News::Dual-Wielding, An Artist's Impression

News::Official Civilization LEGO Doesn't Include Nukes (Or Pottery)

It's not a smug Gandhi, or a Great Library, but this new project on LEGO's Ideas platform is nevertheless an official piece of Civilization LEGO. It just needs some votes to help turn it into a real thing you can buy.

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News::Alienware 13 Review: The First Futureproof Gaming Laptop

I've owned a grand total of two gaming laptops. It was depressing how quickly they aged. But the new Alienware 13 won't suffer the same fate. It's the first gaming laptop that lets you connect a external desktop graphics card for freaking awesome, truly unheard-of speed.

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News::Get nostalgic for Portland Retro Gaming Expo with these lovely photos

If you live in the Pacific Northwest, perhaps you attended the fifth annual Portland Retro Gaming Expo which took place the weekend before last. If you didn't, well -- here's a lovely pile of photos that the talented Geoffrey Smith II was kind enough to take for us at this celebration of gaming from the days of yore, featuring cosplayers, special guests, and lots of games that require you to insert coins and/or blow on them to make them work.

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News::The End Of The World Doesn't Always Have To Be Brown

Submerged is an exploration adventure from ex-BioShock devs that takes place in the technology-spattered ruins of a place that's seen better (and less water-logged) days. If you ask me, though, it looks almost... pleasant? Don't know about you, but I'd hang out there.

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News::Borderlands The Pre-Sequel - Super Mario Bros Easter Egg

Kdin and Jeremy are back in Borderlands The Pre-Sequel showing off the Super Mario Bros Easter Egg located in Tycho's Ribs!



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News::Borderlands The Pre-Sequel - Buzz Lightyear Easter Egg

Jeremy and Kdin show you the Buzz Lightyear Easter Egg located in Triton Flats in Borderlands The Pre-Sequel!



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News::Review: Devil's Dare | Hardcore Gamer

Devils Dare aims to recapture the beat 'em up genres pulpy stories and violence alongside the tension and frustration surrounding the inevitable game over.



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News::Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Achievements [Guide]

Horror Spooky: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is the latest game from Monolith, the acclaimed developers behind games such as Condemned: Criminal Origins and other Tolkien verse games such as Guardians of Middle-earth.



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News::F1 2014 Review | The Game Scouts

Tin Salamunic: Codemasters have done wonders to Formula 1 racing since taking over the licence in 2008. Theyve given fans the most authentic Formula experience on consoles and PCs in years when they released F1 2010. The 2011 season even made its way to Nintendos 3DS and Sonys Playstation Vita. Last years F1 2013 was the series pinnacle, offering superb visuals, punishing difficulty and realism. Despite favorable reviews and fan feedback, Codemasters decided to reach outside their niche fanbase by emphasizing accessibility.



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News::Doom II's Icon of Sin immortalized as a badass statue

What's your first reaction to this sculpture based on Doom II's last level, Icon of Sin? If it's "Holy shit, I don't know where to look but everywhere I look is crazy impressive," we're a lot alike.

Artist Jason Hite put together a special video for the piece complete with sound effects from the game. He's also got a blog post discussing the creation process. His description of the squished Cacodemon corpse is great (as are the rest of the photos):

"The Cacodemon (or evil tomatoes) was actually my favorite thing to make," he writes. "I sculpted it quickly during lunch with Monster clay. After I molded it in silicone, I carefully took out the clay, cut the top off and re-sculpted the bottom to make the Cacodemon's mushy corpse. What's neat is, I used only the clay from the original Cacodemon, as to not add too much mass to the body."

The sculpture is on display at the Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica, California until November 8, 2014. Hite's work looks right at home (semi-NSFW) next to the other freaky pieces.

Icons of Doom [Hite Studios via Kotaku]

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News::Top 5 Not-Quite Vampires in Gaming

In the spirit of Halloween we take a look at 5 of the best "almost vampires" in gaming.



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News::Primal Carnage: Extinction Announced - Interview in Grab It PAX AUS Edition

Grab It has announced the existence of Primal Carnage: Extinction. They have a full feature article, and in-depth interview with assets and music in Episode 8 of their iPad app, which ties into the PAX AUS event.



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News::The Last Of Us "Bar Environment" Recreated In Unreal Engine 4

Franciszek Golebiowski has been working on a recreation of The Last Of Us' bar in Unreal Engine 4, and has today released some screenshots from the final version of his map.



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News::Dreamfall Chapters: Book One - Reborn Review - The Digital Fix

It's been a long wait for this, possibly the holy grail of the adventure game genre. Most fans probably thought it would never appear, but finally we have got Dreamfall Chapters, the third game in the epic series known as The Longest Journey. The previous game, Dreamfall, came out in 2006 and ended on a cliffhanger that we've had to wait eight years to see continued. To say that there is a lot of expectation around this release is putting it mildly. The game was funded via a Kickstarter campaign which brought in $1.5 million, considerably more than developer Red Thread Games were asking for.



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News::Valkyria Chronicles Is Coming To PC!

News::Star Wars: X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and other LucasArts classics are joining GOG.com

Digital distributor GOG.com will expand its library with games from a mysterious publisher tomorrow -- perhaps you've seen the countdown? Users recently dug up familiar-looking fonts suggesting it's none other than LucasArts and they've now found even more convincing evidence.

Prying eyes have discovered forum threads (which have since been taken down) that spoil the surprise. According to one thread, GOG.com has partnered with Disney to release "about 30 classic titles" from LucasArts, six of which will be out tomorrow:

• Star Wars: X-Wing Special Edition


• Star Wars: TIE Fighter Special Edition


• Sam & Max Hit the Road


• The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition


• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis


• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Those first three haven't been available via digital distribution before. After all of the heartbreaking Star Wars game cancellations over the years, it's nice to have good news surrounding the property for a change. I'm curious to see which SCUMM adventure titles will surface and when.

[Via NeoGAF -- Thanks, kohle36]

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News::Valkyria Chronicles confirmed coming to PC by Sega

Gallia, to arms! Return to the original battle on PC. More info coming soon...



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News::Hallelujah. X-Wing and TIE Fighter Return on GOG.com With Other LucasArts Classics

Star Wars and LucasArts lovers have reason to rejoice today, as GOG.com forum users unearthed the hidden announcements for a tomorrow-bound release of classics X-Wing, TIE Fighter and quite a few others.



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News::Everybody Look at Me Cause Im Sailing On a Boat in Windward | Hardcore Gamer

Windward is the kind of game where youll start off for a quick round at midnight and then notice that its 4AM.



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News::New Minecraft LEGO Kinda Misses The Point Of LEGO

News::Contest: Show us your Halloween costumes and win Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!

Do you like dressing up for Halloween? I sure do! In fact, just a few years ago I went as Princess Peach. I was SO beautiful. (You can see the sexy evidence above. And that's my wife playing Rock Band in the background. She was dressed as Mr Andy Dixon.)

Anyway, if you're like me, half the fun of dressing up is showing off your costumes, and the other half is winning a free game for doing so! (The third half is scaring children. The fourth half is stealing their candy as they run away.) Well it just so happens that your beloved Robot Overlord found an extra copy of Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel hidden in his robo-shoe, and he's decided to hand it out at random to someone who posts a picture of themselves in their costume in the comments below!

Limit one entry per person, and you have until this Friday at 11:59pm Pacific to show us your stuff. All costumes are valid (meaning not just videogame-related ones), so don't feel discouraged even if you're going as Elsa from Frozen like every other f*cking little girl in the world this year. Winner will be chosen at random, but you must hold up a sign that says "DESTRUCTOID" in the picture so we know it's really you. International readers are welcome to enter, though we may ask you to pay for shipping if you win.

Double points if you dress up as Claptrap using only items you found around your house.

Good luck, and have fun!

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News::Sign Motion Review Do Not Enter | GIZORAMA

Liam Lambert, GIZORAMA - "Sign Motion possesses a seriously unique visual style and core gimmick, if you will. You are the young boy from the school crossing sign, and after having escaped said sign and the guardianship of Sign Mummy/Daddy, you find yourself running, jumping and swinging through a 2-D world constructed entirely out of various signs. Although this sounds like an interesting concept, the game itself soon squanders its own potential and diverts into a dull bog of shoddy physics, unresponsive controls and unjustifiable heaps of trial and error."



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News::Fallout 3's First Level Does Everything Right

I've been thinking about the apocalypse a lot lately. It's partly because of the intense drought in California. But mostly, it's been because of Fallout fans.

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News::Five Games: Sunset Overdrive And Everything Else You Need To Play This Week

Sunset Overdrive, Lords of the Fallen and more in this week's Five Games.



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News::Earthworm Jim 2 scares me to this day

Leading up to Halloween, I've been wanting to write about horror games because that's what you do in October, right? I still might; I'm playing the oft-recommended Fatal Frame II for the first time now and am planning to revisit Condemned. But before I get to those, I have been thinking about games that aren't traditionally deemed scary that managed to get to me anyway.

My mind jumps back to Shiny Entertainment's classic action-platformer Earthworm Jim 2. What a surreal game. It went places you wouldn't expect even if you had played its predecessor or were otherwise familiar with characters like Professor Monkey-for-a-Head and Queen Slug-for-a-Butt.

This was a game willing to dress you up like a blind cave salamander and force you to flap around villi-filled intestines to the tune of "Moonlight Sonata" for a single level. And god forbid you bounce off one of those mischievous pinball bumpers (whose intestines are these?) -- the ensuing scream was horrific. But The Villi People isn't the level that prompted this article.

That distinction belongs to Puppy Love, a stage whose title alone strikes fear into my heart.

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News::FYC Review Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Xbox 360)

Feed Your Console The ever popular first person 4 player cooperative treasure hunting hit Borderlands is back for another round. In the form of a prequel to the sequel hence the Pre-Sequel title. The game begins shortly after the events of Borderlands 2 where Lilith, Brick and Mordecai are interrogating Athena(See Borderlands 2 DLC The Secret Armory of General Knoxx) who recounts how she met Jack and her back story.



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News::Super Meat Boy is 80% off on Steam

If, in the last four years, you havent been privy to the fast-paced platforming insanity that is Super Meat Boy, nows a great time to pick up the game on the cheap.



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News::Five Spooktacular Games To Haunt Your Halloween

GeekParty's Tim Evans offers 5 games to play this Halloween if you're looking to be charmed, terrified, and possibly even offended!



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News::No More Getting Half-Naked On Stream, Twitch Says

No shirt, no shoes, no service.

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News::Fangamer is going all out for this EarthBound project

Fangamer has come a long way from its beginnings at Starmen.net. What started as a Mother/EarthBound-focused fandom now sells all sorts of videogame-related merchandise. With this current project, titled You Are Now EarthBound (after an old fansite), the team is returning to its roots. Not only is it focusing on the game that catalyzed the company's genesis, it is looking like one of the biggest projects Fangamer has taken on.

It is set to include a handbook similar to the one produced for Mother 3 , a documentary on the fandom for the series, an album of EarthBound music arranged by the Bad Dudes, and a zine composed of EarthBound-inspired art and writing.

Getting all of the rewards digitally takes a pledge of $32, with physical releases starting at twice that much. Work is well underway on the project, but Fangamer is seeking $100,000 on Kickstarter to help get it all finished. As of this writing, it is only a fraction of the way to that goal at about $9,000.

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News::MiddleEasy: Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is Addictive, New, Yet Familiar

MiddleEasy's Dave Walsh takes a look at Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth.



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News::Hatred Wants to be Hated

GameGrin's Shinetime writes: "Hatred is a game you might not have heard of; in fact I only saw the trailer this morning, but it struck me, not for its gameplay and not for its graphics but for its subject matter. Hatred is a game where the main protagonist is a spree shooter, the biggest trend in America. Violence isnt new to the industry and neither is senseless violence, but so far the game has been met with a mixed reception. GTA is practically gaming royalty with its strong lineage, however it is still the biggest target when it comes to people against violence in games. These arguments spawn from the fact it is possible to do something in the game: possible not required. When a player decides to kill a large group of civilians it is of their own accord and not the main focus of the game, its merely a facet."



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News::Deadspin Dear America: Quit Flipping Out About Gluten | io9 The 7 Most Affable Versions Of Satan Eve

News::Does Destiny Warrant Playing It Past Level 20? Good Question.

IM PLAYIN discusses whether it's worth playing Destiny past level 20. "Were now 6 weeks post launch. And Im still playing it almost every day. I check the app quite often as well, just to see how much, if at all, my friends have progressed. I sit at work and picture what tasks for Destiny Ill be doing that night farming resources for upgrading a piece of gear to get that little bit of extra light to try and reach the next level? Farming heroics and strike playlists to try and upgrade a piece of gear? Try the strike on the next difficulty up? Help my friends to try and get to the Vault of Glass? All acceptable answers."



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News::X-Wing, Tie Fighter Are FINALLY Getting Digital Re-Releases

Jeez, it only took decades, but two of the finest space combat games - not to mention best Star Wars games - of all time are about to get a re-release.

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