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  1. App of the Day: Bang! HD

    Review | App of the Day: Bang! HD

    Do you feel lucky?

    Every film theme has its own signature sounds, those odd bits of instrumentation that become indelibly entwined with an imaginary time and a place. For me spaghetti westerns mean one thing: whistling. Whether it's Morricone's score to Once Upon a Time in The West or Allesandroni's supreme Fistful of Dollars, there it is front-and-centre. Maybe I read too much into these things, but I've always seen it as the western writ large: a solo noise, trying to get by against a moving backdrop.

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  2. Minecraft XBLA patch live today

    Minecraft XBLA patch live today

    Autosave! Turn autosave off! Zombie Pigmen!

    A patch for Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade goes live today.

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  3. Might & Magic Heroes 6: Pirates of the Savage Sea release date

    Might & Magic Heroes 6: Pirates of the Savage Sea release date

    10 extra hours of swashbuckling due next month.

    The first Might & Magic Heroes 6 adventure pack, Pirates of the Savage Sea, will launch for PC on 12th July, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

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  4. Civilization 5 now a part of Steam Workshop

    Civilization 5 now a part of Steam Workshop

    Find a mod to stand the test of time.

    Firaxis turn-based strategy game Civilization 5 is now a part of the Steam Workshop, 2K Games has announced.

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  5. Star Wars: The Old Republic dev "looking at free-to-play"

    Star Wars: The Old Republic dev "looking at free-to-play"

    "We have to be flexible and adapt to what is going on."

    For many it's a case of when - not if - Star Wars: The Old Republic, which has shed over 400,000 subscribers since February 2012 - will go free-to-play.

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    Sony: PlayStation Mobile will avoid app store "junk"

    Everything offered will be "proper PlayStation quality".

    Sony has said its PlayStation Mobile service, which will offer PlayStation-branded games for Android devices, will avoid the usual app store "junk".

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  7. Babel Rising Review

    Review | Babel Rising Review

    Smite and magic.

    In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light!

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  8. Rezzed's huge indie Leftfield Collection announced

    Rezzed's huge indie Leftfield Collection announced

    First confirmed titles include Gunpoint, McPixel, Gateways and BaraBariBall.

    So you can play games like Far Cry 3 and Borderlands 2 at Rezzed next month (6th/7th July, Brighton Centre), but it's the PC and Indie Games Show, so where's all the indie?

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  9. Former Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero developer Neversoft now working on Call of Duty

    Former Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero studio Neversoft is making a Call of Duty game, it's announced.

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  10. Microsoft to unveil iPad rival next week - report

    Microsoft is set to reveal a new tablet device to rival the iPad, a new report suggests.

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  11. Splinter Cell movie deal in the works - report

    Splinter Cell movie deal in the works - report

    Ubisoft said to be "very involved".

    A Splinter Cell movie deal is in the works, according to a new report.

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  12. US chart: Diablo 3 pips Max Payne 3 to May crown

    US chart: Diablo 3 pips Max Payne 3 to May crown

    3DS was the only system to show year-on-year growth.

    UPDATE: A few more numbers. NPD's Anita Frazier has confirmed to Eurogamer that Dragon's Dogma sold 92,000 copies in the US during May, while Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter Tweeted that Max Payne 3 sold less than 50 per cent of what LA Noire managed in its first month last year - putting its total somewhere below 450,000.

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  13. PixelJunk 4am Review

    Review | PixelJunk 4am Review

    Sound waves.

    Neither music game nor music software, PixelJunk 4AM is perhaps best described as a music toy. Somewhere buried beneath the ambient visuals and arcane interface, Q Games' latest is built upon the well-worn fundamentals of multi-track mixing. But rather than providing players with faders and channels and the other familiar features of the mixing desk, 4am makes esoteric use of Sony's Move motion controller. It casts the player as a sort of orchestral conductor, wielding the controller as a baton used to pluck sounds from the air and tap out rhythmic stabs that layer on top of the soundscape.

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  14. Warren Spector: "The ultraviolence has to stop"

    Warren Spector: "The ultraviolence has to stop"

    Deus Ex creator concerned by gratuitous bloodshed on show at E3.

    Veteran designer Warren Spector has expressed his deep concern at the escalating obsession with violence in today's video games.

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  15. Face-Off: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

    Digital Foundry | Face-Off: Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown

    Technical knockout.

    Available for just £9.99 on PSN or 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown represents something of a bargain. Not only do you get an incredibly deep and rewarding fighting game, it also represents a sizeable gameplay leap over and above its five-year-old predecessor.

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    Epic boasts of Unreal Engine domination at E3

    Lists more than 25 titles on show that used its tech.

    Epic's Unreal Engine 3 was the game developer's tech platform of choice at this year's E3, judging by an impressive list published by the developer today on its official blog.

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  17. Crytek: CryEngine 3 is as good as Unreal Engine 4

    Crytek: CryEngine 3 is as good as Unreal Engine 4

    Its tech "is next-gen ready since three years ago", says Yerli.

    CryEngine 3 is a match for Epic's recently announced Unreal Engine 4, despite Crytek's system launching a number of years ago, so says the German developer.

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  18. Journey studio raises $5.5 million, goes multiplatform

    Journey studio raises $5.5 million, goes multiplatform

    Thatgamecompany now fully independent.

    Bijou indie studio Thatgamecompany has raised $5.5 million in funding to help it operate without the need for a publisher and is currently working on its first multiplatform title.

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  19. Amazon cancels Wii U pre-orders

    Amazon cancels Wii U pre-orders

    Emails customers, claims listing was "error".

    Online retailer Amazon will not honour customer pre-orders for the Wii U, which it listed yesterday for £199.

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    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 release date announced

    Latest from Cthulhu Saves the World developer brought forward.

    Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 launches for PC on 25th June, developer Zeboyd Games has announced.

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    Original Ghost Recon devs Kickstart "spiritual successor"

    Former Red Storm and Valve staffers crowd-fund old school tactical shooter.

    BlackFoot Studios, a small indie outfit set up by members of the original Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six team at Red Storm Entertainment, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fan-fund an old school tactical FPS called Ground Branch.

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    Former Inside Xbox team's Project Possum hits funding target

    Explosive Alan's games show pilot races past $10k in 24 hours.

    Project Possum, the new games show pilot launched by former Inside Xbox types Explosive Alan Productions, has hit its funding goal in just 24 hours.

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  23. Red Bull offers gamers chance to go to Abu Dhabi GP

    Red Bull offers gamers chance to go to Abu Dhabi GP

    Plus meet Vettel and Webber at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

    Red Bull has kick-started a competition to find the best racing game player at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed - and the ultimate winner will find themselves at this year's Abu Dhabi GP in November.

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  24. Samsung Galaxy S3 Review

    Digital Foundry | Samsung Galaxy S3 Review

    Out of this world.

    While Google's Android platform has proven itself to be a tenacious competitor for Apple's iOS over the past few years, one thing it has arguably lacked is a readily-identifiable 'hero' handset which can effortlessly capture the imagination - and support - of the general public. 2011's Samsung Galaxy S2 was as close as Android has ever gotten to this kind of lead device, and it has so far shifted an amazing 24 million units globally, allowing Samsung to leapfrog Apple to become the world's largest manufacturer of smartphones.

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  25. Whale Trail developer defends game-changing freemium update

    Whale Trail developer defends game-changing freemium update

    "We failed to anticipate such a strong reaction."

    Whale Trail developer ustwo has admitted it did not predict the strength of fan feeling against its recent transition to being a freemium game.

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  26. An entire top-end Dust 514 load-out costs around $0.24 in real money

    UPDATE: CCP has been in touch with a correction to our report, below.

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  27. Ratchet & Clank Trilogy goes gold, gets UK release date

    The Ratchet & Clank Trilogy launches in the UK and Ireland on Friday 29th June, Sony has announced.

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  28. DmC: Devil May Cry Preview: A Rebel Yell

    DmC: Devil May Cry Preview: A Rebel Yell

    Ninja Theory's reinvention of Dante tears things up.

    "Dante's not gay, but I wish he was" says Ninja Theory creative director Tameem Antoniades. "That would teach all those homophobes out there."

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  29. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has TV series voice actors

    Transformers voice actors from the original animated TV series will star in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, publisher Activision has announced.

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