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Super Mario Bros. Crossover dev's Kickstarter races past goal
Super Retro Squad eats a mega mushroom.
Super Mario Bros. Crossover developer Exploding Rabbit has nearly doubled its Kickstarter goal to fund platformer Super Retro Squad, due for PC and Mac.
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Livingstone: Tomb Raider reaction "quite extreme"
Sexual threat controversy "blown out of proportion".
The recent controversy surrounding Tomb Raider's E3 trailer was "quite extreme" and "blown out of proportion", according to Eidos life president Ian Livingstone.
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Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Dragon's Dogma
Performance anxiety.
Capcom's MT Framework engine is known for delivering graphically impressive games that take full advantage of current-gen HD hardware. Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 amongst many others demonstrate the engine's capacity for generating highly detailed characters and complex environments, topped off with a slew of accomplished visual effects. With Dragon's Dogma, the development team has taken this a step further: the engine has been re-purposed to handle larger, open-world environments, while a fully dynamic lighting system based on deferred shading illuminates the sprawling environments with a level of accomplishment we've never seen in older versions of the engine.
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Feature | Mass Effect 3: The Extended Cut: A Happy Ending?
This is how the world ends - with both a bang and a whimper.
They're the same endings. A little better. More or less.
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Telltale "working with Sony Europe" on The Walking Dead Episode 2 PSN release
As angry Season Pass holders vent their fury.
Telltale has said it is working with Sony to bring The Walking Dead Episode 2 to the European PlayStation Store "ASAP" amid angry complaints on social networks.
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Resident Evil, Uncharted headline bumper EU PlayStation Store update
Spec Ops! Ratchet! BioShock! Ridge Racer!
This week's European PlayStation Store update is jam-packed with classic PlayStation 3 games, alongside a sprinkling of tarted-up HD classics to boot.
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Infinity Blade is Epic's most profitable franchise ever
"In terms of man years invested versus revenue."
UPDATE: Epic executive Mark Rein has tweeted to clarify that Infinity Blade is Epic's most profitable game "in terms of man years invested versus revenue only, not total profit".
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Review | App of the Day: Mini Mix Mayhem
Four-by-fray.
Mini Mix Mayhem's tutorial seems daunting. "This is part one," you could imagine it cheerfully telling you, maybe in Siri's voice. But it would be a ruse. In reality the game only explains the basic rules of each microgame, presented on a four-by-four grid.
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Joe Danger Touch announced for iPhone, iPad
Not a port.
Cartoon racer Joe Danger will race onto iOS devices later this year, developer Hello Games has announced.
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New Halo 4 info spills from retailer quiz
10 new weapons! 2 new vehicles! 50 Spartan Ops missions spread over 10 weeks! And is that clan support?
New Halo 4 information has been revealed by a retailer quiz.
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Kaz Hirai sheds Sony Computer Entertainment chairman role
No more play at his station.
Kaz Hirai, overlord of the entire Sony Corporation, has "retired" from his role as representative director and chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment.
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Mass Effect 3: Leviathan DLC files hidden in Extended Cut
Script leak details SPOILERS.
BioWare has hidden data for a new Mass Effect 3 DLC pack within the files of the game's new 1.85GB Extended Cut.
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Team Fortress 2 gets new weapons in day two of Pyromania update
Meet the Pyro image released.
Valve has added a number of weapons to Team Fortress 2 as part of the second day of the Pyromania update.
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Pokémon Conquest UK release date announced
Feudal RPG mash-up invades next month.
Japanese role-playing crossover Pokémon Conquest will arrive for DS on 27th July, Nintendo has announced.
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Peter Molyneux to speak at Rezzed
Veteran designer joins packed developer session schedule
With less than a fortnight to go until Rezzed, we're delighted to reveal that industry legend Peter Molyneux will be delivering a developer session presentation to attendees at 4pm on the Friday.
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Brand new Dead or Alive 5 character announced
Rig joins the fray.
Tecmo Koei has announced a brand new character for upcoming fighting game Dead or Alive 5.
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Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3a now live in Europe
Item durability damage halved.
The Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3a is now live in Europe, Blizzard has announced.
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Free Spec Ops: The Line co-op downloadable content launches in August, 2K Games has announced.
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Review | Warlock: Master of the Arcane Review
Hexed.
When I was a lot younger than I am now, I had some difficulty getting my head around the idea that a frog could be dangerous. In spite of how tiny and placid they are, my teachers insisted that certain kinds of frog were among the most poisonous creatures in the world, their secretions used to tip the darts of South American Indians. They simply looked very cute and very colourful to me, how could they possibly cause anyone any harm?
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Follow-up to Facebook behemoth takes root.
A sequel to monstrously successful Facebook game Farmville is on its way, developer Zynga has announced.
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The Walking Dead: Episode 2 staggers onto XBLA tomorrow
Friday for PC, and "soon" on PS3.
The second episode in The Walking Dead series is out tomorrow on XBLA, developer Telltale has announced.
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Gears of War producer looks to Pixar for guidance
Locusts, Inc.
Epic Games producer Rod Fergusson sought storytelling advice from Pixar for the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment.
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LittleBigPlanet 2's Summer Creator's Kit out now
Free DLC available for one week only.
A free summertime-themed DLC pack is out today for LittleBigPlanet 2. The add-on is only available for one week starting today.
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Vita YouTube app launches in US today
European roll-out tomorrow?
Vita finally gets a YouTube app in the US today, Sony has revealed.
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Earth Defense Force invades Vita
Alien ant farm
Earth Defense Force 2017 is coming to Vita on 27th September in Japan, according to a report by Dengeki PlayStation (via Siliconera).
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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut adds fourth ending
Plus, BioWare's new message to fans revealed. SPOILERS INSIDE.
The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC adds a fourth ending to the game.
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Spelunky surfaces on XBLA next month
Coming this Independence Day season.
The much anticipated Spelunky remake is coming to Xbox 360 on 4th July for 1200 Microsoft points, Major Nelson has announced.
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Only 20% of players will finish Hitman: Absolution, reckons IO
"It makes the people working on it really really sad."
The vast majority of those playing Hitman: Absolution won't stick with the game long enough to experience its final level, according to developer IO Interactive's expectations.
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RuneScape Evolution of Combat expansion enters beta
"The biggest changes we've ever made," promises Jagex.
Long-running MMO RuneScape's Evolution of Combat expansion enters its beta phase today, developer Jagex has announced.
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Max Payne 3 patch now ready for download
Multiplayer re-tuned, glitches fixed.
Max Payne 3 gets patched up today, developer Rockstar has announced.
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