News::History Lesson: Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid had a lot to overcome if it was ever going to hit the big time. Humble beginnings on the MSX 2 system (and a tragically dumbed-down NES Americanisation). An eight-year absence from the market following Metal Gear 2. A title consisting of three random words to the casual shelf browser and of course a hero called Solid Snake which, let's face it, only seems acceptable now because we're used to it.



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News::'Kromaia' Review | Analog Addiction

Analog Addiction writes, "It feels weird to start off a review by giving you advice, but if you happen to purchase Kromaia, press F1 or F2 to change the camera. You wont find this advice anywhere in the key bindings, and my experience with the game was made better when I accidentally stumbled upon it. Kromaia is a space combat game developed by Kraken Empire and published by Rising Star Games. Kromaia is a polarising experience. Its visuals and sound design filled me with pure joy as colourful, fluorescent explosions filled the screen. Yet, the often chaotic nature of combat and a few frustrating mechanics quickly turned that joy into agony."



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News::Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos (SteamFirst Review) - For Quality Purposes

SteamFirst:Right up front, I will tell you: my day job, the one that many of you have advised that I should not to quit, is working at a call center. While working there, I have been both on the front lines taking the calls and in leadership positions. I would say that I have a pretty good handle on how they work. Thus, it was with tongue firmly planted in cheek that I pulled Andreas Heydecks Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos out of our review backlog and said I am going to review the crap out of this.



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News::Gambitcom | New Releases for the week of November 11th, 2014

Here we go again with new releases for the week of November 11th, 2014. Another big week for the consoles which offers a lot of diversity and big hitting games.



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News::Valkyria Chronicles PC Port Impressions | IncGamers

Has SEGA put together a PC port of Valkyria Chronicles thatll sweep all before it, or one thats just going to tank? IncGamers' Peter Parrish has a look.



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News::New Project CARS Screenshots Take a Look at Karts

VRFocus - Earlier this week Slightly Mad Studios revealed a brand new type of vehicle for its upcoming virtual reality (VR) compatible racing simulation experience, Project CARS. That new vehicle is the kart, bringing an entirely new type of racing to the title, which supports the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD). Now the first screenshots for the karts in Project CARS have arrived, and can be seen below.



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News::Overwatch Was Revealed and Twitter Lost Its Mind

Twinfinite writes, "When Blizzard announced Overwatch last week at this years Blizzcon, there was a mostly positive reaction for the new cartoony, chaotic-looking first-person shooter. Heres a roundup of Twitters reaction to the game."



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News::Because We All Love Killer Robots

Minovo Wang is an artist from China. I hope you're here for the robots, because if you're not, you need to pay closer attention to an internet story's headline and top image.

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News::Nvidia: Golden Days of Consoles Are Over, So Many Other Ways To Enjoy Games

Nvidia's CEO at the recent earnings call stated that the best period of console gaming is over and now there are many alternatives to properly enjoy games.



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News::Lords of the Fallen Review | MONG

A MONG Editor spent some quality time with Lords of the Fallen over the past couple weeks. Check out his thoughts on the game, and share yours!



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News::An Interview with Eugene Ivanov - the Man behind Indie GameDev Greenlight

This past week, after finding out about Indie GameDev Greenlight group on Facebook I decided to follow up on it to get more information on that and to discuss Greenlight with someone who was clearly invested in the process and knew some of its flaws. I contacted Palmkingdoms creator and Indie GameDev Group creator Eugene Ivanov and asked if he would be willing to speak with me on those matters. He accepted and this is the interview that came from it on the Group, Greenlight and some other topics.



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News::Digital Foundry: Hands-on with Evolve

DF: "Overall, from what we've played so far, Evolve is shaping up to be a promising multi-player shooter across all platforms, although it's clear that the netcode and matchmaking elements need a lot of work at this point before they are stable enough to provide a stress-free online experience."



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News::Oculus VR Creative Director Speaking at Western Washington University Tomorrow

VRFocus - Earlier in 2014 Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) creator Oculus VR revealed its intentions to start interacting with schools, colleges and universities, offering talks and workshops on working with virtual reality (VR) technology. The company has already made good on these intentions by sending Chief Scientist Michael Abrash to host talks similar to his keynote speech at the 2014 Oculus Connect developer conference. Tomorrow Oculus VR Creative Director Peter Bristol will be holding a presentation at the Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.



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News::Our Watch Dogs 2 wishlist

Last week brought news that Watch Dogs has now shipped more than nine million copies. (Not sold; game companies dont talk about that as much). Its another sign that Watch Dogs 2 and probably Watch Dogs 3 is inevitable. Well, Ubisoft people, if sequels will be made, we have some requests



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News::Cosmonaut Gets First Teaser Trailer

VRFocus - Earlier this week indie developer We Came From Mars launched a Steam Greenlight campaign for an upcoming virtual reality (VR) space simulation title named Cosmonaut. The title hopes to secure enough positive votes to be approved for sale on the Steam digital store come full release, whenever that may be. Now the first teaser trailer for the title has arrived, which can be seen below.



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News::MMO Weekly Review: Nov 1 - 7. 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 November 1 - 7, 2014.



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News::A Game About Wrecking Your House To Hunt Down A Fly

Siliconera: imagine it: you come back home after a few years travelling, looking to kick back, relax, and settle back into those familiar walls. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt. Whats that? Oh, its a fly in your house, ruining your moment of peace and quiet. This is the point that Fly In The House wants you to, frankly, go nuts. You should do everything in all your destructive power to obliterate that pesky fly. It turns out that mostly involves flinging furniture around to smash, well, everything.



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News::The Walking Dead Finally Gets A Co-op Game Which Will Feature A Payday 2 Crossover

From the creators of PAYDAY: The Heist and the hit PAYDAY 2 comes an all new Walking Dead experience. Unlike single-player games such as Telltale Games The Walking Dead and Terminal Realitys The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Overkills The Walking Dead will offer a brand new four player co-op experience that Walking Dead fans have been waiting for.



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News::Dungeon Of The Endless Is Pretty Good, Guys

News::These Planet Alpha 31 screens are gorgeous

New alpha screenshots released showing off the dangerous environments of a collapsing world.



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News::Batman: Redesigned Is Not Your Pappy's Batman

Brainstorm is a Facebook group where artists can take part in various challenges. This month, the challenge was to redesign Batman (and the Batmobile). The results are probably not the kind of Dark Knight Bob Kane had in mind.

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News::Resident Evil Revelations 2 ESRB Rating Reveals New Playable Character, Weapons and Plenty Gore

The ESRB just published its rating for Capcoms Resident Evil Revelations 2, and it comes with surprises. The M Rating itself with warnings for Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language is not at all shocking, but the description is a lot more interesting, as it reveals another playable character.



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News::Overwatch's Hype Is All About Those Kids

News::The Week In Games: Assassinate Everything

Oh, it's this week, isn't it?

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News::Watch The Finals Of The Netrunner World Champs

Fantasy Flight's World Championship Weekend is still going on, closing with the finals of the Netrunner tournament. You can catch it right here.

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News::Assassins Creed: Rogue Review (PS3, Xbox 360) - TGC

Chris of The Games Cabin - "This year Ubisoft has graced us with not one, but two Assassins Creed games, one of which is the subject of this review, the other being Assassins Creed: Unity. It seemed a strange move by Ubisoft to release two games on the same day for differing generations of consoles, but the more I played through Assassins Creed: Rogue, the more I warmed to the idea and eventually managed to shake away the feeling that Im being fed a second glass of milk from the same cow. Read on for the full Assassins Creed: Rogue review."



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News::Randalls Monday Review | Front Towards Gamer

Brandon Parker writes: I wanted to like this point and click game, but Randalls Monday is just like a normal Monday in that not much happens to draw me in. Sure, there are interesting things to do, interesting people to meet and a great art style but the overall story and aspect of Randalls Monday lacks a key thing that may turn the game from good to great: Randall himself.



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News::To Solve This Riddle, Look To Your Family

This week's puzzle is about a perplexing pedigree. Can you untangle its twisted lines of descent?

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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Intel Collectible Locations Guide

JunkExplorer: Here in this post, we are providing you guys Call of Duty: Advanced Warfares (aka COD: Advanced Warfare or COD: AW) Intel Collectible Locations Guide. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was published by Activision, COD: AW is the 11th major installment in the Call of Duty franchise and it was released for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, PS3 and PS4 on 4th of November this year (2014). Get all the latest updates about COD: AWs cheats, walkthroughs, fixes plus guides from JunkExplorer. More stuff about COD: AW is on the way. Check back soon.



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

SteamFirst: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the 11th installment in the Call of Duty series, a first person shooter available on Steam. But can 11 installments of the same game remain interesting and innovative, or is this just more of whats been done before.



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News::Watch An Hour of Assassin's Creed Unity Online Free Roam and Find Out How Co-op Plays

Assassin's Creed Unity coop is quite the spectacle. Check out some free roam parkour gameplay and a coop mission.



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News::Red Goddess gets improved gameplay trailer

Side-scrolling adventure Red Goddess has received a new trailer that shows off new and improved gameplay elements previously shown in Yanim Studio's September game update trailer. Along with the trailer, the game received a handful of new screenshots.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Walkthrough Guide

Horror Spooky: A new developer steps into the Call of Duty ring. Sledgehammer Games has been developing Advanced Warfare for the last three years. Using this guide, you will be able to find every piece of intel that there is in the game as well as master all the other game modes.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review | CheatMasters

Avoiderdragon: Call of Duty: Ghosts was more or less a low point for Activisions cash cow, having sold much less than expected and with a crowd that have become more or less jaded by the annual releases and the same old same old. Its time to set the If it aint broke, dont fix it mentality aside and come up with something fresher. That must have been what the higher ups in Activision had in mind when they had Sledgehammer Games make this.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Review | The Game Scouts

Palmer Sturman: Call of Duty is a franchise that has received a lot of flak over the years. Suffering from a stale formula, dated engine, and terrible campaigns, its been tough imagining it ever returning back to form. Enter Advanced Warfare, the latest iteration developed by Sledgehammer games. By adding faster movement, new graphics, and really cracking down on the campaign and multiplayer presentations Sledgehammer has proven that theres still life in this series assuming developers and fans are willing to take risks.



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News::Dreamfall Chapters Book One: Reborn Review | CheatMasters

Avoiderdragon: Once again, another adventure game in episodic format has come before us with promises of a good story and much interactive substance. But then again, we could also be treated to either another walking simulator or just a long wait for the next part like with Double Fines Broken Age. But then again, this game does look quite decent on its own, so maybe it might be worth a look.



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News::Football Manager 2015 Review - Zero1gaming

Paul Izod's been reviewing Football Manager games for a number of years now and most of the time theyre a bit of a dichotomy. On one hand theyre usually pretty easy to review; its not like they change is it? Add a slightly different skin, slightly nicer match graphics and, if were in a crazy year, add a new interview process or something. You liked it last year, youll like it now. Standard.



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News::Happy Tenth Anniversary, EverQuest II

Ten years ago today, Sony Online Entertainment released the follow-up to the game that put massively-multiplayer online role-playing games on the map. Two week's later Blizzard came along and set the map on fire, but some of us will never forget EverQuest II.

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News::The Best 3D Castlevania Is This Custom-Made Board Game

A massive game board inspired by the original NES classic, 11 characters with upgrade-able weapons and abilities, battle dice, movement dice and more than 100 item and monster cards — this is the ultimate Castlevania board game.

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