News::The Definitive Dota 2 Dictionary: The 150+ terms you must know by now

Whether you've been playing Dota 2 since early beta or a complete noob, The Definitive Dota 2 Dictionary is a must have for any Dota 2 player.



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News::Vanishing of Ethan Carter release date and console talk

Eurogamer : Weird fiction horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter will be released roughly four months from now, creator Adrian Chmielarz has told me. "We are going to have probably the worst possible release date, which is the middle of summer..." he groaned, speaking to me at Polish conference Digital Dragons. "It's hot and it's summer - do you really want to play a game about autumn?" It's a PC game for the time being, but PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions are definitely on the cards. "It would be idiotic not to, to be honest," he said. "Maybe that's too strong of a word but you know what I mean, right? If the game resonates with people... that's easily going to be the first thing we do."



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News::Wolfenstein on Xbox One Vs PS4 Vs PC

Three versions of the newest Wolfenstein, all with their own graphical quirks and strengths. Let's compare them, shall we?

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News::First Hour: Transistor (PS4)

Colin checks out the First Hour of Transistor on the Playstation 4!



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News::Silence The Whispered World 2 Offers Interesting Look At Camera Projection Process

GG3 writes: "German developer Daedalic Entertaniment has put up a clip showing off camera projection for one of its games, Silence The Whispered World 2. Its an extremely interesting process where flat 2D illustrations gradually get transformed into 3D visuals."



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News::Exclusive Interview: Dawngate Composer Jeff Broadbent

In this exclusive Q&A, Dawngate composer Jeff Broadbent talks about doing the music for that MOBA and how a game's genre & setting can influence its music.



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News::Always Sometimes Monsters Released Today; New Launch Trailer

An engrossing and immersive tale of cross-country travel on the way to rekindle lost love, Always Sometimes Monsters, challenges players by continually pitting them against dire straits and ever-changing moral dilemmas.



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News::Last chance to get your limited edition Destructoid shirt!

Originally revealed in an episode of Farts 'N' Crafts last week by Max Scoville, Chad Valente's amazing linocut print will be the first design to be made into a limited edition Destructoid shirt for DTOID Fashion. The limited edition tee will be available for pre-order for the next 24 hours.

Secure your pre-order HERE !

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News::Review: Octodad: Dadliest Catch - Slippery When Fun | KaboomShark

Jake T. Writes: "If Octodad and Goat Simulator are going to usher in a bizarre new genre of comedy focused non-games, and they are all this good, Im all for it."



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News::The Walking Dead - Season 2 Episode 3: In Harm's Way Review | High Score Reviews

As should be the case with episodic adventures, the wait for the release of each episode of Telltales second season of The Walking Dead is becoming more and more aggravating, not necessarily because the waits are ridiculously long, but because the writing has remained so strong, and each episode has made a habit of climaxing in a way thatll leave you wanting more. This is once again the case with In Harms Way, at episode that sees Season Two hit new heights and leaves you salivating at the prospect of whats to come.



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News::Planet Explorers - Early Access Review | Cliqist

Nathaniel Liles writes: "Planet Explorers is like a single-player version of the most boring, grindy MMORPG youve ever played. Almost all of the time you spend playing this game will be spent walking in a single direction through an unpopulated wasteland."



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News::LEGO The Hobbit Review | GameGrin

LEGO games are a given now in the yearly releases, with lots of big franchises receiving the yellow brick treatment into videogame format. Lets face it, we were all pretty damn excited when LEGO Batman: The Videogame came out and its quirky sense of humour and great cooperative function brought something fresh to the table and managed to provide hours of entertainment to gamers across all ages.



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News::First-Person Games Meet Strategy Games. In Space.

I used to play this old PC game called USS Ticonderoga. It was a pretty clunky modern naval simulation, but I persisted with it for one reason: it let you explore your ship in first-person. I can't believe it's taken this long for another game to realise how awesome that premise is.

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News::Here's ZeniMax's Specific Beef (Well, Beefs) With Oculus Rift

News::Wolfenstein: The New Order review | Independent

While some may bemoan the lack of multiplayer, this is a bold, accomplished debut from Swedish developer MachineGames that proves you can still teach an old wolf new tricks.



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News::Batman: Arkham Knight: Bane, Deadshot, Killer Moth, and Zsasz Voice Actors Revealed

"We wont go through profiles of each of these characters again, but what we will tell you is that everyone save Killer Moth is getting the same voice actors that they had in previous games."



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News::3rd Person Shooters, Crafting and MOBAs Combine in Minimum | Hardcore Gamer

Have you ever wanted to see MOBA concepts in a multiplayer third person shooter? It might seem like an odd combination at first, but Minimum sells itself as exactly that kind of game.



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News::Review - 'Wolfenstein: The New Order' | Worth Playing

If you gravitate toward a strong single-player experience in your shooters, The New Order should be high on your list of games to play.



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News::Wolfenstein: The New Order: The Kotaku Review

Trapped in a vegetative state for 14 years, Wolfenstein hero B.J. Blazkowicz awakens to a 1960 dominated by Nazis and a life no-longer solely defined by the killing of them.

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News::Tarsier Studios presents Hunger, a surreal action adventure

Tarsier Studios did an excellent job on LittleBigPlanet Vita , and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. Their new project Hunger looks like a decidedly different affair, a much more mythical story with somber tones and stealth elements that make it a completely different sort of game entirely.

Hunger is a third-person 3D action-adventure game that incorporates stealth and exploration elements as it follows nine-year-old girl Six during her time in The Maw. We're not talking about TwistedPixel's game here -- The Maw is actually an underwater "resort" where prisoners work to make the wishes of the elite a reality. Six journeys through the strange world of The Maw and, from the look of this concept art, takes in some pretty bizarre sights.

This will be Tarsier's first original IP since The City of Metronome, back in 2005. It looks deliciously disturbing, doesn't it? It'll be interesting to see how Six is able to interact with her environment and vice versa.

Hunger is the new adventure game from LittleBigPlanet Vita's Tarsier Studios [AllGamesBeta]

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News::Talking Indie Game Design With the Creator of The Blackwell Epiphany

Entertainment Buddha's Matt Heywood writes, "While at PAX East this year I had the chance to interview Dave Gilbert, who is the creator of Wadjeteye Games, and its Blackwell series of adventure-based video games. His latest creation is the conclusion to the Blackwell series, which is called The Blackwell Epiphany. The Blackwell Epiphany is a throw back to old school adventure games complete with charming pixel art, and plenty of point-and-click gameplay. It mixes the visual style of games from the past with the highly addictive story driven mechanics from Telltales line of narrative-based titles. Gamers who grew up in the 80s and 90s will surely wax nostalgic at the visual style of this game, but those gamers that prefer a deep story and adventure will also be pleased by what The Blackwell Epiphany has to offer."



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News::You can torture a Nazi with a chainsaw in Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The New Order is out today on PC as well as last and current-gen consoles, and Sam Clay found out first hand what its like to torture a Nazi with a chainsaw. Sounds fun.



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News::King Reveals Bubble Witch Saga 2 For Facebook And Mobile Devices

GG3 writes: "Publisher King Digital Entertainment, those people with the whole Candy Crush Saga debacle, announced Bubble Witch Saga 2. Its a follow-up to one of their original success stories, started on Facebook in 2011."



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News::Bombing Bastards makes me long for Bomberman

A game called Bombing Bastards is slated for release on Wii U "within the next couple of months," with a PlayStation 4 version to eventually follow. Can they -- can they name it that? Not even Stealth Bastard made it to PlayStation Network unscathed.

No matter what it's called, this will likely be remembered as another game that looks like Bomberman. Which, these days, isn't the worst of fates. It's not like much is happening with the property. Developer Sanuk Games has a single-player mode with bosses and a two- to five-player battle mode that supports the GamePad, Wii Remote, Classic Controller, and Pro Controller.

Okay. That's sufficient. Or I could just keep playing Super Bomberman 2 and Bomberman Live.

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News::Island In New York Looks Like The Last Of Us

One of the refreshing things about The Last Of Us' vision of the apocalypse was that it didn't involve destruction. Mankind hadn't been killed off by bombs, or aliens, but by nature itself, which was only too happy to reclaim our cities.

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News::Watch_Dogs Graphics on next gen consoles will be the same as high settings on PC

Jonathan Morin, Watch_Dogs' creative director, had something to say when asked about next gen consoles graphics for Watch_Dogs vs PC.



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News::Wii U getting a GameCube-inspired fighting controller

The Wii U doesn't really have a good controller for fighting games, so enter PDP with their Wired Fight Pad as they're calling it. The controller has GameCube controller design inspirations, and is even licensed by Nintendo. It'll work for the Wii and Wii U, and plugs into the Wiimote.

The Fight Pad will run for $24.99, and is expected for release this holiday season. Any game that supports the Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro will work with the Fight Pad, plus some Virtual Console games will work with this too. There will be multiple versions of the controller released as well, with designs featuring Mario, Yoshi, and Princess Peach.

Well Super Smash Bros. just got more enticing on the Wii U.

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News::Level-Start 13: Can Halo 5 Deliver The Goods?

"Today on Level-Start, We Get an exclusive look Behind the scenes at Play Legits Rap Cypher 2.0. Halo 5 has a name, but does it have game? All this and more inside." -Play Legit



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News::​Do You Have Faith In VR?

We stand at the precipice of a new age: The age of the VR headset. Or at least, that's what the people making VR would love for you to believe.

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News::That new Gauntlet game is coming out on September 3

Hey! Remember how there's a new Gauntlet happening and people were excited for it yet Warner Bros. is barely making a big deal about it? Well yeah it's still happening, set to arrive for just the PC/Steam on September 3.

The online/local four-player classic is up for pre-order, and if you want to "secure" your copy now you will be given extra items and a free comic the day the game is released. The comic is titled Gauntlet: Darkness Calls, and will detail the origins of "Gauntlet's most vile master," Morak.

More interesting to me from this press release was details on WB Games Vault, a program that will see Midway/Warner Bros IP paired with different game developers. For instance, this new Gauntlet is being made by Arrowhead Game Studios, famous for the Magicka series. It's nice to see a studio finally attempting to do something with their old IPs.

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News::Halo: Custom Edition for PC to Live On Despite GameSpy

GamersNexus: "In the ongoing quest to keep you aware of what to do with GameSpy shutting down, we bring you this great news from the creators of Halo. Bungie announced on the 15th that they have a fix in-place for Halo PC and Halo Community Edition."



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News::Intel: Broadwell Shipping in Time for "The Holidays"

GamersNexus: "There's been a lot of delaying going on in the industry lately. NVidia and AMD have both pushed back launches (Maxwell, Titan Z) on the GPU side, Intel pushed back X99 / HW-E to 3Q14, and even delayed Broadwell into "4Q14 or 1Q15." All of these delays are attributable to fabrication process changes that are sweeping the semiconductor industry right now; we're shrinking the process to a point that it's small enough that new engineering hurdles have arisen -- good news for innovation, but bad for the impatient."



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News::Dr. David's Indie Spotlight: Nom Nom Galaxy is more than just PixelJunk Terraria

GameZone: "Nom Nom Galaxy isn't the next Terraria it's the first Nom Nom Galaxy. I mean, I get it. It's always pretty easy to draw comparisons between something new and whatever it reminds us of. Still, sometimes it's not that simple. Was Sonic the Hedgehog the Mario killer? Not necessarily. Did Saints Row overthrow Grand Theft Auto? No, it did its own thing. Is Nom Nom Galaxy just Terraria by the PixelJunk people? Absolutely not. And the sooner everyone gets that, the sooner they'll see that this is a magnificently jovial little game worthy of its own merit."



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News::Magnetic By Nature Preview Interview

Tripleslash Studios previews their new PC, OUYA, Mac and Linux award-winning game, Magnetic By Nature, in this exclusive developer interview from Salt Lake Comic Con.



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News::Exclusive: New Details on Massive June 3rd Goat Simulator Update

Nathaniel Liles writes: "Yesterday I, like many others of you, received an email update from Armin Ibrisagic, the beautiful soul behind Goat Simulator and Sanctum 2, detailing an update for Goat Simulator coming to us on June 3rd. Why send out an email for a simple update? I mean, surely this is just some ploy, right? Oh hell no it is not... Now, to avoid misquoting Mr. Ibrisagic, Ill be regaling you with an almost word-for-word representation of the email I received regarding the update. The exclusive details via Cliqist."



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News::The Game Fanatics | Preview: Defense Grid 2

The Game Fanatics get their first look at an early build of the upcoming tower defense sequel - Defense Grid 2



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News::How Many More Times Can We Shoot the Nazis?

CCC Says: "Its difficult to come up with a compelling antagonist in a military shooter. On one hand the enemy has to be realistic, encapsulating honest military fears that we hold in the current day. On the other hand, the enemy cant be racist. Flat out saying that the enemy is from Afghanistan or Iraq ends up grossly simplifying a complicated conflict. Heck, even making the enemies Russian caused quite a few outcries of racial stereotyping. But at the same time, we cant just make up a country or put our heroes up against a Cobra Commander style vague evil presence. That would just feel too cartoony."



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News::Always Sometimes Monsters, a Popular Semi-Biographical and Touching RPG, Available Now on Steam

Inspired by true events, a game about life, love, and the pursuit of both.



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News::Samurai Warriors 4 coming to PS3, PS4, Vita this fall

Tecmo Koei would like you to know that Samurai Warriors 4 is coming to the US and Europe this fall for PS3, PS4, and Vita. It released in Japan early this year. Samurai Warriors 3 came out four years ago.

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