News::The Harrowing 2014 - League of Legends gets ghoulish

The time of year is once again upon us. Halloween approaches and League of Legends is holding its annual event, The Harrowing, to celebrate.



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News::Top five 2014 horror games to buy and play for Halloween

Game Idealist reveals their top five horror games to buy and play for Halloween.



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News::Throwdown Ep. 08 Murder Simulators

The Koalition's Tony Polanco writes: "On today's episode we look at the bigger picture and ask Are video games inherently violent? Most games contain violence and the way you interact with many game worlds is by killing whatever inhabits it. Why is this the case and what games exist that have no violence whatsoever? This forms the basis of our main topic. We brought along two of our friends from video game site 2D-X.com. Editor-in-Chief Tim Torres and Features Editor Gabriel Zamora join us to discuss Smash Bros. for the Wii U. The game had a big Nintendo Direct today and since the fellas are huge fans of the series, I wanted to have them on to tell us what they thought. We couldnt just have Chris Sealy shit all over it after all."



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News::Sid Meiers Civilization: Beyond Earth - Demo Now Available, Devs Explain Mantle Multi-GPU Approach

In an age when video-game demos are on the verge of extinction, Firaxis and 2K Games decided to stand up and show to the public how gamers should be treated. So, strategy fans, get ready for a treat as a demo for Sid Meiers Civilization: Beyond Earth can be downloaded right now from Steam.



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News::Loading Human Coming to Three Events in Coming Weeks

VRFocus - Indie developer Untold Games has been hard at work on its upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible adventure videogame Loading Human since it passed a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign earlier in 2014. The developer now keeps fans in the loop by issuing bi-weekly updates on its Kickstarter campaign page, letting them know how development is progressing as the team moves towards launch. Recently the studio revealed its upcoming event schedule, revealing where Loading Human will be on display over the coming weeks.



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News::Sakura Spirit Review | PixelPerfectGaming

Sakura Spirit is a mature, entertaining visual novel that is available on the Steam Network. Just in case you are not familiar with visual novels: they can be very similar to a Choose Your Own Adventure, allowing the player to make decisions that will affect the story. Not all visual novels carry a mature rating, but Sakura Spirit is the exception. Even though it has a mature rating, its mostly due to the explicit sexual dialog and nothing to do with full frontal nudity.



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News::Online games expected to hit $13B in 2014, with at least $946M from League of Legends alone

VB writes: Mobile may be the hottest game market, but massively multiplayer online games on the PC are expected to grow from $11 billion in 2014 to $13 billion by 2017, according to market researcher SuperData Research.



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News::[ABG] Her Majesty's SPIFFING - Genuinely Funny Space Adventure Resurrects The LucasArts Spirit

Her Majestys SPIFFING is a highly amusing point and click adventure game, packed with throwaway sight gags, inside jokes and cheesy puns that recall the glory days of classic LucasArts adventures.



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News::Game|Life Podcast: Papers, Please Developer’s Stunning New Adventure

WIRED's own Angry Nerd Chris Baker returns to the Game|Life podcast this week!

The post Game|Life Podcast: Papers, Please Developer’s Stunning New Adventure appeared first on WIRED.

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News::Sid Meiers Civilization: Beyond Earth releases for PC

2K and Firaxis Games today have released Sid Meiers Civilization: Beyond Earth worldwide for Windows PC.



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News::Kickstarter Watch: Thea: The Awakening

Developers who worked on Grid 2 and the Witcher series come together to create a Don't Starve/Civilization V-inspired game steeped in Slavic mythos. Goodness, what a lot of names I just said.



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News::Wasteland 2 Review - Zero1Gaming

Its not often that Paul's had cause to review a Kickstarted game here on Zero1gaming, but with the crowd-funding movement becoming so prominent over recent years, theres more than a few titles emerging from the site, so its about time he got on board. Truth be told though, hed have been all over todays subject; Wasteland 2; like a tramp on chips whether it was kickstarted, big budget, indie-developed or even, gulp, taken over by EA!



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News::Life is beautiful: Deadly Premonition for PC discounted to $2.49

Word has gotten out about Swery65's cult classic Deadly Premonition in the years since Jim Sterling's memorable review, but there are many people who wrote it off or otherwise missed out. This might help. Rising Star Games has discounted the Director's Cut to $2.49 on Steam.

That's 90 percent off, now through October 27. But hold on a sec. Your results may very with this PC port as it's known to have technical issues, at least for some players. There are reports of low frame rates and, worse yet, crashes and failures to start. Keep that in mind.

If you aren't willing to risk it, playing on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 remains an option. You just need to get far enough in to look past the rough edges and you'll find an unforgettable game.

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News::IncGamers readers feel recent PC ports have been hobbled

"Our most recent poll canvased reader opinion about the quality of recent PC ports in comparison to prior PC versions of games. We wanted to know whether people felt that the general quality was improving, sliding or staying broadly the same. While this poll wasnt quite as popular as the Assassins Creed: Unity frame-rate query, it still attracted several hundred responses. Of those responses, 53% agreed with the assertion that current PC ports are being intentionally hobbled in order to make the present crop of consoles look better. Incidents like the Watch Dogs PC release burying improved graphics options deep within its code have probably contributed to this belief."



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News::Felicia Day And Gamergate: This Is What Happens Now

Earlier this week, Felicia Day wrote a blog post. In it, the well-known actor eloquently expressed something that a great number of people in the video game scene have been feeling lately: She said she was afraid.

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News::How You'll Share Your PS4 Games With Friends Who Don't Own Them

Starting on October 28th, you'll be able to share your games with friends—even if they don't own them.

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News::Track: Paradise Circus | Artist: Massive Attack | Album: Heligoland

Track: Paradise Circus | Artist: Massive Attack | Album: Heligoland

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News::A Game Collection That Looks Like A Museum

High-level game collectors are an interesting bunch of people. Their drives, motivations and preferences when it comes to curation say so much about what they value in gaming. Austrian collector Andranik Ghalustians is no different.

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News::Dying In Sunset Overdrive Is Pretty Goofy

Dying a horrible death in a video game is usually, well, horrible. If only there was some way to add a little style and grace to the whole process. What's that you say, Sunset Overdrive? You think you can make being eaten by a horde of unsightly mutants downright charming? Well, we'll have to see about that!

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News::Review: Mind Zero

At a glance, it's easy to look at Mind Zero and compare it to the Persona series given its art style and the narrative advertised within early trailers and promotional materials. And you wouldn't be incorrect in declaring that it borrows several elements from the popular role-playing series.

Still, it's unfair to call Mind Zero a copycat when its most fundamental elements are much different from the Shin Megami Tensei spinoff. That doesn't mean the game is actually all that impressive, however. Acquire and ZeroDiv's Vita RPG features an interesting premise, but in the end it's a weaker product than those that obviously inspired it.

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News::Catch a Walkthrough of Majestic Nights First Chapter

Yami from Twinfinite writes: "In this walkthrough Epiphany Games has showcased for us, were given a full look into their upcoming Majestic Nights first chapter."



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News::All The Weirdest Secrets You Never Knew About Clive Barker's Hellraiser

Hellraiser was made for under $1 million, but wound up becoming one of the most significant horror movies of all time. And yet, the more you learn about this film's production, the more of a miracle it seems. Here are all the strangest facts you need to know about the making of Hellraiser.

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