News::Become a 1980s hacker in 'Quadrilateral Cowboy' on July 25th

Quadrilateral Cowboy has been a long time coming. Creator Brendon Chung, creator of the underground hit Thirty Flights of Loving, began working on Quadrilateral Cowboy in 2012 and he showed off an early version of the game in 2013. It's a blocky, first-person espionage game set in the 1980s that has players actually hack their way through various levels, typing in lines of code to disengage alarms, open doors and generally sneak around. The independent-gaming crowd ate it up and Chung said it would be out within six months. He was off by nearly three years.

Quadrilateral Cowboy will hit PC via Steam and Chung's studio, Blendo Games, on July 25th, and it's due to land on Mac and Linux in September. Chung announced the release date today on Twitter.

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News::'Pokémon Go' on iOS is digging deep into linked Google accounts

If you spent your weekend wandering around capturing cartoon monsters on your phone, you're likely one of millions addicted to Pokémon Go, the latest mobile game sensation. But if you played the game on an iPhone and signed in with your Google account, you also just handed the keys to your entire Google account to Niantic, the developer behind the game. As pointed out by Adam Reeve, a principal architect at Red Owl analytics, nothing in the sign up process indicates that you're giving the app full access to your account.

Source: Adam Reeve

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News::Play 'Guacamelee' and 'Severed' in one bundle on your PS Vita

If you scored a good deal on a PlayStation Vita and aren't sure how to get started on game shopping, Drinkbox might have the answer. The developer is launching a bundle, the simply-titled Drinkbox Vita Collection, that includes all three of its Vita games (Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Guacamelee and Severed) plus Guacamelee's DLC add-ons. You may not be all that familiar with Mutant Blobs unless you tried it during the Vita's early days, but this is otherwise a great introduction to some classic handheld gaming -- it's hard to top Guacamelee's lucha libre-inspired 2D action, and Severed puts a very surreal twist on the concept of a first-person dungeon crawler. Drinkbox hasn't yet said how much its bundle will cost, but it'll likely be modest when it shows up on July 13th.

Source: PlayStation Blog

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News::'Pokémon Go' adds billions to Nintendo's market value

Pokémon Go is the latest hotness in mobile gaming and Nintendo is basking in its glow -- to the tune of $7.5 billion in additional market value. Nintendo stock closed up 25 percent on Monday, and by the end of last week, when Pokémon Go hit mobile devices across the US, Australia and New Zealand, the company's stock was already up 9 percent. Nintendo added $7.5 billion to its market value on Friday and Monday alone, Reuters reports.

Source: Reuters, CNBC

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News::The joyful death of the Philly Game Forge

Whenever a developer at the Philly Game Forge finished a project and shipped it off for the harsh scrutiny of the wider world, everyone would gather around, raise a glass and recite the following chant:

The code is done
The tweets are sent
The game is out the door
So now we'll drink
And drink and drink
And then we'll drink some more.

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News::How to beat 'Super Mario Bros. 3' in two seconds flat

We're actually pretty okay with AI winning at "Go," but when it's beating Super Mario Bros. 3 in mere seconds, it's time to be worried. ais523, an expert on game "speedruns," noticed that pressing a Nintendo NES's controller rapidly could allow him to insert new code. With help from the "tool-assisted speedrun (TAS)" community, he used a Nintendo robot called "TASBot" to virtually mash the button up to 6,000 times a second. With just the right pattern, he got through Super Mario 3 in seconds, to the delight of Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2016 speedrun fans.

Via: Kotaku

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News::G2A intros checks for new game key sellers

G2A is still determined to show that it can do right by developers worried about shady game key sellers. The online marketplace has introduced a new verification process that should make it harder to commit fraud. New sellers will have to provide a legitimate phone number and social networking account to get their foot in the door. Also, they'll be limited to selling 10 products before they have to deliver more proof. This is just the start, G2A adds, as "further measures" are planned that will check addresses, credit cards and PayPal accounts.

Source: G2A (PR Newswire)

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