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  1. Ubisoft sues website alleged to have facilitated DDoS attacks against Rainbow Six Siege servers

    Ubisoft sues website alleged to have facilitated DDoS attacks against Rainbow Six Siege servers

    "The DDoS attacks that Defendants enable are designed to disrupt and impede R6S servers."

    Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website that allegedly distributes denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its Rainbow Six: Siege servers.

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  2. Bloodstained's Switch port is now in a "nearly identical state for content" as PC and console

    Bloodstained's Switch port is now in a "nearly identical state for content" as PC and console

    "This is an important step leading into the upcoming Zangetsu release."

    Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night's troubled Switch port is now in a "nearly identical state for content" as its console and PC siblings, says publisher 505 Games.

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  3. Testing for Halo: Combat Evolved on PC kicks off next month

    Private beta tests for Halo: Combat Evolved on PC are expected to roll out next month, a little later than initially planned.

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  4. Capcom will align content updates for PC and console players of Monster Hunter World

    Capcom has released a roadmap for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and confirmed content updates for both console and PC "will sync" from April 2020.

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  5. Ten of the best Oculus Quest games you need to own

    With Christmas done and dusted, there's undoubtedly going to be quite a lot of you out there sporting brand new Oculus Quest headsets. That's excellent news of course, but your first foray into VR can be quite overwhelming, especially when it comes to choosing which games to buy first.

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  6. Star Citizen dev hits back against Crytek as war of words continues

    Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games has hit back in its ugly legal battle with Crytek.

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  7. To play Monument Valley is to marvel at how it works

    What is the world made of? In games and films the answer is often surprising. There is a wonderful moment in Inception in which Ariadne - Jesus, Nolan - takes a Parisian boulevard and folds it over on itself. It's one of those instances of sheer cinematic glory: the horizon rises up and bends back, until buildings rest overhead and the sky is dark with tarmac and cobbles.

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  8. Player Killing created a "toxic environment" in Amazon MMO New World

    Player Killing created a "toxic environment" in Amazon MMO New World

    So the developer replaced it with "battles by appointment".

    The developer of Amazon MMO New World has fundamentally changed the way player versus player works in the game after it struggled to find a solution for Player Killing.

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  9. It turns out Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mentioned the bombing of Piccadilly Circus

    One of the more controversial missions in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sees the player respond to a terrorist attack on Piccadilly Circus. But it turns this is quite an old idea - like, Modern Warfare 2 old.

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  10. This South Korean apartment block looks like a Minecraft house

    The video game phenomenon that is Minecraft has influenced much: YouTubers, WHSmith-goers and the realtors of Beverly Hills.

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  11. Summerford is Silent Hill meets 1986 rural England

    Fancy an old-school Silent Hill-type game set in 1986 rural England? Summerford has your back.

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  12. Ubisoft is trying to make its games more varied

    You know the joke: all Ubisoft games are the same. That's not entirely true, of course. But it is clear the French mega-publisher has followed a template for its big-budget open world games, established by the early success of Assassin's Creed on the last generation of consoles. And why not? Millions of sales later, it all seemed to be working out. Now though, after a tough 2019, Ubisoft may be ready to shake things up a bit.

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  13. NHS chief says loot boxes are "setting kids up for addiction" to gambling

    The NHS' mental health boss has said loot boxes are "setting kids up for addiction by teaching them to gamble".

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  14. There's an animated Mortal Kombat movie coming in the first half of this year

    Warner Bros is turning developer NetherRealm's long-running, infamously gruesome fighting series Mortal Kombat into an animated movie, and it's set to arrive in the first half of this year.

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  15. How Life is Strange 2 challenged video game representations of homelessness

    Feature | How Life is Strange 2 challenged video game representations of homelessness

    "We wanted to be as accurate as possible."

    Homelessness is a constant and tragic backdrop to urban life. Walk through any major city and you'll find rough sleepers asking for change, tents pitched under overpasses, and charities trying to provide aid. Despite all these signs, and the rise in homelessness over the last decade, this tragedy is often ignored and overlooked on both a government and individual level, culminating in businesses even incorporating anti-homeless architecture into their designs, and laws that force rough sleepers out of certain areas.

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  16. Valve says it's "absolutely not" working on anything Left 4 Dead related

    Rumours that Valve is currently working on a new Left 4 Dead game may have been gathering pace of late, but your hopes are about to be dashed; the company has now stepped forward to categorically state that it's "absolutely not" doing any such thing.

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  17. Acclaimed story-driven platformer Horace is currently free on the Epic Games Store

    Horace, the ambitious story-driven 2D platformer that Eurogamer's Martin Robinson liked really rather a lot on its release last year, is currently free on the Epic Games Store, meaning you've yet another opportunity to expand your interminable gaming backlog.

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  18. 3D Realms revives 1999 PC shooter Kingpin

    3D Realms has announced Kingpin: Reloaded, a remaster of cult classic 1999 PC shooter Kingpin: Life of Crime.

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  19. Unsettling RPG World of Horror slithers onto Steam next month

    Here's something that looks like it crawled out of my first PC's recycle bin: a 1-bit style RPG called World of Horror, and it's launching in Early Access on Steam this February.

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  20. Marvel's Iron Man VR delayed

    Marvel's Iron Man VR delayed

    No hard feelings Point Break.

    Marvel's Iron Man VR has been delayed to 15th May 2020. It had been due out 28th February.

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  21. Five of the Best: Blocks

    Feature | Five of the Best: Blocks

    Pick a side.

    Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook. Things like crowds, potions, mountains, hands. Things we barely notice while we're playing but can recall many years later because, it turns out, they're fundamental to our memory of the game. Well, now is the time to celebrate them!

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  22. Destiny has a charity T-shirt to help Australia

    Pre-orders are now open for Destiny's new charity T-shirt, created to raise funds for Australia in the wake of the country's devastating bush fires.

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  23. Skyrim's going full Dracula in the next Elder Scrolls Online Chapter

    The next Chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online has been fully unveiled - and it sounds pretty high-stakes, as players will explore Western Skyrim as it suffers under the rule of a vampire lord.

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  24. Cyberpunk 2077 dev will continue crunch "to some degree" through five month delay

    Cyberpunk 2077's delay until September means it will get another five months of polish, but also five more months of staff crunching - working overtime - to some degree.

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  25. Pokémon's official ASMR video lets you relax to fireside Charmander

    It's Friday - and after a long week, what better way to relax than by staring at a Charmander lounging by a fire. Wait, what?

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  26. CD Projekt says Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer likely won't arrive until after 2021

    Following the news that its hugely anticipated open-world sci-fi adventure Cyberpunk 2077 will see a five month delay, CD Projekt has confirmed that the game's previously announced multiplayer - which it's now describing as the "the triple-A release we're working on in parallel with Cyberpunk 2077" - likely won't arrive until after 2021.

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  27. Horizon Zero Dawn is reportedly coming to PC later this year

    Horizon Zero Dawn is reportedly coming to PC later this year

    A first for a PlayStation exclusive from a Sony-owned studio.

    Developer Guerrilla Games' acclaimed post-apocalyptic open-world action-RPG Horizon Zero Dawn - in which a self-assured young hunter named Aloy murders a bunch of dinosaur robots using a bow and arrow - is reportedly set to leave the loving embrace of PlayStation 4 exclusivity later this year in order to make its way to PC.

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  28. Acclaimed post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Redux heading to Switch next month

    4A Games' celebrated first-person shooter series Metro is heading to Switch next month, 28th February, in the form of two-game collection Metro Redux.

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  29. A Plague Tale: Innocence, Gris heading to Xbox Game Pass on PC in the coming weeks

    If you've been wondering what's next for Xbox Game Pass on PC, Microsoft has the answer in the form of three new titles heading to the subscription service soon - and they're all good 'uns, taking the form of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Gris, and Children of Morta.

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