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  1. Crimson Dragon will allow players to download others' characters

    Land Ho! and Grounding Inc's upcoming aerial shooter Crimson Dragon will allow players to upload and rent out dragons to others.

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  2. Gabe Newell confirms Linux-based Valve hardware still alive

    Gabe Newell confirms Linux-based Valve hardware still alive

    UPDATE: Valve to make two other announcements next week.

    UPDATE: Valve has revealed that it's planning three announcements next week. There's even a countdown site and everything. This Linux-based hardware is one, but that doesn't account for the other two.

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  3. Infinity Blade 3 review

    Review | Infinity Blade 3 review

    Thickly sliced.

    Style over substance doesn't always need to be a criticism. When the first Infinity Blade was released, back in 2010, it wasn't the deepest game around. What it did have was an engaging and intuitive approach to touchscreen sword fighting, as well as sumptuous Unreal Engine visuals designed to give purchasers of the newly released iPad something to show off. The style was the substance, and it was a well deserved hit.

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  4. Sony explains why PS4 will launch in Japan after the West

    Sony explains why PS4 will launch in Japan after the West

    Western devs "more aggressive" in readying next-gen titles.

    PlayStation 4 will launch in Japan after it launches in the West due to a lack of Japan-orientated games available this November, Sony has said.

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  5. Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes 60 fps on PS4 and Xbox One

    Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes 60 fps on PS4 and Xbox One

    "Maybe with other games created exclusively for next-gen it might look a little behind," says Kojima.

    Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes, the open world prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5 that's headed to both current generation machinery and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is shooting for 60 frames per second on next-gen.

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  6. James Pond will return in A Kickstarter Campaign

    James Pond will return in A Kickstarter Campaign

    UPDATE: Kickstarter is live - and asks for £100,000

    UPDATE: The James Pond Kickstarter is live - and asks for £100,000.

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  7. Why was the original Crimson Dragon canned?

    Why was the original Crimson Dragon canned?

    Futatsugi on the evolution of the Xbox One launch title.

    Grounding's Yukio Futatsugi has spoken of his initial shock at Microsoft's decision to can the original and finished version of Crimson Dragon as it asked him to prepare it afresh as an Xbox One launch title.

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  8. Matsuno returns: Final Fantasy Tactics creator on his new game

    Interview | Matsuno returns: Final Fantasy Tactics creator on his new game

    Unsung Story sees the comeback of one of the most singular voices in RPG development.

    Yatsumi Matsuno's an elusive man. Having made his name with Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story before putting his own stamp on the Final Fantasy series with Tactics and his arrested contribution to Final Fantasy 12, Matsuno's spent the years since his departure from Square flitting between projects and studios. Crimson Shroud, the slight but fascinating table-top RPG inspired entry to Level 5's Guild series was his last game to see release, and the first all-new title to bear his design stamp since Final Fantasy 12 - and since then he disappeared once again.

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  9. Inside Polyphony's house of cars

    Feature | Inside Polyphony's house of cars

    A rare look within the walls of the studio behind Gran Turismo.

    One of the many privileges of writing about video games is getting to go up close and personal with the places in which they're crafted. If you've got any love for games, the worlds they conjure and the spell they can cast then going to a studio can be like visiting the chocolate factory.

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  10. Warning! Don't stand your Xbox One vertically

    Warning! Don't stand your Xbox One vertically

    80 per cent position Xbox 360 horizontally. Do you?

    Microsoft has issued a warning to prospective Xbox One owners: don't stand it up vertically!

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  11. Vita TV interest stronger than expected in West, Sony admits

    Vita TV interest stronger than expected in West, Sony admits

    "Of course we are thinking of launching it in the US and Europe."

    Western interest in Sony's upcoming PlayStation Vita TV has exceeded the company's initial expectations for the device, the company has said.

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  12. There's a James Pond: Codename Robocod remake

    There's a James Pond: Codename Robocod remake

    Separate to the Kickstarter. Koi carpe diem.

    You wait 20 years then two come along at once...

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  13. Atlus' message to fans after Sega buyout

    Atlus' message to fans after Sega buyout

    Work continues on future titles.

    Atlus has issued a message to its fans following Sega's £88 million purchase of the company.

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  14. World of Warplanes delayed to November

    Wargaming has delayed the launch of World of Warplanes to add spit and polish.

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  15. SimCity expansion Cities of Tomorrow announced

    SimCity expansion Cities of Tomorrow announced

    Future tech, but no offline mode.

    Maxis has announced the first major expansion to SimCity: Cities of Tomorrow.

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  16. Metal Gear Solid 5's torture scene will be non-playable

    Metal Gear Solid 5's torture scene will be non-playable

    "I didn't want to go as far as that," says Kojima.

    In the wake of the controversy around Grand Theft Auto 5's unskippable and playable torture scene, Hideo Kojima has said the torture scene glimpsed in Metal Gear Solid 5 trailers will be kept to a cutscene.

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  17. Kinect-style PlayStation 4 navigation possible with PS Camera

    Kinect-style PlayStation 4 navigation possible with PS Camera

    Via post-launch firmware updates to boost device's integration.

    Post-launch updates to PlayStation 4's firmware can better integrate the console with PS Camera, Sony has said.

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  18. State of Decay comes to Steam Early Access today

    State of Decay comes to Steam Early Access today

    Play it in an early state (of decay).

    Undead Labs' open-world zombie survival sim State of Decay is coming to Steam Early Access today.

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  19. PlayStation 3 Gaikai streaming confirmed for Vita TV

    PlayStation 3 Gaikai streaming confirmed for Vita TV

    But still no word on a European launch for either.

    Sony has announced that its recently-revealed PlayStation Vita TV device will be able to stream PS3 games using the company's Gaikai technology.

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  20. Neal Stephenson's swordfighting game Clang has been put on hold indefinitely

    Neal Stephenson's swordfighting game Clang has been put on hold indefinitely

    After raising a half million dollars on Kickstarter.

    Last summer sci-fi author Neal Stephenson took to Kickstarter to pitch a motion-controlled swordfighting game called Clang. It barely reached it's half million dollar goal with $526,125, but now there's been a major hold-up: The developer ran out of money.

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  21. PlayStation App allows PS4 to act as a mobile games server

    PlayStation App allows PS4 to act as a mobile games server

    Stream and play content on your phone, send voice messages, more.

    Sony's PlayStation App allows PlayStation 4 to act as a server that streams mobile gaming apps to your smartphone or tablet.

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  22. Sherlock Holmes adventure Crimes & Punishments announced for PlayStation 4

    Frogwares' latest title in its expansive series of Sherlock Holmes adventures, Crimes & Punishments, has just been announced for PS4.

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  23. Mark of the Ninja and The Walking Dead leads form new studio Campo Santo

    What do you get when you mix the Mark of the Ninja lead designer with a couple of The Walking Dead scribes, a former Studio Ghibli artists, and a "stupidly-successful" software company from Portland? A new promising indie developer by the name of Campo Santo, that's what.

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  24. This is what "weird fiction" horror The Vanishing of Ethan Carter looks like

    This is what "weird fiction" horror The Vanishing of Ethan Carter looks like

    Debut screenshots show off The Astronauts' indie game.

    Independent developer The Astronauts has released the first screenshots of PC horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

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  25. Deep Down Tokyo Game Show trailer shows new gameplay

    Deep Down Tokyo Game Show trailer shows new gameplay

    Still set in 2094 New York. Still bonkers.

    Capcom has released a new Deep Down trailer to coincide with this weeks Tokyo Game Show, and it shows off new gameplay footage.

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  26. Editor's blog: Ask Eurogamer at the Eurogamer Expo

    In amongst all the other attractions at this year's Eurogamer Expo - you know, next-gen consoles, amazing developer sessions and kickass pinball machines - we thought it would be nice to do something that's a bit more specific to Eurogamer.net and the people who organise the show.

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  27. Monaco gets boxed Collector's Edition

    Brilliant indie heist game Monaco will be re-released as a boxed Collector's Edition tomorrow.

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  28. 12 minutes of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes gameplay fresh from Tokyo Game Show

    Hideo Kojima presented a 12 minute live gameplay demo of Metal Gear Solid 5 at Tokyo Game Show today.

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  29. Switch from playing Final Fantasy 14 on PS3 to PS4 for free

    UPDATE: While you can switch from playing Final Fantasy 14 on PlayStation 3 to the PlayStation 4 version for free, doing so means you lose access to the PS3 version, Square Enix has clarified.

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