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Runescape 3 release date announced
Out later this month.
Runescape 3 launches on 22nd July 2013, Jagex has announced.
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Windows chief set to replace Don Mattrick as Xbox boss
Microsoft management reshuffle due next week.
Windows chief Julie Larson-Green is set to replace Don Mattrick as boss of Xbox, according to a report by business publication Bloomberg.
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Digital Foundry | Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PlayStation 4
After the 1080p60 dream, the 30fps reality?
It's Sony's time to shine. After a generation that kicked off with compromised multi-platform ports mixed in with some ground-breaking first-party efforts on PS3, there's a sense that it could retake a position of supremacy in the console arena by virtue of the new console's rock-solid core specs. And that's before we factor in the goodwill pouring out from enthusiast gamers because of its decision to stick with existing DRM standards. Unlike many of Microsoft's show-floor demos this E3, however, the use of genuine PS4 hardware among all developers also gives us a far more honest insight into the console's potential, despite making for a brace of nail-biting "will it? won't it?" moments during its conference.
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Bayonetta 2 preview: She's got the touch?
Bayonetta's new touchscreen control option might be a good route in for series newcomers.
The best game presentation I've ever witnessed? Bayonetta, no question. Bayonetta back at E3 2009.
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Counter-Strike co-creator Minh "Gooseman" Le's free-to-play first-person shooter Tactical Intervention will see a global release on Steam in August.
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Bastion just 69p on iOS this week in Warner Bros. sale
Scribblenauts Remix, Batman Arkham City also cheap.
Marvellous action RPG Bastion is currently just 69p on iPhone and iPad, thanks to publisher Warner Bros.' week-long iOS game sale.
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Sony adds mobile phone billing for PlayStation Store
Smart phone.
Sony has added a useful new feature to the UK PlayStation Network: you can now use your mobile phone to pay for content on the PlayStation Store.
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Ubisoft accounts hacked, publisher recommends changing your password
"Your debit/credit card information was safe from this intrusion."
Ubisoft accounts have been hacked, leading the publisher to recommend all its users change their passwords.
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Review | The Walking Dead: 400 Days review
Diner dash.
Telltale's The Walking Dead series is a gold standard for terse narrative efficiency. In the span of each two-to-three-hour episode, you'd learn to love, hate, and feel everything in between about its ever-shifting cast of desperate, conflicted survivors. Take three hours of the similarly high-concept zombie apocalypse drama The Last of Us and you'll see its leads travel from one goon-filled building to another with only a few meaningful character and plot interactions sprinkled in between. With its minimalist controls, lack of combat, and only the slightest hint of a puzzle to intrude upon The Walking Dead's slyly authored narrative, it's managed to cram in full stories in the time it takes most games to teach you how to crouch.
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Outcast creators buy IP from Atari, announce franchise revival
Blast from the past.
Remember 1999 PC adventure game Outcast? Well, it looks like it's coming back.
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Creative director of original SOCOM games returns with H-Hour for PC
UPDATE: Kickstarter funded.
UPDATE: The $200,000 H-Hour: World's Elite Kickstarter has been funded.
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Gears of War producer quits Epic for Mass Effect 4
BioWare for the Wynn.
Chris Wynn, a key member of the Gears of War team at Epic, has quit the company to work on BioWare's Mass Effect series.
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Avalanche Studios has confirmed that Max in the upcoming Mad Max game will have an Australian accent.
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Review | Knightmare Tower - Ouya review
The ultimate bouncy castle.
Mercilessly tapping into the same vein of "one more go" gameplay that powers mobile hits like Doodle Jump, Jetpack Joyride and Ski Safari, browser game turned Ouya title Knightmare Tower is one the micro-console's most accomplished and addictive games.
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Klei announces turn-based espionage game Incognita for PC, Mac and iPad
Open alpha due later this summer.
Mark of the Ninja and Shank developer Klei Entertainment has announced its next project as a "turn-based espionage game" called Incognita.
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Digital Foundry | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 review
The price is right.
In our review of the GeForce GTX 770 we noted that Nvidia's second-generation "Kepler" graphics cards were all about boosting performance while increasing value - a noble sentiment for sure, but with a sticker price in the £300 region, that's still a hell of a lot of money to shell out for just one component of a gaming PC. The GTX 760, the latest addition to the product line-up, looks like a much more tempting proposition. Priced at £210/$250 (though expect the odd partner card at the £200 level), it offers most of the performance of the more expensive GTX 670, and in the process puts the £240/$300 Radeon HD 7950 in a very difficult position. Could we have found a new enthusiasts' favourite?
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Digital Foundry | Tech Analysis: Destiny
Digital Foundry's E3 assessment of Bungie's next-gen debut.
While Killzone: Shadow Fall and Infamous: Second Son led the charge for PlayStation 4 at this year's E3, the gameplay reveal of Bungie's brand new sci-fi shooter, Destiny, was one of the main high points in Sony's press conference. This mega-budget multi-platform title aims to redefine the FPS genre through the introduction of a persistent open world, where the line between campaign and multiplayer blurs into a single, cohesive gameplay experience. Destiny has the next-gen graphical bells and whistles we expect, but it's the scale and scope of the core MMO-meets-FPS concept that truly sets it apart from the competition.
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Video | Watch us play Black Ops 2's new map pack Vengeance
Live from 5pm BST.
Happy Gran Turismo 6 day! I'm sitting here wearing my special racing boots, practising heel and toe on the Thrustmaster pedals underneath my desk as I count down the hours to 5pm when I can finally play a slice of Polyphony's latest. Lord I wish I was joking. The Gran Turismo 6 demo isn't the only notable download today, of course, and there are probably a fair few of you who don't go all dewy-eyed at the scent of burning rubber getting excited about something else entirely. So, to you: happy COD BLOPS 2 DLC day!
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World of Warplanes European open beta this week
Goring snoring or actually pretty good?
You can't not have heard about World of Tanks, the historical, simple, free-to-play competitive online game that put Belarusian developer Wargaming.net on the map, and all over the map, so big and powerful it has become.
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Rockstar confirms Grand Theft Auto 5 comes on two Xbox 360 discs, has mandatory install, more
Grand Theft Auto 5's multiplayer named Grand Theft Auto Online.
The Xbox 360 edition of Grand Theft Auto 5 will come on two discs, developer Rockstar has announced, but you won't need to swap them during gameplay.
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What happened to Guild Wars 2 on console?
"We did experiment..." developer ArenaNet answers.
Not long ago, in February 2012, publisher NCSoft said during a conference call that Guild Wars 2 was "in the preparation stage" for console.
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Journey has finally become profitable, Chen says
After thatgamecompany almost bankrupted itself making it.
Flower and flOw developer thatgamecompany has finally started to receive royalties from last year's indie darling Journey.
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Saints Row 4 banned in Australia for including alien anal probe
UPDATE: Deep Silver "reworking code" down under to ensure release.
UPDATE: Saints Row developer Volition is making changes to the game's Australian version - namely, removing the "Alien Anal Probe" weapon which last month saw its release banned by the country's censors.
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Microsoft will launch a special edition Gold Chrome Xbox 360 controller in the UK this August, the company has announced.
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Opinion | So long, Don Mattrick
Xbox off.
So then, Don Mattrick has left Microsoft's Xbox division and taken over at Zynga, where founder Mark Pincus will step away from day-to-day running of the company so he can focus on product development.
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Is this the closest we're going to get to Final Fantasy 7 HD?
Dress Lightning as Cloud in Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13.
If you pre-order Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 you can dress Lightning as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7.
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A million registrations for Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn beta
Can lightning strike twice?
Square Enix has recorded more than a million beta registrations for A Realm Reborn, the revived version of failed MMO Final Fantasy 14.
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Say goodbye to 25 digit Xbox codes - scan QR codes using Kinect instead on Xbox One
Good guy Kinect.
Hate the laborious task of typing in those 25 digit codes on Xbox 360? Hate no more, because on Xbox One you'll be able to scan a QR code using the new Kinect instead.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts' pre-order map Free Fall is set in a collapsing skyscraper
Continues to drop throughout the match.
Those who pre-order Call of Duty: Ghosts will get the multiplayer map Free Fall, Activision has announced.
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UPDATE: Not bloody likely. Darkspore returns to Steam.
UPDATE 2: Darkspore has returned to Steam.
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