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Sunday, November 2, 2014

News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review (Single Player) - The Games Cabin

The Games Cabin - "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare treads familiar ground though does make an attempt to spice things up with the inclusion of exosuits. Tight gunplay and entertaining action-sequences still manage to impress whilst the graphics have seen a complete overhaul. It's Call of Duty, but not as you've ever seen it before. If it's the story you're here for then you'll be left with a sour taste of disappointment, though hardcore fans will still enjoy the 5-6 hour world-wide romp. Just don't expect to be moved to tears by the end."

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News::Become a Part of the Adorable Fantastic Witch Collective Today

Preorders have opened for Lulu Blue's game, the Fantastic Witch Collective.

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News::Dungeon of the Endless Review | The Game Scouts

Mark Brenner: In between Endless Legend and Endless Space therein lies Dungeon of the Endless. Its almost as if Legend and Space met up somewhere and made hot, mad pixel love to each other and Dungeon was the spawned result. So while the game sounds like a spin off, it plays remarkably better. During its early development, I remember reading that Dungeon of the Endless was supposed to have elements of rogue-like dungeon crawling and tower defense. That seemed confusing at the time. I just could not envision a game where you build towers to destroy waves of enemies, yet controlled a character that explored procedurally generated dungeons. It didnt compute.

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News::Shadow of Mordor only £17.99 on PC

Dealspwn writes: We can't get enough of Monolith's Shadow of Mordor here at Dealspwn and we thoroughly recommend you dust off your Uruk hunting skills to get a taste too. Turns out the Nemesis system has managed to back up its bold ambitions with a neat set of mechanics that sees enemies remember you and you can even brainwash them into fighting for you as you infiltrate the highest ranks of Sauron's army. There's an excellent set of skills available to take advantage of an enemy's weaknesses too to create unique experiences throughout.

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News::MMO Weekly Review: Oct 25 - Nov 1, 2014

Do you know what breaking news has taken place in global MMO market during the last week? Are you too busy to keep up-to-date with the latest MMO news? Do you want to follow the anticipated MMOs on the other side of the ocean? Read on 2P's MMO Weekly Review that we elaborately round up the newest and most popular MMO news, stories, guides, feature articles, videos, reviews, previews, columns and game HUBs during October 25 - November 1, 2014.

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News::Thanking Kentucky Route Zero in Day One

Part of the on-going event to show appreciation for indie game developers, Gamer Headlines recognizes "Kentucky Route Zero" as one of the 31 entries.

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News::First Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare reviews arrive ahead of embargo

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare reviews are embargoed for a few more hours, but copies are already in the wild and opinions are trickling in.

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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare guides and controller discounted; Day Zero upgrades still available

The Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Limited Edition Strategy Guide ($25.81), Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Signature Series Strategy Guide ($16.47) and Xbox One Limited Edition Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Wireless Controller ($59.96) are currently on sale. The free Day One Edition upgrade is also still available.

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News::Unaired TV Show Is The Most 90s Thing Imaginable

Unaired TV Show Is The Most 90s Thing Imaginable

Remember Nick Arcade? This is the show's unaired pilot episode, filmed in 1991 and featuring a host that wasn't Phil Moore. What it does feature, though, are some amazing haircuts, as well as one of the first public showings of a game called Sonic The Hedgehog.

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News::Why Gandhi Is Such An Asshole In Civilization

Why Gandhi Is Such An Asshole In Civilization

From the very first game in the series through to today, India's supposedly-peaceful leader Gandhi has been famous for one thing: dropping nukes. And there's a very good reason for it.

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News::Polygon Wizard Plays Minecraft (Video Series)

A Let's Play-style Minecraft video series.

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News::Ten Things You Might Not Know About Fire Emblem

Whatever happened to Fire Emblem 64? What's with Casual Mode? How come we had to wait so long for the Fire Emblem series to come West? Did You Know Gaming has the answers.

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News::COD: Advanced Warfare Is 1080p on PS4, Xbox One's Res Is Dynamic; Getting it on Next Gen Was "Tough"

With the Day Zero edition of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare hitting the shelves right as Im writing, Sledgehammer Games Co-Founders Glen Schofield annd Michael Condrey are holding an AMA on Reddit, providing interesting details about the game.

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News::Evolve Big Alpha Impressions - Hunting The Most Dangerous Game | Short Pause

The Short Pause staff goes hands-on with Turtle Rock's 4v1 cooperative shooter, Evolve. Despite some hiccups that are expected to be discovered in an Alpha, there is plenty of potential oozing beneath the service. With the right amount of polish and post launch support, Evolve could shape up to be one of the first great games of 2015.

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News::Steam Passes 9 Million Concurrent Users in Sudden Traffic Spike

Steam is certainly a popular service for PC and regularly features millions of concurrent users. However, in a sudden spike of traffic, the service passed 9 million concurrent users.

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News::Woah Dave! Review: Woah-K | Invisible Gamer

Woah Dave! is a fun, frantic, and Mario Bros.-inspired arcade game that can feel a bit flawed once its simplicity is experienced for longer periods of time.

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News::You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

You Either Solve This Riddle, Or You Die

Answer this week's riddle incorrectly, and your life – and the lives of 22 others – will be forfeit.

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News::All Sixteen COD Advanced Warfare Prestige Emblems Released

SteamFirst: We have an image which features all sixteen of the prestige symbols for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. My personal favorite is prestige 2 featuring the skull. Which of the prestige's looks best to you?

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News::The Week In Games: The Call Of Spacey

The Week In Games: The Call Of Spacey

We're into the home stretch, 2014! This week kicks off with the annual Call of Duty release extravaganza, followed immediately by one of the biggest release weeks of the year.

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News::Advanced Warfare: creating a super soldier [Pixel Dynamo]

On the even of the release of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Pixel Dynamo catches up with producer Mike Mejia to discuss the beginning of the future for the series.

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News::The Guild 3 An Interview about the Prequels, Jobs, Mods und Dates

Thinking of a typical German genre most of us refer to economic simulations. Oldschool ecosim-veterans of course know Die Fugger. Everyone else pricks its ears when hearing the name The Guild, which was released in 2002 as a kind-of-sequel. Now its 2014 the release of The Guild 2 was 8 years ago. A few weeks ago we finally got to know that The Guild 3 is going to be released in 2016. First facts can be found in gameplane.de's extensive gamescom 2014 preview. Now its time to dig a little deeper welcome to gameplane.de's The Guild 3 interview!

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News::Kotaku 'Shop Contest: A Date With Death

News::The Crew : Minimum and Recommended PC requirements

Ubisoft's open-world racer The Crew launches in a month, and the publisher has posted the minimum and optimal specifications for those looking to play it on Windows PC.

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News::12 Upcoming Video Games That Will Probably Be Delayed

WC: For the remainder of the year and beyond, these 12 games, many of which have already been delayed, are likely to be struck by the delay curse. Why would this be? Either whats been shown off so far looks a little tawdry, the developer is notorious for delaying their games, or the lack of specificity regarding a release date beyond a vague Q2 2015 suggests the game could easily slip back a few months.

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News::Black The Fall Kickstarted

HArdcore Gamer: If you remember our earlier post on Romanian indie developer Sand Sailor Studios beautiful and atmosphere Black the Fall, heres some good news.

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News::Advanced Warfare Ranked Play details on ranking and season start date revealed

Michael Condrey has today revealed the start date for the call of duty advanced warfare Ranked Play and the Pre-Season will begin

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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Patch 1.03 Released, 114 MB In Size

GearNuke: "The third patch for Call of Duty: Advnaced Warfare is now live."

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News::Watch: Far Cry 4's Multiplayer Doesn't Look Like a Simple Afterthought.

Ubisoft has released a new trailer for Far Cry 4 that shows off the game's Battles of Kyrat multiplayer mode. Back in May, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot said that Far Cry 4 will have "a lot more multiplayer" than Far Cry 3, and the latest trailer does indeed make it look more involved than what we've seen in previous Far Cry games.

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News::New releases for November 3-9

Halloween is over and now it's time to start thinking about that other annual event that a lot of people look forward to: Call of Duty release day. It's been an annual celebration for about... oh, let's say about ten years or so. And indeed, it's that time of year again. This time, it's Sledgehammer Games that steps into the CoD arena with their three-year project, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

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News::Warframe Harnessing the Power of the Mo in Honour of Movember

Things are getting hairy in the Solar System! Digital Extremes, creator of the AAA Free-to-Play title, Warframe is proudly participating in the Movember Foundations annual Movember campaign. Since 2003, the Movember community has raised over $574 million and funded over 800 programs in 21 countries. This work is saving and improving the lives of men affected by prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health issues.

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News::Building a Console Killer is easy and cheap

Building a gaming PC is not expensive. And not so difficult. Take a look on how to bring to life your very own console killer.

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News::Please Knock On My Door To Arrive In 2015

A game that centers on the experience of depression, Please Knock On My Door, will arrive in the middle of next year.

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News::All-female Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team assaulted after tournament victory

At this years Electronic Sports World Cup, Reason Gamings all-female CS:GO team won the tournaments French qualifier, beating out another team of female CS:GOers, Imaginary Gaming, subsequently earning them spot in the events main tournament. However, the team received much more than what they had bargained for when members and associates of Imaginary Gaming the defeated team allegedly assaulted the women of Reason Gaming.

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News::Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation Prove That Movies Can Become Great Games

NDTV: Two of the most praised games of this year are Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation. New titles like Destiny and Titanfall were the most anticipated names to watch this year, while few were expecting great things out of games based on existing film franchises. Yet on Metacritic - an aggregator of game reviews - you can see that these franchise games were much better received, by critics and users alike. Trying to compare these very different games is of course silly, but it does raise an interesting point. When video games based on movies are widely acknowledged as terrible - and vice versa too, as anyone who has watched movies based on video games can tell you - how is it that two of the best received games of the year are based on movies?

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News::The Terror of Alien: Isolation and the Evil Within

Because video games are so good at making players feel powerful, they also excel at conveying powerlessness. Rendering a player weak, instead of strong, creates vulnerability and often fear. Yet its been a while since big-budget games really zeroed in on making the skin crawl. So its welcome that horror has made a comeback this year with two major games Alien: Isolation and The Evil Within that want you to feel hopelessly overmatched against a malevolent force.

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News::Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Review (Denkiphile)

Brian from Denkiphile: "There are three kinds of Lord of the Rings fans: Those whove seen the movies, those whove read the books, and those whove read the Silmarillion. I happen to fall into the third group. For those who dont know The Silmarillion is the basis for everything in Lord of the Rings. Its J.R.R. Tolkiens history book for Middle-earth. It begins with the creation story for his universe by Eru and goes on to describe pretty much everything that follows, leading up to the events of the Lord of the Rings. Its pretty hardcore and definitely not for everyone. Coming into Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor I had an inherent bias against it. I felt that a game that takes place between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was largely unnecessary, especially since its not canon. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the final product."

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News::Alien: Isolation fills up the quiet space that keeps Resident Evil so scary

Alien: Isolations apex predator, that two-mouthed berserker freak, isnt the smartest xenomorph around. Stuck behind an overturned hospital bed while H.R. Gigers monster paces hungrily around in front of you? Just toss a flare into the opposite corner of the room. The dummy will go crouch over it like a stoned freshman in front of a Lite Brite. The thing is startling when it wrenches open a locker to eat you or when it oozes saliva down from a vent above you, but thats just because of the raw, animalistic threat it poses. Its nerve wracking, but not necessarily scary. Fearreal, knuckle-sweat fearcomes not from the aliens face but the noise it makes.

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News::Check Out Two Hours of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare on PS4 (With 25 Minutes at Silky 60 FPS)

If you want to see how Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare looks on PS4, youre in luck, as YouTube users RajmanGamingHD and GamesHQMedia posted two nice long videos showcasing the beginning of the game. Of course, they include spoilers, so be warned.

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News::Hunting Down Evolution in Evolve | gamrReview Preview

gamrReview's Daniel Carreras: "Given the amount of awards Evolve has already won, you could be forgiven for thinking the game had already released. In actuality, of course, it won't out until February 2015, but when it does launch Evolve will aim to shake up the cooperative multiplayer scene. Evolve's Alpha commenced this weekend, and I managed to try the game out on both the PC and Xbox One."

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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review - STN

STN: When a new Call of Duty rolls into town you generally know what to expect, after all, when you have a winning formula that makes you a bucket load of cash each year, why would you mess with it? You wouldn't, unless of course the people who buy your games start to get fed up with the formula and sales suffer as a result. So what do you do to counter that? Appoint a new developer, making for a three year lifecycle for the series and of course, add new guns, technology and a kick ass actor.

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News::Zombies are in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's season pass

GameStop's confirmed the return of Zombies in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's DLC.

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News::Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel DLC Lets You Play As Three Handsome Jacks

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel DLC Lets You Play As Three Handsome Jacks

The Handsome Jack Doppelganger Pack for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel arrives November 11, allowing players to take on the role of a faux Handsome Jack and his erstwhile companions, Handsome Jack and Handsome Jack.

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News::Epic Games Explain How They Hit 90 FPS in 'Showdown' for Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype

Road to VR At Oculus Connect in September, the VR company brought together experts and developers from across the world to talk VR. Among them were developers from Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, who shared some of the challenges and solutions to getting the visually stunning Showdown demo to run at 90 FPS on the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype.

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News::Rewind Review: Prey: Hardcore Games

Duke Nukem Forever features jabs at Halo, Dead Space, and Borderlands in the form of helmet Easter eggs scattered throughout the game. But there is one entire level in DNF that serves as a parody of Prey. So how did The Game That Wouldnt Die come to include such a huge homage to a game thats barely remembered?

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News::Dragon Age: Inquisition - New Screenshots Released

Electronic Arts and Bioware have released a new set of screenshots for Dragon Age: Inquisition.

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News::Assassin's Creed Unity Leaked GIFs Shows NPC and Texture Pop-In Bug

It had been reported before that while Assassins Creed Unity was only a couple of month away from its launch, it still had many bugs and glitches during development. Now it looks like some of these bugs have managed to make it into the final build as some users, who have acquired the game early, are reporting NPC and Texture pop-in bugs. You can check these bugs out in the GIFs shared below

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