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Feature | Eight arms to hold you: Getting hitched in Octodad: The Dadliest Catch
Aisle be back.
Do you remember your wedding day? I certainly remember mine: the broken window, the cake trampled underfoot, the joy on my wife's face when I threw that huge gold ring over her wrist, like a hoop landing on a weighted bottle at a Coney Island concession.
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Xbox One will have a subscription-based fitness app
UPDATE: Microsoft confirms it's free until December 2014.
UPDATE: Microsoft has now officially announced its upcoming Xbox Fitness service and confirmed its inclusion with Xbox Live Gold memberships until December 2014.
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All Battlefield 4 modes revealed
Seven modes all playable on 10 multiplayer maps.
DICE has announced all the modes included in upcoming shooter Battlefield 4 ahead of the start of the beta on 1st October.
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CCP announces Eve Online: Rubicon
The MMO's 20th free expansion.
CCP has announced Eve Online: Rubicon, the 10-year-old MMO's 20th free expansion.
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation dev reverses DLC decision after backer backlash
Backers will now receive the full game and all DLC.
Stainless will now give Carmageddon: Reincarnation backers the game and all downloadable content following a backlash.
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Star Citizen raises an incredible $18m, announces $20m stretch goal
UPDATE: $20m stretch goal unlocked. $22m goal announced.
UPDATE: Star Citizen has hit the $20 million raised mark - and now first-person combat on select lawless planets will be added to the space game.
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Review | Mage Wars review
The world's best staff meeting.
Price: £40 / Players: 2 / Time: 90 minutes
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Rod Fergusson, the "Closer" who helped get BioShock Infinite out the door, is leaving Irrational
UPDATE: Launching new studio for 2K in San Francisco.
UPDATE: Ex-Gears of War and BioShock Infinite producer Rod Fergusson tweeted that he'll be heading up a new studio for 2K in the Bay Area.
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The Last of Us' hilarious musical alternate ending released
Die! Die! Diiiiiiiiiieeeeeee!
[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR SPOILERS for The Last of Us' unused ending, which, as it turns out, isn't that different from the final game's ending. Read at your own risk.]
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Guerrilla: Killzone Shadow Fall multiplayer runs at 60 fps "a lot of the time"
"Where we drop framerate, either you're already dead or it's too late anyway."
Upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Killzone: Shadow Fall takes an interesting approach to frame rate: its single-player campaign runs at a steady 30 frames per second and outputs at a native resolution of 1080p. Multiplayer, however, is different.
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Forza 5 to reintroduce Silverstone
New layout, plus added weeds.
Forza Motorsport 5 will reintroduce the Silverstone track that's been a part of the series since its Xbox debut - but for the first time it will feature the new configuration of the circuit that was introduced in 2010.
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Batman: Arkham Origins Pass includes five of the game's DLC packs
Play as a pre-Batman Bruce Wayne.
Warner Bros. has announced the Batman: Arkham Origins Season Pass, which will grant access to five of the game's upcoming downloadable content packs.
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Feature | Ouya founder Julie Uhrman on the little box that could
Has played Gridiron Thunder and maintains that it's a quality title.
Last year the £100 Android-based video game console Ouya took the crowdfunding world by storm when it raised an incredible $8.6 million. This past spring it finally launched, but so far it's failed to rise above being a curious footnote in a year that's been focused on watching two upcoming gargantuan game consoles vie for the industry's attention.
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Steam announces its own Linux-based operating system
UPDATE: Nvidia helped Valve develop SteamOS.
UPDATE: Nvidia revealed that it played a crucial hand is developing SteamOS.
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Xbox One will be "more than a ten-year journey" for Microsoft
Which will see the platform evolve over time, Harrison says.
Microsoft exec Phil Harrison has said that Xbox One will be "more than a ten-year journey" for the company when it launches in the UK this November.
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Interview | Phil Harrison on Xbox One: "digital is an unstoppable force"
Kinect 2.0, Steam Box, Oculus Rift and more with Microsoft's big Phil.
On the third floor of a building that fits snugly into the heart of London's West End is Soho Productions, the self-confessed "biggest Microsoft Studio you never knew existed".
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Now Lightning is in Final Fantasy 14
She gets around.
Not content with three Final Fantasy games of her own, Lightning is set to invade another game in Square Enix's series.
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Nintendo confirms Toon Link for Super Smash Bros. Wii U and 3DS
We knew he'd be in from the Outset.
Nintendo has announced another returning fighter for the 3DS and Wii U incarnations of Super Smash Bros. It's Toon Link, from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.
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FF4: The After Years iOS and Android port out this winter
Android version of FF5 out now, costs £11.
The iOS and Android version of Final Fantasy 4: The After Years releases in Europe this winter 2013, Square Enix has announced.
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Splinter Cell: Blacklist's Homeland DLC sneaks out today
Adds two missions, a crossbow, and a couple of suits.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist received a spot of DLC today in the form of its Homeland Pack, publisher Ubisoft has announced.
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Carmageddon: Reincarnation Steam early access set for early 2014
Kickstarter backers get standard game for free.
Carmageddon: Reincarnation launches on Steam as an early access title during the first quarter of 2014, Stainless Games has announced.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts' medieval castle map is large enough for snipers
Close gates to block pathways in Stonehaven.
Infinity Ward has unveiled a new Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer map - set in a medieval castle.
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Expect larger, more open campaign levels in Call of Duty: Ghosts
"You may find yourself in a mission or two where we don't tell you where to go."
Expect larger, more open campaign levels in Call of Duty: Ghosts than in previous games in the series, Infinity Ward has said.
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OFT warns game industry over in-app purchases
Investigation finds some games include unfair commercial practices.
The Office of Fair Trading has warned the game industry about aggressive in-app purchases following an investigation into whether children are being unfairly pressured or encouraged to pay for additional content in web and app-based titles.
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The Walking Dead game jam announced for series' 10th anniversary
Have you got the brains?
A new two week The Walking Dead game jam has been announced by Skybound Entertainment, the production company of franchise creator Robert Kirkman, Eurogamer can reveal.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts rated 16 in Europe
First COD not to be rated 18 in five years.
Call of Duty: Ghosts is rated 16, Eurogamer can reveal.
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Review | Ironclad Tactics review
Raw deal.
"No plan survives first contact with the enemy," or so said Helmuth von Moltke, one of the great military minds of the 19th century. Von Moltke was on the wrong side of the Atlantic to witness the American Civil War, but he would've no doubt insisted that his aphorism applied to conflicts everywhere, even those that featured alternate histories with airships and automata, decks and dealing. In any battle, improvisation is key.
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Digital Foundry | Could AMD's Mantle revolutionise PC gaming?
"More performance and a better gaming experience" promised by Battlefield 4 developer.
AMD has revealed Mantle - a new low-level API for PC that offers game developers the opportunity to more directly access graphics hardware, eliminating many of the bottlenecks that hold back PC games performance from reaching its full potential. The new technology was revealed at AMD's GPU14 conference in Hawaii, and is being developed in tandem with EA studio, DICE. Battlefield 4 will be the first Mantle-enabled title, with support enabled via an update scheduled for December.
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Review | Foul Play review
Ungentlemanly conduct.
There's too much about Foul Play that feels overly familiar. It's yet another indie game with a mock Victorian presentation, as you take control of daemon-hunting gentleman Lord Dashforth and his pugnacious sidekick, Scampwick. The action is framed as a theatre show - a concept already wrung dry by the likes of The Gunstringer, Battleblock Theater and the recent Puppeteer - while the gameplay itself is a straightforward 2D melee beat-'em-up, a genre that is hardly endangered at the moment.
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Flying Wild Hog's new Shadow Warrior reboot has added Saints Row 4's giant purple dildo, the Penetrator, to its arsenal.
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