News::Stop Waiting For a Final Fantasy VII Remake

So, by now you've heard of Square Enix's, um, stunt at the Playstation Experience.

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News::Top 10 Video Game Christmas Presents

What video games make for the best Christmas presents? Alex gives a list of 10 games for 2014 that you should consider giving this holiday season.



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News::Digital or Physical, I Still Cant Decide

Matt says, "The new console generation has began to rapidly bring in the digital age of gaming. However, Im still skeptical about buying games digitally."



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News::The Talos Principle Review | Front Towards Gamer

There is no greater manifestation of success in life than exercise, an alluring example of earned reward through hard work and dedication. Put your body through deliberate hell to return a fitter self. Little rules to work with; go out and make yourself sweat, fatigue, and repeat. Embrace and endure physical trials to near peak physical fitness. And you love it. The hypocritical pain of exercise feels great because you know the euphoric rush of elevated heart rate will earn something. Your exercise skills and task efficiency increase, struggles validate through health benefits. That inoperable-looking machine off in the corner evolves to your favorite calorie eraser after time. Stick to your goal and you shall be rewarded.



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News::The Up All Night Stream Plays Attack on Titan

News::Heres the Right Way to Deliver a Finished Product to Us Gamers

An opinion about the recent updated news for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and why it's OK.



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News::Lara Croft And The Temple Of Osiris review tomb raiding with friends - Metro

Metro: "We really have no idea where Tomb Raider stands now as a franchise. Thats not meant as a slight in anyway, but an admission of honest ignorance. The 2013 reboot sold well (although apparently not as well as Square Enix wanted) and it was a generally good game. But it bore little resemblance to the previous Tomb Raider games and still failed to give Lara Croft any discernible personality. The only thing we know about sequel Rise Of The Tomb Raider is that its a timed Xbox exclusive, planned to come out the same time as the PlayStation 4s Uncharted 4."



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News::Ancient Strategy Hegemony Returns for Thirds

Marcus Estrada writes: "Do you know of Longbow Games? If you've played Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece or Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar then you definitely know their work. These developers have proved time and time again that they know how to create incredibly engaging strategy titles for fans. Heck, just look at the previously mentioned games' Steam pages which both have highly positive reviews! Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients is the next chapter of Longbow Games' history but this time they're seeking the help of players directly."



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News::Game of Thrones, Episode 1: Iron from Ice - USGamer

USGamer: "Telltale Games have cracked it again. The question? How do you make a game based on a property as complex as HBOs Game of Thrones (yes the TV show, not the books) and not get bogged down by the continuity of several seasons of story? The answer, follow a group of characters that were given but a few paragraphs in the books and barely mentioned on the show, then design an experience around them so you feel like youre living in that world - then throw in a few well placed cameos for good measure."



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News::Apocalyptic City Launched for Oculus Rift

VRFocus - One of the best uses for virtual reality (VR) so far is giving users the chance to explore dramatic environments that they would never normally encounter. Such an experience has recently launched in Apocalyptic City from indie developer Slluxx. Available to download for free now, the title features full support for both the Oculus Rift head-mounted displays (HMD) first and second development kits (DK1 and DK2).



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News::Evolve Kraken Monster Rescue Mode Gameplay Video and Commentary - AusGamers

AusGamers has posted a video showcasing two playthroughs of the Rescue mode in Evolve being played with the Kraken. The video also has commentary across both, detailing the new mode, its map and the game itself.



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News::Far Cry 4 almost made me vomit at one point

Destructoid: Far Cry 4 is a lot of fun, but it can leave you feeling pretty sick to your stomach at times. I distinctly remember happening on a family of monkeys in the Himalayan foothills. Pulling out my camera, I marveled at their cherubic faces and adorable squeals. Then I mowed the little guys down in a hail of gunfire, skinned their corpses, and turned 'em into a wallet. Monkey wallets, disgusting as they are, aren't the reason why I'm here today, though. No, it was something else entirely that had me nearly puking all over my floor. As it turns out, Far Cry 4 can be nauseating in a wide variety of ways. One piece of advice: should you ever find yourself stuck in a Kyrati tree, just shout for help and wait until a hunky firefighter comes to rescue you.



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News::Elite: Dangerous Teases Cinematic Launch Trailer

VRFocus - It's now just over a week until Frontier Developments' highly-anticipated space simulation experience, Elite: Dangerous, launches on PC with full virtual reality (VR) support. The developer has been working hard over the past few weeks to bring consistent updates to the title's Gamma testing build, ensuring that it will see a smooth and polished launch on 16th December 2014. A launch trailer for the title is expected to arrive this week and Frontier Developments has recently offered a small tease of what to expect from it.



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News::Video Game Releases for the Week of 12/08/2014

Well, December is proving to be a busier month than any of us could have expected. With releases like Destinys first DLC expansion, the latest Lara Croft adventure, a highly requested game in Suikoden II, and multiple other indie games as well as other lower-tier titles, the week of December 8 offers solid alternative game experiences that arent as big as the AAA releases from the previous couple of months. Here is the full list of the 16 games launching this week.



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News::Civilization: Beyond Earth First Major Patch Available, Get The Details

Civilization: Beyond Earth get its first major patch, this patch, a collaborative effort between Firaxis Games and all of you who took the time to provide feedback since launch, will automatically download the next time you start up your Steam client.



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News::Tomb Raider for Mac 'Game of the Year' 2014

Tomb Raider for Mac has been selected as Apples Mac App Store Game of the Year for 2014. Developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix for PC and consoles, Tomb Raider for Mac is the much-praised series reboot that tells the gripping story of how a young woman becomes the extraordinary Lara Croft, Tomb Raider.



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News::The Cat with the "Ugliest Sleeping Face in Japan"

This is Setsu-chan. The little guy sure is cute when he's awake. But when he dozes off, he sure is fugly.

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News::Minecraft Maps Based on Four Great PlayStation Games

What do Ratchet & Clank, Infamous, Uncharted, and God of War have in common? Apart from the whole being-on-PlayStation thing? Yep, they all have Minecraft levels based on them. Good ones, too!

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News::Kings of Kung Fu bows into Steam Early Access

It won't teach you how to sweep no matter how many times you ask.



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News::Capcom Censors 'Angry Joe' Street Fighter V Video After Negative Comments

"Oh dear, Capcom are in hot water again. The firm behind the recently announced PS4/PC exclusive Street Fighter V seems to be safeguarding their upcoming fighter by censoring popular Youtuber Angry Joe." The Games Cabin



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News::Fira Soft Discusses Frozen Survival Horror, Kriophobia

Ahmad Khan writes: "Given that we're in the December dog days of Kickstarter funding it's unusual to find a campaign worth taking a closer look at. Case in point, the last few editions of our Kickstarter roundup Weekly Launchpad. Usually they'll be a dozen or more featured campaigns, on top of the 30+ other campaigns. However, the last few editions have been sparse when it comes to featured campaigns. An exception to this trend is Kriophobia from Fira Soft. This survival horror features modern graphics on top of old-school inspired gameplay, something that's strangely lacking in the genre. We recently had an opportunity to speak with Kriophobia's Creative Director, Felipe Modesto, and asked him all about the game."



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News::Game of Thrones: Iron from Ice Lets You Make the Fatal Mistake

Telltales' Game of Thrones is off to a good start, but it isn't for newcomers to A Song of Ice and Fire.



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News::Shovel Knight's Game Awards Win. A Victory for Crowdfunding

Marcus Estrada writes: "In many ways, this simple award has helped to legitimize the crowdfunding landscape. Many people have started to view Kickstarter and IndieGogo as good places to get scammed - or, nearly as bad, to be provided with a terrible game. These things do happen, but they happen outside of crowdfunding as well. However, the best indie game of the year (according to The Game Awards) is a game which first saw success on Kickstarter."



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News::Inside One of Japan's Oldest Restaurants

You like noodles, right? I sure do. Especially soba noodles. And Kyoto's Honke Owariya is famous for its soba noodles. That, and being very, very old.

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News::Here Is Silent Hill P.T. Recreated In Unreal Engine 4

Polycounts member djoexe has been working these past months on a recreation of Silent Hill P.T. in Unreal Engine 4, and released a couple of days ago a flythrough video from it.



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News::Street Fighter V's exclusivity is just business

MWEB GameZone writes: "Competing formats have always featured extensive exclusives in their game libraries and that has typically been a good thing. Because it created genuine competition. It wasn't enough to just make a good shooter, you had to make sure it was better than the shooter on the other system. Its just business"



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News::Rollers of the Realm Review (Invision Game Community)

One of such takes on differentiating pinball is Rollers of the Realm. Developed by Atlus, this is a game which has the mechanics of normal pinball at its core, with a ball and two flippers to keep it into play, but shifts the arena from a normal and still background to a playground rich of items and enemies



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News::Its Raining Monkeys Drops Onto Steam Greenlight

One Angry Gamer "Imagine a bit of Mario, a dash of Pinball and a full side order of falling monkeys and you have yourself a recipe for a game called Its Raining Monkeys. The game has officially landed on Steams Greenlight and is looking for a bit of upvote loving from the community in order to make it onto the Steam store."



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News::8 Rookie Mistakes Every Video Game Modder Always Makes

First-timers tend to repeat the same kinds of mistakes when designing their own game content, whether its an adventure map in Minecraft or a Sackboy torture machine in LittleBigPlanet. If youre planning on dipping your toes into the shark-infested waters of game mods or level design, there are some stumbling blocks you should definitely watch out for.



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News::6 Military Baddies in Serious Need of a Career Change

There's something about rising to the top of a military organisation in videogames that brings out the worst in people. These military commanders can't go five minutes without holding the world to ransom with a death ray or trying to blow up a major population centre for inadequately explored reasons.



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News::Steam Early Access: Good, Bad, Ugly?

Steam Early Access could be described as the Wild West of the gaming industry: The rules have yet to be written, authority has yet to establish any kind of firm grip, and great fortunes seem to await everyone who goes there.



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News::Opinion: One of Dragon Age: Inquisition's biggest strengths is its handling of romance

Romance in Dragon Age: Inquisition feels more organic, more satisfying, and (strangely enough) more realistic.



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News::World of Warcraft Developers Answer All Your Questions

Twinfinite writes: Last week, many of the people on the development team from Blizzard who are working on World of Warcraft jumped into an Ask Me Anything on Reddit.



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News::MU Online December Holiday Events

MU Online Christmas events throughout December 2014. EVENT: DO YOU WANT TO BUILD A CHRISTMAS TREE?



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News::Dragon Age: Inquistion: Decisions and Dragons

Technology Tell writes, "Query: If each of the three Dragon Age games took place in different fantasy worlds, would we sense any connection between them? If Dragon Age: Origins was set in Robert Jordans The Wheel of Time, Dragon Age II was set in Ursula K. Le Guins Earthsea, and Dragon Age: Inquisition was set in Terry Goodkinds The Sword of Truth, would we be able to detect any familiarity between the three games? True, each has that distinct Bioware feel: the dialogue choices, the focus on character interaction, the trio of companions that trail behind you wherever you go, the familiar raft of Bioware bugs that endure no matter how many times they change the engine. I suppose the question Im really asking is, if the consistent ideology underlying the series the chantry, the templars, the darkspawn and gray wardens and dwarves and elves and arls enrich the story or weigh it down."



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News::Pixel Piracy Enhanced Edition coming in January 2015

Alexander Poysky, producer at Quatro Delta, has just announced that there will be free DLC for Pixel Piracy, which will come as an Enhanced Edition. Not many details have been released about this DLC except for the fact that it will be released next year in January. This update also comes with news that the company has been working on two other new games.



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News::Ethereon Gets Updated DK2 Demo, Myo Support

VRFocus - Virtual reality (VR) fans that have been following the technology and its supported software closely will have no doubt heard of VR puzzle-solving title Ethereon long before it launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign last month. Earlier in 2014 indie developer Innervision Games released a demo for the experience using the Oculus Rift head-mounted display's (HMD) first development kit (DK1). This week the developer has updated that demo, now including support for the Oculus Rift's second development kit (DK2).



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News::Waking the Glares Screenshots Revealed

VRFocus - Waking the Glares from indie developer Wisefool Studio is currently doing the crowd-sourced rounds, with both Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns now running. The former sees the developer trying to raise 30,000 EUR to aid production while the latter hopes to secure enough positive votes to be sold on Valve's digital PC store come full release. Recently the first screenshots for this virtual reality (VR) compatible title have been revealed and can now be seen below.



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News::Dragon Ball Xenoverse New Screenshots Revealed Showing the Saiyan Saga

Namco Bandai released another batch of screenshots for the upcoming highly anticipated video game title, Dragon Ball Xenoverse. The new screenshots shows Goku, Piccolo, Yamcha, Tien, Krillen, Gohan taking on the prince of Saiyan Vegeta and his partner Nappa. One of the screenshot also shows the custom character that will be available in the game.



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News::Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris review - Eurogamer

Eurogamer: "When the god Osiris was murdered by Set, his body was lopped into pieces and scattered across the land. This was bad news for Osiris, but it was good news for game designers. And look at this: several thousand years later, here's a new Lara Croft adventure in search of a handy structural conceit. What's your reward for completing this level? Well done: your reward is a foot. Now, see if you can find the rest of the body. Go!"



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News::The Crew PS4 Review: Bigger Doesn't Always Mean Better - USGamer

USGamer: "Ubisoft has been no stranger to technical issues of late, with Assassin's Creed: Unity creating more than a few headaches for the company. So with that in mind, I've been wondering whether the extremely complex The Crew would also have glitches. And yes it does. In the first three hours of play, I've had no less than two crashes that required a restart. Hopefully these are just teething problems and this trend won't continue. I'll certainly report further issues if they happen. The first item on the agenda for me is to really get a feel of how The Crew's cars drive. After playing Forza Horizon 2 incessantly, my immediate impression is that The Crew's handling engine feels comparatively loose and strangely rubbery right out of the gate."



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News::Is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunts Delay A Blessing?

Paul James writes "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the most anticipated games of 2015, its delay today until May 2014 has disappointed fans everywhere, but has it in fact served as a blessing in disguise?"



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News::Toilet Bowl Basketball Pro Management 2015 Review | GIZORAMA

Liam Lambert, GIZORAMA - "While the Football Manager series is a reliable smash hit for football/soccer fans, the Basketball Pro Management series looks to recreate that success for its own sport. Is BPM 2015 a "slam dunk" (sorry), or does it end up in the "toilet bowl" (slightly less sorry)?"



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News::Path of Exile 1.3.0 patch comes December 12

Path of Exile trailer introduces Leo Redmane and what he brings with the 1.3.0 patch.



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News::Battlefield: Hardline: The Call of Duty of Battlefield Games | Hardcore Gamer

HG: We're officially excited again, and here's why you should be too.



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News::The Crew Review - PCGamer

PCGamer: "Success and failure seem equally absurd for The Crew. Its the most detailed and expansive playground a driving game has taken place in for years, and youre free to roam its every highway, dirt track and city block with your friendssounds like a sure thing, right? Well, its also an always-online, plot-driven driving game in which you play a street racer posing as an undercover cop pretending to be a street racer. Who, at times, drives through the wilderness to find comms towers which unlock activities on your map, because Ubisofts nothing if not consistent. Suddenly that sure thing now has a large truck in front of it."



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News::Bravely Second Dated for Japan, Getting Limited Edition Bundle

In Japan, Bravely Second has a release date. The game will be out next year on April 23. It's also getting a very cool-looking Collector's Pack.

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News::The Small Council: Spoilercast for Telltales Game of Thrones: Episode 1

Dying to get into a discussion about Telltales new Game of Throne game, but your friends havent even downloaded the game yet? Well Ethan and Ricardo have a fix for you!



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News::Do gamers have reason to be upset with Sony over H1Z1?

MWEB GameZone Writes: "Moving the release date and then adding content behind a pay wall have enraged the H1Z1 horde. A lot of fans are now refusing to join the apocalypse. Are their concerns unreasonable or valid? We take a look at both sides of the argument"



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News::For the best Lara Croft experience, just add friends (review)

GamesBeat: "If youre looking for an old-school retro dungeon crawler, Laras latest adventure might scratch that itch... The light puzzles and strong couch and online co-op elements make this game a hoot to play with friends."



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