News::The Best Cyber Monday App Deals

We'll update this list throughout Cyber Monday as we find new deals. Let us know in the comments if you spot anything that we missed.

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News::Far Cry 4 Review - 8BitChimp

Jeremy says, "Far Cry 4 is a fantastic game. Though the story may not be the strongest in the first-person shooter genre, the gameplay mechanics, graphics and visuals, location, random antics and (not tacked on) multiplayer makes up for the narratives short comings."



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News::Far Cry 4 Review | Progress Bar

The strong writing and performances of the main characters, coupled with a living, breathing, detailed world combine together wonderfully to make for a unique sequel with plenty to discover. Far Cry 4 isnt revolutionary, but its fun: and above all else, you cant ask for anything more.



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News::Cyber Monday Video Game Deals: GamerDeals Hub Update

Gamerdeals: "The Cyber Monday video game deals on PS4, Xbox One, Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3, 3DS, PC and Mac platforms will be flowing before you know it! In preparation, we are working directly with our retail contacts to provide preview access to some of the cheap sales heading your way. Last year, the PS4 and Xbox One console were difficult to find at full retail price. This year, you should be able to find a new PS4 or Xbox One console with bonus games and more goodness thanks to ample supply and retailers highlighting these platforms. Nintendo gamers should also get a chance to score both Wii U and 3DS console and game deals as well. Every year, cyber Monday deals are very dynamic, so we will be constantly updating this list. Here are the current Cyber Monday 2014 Video Game Deals."



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News::Leviathyn- Tales from the Borderlands: Episode One Zer0 Sum Review

Zer0 Sum is a solid start to what will surely be one of the most genuinely funny and entertaining games or the year.



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News::A Bird Story (SteamFirst Review) Not A Toronto Film Festival Finalist

SteamFirst: Right up front, the reader should know: A Bird Story is not a game in the common sense of the word. Much like my previous experience with Sakura Spirit, there isnt any player agency given to deserve a comment. Here you simply control an avatar when the game tells you and follow basic instructions. I knew this going in, but was expecting something more in the line of options as to how the story played out. A more accurate description would be that this was an interactive art piece, one that would have been better served by removing what little interactivity there is and simply telling the story.



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News::Blood Star is a Frantic New Shooter on Kickstarter

Hardcore Gamer: "Blood Star takes that classic danmaku (or bullet hell) concept and evolves it in some smart ways. Player customization, RPG mechanics, and more are just some of whats planned for the full release."



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News::After Huge Hack, Fury and Other Unreleased Sony Films Leak On the Web

News::Company of Heroes 2: Ardennes Assault Review - Digitalchumps

Digitalchumps: "Relic's popular Company of Heroes RTS is back with a new standalone expansion pack that focuses on the Allied war effort during the Battle of the Bulge. Company of Heroes has been a successful PC-exclusive RTS franchise for many years. I remember being at the unveiling at E3 several years ago and always thought the series looked promising, and it wasn't all that long ago that I finally got around to playing CoH2. Impressed, although eventually rediscovering that my type of RTS is of the sci-fi variety (ala Command & Conquer), I didn't stick with it. However, when given the opportunity to review Ardennes Assault, I was looking forward to change of pace and to try my hand at taking on the Oberkommando West across regions of Belgium."



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News::XCOM: Enemy Within review - Post Arcade

Post Arcade: "This game was reviewed on an iPad Air 2 running iOS 8.8.1. Regular readers know that I typically spend evenings playing games on my iPad while watching TV with my wife. Weve been binge-watching the The Americans over the last couple of weeks. I love the show whats not to like about cold war spy stories mixed with a bit of 80s nostalgia? but I confess I have no idea whats happened over the last dozen episodes. Thats because I havent been able to pull my eyes away from XCOM: Enemy Within, the new iOS port of an expansion to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, one of the best turn-based strategy games of the last decade."



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News::Will Mass Effect 4 go the way of GTA 5 and suffer a huge PC release delay?

Its universally accepted that the Mass Effect trilogy is one of the greatest series of games ever made. Indeed, many lists often place Mass Effect 2 as their greatest game of all time. With Bioware now confirming the beta testing is well under way for Mass Effect 4, and the series having fared so well on the windows platform in the past, surely it would sacrilege for this fourth game to suffer a huge delay between hitting the next gen consoles and getting a PC release much in the same way Grand Theft Auto 5 has. If rumors are to be believed, then this could be a possibility.



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News::Broken Age's second act now aiming for early 2015 launch

Broken Age Act 2, originally expected to launch by the end of this year, will instead release "early next year," the game's producer wrote this week on Broken Age's official forums.



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News::Party Hard - Kill The Party, Literally

Party Hard is an #IndiesVsPewdiepie GameJam game that comes with a simple but despicably fun premise kill everyone at the party without getting caught! While all the other party-goers are drinking, dancing, vomiting and copulating, your black-clad pale-faced killer, stalks from room to room, taking them out one-by-one while avoiding detection.



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News::5 Classic Horror games that are as frightening now as they were back then

Continue Play: Not all Horror games lose their power over the years. Heres our pick of 5 classic Horror games which remain just as scary now as they did at the time of their original release. They may not always have set cash registers screaming but theyve lost none of of their ability to disturb.



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News::Official FIFA 15 Tutorial Best Beginner Skill Moves

EA Sports released a new FIFA 15 tutorial of the best beginner skill moves. This gameplay tutorial covers the best basic to advanced moves that are not so tricky to pull off.



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News::Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Sales Top 10M Units Worldwide - PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, PC

VGChartz Writes: "The Sledgehammer Games developed Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare sales in just three weeks have topped 10 million units worldwide at retail. It is the second game released in 2014 to hit the milestone. The other game is FIFA 15, which is available on three more platforms. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has sold 10.98 million units. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has sold the best for the PlayStation 4 with sales of 4.26 million units. The Xbox One version sold 2.76 million units, the PlayStation 3 version sold 2.05 million units and the Xbox 360 version sold 1.78 million units. The PC version has managed to sell 142,571 units."



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News::New Video Game Releases: What Gamers Want for the Week of 12-1-14

This could be another good week to just get caught up on your backlog, but if you must buy a new game you should set your sights on the Game of Thrones release by Telltale Games.



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News::Drift Stage Looks Like The Arcade Racers SEGA Used To Make

Drift Stage is an arcade racer with a glorious 80s-style California sun aesthetic.



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News::The Lucas Version Of The Force Awakens Trailer Is A Bit More Dense

News::Gamengage review of Far Cry 4

Anyone who has played the Far Cry series in the past knows to expect things to go from crazy to looney tunes in no time. The series is famous for putting perfectly innocent people into the most insane and dangerous situations. At every turn you can never be sure what might happen next or what is going to explode.



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News::Fallout 4: Original Developers Want The Game To Be Set In Florida Or New Orleans

Recently the original developers of Fallout, yes the original and hard as nails Fallout that started it all, took to Reddit to engage in a Q&A (or an AMA if you want to call it that) with fans of the series.



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News::Xboxs Phil Spencer Comments on Halo/Gears of War Crossover and More; Wont Be at The Game Awards

Microsofts head of the Xbox division Phil Spencer is always quite receptive of the ideas he hears from the community, and today he provided a few interesting comments.



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News::Sunday Comics: Beyond Awesomeness

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::Far Cry 4 Review | Bristolian Gamer

Check out the Far Cry 4 review on Bristolian Gamer where you jump back into a lush and vibrant world, but this time in the Himalayas.



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News::Masterpieces #35: Final Fantasy VIII

Final Fantasy VIII still impresses more than ten years after its release.



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News::Assassin's Creed Unity Post-Patch Review: Ambitious, Flawed, but Ultimately Good | DualShockers

DualShockers delves in Assassin's Creed Unity after the biggest patch (so far), and passes final judgement on whether the game is worth playing.



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News::Multiplayer Beginners Guide Dragon Age: Inquisition

This multiplayer beginners guide by Darcblade15 is aimed at anyone who is wondering about the multiplayer in Dragon Age Inquisition and is aimed at beginners to the franchise.



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News::Black Friday and the Lightsaber Claymore - Game Buzz #99

Dealspwn writes: This week, we break down the Star Wars: Episode 7 - The Force Awakens teaser trailer and reflect on a manic Black Friday before looking ahead to a weekend of deals and some hot tips for Cyber Monday.



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News::Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham Review - Newgamenetwork

NGN: "Playing Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham after Lego Marvel Super Heroes does little to hide the comparative paucity of star power in DCs lineup. Beyond the Batman and Superman universes, youre almost constantly left shrugging your shoulders at the characters on your screen. This is notable from an early cutscene with a selection of naughty Lanterns messing about in space, which will have all but regular DC readers shrugging their shoulders with indifference until the Joker and Lex Luthor show up to add a bit of class to the villains stable."



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News::Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Review - XBA

XBA: On paper, Geometry Wars doesn't exactly sound like a winner. You pilot a little ship shooting various shapes until your hand curls up into an arthritic, dead spider shape. That there in a nutshell is Geometry Wars, but bloody hell it's addictive. Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions takes the 2D template of the previous games and drags it kicking and screaming into the third dimension, meaning all manner of twisted 3D forms to navigate while shooting enemies. It's possibly the toughest in the series yet."



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News::Controversy strikes top eSports tournament yet again

The world's largest pro tournament for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive remains steeped in controversy, with tournament officials ordering the replay of a quarterfinal match today until one of the sides forfeited. Fnatic, playing on its home turf of Sweden and one of eSports' top CS:GO teams, faced a nine-round deficit in its showdown with French opponent LDLC, then deployed a boost (in which one player jumps off of another) to reach an unknown map position that offered them a huge advantage. Fnatic prevailed 16-13 and appeared to move on. The two sides had been playing on Overpass, a map released in December of last year (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive launched in August 2012). LDLC filed a complaint about Fnatic's use of the boosting.



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News::New Counterpicked Features Paul BlaqSkillz DeCuir Giving the Lowdown on Dee Jay vs Fei Long

Davis from Denkiphile: "The latest episode in our Counterpicked! video series is up. This time, we ask Dee Jay specialist Paul "BlaqSkillz" DeCuir to tell us Dee Jay's toughest match up. Despite being nerfed, it seems Fei Long still has a few tricks up his sleeves to make the fight tougher on Dee Jay, but DeCuir is helps the insurmountable task seem less daunting."



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News::Far Cry 4 Review Sheer Madness | The Techy

Far Cry 4 is undoubtedly one of the strongest candidates for game of the year.



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News::Far Cry 4 Review | Gamepinion

Gamepinion: "Far Cry 4 is a strong contender for game of the year and if that isnt enough of a recommendation to go out and buy this game, I dont know what is."



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News::Pokemon 3D Version 0.30 Released

Carl Williams writes, "Remember the good old days of playing Pokemon on your Game Boy? Ever wish you could play Gold/Silver in glorious 3D? Now you can thanks to a dedicated fan over on Game Jolt. The idea behind this fan game is to recreate the whole Pokemon Gold/Silver game world and the developer is well on his way to accomplishing this feat."



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News::The case for 30fps PC gaming - Digital Foundry

Eurogamer: "Top-of-the-line enthusiast gaming PCs are built for raw performance, boasting technical specifications with far more horsepower than the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, opening up a wealth of gameplay options unavailable to console owners. If you fancy gaming at 2.5K, or 4K, at 60fps, 120fps or even higher, the PC is the only format with the flexibility and scalability to deliver. But that's not to say that the console-standard 30fps isn't a good fit for certain hardware specs, or specific titles. In a wealth of scenarios, limiting frame-rate can result in a markedly smoother gameplay experience. There's just one problem - only the tiniest minority of PC games actually offer the option to run at a lacked 30fps."



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News::Alien Isolation review: the ultimate game of hide and seek- Haogamers

A rather late Alien Isolation review focusing on the nature of horror and why Isolation is so successful.



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News::Giftable Games Under $10 - Digging Through the Sales

GamersNexus: "This guide showcases our favorite PC games that are available for less than $10, primarily using Steam & Amazon for sales and gifting. We've separated this list by genres for ease of browsing."



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News::Unreal Engine 4 Versus Unity 4.5.5 - Temple Tech Demo Comparison

YouTube's member 'KoHApaT' has shared a video showing Unreal Engine 4's Temple tech demo recreated in Unity 4.5.5.



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News::Chibi Warriors releases Awaken System

Based on the Three Kingdoms, the cute SLG Chibi Warriors brings players brand new mode to develop their Warriors. The Awaken system gives Warriors the second chance to grow up and guarantees more abundant gameplay in future.



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News::The Art of Never Alone

Julie Morley writes: "No matter how you slice it, storytelling is at the very core of Upper One Games' recently released puzzle exploratory game Never Alone. Upper One Games and E-Line Media teamed together to create an astounding game concentrating on the culture, mythology, and history of the Inupiat Native Alaskan people, and it all tells a story. In multiple ways- through gameplay, environment, and the Cultural Insights documentary bits-a story is told via some beautiful artwork."



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News::GTA 5: Leaked Heists Job Contacts Found in Game Files; DLC Release Date Speculation

The Heists DLC release date for "Grand Theft Auto 5" hasn't been announced yet, but GTA enthusiasts are speculating it will come very soon as information was leaked showing new Heist Job Contacts within the game files.



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News::id Softwares RAGE Map Recreated In Unreal Engine 4 - Video Flythrough

DSOGaming writes: "Back in August, we informed you about a RAGE map recreated in Unreal Engine 4. Sebastian Schulz, creator of this map, has made some additional changes to it and released yesterday a flythrough video that can be viewed below."



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News::Battlefield Hardline Is A Self-Aware Stealth Game

Daniel Hindes writes:"After playing two chapters of Battlefield Hardline's singleplayer campaign, there's one major thing I came away with that EA isn't telling you: this is a stealth game. Where prior Battlefield campaigns placed you smack bang in the middle of large-scale combined arms combat scenarios, Hardline's cops-versus-criminals campaign is about smaller, quieter moments."



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News::Steam Squad Needs a Bit More Steam - Early Access Review - Cliqist

Emily Tofanelli writes: "Overall, once I got the hang of it, Steam Squad is actually fairly entertaining. However, the UI is very unfriendly, and the game could really benefit from a tutorial. Im not the kind of person to open up the enclosed game guide for a console game, but I usually trust that there will be some sort of hey, here is how you do this! bit towards the beginning of a game. As I said in the beginning, Steam Squad is still Early Access, so I certainly hope they consider making it a bit more user friendly, as I think it has potential."



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News::Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Review (Denkiphile)

Kevin from Denkiphile: "Coming straight out of left field, Five Nights at Freddys was an excellent entry to a genre that I feel has gotten very stale very quickly. A look at most horror games now reveals a lot of shoddy stealth mechanics, uninspired art direction, and terribly predictable AI. Five Nights at Freddys did away with all that, with its crude mid-90s feel, ridiculously scary presentation, and crisp, yet terrifying gameplay. I just wish its sequel was as good because unfortunately, it isnt."



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News::The Best Deal In 4K Monitors Gets Way Better

This Samsung 28" 4K is the most popular monitor we've ever listed. It was an amazing deal when it debuted at a $700 MSRP. It's $400 right now, with no tax for most and free shipping.

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