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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. A new perspective: How Pokémon X and Y refreshes the series

    A new perspective: How Pokémon X and Y refreshes the series

    Will the latest entries be a mega evolution?

    After a brief farewell to your hometown you step out into the long grass, empty Pokédex in hand and an untested new Pokémon strapped to your belt. There are baddies to defeat, eight gyms to beat and lots of low-level bug Pokémon in the game's first forest area.

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  4. Nintendo legend Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

    Nintendo legend Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85

    Ex-president led Nintendo into electronic entertainment era.

    Hiroshi Yamauchi, ex-Nintendo president and boss of the company as it entered the video game market, has died aged 85, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reports.

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    Gravity Rush sequel announced

    TGS teaser outs new Vita game.

    Gravity Rush, the wonderfully artful adventure game that's one of the highlights of the Vita back catalogue, is to get a sequel.

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  6. Final Fantasy 15 TGS trailer shows new gameplay

    Square Enix won't talk much about Final Fantasy 15 at this week's Tokyo Game Show, but it has released a new trailer that offers us a tantalising glimpse at new gameplay.

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  7. Dark Souls 2 out on March 14, PC version to follow

    Dark Souls 2 out on March 14, PC version to follow

    From Software explains the delay and the likelihood of next-gen versions.

    Dark Souls 2 will be released on 14th March in Europe and 11th March 2014 in North America on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, From Software announced at the Tokyo Game Show.

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  8. "Too many loopholes" prompt Ouya Free the Games Fund rule change

    "Too many loopholes" prompt Ouya Free the Games Fund rule change

    Gridiron Thunder dev pulls out of promotion.

    Ouya is making important changes to the way its controversial Free the Games Fund works after it admitted the program contained "too many loopholes".

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  9. Why is Namco making a single-player only Soul Calibur?

    Why is Namco making a single-player only Soul Calibur?

    New details on Lost Swords as designer defends decision.

    Namco has explained the thinking behind its decision to make a single-player only Soul Calibur with Lost Swords, a free-to-play beat 'em-up that's coming to PlayStation 3 next year.

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  10. Streaming issues hit PSN digital version of Grand Theft Auto 5

    Digital Foundry | Streaming issues hit PSN digital version of Grand Theft Auto 5

    Video demonstrates why the disc release is better.

    Following Rockstar's warning to Xbox 360 users of sub-optimal GTA5 performance should both discs be installed to its hard drive, our attention has turned to the PSN digital release of the game. This edition is played in its entirety from the hard drive as opposed to utilising both disc and HDD, opening up the game to a variation of the 360's streaming issues when both discs are installed.

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    Harada says Tekken X Street Fighter is a 'long term' project

    And Tekken Resurrection could be headed to Xbox.

    Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has explained that Tekken X Street Fighter, the long awaited pairing of Namco and Capcom's flagship fighter series, is still in the works, and that the game is a 'long term' project.

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  12. Can Knack be PlayStation 4's Crash Bandicoot?

    Can Knack be PlayStation 4's Crash Bandicoot?

    Hands-on with Sony's big platforming hope.

    PlayStation 4 will arrive with a hoard of launch games - more so than the Xbox One - but many of its biggest releases are core-focused titles. Step up Knack, Sony's thus far overlooked addition to its launch which is aimed at nostalgic, now grown-up Crash Bandicoot fans and the rest of their family.

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  13. Sony expects 5m PlayStation 4 sales before April

    Sony hopes to shift five million PlayStation 4 consoles before the financial year's end, the company has announced.

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  14. Warhammer Online will shut down this December

    Warhammer Online will shut down this December

    When Mythic's licensing contract expires.

    Fantasy MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning will come to an end on 18th December, developer Mythic has announced.

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  15. Fez debuts on Mac and Linux in Humble Indie Bundle 9

    Fez debuts on Mac and Linux in Humble Indie Bundle 9

    UPDATE: Bastion, Limbo and A Virus Named Tom added.

    UPDATE: During the Humble Indie Bundle 9's second and final week four more games have been added to the fray.

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    Ghosts 'n Goblins Online is a F2P PC RPG on Steam Greenlight

    UPDATE: Posted in error. No plans for a western release.

    UPDATE: Ghost 'n Goblins Online's Steam Greenlight page was evidently posted by mistake by the game's Korean developer Seed 9 Games.

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  17. Monster Hunter 4 sells over 1.7 million retail copies in two days

    Monster Hunter 4 sells over 1.7 million retail copies in two days

    Becoming the best-selling third-party 3DS game in Japan.

    This weekend saw the release of Monster Hunter 4 in Japan and the 3DS-exclusive dinosaur slaying game managed to sell an incredible 1,715,060 retail copies in its first two days on store shelves.

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  18. The new Riddick game is The Merc Files for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

    There is indeed a new Riddick game coming out, as Vin Diesel teased - and it's an iOS exclusive.

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  19. Ouya boots Dungeons the Eye of Draconus from Free the Games Fund

    Ouya boots Dungeons the Eye of Draconus from Free the Games Fund

    Dev hits back: "It appears we were thrown under the FTG bus."

    Ouya has booted Dungeons the Eye of Draconus from its controversial Free the Games Fund.

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    If, like many of us, you're far too lazy or impatient to learn Dwarf Fortress , the gloriously complex failure simulation by Bay 12 Games, you might want to just listen to Ste Curran telling you about it instead. Curran's a writer and game designer and part of the One Life Left crew, and he's made an audio version of his Dwarf Fortress piece The Queen available here.

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  21. Wii Sports Club is Wii Sports mini-games in HD for Wii U

    Wii Sports Club is Wii Sports mini-games in HD for Wii U

    Download tennis, bowling etc from eShop for £9 each.

    Nintendo has announced the Wii Sports Club, which sees the original Wii Sports mini-games - bowling, tennis, baseball, boxing and golf - return on Wii U in HD.

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  22. PES 2014 review

    Review | PES 2014 review

    The year to switch?

    I threw a proper tantrum at PES 2014 last week. I haven't thrown a controller at the wall in anger since the final boss of Jak 2, but I directed one at a cardboard box on the other side of the room when Nordsjaelland danced through my defence and went 4-0 up in the Champions League. I was playing as Real Madrid.

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  23. At least 80 per cent of proceeds from new SimCity DLC to go to Red Cross

    At least 80 per cent of proceeds from new SimCity DLC to go to Red Cross

    Red Cross Relief Centre and two vehicles respond to natural disasters.

    EA will donate part of the money generated by sales of new SimCity downloadable content to the Red Cross.

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    Video | Watch us play Foul Play live at 11am

    10 XBLA codes to give away.

    Foul Play, out today on XBLA and Steam, is a side-scrolling brawler with a cute twist - it's all played out on a stage as you, an English gentleman explorer, enact the story of your adventures with the aim of pleasing the audience with your combo skills. It's from UK developer Mediatonic, makers of the entertaining WTF?, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess and the Amateur Surgeon games.

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  25. Aztez is a beat 'em-up with a twist

    Aztez is a beat 'em-up with a twist

    Black and white and red all over.

    Team Colorblind's Ben Ruiz loves beat'em ups. Bayonetta, God of War, Devil May Cry - you name it and he's played it. But as much as he loves the genre, Ruiz wants to do things a little differently. So he's taking matters into his own hands by creating a brawler (of sorts) that's as esoteric as they come.

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  26. Tada! The 20-year crusade to solve checkers

    Feature | Tada! The 20-year crusade to solve checkers

    Win, lose or draw?

    When Marion Tinsley, the world number one, played checkers against Professor Jonathan Schaeffer's checkers-playing program Chinook for a series of exhibition matches in 1990, he declared: "I feel like a teenager again."

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  27. Gran Turismo 6 will have a large day one patch

    Gran Turismo 6 will have a large day one patch

    Online to be updated upon release, with more to follow over 12 months.

    Gran Turismo 6 will receive a sizable day one patch upon its release this December, with updates set to roll out in a support period scheduled to last 12 months.

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  28. Evil Dead remake director in talks to helm Dante's Inferno movie

    Remember Dante's Inferno, EA's 2010 God of War style action game? Some people want to make a movie based on it.

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  29. DICE looking into Kinect head tracking for Xbox One Battlefield 4

    DICE is looking into adding Kinect features to the Xbox One version of shooter Battlefield 4.

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