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Game of Thrones' finale dated for November
The first episode is now free.
Telltale will wrap up its Game of Thrones series on 17th November with its sixth and final episode The Ice Dragon.
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Does Metal Gear Solid 5's Eva costume DLC really have a "tactical advantage?"
UPDATE: Konami updates descriptive text on DLC item.
UPDATE: Konami has updated the descriptive text on Eva's DLC outfit, removing the previous mention of it offering a tactical advantage. On the PlayStation Store it now reads that the item can be unzipped as 'a bold fashion statement'. The description of the item in the game itself remains the same, however.
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Digital Foundry | Intel Skylake: Core i7 6700K review
The state of the art in gaming CPU performance?
It's the flagship product in Intel's latest sixth-generation 'Skylake' line of Core processors. The i7 6700K represents the latest iteration of the firm's market-leading mainstream processors, following on from last year's superb Devil's Canyon i7 4790K. On the face of it, the 6700K is another in a long line of iterative improvements as opposed to a revolutionary leap, a further refinement on a formula that began in 2011 with the release of Intel's remarkable Sandy Bridge architecture, arguably the firm's last great generational leap in processor performance. But - as ever - Core remains the default CPU choice for gaming, and Skylake is the strongest iteration yet.
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Recommended | Kingdom review
Liegerly activities.
It's easy to describe what Kingdom is, and yet it's probably best not to. This abstruse pixel-art game from two-man outfit Noio and Licorice uses familiar genres in obvious ways, and I could easily slap them on as labels. But if I did I'd ruin the enigma, because working out what Kingdom is and what you're supposed to do is the entire point. Campaigns fail and you must start again, but you do so armed with a bit more knowledge than before, and a deeper understanding of the game you're playing. Each thwarted campaign is discrete, and yet mentally they're all connected, all layers of a learning experience that together represent a whole. Other games treat failure as an obstruction to progress, but in Kingdom, a game with no manual and that offers no easy explanations, trial and error are the only way to extract its secrets.
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Recommended | Mushroom 11 review
Spore the win.
For a game that can feel so alien, Mushroom 11's premise is comfortingly familiar. Earth has been wrecked, presumably - in light of the game's title - by some kind of nuclear mishap or extravagance. Humanity's infrastructure - the pipes, the rails, the chimneys, the cranes - stoically gather moss or crumble. Life, or what's left of it, has no time to mourn our passing (besides, why on earth would they, with our damned record?). Still, the death of one species provides opportunity for another. The journey will be difficult but, for the gelatinous blob of bacteria you guide through various scenes of Soviet decay, the truism holds: life always finds a way.
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Feature | Ten days of Subterfuge
Better played without friends.
Subterfuge, available on iOS and Android, is a game about deception and submarines, which makes its name absolutely perfect, doesn't it? Heavily inspired by the likes of browser-based backstabber Neptune's Pride, a full game lasts somewhere around a week and has eight people forming the most fragile of alliances in the hopes of personal gain. You see, only one person can ever 'win' a game of Subterfuge, which means that whenever an agreement is reached between two players, it has to be a temporary one at best. The trick is figuring out how to come out on top when things do eventually, inevitably, fall apart. This makes for a brilliant and incredibly tense experience - one that in hindsight, I wish I'd played with a group of total strangers instead.
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Sniper Elite developer buys Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries
Rebellion to send out physical rewards to Kickstarter backers.
UK video game company Rebellion has bought the Woolfe intellectual property.
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Digital Foundry | Intel Skylake: Core i5 6600K review
The CPU upgrade you've been waiting for?
In the last few years, reviewing an Intel CPU from a gaming perspective has always been something of a challenge. Typically, the conclusion is this - if you already own a modern Intel chip, there's little reason to upgrade; but if you're buying or constructing a new PC, there's nothing better on the market. Gone are the days of the first and second-gen Core (codenamed Nehalem and Sandy Bridge), which offered substantial generational improvements. Intel's focus is now firmly on mobile, where efficiency takes point over raw performance, which serves to diminish the excitement over a new desktop release.
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Video | Watch: Hard West is much more than a wild west XCOM
Fun the hammer.
I love pen and paper role playing games. I've co-written two of them, in fact, though neither has been released yet (thanks failed kickstarter campaign). My obsession began a few years ago with a game called Deadlands: Reloaded, a fast-paced western crammed with supernatural elements.
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It's Back to the Future Day! 21st October 2015 is the date Doc Brown and Marty McFly travel to in 1989's Back to the Future 2. It's the year Hollywood told us we'd get hoverboards, trainers that tie themselves, and leads that walk dogs. We didn't get any of those things, but we did get this:
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All signs point to a PS4 price cut in the UK today
UPDATE: Confirmed. New RRP of £300. Tempted?
UPDATE: Sony has just announced a PS4 price-cut in the UK.
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Recommended | Broforce review
Fist bump and grind.
Broforce should be unbearable. It has all the worst features of indie hipster PC gaming in 2015. Cute pixel art winkingly combined with lashings of extravagant gore. Retro-styled side-scrolling gameplay and stiff difficulty. Most of all, an obsession with tongue-in-cheek 1980s B-movie culture.
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African-inspired point-and-click The Journey Down launches Kickstarter
UPDATE: Grim Fandango-like adventure exceeds its minimum goal.
UPDATE 20/10/2015: The Journey Down has exceeded its $35k funding goal at only halfway through its campaign.
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Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water removes skimpy costumes
In favour of Nintendo-branded bonus outfits.
Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water has removed its two skimpy unlockable bonus costumes from the Japanese version in favour of Nintendo-branded extras.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter announced for spring 2016
First screens revealed.
Sherlock Holmes series developer Frogwares has announced its next Baker Street-based detective affair with Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter, set for a spring 2016 release on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
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Han Solo, Leia and Palpatine detailed in Star Wars: Battlefront
There aren't enough scoundrels in your life.
Earlier this month data-miners discovered that Star Wars: Battlefront will let you play as Princess Leia, Han Solo and Emperor Palpatine. Now we have the details on just what playing as these characters entails.
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Xbox One gets its own limited edition Fallout 4 controller
Includes a new button for headset audio options.
Bethesda is selling an exclusive Fallout 4 controller officially licensed by Microsoft.
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Report sheds light on Destiny's troubled development
Cut content, a scrapped story and changed characters.
Kotaku has published a report into the development of Bungie's shooter Destiny that confirms what many players had suspected: drastic changes were made to the game's story.
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Feature | Guitar Hero's decadent reboot breathes new life into the series
Fret not. First impressions ahead of our final review.
Editor's note: Guitar Hero Live, Activision and FreeStyle Games' reboot of the rhythm action series, releases this week. Seeing as a large part of Guitar Hero Live is built around the new online service, Guitar Hero TV, we're holding off on our review until we have adequate experience of the game on fully stressed servers, and we currently anticipate having our final impressions live by the end of the week. Before then, here are early impressions culled from a handful of days with Guitar Hero Live.
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Hideo Kojima left Konami earlier this month - report
UPDATE: Konami sounds confused, reckon Kojima's just on holiday.
UPDATE 20/10/2015: Konami has issued a statement to Tokyo Sports (translated by Kotaku), denying Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has left the company.
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Halo 5's day one multiplayer update is 9GB
Clan support, aka Companies, detailed.
Be warned: there's a 9GB day one update for Halo 5.
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Review | Rebel Galaxy review
Pace: the final frontier.
I think the system militia like me, though I'm not entirely sure. There was an incident a while back where they caught me smuggling Space Slaves (presumably somehow different to regular slaves) and we had an argument. Thinking it would end in my doom and the reloading of a saved game, I consented to a Space Fight, but then found myself Space Victorious and my Space Reputation slightly tarnished.
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Feature | Watch: What you missed in the Dark Souls 3 network stress test
A video tour of PlayStation 4 gameplay.
Praise the sun! In case you weren't selected for the Dark Souls 3 network stress test that operated for a few short hours last weekend, here's a 30-minute video bringing you up to speed on all of the content contained in the 3GB PSN download. It's based on an early build of course, but the play-through gives us a good first impression on where From Software is now directing its series.
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The Stanley Parable designer teases new game
Launches ARG campaign.
The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh has launched a new studio called Crows Crows Crows. He's also teasing an upcoming game that's "due quite imminently".
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New Super Mario Bros. speedrun world record has been set
Shaves 66 milliseconds off the previous record.
A new world record has been set for blazing through the original Super Mario Bros. the fastest with speedrunner Darbian rescuing Princess Toadstool in a scant four minutes 57 seconds and 627 milliseconds.
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Skullgirls dev explains why Indivisible costs $3.5m to make
"Bloodstained is $5m dollars. It's not $500k!"
Earlier this month Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games launched an Indiegogo campaign for a new action-RPG called Indivisible. The campaign is struggling as in its first two weeks it's only raised $349,920 towards its $1.5m goal. That's only 23 per cent, and it has 27 days left to make the rest.
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Turn-based zombie western Hard West gets a November release date
Think an old timey XCOM with demons.
Hard West reimagines the wild west as a demonic battlefield played in a turn-based XCOM-esque strategy game. Developed by Creative Forge Games (Ancient Space), Hard West is set for a 4th November release on PC.
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Galak-Z launches on Steam next week
Space seed.
Space-faring roguelike Galak-Z: The Dimensional is coming to Steam on 29th October, developer 17-Bit has announced.
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Video | Watch: Aoife forces Johnny to play Final Fantasy X
In our new series, Late to the Party.
Shadow of the Colossus. Half Life. Shenmue. The Legend of Zelda. Everyone's got at least one classic, universally beloved game that - shamefully - they've never played.
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Feature | How Life is Strange flips the script on video game romance
Warren peace.
As we've previously discussed on the Arcadia Baes podcast, there's a lot to admire about Dontnod's serialised coming of age tale Life is Strange. There's also quite a lot to criticise about it too. But one thing that I find absolutely fascinating about the troublesome teenage years of photography student Max Caulfield is how Dontnod approaches the idea of video game romance.
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