News::What Gamers Want for the Week of 8-10-14

Ray Porreca of Entertainment Buddha writes: "Today marks the start of Augusts second week, bringing with it a wide variety of new video game releases to sink your teeth into. While the majority of 2014s big name games have yet to hit store shelves, this week has a nice offering of titles that gamers will be able to dedicate some hours with. Role-playing game fans will be excited to see that this week brings with it the launch of Risen 3: Titan Lords, while Sony console owners can get excited about Hohokum being released for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. Outside of these two games, a number of other releases are of note."



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News::Resident Evil - New Remaster Versus Wii Comparison Shows Graphical Differences

Resident Evil Remaster is coming in early 2015 on PC, current-gen and old-gen consoles and below you can find a new comparison between the original Wii version and the latest upcoming HD overhaul.



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News::Dizzy Hearts Preview - Gamers Heroes

A mainstay in Japans gaming landscape, the visual novel (VN) genre of games puts the story front and center, giving players the occasional choice between volumes of text. Western gamers have seen the odd title localized, but Portland-based Taosym and his indie studio Lupiesoft is trying something different with their visual novel Dizzy Hearts: hes creating one himself.



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News::Unturned Base Building - What You Need to Know

Unturned base building can be a headache considering the resources youll need to gather and the recipes that you need to craft. However, you cant expect to really enjoy a game of Unturned without your own base. Its also a pain to always have to respawn in an area like the Lighthouse thats far away from where the useful items and weapons are. A base or a house will allow you to store food and provisions as well as serve as your primary spawn point when you play the game. This guide will give some quick tips on building your first base.



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News::Watch Dogs - review | Jack Graal

The first footage from Watch_Dogs revealed at E3 in 2012 was not only a great surprise, but, in a sense, visualized hopes on what will the so called next-gen games offer and look like. It is true that the six months release delay could arouse doubts, but ultimately it was worth the wait.



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News::New Mod Aims To Bring The World Of Playstation's MediEvil To Skyrim

Modder KorinOo is currently working on a mod for Skyrim that will bring the world of Playstations MediEvil to Bethesdas RPG.



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News::Crawl - An Indie Dungeon Crawler With A Twist

Asidcast: Ever wondered what it would be like to play as one of the thousands of mindless monsters you slay while on a Dungeon run? Well, now you can! Crawl, a new Multiplayer Arcade style Dungeon Crawler lets you take on the role of the bad guys. While this is not the first time that a game has allowed players to get a taste of the other side, Crawl still feels unique because the formula has never quite been executed like this before.



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News::Kid Eats It In Royals Hot Dog Derby Because His Pants Kept Falling Down

This poor kid was stuffed inside a hot dog costume and entered into a race with two other kids: Ketchup and Relish. Our friend was Mustard and as soon as he made the turn down the right field line his pants started falling down. It was only a matter of time, then. He ate it so hard, and then he ate it again.

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News::Video Game Novels Suck (Especially Their Sex Scenes)

There have been novels based on video games for as long as there have been video games. Thing is, you could probably count the number of good ones on one hand. Pity writer Richard Cobbett, then, who spent the last week reading some of the very worst of them.

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News::King Of The Crabs, I Don't Think You Realize How Cute You Are

Based in San Francisco, Tuan Vo is a freelance concept artist and illustrator who has been working in the games industry for around three years now.

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News::Destiny Beta: Character News from Bungie is Disappointing

"In a new weekly update, Bungie confirmed that the characters created by players for the Destiny Beta will not return for the final version of the game. This was addressed in an official update because it had become an issue for players. As Deej described in the update, it was one questions youve all been asking. " | Explosion.com



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News::The First Shocking Game You Ever Played

Some developers revel in the idea of creating a title that will cause gamers to gasp in shock and horror and though most experienced gamers are now probably desensitized to this, there was a time when such images like the torture scene in GTA V would have been far too much for any sane minded player to take. So what was the first game you ever played that truly questioned your morality compass?



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News::You Can Buy The Secret History Of The Sega Genesis

News::Dark Souls II: Crown of the Sunken King DLC Review | 3rd-strike

ThaMofo from 3rd-strike writes: "Crown of the Sunken King is not a mere DLC but more a small expansion. The quality is on par with the original game and its not just more of the same. Puzzles will show you another side of the game, whilst combat is as fierce as ever. The king is back, baby."



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News::Nvidia to Finally Unveil ARMv8 Denver Processor on 11th August Will Feature in 64Bit Tegra K1

WCCF: Looks like Nvidia's 64 Bit project Denver isn't dead after all. Because Nvidia has just scheduled an event on the same. Denver is supposed to feature in the Tegra K1 SoC bringing a new level of graphical performance to the mobile industry.



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News::Like XCOM, But In The Wild West? You Have My Attention.

"In a nutshell, Hard West is a turn-based squad tactical with adventurous world exploration. Think X-Com combat with Heroes of Might and Magic world map". Well hello there perfect game description.

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News::Five of the Best Games to Play Now That Evolve is Delayed

If you're into asymmetrical games like Evolve, Mary gives you five amazing 'All Vs One' games you can play right now.



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News::Leviathyn Reviews Unrest

Unrest feels like an indie love project and does indeed have a few sparkling gems to show us, but ultimately its execution falls too short of the expectations it creates.



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News::Wait, The GameCube's Pikmin Could Run In Windows?

Huh.

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News::The Crew Shows off Beta Statistics

Ubisoft today showcased a huge image featuring the beta statistics for their new racing MMO, The Crew. The image presents a lot of interesting numbers taken place in the previous Beta tests of The Crew.



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News::Weekly Deals for Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, GameStop and Toys R Us for August 10th

The weekly sales for Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart, Gamestop and Toys R Us are now live.



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News::Mod Is Bringing League Of Legends To DOTA 2

It's like mixing Coke and Pepsi.

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News::Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX strategy guide box set includes extra goodies

Find out the first details on the upcoming Final Fantasy Box Set (Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX): Official Game Guide from Prima Games.



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News::Metro Developers Defend Decision To Charge Money For Remakes Because Duh, Stop Whining

Hardcore Gamer: They put in time making a product, giving you the definitive version of their game, and you will have to buy it to play it. That's just sort of how this works.



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News::Here's this week's Streamtoid schedule

Happy Sunday! The Streamtoid community has added a whole slew of new streamers, so check out the latest details below! And as always, hit us up if you'd like to get involved.

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News::The Week In Games: Trippin' Out

This week PlayStation 3 and Vita owners get to tour Tokyo's famous Akibahara district, where they'll find action figures, awesome gadgets, cosplayers, and vampires feeding off of their life energy, transforming them into undead thralls. Man, Japan has everything.

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