Monday, December 8, 2014

News::The Good, Bad, and Ugly About The Guild Wars 2 Finals

Excerpt: There isnt much to say about the Guild Wars 2 World Tournament Series. Literally. Not much happened. Even though over 3,000 viewers tuned in for the 4am (EST) Twitch feed, language issues, technical difficulties, poor video quality, buggy sound, and gaps in the content kept anyone from seeing anything. Even now the whole event seems to have been pushed under the rug somewhat.



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News::Tom Clancys Ghost Recon Phantoms Celebrating 8 Million Registered Players

Ubisoft today announced that Tom Clancys popular free online MMOTPS game, Ghost Recon Phantoms, is rapidly approaching its 8 millionth registered player worldwide, climbing the ranks to become one of the most played titles on Steam.



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News::Crystal Rift Gets New Screenshots Ahead of Alpha Demo 8 Launch

VRFocus - It's now coming down to the last week of crowd-funding for indie developers Jon Hibbins and Nick Pittom's Crystal Rift. The pair launched a Kickstarter effort back in November 2014 looking to raise some £4,000 GBP to aid development of the virtual reality (VR) compatible title. In its last week the developer hopes to secure the final 25% of that goal and perhaps some of the later stretch goals. As part of its final push, new images have been released from Crystal Rift's upcoming Alpha Demo 8.



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News::These Discounted Harmony Remotes Also Give Your Phone Superpowers

These Discounted Harmony Remotes Also Give Your Phone Superpowers


If you have multiple remotes strewn about your coffee table, today's Amazon Gold Box deal offers you a great chance to simplify.


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News::Five Minutes By G-Shock And Unit9 Is A Fun, Short Horror QTE Experience

This brief advergame is an entertaining and engaging five minutes.



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News::HITC's Sunday Screenshots: Tomb Raider

HITC Tech says: "Games don't always have to be the most graphically demanding in order to make them look great, but this week we are indeed looking at a game that scrubs up rather nicely, even on my not-so-great PC rig."



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News::The Crew Review Simply Thrilling | The Gaming Report

The wait is over. After four days of continuous racing around the USA thanks to Ubisofts much-awaited MMO racing game, The Gaming Report's review of the game is here.



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News::The Talos Principle review [Pixel Dynamo]

Melissa explores the philosophical puzzler brought to us by Croteam, the people behind Serious Sam.



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News::Here's a team of astronauts, busy building the Endurance from Interstellar in blocky Minecraft form.


Here's a team of astronauts, busy building the Endurance from Interstellar in blocky Minecraft form. The vessel was recreated in-game by the Korea-based Team Lopac, who also shot a timelapse video of the construction for the project's Planet Minecraft page. You can find the clip below.


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News::Life, The Universe And Gaming: Can We Stop With The Gamer-Shaming?

An opinion column via EGMR in which the author discusses the new Feminist Frequency video entitled 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male, and attempts to discuss the merits of critique without solutions, which effectively lead to shaming. Quote: "This is not constructive. Sure, critique exists to point things out even if it doesnt necessarily help anyone and actually, I quite enjoy Anita Sarkeesians other videos but I encourage you to find someone who will truthfully admit to having watched that video above and done something to change the current state of gaming. "



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News::DayZ vehicle roadmap being formulated and more zombies coming

The DayZ devs are starting to plan more vehicles and new zombies are being created for a future game update.



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News::Borderlands Online Lands In China in 2015

Borderlands Online Lands In China in 2015


Earlier this morning, China time, the fine folks at Shanda Games dropped a bombshell. They're bringing Borderlands to China. That's right, they've announced Borderlands Online, a made for China action RPG/online shooter.


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News::Empyrean Rule - First Battle Gameplay Video

A Necromancer, a Giant and other fantasy units in the first battle gameplay video.



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News::ArcheAge CN Is to Launch in July 2015 with Interesting Chinese Features

At Tencent Games Carnival 2014 (TGC), Tencent Games and XLGAMES announced to launch ArcheAge China version in July next year which provides a lot of unique content for Chinese players, including new panda-style glider, dragon pet, ship designs and character costumes.



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News::Shovel Knight Feautring Kratos as a Boss

Twinfinite writes: Shovel Knight is expanding in a big way, directly toward Sony. Shovel Knight will be receiving ports to all current gen Sony platforms: PS3, Vita, and PS4 equally, with the new boss Kratos.



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News::Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Review - TXH

Neil writes "My overriding memory of previous Geometry Wars titles has been the need to attempt multiple levels over and over in a quest to beat any friends who dare to be a spot or two above me on the leaderboard. Its what occurred for many a month with both Geo Wars Retro Evolved and Retro Evolved 2. I guess the same is going to happen again now Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions is available on Xbox One?"



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News::Chinese University Limits Students' Computer Time

Chinese University Limits Students' Computer Time


Time limits on public computers are normal. Time limits on private computers? Now that's definitely not the norm.


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News::Grepolis 2.76 Update this Wednesday

On Wednesday, December 10th Grepolis will be updated to version 2.76. Whilst the development team at InnoGames has focused mainly on the city animations there have been a number of minor bugfixes implemented at this time also.



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News::The Last of Us Demastered on a Standard TV

The Last of Us Demastered on a Standard TV


That HD remaster of The Last of Us sure looks great on a hi-def television. But on a standard TV, it looks downright spooky.


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News::Feeling lucky? Get 6 mystery Steam games for £4.99 in the Square Enix Christmas Surprise Bundle

Dealspwn reports: "We reckon that Square are trying to shift a whole mess of their cheapest games, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the regular editions of Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider in here. Probably Hitman and Quantum Conundrum too. But if you're feeling adventurous, who knows, perhaps you'll get Final Fantasy VII... or if you've been bad this year, Final Fantasy VIII."



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News::The Crew review [Pixel Dynamo]

Chris from Pixel Dynamo goes under the hood with Ubisoft's racer-MMO and isn't particularly impressed by what he finds.



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News::Steam’s New Broadcasting Service Could Make You the Next YouTube Star

Steam’s New Broadcasting Service Could Make You the Next YouTube Star

Last week, Valve added another feature to its ever-growing Steam gaming service: Broadcasting. Don't scoff---you might find yourself doing it, too.


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News::Shadow The Hedgehog: The TAY Review

Shadow The Hedgehog: The TAY Review


Never before has a game made me question everything I ever thought about in life. What am I doing? Why am I here? Where's my life going? Am I all of me? I never had to question my political, religious or philosophical beliefs until I played this game. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the greatest game ever made.


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