News::Early Hack-Cess: Is Steam Early Access Actually a Good thing?

Joshua Caleb of Gaming Rebellion writes: "It is a strange time for gaming, there have been many shifts and changes in the industry, culture, community and the way they interact. Not the least of these changes is the idea of playing and paying for games before theyre completed. This idea would have been crazy and unthinkable only 5-10 years ago, but here we are, in the age of Early Access."



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News::Starters Orders 6 Launches, Oculus Rift Support Inbound

VRFocus - Horse racing videogames may not be the most popular genre within the medium, but the promise of convincing virtual reality (VR) support could well attract a few newcomers. Thats what developer Strategic Designs hopes to achieve with the upcoming Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) support for Starters Orders 6, which launches today in beta on PC, with Mac and mobile version expected in 2015.



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News::Survival Launches for Oculus Rift

VRFocus - Certain classic videogames have already seen interesting makeovers in virtual reality (VR). Fans have brought back the likes of the Atari 2600's Adventure with the help of the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD), providing new perspectives on titles that have long been loved by videogame players around the world. This week sees the launch of a new title based off of other retro videogames such as Shark! Shark! for the Intellivision. That title is simply called Survival.



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News::The Crew - Biggest Development Difficulties, Won't Feature Dynamic Weather, DLC Strategy Detailed

During a recent Q&A interview, The Crew's Creative Director, Julian Gerighty, answered a number of questions from Ubisoft's fans.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Dev Not Worried About Titanfall Ripoff Claims

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer defends claims on Twitter that it's a Titanfall ripoff.



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News::Chaos Heroes Online Closed Beta Underway

Aeria Games today announced the immediate launch of the closed beta client for the action-packed free-to-play MOBA game, Chaos Heroes Online.



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News::Twin-Stick Shooter Iron Fisticle Arrives on Steam

Hardcore Gamer: There are many similarities between arcade games of old and Iron Fisticle.



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News::Master Reboot Review ~ Ghost in the machine [PSGamer]

Sean Davies of PSGamer: I let Master Reboot pass me by. I was excited to get my hands on it before it hit the PS3 and then, for one reason and another, I didnt get to download it. If you are looking for something a little different, dont do the same thing. Master Reboot is a unique blend of challenge and puzzle rooms with light horror and mild exploration making it different from anything else I have ever played.



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News::The Sims 4 Review | gamrReview

gamrReview's Daniel Carreras: " If it were a new IP, this would be a perfectly good and fun game in its own right, but given what came before it and the reasonable expectations fans therefore have as a result, The Sims 4 as it exists at launch is very much a disappointment."



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News::There's More Halo 5 In Halo Master Chief Collection Than I Expected

News::VR vs. Oculus Connect

VRFocus - Oculus VR has been on quite a journey in 2014. Cast your mind back to January of this year when the company behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) was a much smaller outfit with one of Kickstarters biggest success stories on its side. Just nine months on and weve been treated to new development kits, high-profile hires, collaborations with Samsung and, of course, an acquisition that totalled some $2 billion USD. Youd be forgiven for thinking that, following the shipment of the second development kit (DK2), Oculus VR would be lying low for the rest of 2014, but in fact one of the companys biggest events is still to come.



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News::Star Wars Battlefront Could Be Seeing Hundreds of Units On Screen And Lightsaber Duels

Star Wars HQ writes: Star Wars Battlefronts development takes an interesting turn, plus it seems more likely than ever we will be getting space battles and lightsaber combat. Also, we give away our good friend R2-D2 to a lucky Star Wars HQ fan!



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News::Study Shows YouTubers Have More Influence Than Games Media

A study sitting on gamesindustry.biz that spotlights boogie2988 shows that game developers have a higher level of success using youtubers to advertise their games. Mainstream media is starting to fail in this regard and I can totally believe that.



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News::Gearbox's Next Big Game Is Going to Be Very Different from Borderlands[Kotaku]

Kotaku : "It was the guns that did it for the Borderlands games, wasn't it? Thousands, millions, umpty-trillions of weapons to find, collect and love more than some actual flesh-and-blood human beings. Well, in Battleborn, the people who made those games want to do for characters what they did for guns in Borderlands. That's not to say that Battleborn will have scads of procedurally generated playable characters. It's going to have around 20, possibly more, nine of which we've seen so far. No, what Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford means when he talks about Battleborn's protagonists is the idea that these personas will be the items that players collect and get attached to. "Every kind of character trope that's in a first-person-shooter, we want to be able to put that in Battleborn."



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News::Why the Alien's killer instinct ruins the scares in Isolation

Horror comes in all shapes and sizes and often what scares some of us will make others laugh. One of the wonderful elements of horror as an entertainment form, is its ability to resonate with us all on a slightly different level. Like beauty, horror is in the eye of the beholder. While difficult to appreciate, this perspective appeared all the more evident when I got the opportunity to play Alien: Isolation at the RezzedX Expo.



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News::Legend of Grimrock 2 releasing on 15th October, available for preorder now

A group of prisoners have shipwrecked on the secluded Isle of Nex. You must overcome horrible monsters, mysterious puzzles and deadly traps devised by the ominous mastermind of the island. Are you ready to uncover the secrets of Nex?



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News::Interview: Battleborn Creative Director Randy Varnell Introduces Us to Gearboxs Latest IP

DualShockers writes, "Battleborn is the newest IP to come out of Gearbox Software. Last week, we had the opportunity to catch up with the games creative director Randy Varnell to find out what makes this frenetic hero shooter different from other loot hunting and XP boosting titles youve played in the past. Its really hard to describe all of the pieces that make up Battleborn because it borrows from (and blends together) so many genres but if youve read our preview and watch the interview below, you have a better idea of what the team at Gearbox is throwing our way in 2015. Check out the full interview below."



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News::Dungeon of the Endless - PC Preview | Chalgyr's Game Room

Chalgyr's Game Room writes: I have had zero exposure to the 'roguelike' genre as it stands today; I generally reserve my time for pure strategy games or more traditional roleplaying games. When roguelike's and roguelike-like's became popular I just was not into the whole thing and have resisted them quite well all along. Truthfully if it were not for my loyalty to Amplitude Studios I would likely never have considered playing a roguelike. However Amplitude Studios, the development studio behind the absolutely wonderful Endless Space and the equally awesome (so far) Endless Legend, has proven to me that they are a solid dev team and that they really hold their fans in high regard so I wanted to give my first roguelike experience to them.



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News::Alone in the Dark Abandons Its Horror Soul With Illumination

Hardcore Gamer: A legendary horror series using action as its core gameplay philosophy instead of its trademark horrorthis is becoming a depressingly familiar story.



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News::Crystal: Temple of Osiris will get harder and more complex as you progress

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris looks to do the first thing mentioned above, as Scot Amos, Executive Producer at developer Crystal Dynamics, has stated the upcoming sequel to the 2010 game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will get "harder and more complex" as the game progresses. Examiner.com took sometime to ask some questions about the new game with Amos as he goes into the details about the myth of Osiris and its influence in the world on the game.



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News::Runers Review - Mouse n Joypad

Josh writes - "Now, dont get me wrong; this is not meant as a verbal bashing of the game, because Runers is, at its core, a fun and addictive game with lots of variety contributing to its longevity, in spite of its tenuous use of the term rogue-like to refer to itself; its just a minor rant on my part on how games are quick to apply that label to their games, regardless of how rogue-like purists like myself would fume and go all crazy on them for blasphemies against the sacred definition of what constitutes a rogue-like. But I digress."



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News::With Battleborn, Gearbox looks to set a new standard for co-op shooters[Polygon]

Polygon : "The initial reveal in July of Battleborn, the next new project from Gearbox Software, may have given people a false impression or at the very least, a limited one of what the studio calls a "hero-shooter." Gearbox had shown off a 5-on-5 competitive mode called Incursion, which plays out similarly to multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) titles, and the early conversation around Battleborn pegged it as the studio's spin on the genre. But to characterize Battleborn as another Dota 2 or League of Legends wouldn't just be reductive; it would be inaccurate. Gearbox is working on much more than a MOBA, and is engineering this game to last: The studio is aiming for it to offer replayability, a variety of play modes and a universe in which players will become engrossed. And in making Battleborn, Gearbox is building on its 15-year history of developing series like Brothers in Arms and Borderlands to try to deliver something that incorporates the best of those titles and...



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News::The Wolf Among Us: Just Following The Pack

GamingLives' Ed muses over his love of Telltale Games and how, in his opinion, The Wolf Among Us falls short of their other recent series. "As it stands, The Wolf Among Us was ultimately kind of disappointing. While by no means bad, it certainly lacked the same innovation, intrigue and tension that made the first season of The Walking Dead such a compelling and memorable experience. It could feasibly have built on the formula, but instead chose to make a series that predicated itself on a story that ended up lacking where it counted. Where The Walking Dead became a trendsetter, The Wolf Among Us just followed the pack."



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News::Pro Evolution Demo Out Today

Konami will release the demo of Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 today, and itll be appearing on all consoles. You can choose between 7 minute and 10 minute matches, and following teams are playable: Real Madrid CF, FC Barcelona, Atletico Bilbao, Atletico Madrid, FC Bayern München, Juventus, SSC Napoli. The size of the demo for the PS4 version is 2.49 GB, other consoles will differ in size.



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News::Metal Gear Solid Characters As Pokémon Trainers

Otacon would probably take Professor Oak's place, and the Pokémon themselves would look a lot different if the Metal Gear universe met Pokémon.

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News::Gearbox's Next Big Game Is Going to Be Very Different from Borderlands

It was the guns that did it for the Borderlands games, wasn't it? Thousands, millions, umpty-trillions of weapons to find, collect and love more than some actual flesh-and-blood human beings. Well, in Battleborn, the people who made those games want to do for characters what they did for guns in Borderlands.

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News::Do We Owe More Gratitude to Call of Duty Than We Think?

We gamers can all agree to one thing, Call of Duty has been one of the most copied and pasted games of all time, it is starting to feel like a Madden game. Since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, there hasnt been very much change in the formula. Pick a primary weapon, a secondary, a tactical and lethal grenade and some perks.



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News::Commando Jack Review (Invision Game Community)

Going Commando can mean many things to many folk, but here at Kiss, it means the launch of Commando Jack the baddest, meanest, toughest soldier planet Earth has to offer! Only Commando Jack can save the planet from alien invasion are you up for the challenge?



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News::Square Enix's New Dive In Streaming Service In Japan!

It appears that Square Enix over in Japan is making a streaming service called Dive In.



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News::Rust creator Garry Newman defends Notch's decision to sell Minecraft

Minecraft creator 'Notch' Persson has been getting a bit of flak from some quarters for his decision to sell the franchise to Microsoft for $2 billion, with some critics accusing him of "selling out" and going back on his perceived anti-corporation stance. Rust and Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman, himself no stranger to indie success, has weighed in on Notch's side, arguing that no-one else would have done any different.



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News::Meet Claptrap and the cast of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

Gearbox has released another developer diary for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, this time showing off the four hero characters players can choose from and some of their special skills. Star of the show is clearly the irritating/loveable robot Claptrap, whose special action ability looks appropriately ridiculous.



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News::'Please don't ruin Minecraft,' 10-year-old begs in open-letter to Microsoft

MMGN writes: One Minecraft fan, 10-year-old Sabrina Lane, has taken the lead for millions of fanatical virtual builders, writing to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella begging the company not to change the game.



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News::Zero1Gaming: Train Fever Review

JBH reviews indie public transport focused simulation game, Train Fever.



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News::Darkfield Early Access Update Adds New Features

VRFocus - Last weekend VRFocus reported that upcoming virtual reality (VR) space combat title Darkfield is soon to enter a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to raise money to aid development. For those that can't wait to get their hands on the title, an Early Access version is already available through the team's website. This week that pre-release version has seen an update, bringing with it a raft of new features.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare could become the franchise favourite

MWEB GameZone Writes: " Sledgehammer Games have been cherry picking from past Call of Duty titles to make Advanced Warfare the franchise favourite."



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News::Flockers Review (Invision Game Community)

Flockers is a modern day take on the classic A to B puzzle genre with a generous helping of sinister foreboding and dark humour for good measure. Levels have been designed to challenge the players skill and strategic planning as they attempt to guide their flock past heinous traps, sadistic devices and diabolical puzzles; rewarding those that can save the most sheep while still allowing progression for anyone who falls foul of the factorys deadly machinery.



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News::Dungeons: The Eye of Draconus Review | TwoDashStash

Danny from TwoDashStash writes: Dungeons: The Eye of Draconus is poorly made, full of poor humour and fails to capture the charm and nostalgia associated with old-school brawlers. Dungeons didn't have a lot of potential, but what small amount it did have it was unable to fulfill. It is clear that the developer, SuckerFree Games, was well informed of the genres history, but rather than using that knowledge to improve and build upon the genre they wasted it on crude humour.



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News::Cannon Brawl Review | WGTC

Andrew from We Got This Covered wrote: Its extremely difficult to create a unique piece of art in an industry thats awash with same-y titles, watered down sequels and plain ol rip-offs, so its important for gamers to not let rare jewels slip through the cracks. Turtle Sandboxs Cannon Brawl is just such a jewel.



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News::God Factory: Wingmen Review | GodisaGeek

James Bowden: "GoD Factory: Wingmen may win the award for worst named game of 2014 thus far, but this naming blunder masks one of the smartest multiplayer team games of recent years. Layers of thoughtful design are married to tight, responsive, spontaneous space flight controls to make a four-versus-four online space shooter thats both thrilling and satisfying in equal measure."



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News::Sailor Zombie Lets You Shoot Undead Japanese Pop Stars

How much do you love the members of Japan's pop idol group AKB48? Enough to shoot them?

The post Sailor Zombie Lets You Shoot Undead Japanese Pop Stars appeared first on WIRED.

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News::The Clue Mansion, Completely Remade in The Sims 4

Killing someone with a candlestick might be impossible in The Sims 4, but apart from that, everything looks perfect in raiderofawesome and PushingUpRoses' recreation of the Boddy Mansion from the murder mystery board game Clue (or Cluedo for Europeans).

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News::Game of Thrones' Castle Black and the Wall Look Awesome in Minecraft

News::GTA 5: Old-Gen vs Next-Gen Screenshot Comparison

Slider comparison between GTA 5 Xbox 360 and GTA 5 PlayStation 4 version.



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News::Gauntlet Preview | GameCloud Australia

Patrick Waring at GameCloud writes: "In comparison to other Gauntlet games, this one will be quite short. The first act makes up one-third of the entire game, which only took me two hours to complete on the normal difficulty. Having said that, if the preview is anything to go by then itll be a solid contribution to the series. Its few foibles can be easily forgiven, since theyre not exactly game-breaking and seem almost insignificant compared to how much the game got right. The focus on gameplay over character management should make for some great multiplayer experiences; with the addition of online play, as well, it will make organising 4-player Gauntlet games much easier. Itll be better too, because I love Gauntlet (this version included) and I love playing it with friends, but Gauntlet should be played for hours on end and people start to smell by that point."



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News::Horror title Astray 'hoping to launch with Oculus VR support'

VRFocus - Horror videogames are a natural fit for virtual reality (VR), and the steady stream of terrifying videogames that have followed since the release of the first Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) is proof of that. Of course, that doesnt mean developers can simply add VR support to their titles with a snap of the finger. Its with this in mind that indie developer Aegon Games has said that it is hoping to launch its upcoming horror title, Astray, with support for the Oculus Rift.



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News::Iron Fisticle Review | Saving Content

Excerpt: "Iron Fisticle is deep, challenging yet rewarding. And while retro-inspired, borrows many modern elements that makes it stand out from the pack: the beautiful art, the co-op, and the ways to improve your character. This this a labor of love worth delivering."



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News::Windows PC Capability for Nvidia Shield Tablet Controller Landing this Fall

PC Capability for the Controller of the Nvidia Shield tablet will be landing this fall.



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News::Albion Online Summer Alpha Launched Today

Berlin-based Sandbox Interactive has announced today the launch of the next closed alpha of their cross-platform sandbox MMORPG Albion Online. Player may roam the medieval fantasy world, gather and trade the vast amounts of resources, forge armor and weapons and demonstrate their strategic abilities in an all-dynamic PvP setting.



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News::Frugal Gaming Review | GoD Factory: Wingmen

Its clear that Japanese culture has had a big influence on the visuals of both the ships and the environment but here and there youll see glimpses of other cultural pointers right the way back to mythological Greece - Writes PridedLlama



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News::Preview: The Cave for Gear VR [VRFocus]

VRFocus - Passive experiences were common on the Gear VR at IFA, Berlin, following the initial reveal of the device at Samsungs Unpacked event earlier this month. Innerspaces ­The Cave was one such creation, transporting the player to a different world similar to our own but with new and interesting rules.



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