News::Mantle API First Independent Battlefield 4 Benchmark Emerges, Significant Increase over Direct X

The first Battlefield 4 and Mantle API benchmarks not conducted by AMD and EA have emerged and they do not disappoint.



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News::GTA: San Andreas on Windows Phone vs Original PC release

You may well be surprised just how good the mobile release of San Andreas stacks up to the original release on PC.



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News::League of Legends: The Ascension of Female Champions

Theyre charming, theyre hot and most of all, theyre deadly. The female champions of League of Legends are now, more than ever, conquering the hearts of summoners all over the world, especially at a competitive level. At least thats what statistics from last month say. More than half of the most played champions in the last weeks were females but thats no surprise. Ladies have been proving themselves in all lanes and in every role during the past few years and now, with the beginning of a new Season, theyre definitely ready to dominate and show off whos in command.



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News::League of Legends Season 4: Top 10 Weakest Champions

In League of Legends each Season determinates the power level of all champions. Riot Games performs regular updates and bug fixes to secure the most balanced gameplay possible. This means that champions supremacy in the battlefields of justice is unstable overtime, their ascendance can occur as quickly as their breakdown. Do you remember when pros used to pick Miss Fortune all the time during Season 3? Well, things have changed. Now, in Season 4 Jinx and Lucian are the most preferred AD carries all over the world. However, some characters are not as fortunate and theyve rarely picked due to their lack of hegemony. Find out about which champions are the weakest this season.



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News::Sony Drops NDA on EverQuest Next: Landmark Alpha in Less than a Day; Here are Screenshots and Videos

When studio is confident in its product, non disclosure agreements drop pretty fast, and thats exactly what happend with Sony Online Entertainments EverQuest Next Landmark, that entered its alpha phase just yesterday. The alpha launched with a NDA in place, but just nineteen hours after the floodgates opened Sony Online Entertainment President John Smedley announced that the gag order was dropping.



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News::Dark Souls 2 graphics engine effects discussed by Yui Tanimura

From Software's Yui Tanimura has provided new information on the improved graphics engine of the upcoming Dark Souls 2 for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.



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News::Checkpoint Reached #28

In the first segment the Checkpoint Games staff talk about a bunch of games including Tomb Raider, Age of Empires, Gundam Capsule Fighters and many more. Also they a have a hearty conversation about Bioshock Infinite as well. In the second segment they talk at length about Nintendo and current position in the market place.



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News::New Duke Nukem Game To Be Announced?

Interceptor Entertainment is a group of hardcore Duke Nukem fans, mostly known for the remake of Duke Nukem 3D and Rise of the Triad. Now, theyve put up a teaser which indicates that a new title involving the ass-kicking and bubble gum chewing hero might be on its way.



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News::Zombeer Review | Z-Giochi

Zombeer is a combination of action and comedy, in which the player will enjoy many sketches and gags of the most popular games and films.



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News::2014's More Unusual Games

With January nearly over, Codec Moments decided to take a look at some of more interesting and unusual games that are scheduled for release in 2014.



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News::The Throwdown #70

Emilio Lopez, Michael Crawford, Brian Munjoma, Brett Murdock, Rachael Murdock, and Chris Sealy discuss whats happened in the world of video games, pop culture and STFUandPLAY this past week. -The Morning Gamer is Back! -The PS3 deserves one more major update article by Riku Featured Topics: -Nintendos Plans for the Future -WARNING: FACE-MELTING RANT Gaming News: -Microsoft to Cut Portion of Kinect GPU Usage to Improve Graphics Performance. -LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII - Retro-spective Trailer Done in classic final fantasy graphics -Loading Human Adventure Game for the Oculus Rift -Big Xbox One Leaks -Man Runs Into Burning House to Save His Xbox Tech News: -Artificial Skin -Former FCC Commissioner Thinks Its Time to go Nuclear on ISPs -The Worlds Fastest Supercar Might Soon be Electric Pop Culture News: -Sly Cooper Movie Trailer -The New Movie Ninja Turtles Revealed Listener Questions: -Brett has a...



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News::Shroud of the Avatar and Pantheon join forces

It's been marked by one particular fan on the KickStarter as "the greatest day in mmorpg history". Today, Brad McQuaid announced that his Pantheon KickStarter has joined forces with the mighty and successful, Shroud of the Avatar.



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News::Trial Run: Serena - Lets Play

Today Mitch and Conor do a Trial Run of Serena. An Indie game developed by 40 Indie game developers that go by the name Senscape. It is powered by Dagon Source Code. SPOILER ALERT!!! we play through from start to finish. The game released on on the 30th of January on Steam and is a Free-To-Play game with no micro-transactions attached. Its based all around discovering what happened to your wife and why you cant remember. If you liked this Trail Run video and more be sure to Subscribe to our YouTube channel CelticGamer to stay up to date as we will be bringing you more and more throughout the year. Also leave us a comment on what games you would like to see us cover for future Trail Run episodes.



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News::Rocksmith 2014 gets System of a Down DLC

Hardcore Gamer: Theres just something about the sweet notes of a guitar that drive a middle-aged divorcee wild. Why else would she scream so loudly when she walked in to find me sitting on her sofa at 2AM with my 6-string companion? La pasión, as the Spanish would say. Thankfully, the folks at Ubisoft aren't content with having the greatest real-guitar game on the market. They also want the greatest, most diverse tracklist, and they've been doing a fine job with accomplishing that goal.



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News::New Star Citizen Artwork Showcases the Pirate Hangar as Game Approaches $38,000,000

Chris Roberts Star Citizen is keeping up its amazing crowd funding cavalcade, having raised $37,790,272 at the moment of this writing and steadily approaching the 38 million goal, and Cloud Imperium Games released another batch of concept artwork.



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News::Duke Nukem Next to be announced in 25 days, site live

Official website of Duke Nukem Next Gen is filled with Kick Ass BubbleGum, the counter and Like meter



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News::Weekend Gaming Hardware Sales: $320 4770K, $250 FX-9370, ROG Board, SSD

GamersNexus: "This weekend's hardware sales round-up focuses on CPU and motherboard sales, with Intel's mainstream flagship i7-4770K on sale alongside AMD's 220W FX-9370; motherboards were also located on sale, ensuring you'll be able to put these powerful CPUs to use immediately."



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News::The Chinese Room Gives a Few Updates About Everyones Gone to the Rapture

Karam Elahi writes: "The Chinese Room, developers of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, are currently working on their next big name project, Everyones Gone to the Rapture, for the PC, PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. Being a very plot and story-centric endeavor, EGttR is definitely turning quite a few heads in the industry. The developer recently sent out a few tweets centered around their project."



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News::Divinity: Original Sin Looks to Topple the Competition | Hardcore Gamer

Hardcore Gamer: I had never really followed the Divinity series or was even aware of Larian Studios, and yet when I heard about their Kickstarter campaign, I couldnt help but be intrigued. There were promises of an epic RPG with cooperative multiplayer, significant choices and consequences, and an emphasis on exploration and experimentation through a comprehensive crafting system and unique character development. It was everything I could hope for in an RPG and more, and these lofty promises made on Kickstarter have started to manifest themselves into an actual playable experience. The alpha for Divinity: Original Sin was released recently, and we here at Hardcore Gamer were lucky enough to get our hands on it. It is obviously not complete yet and is still a bit rough around the edges, but there is a lot to be excited about even now.



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News::Battlefield 4 PC Montage - Instrumental Battlefield Theme

Another New Battlefield 4 PC Montage With A Epic Instrumental Battlefield Theme. What do you want to see in our future videos?



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News::10 mind-melting BioShock Infinite Theories

By Mike Channell - Hello Eurogamers! January's over and with it our half-hearted fitness plans. Back to the cosily familiar bum-shaped impression on our couch. And while there aren't that many proper games out, developers seem to be using the start of the year lull to flog us DLC for our existing library.



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News::The Forest Will Cost Around $15, Developers Would Love to do a PS4 Port

OnlySP: The Forest is easily one of our most anticipated games here at OnlySP. Weve done a few interviews now with the team and learned just about all we can about the project, now were just waiting to get our hands on it, which should hopefully be very soon.



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News::Strike Vector Review | TPReview

TPReview takes a look at the to-the-point transforming spaceship dogfighting game. It's a beautiful thing.



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News::Throwback Action MMORPG DarkEden Announced a New Female Character

DarkEden is a throwback to the golden age of MMORPGs, featuring classic hack-and-slash action and isometric 2D visuals. Recently, it held an event to collect name idea for its new character from players. Today, it announced that the number of event participants has broken 20 thousand and it is still increasing. It seemed that the upcoming female character is a beautiful elf. The more details about this new character are still unannounced.



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News::Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day heads west this spring

Amazing news, everyone! Bandai Namco has announced plans to localize Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day for digital release on PlayStation 3 in the Americas, Europe, and Australasia this spring.

The side-scroller is the fifth and final installment in Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo's anime anthology, the Short Peace project. It comes by way of Crispy's, the studio behind Tokyo Jungle, and was written and directed by none other than Grasshopper Manufacture boss Goichi Suda.

The story follows a young assassin on the run from demons, which players must evade whilst traversing colorful obstacle courses in this fast-paced action platformer. I don't know about you, but I am soooo ready to dig into this. I can't wait.

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News::Insurgency Review | Entertainment Buddha

Tense Gunplay Shoots Down Average Visuals Ok lets get this out of the way immediately; Insurgency is not going to win any awards for its graphics. Its rough around the edges and has a no-nonsense feel. Sure there are moments when Insurgency can look good with some nice atmospheric touches, but for the most part Insurgency is average and functional. This shouldnt matter in gaming though and to be frank, if you are already put off then shame on you, because you would be missing out on the great experience and tension that Insurgency can evoke. Still reading? Good.



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News::First Impressions - Starlite: Astronaut Rescue | Gamecrastinate

Gamecrastinate reviews newly released Starlite: Astronaut Rescue game by Project Whitecard Studios.



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News::Review: Dungeon Keeper (Mobile)

Bullfrog's 1997 strategy game Dungeon Keeper is a bona fide classic. It took the typical simulation conventions of the time and added some attitude, some horns, and a whole lot of charm to warp it into something truly special.

Leave it to EA then to come in and take a demonic dump on the franchise by creating a freemium "re-imagining" with timers and microtransactions.

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News::Will Lightning Returns Hurt Final Fantasy XV Sales?

OnlySP: I got some hot reactions to a certain rant about Lightning and how I couldnt figure out how she had been the catalyst for the destruction of the once legendary franchise. They all missed the point. Some tried to make it about gender, some tried to make it about me, others tried to muddy the waters, but nobody could answer for the fact that Final Fantasy is in trouble with a capital T and that trilogy got it there.



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News::Dark Souls 2: Weapon Set Looks Amazing - Unboxing Video

Check out the Dark Souls 2 unboxing video from the japanese collector´s edition, that will includes an exclusive weapon set.



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News::Konami Teases A "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2" Surprise For PC Gamers

DSOGaming writes: "When a fan asked whether there would be a pre-order for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2, Dave Cox replied and said that alongside the pre-order that will go live soon there will be a little surprise."



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News::Slave to the Game: When Does Fun End and Work Begin?

Why do video games often make the odd transition from hobby to habit? Why play something if you no longer enjoy it? Here are three games that raise these questions through their writing and mechanics.



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News::NASCAR The Game 2013 Review | Combo Caster

Basically we're happy to be going around a track a huge number of times. This may be true for virtually every car games, but the tracks here are a bit more boring. Walking around a track 200 times can bring realism and there are some other elements such as flags that are used after an accident to reset the track and keep the playing field between the adversaries, but only make the game more boring . The stops are usually caused by constant and IA. Alternative ways how to eliminate could bring some excitement but these are limited to the online modes.



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News::Dark Souls 2 Preview - ShopTo

ShopTo: Dark Souls is renowned for being one of the darkest, toughest and damn right intense adventure games ever. The game has developed a status among its players for punishing you for every single mistake made within the game. You died became second nature for many of the players. Those fans of the first game were left hopeful that the highly anticipated sequel would somehow bring something newer, fresher or easier to the table.



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News::Loadout Review: Raunchy warfare

GameZone: "Shooters need a stable structure, said Guerrilla Games as they introduced Killzone: Shadow Fall. Tactics will play a big role in each match, said DICE, explaining Battlefield 4. I want to use jump boots to fly over my opponent while I melt their face with a penta-rocket launcher that releases electrically charged flak grenades, said developer Edge of Reality as the early notion of Loadout sprang to mind."



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News::Review: Serena | Divorce Sucks - CelticGamer

Serena, a point-and-click story created by a multitude of indie studios, is the kind of game that leaves you dead silent upon completion. Emotions run high in this game, spurred on by a very eerie atmosphere and a progressively more disturbing protagonist, and the climactic finish will shut you up. The game is free and on Steam right now, so go grab yourself a download.



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