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Playable EA games at Eurogamer Expo 2012 revealed
Need for Speed, SimCity, Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, Medal of Honor, FIFA 13.
Playable EA games at the Eurogamer Expo 2012 next month include Crysis 3, Dead Space 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, SimCity and FIFA 13.
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Blowing Off Some Enthusiasm: Fun Times in Counter-Strike and Spelunky
Some happy Friday rambling about stuff in video games. No harm done.
Earlier today, I was sat at my desk listening to the chorus of early-morning tweets from friends and co-workers, and one stuck out to me. GamesIndustry International editor Matt Martin reflected on his time in Cologne this week with this: "Almost all my interviews at Gamescom this week were about free-to-play. Anything else was just filler."
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You can make co-op Portal 2 test chambers now
What's that you say about Half-Life 3?
Valve, fresh from not announcing Half-Life 3 at Gamescom, has released a free PC update for Portal 2's puzzle maker that allows co-op test chambers to be built.
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Valve investigates the personal side of eSports in a new Dota 2 documentary
What it takes to win the $1 million prize.
Dota 2 developer Valve will chronicle the journey of several hopeful eSports stars in a new documentary.
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Monday Night Combat dev starts Kickstarter for RTS Planetary Annihilation
Total Annihilation-inspired successor made by some of the same staff.
Monday Night Combat developer Uber Entertainment has taken to Kickstarter to fund its Total Annihilation-inspired RTS, Planetary Annihilation.
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Hitman Absolution level changed due to negative nun trailer reaction
"How could we not see this happening?" director wonders.
Hitman Absolution has been tweaked after negative reaction to the game's all-guns-blazing PVC-clad nun trailer.
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Machinarium coming to PSN next month
Someone get that man a cookie!
Darkly beautiful point-and-click adventure Machinarium is coming to European PSN next month, Sony has announced.
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Peculiar B&W stop-motion musical adventure Dominique Pamplemousse gets a demo
Esoteric crowdsourced indie needs more funding.
A demo has surfaced for black-and-white stop-motion musical point-and-click detective adventure Dominique Pamplemousse.
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Beyond Good & Evil HD gets disc-based release date
Xbox Live Arcade compilation also includes From Dust, Outland.
A disc-based version of Beyond Good & Evil HD will arrive on the high street for the first time next month, Ubisoft has announced.
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Castle Crashers tumbles onto Steam
System requirements detailed, announcement poem within.
Co-op beat-'em-up Castle Crashers is coming to Steam, developer Behemoth has announced.
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Steam Community update beta live for first 50,000 to earn the "Pillar of the Steam Community" badge
Team Fortress 2 hub available for all.
The beta to the major Steam Community update is available to the first 50,000 players who earn the "Pillar of the Steam Community" badge, Valve has announced.
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Scott Pilgrim dev's new Kickstarter is for 2D action game Mercenary Kings
Needs more coin in the coffers.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World developer Tribute Games has started a Kickstarter for Mercenary Kings, a Contra-esque 2D shooter/platformer.
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Just Cause 2 and Borderlands free for PlayStation Plus members
I hereby dub thee "Sandbox Month."
Sony has announced that both Just Cause 2 and Borderlands are free for PlayStation Plus subscribers until 7th November, while all DLC for both titles is half off for the remainder of the month.
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Trine 2: Goblin Menace DLC revealed for autumn
Announcement trailer within.
Trine 2 developer Forzenbyte has announced the Goblin Menace DLC for its puzzle/platformer from last year.
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EA's share price leaps at rumours of a buyout
Could it be true?
Rumours of a buy-out have boosted EA share prices today, as unbelievable as that sounds. Or is it?
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 PC version announced
Fangs, Konami.
Because you wanted it, Konami has consented to make a PC version of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2.
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Fluid Football "is bloody brilliant" says New Star Soccer dev
And very similar.
New Star Soccer maker Simon Read has declared very new iOS game Fluid Football to be "bloody brilliant".
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David Cage: "I'm not a frustrated movie director"
Beyond has taken 12 months to shoot, has 2000 page script.
David Cage has insisted that he's "not a frustrated movie director" as he outlined the work that's gone into capturing performances for his forthcoming PlayStation 3 action game Beyond: Two Souls.
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Blizzard's lavish cinematic unveiled for World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria
Pandaren to the masses.
Blizzard has unleashed the cinematic introduction video for fourth World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria.
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Sony engineers working on PS Vita "cost reduction" for post-2012 price cut
Points to bundles, big franchises, PS Mobile and PSone emulation for this year.
Sony engineers are working to reduce the cost of manufacturing the PS Vita so it can cut the price of the handheld - but that price cut won't happen this year.
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Media Molecule working on second project
Tearaway being made by 15 people - the rest of MM working on new concept.
Media Molecule is working on a second project aside from Tearaway, the papercraft inspired Vita game that was announced at Sony's Gamescom press conference.
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EA's Peter Moore insists: "There is no feud with Valve"
"Gabe's a great friend of EA's. We're a great friend of his, we like to think."
EA COO Peter Moore has insisted there is no feud between his company and Half-Life maker Valve despite the removal of EA games from rival digital platform Steam.
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Digital Foundry | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 Review
Does the second-tier Kepler offer better value for money than a 680?
Silicon chip production is not an exact art - no two chips that come off the production line are exactly alike. Some are capable of running at faster speeds than others, while sometimes defects manifest when the transistors aren't fabricated entirely as they should be, owing to microscopic imperfections in the material. So what happens to these less-than-perfect chips? Well, a process called "binning" sorts the processors into various quality levels, each destined for different end-products.
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Cryptic's Neverwinter for early 2013, looks in good shape
Free and with user-generated content to boot.
What happened to Neverwinter, the cooperatively-minded online D&D game being made by Star Trek Online developer Cryptic Studios?
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£1 each for From Dust, Driver San Fran, H.A.W.X. 2, Silent Hunter 5 this week
Ubisoft holding a Uplay Gamescom sale.
From Dust, Driver: San Francisco, H.A.W.X. 2 and Silent Hunter 5 will all be reduced to £1/€1/$1 on Uplay this week.
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Assassin's Creed 3 naval battles detailed
There's a whole side-quest full of them.
Assassin's Creed 3's naval battles will fill an entire side-quest in the game, Ubisoft has told Eurogamer in a preview of the mode at Gamescom.
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Assassin's Creed 3 Vita heroine has a poison dart-firing umbrella
And various costumes to dress her in.
Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation on PlayStation Vita will allow you to dress the game's heroine in different costumes, one of which bestows a deadly parasol.
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Counter-Strike: GO hour-long trial exclusively for PlayStation Plus subscribers
Won't be offered PS3-wide.
An hour-long timed trial of the full Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game will be offered exclusively to PlayStation Plus subscribers on PS3.
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The Guild Wars 2 servers and launch timings
Asura hope it goes smoothly.
Five years in the making, and Guild Wars 2 is now only eight days from launch. Do you know which server you'll be playing on? There's a list to pick from below.
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Feature | The Medal of Honor Tomahawk
When following "a dotted line to real world events" stops being offensive and gets scary.
(Editor's note: Since we published this report, EA has pulled the Medal of Honor tomahawk promotion and issued a response to Eurogamer.)
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