News::MMO Rage: Impatient Players

The vast majority of gamers play mmorpg games because they want to relax and have some fun. When gamers log into their favorite online game, they want to escape the drudgery and headaches of the real world and escape into a fantastic realm where they can slay monsters, be the hero, and be showered in virtual riches. Yet there are many times when they find themselves becoming enraged by something that happens in the game. This can be caused by the actions of other players or by a specific mechanic in the game that they find incredibly annoying to the point where it sours their experiences.



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News::Double Fine's Massive Chalice Uses Mating Genetics for Heroic Bloodlines

GamersNexus: "Double Fine continues to surprise with how they craft their take on various game genres. With Massive Chalice, the company has unified the turn-based strategy of XCOM and Crusader Kings with the long-term strategy elements of Civilization, looking through the genetics lens of Fire Emblem. This complex offspring of those games explores the concept of the smallest action having an impact in the longer term a terms as long as 350 years."



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News::Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls PC Discounted On Amazon

Diablo III: Reaper Of Souls, the first expansion released for the highly successful Diablo III developed by Blizzard, is now available for a reduced price on Amazon.



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News::Interstellar Marines Preview Tactical Shooter Done With Tact | Attack On Gaming

"Tactical FPS, in some regards, is one of the most difficult kinds of game genres to build a game into. The king of this genre, is of course, Counter-Strike. However, tactical shooters do go beyond this one title, but rarely have they shown as much tactical depth as Interstellar Marines has so far. It is developed by Zero Point Software and is self-published on Steam. For a game that is still in early access, Interstellar Marines is showing a lot of promise." - Attack On Gaming



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News::Dead Rising 3 Xbox One vs PC video

A video which looks at Dead Rising 3 on the PC and compares it to the Xbox One original back to back.



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News::Its great to be a support in Strife. Here are the three reasons why

Supports in Strife are quite different from other MOBAs, and in a good way. Here are the three reasons why.



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News::RollerCoaster Tycoon World Preview | GamerBolt

GamerBolt: "Expect RollerCoaster Tycoon World to drop sometime in early 2015 (currently only planed for release on the Microsoft Windows platform)."



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News::Digital vs Retail - Letting Go Of My Inner Collector

iTechHeads: Ever since I've been a gamer I've collected games. I rarely sold them to Gamestop and I rarely lended or gave them away to friends and family. I was a collector. I liked the feeling of seeing my game collection on my shelf. It was a feeling of pride and accomplishment for me. So why is it that I'm questioning my habits this generation? It's because I've experienced the huge advantages digital has over retail discs.



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News::Camelot Unchained Alpha Test Delayed Until 2015

The crowdfunded MMO Camelot Unchained, under development by City State Entertainment, will have its alpha testing delayed into 2015. Camelot Unchained rang up more than $2.2 million dollars back in May 2013, and has gone quiet ever since, presumably the devs are hard at work at creating the actual game and taking care of other business. Read more.



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News::Street Fighter IV's Ultras Are Impressive Even When Stripped Down

Castle Geek-Skull is impressed by Street Fighter IV's Ultra Combos even when the fancy camera angles are removed.



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News::Dark Souls 2 PC Digital Now Available For A Reduced Price On GameTap

Dark Souls 2, the latest entry of the series developed by From Software, is now available for a reduced price on GameTap.



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News::DOFUS Celebrates Its 10 Years of Existence

The famous long lasting MMO DOFUS has entered its 10th year of existence as of today, and Ankama Games is organizing a big contest in honor of this occasion. To celebrate the anniversary, the publisher is also launching a program designed to reward the loyalty of its players and theyre including a new game mode, presenting a high challenge for the players.



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News::Heroes of the Storm Preview [Player Attack]

Player Attack: Heroes of the Storm is many things. It is Blizzard venturing again into the world of free to play, and it is the studio's attempt to somewhat belatedly stake a claim in the MOBA genre, amid giants like Dota 2 and League of Legends. It seems odd that Blizzard should now decide to recreate a mod originally created with its own tools, but such is the popularity of the genre. Pages have already been written about the many things HotS is. But what about some of the things it is not?



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News::Review: Warframe - Destructoid

Destructoid: "Warframe has just released on the Xbox One, and it's undergone some changes since it launched -- mostly good changes, meant to add more content to the game in the form of items and missions. It still fails in all of the same areas however, mostly its inability to craft an interesting world, and the free-to-play scheme that encourages far too much grinding."



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News::Gloria Victis Receives Large Content Update

Black Eye Games has announced today that they have rolled out a pretty large content update for their upcoming MMORPG Gloria Victis. The crowdfunding project has some new improvements on the following subjects: Crafting, weapons, combat, buffs and debuffs and ships.



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News::Review: Halfway - Destructoid

Destructoid: "One of the things that is so appealing about science fiction is that it deals with situations that seem fantastical, but are ultimately plausible. Technology today would look like magic to those from years past, and so the technology of the future might seem incredible to us now."



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News::Niche Gamer-cast Episode 15 Fighting for the Soul of Gaming

A weekly podcast that discusses about niche games across all platforms and sometimes comments on gaming news, culture, and interviews.



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News::Heres Your September 5, 2014 Indie Game Bundle Update

There are 24 indie game bundles this week, with Bundle Stars Reboot 7.0 Bundle and a Rock, Paper, Shotgun Humble Weekly Bundle among them.



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News::Wayward Manor Review: Neil Gaimans Worst Book | Technology Tell

From the review, "Whats worse than the puzzles (and scarier than anything the characters in Wayward Manor might experience) are the game-breaking glitches. Too often the cursor used to interact with the world would become an impotent hourglass icon, incapable of anything but evoking frustration. Objects clipping through one another is a sign that corners may have been cut and when essential puzzle elements become unintentionally unclickable with unfathomable regularity, it becomes hard to forgive them as merely a pratfall of the medium. On the plus side, visual glitches can sometimes be humorous. [Benjamin Maltbie hasn't] any idea what Wayward Manors anti-hero might look like, but I can guarantee that he or she can look no more horrific than this one time the otherwise forgettable Madame Buddss lady bits decided to go rogue.Or are they just wonky by design?"



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News::Escape Dead Island is Nothing Short of Baffling | Hardcore Gamer

Fatshark is trying to create the weirdest game possible with Escape Dead Island.



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News::'Surreal VR Experience SightLine: The Chair Released

Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) has been keeping its Oculus VR Share platform up to date with a range of free experiences recently. Undoubtedly one of the more surreal and impressive titles to release for the portal in recent weeks is a demo SightLine: The Chair from an indie development team led by Tomas Mariancik, which is compatible with both the Oculus Rifts first and second development kits (DK1 + DK2).



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News::Iridium Studios Develop Lunasee for Gear VR

Indie developer Iridium Studios is currently working on an anticipated voice-controlled real-time strategy (RTS) title, There Came an Echo. Developing the title is a full time job by the studios own admission, but that hasnt stopped it from announcing a new, virtual reality (VR) compatible side project, Lunasee. The title was one of the scores of new videogames to be confirmed for Samsungs Gear VR head-mounted display (HMD) this week.



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News::TxK Coming to Oculus and Morpheus

Famed developer Jeff Minter and the team at Llamasoft have already made one exciting announcement this week in that the 2011 iOS title, Minotaur Rescue, will be coming to the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD), Project Morpheus PlayStation 4 VR HMD and Samsungs newly-announced Gear VR HMD for the Galaxy Note 4 Smartphone. But the developer isnt stopping there; Minter has also confirmed that Llamasoft will be bringing is celebrated tube shooter TxK to both Oculus Rift and Project Morpheus in the future.



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News::Super Time Force Ultra Review - AMHNetwork

"Super Time Force (Ultra) is one of those games where people's descriptions under-sell the ingenuity behind the concept. We're all guilty of it, myself included, where we take a fresh new idea and we quickly try and label it with what we already know somewhat shoehorned into what we see in front of us. Now, if I was to do that for this game there are definitely things that spring to mind such as Contra or Braid but as I'll explain Super Time Force is much more than a simple hybrid." An extract from AMHNetwork's review of Super Time Force Ultra



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News::Risen 3: Titan Lords Review | Awesome Games

Rhys from Awesome Games writes: 'The Risen series has, thus far, been an unfortunate exercise in mediocrity. Its quite sad because its setting and worlds often have a ton of potential, but each game has smacked of rushing to meet a deadline that it never really seems to hit its stride. Though while the first game is at least somewhat enjoyable and managed to gain a strong cult following, its sequel, Dark Waters, just lacked the same kind of gusto that made the series so promising.'



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News::Dead Rising 3 receives 1.5GB day one PC patch

Yesterdays arrival of Dead Rising 3 for PC brought with it some pretty lofty expectations. The E3 announcement that Capcom was bringing its open world survival horror to the platform was met with a strong positive response, and ever since weve been counting down the days in anticipation.



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News::8 Videogame Disguises That Aren't Fooling Anyone

Sometimes the only way to get the job done is to put on a disguise that lets you blend in with your enemies and go where you shouldn't. The trouble is most game characters are terrible at disguises. Inspect the eight most laughably poor alternate identities in games.



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News::Dead Rising 3 PC Review, 30 FPS of Fun (GotGame)

"Zombies are always fun, we see them in movies, in video games and we sometimes wish they were real. We spend countless hours watching zombie movies and smashing their rotten skulls in our favorite games, enough even to think that we have the training to face them in real life. But until that actually happens, we will be sticking to our pixels from the comfort of our safe houses."



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News::First Person Mystery Game, Firewatch, Gets 20 Minutes of New Gameplay

Campo Santo, the studio behind the upcoming first-person narrative mystery game Firewatch that takes place in the beautiful wilderness of Wyoming reveals some new gameplay on Twitch Livestream.



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News::Velvet Sundown Review | MMOGames

We climbed aboard a luxurious yacht to find out more about the non-combat, roleplaying focused MMORPG Velvet Sundown.



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News::Hatoful Boyfriend review: somebirdie to love - Polygon

Polygon: "Hatoful Boyfriend isn't the deepest dating simulator I've played, but it is the most cringe-worthy and probably the funniest. The original Hatoful Boyfriend was created by manga artist Hato Moa and released for free in 2011. Mediatonic's remake of the text-based avian romance game overhauls the artwork and display text, presenting a more polished visual experience and smoother play-through."



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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: The Next New 3DS: The Winners!

News::Whats Etherium? Will It Revive The Real Time Strategy Genre?

To simply put it Etherium is among the last hopes for Real-Time Strategy games. The game comes at a time when the RTS community has failed to produce New, Original or any sort of Different content



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News::The Sun Also Rises: A Conversation with Lead Designer Ty Underwood

Contributor, Don Gomez, chats with the developer of The Sun Also Rises, Ty Underwood. Influences, premise, and artistic intentions, Underwood divulges all.



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News::Pre-Order Plaza: Week Of September 7-13, 2014

Check out next week's lineup of new releases and their special bonuses. From Bungie's first-person looter to the newest experimental Steam games!



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News::FIFA 15s Goalkeeping Mechanics Revealed in New Trailer

EA Sports has revealed a brand-new trailer for this years highly anticipated football instalment, FIFA 15, with an emphasis placed on the changes made to goalkeepers.



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News::PAX Prime 2014: Tales From the Borderlands Hands-on Impressions - Max Level

Max Level: Tales From the Borderlands is Telltales venture into the world of Gearboxs critically acclaimed series, Borderlands. Telltale is recently coming off from a successful second season with The Walking Dead, so I was overjoyed to find out that I had the opportunity to play the highly anticipated game at this years PAX Prime.



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News::9/1/2014: ξ(￣^￣)§

We're back from PAX, so it's time to catch up on this week's best stuff over at Kotaku Selects. Thanks to everyone who came out to our panel! We enjoyed having you. Always wish we had more than the PAX enforcer allotted time. And a special thanks to anyone who rooted for me at the Royal Rumble, too. I'll get more of 'em out next time.

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News::Indie Friday: Space Dust Racing, Paradigm and More | AusGamers

This week's Indie Friday feature takes a nose dive into racing in space thanks to Space Dust Racing, dons the princess theme for Tahira: Echoes of the Astral Empire and even goes so far as thwarting an evil sloth in Paradigm. Yes that's right we are back with another edition of Indie Friday, where AusGamers takes a look at all the local talent Australia has to offer and shows you, the reader, just what to keep your eyes on.



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News::Diamond Digger Saga - The Ultimate Tips, Cheats, and Strategy Guide

WP - "Diamond Digger Saga is the latest in the long line of Saga games for Facebook, iOS and Android. This one eschews the tile-swapping match 3 gameplay of so many other Saga games for something of a different type - gameplay where you tap pre-existing matches of three or more to make them go away, on your way to letting the water go from end to end of the level, rescuing critters and solving a seemingly neverending variety and number of puzzles."



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News::Trains, Planes and Fishing Reels The Dovetail Games Interview

Chris Evans from The Reticule talks with Doug McConkey from Dovetail Games about Train Simulator 2015, Dovetail Games Fishing and the new match up with Microsoft's Flight Simulator franchise. Just one of the question and answers was: Chris What have you done with Microsoft Flight Simulator X to make it ready for the launch on Steam? Doug We have removed the need for CD keys and added support for the Steam system. Although this sounds simple, it actually involved recompiling and rebuilding the entire code base, which was quite a task given that the game code had not been touched for six years. We are now looking at the online functionality that was previously provided in FSX by GameSpy and seeing if we can provide these features in other ways in the Steam edition.



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News::Adventures of Pip Represents Everything Great About Games | Hardcore Gamer

Even in this oversaturated market, it remains rare to encounter a truly special game; one built with passion, joy and an unyielding desire to deliver a memorable experience.



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News::Hands-on Impressions of Stormworm From PAX Prime 2014 | Entertainment Buddha

Matt Heywood of Entertainment Buddha writes: "Stormworm is essentially Snake, a time honored video game classic, but with a 3D twist. Think of it as Snake meets Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions. Both of these newly announced games feature a 3D map that the player must navigate to earn higher scores and survive, but in Stormworm the challenge doesnt involve a single bullet being fired. Rather, the player must maneuver the cube shaped snake around a circular planet trying to eat colored cubes that add to the overall score and can yield power-ups that also change up the gameplay."



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News::5 Trailers Better than the Game

Believe it or not, trailers have been around for over 100 years. Their intent? To entice you to take part in the experience their makers have created, but...



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News::The Sims 4: How To Fix Blurry Sims Graphic

Having problem with the graphic and look of your Sims, as well as game OR both of it, we have already post some of the solution and fix of the game related about the game, which you can check out here; The Sims 4 PC Graphic and Fixes, these are the general and other fixes. As for Grainy OR Blurry Sims, you need to apply these changes listed below, for the better results.



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News::It's Going be a Busy Fall With Upcoming Games

SephDean Wrote: Well so far fellow gamers, weve finally come to an end to our gaming drought over the summer. And now its time for the beginning of Fall and we have some new game releases to quench that drought away!



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News::Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void Wishes and expectations

"The destruction of Aiur has left them a mere shadow of their former selves and they are very few in numbers now. However, their technology and psionic powers are more impressive than ever and Blizzard will presumably add even more tricks to their arsenal. The main problem is that the Protoss are scattered and lack a powerful leader to guide them. In Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void well have quite a difficult task on our hands as we plan to solve this problem. "



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News::Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare Day Zero edition gets new Screenshots

SegmentNext - "The highly anticipated shooter Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has received some new screenshots, which showcase what the Day Zero Edition of the game will bring to the upcoming title."



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News::The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth Release Date Announced

Nicalis released a trailer for The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and finally confirms a release date.



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News::Shadow Realms Could Be Bioware's Most Engrossing Game | Hardcore Gamer

In many ways, Shadow Realms seems like the biggest departure the company has ever made from their comfort zone.



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News::Atari Looks to Horror and Coasters to Restore Former Glory | Hardcore Gamer

Atari has endured some hard times since their initial dominance in the games industry, but the company is on the rise and ready to make an impact again. Hardcore Gamer was lucky enough to preview a few of Atari's upcoming games during PAX Prime, including Alone in the Dark and Haunted House.



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News::Dead Rising 3 PC Walkthrough

Guide4GameS: Play as Nick Ramos, a young mechanic with a strange tattoo and a mysterious past, who must find a way to escape a city full of zombies before an impending military strike wipes the city of Los Perdidos, California, and everyone in it, off the map. Nick cant do it alone he must join up with other survivors to stay alive. They must fight their way out before its too late.



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News::'The Sims 4' Review: Life, Death, And WooHoo | IB Times

If youve played and liked the series before, youll probably like this, too -- if you can get past the changes Maxis has made. Even so, if youre expecting something groundbreaking...this isnt it.



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