of Duty: Ghosts Festive Personalization Pack Now Out for Free

Infinity Ward has came out with a new Festive Personalization Pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts and it is FREE to download. The personalization pack is available for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, and PC.v



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News::Dementium 2 HD Review | SpawnFirst

Chris West of SpawnFirst reviews Dementium 2 HD on the PC: "While it may not sound it, Dementium's gameplay is more meh than outright terrible and most fun will be had laughing at the bad monster design, environments, and story. What makes it even more funny, is the game takes itself seriously which I find to be endearingly cute; it's just like when Resident Evil first came out. Unfortunately the repetitive combat arenas and boring gameplay design aren't funny plus the full controller support is untrue. Anyone looking for a serious survival horror or well-designed action game should look elsewhere. For those looking for an unintentionally funny experience, this is worth playing, though I would buy it when it's cheap. Very cheap. "



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News::Best Soundtrack of 2013

We're big appreciators of music over here at Hidden Audio Log, and we're ready to announce what we believe to be the best soundtrack of 2013 to be!



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News::Game Scoop: 2014's Most-anticipated Games

All the games you can't wait to play in the next 12 months.



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News::Review: Football Manager 2014 (This Is My Joystick)

Every good football manager will tell you the sack is inevitable. The life expectancy at club level these days is less than a single season, and you cant look at the back page of any national newspaper in the build-up to Christmas without a run-down of whos leading the sack race. While we fans say that a new man needs time, we happily add to the pressure and call for his head when our team loses three in a row. After all, you could do better, right?



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News::Broken Sword 5 Episode 1 Review | RPGFan

RPGFan - "I never expected to see a new Broken Sword game this year. There hasn't been a new installment in the series since 2006, and even that one flew under my radar. The first Broken Sword game, Shadow of the Templars, is one of my all-time favorite graphic adventures."



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News::PayDay 2 Would Have Been Better As PvP

XMMORPG Writes: I purchased PayDay 2 a few days after its original launch and despite its many problems at a core level, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The cooperative approach to objective-based FPS missions is a fresh approach amidst the flood of competitive-based action in the likes of Call of Duty and Battlefield but embracing the competitive nature of today's top FPS games may not have been such a bad idea after all.



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News::Songs2see Review | Combo Caster

Songs2see is a musical game where we score according to how we play the instruments we chose, in line with the songs. It also serves as a good excuse for those who have not yet ventured into this world to learn.



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News::Holiday Sale at Origin

Triverse writes, "Origin.com are having a hell of a sale on their site right now, many titles are 40% off, now is your chance to complete a series, start a new one or grab an expansion pack you have had your eye on."



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