Tuesday, January 28, 2014

News::Loadout Review [Capsule Computers]

James Mapley of Capsule Computers wrote: Loadout is a fast-paced, third person shooter with near limitless amounts of gun customization, meaning that no two games are ever the same. It currently features ranked and unranked game modes that are centred around objective based gameplay, with custom games coming soon and the new annihilation mode.



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News::Why Do We Love Survival Games?

Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw : A couple of weeks ago we enjoyed a little idle speculation on what the prevalence of collateral damage in popular entertainment says about the collective mindset of the human race. Well, let's add to that speculation, like a bunch of police profilers trying to identify a serial killer, and wonder what the deal is with all these survival games.



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News::Update Will Bring Colorblind Mode to Borderlands 2

In an upcoming, undated update Borderlands 2 will be introducing a new option for players with color vision deficiencies to make the game more accessible.



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News::Okay, sure: Metal Slug 3 hits Steam next month

I have lost track of the number of times I've bought Metal Slug 3, which usually isn't a good sign -- but it's one of those timeless games and I can't help myself. Absolutely no regrets. Temptation will arise once again in February when the game becomes available on Steam.


Besides the character-select screen's head-scratching artwork, this looks to be about what you would expect after so many ports. Of special note: DotEmu appears to be handling development alongside SNK, and there's online cooperative play plus cloud saving.


No word on a price yet, but the Steam landing page is active. I'm ready to zombie vomit.


Okay, sure: Metal Slug 3 hits Steam next month screenshot






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News::Divinity: Original Sin Preview | GIZORAMA

GIZORAMA - Original Sin is the newest in the surprisingly long series of Divinity series of fantasy games, stretching back to the 2002 Diablo-esq RPG Divine Divinity, from Belgian developer Larian Studios. Standing as the third main game in the series not counting the expansions and spin-offs, Original Sin exists almost solely as a result of its Kickstarter campaign. Larian had long been hoping to make an old-school turn-based RPG for some time but their publisher would always force them in a more action-oriented direction to maximize sales. Now, with all the freedom that self-publishing brings, they were able to make the game they had long hoped to.



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News::What I Want from A Dishonored Sequel

When a Dishonored sequel launches, heres some of the things Id like it to have.



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News::How Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor Could Assassinate Assassins Creed

With so many similarities between the two, how could Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor become a better game than Assassin's Creed? At the very least, perhaps competition will push Ubisoft to fix some of the series most long-standing issues.



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News::Titanfalls 6v6 Player Count is Really a Non-Issue

Zoran Cunningham writes: "When Respawn Entertainment revealed their upcoming title Titanfall would have a limited player count of 6v6, an unfortunately large number of misguided gamers took to forums and message boards to express their distaste and disappointment. Some went so far as to boycott the game or cancel pre-orders. Its one of the most presumptuous and uninformed overreactions in recent memory."



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News::Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Coming This Summer

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is just months away. The official Twitter account for the gory, top-down shooter revealed today that it will launch sometime in the third quarter of 2014.



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News::Side with Thor or Loki in Paradox's new RPG, Runemaster

Paradox is looking to make a game so ambitious you'd think they're trying to please Odin himself. Runemaster is an upcoming title from the house that made Crusader Kings , Europa Universalis , and many more hit strategy games from the Sweden-based developers.


Yet Runemaster isn't anything like Paradox has created in the past. It's a role-playing game with JRPG influences based on Norse mythology. It's a game where you'll play on the side of good or evil, preventing or bringing about Ragnarök (the end times). And it's a game that takes place across six procedurally-generated worlds offering emergent storytelling that changes based on what you do in your quests.


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News::Three scrumptious new Witcher 3 screenshots

CD Projekt Red has unleashed three scrumptious new screenshots of The Witcher 3.



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News::Legend of Dungeon Review | RGN

Louis of RGN writes, "Legend of Dungeon is a role playing game that long-time fans of the genre will appreciate and likely fall in love with as it is one of the most new-meets-classic indie interpretations of Action RPG gameplay to hit the industry in a while. The game sees players delving deeper and deeper into its dungeon system vanquishing foes and obtaining various power-ups with a gameplay system that is both intuitive and satisfying right from the beginning. Finally, a role playing game has arrived which doesn't try to be different for the sake of being different and yet feels unique and fresh to the genre. The developer has taken elements that have worked in the past for this genre while bringing a totally new presentation and feel to it at the same time."



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News::Despite Console War, EA and Titanfall Curry Favor with PC Master Race

GR - I can just hear everyone shouting and booing at their computers. Origin?! The thought! Why I'd never install Origin, ever! If you've seen Titanfall in action, you know you'll need the best platform for optimum frame-rate, resolution, and connectivity. The folks at subreddit r/PCMasterRace know a thing or two about optimum graphics and performance.



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News::6 Of The Scariest Monsters From The 'Silent Hill' Series

BD writes: "Im happy to announce that this week is Silent Hill Week here on Bloody Disgusting! Why, you ask? The reasons are twofold. First off, why not? Silent Hill is awesome, and its a series thats worth celebrating. Secondly, the original game will see its fifteenth anniversary on Friday, so theres that too. Id very much like to kick this off with a look at one of the (many) things that makes this series so unforgettable: the monsters."



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News::Metal Slug 3 Launches on Steam in Closed Beta

Hardcore Gamer: Its amazing that its 2014 and classic Neo Geo titles still arent on Steam. After all, theyre on Wii and even that one handheld thing some people bought.



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News::Up Up Down Down: Super Hexagon

GameZone: "Here on Up Up Down Down, we usually check out triple-A releases that are available on home consoles and the PC. This time we're changing things up, because, well, we can. And because I want to. And honestly, because Super Hexagon is a hell of a mobile title and arguably one of the best things to ever come to handheld touchscreen platforms. Brought to us from VVVVVV developer Terry Cavanagh, Super Hexagon carries the spirit of frenetic arcade games and tosses in a crazed, dizzying style that makes you feel like you're falling through some weird dimensional portal. This is one of the best examples of a mobile game done right. Super Hexagon has a ton of heart, and it's a complete product that doesn't ask more from you than the listed price tag. That being said, a few things may stand out to some players as imperfections. So let's take a look at everything that makes up this wonderful endeavor, even those practically insignificant imperfections."



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News::No Stopping Fifa 14

FIFA 14 (-14%) makes it 4 straight weeks in 2014 at No1 and 9 in total since launch. In yet another quiet week for new releases the Top 3 are unchanged with Call of Duty: Ghosts (-2%) still at No2 and Battlefield 4 (-13%) at No3. Lego Marvel Superheroes (-2%) is at No4 swapping places with Ubisofts Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag (-35%) at No5. Format exclusives Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (+2%) and PS4s Killzone: Shadow Fall (-12%) are at No6 and No7 while Grand Theft Auto V (-4%) climbs a spot to No8. EAs third Top 10 title Need for Speed: Rivals (-17%) slips two places to No 9. Theres a debut at No10 this week for Namco Bandais Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z. The title for Xbox 360, PS3 and Vita becomes the best selling Week 1 for any multi format Dragon Ball title as far back as 2009.



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News::Continue Play Review of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Platinum games has never made a bad title, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is no exception. As the name suggests, Revengeance is a spin-off from Metal Gear Solid. Its had something of an interesting development cycle to say the least, so its perhaps fitting that it comes with an interesting name. Originally announced at E3 in 2010 with an incredible technical demo, Kojima Productions ultimately found it difficult to design a game around the sword mechanic and had only a handful of story concepts. Consequently, the game was shelved later that same year a fact that caused an emotional outburst from many an anguished fan.



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News::Best 10 Video Games Weapons Of all Times

A computer game without a weapon is sort of a boardgame with a missing piece. they can be something from a tactical shoulder-mounted nuke to the clever brain of the player. without them,...



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News::Cradle CryEngine 3 Powered Fantasy Open-World Headed to PC | OnlySP

OnlySP: Open-worlds and fantasy games are almost inextricably linked. They are about world-building in their fullest sense; literally, from the ground up from a concept to its realization. Cradle looks to tap-in to that seam, but also promises to bring new imaginations and ideas to a familiar genre. Mojo Game Studios, the developers behind Cradle, have been successfully raising supporters through their Kickstarter campaign in order to bring this ambitious and cutting-edge game to life. If Skyrim left us wanting new lands to explore and new adventures to find, Cradle looks like it might have what weve been waiting for.



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News::Blood Dragon creative director working on dream project

The creative director of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is working on his next game at Ubisoft, which he's described as "the dream project. It's the one all of us have always wanted to make and it seems like they're gonna let us do it," he revealed to Polygon.


While it's possible the title could "go out the window," Evans says he's assembling his "dream team" and has earned trust from the company "to go and build a compelling and unique universe." This won't be more Blood Dragon, in other words. (Though that could one day happen.)


One member of this team is concept artist Darren Bartley whose DeviantArt page is telling in all the right ways. While Evans wouldn't give the name of the person responsible for art direction yet, he said it's someone who has an eye for 1980s and '90s aesthetics and previously worked on AAA stealth and third-person shooters. You don't say.


Funny how little actual information is needed for me to be interested in this.


Blood Dragon was one of creator Dean Evans' tamer ideas [Polygon]


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News::Dota 2's New Bloom Festival patch coming tomorrow

IncGamers reports that Dota 2's New Bloom Festival patch - with its two new heroes, Replay Takeover function, new game mode, and a whole lot more - is live on the Test Client now and will hit the game itself tomorrow.



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News::Steal, Smuggle and Hack Your Way Across Space in Starcrawlers

When you think of dungeon-crawling RPGs, what genre do you usually associate it with? Probably fantasy I bet, since many crawlers seem to tell their tales in realms of magic and wizardry, in medieval-like worlds. Indie studio Juggernaut Games seeks to change that, with their upcoming science fiction title Starcrawlers, which will allow players to run a crew of talented fixers who take on shady jobs on the fringes of space, while exploring, fighting and resolving encounters however players choose.



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News::GOG.com Time Machine sale begins


GOG.com has worked up another interesting sale scheme you might want to take a look at. The "DRM-Free Time Machine Sale" started this morning and will be offering deep discounts on games from GOG.com's collection of classic computer titles, one at a time, for a limited time. How limited that time is depends on you, as purchase of the current title extends the time it's available at that price for an additional three seconds. Even if you don't choose to buy, you can have an impact with up-and-down voting which adds or subtracts a second. When time expires on a deal, it is then replaced with a new offer.


This is a much better idea than their prior, "limited number of copies" promotion, which went great until a game came along which nobody wanted and stalled out the progress of the sale for hours. Allowing shoppers to downvote to get the next deal a little faster ought to compel a little participation.


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News::Nintendo: No plans to offer mini-games on smartphones

Following lower-than-expected sales forecasts for the Wii U and 3DS this year, Nintendo will announce its new strategy to investors on Thursday. Reportedly, this initiative includes releasing mini-games and promotional materials for smartphones in an effort to convince players to grab fully-featured games for Nintendo hardware. Not so, says Nintendo.


In a statement to Engadget, the company denied the mini-game claim: "Nikkei's article contains information previously stated by Mr. Iwata during past press conferences, including statements which relate to Nintendo's willingness to make use of smart devices to promote our products. However during such past announcements Mr. Iwata has also stated that Nintendo's intention is not to make Nintendo software available on smart devices and as such, we can confirm that there are no plans to offer mini-games on smartphone devices."


It would seem Nintendo will have something for smartphones, then -- just not games. We'll find out soon enough and then arguments about how right or wrong the plans are can unfold.


Nintendo denies smartphone software rumor, says it has 'no plans' to offer mini-games on rival hardware [Engadget]


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News::Second developer diary for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 takes you into its world

Konami has just released a brand new developer diary for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2. Join the games producers, Dave Cox and Enric Alvarez, as they take you into the open-world of the game.



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News::The Super Bowl Ends With a Safety, Says Tecmo Super Bowl

News::The Elder Scrolls Online won't require PS Plus, will require Xbox Live Gold

The Elder Scrolls Online will not require a PlayStation Plus membership to play on PS4, ZeniMax Online Studios Game Director Matt Firor wrote in a PlayStation Blog update. Bethesda confirmed to Joystiq that the subscription-based MMORPG will require an Xbox Live Gold membership to play on Xbox One, however.



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News::Nidhogg Review: Insufficient Lunge - Pixel Related

If theres one thing competitive gaming has been sorely missing out on, its clearly been fencing. Okay maybe not but either way developer Messhof is here to fill the void with Nidhogg. This fun little game is all about fast reflexes, strategy, running away and getting eating by giant worm creatures. Literally.



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News::Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation Month starts in February (Free Goodies)

onPause writes: EA and DICE have announced that it will launch what is called the Battlefield 4 Player Appreciation Month starting February 1st 2014 which is of course geared towards players who have had to endure bugs, errors and hard freezes over the past few weeks and months.



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News::Spotlight: Power-Up

Posted by Colm Ahern. Spotlight is a sporadic video series which, in many ways, is similar to a Lets Play. However, while our Lets Play videos are of video games that are recently released or, about to be released, games featured on Spotlight may be a little bit older and possibly didnt get a lot of attention around the time they came out. Plus, games that are in an early stage of development can show up on Spotlight.



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News::5 Awesome Tools to Help Budding Game Developers Get Started

Stop complaining about other developers' work and get started on the future of the industry right now with this awesome software.



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News::Broken Age Part 1 Review | CheatCC

CCC Says: "Here we have ittwo years after it kicked off the crowdfunding trend with a massively unexpected level of success, the first part of Double Fine's adventure game Broken Age is releasing to the public. Expectations for the game may be impossibly high, especially amongst some Kickstarter backers, but I aim to take it for what it is: a small, charming adventure game made on a shoestring budget for a commercial game of its quality."



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News::Two New Screenshots From The Wolf Among Us Episode 2

Telltale has released two new screenshots for The Wolf Among Us: Episode 2 Smoke and Mirrors, which is set to release in early February.



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News::Steam Update and DOTA 2 Update Details

SteamFirst: As Steam paves the way toward our living rooms, actions are put in place to make this a smooth optional transition. Many of these come in a form of system updates, one of which has been implemented today. Some of the updates affect Family sharing, Big picture as well as Linux settings. These changes will update automatically the next time you sign into your Steam client.



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News::Bundle Gameplay - Indiegala January

GG3 picks up on more game bundles going around, with seconds to spare, due to some third party issues. Still, this would be the time to hop onto the Indiegala January, which has 10 games, such as Deadly Premonition, Viscera Cleanup Detail and more. Ballpoint Universe will fill in the details. Also, make sure to watch the video inside for full bundle giveaways.



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News::The Gamesmen, Episode 6 Predestination

Join Hardlydan, Amras89, Yodathe3rd, and special guest Brendan Drain for game talk and fun! This time, The Gamesmen interview Brendan about his upcoming game Predestination. Games discussed are Battlefield 4, Saints Row 4, Tomb Raider Definitive Edition, Final Fantasy XIII-2.



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News::Cut the red wire! Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes





Asymmetric cooperative multiplayer is an idea that I always love to see in action. Artemis has done a good job proving that the concept is sound, if not a bit cumbersome to execute. The newest game that falls into the category of cool stuff I would probably have to play at an event because of hardware concerns is the bomb defusal simulator Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.


Developed for the recent Global Game Jam, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes requires one player to take on the role of the defuser, using an Oculus Rift and a Razer Hydra as the interface. The rest of the players act as his support back at the lab, poring over bomb schematics in an attempt to make sense of the device so they can all safely defuse the explosive. Of course, the bomb is on a timer, so players must act quickly.


For a game built in just a couple days, it is surprisingly tense. Just watching the video above had me on edge, especially when the timer drops to about thirty seconds.


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News::Blood of the Werewolf heading to XBLA and PSN

Majesco's indie label, Midnight City, has announced that Blood of the Werewolf is heading to Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network Q2 2014. The Metroidvania-style game was released on Steam last year, and the console release will add a new Endless Challenge mode that will offer procedurally generated and increasingly difficult levels for limitless runs.


The label also announced Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche, coming to Steam in the next couple of months. It's a endless climber and sequel to the Avalanche flash game. It's basically like The Blocks Cometh , except, um, bad.


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News::You might be willing to have Conception 2's babies

Conception: Please Have My Baby was a PSP RPG we mostly posted about (kind of a lot) because of its title and baby-making conceit. It was a laugh that we nurtured. I think, anyway. We're at that point where a running joke becomes a confusing reality as its Vita and 3DS sequel, Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars, is actually coming to North America later this year.


In a further realization of this fevered dream meets running punchline, I played Conception II. I held it in my hands. I watched writhing pastel silhouettes (it's not nudity if there's no nipple, says Japan) emulate sex and hatch slave labor. It all happened so fast.


Is this what parenthood feels like?


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News::Preview: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

How weird was it seeing that reveal trailer for Plant vs Zombies: Garden Warfare at last year's E3? Plants vs Zombies was known for its focus on strategy and quirky humor, so it was a pretty surprising move for the developers at PopCap Games to bring such an interesting twist to their hugely popular franchise. As a fan of the series, I was mostly curious to see how it would translate from a tower defense style game to an online focused shooter.



But strangely enough, the transition worked out surprisingly well. And then some. Using the Frostbite 3 engine, PopCap Games took a chance and made its first foray into 3D, bringing along many of its characters from the series. EA invited some the press out to try a new build of the class-based shooter Garden Warfare and it turns out it's still just as strategic as ever.


Preview: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare screenshot


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News::Dawn of the Plow is a cute little snowplowing game


Dawn of the Plow is an adorable little snowplowing game for PC and mobile. The game sees you as a snowplower, and your goal is to simple clean up snow off the streets. You have to keep your approval rating up, and screwing around on the job will get you fired.


I love the visual style, and it honestly looks like it'd be a ton of fun when I have a few minutes to kill. Dawn of the Plow is available on Google Play, Windows, Mac, and Linux for $1.99. An iOS release is impending too.


Dawn of the Plow is a side-project and spiritual companion game to developer Dan FitzGerald's upcoming title, Dog Sled Saga. It too is a cute little game that involves you keeping your sled dogs happy in the same type of pixel art style. I just hope King.com doesn't go after Dan here over the whole Saga trademark.


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News::Review: Soul Fjord

Ouya users have not had a lot to be excited about for a while now. Excepting a few titles like Towerfall, there is not much worth owning on the microconsole, and especially few games that are not available elsewhere. As one of the more hyped titles, Airtight Games' Soul Fjord was looking like it could be a good reason to own an Ouya.


The elevator pitch is great. Soul Fjord is a rhythm-based, hack-and-slash roguelike with a truly unique setting that crosses 1970s funk and 13th Century Norse mythology. Protagonist Magnus Jones has to fight for his right to party after being denied access to Valhalla. Unfortunately, unlike Jones's expertly coiffed afro, Soul Fjord falls flat in its execution.


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News::Theme Park creator sells AI company to Google for $400M

Demis Hassabis isn't a household name, but chances are you've played one of his games. He was the co-designer and lead programmer on Theme Park (at just age 17), and has been involved with games such as Syndicate, Black & White, and Republic: The Revolution.


Red Bull Gaming has a big breakdown on Demis' life including how his contributions helped change gaming, but his biggest success, and the point of this article, is that he just sold his start up artificial intelligence company DeepMind to Google for $400 million.


Demis, who is also a neuroscientist, founded the company with Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman, and the company's direction was applying human learning to computers. It's speculated that Google will be using the technology behind DeepMind to improve their eCommerce recommendations, giving Amazon a good run for their money.


How Google's new AI genius changed gaming [Red Bull Gaming]


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News::Mighty Quest For Epic Loot open beta arrives February 25

The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot is finally set to enter open beta starting February 25. The free-to-play hack and slash game is kind of like a crossover between Diablo and Dungeon Keeper, letting you hunt for treasures across player created levels.


Additionally, the fourth playable character will be available for the first time once the game hits open beta. She's called The Runaway, and she's a melee fighter that uses a big axe in combat.


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News::Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is a real game that exists


Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is game that actually exists now. It has all the exciting features you'd expect in a car mechanic simulator, from unscrewing screws to using a laptop computer to check the tuning. What the hell did I just write?


The game went on sale last Friday and it's actually in the top 20 sellers on Steam as of this writing. There's a surprisingly amount of positive reviews for the game too, so I guess they're not totally cashing in on the whole "mundane simulator genre" as I thought they were seeing as they also released Professional Farmer 2014 last year.


Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is normally $19.99, but you can get it for $14.99 till the end of January. A free update will be coming in June called the "Turbo Add-on" and another one called the "4x4 Add-on" that will offer off-road cars later in the year.


Videogames.


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News::Behind-the-scenes with the camera cars of Need for Speed





Ever wonder how they shoot those high-speed car sequences in movies? What they do to the cars, what kind of cameras they use, etc? Well, the makers of the upcoming Need for Speed feature film have provided a short behind-the-scenes featurette describing just that.


A lot of these rigs look really cool, and seem to showcase how much actual speed they're trying to capture with the races in the film, even with the lead actors (such as Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul) doing much of the driving themselves.


Now we just need a featurette describing how they put a plot in a racing game.


Need for Speed races to movie theaters on March 14, 2014.


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News::Mega64 would like your Papers, Please





In the latest Mega64 video, it seems Derrick has become a bit too enamored with the game Papers, Please . He's set up a border patrol booth at the entrance to the Mega64 offices, which has now been dubbed the country of Acosta (after his own last name). Rocco only wants to go inside to get his iPad that he left behind, but Derrick is getting a little too into the role. Hilarity naturally ensues.


If only bypassing the patrol in the game was as easy as it is to get past Derrick. But at what cost? WHAT COST?!


Mega64 would like your Papers, Please screenshot






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News::This is Star Wars: Assault Team, coming this spring to Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices.

News::Here's a closer look at the Shadowrun RPG's upcoming expansion, Dragonfall, courtesy of a new traile