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  1. CEX selling Xbox One without Kinect from £315

    CEX selling Xbox One without Kinect from £315

    You can trade your Xbox One Kinect in for a fiver.

    Second-hand games retailer CEX has begun taking Kinect sensors out of Xbox One boxes to shift the console at a cheaper price.

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  2. uPlay issues affect Watch Dogs on PS4 and Xbox One, too

    uPlay issues affect Watch Dogs on PS4 and Xbox One, too

    And Trials Fusion, Child of Light and Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

    It's not just the PC version of Watch Dogs that's struggling - the console versions are having trouble, too.

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  3. A very basic first look at the new Unreal Tournament

    This video appears to be the first footage of the new Unreal Tournament game in action.

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  4. Sony rejigs PlayStation Plus to offer two games per month for each platform

    Sony has rejigged PlayStation Plus to offer two games per month for each platform as part of the Instant Game Collection.

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  5. The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 is due next week

    The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 is due next week

    UPDATE: PS3 version due tomorrow in Europe.

    UPDATE 29/05/2014: The Wolf Among Us' fourth episode, In Sheep's Clothing, will be out on European PS3s on 30th May, Sony has confirmed via Twitter.

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  6. Arma 3 sales pass the 1m mark

    Arma 3 sales pass the 1m mark

    Combined with DayZ sales, that's a nice Czech.

    Czech developer Bohemia has more to celebrate than just DayZ: military war simulation Arma 3 has passed 1m sales.

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  7. Watch Dogs PR stunt goes awry, summons bomb squad

    An ill-advised PR campaign for Watch Dogs resulted in a bomb squad storming the offices of Australian publication Ninemsn.

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  8. Drakengard 3 review

    Review | Drakengard 3 review

    So Nier, and yet...

    Drakengard 3 is a mess. It's baggy, inconsistent, repetitive, scrappy, tonally iffy and beset by a litany of technical failings. And yet at the same time, it's weirdly fascinating; for all its faults, this is a game that tries something different - several things, in fact - and comes close to pulling them off. At the very least, it's flawed in interesting ways, and it will surely find a niche audience that is prepared to defend it to the hilt.

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  9. The Wolf Among Us: In Sheep's Clothing review

    Note: as ever with episodic games, this review contains spoilers for previous episodes of The Wolf Among Us. Proceed with caution!

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  10. Grave business: ET, Atari, and the reason some games need to be buried

    Opinion | Grave business: ET, Atari, and the reason some games need to be buried

    "Dig up the past, all you get is dirty."

    It's fitting that the whole thing was inspired, however tortuously, by a Steven Spielberg movie. Because, when I play it out in my imagination, it feels like a Steven Spielberg movie. Like the beginning of one of the older films, where the spirit of 1970s cinema is clear to see, where the early scenes are hectic and confusing and filled with overlapping chatter.

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  11. Dragon Quest 8 out on iPad, iPhone and Android devices today

    Superb Japanese role-playing game Dragon Quest 8 launches on iPad, iPhone and Android devices today, Square Enix has announced.

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  12. Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare comes to PS4 in 1080p60

    Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare comes to PS4 in 1080p60

    Plus, Vita Remote Play and split screen co-op.

    Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare launches on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 on 22nd August 2014, developer PopCap Games has announced.

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  13. Video: Let's Replay Dungeon Keeper with Not Peter Molyneux

    This episode of Let's Replay was supposed to feature Peter Molyneux talking about his hit PC game Dungeon Keeper. Unfortunately, he had to cancel at the last minute. So instead we used a coconut with a French accent.

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  14. Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy Vita release date announced

    The Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy launches on PlayStation Vita in Europe on 2nd July, Insomniac Games has announced.

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  15. Dark blue icons of video game controllers on a light blue background

    Final Team of the Season squad available in FIFA 14 Ultimate Team

    UPDATE: EA Sports' own top XI available until the weekend.

    UPDATE 29/05 12:15 BST: FIFA 14 Ultimate Team: World Cup may have been delayed, but you can always console yourself by trying to pack the final Team of the Season, which was released last night and is available in packs until this Friday at 6pm BST.

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  16. DICE vows to continue to support Battlefield 4

    DICE vows to continue to support Battlefield 4

    As Visceral reveals Battlefield Hardline video is six months old.

    Principle Battlefield developer DICE has vowed to continue to support Battlefield 4 despite the announcement of Battlefield Hardline, set for launch later this year.

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  17. Relic saves Dawn of War multiplayer from destruction by moving to Steam

    Relic Entertainment will move its Warhammer 40K strategy games over to Steam in a bid to keep their multiplayer portions alive.

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  18. Fiendishly difficult platformer 1001 Spikes due next week on Steam

    Fiendishly difficult platformer 1001 Spikes due next week on Steam

    And PS4, Vita in North America. Unsure about Europe.

    8Bits Fanatics' insanely challenging platformer, 1001 Spikes, is coming to PS4, Vita, PC and Mac next week, publisher Nicalis has announced.

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  19. Former SCEA CEO Jack Tretton joins AI startup Genotaur

    Former SCEA CEO Jack Tretton joins AI startup Genotaur

    A company focused on robotics, early childhood education and gaming.

    Former president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, Jack Tretton, has joined the advisory board for Genotaur, an artificial intelligence start-up.

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  20. Battlefield 3 is free on Origin for a week

    Battlefield 3 is free on Origin for a week

    "Who doesn't like free stuff?"

    EA has made Battlefield 3 free on Origin between now and 3rd June as part of its "On the House" promotion.

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  21. The Wolf Among Us next-gen retail listings have popped up

    The Wolf Among Us next-gen retail listings have popped up

    Physical copies are coming to current-gen too.

    The Wolf Among Us is seemingly coming to PS4 and Xbox One, according to retail listings at GameStop, GameFly and Best Buy.

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  22. Watch Dogs outsold any Ubisoft game ever in 24 hours

    Ubisoft has been promoting Watch Dogs rather heavily for the past two years and it looks like that effort finally paid off as the hacky open-world adventure has sold more copies in its first 24 hours than any title in Ubisoft history.

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  23. Watch Dogs performance analysis

    Digital Foundry | Watch Dogs performance analysis

    Initial tests and impressions from Digital Foundry.

    Pre-launch, Ubisoft Montreal confirmed Watch Dogs would operate at different resolutions on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The PS4 operates at a straight 900p, while the peculiar '792p' - first seen in Titanfall - is the resolution of choice for the Xbox One version of the game. But what other differences set the two releases apart? And do they each play just as well as each other?

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  24. THQ sure left a lot of cool stuff in its former HQ

    THQ sure left a lot of cool stuff in its former HQ

    As shown by man whose work relocated there.

    When Reddit user Soulessgingr's work relocated to a new building in Agoura Hills, California, he was delighted to see that it was actually the proverbial burial ground of former video game publisher THQ. Better yet, it still had a lot of cool memorabilia from the publisher's heyday.

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  25. Video: Mario Kart 8 live stream

    Video | Video: Mario Kart 8 live stream

    60 minutes of gameplay, collector's edition giveaway. Starts 5pm BST.

    Finally! After months of waiting, this week the next generation of consoles finally gets motoring with the arrival of the most hotly anticipated game of the past two years. Watch Dogs? What's that? I am of course referring to Mario Kart 8, the triumphant return of Nintendo's signature kart racing series.

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  26. You can now buy Battlefield 4 Battlepacks

    You can now buy Battlefield 4 Battlepacks

    New microtransactions cause a stir.

    DICE has announced that you can now buy Battlefield 4 Battlepacks with real world cash.

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  27. The next Hitman has a building larger than any location in Hitman Absolution

    The next Hitman has a building larger than any location in Hitman Absolution

    First concept art released. New mobile title announced soon.

    The next Hitman game from IO Interactive won't be at the E3 game show in June, the developer has confirmed, but we do have some concept art to study while we wait.

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  28. Can a mobile game really Save the Seas?

    What if the aim of a mobile game wasn't to make money but to raise awareness for a serious environmental issue?

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  29. Microsoft boss counters Xbox spin-off talk

    Microsoft boss counters Xbox spin-off talk

    "I have no intent to do anything different on Xbox than we are doing today."

    Satya Nadella, the boss of Microsoft, has countered the suggestion from investors and analysts that its Xbox division should be sold.

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