News::Changes made to Watch Dogs multiplayer

GameZone: "Ubisoft has announced that the developer has made changes to some of Watch Dogs' multiplayer modes."



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News::New Midora Screenshots and Character Art

GenGAME writes: If you havent already heard, Midora is an ambitious Kickstarter game inspired by the likes of Legend of Zelda, Secret of Mana, and other classic 2D action-adventure games. We recently interviewed Epic Minds, the team creating Midora, and they hooked us up with some an exclusive first look at some screenshots and character art



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News::'Marvel Heroes 2015' Anniversary Celebration Coming To A Close With Epic Twelve Event

In celebration of the end of its month long anniversary celebration, Gazillion is pleased to announce the Epic Twelve - End of Anniversary event for their new and improved superhero MMO Marvel Heroes 2015. The event will give players a host of boosts, upgrades, mini-missions and adventures to take part in.



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News::16bitkings: Among the Sleep | A child shouldnt have to go through this

16bitkings review the Norwegian indie game Among the Sleep, where you play as an infant: "Fredrik crawls through a nightmarish world as a 2-year-old and hides from monsters by covering his face with his tiny hands."



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News::Mass Effect 4: everything we know so far

John Bedford (Eurogamer): Two years have passed since the launch of Mass Effect 3 and, while there have been no official announcements of late, we know that BioWare is busy on its new Mass Effect game.



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News::Top 10 Most Beautiful Games

From GamesReviews "Sometimes it's nice to take a few seconds away from shooting an alien in the head so that you can look at the newly blood-spattered landscape. Games are genuinely beautiful, either visually or thematically, sucking you into a whole new world of rich forests, craggy walkways or still oceans, far beyond the violence and gore that so often gets the focus in the mainstream media. Today we're going to take a look at ten of the most beautiful titles in gaming history."



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News::Why The Evil Within will become my first PS4 title?

"Make sure you do not miss out on such a complex mind blower like The Evil Within, people who love horror games are absolutely looking forward to it. And I just got a PS4 for this. The Evil Within will be the best way to explore the technical and visual prowess of my Playstation 4, and will also earmark the beginning of yet another console relationship. Amen." Writes Tathagata Ray as he gears himself up for The Evil Within



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News::Managing your Backlog: A Guide

With the Steam Sale on full throttle, with great deals from the likes of GOG and Green Man Gaming, we at iLLGaming, just like most of you out there, sit on a large backlog of great games we purchased but never got the chance to play. Editor Chirantan Raut boasts a 700+ games library on Steam, but he has managed to play every single game. Here is his guide, so that you don't have to worry about a rising backlog.



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News::Latest Call of Duty: Ghosts Double XP Weekend begins today

Call of Duty on Twitter writes: "Ready up with 2XP this weekend, live for all platforms on Friday."



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News::Amusing VR Festival Title Stage Presence Releases New Build

VRFocus - A popular virtual reality (VR) dream concept is to empower players with the feeling of being a rockstar. The idea of putting them on stage in front of a crowd of thousands with the Oculus Rift VR headset to play music seems like an obvious idea for a VR videogame, though its yet to be fully realised by a developer. Stage Presence starts out delivering on that premise before taking a rather unusual and amusing twist. A new trailer for the title can be seen below.



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News::Sniper Elite 3 Review - Video Games India

Sniping is one of the most fun activities you can perform in a first person shooter game, since it enables you to kill your enemies from afar without them even knowing. While adding this tactic in such a game might work, it can be quite hard to come up with a game based entirely on sniping. Thankfully, the Sniper Elite series is the prime example of a polished, fun sniping experience, and the third installment tries to make a great leap forward for the series, leaving the linear, boring experience and going for an open world feel.



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News::Sniper Elite 3 - CD Keys revoked by Rebellion

"One of the biggest scams to hit the game industry is unfolding as I type this article. You may already be aware of it. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of Sniper Elite Steam 3 CD Keys have been Illegally revoked and de-activated, by the games own developer, Rebellion"



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News::Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel arena available now

Step into the arena and get your game on in the new browser based trading card game.



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News::10 Free-To-Play Games Worth Playing

CCC Says: "So you bought an Xbox One or Playstation 4, huh? But now you dont have any games to play for either. Its going to be a long summer and fall if you dont start finding some games to play in the meantime. While you are waiting for all the big name developers to drop their biggest and best on you at Christmas time, check into some other of these free-to-play games that are out there to help fill the void left by the absence of games for your brand-new system. These are just a few of our favorites and there are a ton more out there. There is literally something for every style and type of gamer. So in no particular order, here are ten FTP titles worth checking out."



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News::Frugal Gaming Preview | Maia PC

Maia is taking shape nicely albeit at a relatively slow rate of pace due to the tiny yet clearly very talented developer- Writes PridedLlama



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News::Indian retailers cash in on Steam sale hype with killer deals

Games in Asia says: "There are some great buys there, like Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag going for INR 749 (approx. $12.40), and Civilization V Game of the Year Edition for INR 499 (around $8)."



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News::Lifeless Planet Reviewed - Cliqist

Megan Mellers writes: "Players take the role of an astronaut stranded on a mysterious planet, trying to uncover its mysteries. Driven by platformer-esque gameplay, players use their trusty jetpack to trek through abandoned towns, ghostly forests, and dry wastelands. The gameplay is solid, but very repetitive."



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News::10 Steam Summer Sale Hidden Gems Under $10 Dollars

With Steam being home to many thousands of games its becoming increasingly easy for great games to get lost in the shuffle. Steams annual sales are a great time for gamers to invest in some heavily discounted titles that they may have otherwise missed. Gamecrastinate has compiled a list of 10 games at crazy prices that deserve some extra attention.



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News::Sniper Elite 3 Released, Celebrates with New Trailer

505 Games and Rebellion are set to release the third installment of their popular Sniper Elite series. This time around players go Nazi hunting in the African desert in a quest to stop a super-weapon project from completing its mission. To celebrate the upcoming release, players can check out the brand new launch trailer for the game.



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News::Retrospective: Virtua Tennis 3

Format: Various Publisher: Sega Developer: In-house/Sumo Reviewed: E174

The last few years have seen developers of sports games become increasingly obsessed with the notion of realism. Despite the annual FIFA game outselling nearest rival Pro Evolution Soccer every year, licence-guzzling giant EA talks openly about trying to emulate the realism that its closest rival offers. So it’s ironic that Virtua Tennis 3 – a sports title that flaunts its arcade style at every possible opportunity, with its players diving all over the shop and its mini-games bordering on lunacy – currently sits pretty as the first, some might say only, great sports offering on the new generation of consoles.

By simplifying the sport down to its most basic form, Virtua eschews any notion of reality. Its control system borders on crude, with the three face buttons used to hit lob, topspin or slice shots, and the left analogue stick in charge of player movement and shot direction. That’s it. No using the shoulder buttons to add extra spin to the ball like old Super Nintendo favourite Super Tennis. No option for the player, even, to decide when to smash or volley or dive. The AI makes those decisions for you contextually, depending on the position of your character.

Yet this simpleton approach actually enhances Virtua Tennis 3’s charm. Ask someone who’s never played a football game to play Pro Evo and it would take them months to learn every strange nuance, every tactical possibility, every intricate skill. Plonk a Henman-hater in front of Virtua and they’ll be serving aces and drilling passing shots within minutes. Like past titles as varied as Sonic The Hedgehog, Guitar Hero and God Of War, the key is its ‘easy to pick-up, hard to perfect’ approach. And like those titles, its masterful usage of this method earns it a place in gaming’s upper echelons.

But it’s not the only factor for which it deserves grand praise. Visually, it’s as good as just about anything we’ve seen on PS3 or 360 to date: from Tim Henman’s ever-familiar rabbit-caught-in-headlights expressions to Maria Sharapova’s luscious golden locks to Lindsay Davenport’s fascinating belly, players are almost threateningly lifelike, and multitudinous crowds in the game’s myriad arenas from around the globe look the part, too.

They’re still some way off being photorealistic, but VT3’s licensed sports stars are among the best in their field.

The cuckoo mini-games that have become a Virtua tradition cement its lofty standing. Found within the game’s plump career mode, in which you transform a cack-handed also-ran into a John McEnroe clone by completing training exercises and winning tournaments, they’re an integral part of the Virtua experience because they are the training exercises which have to be completed if your player is to make it on the world stage.

Some are favourites from Virtua Tennis’s past, like Pin Crusher. Working to the same scoring system as ten-pin bowling, you serve balls towards skittles in the opposite half of the court, trying to earn spares and strikes and improve your player’s service attributes in the process. Others are completely novel ideas. Feeding Time sees you protecting oversized meat chops from the chomping jaws of a hungry group of alligators. Each reptile is attached to a rotating panel via a chain; smashing balls into the panel causes the respective ’gator to be dragged backwards a few feet, keeping the meat intact for just a precious few more seconds. Almost as surreally, Avalanche sees you improving your character’s movement attributes by collecting fruit while guiding him out of the way of the oversized tennis balls that come hurtling off a giant conveyor belt.

Seven of Virtua Tennis 3’s mini-games are also available to play in multiplayer, and the impact of this can’t be underestimated. In previous titles, there was little to do once the created character had reached number one in career mode. Multiplayer was fun, but with matches limited to a single set it felt limited. Virtua Tennis 3 – in one of its few concessions to reality – now features three- and five-set matches, and with those barmy mini-games also factored in, it packs one hell of a swing in group play.

The biggest surprise with Virtua Tennis 3 and its predecessors? That no one has yet come close to emulating it. Sony’s Smash Court Tennis titles on PS2 were excellent tennis sims, but their starchy-around-the-collar feel made them inaccessible to anyone looking for a super-immediate game in this particular genre. For as long as that remains the case, Virtua Tennis 3 will reign supreme as gaming’s answer to Roger Federer: an all-conquering beast, yet one that moves with beautiful panache and majestic grace. Those other sports games endlessly searching for something called reality could learn a lot about fun from this particular arcade-bred example.

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News::The Banner Saga 2 won't release in 2014, new features teased by Stoic

The Banner Saga 2 won't be released this year, developer Stoic has said. The three-man team, which is currently working on a tablet version, said that it wants to release console versions before moving onto the second game in a planned trilogy. © Stoic Games "It would be great to be out in a year," programmer John Watson told Digital Spy last month. "That would be ideal. It's roughly a timeframe, but we'll know more as the months go on. "We'd like to do it as quickly as possible, but there's only three of us, and we're thinking about ports as well as planning the next episodes at the same time. It's hard to say when, we don't even know exactly when." The duo said the timing of the sequel would have to make sense to recent players of the tablet and console versions.



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News::Goat simulator number 1 on Steam 2014 sale

Goat simulator (a game where you simulate being a GOAT), beats out Civilization V (a game which simulates human civilization) for the top spot in Steams 2014 summer daily sale.



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News::Dreamfall Chapters Will Come in 5 Episodes

In an email sent out today, Red Thread Games details the future of Dreamfall Chapters, The Longest Journey Home and Draugen.



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News::Curse Of Naxxramas Launching Next Month

Earlier today Blizzard gave Hearthstone fans a reason to celebrate following a forum post that revealed a July launch for the eagerly anticipated update, the Curse of Naxxramas



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News::Private Eye Demo Coming Soon

VRFocus - The team behind the forthcoming Private Eye has teased that a new demo build of the videogame will be coming soon. The much delayed virtual reality (VR) experience has already seen an early prototype made available to the public, however this new build appears to have considerably increased the production values of the videogame.



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News::Star Conflict: Invasion Mode and Sandbox Exploration

StarGem Inc. and Gaijin Entertainments epic free-to-play spaceship combat MMO Star Conflict is getting an exciting new update including Invasion Mode, which is still in Closed Beta until the end of the summer. If players want to access this new mode, they will need one of the following achievements: Strikeforce Prometheus or Universe Conqueror.



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News::Dead Island 2 Preview | CheatCC

CCC Says: "Zombies! Everyone loves zombies! Its not like we havent played a million and one zombie games in the past few years right? Dont you want to play another game about zombies!? Deep Silver thinks you do, and thats why they are making Dead Island 2, the sequel to the questionable hit that made paradise into the apocalypse, Dead Island. We got a chance to see this game at E3 2014 this year. Heres what we thought."



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News::6/23/2014: This Is How You Game

Welcome to your weekend! I hope it's filled with video games, particularly games you can play with a keyboard and mouse, particularly a mouse you can put on your squishy pug.

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News::VR Support Planned for Grass Simulator 2014

VRFocus - This week sees the launch of a new Steam Greenlight campaign for an unusual first-person shooter (FPS) videogame by the name of Grass Simulator 2014. Created by indie developer Rezine Games, it follows in the vein of other Simulator titles, with a comedic presentation in which players simply explore a map populated with cows, trees and, as the name suggests, lots and lots of grass. Should all go to plan, then the developer hopes to implement virtual reality (VR) support into the title.



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News::Loading Human Developers Receive Oculus Rift DK2

VRFocus - As its July 2014 launch edges closer, certain virtual reality (VR) developers have started to receive their Oculus Rift second development kits (DK2). It appears that Untold Games, the team behind the anticipated upcoming VR experience Loading Human is one of those developers. A Twitter post sent from lead artist Daniele Il Berna revealed as much before swiftly being deleted seconds after posting.



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News::Homefront: The Revolution: Its world evolves as you complete quests, says Crytek

Adam Duckett, lead designer on Homefront:The Revolution, recently spoke with Examiner to discuss how players will be able to alter the world of the upcoming free-roam shooter.



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News::Divinity: Original Sin has some moo-ving mod tools for players

If you've ever noticed a distinct lack of cows while playing Divinity, do I have good news for you! The Belgian-developed RPG will feature a mod that allows you to play Cow Simulator 2014, an example of what you can create with Divinity: Original Sin's Divinity Engine Toolkit.

With the Toolkit, you can create your own single player or multiplayer campaigns that support up to four players, complete with your own scripts, behaviors, dialogue, and narrative. Steam Workshop support makes it easier to share your creations with others, so in the event you make a Divinity mod featuring your favorite Dtoid editors, everyone will be able to see it.

Divinity: Original Sin launches on June 30, but if you already own it via Early Access, you can head to Steam, go to Library, and then Tools, and access the Divinity Engine Toolkit there to check out Cow Simulator 2014. See how it works out for you and build something awesome.

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News::When does questionable content in gaming become excessive?

Bracken Lee-Rudolph from ITF Gaming writes: Gaming is a medium of entertainment that is starting to find its feet and mature as an art form. As such, video games and interactive media have begun to portray more sensitive material, and broach controversial topics. With more questionable content, the question has to be asked where does questionable content in a game become excessive or needless?



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News::A Week in the WildStar theme park

AWESOMEoutof10's Fraser Brown blasts off to the weird, amusing world of WildStar's Nexus. What it lacks in cotton candy, it more than makes up for in the usual MMO trappings. "There was more for me to see in WildStar. Id only started customising my house and diving into dungeons but Im done. Just like hacking away at the same monster, the theme park MMO has diminishing returns. 10 years ago, WildStar would have been a mighty MMO that others wanted to topple. Today, its just another in a long line of amusing distractions. It might become the best at what it does, but what it does is not longer very exciting."



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare E3 2014 Tour

Call of Duty has released a video detailing their E3 presence and doings, including E3 opening, Sledgehammers talking and APC.



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News::Exclusive Interview: Orcs Must Die! Unchained Design Director Ian Fischer

In this exclusive interview, Orcs Must Die! Unchained design director Ian Fischer explains what makes this strategic tower defense game unique.



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News::New Yu-Gi-Oh! 3DS game and PC browser game

Zenzuuuu from 3rd-strike writes: "It has been a long time since Konami, who are well known for the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and games like Metal Gear Solid, released a new entry in the world championship video games. The game will be the first video game in the Zexal series called Yu-Gi-Oh! World Duel Carnival. It doesnt only stop there, they also announced the release of a PC brower game called Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel arena, a free to play game."



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News::The Forest Early Access Review | OnlySP

OnlySP: It seems like every time I look at the front page of Steam I see a new survival game thats in Early Access. Very few have gathered as much buzz as quickly as Endnight Gamess The Forest, most likely due to the stellar trailer and the ever increasing popularity of the survival game genre. Is The Forest worth taking the $15 plunge in its alpha state or should you wait until more substantial content has been added? After playing the game for a few hours, I would recommend holding off for a while.



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News::The Endless Brocast Episode 22: Best of Gen 7 - First Person Shooters

The 7th generation of gaming had tons of first person shooters and games where you shoot dudes in the face from the first person perspective. The Endlessbacklog podcast crew talks about, debates, argues, complains, and praises the best of the best the genre had to offer. Who did we pick for #1?



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News::Homefront: The Revolution Changed a lot During IP Transfer

When the intellectual property rights for Homefront were transferred from THQ to Crytek in late 2012/early 2013, Homefront 2s game director, Hasit Zala, has said that the game changed quite a lot.



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News::The making of Smite

Interview with Hi-Rez Studios' COO Todd Harris, in which he talks about the hit game's origins, as well as its rapid growth - which stands at more than 4m players, an increase of a million since the game left beta in March.



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News::Evolve Tops the Evolution Chart of Multiplayer Gaming | gamrReview Preview

gamrReview's Brent Galietti: "Evolves look, feel, and gameplay depth blew me away. Its one thing to hype your game as the next big thing, but I got the vibe that Evolve might actually be that next big thing when it release worldwide on October 21, 2014."



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News::Valiant Hearts: The Great War Walkthrough - Chapter 1 - Defeat Baron Von Dorf

Bill Lavoy (Prima Games): As soon as you gain control of Emile, head forward, walking through the building and out the other side to the officer with the sword and the revolver. Once he instructs you, head back and interact with the guy holding the bugle.



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News::Is There Really Enough Demand for All These 2014 Shooters?

There are at least a half-dozen big shooters scheduled to launch in a three-month span later this year. Is that over-saturation?



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News::Steam Summer Game Sales Worth Buying Dishonored

Owen from Entertainment Buddha writes "There is a reason for the incredibly similar screen shots shown in this post, and here it is: since Dishonored is still on sale for a little while longer and an absolutely amazing game, I thought that the next Steam sale post should be it. Dishonored manages to fuse stealth and action in a great way, and as you explore the games world you care more and more about it and its inhabitants. Despite loving the game, after loading it up I remembered why I had not finished it. My intense OCD has meant that the current mission needs to be done in stealth completely and this is proving an immense challenge on the particular level shown. Does this make it a bad game? No not at all. Trial and error is a term known very well by gamers, and Dishonored makes you utilize it massively.".



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News::Valiant Hearts: The Great War Review | Analog Addiction

Analog Addiction, Jamie Briggs writes: "Valiant Hearts is an adventure I will treasure, not only for the lovable characters, but for its portrayal of war and the amount of heartache it creates. War within video games has been positioned as a way for players to become an action hero, taking down entire armies with an assortment of weaponry. Valiant Hearts steps out of the norm, taking the focus away from killing hundreds of enemies, and, instead, focusing on the human tales that war creates. These moments may never be heard, but these stories will always exist. Valiant Hearts honours those who have fallen due to the harsh realm of war, but it does that by providing a unique and beautiful tale."



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News::The Shovel Knight Soundtrack is available for download

Chris Writes "Many of you just picked up Shovel Knight and many of you enjoyed it. I for one could not have been happier with the game. It is so full of mirth and merriment that it is hard not to play with a goofy grin adorning your face. Part of what made the game so awesome was the music, which is now available for download! You can get the entirety of the original soundtrack here."



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News::Radial-G Launches Steam Greenlight Campaign

VRFocus - Its full steam ahead for Tammekas upcoming sci-fi racer Radial-G this week. Ahead of the launch of the titles Kickstarter campaign and demo on 3rd July 2014, a Steam Greenlight campaign has been published. The campaign hopes to secure enough positive votes for the virtual reality (VR) compatible title to have it approved for sale on Valves digital store come full release. Those interested can vote for the title on its official Greenlight page.



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News::Sniper Elite 3 PC Low FPS, Lag, Launch Issues, Blue/Black Screen and other Fixes

Guide4GameS: Sniper Elite 3 features a unique stealth gameplay with third-person tactical interface. The game set in North Africa, in a savage conflict against Germanys infamous Afrika Korps. Here are the some Sniper Elite 3 crashes, issues and their fixes.



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News::Nevermind Returns in Intel Partnership, Devs 'Still Really Want' Oculus Support

VRFocus - Back in March 2014 an intriguing horror title by the name of Nevermind fell short of its Kickstarter campaign funding goal. At the time developer Erin Reynolds and her team plegded that they would continue development of the experience despite the setback. Other than a showing at Tribeca Film Festival the following April, little has been heard about the title until now. Today Nevermind has made a triumphant return in a partnership with Intel, with support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset still a possibility.



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