News::Chaos Theory Games Interview Part 2: Choices, Choices |Analog Addiction

Analog Addiction writes, in the second part of our three part interview series, Artistic Director at Chaos Theory Games, Nico King reveals why his team loves multiplayer and tells all about how CTG's games became what they are today.



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News::Rogue Legacy Review | GodisaGeek

Mikhail Madnani: "Rogue Legacy is full of surprises. When youre not attempting to kill a difficult boss, youll find yourself trying to solve a platforming puzzle to unlock a special chest, discovering seemingly hidden or unexplored areas, and more. The game is incredibly hard at first, but it rewards perseverance. Even with the old school design, Rogue Legacy is filled with a sense of discovery that helps make it so great. This is something that I will be playing for a long time, and you should too it is that damn good."



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News::HonestGamers Review // The Walking Dead: Season 2.4 - Amid The Ruins

Gary Hartley Writes: "Baulking at the light near the end of the tunnel"



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News::Watch Optimus Prime And Galvatron Fight It Out In A Kart Racing Game

Nexons kart racing game Kart Riders has a collaboration running, which will add Optimus Prime and Galvatron to the Korean version of the game.



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News::Revenge of A License: A View to A Kill

Michael Crisman writes, "While Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 is likely the first title to pop to mind when someone brings up James Bond video games, its far from the first game to make use of the license. And while A View to a Kill doesnt hold this distinction either (that goes to the more simply-named James Bond 007 on the Atari 2600), it does hold the title for earliest home computer version of a Bond adventure. Starting on June 7th, 1985 ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 owners in the UK could don the tuxedo of Ian Flemmings infamous secret agent for the first time. And surprisingly enough, for a licensed title its not that bad."



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News::Europa Universalis IV: Res Publica Review | Hardcore Gamer

Res Publica is now out for EU4 along with Patch 1.7. Its content centers around a new mechanic for the Dutch as well as some smaller tweaks.



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News::Online Action RPG Onigiri Is Getting More Zones Already

The free-to-play English version of anime-inspired RPG, Onigiri, has barely been out a monthit launched July 1stbut is already detailing new areas to be added in its coming update.



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News::Caffeine Relaunches IndieGoGo Campaign, Goal Set at Just $5,000

VRFocus - Virtual reality (VR) supported sci-fi horror videogame Caffeine has had a bumpy road with crowd-funding. The title, which features support for the Oculus Rift VR head-mounted display (HMD), has suffered two failed attempts on IndieGoGo and Kickstarter. However developer Dylan Browne has persevered with the project, and this week relaunched the IndieGoGo campaign once more with a drastically reduced goal. The developer now hopes to raise just $5,000 USD to fund the experience, which is set to arrive on both PC, Mac, Linux and PlayStation 4.



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News::The Week In Games: The Rest Of Us

After two weeks of relatively few new game releases, we get back into the swing of things with some remastered The Last of Us — but we're not out of the woods yet.

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News::Electronic Theatre In-depth Review: The Walking Dead: Season 2 In Harms Way

Electronic Theatre: Young Clementine has had it pretty tough of late. Her parents are long gone. Her companions have all died around her. Shes been taken hostage by a mad man who appears hell bent on making people suffer. Oh, and theres a bunch of undead creatures lurking around every corner, but theyre only a minor affectation in this story.



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News::MSNBC's Mika Calls Video Game Makers Just as 'Reprehensible' as Murderous Dictator

Complex: Yesterday we reported how former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was filing a lawsuit against Call of Duty publisher, Activision. The suit claims that Activision is guilty of "blatant misuse, unlawful exploitation, and misappropriation for economic gain" by using Noriega's likeness with his permission. Considering that Noreiga is serving a 20 year sentence for murder and drug trafficking, the lawsuit is a quirky one-off news story that's more chuckle-worthy than anything else. That's where Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough come in. The two MSNBC anchors took a moment from hosting Morning Joe to comment on the Noreiga lawsuit by chiming in with the sort of video game scapegoating normally reserved for AM radio call-in shows.



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News::Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty Review | GodisaGeek

Mick Fraser: "If anyone knows how to bring a classic onto modern stage, its Just Add Water. Not just an excellent port of a great title, but a solid game in its own right, Oddworld: New n Tasty is fully able to proudly rub shoulders with any puzzle-platformer released in the last ten years."



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News::Teens' Reactions To Goat Simulator Are Just Priceless

The Fine Bros. christen their new REACT channel on YouTube by taking a bunch of unsuspecting teens and putting them in front of the glorious nonsense that is Goat Simulator. Befuddlement ensues.

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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: The Guardians Of Gaming

News::Here's the First Mad Max Trailer, and It Will Make You a Believer

Now you can see first Mad Max: Fury Road trailer, unveiled yesterday at Comic-Con, with your own eyes. It's full of gorgeous deserts, blooming smoke bombs the color of bruises, and a giant dust storm that looms over the landscape like a terrestrial tsunami. Dystopia has never looked so desolate and fascinating.

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News::The Legend Of Korra Game Looks Like Tons Of Fun

News::You don't have to be okay with the violence in video games

Ubisoft published a gameplay trailer for Assassin's Creed Unity in which 15 people are stabbed to death, mostly via wounds to the neck and throat. It's okay if that makes you uncomfortable.



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News::Team Fortress 2: What its Like Now

Team Fortress 2 is an old game, but still very popular. What makes it popular? It has the appeal of hats, gear, weapons and emotes that your characters can do. All these are collected by playing the game.



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News::'Twitch Plays Pokémon' Takes On The Kalos Region Of Pokémon X

Thanks to a 3DS modded with a capture kit, 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' finally ventures into the Kalos region. With Lady Helix on the team, how can it fail?

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News::AMDs NextGen Carrizo APU CPU-Z Leaked Six Excavator Cores with 95W TDP on the 20nm Node

WCCF: the first CPUZ of the Next Generation flagship Carrizo has just leaked.



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News::Gaming's favorite villain is mental illness, and this needs to stop

The discussion surrounding mental health can be invisible. Its one of the least-understood public health concerns, despite how common mental health problems can be in the population. This lack of open conversation creates an atmosphere in which mental health issues and the people who live with them are stigmatized and made to feel like outsiders, unable to address their concerns with family, friends and coworkers for fear of being ostracized or misunderstood. Representation is the key to kickstarting discussion, and video games have taken a woefully one-dimensional approach in the mental health conversation. While theres no shortage of mental health-related content in todays games, it falls into one of two specific camps, neither of which confront the complex and nuanced issues with the empathy and consideration they deserve.



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News::The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Features Sea Combat

Analog Addiction: "According to our latest interview with developer CD Projekt RED which will be up and running on the 28th (meaning tomorrow) the upcoming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will also see Geralt fight monsters of the sea, this being a first for the series."



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News::The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Blurred Morals | GamerTell

From the review, "Amid the Ruins picks up exactly where Episode 3: In Harms Way left off. So of course, that means in the first 30 seconds players have to make a gut-wrenching decision. It never gets any easier. Honestly, [Jerimiah Mueller] had an overall harder time playing through Episode 4: Amid the Ruins than probably any other installment in the entire series. The writers at Telltale have done an amazing job of making every decision almost completely grey. Right and wrong get so blurred here that I felt like everything I did was wrong, and just hopefully the decision I made was less wrong than the other options.



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News::The Big Interview: An Audience With Oliver Baltuch, Futuremarks President

Oliver Baltuch discusses the latest in bench marking tools, DirectX 12, Cloud gaming and more.



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News::Defining moments - Resident Evil 4

Nic from Continue Play takes a look back at the opening to what he believes is the best Resident Evil game of all time: Resident Evil 4.



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News::New Screenshots Show The Amazingly Detailed Beauty Of Skyrim's Environments

DSOGaming writes: "Contrary to our previous galleries, this time we'll be focusing on Skyrim's environments and show how beautiful they look once you mod the game. Modders have even introduced glorious raindrops, as well as new textures and Parallax Occlussion Mapping."



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News::Saturday Morning Slow Jams Saved The Worst Cartoon For Last

Scott Bradlee's musical trip through our animated youth came to a close yesterday, with the slow jam version of the theme to the first generation My Little Pony cartoon.

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News::The Walking Dead: Season 3 confirmed by Telltale

The Walking Dead: Season 3 was confirmed yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, much to the delight of fans and emotional masochists. We're not even sure how Clementine and co.'s travels will end in Season 2, but time - and the shuffling hordes of undead - wait for no man. Season 3 is coming, prepare while you can.



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News::Survive The Nights Gets Funded And Greenlit.

Now confirmed to be released on Steam, the anticipation for new zombie survival crafting game, Survive The Nights, has gradually been expanding.



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News::Abyss Odyssey Review by The Black Panel

The Black Panel writes: Abyss Odyssey is a beautiful and insane action platformer that tries really hard to take advantage of some currently popular mechanics, but ultimately fails in the attempt. Its refreshingly uncommon setting harkens from Chile, and brings with it a form of mythology most players will find unfamiliar and distinct. Having said that, its failings and lack of longevity are somewhat forgivable thanks to its modest price tag.



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News::Buy Skylanders: Trap Team For The Wii, Get A Free Copy For The Wii U

One of only two games left to be released on Nintendo's last-gen console, Skylanders: Trap Team for the Wii is hedging its bets, including a download code for the Wii U version of the game in every box.

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News::New Star Citizen Concept Art Shows Off M50 Craft

VRFocus - Indie developer Cloud Imperium Games has maintained an open relationship with its fans of the upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible space combat title Star Citizen. The title, which has enjoyed huge crowd-funding success, has kept its backers in the loop with constant updates on the project's progress. This week that has included the release of new concept art for one of the title's craft, the M50.



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News::Skyforge Russian Alpha tester takes gamers through the game basics

A Russian player who managed to get into the Alpha phase for Skyforge uploaded a game guide some weeks back. With official backing from the studio, Allods Team,it is filled with details and gameplay (in spoken Russian and English subs). Enjoy!



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News::$538 Budget Intel Gaming PC for GRID: Autosport - July, 2014

GamersNexus: "The focus of this build was to feature the overclockable Intel Pentium G3258, offer solid mid-to-high level graphics for gaming, and allow for easy upgrades in the future. Our last few extreme budget gaming PC builds were mostly AMD and, based on some great comments both in the forums and article comments, I felt it was time to give Intel a chance to make its mark in this price range."



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News::Oddities: Harvester

GameGrin's Ryan Davies writes: "This series was practically made for a game like Harvester. When it comes to weird and frankly random games from the bargain bin, this real oddity takes the golden prize."



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News::Mimimi Productions Interview With CEO Johannes Roth | GIZORAMA

Mariah Beckman, GIZORAMA - "For anyone who has had a chance to play any early RARE titles like Banjo Kazooie or Jak and Daxter, Mimimi Productions is right up your alley. But if youre like me, you already know that, because youve already played their award-winning title The Last Tinker: City of Colors released in May (or, my favorite, the iOS offering Whowassit?). This German studio, founded in 2008, hit the ground running with the release of their first title Grounded in 2009 and havent looked back. Every game that this indie developer has produced has been award-winning, and so we were stoked to sit down with the founder, CEO and all-around big-kahuna Johannes Roth to talk about what makes Mimimi Productions tick."



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News::The Wolf Among Us: Episode 5 Cry Wolf Finale Review | GearNuke

Read on to see how the final episode of The Wolf Among Us titled Cry Wolf fared in our review.



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News::Space Engineers Gets Star Wars Snowspeeder, Halo Covenant Carrier Mods

One Angry Gamer "A few new noteworthy mods have invaded the isle of galactic awesome known as Space Engineers. The game is designed by Keen Software House and offers players up a wide range of awesome utilities to basically craft and build limitless objects in space by gathering materials and building to your hearts desire. Some of the latest mods to catch the attention of users includes a sexy, 1:1 modeled Snowspeeder from Star Wars, as well as a Covenant corvette class carrier from Halo."



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News::Phantom Initiate Program Third Phase

The password to phase 3 of the Battlefield 4 phantom initiate program needs to be cracked. This is what we know so far. The password has not been found for Phantom Initiate yet, but we are sure all of the hints in Battlefield 4 have been found. Can you crack the code? Only time will tell before the password is discovered. Check out the summary video by JackFrags



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News::First Impressions: Harvey Bullock Steals Gotham From Jim Gordon

News::Nevertales: Shattered Image Review | JiG

Though veterans of the genre will likely with there was more depth to its difficulty, Nevertales: Shattered Image is nevertheless a stunning and engrossing game from start to finish with a surprising amount of meat on the bones of the tale it's trying to tell.



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News::25 Unforgettable Moments In Video Game Physics

WC writes: Ultimately, in-game physics just like any gameplay system rely on a set of rules. If Laurence Fishburne taught us anything way back in that digital training dojo, its that, Some of these rules can be bent. Others can be broken. The best video game physics ever used motion and weight to tell a story. At times, these were stupid, even meta-ironic stories, but nonetheless they granted us the power of personally dynamic solutions and made the natural motion of our grandest fantasies all but possible. These are the moments well never forget.



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News::Divinity: Original Sin Review [MonsterVine]

MonsterVine: "Larian Studios of Divinity fame dropped the super cool Divinity: Dragon Commander last year and this year theyre going back to basics with a more traditional RPG in Divinity: Original Sin."



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News::Ubisoft Shares an Exciting Behind the Scenes Look at Far Cry 4

Twinfinite: Here's a behind the scenes look at Far Cry 4 and its interesting development.



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News::Abyss Odyssey Review - More Like 'Abysmal Odyssey' | Twinfinite

Twinfinite writes: Abyss Odyssey is a 2.5D side-scrolling beat-em-up from ACE Team. It has a unique concept that sounds good on paper, but its execution simply falls short.



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News::10 Genuine WTF Moments in Video Games

WC writes: "There are certain moments we encounter in video games that illicit a very emotional reaction from us, and it tends to be those hot button moments that boast the best staying power and which tend to stick with us forever. Maybe one day youll be telling your grandchildren about that time you were playing that game and a moment side-swiped you unexpectedly and pulled an audible WTF through your lips."



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News::Crystal Rift Gets Demo Gameplay

VRFocus - This week sees the arrival of a new alpha demo video of the upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible dungeon crawling videogame, Crystal Rift. The video, which can be seen below, offers just over five minutes off footage from the title, which is due to support the Oculus Rift VR head-mounted display (HMD) on PC, Mac and Unix.



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News::The Month Ahead: August 2014

Gadgets And Khajiits showcases the best looking games of next month.



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News::Amazon Video Game Pre-order Bonus List (7/26 Update)

Gamerdeals: "New Video Game Releases: Xbox One, PS4, PS3, Nintendo Wii U, 3DS, DS, PSP, PS Vita, Xbox 360 Pre-order Bonus! Amazon has recently added a number of upcoming new video game releases to the list of titles with notable pre-order bonus offers. We've scanned the upcoming titles set to release this year and pulled out the related pre-order bonus offers. These offers are fairly dynamic, so check back often for the latest updates."



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News::New Lego Minifig Series Includes A "Gamer"

Lego Minifigures Series 12 features a lifeguard, genie, and...a goth? Or is she a ghost? Coming in October.

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