News::Report- League of Legends updates getting blocked by UKs anti-porn filter

League of Legends players have reported difficulties in downloading updates for the game due to the UKs new anti-porn filter.



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News::Bluetooth ZX Spectrum Pics

T1 - Elite Systems Group Ltd are bringing the classic ZX Spectrum back, zapping the classic 80s home console to iOS devices (with Android, Windows Mobile, PC, and Mac planned for future releases) via Bluetooth with the help of some Kickstarter funding. The retro/modern fusion doesnt get much cooler than this.



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News::Best grossing F2P games of 2013 - CrossFire and League of Legends in the lead

The f2p gaming segment has seen a 45% financial growth in 2013, and titles like CrossFire, League of Legends or Dungeon Fighter Online are in the lead!



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News::Prepare For Dead Rising 3's 13 GB Patch With An Hourlong Video

News::Sony looking into corrupted PS4 save files

There are reports of PlayStation 4 users encountering error code CE-34878-0, which signifies that an application has crashed, across multiple games including Battlefield 4, FIFA 14, and Resogun. Some of these crashes have resulted in the corruption of save files and unplayable software.

In a statement to CVG, Sony said "We are aware of the cases and we appreciate your patience while we investigate." From the sound of it, the issue may be hard to track down since this is a generic error for any crash on the system. The crashes may be specific to each individual game.

According to Sony, users should "Close the application, install the latest system software and game update, and restart the system. If the error occurs again, back up your saved data, and then go to [Settings] > [Initialization] and choose [Initialize PS4]."

PS4 users report save corruption errors [CVG]

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News::A Few Free PC Mods May Keep You From Buying Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition

GG3 gets the latest news about Capcom. While the publisher is finally releasing an easy to play version of a classic with Resident Evil 4 Ultimate HD Edition for $19.99, it's already possible to get there for free with the regular PC port, through the magic of mods. Some may even be better.



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News::Nigoro takes La-Mulana 2 to Kickstarter

If you weren't already sold on the existence of another La-Mulana, watch this Kickstarter pitch video for the game -- equal parts silly and informative, it's one of the best I've seen. Developer Nigoro is back with the help of Playism, who is publishing and localizing La-Mulana 2 as well as running the crowdfunding campaign for the action-adventure title.

While this is a sequel, playing La-Mulana beforehand isn't necessary. The new game stars the original protagonist's daughter, Lumisa Kosugi, and her journey through the Eg-Lana ruins.

Nigoro is primarily targeting PC (and Steam) however there are quite a few stretch goals, some of which have to do with members of the development team eating curry, and others relating to handheld and console ports. The base funding goal is $200,000 which is entirely feasible.

Oh, and La-Mulana is $1.49 (90 percent off) on Steam for the next 48 hours (thanks, Scuffles).

La-Mulana 2 [Kickstarter]

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News::5 Strategy Games You Should Play

Gaming Union: "Strategy games sit in an interesting position within the gaming world. They require the player to both think ahead and react to events quickly enough to keep the odds in his or her favor, sometimes in real time and sometimes over the course of some slow-moving turns."



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News::KickBeat Steam Edition Review | GAMERamble

GAMERamble takes a look at the Steam version of the rhythm based title KickBeat.



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News::Broken Age Act 1 Review | TheGamersPad

There are some who might say the time of the adventure game has long passed I say Adventure games arent dead, you just need to solve a riddle and find 3 objects to open their hiding place. A recent Kickstarter campaign dragged the adventure genre back into the spotlight though. You may have heard of Double Fine Adventure, a game...



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News::Next-Gen Gaming Plays It (Way Too) Safe

An opinion column via eGamer in which the author discusses how many launch window next-gen titles are just reboots of pre-existing franchises. Where is all the new IP we were promised?



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News::A deep dive into the making of the eye-popping Star Swarm demo

GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi interviews Oxide Games' co-founder Tim Kipp about how his company used AMD's Mantle API to put up to 5,000 spaceships on the screen at once in the Star Swarm demo.



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News::Alienware Steam Machines won't be upgradable

Alienware is coming out with a Steam Machine of its own, or should I say Steam Machines -- the company intends to put out a new model "every year." Speaking to TrustedReviews, general manager Frank Azor said "There will be no customization options; you can't really update it. The platform will continue to evolve as the games become more resource intensive."

That sounds great if you're hooked into some sort of Brewster's Millions-esque scenario in which money is no object. For the rest of us, not so much. To be clear, Alienware's Steam Machines will be somewhat configurable when ordering online as one would expect.

However, "If you actually want to customize your Alienware Steam Machine, maybe change your graphics card out or put in a new CPU, you would be better off with the standard Alienware X51," said Azor. "This particular product is restricted in its upgrade options."

In making its big push into the living room, Alienware has taken the worst "feature" of consoles.

Alienware: We will launch new Steam Machines every year [TrustedReviews via VG247]

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News::Heres why Early Access Games shouldnt be reviewed

onPause writes: The question that we ask now is, Should we review Early Access games when they become available?, and I think the answer is no.



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News::Darkout Review (PC) | Calmdowntom

"Darkout is survival horror mine and build emup for the PC. It is basically a combination of Terraria, the movie Pitch Black, and a pinch of Metroid. You play as a character who was jettisoned from their ship and has crashed landed on the planet Illuna, a planet that you had just escaped from. Using tools gathered from your escape pod you need to gather resources to build a shelter before exploring the planet." says Calmdowntom



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News::Watch These People Swap Genders With Virtual Reality

News::How Lara Croft Has Changed Over The Last 16 Years

News::Maxwell Finally Gets Listed Nvidia GTX 750 Ti with 2GB GDDR5 Memory and $225

Maxwell has finally been listed. An online retailer has listed the Maxwell GTX 750 Ti with 2GB worth of GDDR5 Memory for 50, 000 HUF ($225).



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News::Hanging with Jamie Fristrom Designer of Energy Hook

TVL speaks with Energy Hook Creator Jamie Fristrom about his upcoming game, and return to the web-swinging mechanic he himself pioneered.



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News::Rumor: Nintendo's new system is Nintendo Fusion

As skeptical as I am about the rumored name of Nintendo's next game hardware, "Nintendo Fusion," the idea that the company would have a console and handheld that work hand in hand coming off of the Wii U does sound like an obvious move.

Nintendo News has been tipped off by "one of [its] very reputable sources" with technical specifications for the rumored systems, "Fusion DS" and "Fusion Terminal" (again, really?) which you can read here. Supposedly, these will run 3DS and Wii U games, respectively.

Interesting timing with the Nintendo's recent financial outlook, certainly. Again, I'm fairly skeptical about all of this but it's a good talking point even if the rumors don't pan out. At least this wouldn't be confused with the original Wii, which is sadly still an issue.

"Nintendo Fusion" Could Be Nintendo's Next-Gen Hardware Name [Nintendo News]

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News::Assassin's Creed Liberation HD Review | Dealspwn

Dealspwn: "Even in the shadow of the all-conquering Black Flag, Liberation HD makes a strong argument for an immediate purchase. The visual upgrade is fantastic and Aveline is a compelling addition to the series roster. The odd dull mission and combat grievance can be frustrating, but theres plenty to love here for both for newcomers and regulars."



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News::Rymdkapsel to see PC launch on January 30

Rymdkapsel, the tetromino-based space station building strategy game with a Swedish name, originally released in May of last year on PlayStation Vita, and has since made the rounds onto Android and iOS. Early last month we heard that it would be coming to PC this month, and it looks like it will just barely stick to that.

It is set to release on Windows, Mac, and Linux on January 30, which is apparently a popular date for quirky indie games. Rymdkapsel will sell for $7.99 on Steam or DRM-free through the Humble Store, with a 10% launch window discount.

The PC version features a couple of new modes to play with. Plus Mode boasts new monoliths to unlock and play with, but I'm personally more interested in Zen Mode, which allows players to build a space station and listen to the music without having to worry about pesky enemies coming to destroy everything.

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News::Tom Clancy's The Division - New Spectacular Screenshots Released

Tom Clancys The Division is one of the most anticipated games of 2014 and Ubisoft released today three new screenshots from it.



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News::New Deception IV: Blood Ties new JP trailer is fantastic

Koei Tecmo does not let us down in this new trailer for Deception IV: Blood Ties. In just two short minutes you get brain bashing, face caging, stone crushing, horse racking, bomb bowling, pole bonking, and so much more. Stick around for the very end of the video, too.

We just recently learned that the release date for Deception IV: Blood Ties is set for March 25. I can't wait.

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News::Nidhogg Review | 6aming

6aming's Mitch warps into 2D pixels and explores the indie title Nidhogg to find out if it's worth playing.



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News::Free Expansion Released For Dawn Of Fantasy: Kingdom Wars

Reverie Studios today announced the second ever free expansion for the critically acclaimed large-scale MMORTS game, Dawn of Fantasy, with the release of Kingdom Wars: Arcana.



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News::Indie Game Insider | Nidhogg Review: The Eloquence of Simplicity

Forward, backward, up, down. Attack, Jump, Duck. Duck and Attack is a leg sweep. Jump and Attack is a dive kick. Up and Attack throws your sword. Standing still? Up and down changes sword height. Kill or run to get eaten and win. Technically, you now know how to play developer Messhofs long-awaited indie fighter Nidhogg. But realistically, theres a little more to it than that.



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News::Strife: new gameplay screens and artworks

S2 Games unveiled a new selection of gameplay screenshots and concept art related to their next MOBA



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News::New Screenshots for the Ultimate HD Edition of Resident Evil 4 for PC

Capcom just announced that its bringing the ultimate HD edition of Resident Evil 4 to the PC as a digital download on February 28, 2014 for $19.99. This edition will be the first time that gamers will be able to play RE4 in glorious HD running at 60 frames per second. A batch of new screenshots have been released to showcase the updated visuals, which you can check out after the break.



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News::CD Projekt RED on What Makes The Witcher 3 A Next-Gen Title

OnlySP: Speaking exclusively with OnlySP, Micha Krzemiski, Senior Art Producer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt told us a few new details about their upcoming open-world RPG.



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News::Podcast Locked In: Episode 6

This week Dave and Will from NoobFeed have a chat about Nintendo's failure in sales, PlayStation Now and the amount of Steam Boxes announced. As well, they discuss Day Z and its addictive qualities.



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News::Screenshots for Arma 3's New Adapt Campaign

Adapt will push the war tactics of gamers much harder than the first episode, which mainly served as an introduction to basic infantry tactics. This second campaign episode opens up the sandbox if you will, and requires more guerrilla-like tactics to survive. Head on down past the break to check out the new Adapt screenshots for a better preview of the new content.



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News::Resident Evil 4 Ultimate Edition announced for PC

"Capcom UK took to social media to announce Resident Evil 4: Ultimate Edition, headed to PC and Steam next month. Aside from the HD facelift previously seen in the XBLA and PSN ports of the game, the game will boast 60 frames per second and a slew of Steam goodies, including achievements, Steam Cloud, Trading Cards, leaderboards and full controller support. All the extras seen in previous releases of the game, such as the Separate Ways epilogue, will be present, alongside subtitle support in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese and Polish The game will be made available digitally on Steam worldwide and will run you $19.99/19.99, with a retail Windows version also slated for release in Europe, all slated for Feb. 28, 2014." - Patrick Kulikowski



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News::Still Playing: Dark Souls – what’s triumph without the pain of loss?

You can read our original review of Dark Souls here.

There’s a feeling common to a lot of first-time players of Dark Souls, and it’s possibly not what you’d expect for such a universally acclaimed game. It’s this: I regret buying Dark Souls.

The intro doesn’t help, given that it’s what could politely be described as a concentrated burst of intriguingly oblique backstory, and less politely described as a baffling five-minute payload of generic fantasy guff. Then there’s the character creation, where you can stare at a big list of numbers, select a meaningless character type, and choose from a selection of faces and wigs that look like you passed out on a barber’s floor after a heavy night on the glue.

Follow this up with a tutorial-cum-opening level that takes a University of Life approach to teaching you the game, and it’s easy to feel a nagging sense of regret. Seventy hours and one New Game+ later, that feeling has slipped away – but it never quite completely fades. Dark Souls takes that sense of of loss and kindles it, makes it a part of the game’s mechanics.

While at heart it’s a Tolkien-ish action-RPG that embraces some of the genre’s baggage with a zealot’s passion, like crumbling kingdoms, grids of numbers and grinding, Dark Souls discards others, like inns, parties, NPC romances – and, most unusually of all, steady progress. In most RPGs, the deal is that you give the game your time, and in return it increments some stat or other. Progress is strictly one-way, a simple equation of percent completion over time. Not here. In a world where most games take great pains to never let the player make any irrevocable decisions, Dark Souls seems to go out of its way to let you make big mistakes.

Dark Souls is one of just seven games we’ve retrospectively awarded a 10. Our ‘ten amendments’ feature was part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, and can be found here.

Take weapon crafting for example. Like an adult setting a toddler loose on the engineer’s menu of an expensive TV, the game lets you tinker unsupervised with its weaponry – with predictably disastrous results. Upgrading a weapon to crystal status sounds like a deal with no downsides – crystals are lovely, and the stats on offer are among the few times raw numbers can be beautiful outside of a mathematician’s head – but it’s an expensive, irreversible way of turning that beautiful, glass-sharp sword into an unrepairable glass-brittle display ornament.

Similarly, it’s possible for players to kill vital NPCs, or to blunder into areas that are next-to-impossible to escape from. Not all players will reach the bottom of the Great Hollow – a thousand-foot pit of rail-less walkways, inhabited by a race of homicidal mushroom people that look like cheery Belgian cartoon food mascots and hit you like a metal fist attached to the front of an articulated lorry – but those who did without the necessary item to warp out again should probably just quietly give up.

And of course, there are the souls at the heart of the game. Part XP, part currency, accumulating with every kill and yet impossible to bank, the rules governing them are simple – if you die you drop them, and if you die again you lose them forever. If most RPGs have grinding as the equivalent of treasury bonds – steady, riskless accumulation – then Dark Souls’s grinding is day trading penny shares on one screen, while multi-tabling high-stakes poker on the other.

Dark Souls II will be released in March. You can find all of our coverage of From Software’s sequel to date here.

After all, what’s triumph without the pain of loss? What’s a comeback without some low to come back from? All players will have a story about losing their entire soul stash through either personal idiocy or design malevolence, and as the game progresses, the magnitude of that loss will seem to scale with your level. At first, you’ll bite the carpet after dropping a few hundred souls. By the time you’re in New Game+, you’ll be haunted by Black Soulsday – the moment when 100,000 souls slipped between your fingers.

But the continuous sense of regret doesn’t discourage the player. Not permanently anyway – regret is not just the knowledge that you’ve made a mistake, but crucially the desire to do better next time. Each death in Dark Souls will cost you, as does each stat you level up incorrectly and each weapon you ineptly upgrade, but nearly any mistake can be put right – for the right, often painful, price – and every resurrection is an opportunity to re-live and remake the decisions that haunt you. All those failures, all those setbacks, cumulatively and paradoxically add up to eventual success. Your quest – given to you by a dying man begging you to succeed where he failed – is to repair a broken, decaying world, to undo not only your own mistakes but everyone else’s. Along the way, you’ll fail a thousand times until you eventually triumph, and because each failure is a small-but-genuine loss that final victory feels both well-earned and utterly real.

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News::Pixelated Radio 72: AC: Liberation HD, Unepic, Puppeteer, the Wii U, and much more

In this week's episode, the guys talk about Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD, Unepic, The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief, Puppeeer, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, some news, and much more!



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News::Let's Play: Nidhogg

Posted by Colm Ahern Who knew that a fencing game would be all the rage, this week. Nidhogg appears to have come out of nowhere for many and its an awful lot fun when you have someone sitting next to you, hurling insults your direction, or vice-versa. Below, you can check out a video I did with my dear friend Michéal Murf Murphy, in which we try and kill each other, over and over and over and over and over and



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News::Wasteland 2 Beta Preview - Gametactics

Wasteland 2 is the long awaited sequel to the 1988 PC game that went through Kickstarter to drive up the funds for its creation. I got to play around with the Early Access Beta, which was meant for Kickerstarter backers. Also unlike many betas, this one is structured more like a demo, only representing a slice of the full release. Only the demo is still a work-in-progress and where the final product might be different from the demo.



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News::New Arma 3 DLC Trailer Released

Bohemia Interactive today released the second episode of the official campaign for Arma 3. In the new episode, titled Adapt, players take on the role of Ben Kerry, a soldier trapped on the island of Altis following a Mediterranean flashpoint. The new campaign episodes release is accompanied by a brand new trailer.



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News::Is One Alien Going To Save the Franchise?

"When you think about horror in space there are many different franchises that can be brought up, but there is one license that deserves a great game on the current generation of consoles as well as PC. That is the Alien franchise. Recently, it has suffered huge blows with video game releases. The most recent being the controversial Aliens: Colonial Marines, which promised a lot more than it actually delivered. However, with Creative Assembly now at the helm, can the series be revived?"



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News::Broken Age: Act One is something to snuggle up with and play | Examiner

Scott writes: The fact that Broken Age drew in both my son and daughter with no prompting at all from me is the single highest praise I can give it.



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News::HeyUGuys Gaming Wishlist: 20 PC games that we would love to see on next-gen consoles

20 PC games that we would love to see arrive on the Xbox One, PS4 and Wii U



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News::Why Complaining About Titanfalls Visuals Is Dumb

Clickonline writes "Seriously, blatantly ignoring the fact this is an ALPHA TEST who are the geniuses standing around staring at the walls and floor when there are twenty feet mechs falling from the sky as jetpacked free-runners nip across rooftops?"



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News::How To know if Steam is Down using Steam Status

SteamFirst: As you scroll through the threads on Reddit, you may find that some people are complaining about an element of Steam which may be down. Maybe the Steam store is bogged down or maybe there are some issues at the moment in DOTA 2. Rather than scrolling through threads looking for what may not be functioning at the moment, you can take a quick peek...



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News::How to Defend Corners at FIFA 14

FIFPlay: Taking a corner kick is a good opportunity to score a goal at FIFA 14, but when it comes to defending a corner kick you definitely dont want it to be happened so. To defend corners in FIFA 14, you need to do some stuffs before and in the game. Before the game.



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News::Global Weekly Chart

3DS 417,206 (-44%) 42,127,535 PS4 267,128 (-43%) 4,403,602 PS3 202,276 (-32%) 80,816,748 XOne167,385 (-43%) 3,086,421



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News::Bundle Stars Kingdoms Bundle of Steam Keys

SteamFirst: Bundle Stars has another collection of Steam keys for us at a crazy low price. This week the bundle includes six Steam titles for a total of $2.99. Below you will find a description of each of the titles included in the bundle as well as a video preview of each.



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News::Storytelling in Games: How to Write an Amazing Story

A guide on how to create amazing stories. Games with good storylines tend to stand out like a gem, because it's such a rare feature in games. This post aims to shine some light on this topic for game designers.



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News::Very Quick Tips: OlliOlli

OlliOlli is a very, very interesting game. It explains exactly what you have to do outright at the start, and even then, I had trouble. That's because I basically had to re-learn everything I knew about skateboarding games.

Without grasping certain concepts, OlliOlli can be pretty brutal, so here's a bit of help.

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News::France Weekly Chart

3DS 23,356 (-64%) 2,766,997 PS4 15,302 (-49%) 251,177 PS3 9,769 (-48%) 5,051,407 XOne 7,878 (-36%) 133,160



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News::Germany Weekly Chart

PS4 17,258 (-47%) 265,538 3DS 14,224 (-58%) 1,778,844 PS3 9,336 (-51%) 4,416,872 XOne7,692 (-43% 135,583



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