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Hyper Light Drifter and Eldritch get greenlit on Steam
Along with 30 other titles.
Phenomenal Kickstarter success Hyper Light Drifter has made its way past the gates of Steam Greenlight, which is rather impressive for a game that still has nine days left in its crowdfunding campaign.
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Dark Souls mod makes enemies horrifyingly aggressive
Rearranges their placement and you can't run from them.
Thought Dark Souls was too easy? Or perhaps too predictable upon your umpteenth playthrough? Well I've got just the thing for you, young grasshopper, as a modder JITD has tweaked the game to make enemies vastly more aggressive and unrelenting.
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Feature | Tim Schafer: Unplugged
The legendary dev discusses internet rage, his formative years, and the game he's most proud of.
Prior to applying for his job at LucasArts to work on The Secret of Monkey Island, Tim Schafer had never played a graphic adventure.
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Warhammer Quest expansion released
The Brutal Tribe add-on joined by new heroes and weapons in the store.
Mobile dungeon crawler Warhammer Quest gets a dollop of new content today, courtesy of developer Rodeo Games.
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Eidos confirms Deus Ex Universe
Next gen title will also spawn smartphone games, books, comics and more.
Eidos Montreal has confirmed that it will bring the Deus Ex series to next generation consoles, with the formal announcement of Deus Ex: Universe. This isn't a single game but rather "an ongoing, expanding and connected game world built across a generation of core games".
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Author Tom Clancy dies, aged 66
Prolific writer whose work inspired dozens of games, passes away in Baltimore hospital.
Tom Clancy, the prolific author of best-selling espionage thrillers, has died at the age of 66, his publisher has confirmed. Clancy passed away in a Baltimore hospital close to his home in Maryland.
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Sonic returning to TV in new CG animation
Tails of the unexpected?
Sonic the Hedgehog is coming back to TV screens in 2014 in a new animated show with the working title Sonic Boom. The show will mark Sonic's first outing in CGI - not counting the cutscenes in his games, obviously.
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DICE releases Battlefield 4 beta bug list
"You may be floating if you jump on the bollards."
Yesterday saw the launch of GTA Online, but also the open beta for Battlefield 4. As expected for any multiplayer game getting its first whiff of real world interaction, there are issues and bugs cropping up and developer DICE has taken to the official forum with a list of known issues currently being investigated.
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Watch the Beyond: Two Souls premiere livestream tonight
David Cage, Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe all in attendance.
It's less than a week until the launch of Quantic Dream's decade-spanning spook-em-up adventure, Beyond: Two Souls, and the developer will be giving the game a movie-style red carpet premiere tonight at the Grand Rex theatre in Paris.
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Warcraft movie gets an official release date
Can you wait until Christmas 2015?
The long-awaited Warcraft movie has been given a release date, the game's official Twitter has announced.
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Zynga co-founder "pretty bored with all games"
Wants that Farmville buzz back again.
Mark Pincus, co-founder of struggling casual gaming giant Zynga, is bored of games.
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Sony's Knack to get free puzzle game app
Yoshida: "We've totally changed our approach to mobile products."
Sony no longer views iOS and Android as rivals, but as tools to be used to spread the PlayStation message via related spin-off apps. That's according to Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida, speaking in the first instalment of a wide ranging interview with GamesIndustry.biz.
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Audiosurf 2 out today on Steam Early Access
Music to our ears.
Audiosurf 2, the long overdue follow-up to Dylan Fitterer's 2008 indie hit, will launch today, October 2nd, on Steam Early Access. Fitterer himself made the announcement via Twitter.
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Review | Giant Boulder of Death review
Roll with it.
The debate about violence in games is an important one, and gaming can only become more interesting if designers think up more things for us to do than mindlessly destroy stuff. Having said that, who doesn't love to mindlessly destroy stuff? And if you absolutely have to do that, why not do it as the titular vengeful rock of this game - thundering down an alpine mountain, flattening everything in your path?
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John Romero's Daikatana pops up on Steam
Keep an eye on storm.
Daikatana, John Romero's disasterpiece, has inexplicably sprung up on Steam, priced £4.99.
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Xbox One day one update will take 15-20 mins to download
Microsoft working to make it "as fast as possible".
Microsoft has warned that the Xbox One's day one system update will need around 15-20 minutes to download.
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Well-timed Valve leak reveals Half-Life 3 development teams
Gordon's alive?
In what is surely a completely innocent coincidence, and in no way an illustration of the way Valve makes us all dance at its whim like fleshy marionettes, the developer's internal User Picker software was suddenly and inexplicably open to the public last night.
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Games should honour the "rules of conflict" says Red Cross
Bohemia Interactive rises to the challenge.
War games are becoming so realistic that it's time virtual soldiers started obeying the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross has argued.
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PlayStation 3 firmware update adds previously Plus-exclusive features
System software refresh due today.
Sony has announced a PlayStation 3 firmware update due to go live this afternoon.
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Watch an early 30 Flights of Loving prototype
"Domingo's dropped out..."
Over on his Youtube channel, Blendo Games' Brendon Chung has posted an early prototype of his brilliant spy thriller, 30 Flights of Loving.
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How Frozen Endzone restores and reinvents a forgotten genre
Back to the future sports.
Frozen Endzone's about hand-crafted strategies pieced together in long thoughtful minutes and then unpicked in scrappy, tense seconds; it's about territorial scraps that reward the deep thinker who possesses vision. It's hardly strange that Mode 7's follow-up to Frozen Synapse leans so heavily on the thumping strategy of American football, then - it'd be frankly odd if it turned out to be anything else.
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LucasArts spills the beans on what Star Wars 1313 could have been
Gorgeous concept art shows a new side of the franchise.
Earlier this year LucasFilm confirmed that its canned Star Wars noir spin-off, Star Wars 1313, was about everyone's favourite grappling hook-weilding bounty hunter Boba Fett. Now an anonymous former developer on the project spilled the beans to IGN about what the project would have entailed.
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Mighty No. 9 confirmed for PS4 and Xbox One
UPDATE: Kickstarter concludes at $3.8m. 3DS and Vita versions confirmed.
UPDATE# 2: The Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter has ended with a total of $3,841,001.
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Sega lays off a "small" number of US staff
Also rewards Sonic Lost World pre-orders with extra lives.
Sega of America laid off a number of its staff today.
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A look at how Sportsfriends is shaping up
New modes and features for J.S. Joust and Super Pole Riders outlined.
Local multiplayer curio collection Sportsfriends is due this autumn on PS3, PC, Mac and Linux, and I had a chance to catch up with half of its development team at XOXOfest in Portland, Oregon to see how things were shaping up with two of its four games: Johann Sebastian Joust and Super Pole Riders.
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Zeboyd Games' Cosmic Star Heroine launches on Kickstarter
Already confirmed for PS4, Vita, PC and Mac.
Cthulhu Saves the World and Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3 & 4 developer Zeboyd Games has just launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming sci-fi RPG Cosmic Star Heroine.
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Destiny beta to launch early 2014, according to Amazon
UPDATE: Activision confirms pre-order bonus, releases trailer.
UPDATE: Activision has confirmed its beta access pre-order bonus for Destiny, as was leaked by Amazon earlier today.
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Bravely Default heads to Europe this year
UPDATE: Dated for December.
UPDATE: Bravely Default will be released on 6th December in Europe, Nintendo announced today during its Nintendo Direct presentation.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies demo available now on the 3DS eShop
New trailer shows the now fully-voiced Phoenix.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, the fifth game in the main Ace Attorney saga, has released a demo today on the 3DS eShop a few weeks ahead of its 24th October launch.
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Having trouble joining PC Battlefield 4 beta servers?
You're not the only one.
There are problems with the Battlefield 4 beta on PC that are making it unplayable for some people.
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