News::Minecraft: Kickstarter Campaign Behind Fan Film Canceled

The highly-anticipated Minecraft Film's kickstarter campaign has been removed.



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News::Recap for the Week of January 27th, 2014

Ray, Gavin, and the best of the worst for the week of January 20th!



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News::Let's Play Minecraft - Episode 89 - Mad King Ryan Part 1

The mad and twisted King Ryan is back in Let's Play Minecraft - nobody is safe.



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News::Mass Effect 4: Playable, Explorable, and Yet Still Unknown

With gamers speculating, Googling, drooling, and otherwise praying for an awesome game, Gamerheadlines has gather what news we can on Mass Effect 4.



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News::Dark Souls 2: First Impressions of the Full Game

VaatiVidya gets to try his hand on the full version of Dark Souls 2. Check out his impressions of the full game in this video.



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News::Analog Addiction Plays: 'The Elder Scrolls Online'

AA writes, "Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be given a beta code for Bethesdas and Zenimax Online Studios upcoming MMORPG, The Elder Scrolls Online. With only the PVE section up for experiencing in this video I show off some of the gaming mechanics, the world of Tamriel, the combat and a quest."



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News::Know your KOTOR Lore: Calo Nord

Calo Nord, a Human male, was an infamous bounty hunter who lived during the Jedi Civil War, a galaxy-spanning conflict initiated by the Sith Lords Darth Revan and Darth Malak. Nord was sold into slavery by his mother and father at a young age. On his sixteenth birthday, he killed his slave masters and tracked down his parents, murdering them as well



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News::'S.W.A.P' Open Beta Now Available

"Analog Addiction has received word that the Australian developed shooter S.W.A.P has entered its Open Beta phase."



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News::Doom Warrior Announced

New fantasy action RPG recalls Dark Souls and Infinity Blade, says Grab It Magazine.



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News::Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag Review - OverlordGaming

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was one of the most anticipated games of 2013. But is it worth buying? Read this in-depth review showcasing everything that's right and wrong with the game. If you're interested in it this is a must-read!



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News::Hearthstone Beta Review | Non-Fiction Gaming

Blizzard enter into the competitive trading card game scene with a new free-to-play game. Hearthstone is still in Beta yet has a solid TCG framework that's easy enough for newbies to pick up.



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News::Spell Force 2: Demons of the Past PJ review

SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars was originally released back in 2006 and after a seven year dry period with very little in terms of releases, the epic four-part saga finally comes to a close with Demons of the Past. The final expansion. For those who havent heard of or played the classic series, SpellForce 2 offers a unique blend of Action-RPG and classic RTS. Kind of the mutant love child spawned from the merging of something like Diablo and Warcraft.



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News::Kenshi Preview | GIZORAMA

GIZORAMA - There has been a lot of negative feedback towards Steams Early Access programming, mostly because it releases lower quality games, often for the same price as a standard release. As such, I feel that previews of Steam Early Access games should all be accompanied by the following disclaimer, so as to avoid senseless repetition: This game is buggy, unfinished, glitchy, poorly balanced and slow. It is a concept and an idea, one that is still being worked on, developed and fleshed out as such, this preview will be more of a look into what the game could be like when it releases proper, and whether the fundamental foundations and systems already in place are well designed and interesting enough to warrant your purchase. Capiche? Kenshi is an odd beast. Bucking the trends set by most games that take place in dystopian settings, Kenshi is a hardcore, squad based, free roaming strategy/RPG. Its main focus is on giving the player a normal life not in the sense that the...



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News::Star Citizen Gets Ultra High Resolution Screenshots and Art As Crowd Funding Flies Past 38 Million

Chris Roberts Star Citizen is continuing its incredible crowd funding maiden flight, with the game sitting comfortably atop $38,230,736 from 385,497 backers, and Cloud Imperium Games released a batch of new artwork to make your mouth water.



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News::This Is Why Skyrim Is Still One Of The Best Looking Titles Out There

DSOGaming writes: "Skyrim was released back in 2011 and to everyones surprise, Bethesdas RPG is still one of the best looking titles out there. Well, that is if you use tons of mods and texture packs that are accompanied by various ENBSeries configs. "



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News::First Impressions of Elder Scrolls Online--Worlds Factory

Worlds Factory: "I was given an opportunity to participate in the Elder Scrolls Online's beta, and needless to say, I was impressed."



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News::Review The Lego Movie Videogame: Movie spin-offs dont get much better | Financial post

Youre going to spend a lot of time running around contained levels brimming with interesting objects that you need to bash order to free their constituent pieces, all the while keeping an eye out for key items that will help you solve clever contextual puzzles that usually involve building something new.



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News::All of the Anime, Double Fine Game Jam, Xbox One Bundle [Deals]

If you haven't played Borderlands 2 yet, or if you just want to pick up some more DLC, there are some great deals for you today. GetGames has the base game for $8, plus sales on a ton of DLC. If you'd prefer the Game of the Year edition, you can get it on Steam directly for just $20.



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News::The Daily Five: Disappointing Games Worse Than Super Bowl 48

"Much like that Big Game, the gaming industry has released its fair share of disappointing experiences over the years; some that were even more disappointing than Denvers performance Sunday night. While some of these games arent necessarily horrible, they did not live up to their full potential." - Travis Tucker



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News::Couch play: Why developers are championing for more local multiplayer games

GamesBeat writes, "These days, finding someone to play games with is easy. All you have to do is sign in to Steam, to the PlayStation Network, to Xbox Live. And while some of us prefer the anonymity of our Internet connections and others are hungry for more competition than our friends schedules can handle, playing online is just, well, convenient. In a matter of minutes, we can find teammates or opponents from all over the world. Why play with the same old people? Not all developers have given up on local or couch multiplayer, though. Recent games like Tiny Brains, Towerfall, and Samurai Gunn are bringing it back. We spoke with the creators of these titles and more about why we should care about local multiplayer today. (Two quick reasons? E-sports and Super Smash Bros.)"



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News::The Elder Scrolls Online Beta preview: A new and free Tamriel [SideQuesting]

Robyn Miller of SideQuesting.com writes: "ZeniMaxs resolution to translate the single-player Elder Scrolls series into an MMORPG was certainly an ambitious and risky move. Though its play-to-play format has been the subject of much concern, hands-on time with the game indicates the degree to which the developers ambitious venture is a tremendous success."



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News::Jazzpunk Review (PC) | CriticalIndieGamer

(CriticalIndieGamer) Its difficult to not feel a little underwhelmed with Jazzpunk. After all its time in development Necrophone Games has somehow managed to deliver a game that is as much other peoples as it is their own. Dont get us wrong, this is a fun game, but we cant help feeling like we have seen it all before. Boiling the game down to its constituent parts reveals very little originality, a handful of side quests and minigames, and a very linear path to its finale. The short length of the game is, perhaps, its saving grace; sitting through 8 hours of Theres that joke from that film that came out in 1980 is not a task we would want to partake in. So, should you buy Jazzpunk? If you have a high tolerance for repetitive humour, and dont mind the odd bug here and there, you will find a lot to like so long as you understand where the references come from. On the other hand, if you dont understand the humour, you will find Jazzpunk to be a vapid experience with little...



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News::Octodad: Dadliest Catch Review | Game Podunk

GP: "Being a father is tough - especially when youre an octopus trying to convince your human family you arent a creature of the ocean. Give it a shot if you want to see everyday, mundane life transformed into a ridiculous cartoon."



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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: Tron Dog: The Winners

News::OMG HD Zombies Coming to PC...In HD

Twinfinite writes, "Its always good news when something thats exclusive becomes available. Lets hope a Steam release for OMG HD Zombies brings Laughing Jackal a new horde of fans."



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News::Race the Sun Review: Challenging Runner That Changes Every Day - GamerFitNation

"The title of Race the Sun has two meanings. The player races through the games levels, attempting to get as far as possible before the sun sets and the players ship runs out of power. At the same time, the player is constantly competing against a countdown: the time left until the map of the day has been active for 24 hours, at which point the map will change. This is a game that emphasizes quick reactions over memorization of stages." - GamerFitNation



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News::Someone Made A New Portal 2 Campaign... Without Portals

STEVE MARINCONZ: I was poking around for interesting Portal 2 maps to play, and instead found an entire mod that replaces the portal gun with a gun that shoots the blue and orange gel from Portal 2. Even better, it has an entire storyline with a new character.



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News::Wrack Fall Into Darkness adds new level and blast guard

Wrack has received a major new content update. The cel-shaded, arcadey FPS is full of customization and gameplay modes and this content update gives players just that liiittle bit more. This update introduces episode 1s extra level, E1L6, the powerful Blast Guard, and a prototype of the levels boss, Giggordo! Its all in the trailer right here:



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News::Before Surviving Sabertooths, Wolves and Hunger in the Prehistoric

OnlySP: The prehistoric is not a period that receives much attention in gaming our ancient forebears being distant and unknown to us. Before seeks to change all of that, offering a charming and complex simulation and survival game in which the player must guide a prehistoric tribe through the trials and tribulations of early humanity. As an archaeologist, I was excited from get-go on hearing the premise of the game. We spoke with Bill Lowe, designer and developer of Before, to talk about polygons, social simulation, and prehistoric life.



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News::Bundle Overview - Indie Gala I Expansive DLC

Cubicity is the first title in the bundle and probably the most obscure of the lot. Originally an Xbox Indie Games title, its been moved over to PC and is currently vying for votes in the depths of Steam through Greenlight. Its definitely got plenty of ideas going for it; the point of the game is that you are hanging from the roof of each level, and in order to proceed over to the next, you have to take a key black block to a small area. In order to accomplish the task, players have to grab various boxes and items with a magnet so the key block can make its way across successfully. The puzzles are mostly well designed and give the oh-so necessary rush when you complete a particularly challenging one. Where the game falls down, however, is its control scheme. Quite often it feels fiddly and unhelpful, with items often being dropped where you dont want them, or at weird angles. The plot is also very tacked on and almost completely unnecessary.



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News::Super Bunnyhop Review: Jazzpunk

George from Super Bunnyhop takes a look at Necrophone Games' first title: Jazzpunk.



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News::NVIDIA Maxwell GM107 (GTX 750 Ti) GPU Surfaces; Still 28nm

GamersNexus: "It looks like the first Maxwell GPUs (GM107-300 & GM107-400) are being fabricated with a 28nm process, as found in preceding Kepler chips. We recently reported that the 750 Ti is rumored for a February 18th release date, and noted that the 750 Ti would be nVidia's debut of the Maxwell GPU line."



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News::Second Chance Heroes Lets You Kill Zombies As Abe Lincoln

Justin from Pixel Gate writes: Second Chance Heroes is a cooperative arcade action game that takes place in a world overrun by apocalyptic disasters! Made weak by over-exposure to kitten videos, reality TV and ironic photos of bacon, the citizens of the modern world are entirely unprepared when the end of the world arrives! Unable to save ourselves from evil robots, nuclear missiles, sentient fast food, alien invasions and hordes of the undead, our only hope lies in the past. Put together a dream team of cloned heroes drawn from throughout human history and use them to push back the apocalyptic tide! Or dont and just let the zombie chickens eat your face.



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News::Resident Evil Revelations HD Sells One Million Worldwide

Geimaku: "The former Nintendo 3DS-exclusive was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PC with better graphics and new content in May 2013."



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News::AMD Radeon R9 Series in Short Supply More Due to Lack of Components than Extreme Demand

AMD Radeon R9 GPUs are in a shortage and suffering from high prices and it turns out that the main reason is not Litecoin mining after all, rather manufacturers not having enough raw materials.



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News::[Continue-Play] Review - Papers, Please

Continue-Play : Bleak is how one colleague described it to me and I imagine now, it is graffitied across a dilapidated sign that used to have the phrase, Welcome to Arstotzka etched into it. The depression generated by Papers, Please has sucked the color from the motherland; the dreariness leaves you to endure the cold winters as you earn your keep as the last line of defense, a gatekeeper to this fictional communist country.



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News::Jazzpunk - As We Play I Expansive DLC

Jazzpunk is billed as a first person adventure game, although with its focus on exploration and almost total lack of any actual puzzles, its actually structurally closer to such interactive fictions as The Stanley Parable or Gone Home than, say, Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games. In fact, with its uniformly stylized population, surreal spy adventures and utterly bizarre but extremely colorful world, you might find that the game is quite similar in style, if not in execution, to Brendon Chungs freeware classic, Gravity Bone. In Jazzpunk you play as a secret agent known only as Polyblank and are tasked with a series of missions in an comedic and cartoonish alternate reality, cold-war cyberpunk setting. While the central missions themselves are short, theres a lot more content to be found from wandering around the games various, chaotic stages than can be found through simply completing the game, and the player is encouraged to go as off-course as possible through the carrots of...



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News::Flappy Bird creator says he's taking the game down

Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has announced via Twitter that he will be taking the game down some point on Sunday. He has stated that he "cannot take this anymore."

In subsequent tweets, Nguyen explains that the taking down of Flappy Bird is "not anything related to legal issues" and that he still makes games.

I guess making $50k a day in ad revenue is too much to handle, or perhaps Nguyen is settling down for an early retirement. Either way, looks like there is room for all other Flappy Bird clones.

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News::Review: The Castle Doctrine

My life's earnings are stashed away in my vault. Well, half of it. As an added security measure, I've given my wife half to hold on to and protect with her life. I've built my house in such a way that I feel pretty confident that my belongings are safe. At the very least, my wife and kids will be safe behind the protection of my pit bull, Tiny.

I come back later in the day to find that a few vagabonds tried, and failed, to steal my money. Their loss, my gain. They died, I thrived. I come back the next day and find that my walls have been sawed through, and my money stolen. I check on Tiny: drugged. My family? All dead, no, murdered. I have nothing left. I check the security tapes, though I'm not really sure why. I don't care for revenge, though I can't say the thought is absent in my mind. Standing in what's left of my house, I take it all in and kill myself.

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News::2.5D Side-scroll Action MMORPG AIMA Enters 2nd Closed Beta February 20

The Korean company KOG announced that the second closed beta of their new action title AIMA is coming on February 20. AIMA is a 2.5D side-scroll action MMORPG. There are totally 3 playable races at this moment including Inspector who are the creators of a great civilization, Buggane who are descendants of the giants living in nature, and Human which is a race with an indomitable will.



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News::Elder Scrolls Online Beta Is Live Again, Don't Share Any Gameplay Videos

The Elder Scrolls Online closed beta has returned for another weekend. This beta event, like the previous ones, forces players to abide by a non-disclosure agreement.



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News::Exclusive interview with Kingdom Come: Deliverance creative director Daniel Vávra

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is an upcoming open-world RPG being developed by Czech indie studio Warhorse. In this interview, PCGMedia spoke to Warhorse creative director Daniel Vávra about how their game will match up this year against highly anticipated triple-A RPG titles like The Witcher 3 as well as smaller titles set within the same era.



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News::The Weekend PC Bargain Bin - 7th - 10th Feburary 2014

What should you spend your hard earned cash on this weekend? Well heres whats after falling off the back of the truck this week



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News::The LEGO Movie Videogame Achievements and Trophies List

Guide4GameS: In PC, Xbox360 and Xbox One version, there are total 48 achievements, unlocking all will award you 1,000 Gamerscore Points. As for much the PS3 and PS4 versions of The LEGO Movie Videogame have features 49 trophies including 40xBronze, 5x Silver, 3xGold and a Platinum.



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News::Publisher Hangame announces closure of Dungeon Striker

Less than a year after the Korean server began its Open Beta service, Dungeon Striker will be closing on 20th March 2014, with the cash shop closing on 14th February 2014. The reason given was that the updates since Open Beta were satisfactory since Open Beta started.



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News::Insurgency Review | Quarter to Three

"If you dont mind fighting over the same cluttered iraqi streets and desolate afghan hills that youve seen a hundred times before, Insurgency brings enough hardcore sensibility and competent execution to stand out from the other multiplayer shooters. The old-school gameplay combined with updated mechanics are a breath of fresh air in a genre crowded with games that dont understand that failure can still be fun."



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News::Are Video Games More Than Just A Game?

Video games can provide you with countless hours of entertainment, or for some playing them can be a therapy session. If youre not playing video games for entertainment or to blow off steam, why are you playing them? Is it because youre a devoted fan of a franchise, or are you drawn to the narrative? There isnt a right or wrong answer to any of these questions, but you cant deny that video game narratives are changing in a big way.



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