News::Doctor Who Reveals The Only Thing Really Worth Stealing

Thus far, the loose theme of this season of Doctor Who seems to be "identity crises" and "deconstructing heroism." These themes manifest this week in another story where the Doctor isn't entirely calling the shots, and the main McGuffin that everybody is trying to steal is "selfhood." Spoilers ahead...

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News::Space Engineers: Star Wars Trench Run, Millennium Falcon Mods Added

One Angry Gamer "Theres some sexy new mods made available for Space Engineers. I know, I know, this is still good news that doesnt touch on the scabby dragonsaur known as #GamerGate, but I would suggest you soak up this clean bit of gaming culture because theres plenty of time to dive back into the cesspool of corruption and collusion that encapsulates the games journalism ring. For now, you can take refuge in this bit of news that celebrates the creative minds that inhabit Steams Workshop for Keen Software Houses open-space simulator."



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News::Consortium (SteamFirst Review)-Anagram For Cumin Torso. Buy It

SteamFirst: Were I to find myself tied up, blindfolded, and had my feet to the fire (and this was not voluntary special time with the wife), I would say that my favorite feature that could be added to a game would be the ability to dynamically affect how a story plays out. I would also question the extremes my captors underwent to gather such basic information, but that is immaterial to the point. The recent Telltale games based on The Walking Dead and Fables are particular stand outs for this, but Interdimensional Games Consortium has really raised the bar.



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News::Star Conflict Review - Mouse n Joypad

Rahman writes - "In my last article (BOMB), I stated that there were very few flying games that focused on the WW2 era of fighting. While this remains true, I also think that there are few that cast their sights into the far future, either. Oh sure, plenty have tried to throw their hats into the ring, before getting overshadowed by the behemoth that is EVE Online. Well, now I think weve found a potential David for this Goliath Star Conflict."



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News::First Person Mode in Foot and Car Coming to GTA 5

GC - "Rockstar Games had recently posted that a first person mod would be coming to GTA 5 but they quickly removed the post."



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News::Minecraft's Destiny - Game Buzz #89

Dealspwn writes: This week's Game Buzz sees us chat about Microsoft's acquisition of Mojang and Minecraft, and what the future might hold for both the studio and its wildly popular IP under new management. Now that Jon's had a chance to get cracking in Destiny, we also have a natter about Carl's review and the ongoing mix of feelings that Destiny manages to provoke.



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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: The Other Side

News::Video Game Heroes Are Mental. Aren't We All?

Apparently all great video game heroes are mentally ill or have some type of mental condition. None of them live normal lives and have suffered from some type of trauma. Does Craig find this interesting? Yes! Does Craig know why this is? Yes! Face it people we are all crazy in our own way and nobody is perfect. We all have a story to tell.



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News::Is Yavin IV the next planet to be realized in SWToR ?

Since the SOR teaser trailer was released two days ago, SWTOR fans have been trying to discover what the future holds for their beloved game.



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News::Another Unofficial Resident Evil 2 Remake in the Works Using the Unreal Engine

Carl Williams writes, "I remember the fervor that built up around the Resident Evil series, not once but twice, over the years. The first time was the release of the original game on Playstation- magazines such as Gamefan and Electronic Gaming Monthly were covering it like crazy showing pics from early builds and following the story. Gamers reciprocated this coverage with a lot of letters and interest, and later sales upon release."



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News::The rise and fall of ArcheAge release

ArcheAge is a game I have been following for a few months now, reading about, purchasing my way into the beta tests, joining guilds and chatting about it with friends, this felt like my first experience with an MMO, it was truly amazing.



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News::Cognition An Erica Reed Thriller Episode 1 Game Review | ScrewAttack

I Review the video game known as Cognition An Erica Reed Thriller which also has a Game of the Year Edition. This is just my overall thoughts on the first episode of this season and I have to say for an indie game it is quite awesome but with a few missteps which I cover in this video game review. Enjoy!



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News::After 5 years, MGSV: The Phantom Pain is nearing completion

Some more info on the game and the Fox Engine, straight from Tokyo Game Show 2014.



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News::Oculus Partners With Unity to Make VR Development Free

VRFocus - With the new Crescent Bay prototype for the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) head-mounted display (HMD) revealed, Oculus VR has started talking about software development for the device at its Oculus Connect developer conference in Hollywood, California. The companys VP of product Nate Mitchell has already announced Showdown from Epic Games, but didnt stop there. Mitchell followed up with an exciting announcement from Unity.



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News::Oculus CEO: Valve a 'major contributor' to VR

VRFocus - Oculus VR is undoubtedly the first and most important name in the virtual reality (VR) industry. Never has this been more true than today, as the company hosted its first Oculus Connect developer conference and revealed the Crescent Bay prototype for the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). But by the company's own admission, it wouldn't be where it is today with out the help of some friends. One such friend is Half-Life developer Valve, which Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe labelled as a 'major contributor' in the VR space during his keynote at Oculus Connect today.



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News::Naruto Storm Revolution: Summer Clothes DLC Gameplay Videos

Summer is coming and Sakura, Ino, Hinata and tenten are all ready for a long trip to the beach. Those who pre-ordered the game will get a special summer clothes DLC and it includes the summer girl costumes for Hinata, Ino, Sakura and Tenten.



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News::TGS 2014: How Dragon Ball Xenoverse's Story Changes Everything | IGN

The Bandai Namco Dragon Ball Z fighting games have always excelled with their spectacular multiplayer huge fights, devastating abilities, tons of characters, and other things youd expect from a great episode of the anime translated brilliantly into the gorgeous games. Dragon Ball Xenoverses multiplayer is fine if a bit too familiar by now but its single-player story is going to make fans lose their minds.



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News::What Do Pac Man's Ghosts Taste Like?

Pac Man has been spending decades chowing down on stuff. Eating seems to come so naturally to him I never stopped to consider if he enjoys the taste of everything he eats. Apparently, neither have his owners.

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News::ChristCenteredGamer Orborun review

There are three game types with thirty levels each: haste, puzzle and hazard. When you have completed ten levels from each of the previous areas, a bonus section is unlocked. Out of the three game types, haste was our favorite and probably the easiest.



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News::Game Under Episode 55

In Episode 55 of the Game Under podcast, it's time for another Big Show. Tom Towers, afraid that there isn't enough content for a big show, proposes that in lieu of a Big Show Game Under should produce the longest trademark banter ever. Phil Fogg agrees, and the result is a Big Show's worth of chaos, featuring everything from the jazz piano stylings of Halo 3: O.D.S.T. to Barack Obama's cameo in Advent Rising straight back to the motorcycle diaries of Halo Reach. And in a world first, Murdered: Soul Suspect is reviewed mid-Trademark banter. And Mario Kart 8 is compared to huffing paint. In a good way. Plus, what makes a good third person shooter? Hint: colour scheme is vitally important.



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News::Robocraft Early Access Review | GamersFTW

Robocraft, if you couldnt guess, is a game about building robots, using these robots to kill other robots and earning currency to build more elaborate and deadly robots so that you can kill other robots more effectively. Robots feature heavily in Robocraft.



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News::Sunday Comics: Let's Do It Anyway

Welcome to Kotaku's Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.

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News::Peer to Peer Connections for Online Infrastructures

In this feature, the pros and cons of peer to peer connections for online games are examined In this first of two parts, two forms of connectivity used when developing an online infrastructure for a multiplayer game are going to be examined. This is very important as without having a well developed infrastructure can ruin the online portion of your title.



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News::F1 2014 Preview | Gamerspective

As an avid motorsport and F1 fan, racing games are of great interest to Tony, ranging from serious racers like Assetto Corsa to the fun of Project Gotham Racing. Tony has played most of them. So how is F1 2014 shaping up? Read his thoughts here.



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News::Thief PC Digital Now Available For A Reduced Price On Gamefly

Thief, the stealth action game developed by Eidos Montreal for consoles and PC, is now available for a reduced price on Gamefly.



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News::Feast Your Eyes On Black Deserts Warrior

"MMORPG Black Desert is currently in its final closed beta test. If you didnt get in, you can check out some shots of the Warrior class being shown off by a GM."



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News::John Carmack Is Pushing Hard For Asynchronous Time Warp On The PC, Best Thing Coming From Mobiles

During Oculus Connect 2014, John Carmack took the stage and talked for one hour and a half about various topics. The guru programmer talked about his relationship with Samsung, solutions for various issues present in Oculus Rifts DK2, the ability to fully enjoy a VR experience, as well as the most important result coming from the mobile environment that is no other than the asynchronous time warp notion.



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News::Heavy Bullets Review | GamersFTW

Heavy Bullets could have been like any other dungeon crawler. Procedurally generated levels, rogue-like game-play, and something creepy and dangerous dwelling in the darkness are key components to any game in the genre, and theyre definitely all present in this one. What makes Heavy Bullets special is a brilliant mechanic that drastically alters the way you approach the game.



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News::Modvive Reviews Uriel's Chasm - A Polarizing Homage?

Modvive's Cody Dietrich reviews what is sure to be a very talked about "homage" to terrible bible games that were prominent during the NES and SNES era.



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News::For Indie Games, the Struggle Continues after Release

Gaming Illustrated: "'Indie' has recently been added to the unwritten list of the rudest words in video games, as the term usually refers to a low budget title with the sort of graphics that even a mid-1990s PC could run. The term is synonymous with audio that probably doesnt involve the London Philharmonic Orchestra (and those guys will play just about anything for cash) or composer John Williams. What you will find, though, is a central quirky game mechanic, which plays with the tropes of the genre. The artwork is usually low-fi, or even deliberately evocative of early Amiga era pixel-art. It seems unnecessary to point out, but this may be because the small team of barely paid enthusiasts who made the game are not backed by a studio with tons of cash."



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News::Blizzard Releases Lots of In-Game Cinematics For Warlords of Draenor *Spoilers*

Blizzard dropped several in-game cinematics a few moments ago and it seems like they are going all out on this expansion in terms of story telling as far as I can see. I won't spoil much about the in-game videos since they contain heavy spoilers with deaths of several prominent characters which makes me wonder if World of Warcraft has been inspired from Game of Thrones' story telling skills.



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News::Oculus Makes Rift DK1 Open Source

VRFocus - The first surprise of the Oculus Connect virtual reality (VR) developer conference in Hollywood, California has been revealed. Earlier today event host Oculus VR announced that the first development kit (DK1) of its Oculus Rift head-mounted mounted display (HMD) was now open source. This means that anyone can now download the companys full list of workings on the device and use them how they see fit.



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News::Naruto Storm Revolution Full Roster Unlocked Save File For PC

A Naruto Storm Revolution have unlocked all the characters in Naruto Storm Revolution including Edo Tensei Minato. The good thing is he shared the save file and it includes: 1.6 Million Ryo All Characters All Costumes



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News::MotorSport Revolution Gets Launch Trailer

VRFocus - Last week saw the Early Access release of a brand new virtual reality (VR) compatible racing videogame in MotorSport Revolution from indie developer Ghost Machine. The title is available now from Steam for £14.99 GBP and plans to stay in an Early Access phase until the consumer release of a supported head-mounted display (HMD) such as the Oculus Rift. Now the launch trailer for the title has arrived can be seen below.



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News::Microsoft Promises 10-Year-Old It Wont Mess Up Minecraft, YouTube Makers To Be Left Alone

Microsofts purchase of Mojang and Minecraft for $2.5 billion has understandably concerned fans of the PC, Xbox, Playstation, and mobile device game. One such fan is 10-year old Sabrina Lane, whose letter to CEO Natya Sadella asking the company to not mess up Minecraft was published by Fortune. Xbox head Phil Spencer responded with a letter Friday assuring Sabrina that the game will stay the same, but they are still looking for ways to make it better. At the same time, he told YouTube personalities who make money from producing Minecraft videos that nothing will change.



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News::FIFA 15 Top 10 Dribblers List

FIFPlay: FIFA 15 best 10 dribblers Top 10 players with highest DRI attribute.



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News::Infinity Wars Review: Infinitely Fun: Hardcore Games

Hardcore Games - Infinity Wars is a free-to-play digital collectible card game from Lightmare Studios, in the tradition of corporeal ancestors like Magic: The Gathering, created after a successful Kickstarter campaign in late 2012.And its fantastic. I went into this game with no particular interest in the collectible card game genre and came out loving it.



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News::MORTALITY ESPORTS SIGNS WALK IT OFF AS NEW SMITE TEAM

As of August 25th 2014, Mortality signed the SMITE Team "Walk It Off" to represent Mortality eSports in the EU division of the upcoming SMITE Pro League. Mortality eSports SMITE consists of five players: Stefan Leo Helpferer (Psiyo), Oskar Lasota (Frezzyy), Fredrik Vist (Fexez), Zvonimir Palac (m0eX), and Craig Rathbone (iRaffer)



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News::FIFA 15 Supported Gamepads and Controllers

Guide4GameS: FIFA 15 incoming to PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox360, Xbox One, PS Vita, Nintendo Wii and 3DS. We have received a list of Gamepads and Controllers that FIFA 15 support officially. If you are using a gamepad as your primary control device, within the FIFA 15 launcher application you can select the gamepad that has button icons that most closely represent the gamepad that you use.



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News::TGS 2014: Will Survival Horror Mount a Comeback With the Evil Within?

Ill never, ever forget the first time I played Resident Evil on PlayStation. I was in the seventh grade, and the game had just launched on PlayStation. A friend of mine begged his mother to take us to the local video store to grab it, at which point we rented it, put the disc in our console, and proceeded to a play a game that, up to that point, was wholly unique, if not unprecedented. I was all about JRPGs and side-scrollers at this point in my life, and I had never seen or played anything like Resident Evil, mostly because nothing quite like Resident Evil even existed then.



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News::Oculus: Eye Tracking Might Not Work With Rift Until 4K Displays Utilised

VRFocus - Eye tracking is a popular talking point among the virtual reality (VR) community at this point in time. It could prove to be an essential tool for creating fully immersive VR experiences on head-mounted displays (HMD) such as the Oculus Rift. However, according to Oculus VR Chief Technology Officer John Carmack, the technology might not be relevant to the Oculus Rift until it advances even further beyond what's been seen with the Crescent Bay, revealed today at Oculus Connect.



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News::Warlords of Draenor could break World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft's fifth expansion pack, Warlords of Draenor, is not likely to have perfect balance. But developer Blizzard isn't just alright with this reality it's downright excited by it.



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News::Interview with Michael Murray and Ryuichiro Baba of Rise of the Incarnates

Michael Murray and Ryuichiro Baba answer questions on Namco Bandai's forthcoming F2P title Rise of the Incarnates.



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News::Top 10 Reissued And Remastered Classics On GOGcom

This is a list of 10 reissued and remastered classic PC games available on GOGcom.



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News::F1 2014 Preview - Mouse n Joypad

Gale writes - "Of course, pretty visuals and nice sounds wont make do if the gameplay cant hold its own. After all, what more can an avid F1 fan ask for if not for a great formula-based racing sim? Its a good thing then, that this years edition provides a whole slew of content to entertain players for a pretty lengthy deal of time. There are the proving grounds, for example, that encompass time attack game mode and its likes, as well as the old favourite that is the Challenge mode. I tried diving into the mind of Sebastian Vettel during his duel with Alonso a couple of years back, and the setup does remind heavily of the given event"



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News::The Witcher Adventure Game Beta Review | RyattaReviews

The forthcoming board and online game is actually pretty fun, despite being online only in the beta version. Capturing footage wasnt allowed but there was some publicly available footage usable for the video. Its shaping up to be a very interesting experience that non Witcher fans can enjoy.



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News::Front Towards Gamer -- PAX Prime 2014: Interstellar Marines Hands-On Preview

Zero Point Software attempts to bind stealth and shooter in Interstellar Marines.



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News::Typoman Gamescom Preview | GameGrin

GameGrin's Ryan Davies writes: "A world, and a game, formed with letters on an inky page. Thats the concept of Typoman, an inventive platformer from German studio Brainseed Factory. Its more than just a piece of visual design too, the letters that make up Typomans world are crucial elements of gameplay, as players use the letters to interact with the world around them. I got a chance to play the game for a good 15 minutes at this years gamescom and while I was left gasping for more, it didnt take long to realise that this could be something special. Truly original ideas are hard to come by in this industry, but Typoman feels like something genuinely new."



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News::Destiny Easter Eggs: Playing with Balls in SPACE

Going to the tower is NOT fun in Destiny.Unless of course you have an inclination to play with big black balls! Some assorted Easter eggs in Destiny for you to enjoy.



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News::Microsoft DirectX 11.3 Revealed The Feature Set of DX12 Minus the CPU Overhead Reduction

Microsoft has revealed its new iteration API called DirectX 11.3. Interestingly it appears to be the feature set of DX12 minus the overhead reduction.



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