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Assassin's Creed 3: ready for the series' revolution
Synchronised.
Ubisoft could not have chosen a more fitting setting for Assassin's Creed 3 than the American Revolution. The series feels on the brink of change, ready to shed some of the uglier points of its history.
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PEGI 18-rated games soon readmitted to Windows 8 Store
Microsoft had a bit of a mix-up.
Some relatively good news about Windows 8 at last: Microsoft won't prohibit PEGI 18-rated games like Skyrim, Dishonored and Mass Effect from sale on the Windows 8 Store.
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Nine minutes of the Mass Effect 3 anime prequel
Starring Freddie Prinze Jr.
Mass Effect 3 developer BioWare has released nine minutes of footage from the game's upcoming anime prequel, Paragon Lost.
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Free game Frog Fractions might be the most deranged thing you'll play this year
And that includes a year that contains Time Ducks.
One-man studio Jim Crawford aka Twinbeard Studios has released what might be the strangest game this year with his free browser title Frog Fractions.
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UPDATE: Full soundtrack now available to listen to, but not buy.
Update: The full soundtrack is now available to listen to on Soundcloud.
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Portal designer Kim Swift's upcoming iOS title PIXLD due next week
From the team behind Quantum Conundrum.
Portal and Quantum Conundrum designer Kim Swift is releasing a new iOS puzzler entitled PIXLD on 29th October.
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EA reckons the Medal of Honor single-player campaign "can range from 5-15 hours"
Pulls 10 hour claim from its own website.
EA this week pulled from its own website its claim that Medal of Honor: Warfighter's single-player campaign is 10 hours long.
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First Dishonored DLC has a wave based arena battle
Second and third add-ons out 2013.
Bethesda has announced Dishonored DLC.
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"Every IP that we've created has gone through massive changes."
Ted Price on Fuse, Insomniac's ever-evolving third person shooter.
In some ways, Fuse is everything that gamers have been asking for - a new IP at a time when we're told such things are impossible in the big budget console arena, and one from a much-loved studio that is, at last, sharing its expertise with the Xbox 360 audience.
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Be warned: you may have to play through Dark Souls again to access the Artorias of the Abyss DLC
Go hard or go home.
You may have to play through Dark Souls again if you want to access the £10 Artorias of the Abyss DLC.
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Opinion | Lost Humanity 18: A Table of Doritos
Rab Florence contemplates "a tragic, vulgar image".
There is an image doing the rounds on the internet this week. It is an image of Geoff Keighley, a Canadian games journalist, sitting dead-eyed beside a garish Halo 4 poster and a table of Mountain Dew and Doritos. It is a tragic, vulgar image. But I think that it is the most important image in games journalism today. I think we should all find it and study it. It is important.
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EA wants its peers to be Apple, Google, Facebook, not Take-Two, Activision and Ubisoft
Makes huge investment in customer service as business evolves.
EA wants its peers to be Apple, Google and Facebook, not publishing rivals Take-Two, Activision and Ubisoft.
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PlayStation Vita weekly sales flagging in Europe, less than half 3DS
Below PSP, just above DS.
European PlayStation Vita sales have settled into a slump since Sony's machine launched earlier this year.
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Stealth Bastard Deluxe out on Steam end of November 2012
Cult hit expanded with new features.
Indie game Stealth Bastard Deluxe launches on Steam at the end of November 2012, Curve Studios has announced.
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Nintendo admits Wii U to be sold at loss
Despite earlier hints at the opposite and damage from similar 3DS policy.
Nintendo will sell the Wii U at a loss when the console launches next month, the company has revealed, despite earlier suggestions the machine would be profitable from day one.
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More people are playing Minecraft on XBLA than Modern Warfare 3 or FIFA 13
Notch up another milestone.
More people are playing Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or FIFA 13.
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The Ship sequel heads to Kickstarter
Full Steam Ahead!
The Ship sequel will launch on Kickstarter at the end of the month.
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Rage mod tools "real soon now", a frustrated Carmack says
"I think we have made poor decisions on this all year."
Rage mod tools are coming soon, id Software's John Carmack has said.
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Mass Effect movie gets new screenwriter
From the co-editor of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Legendary Entertainment is moving ahead with its silver screen adaptation of the Mass Effect series by hiring new screenwriter Morgan Davis Foehl, Variety has reported.
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Haunting bluegrass adventure Kentucky Route Zero gets a new trailer
Act One due in December.
Chicago-based indie developer Cardboard Computer has released a new trailer for its stylish, surreal bluegrass adventure Kentucky Route Zero.
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Darksiders 2's Abyssal Forge DLC due next week
Darksiders 2's Abyssal Forge DLC due next week
Darksiders 2's second DLC pack, the Abyssal Forge, is coming to Xbox Live and PC on 30th October, while the PSN version hits the following day in Europe. It will cost 800 MS Points / £6.80 / $9.99.
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Zynga has lost over $160 million in nine months
Yet revenue is up $141 million since last year.
We knew Zynga was in trouble after it cut five per cent of its full-time workforce yesterday and shuttered 13 games, and in its latest earnings report Zynga revealed that it's lost $52.7 million during Q3 and $160.9 million between 1st January and 30th September.
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Capcom to issue Resident Evil 6 patch in response to player feedback
Better camera controls, new difficulty level and more.
Capcom is to release a free update for Resident Evil 6 in mid-December that will address several points of player feedback.
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Dear Esther artist working on an "open-world S.T.A.L.K.E.R-like game without weapons"
Fancies doing it entirely on his own.
Dear Esther and Mirror's Edge environmental artist Rob Briscoe said that he'd like to single-handedly make an open-world horror game in the vein of S.T.A.L.K.E.R, only without weapons.
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Halo 4 War Games Pass revealed
Three map packs for £17 / 2000 MS Points.
Halo 4 developer 343 Industries and Microsoft just announced the Halo 4 War Games Pass, a season pass that saves players 15 per cent on future DLC.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is heading to iPad this year
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Frozen City due tomorrow, too.
Developer of the long-running Sherlock Holmes series of games Frogwares has announced that its 2006 detective meets Cthulhu mashup Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is heading to iPad this year.
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Nintendo hopes to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles by April
And 24 million Wii U games.
Nintendo expects to sell 5.5 million Wii U consoles by the end of the financial year, the company's latest financial report has revealed.
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Review | Medal of Honor: Warfighter review
Dishonoured?
Warfighter sounds like a joke. It's the sort of ludicrously macho title you'd expect to find on a mischievous Grand Theft Auto parody of first-person military shooters, or perhaps a cheesy Rainier Wolfcastle movie in The Simpsons. What's really disappointing is that either of those options would be more entertaining than what's ended up on this disc.
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Opinion | Lost Humanity 16: Size Doesn't Matter
How long is a piece of Dishonored?
Size doesn't matter. It's true. It's genuinely true. The saying doesn't exist just to make you feel better about your bald little half-incher.
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Killzone HD on EU PlayStation Store today
007 Legends and Medal of Honor £60 each.
Killzone HD will be available to download on the European PlayStation Store from today, Sony has announced.
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