News::Strider Returns: Composer Michael John Mollo On Scoring Capcoms Legendary Ninja.

Sumthing writes: When I heard Capcom and the development team at Double Helix were in the midst of creating a new Strider title I could BARELY sleep, and I made sure to tell you about it. One of my main curiosities lay within the new games musical foundation. How would Strider Hiryu sound in 2014? This thought stewed in my brain for months. When I finally heard the snippets of material recorded by Striders brilliant composer Michael John Mollo, I immediately felt the absolute NEED to reach out to him. Mollos visionary mixture of emaciated mountaintops, steely chrome and Strider Hiryus dizzying kaleidoscopic sprint make for one of the most radiant and exciting scores of this year. It is also my first nomination for video game album of 2014. My conversation with Michael here took place on a very cold and grey January evening. A cold so chilling, I suspect Strider Hiryu would approve. I took it as a sign of fate.



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News::[Continue Play] Review - Don't Starve

Continue Play's David Ochart takes a look at Don't Starve, a wonderful roguelike from makers Klei Entertainment.



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News::5 things to know about Alien: Isolation

alienisolation.com : "Still wondering what Alien: Isolation is all about? Asking who Amanda Ripley is? Wanting a bit more information about Sevastopol? Ponder no more. Heres our round up of the game, in five key points."



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News::Just When You Thought FTL Couldn't Get Any Better...

News::Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes: The Platform Comparison Videos

News::Lucasarts' Star Wars Creations Return For X-Wing Tabletop Game

News::The Lingering Questions About The Wolf Among Us

Fergus and Cameron put on their detective caps and predict where Telltale's The Wolf Among Us is headed.



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News::Rockstar PSN sale has Red Dead + Undead Nightmare for $10

Some truly excellent games from Rockstar are on sale right now on PlayStation Network.

You can't go wrong with the Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Collection ($9.99) or Max Payne 3 ($4.99). Bully ($2.49), a PS2 Classic, really is a classic. And then there's the line of Midnight Club games for people who are into that series. I know you're here.

Also, The Warriors -- I'd be all over that if it weren't the PSP version being discounted.

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News::Preview: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | Stevivor

Stevivor's Nicholas Simonovski writes, "I can recall when The Witcher 2 was released a few years ago. A close friend of mine had spoken about how good it was, but had also mentioned its difficulty. Being the kind of person who enjoys a challenge but would rather avoid the frustration, I decided to steer clear. Last week however, I was fortunate enough to sit in on a hands-off demonstration of The Witcher 3 at Bandai Namcos head offices, with three developers talking about the upcoming title and giving us a 30 minute gameplay presentation too. Looking back, and now knowing what we have in store when The Witcher 3 launches later this year, Id be lying if I said I wasnt a little regretful missing out in Witcher 2. I can say with relative confidence that what we have coming up is pretty damn promising."



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News::The Daily Five: Ways Gaming Has Grown Up

"Well, no offense to those who find gaming too childish, but the video game industry has joined movies, television, and music as a major entertainment medium. Don't believe us? Here are five ways that the gaming industry has grown up." - Travis Tucker



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News::Medieval RPG Kingdom Come locked in for Xbox One, PS4

I'm with Steven. If the laundry list of claims being made about Warhorse Studios' first-person medieval sandbox RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance come to fruition, this is going to be one impressive game. Hopefully it will be fun, too. You never really know how emergent systems are going to play out until you're, well, playing the actual game.

Kingdom Come was announced for PC, Mac, and Linux, with support for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One dependent on approval from the powers that be. Said approval has been granted. Here's what you need to know if you are a Kickstarter backer of this project:

• If you backed a tier with digital copy of the game, you can choose any platform you want, on any tier.


• If you backed a tier with boxed copy and want a console version, we can send you the box and other goodies, depending on your tier. If at all possible, we will give you the disk with the game, otherwise you will get the digital version.


• The Alpha version access is confirmed for Windows version only. We are working with other platform holders to see if it could be made available there, but we cannot promise anything yet.


• The Beta access will be available on Windows, Linux and Mac at least; it may also be available on consoles but we cannot confirm it yet.

There's less than two days to go for the campaign and as a testament to how much people are into this concept, the game has one stretch goal remaining at £1,000,000. I think they might just pull it off, which would add a dog companion to Kingdom Come. Obviously, this must happen.

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News::Titanfall Beta Preview (Invision Game Community)

Crafted by one of the co-creators of Call of Duty and other key developers behind the Call of Duty franchise, Titanfall is among the most highly anticipated games of 2014, having been shrouded in mystery for nearly three years. The visionaries at Respawn have drawn inspiration from their proven experience in first-person action gaming, and are building on that pedigree by taking a new approach to game design and creating an all-new universe with Titanfall.



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News::[Continue Play] Review - simian.interface

Continue Play's Dale Morgan reviews the iOS release of simian.interface by indie devs Vested Interest, concluding that "If Phil Fish and Jeff Minter bypassed the laws of nature and had offspring, simian.interface would be the end result. And it has cats in pink cardigans. Whats not to love about that?"



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News::1945: Alcatraz | Preview - AWESOMEoutof10

AWESOMEoutof10's Fraser Brown decided that rather than tattoo the blueprints of a prison all over his body, he'd just take a peek at Daedalic Entertainment's latest game, 1945: Alcatraz. "Its a new side of Daedalic, absent the whimsy and folkish fantasy of Memoria or The Night of the Rabbit. Yet at its heart its still a traditional point and click adventure game, or at least a natural progression of the traditional adventure game had it never gone out of style. Its a counterpoint to The Walking Dead, showing that a modern example of the genre can still draw from the past and fill its scenes with puzzles. 1954: Alcatraz will launch in Q1 of this year. Soon, then."



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News::Deadspin When And Where To Watch The Olympic Hockey Quarterfinals | Gizmodo A Rat Map That Shows NYC

News::Legally boost your WoW character to level 90 for $60

Blizzard add a $60 feature to boost a character to level 90.



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News::PC suppliers and retailers excited by 'massive buzz' around Steam Machines

Scan Computers is confident PC gamers across the globe will lap up its custom-designed Steam Machine, PCR reports.



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News::Illusionstar Games Chooses CRYENGINE over Unreal Engine 4, Has Two Titles Under Development

IllusionStar Games has announced that after months of testing both Unreal Engine 4 and CRYENGINE, the later engine will be the official game engine for all its titles.



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News::Titanfall Preview | NoobFeed

Potter from NoobFeed writes - Its safe to say that we have all been suffering from FPS fatigue, but Titanfall looks like it may just be the cure. There is enough change and new ideas to make Titanfall feel fresh and it feels like this is the direction the genre needed to go.



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News::All Three Titanfall Titan Executions Will Blow Your Mind [HQ GIFs]

"Watch the badass execution moves performed by each Titan(Atlas, Ogre and Stryder) in Titanfall as they rip apart their opponents."



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News::DayZ Standalone Preview (Invision Game Community)

DayZ Standalone is a survival open world game created by Bohemia Interactive, who is also responsible for Arma 2. Will DayZ be the new best survival game out there?



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News::Titanfall Will Have Giant Alien Monsters, But they Won't Enter the Maps

Looks like Titanfall's lore is rich of alien life, in the form of assorted alien monsters, including some gigantic leviathans.



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News::VRElia Plans to Launch Three VR Headsets, Compete with Oculus VR

Spanish startup VRElia has announced plans to launch three new virtual reality headsets by the end of the year each aimed at different markets. They will also offer bespoke virtual reality production services. Speaking to Road to VR, the VRElia has outlined their plans to compete against the Oculus Rift in terms of price and hardware quality with a mobile, general, and professional version of their VREye headset brand each supporting various levels of functionality.



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News::Continue Play - Review: Jumper: Griffin's Story

Jumper: Griffins Story had me walking on air. I dont mean that in a heavenly bliss sort of way, but in a more literal sense. There was an entire level in that physically had me running twenty feet above the ground. There was a particular floor, whos texture would disappear from a certain field of view, which made it seem as if you were standing on nothing. This was only for one level, but considering the game only took me 2 1/2 hours to get through, it was a decent chunk of the campaign. This little bug is a great representation for the overall experience youll have with Jumper: Griffins Story.



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News::Eight Things You Should Know About Titanfall

After spending several hours in the beta and hitting the level cap, Paste Magazine tells you eight things you should know about Titanfall.



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News::These are the four winning games of Amnesia Fortnight

Before Double Fine's Amnesia Fortnight, "The only way [other people] would become project lead was if I died, and I didn't want to die. Or be killed," said CEO Tim Schafer.

The game jam is back this year and as voted by people like you, four pitches are moving forward into production over the next two weeks. Those are: Dear Leader by Anna Kipnis, Mnemonic by Derek Brand, Steed by John Bernhelm, and Little Pink Best Buds by Pendleton Ward.

2 Player Productions is documenting the development of these games, as shown above, and there are also livestreams. Skip to 17:45 for in-depth pitches of the winners. Although voting has closed, you can still spend a little to get five game prototypes from 2012 and the four aforementioned prototypes from this current Amnesia Fortnight once those are completed.

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News::Yup, These Are The Best Star Wars Action Figures On The Planet

News::Lets Play Age of Wonders III

Triumph Studios released a Lets Play style video featuring 18 minutes of the mysterious Archdruid in action, and highlighting the Random Map generator.



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News::Top Five Dark Souls Boss Battles

Eskimo Press: With Dark Souls 2 on the horizon we revisited the excellent Dark Souls to relive the many thrilling boss battles you come across in Lordran. Of course any encounter in Dark Souls can be deadly if you arent careful, and the road to a boss can be just as challenging as the boss fight itself. In any case, triumphing over a big baddie in Dark Souls is extremely rewarding in a way that few games in recent years have matched. This list is not only based on difficulty, atmosphere and the feelings evoked matter just as much. So lets take a look at our top five Dark Souls boss battles!



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News::Microsoft Has a Fix For Xbox One Users With New Black Screen Error

News::Procyon Review - SHMUP, There It Is (Twinfinite)

Mike writes, "Procyon by Deadly Red Cube is the latest iteration on the theme of sending a lone ship against a legion of enemies, and, while it may not be as transcendent as others in the genre, it more than distinguishes itself on pure gameplay."



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News::AHWU # 201

Geoff, Jack, Gavin, Michael, and Caleb bring you this week's news.



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News::Cliff Bleszinski is done making disc-based games

It's unclear what exactly Cliff Bleszinski's next game will be, though last we heard a first-person arena shooter was at least a possibility. The former Epic Games designer has spoken about his future in an interview with Gamasutra, offering a few hints at what he's got in mind.

"PC is where I'm going to wind up," he said. "That's where the community is. The trend will always be the core. If I start a studio, I want a community manager there day one. I want weekly video or podcasts; I want task lists available on the subreddit. When my wife and I play Rust, before we play, we check the subreddit. Whenever you get a little bored with a game, someone issues an update. I feel like a game developer again, where I get to check out the build list.

"The whole 'old guard,' where you get a Game Informer cover and an E3 reveal, is dead," he continued. "I'll never make another disc-based game for the rest of my career, and [at E3] they're trying to woo buyers from Target and Walmart?" Bleszinski believes there are two key lessons to be learned from games like Rust and Minecraft: "Get the game out there and build it. Some kid will put out a video. Players will teach each other. You don't need the 'press A to jump.'"

Reflecting on his extensive career at Epic Games, he said that "I don't want [Gears of War] to be my defining legacy. At the end of the day, it's known for being a fun, fantastic franchise. But I'd like to think there's more to my creativity than that."

With new perspective on life and games, Cliff Bleszinski plots next move [Gamasutra] [Image source]

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News::Most Anticipated of 2014 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | OnlySP

OnlySP: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is the final chapter in the trilogy of Geralt of Rivia, which was started in 2007. The Witcher games are loosely based upon the books of the same name by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, and have been very successful both on PC and consoles. One of the things that weve come to expect from this series is amazing branching storylines in a rich fantasy RPG setting, which makes the third chapter one of our most anticipated games of 2014.



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News::The Gamers Lounge Podcast Ep 4: "Titanfall is OK But The String Arcade is Better"

This week John, Erik and Nathanael talk Titanfall beta, Nintendo Direct, our favorite 32 bit system and we talk with Dren McDonald and Jason Poss about The String Arcade album!



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News::Broken Age Review | Warp Zoned

Warp Zoned writes: "Since the introduction of crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo, there have been a number of high-profile successes that have managed to capture the collective imagination of the public and skyrocket beyond their original goals. Double Fine Productions Broken Age is one such title, dwarfing its initial target of $400,000 by raising $3.3 million, one of the highest amounts ever raised for a game. The reason for the excitement was simple; industry veteran Tim Schafer, designer on classic point-and-click games such as LucasArts Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and co-designer on the incredibly funny Monkey Island series, was returning to the genre. But how does his latest endeavour stand up against these unforgettable games?"



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News::NVIDIA Unleashes GeForce GTX Titan Black 6 GB Most Powerful GPU Ever Created

NVIDIA will also unleash their GeForce GTX Titan Black graphics card today featuring the full compute power of the GK110 core. The GeForce GTX Titan Black is the second generation Titan graphics card featuring the GK110 core with double precision cores unlocked and faster clock speeds compared to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti.



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News::Review - NASCAR '14 | TerminalGamer

TG writes: We have taken NASCAR '14 for a spin around the track, kicked the tires more than once, and went head to head with Dale Earnhardt Jr. and many other great drivers. Did NASCAR '14 earn a checkered flag, or should it go back to the pits?



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News::UK Weekly Chart Week Ending 2/8/2014

PS4 15,930 (-19%) XOne 5,847 (-31%) 3DS 5,271 (-6%) X360 3,451 (-11%) PS3 2,763 (-5%) Fable Anniversary (X360) 13,610 FIFA 14 (PS4) 10,109 Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (PS4) 9,108



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News::Europe Weekly Chart Week Ending 2/8/2014

PS4 57,055 (-14%) 3DS 36,228 (-2%) PS3 19,640 (-10%) XOne 12,212 (-26%) PSV 10,262 (-3%) FIFA 14 (PS4) 34,332 FIFA 14 (XOne) 7,418



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News::Kingdom Come: Deliverance - One Hour Of Gameplay Footage

Warhorse Studios has showcased a playable build of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.



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News::$149 Nvidia GTX 750 Ti Unveiled; Plays Titanfall Better Than Xbox One

GameSpot's own testing the card ran the likes of Tomb Raider and Bioshock Infinite at over 60fps on high settings. It also ran the beta of the new mech-based shooter Titanfall at 58fps at 1080p with 2XAA on, a feat not even accomplished by the Xbox One.



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News::The Last of Us making-of documentary free on Amazon

Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us is a documentary produced by Area 5 and if you have cleared the game's story mode already, it's definitely one for the to-watch list. Better yet, it's actually free on Amazon in the US right now, either to rent or own.

According to Naughty Dog, Grounded will be up on the PlayStation YouTube channel "very soon" for everyone outside of the US in addition to possibly coming to more venues later on.

I watched about half of the movie last night and as ever, I was left baffled at the sheer time, energy, and devotion that goes into making these monstrous games. It's scary.

Grounded: The Making of The Last of Us Now Available on Amazon Instant Video [PlayStation Blog]

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News::Extra Scenario: Shut Up, Kid

Rely on Horror: There are some despicable kids out there across Xbox Live, PSN, and PC vile children whose parents should be monitoring them and washing their mouths out with soap when they hear a stream of expletives or verbal attacks come from their offspring. Racist and homophobic remarks get bounced around like a playground ball, and personal attacks are commonplace in online communities where children are present. There is a troubling issue at hand that stems not from the children, but from those they share their online communities with: the adult gamers. These children are merely a product of their online environment and its about time we stop calling for their exclusion and take a stand against those that act so vehemently toward them.



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News::Exclusive: Beautiful Titanfall Artwork From The Art of Titanfall Shows the Might of the Titans

Titan books sent DualShockers an exclusive selection of pieces of artwork from the The Art of Titanfall to share with you, and theyre definitely a testament to Titanfalls art direction.



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News::Otaku Dome: The Wolf Among Us Episode 2: Smoke and Mirrors Review

Otaku Dome: The acclaimed The Wolf Among Us has returned to consoles and PC with episode 2 Smoke and Mirrors, after the death of someone close to Bigby, gamers were treated with twist, shocks, awes, and returns. Does episode 2 keep the acclaim going?



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News::Ten Things to Do in the Last 24 Hours of the Titanfall Beta

GR - #1 Stop Melee-assassinating the grunts Seriously. Youre not helping your team! Plus dont you find youre getting assassinated yourself? Or jump kicked? Or stepped on by an enemy Titan? The grunts are fodder. Theyre added to the game to add filler and give you a lot of successful dynamic moments, but theyre also really cheap. Read on.



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News::STARWHAL: Just the Tip will ruin friendships

This isn't my first time seeing STARWHAL: Just the Tip but I can't for the life of me remember the reason why I neglected to tell you fine people about it. It better have been good!

No matter -- I prefer writing about stuff that you all can go out and immediately try for yourselves. Anyway, this is a local multiplayer game for PC/Mac in which spacefaring neon narwhals do battle and it's now up on Steam Early Access for $9.99.

Impaling my closest friends and soon-to-be enemies as a majestic Starwhal does sound appealing. Developer Breakfall says it will be "rolling out with multiplayer features first, bit by bit, and then later will release the final release version that includes single-player challenge mode."

The team is targeting May 2014 for completion, and the price "will probably only go up once all the new features are included."

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News::A Dozen New Elder Scrolls Online Screenshots Released

Today brings a dozen new screenshots of the upcoming MMORPG to the masses, featuring combat and stunning scenery.



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