News::Why I Prefer Oblivion Over Skyrim

GameGrin's James Furlong writes: "Skyrim is bland and shallow. That may seem a very odd statement to a lot of people, but Ill stand by it. Games as a medium are constantly evolving yet, in another fashion, devolving. The sense that bigger is always better is one that has always been in the gaming psyche; even when games just became longer, contained more levels, hundreds of collectables etc, there was always a want for more. This to me, is where Skyrim falls down."



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News::Interview: Matthew Marteinsson on Invisible, Inc. and Stealth at PAX East 2014

Following up titles like Mark of the Ninja and Don't Starve, DualShockers speaks with Klei Entertainment's Matthew Marteinsson to discuss how Invisible, Inc. is bringing a little bit of espionage to its latest title.



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News::[PAX East 14] VIDEOBALL preview: Poking balls [SideQuesting]

Sam Dixon of SideQuesting writes: "Part soccer, part basketball and just a bit of Asteroids, VIDEOBALL is a fast and frenetic game while being minimal and simple enough for anyone to pick up and play."



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News::Throw Trucks With Your Mind Previewed

Nathaniel Liles writes: "Ive been waiting to play Throw Trucks with Your Mind for a very long time, and actually heard of such plans before the developers at Crooked tree Studios started their Kickstarter. Weve wanted to control video games with our brainmeat for a very long time now, and until very recently, that hasnt even been a remote possibility. The technology is here now, albeit in its early forms, and to test out Throw Trucks with Your Mind properly, I was actually sent a NeuroSky MindWave EEG headset, a piece of technology that measures electrical activity in your brain as it fluctuates."



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News::Doing The Dirty Simpsons With Family Guy's Quest For Stuff

Racism, sexism, homophobia, pedophilia — all the horrible things that makes Family Guy what it is are present in Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, plus some free-to-play mechanics some might find offensive.

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News::Joystiq: Becoming the monster in Evolve: Lessons from Left 4 Dead

Joystiq: For all of the technical wizardry going on behind the scenes, Left 4 Dead was a simple game: four players versus seemingly endless hordes of zombies, peppered with the occasional, amped-up special zombie. Evolve, the latest game from Left 4 Dead developer Turtle Rock Studios, trims down the number of bodies on screen while simultaneously introducing new layers of complexity. Evolve ditches the undead hordes for a single, player-controlled monster pitted against four player-controlled hunters. On the surface, it's a much simpler formula, until you realize that each hunter has their own individual set of weapons, items and abilities, and the monster is constantly evolving, steadily becoming stronger and more deadly as the round progresses. (You'll find our video preview from February after the break, if you want a better idea of how it all works.)



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News::Flappy Bird is back. Pressed on a disc. In a store near you.

Well, at least if you are living in Germany, that is. Despite still being absent from the Appstore, it's available now -- on disc -- in German stores. I don't know when this has happened but it's crazy. It's also a little weird for me to think that there are still people out there giving a shit about the game. I thought the fad was over...



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News::Sid Meiers Massively Anticipated Reboot Beyond Earth will Come with Mantle API

The high gloss remake of Alpha Centauri will ship with AMD's Mantle API out of the box.



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News::[PAX East 14] The Evil Within Preview: Or is it Resident Evil More | SideQuesting

Bethesda Softworks and Shinji Mikamis Tango Gameworks is set to bring a new IP to the survivor horror genre. Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikamis influence on The Evil Within was clear in the demo shown at PAX East; its what you would expect for Resident Evil 4-2. Thats not necessarily a bad thing. But then again, thats not necessarily a good thing either.



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News::Hack n Slash Impressions | Twinfinite

JC from Twinfinite writes: "If youve ever experimented with programming as a kid, then you no doubt have memories of making a program then changing around the variables to make some pretty crazy stuff happen. Or maybe you just did that with a Quake console or your sisters Windows 98 account. Double Fines newest game, Hack n Slash somehow manages to take the fun of that and apply it to a Zelda style game."



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News::Orcs Must Die! Unchained Hands-On Impressions | Twinfinite

Andy from Twinfinite writes: "Theres something especially satisfying about tower defense games as you watch your fortress grow and your enemies fall."



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News::Shovel Knight Hands-On Impressions | Twinfinite

PAX East 2014 - Amidst delays, the crowdfunded Shovel Knight was at PAX East this year where the Twinfinite team got a hands on look at the retro throwback.



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News::All 32 NBA Logos Redesigned With Pokemon

Micah Coles gave all 32 NBA teams Pokemon-themed redesigns:

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News::New Moba Strife Hands-On Impressions | Twinfinite

PAX East 2014 - The makers of Heroes of Newerth has a new MOBA, Strife, to compete with League of Legends and Dota 2. Twinfinite previews the new title in the competitive genre.



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News::Murdered: Soul Suspect Hands-on Impressions | Twinfinite

Alex from Twinfinite writes: "Murdered: Soul Suspect is an upcoming action-adventure, detective-styled game developed by Airtight Games (published by Square Enix) in development for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, and Xbox One. During PAX East, I got the chance to sit down with the game and play about the first half hour of it."



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News::Evolve: new stunning screenshots from PAX East

Evolve Directly from PAX East 2014, here are new gameplay screens taken from upcoming sci-fi themed, co-operative first-person shooter developed by Turtle Rock Studios.



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News::Best Buy Weekly Deals for April 13th

Best Buy's weekly deals for April 13 to April 19 are now live.



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News::You're the One Writing the Story in This Weird, Beautiful Sci-Fi Game

Usually, games that happen beyond Earth's atmosphere take you to planets teeming with life. Meeting creatures with tentacles where hair or hands should be or with strangely angled mandibles isn't uncommon in sci-fi games. But, none of that happens in Elegy for Dead World, which we got a chance to see at PAX East this year. Everything that ever lived on these planets is long-deceased and you have to tell the cosmos what you think happened to them. And you have to use poetry to do it.

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News::The New Longest Arcade Game Run In History - Over 85 Hours

On the morning of Wednesday, April 9, Ohio arcade champion John Salter slipped a quarter into his Armor Attack arcade cabinet. By the time he finished playing late Saturday night, he'd broken two major video game records.

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News::G2A Deals: Watch Dogs for $33, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls for $33, Xbox Live Gold 1 Month for $5

G2A is back with another of their weekly sales, featured as a PayPal exclusive . See if you find anything interesting amongst the offers called Set your Sails on Gamers Paradise.



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News::Frugal Gaming Review | Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 2

As I crawled through a creaking vent, I looked out onto Rapture from an entirely new perspective. It was then I knew that this final segment of the Bioshock story was going to be something unique - Writes Frugal Gaming's Brapscallion



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News::Review: Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls | Rely on Horror

Rely on Horror, K. Campbell writes: "It was once said that if a developer released a bad game, it would be forever considered a bad game until the end of time. However this is hardly the case in the age of where games can be easily modified, patched, and improved upon. Diablo 3: Reaper Of Souls in particular is one such a game that looks to challenge that notion."



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News::H1Z1 and the problem with post-apocalyptic MMOs

Rely on Horror, T. Rivard writes: "Theres a new kind of game on the survival horror horizon the post-apocalyptic MMO. On the surface, games like DayZ, State of Decay, RUST and the recently announced H1Z1 (see what they did there?) sound like theyd be loads of fun, something to put the survival back in survival horror, right? But leave it to RoHs Negative Nancy to chime in and point out its flaws."



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News::Top Ten Most Addicting Browser Games

Here is a list of ten browser games that will surely keep you glued to your computer.



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News::The Cosplay of PAX East, Day 3

Thank you, unknown cosplayer, for your furry tribute to the best thing about Call of Duty: Ghosts.

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News::PAX East hands-on with Chasm | TwoDashStash

The developers described Chasm as a 2D Action-RPG that has taken inspirations from classic metroidvania, hack-n-slash, and dungeon crawler games and added procedurally-generated levels to give the player a unique experience every time they play.



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News::South Park: Stick of Truth - Review | To Continue Press

A review of South Park: Stick of Truth



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News::Goat Simulator Review, There's a New Kid on the Block | n3rdabl3

Goat Simulator is something that shouldnt be taken seriously. Its a game that lacks any structure and is filled with more bugs than the reptile feed section at your local pet store. But thats what makes Goat Simulator so great, its so stupid, pointless, and buggy that the resulting gameplay will put a smile on anyones face provided you have some imagination.



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News::A Hat in Time Hands-On Impressions | Twinfinite

Twinfinite writes: Its hard not to grin while playing A Hat in Time. It is an overwhelmingly charming game that wants to channel the best of the 3D collect-a-thon platformers that existed throughout the Nintendo 64s lifespan. While still in a very early state, its clear that A Hat in Time has the right idea of what people are most nostalgic about and so far seems capable of delivering on it.



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News::New Hellraid Image introduces the Torturer

Techland has released yet another update on Hellraid, this time providing an image of the Torturer, one of Hells commanders players will encounter (and defeat) in the journey through the dark hack n slash RPG.



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News::PAX East 2014: The Evil Within Demo Shows A Game With An Identity Crisis | iDigitaltimes

Unfortunately, the scary and psychotic vibe of the trailer doesn't translate into the gameplay on display at PAX East. It doesn't play like a game that is scary or full of tension.



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News::PAX East 2014 Eyes On: The Evil Within | Gameskinny

It's rare to enter a situation where a demo is so unmemorable that it's difficult to put into words; this is one of those times. The Evil Within is the upcoming survival-horror game from Resident Evil all-star Shinji Mikami - and if the PAX East demo is any indicator, the game may not make much of a splash.



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News::100 Best Boss Fights: 60 - 51

Part 5 of the 100 Best Boss Fights



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News::Evolve Gets Six New Screenshots

Developer Turtle Rock Studios has released six new screenshots for its upcoming sci-fi themed, co-operative first-person shooter, Evolve.



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News::2K gave Borderlands the PRE-SEQUEL to PAX attendees

PAX East 2014 is almost over but for attendees of the Gearbox panel it surely ended with a bang



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News::I Hope The Evil Within Isnt A Generic Zombie Shooter | GameInformer

GameInformer: "While it would be insane to judge the game on around 20 minutes of gameplay, what was shown didnt leave me with a great impression."



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News::Trials Fusion Resolution, Day One Patch Details Revealed

In an email from Ubisofts PR containing our review code for the game, we have officially received details on how Trials Fusion will look on each platform.



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News::You might hate Claptrap in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, and Gearbox is fine with that

The next Borderlands isn't Borderlands 3, and it's not being developed by Gearbox. As we learned earlier this week, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (read our preview!) bridges the gap between Borderlands and Borderlands 2, it's only on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, and development has been handed to 2K Australia. Oh, and it's set on the moon.



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News::It Really Is A Disney Magical World

G'morning to you too, Mickey Mouse.

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News::Homeworld Remastered Gets The Collector's Edition It Deserves

During Gearbox Software's PAX East 2014 panel this morning, fans got a quick peek at the incredibly limited starship that's coming in the equally limited collector's edition of the Homeworld Remastered. So pretty.

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