The GAEMS G155 Sentry Personal Gaming Environment doesn't get a whole lot of attention, but it's an essential piece of equipment in many a gamer's life, from college students to military personnel. You strap your Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 into the protective case, which sports its own screen and speakers, find a wall…
Good thing Titanfall doesn't have actual titans in it—that seems like a recipe for disaster.
Before Titanfall was Titanfall, the mech-heavy shooter went through years of development hell. Crippled by a complicated lawsuit back in 2010, the folks behind the newly-formed studio Respawn Entertainment worried for a long time that they might never actually make a game.
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Instead of calling in your Titan just as the match is ending to unload on the enemy dropship, what if you saved your Titan? Just for a bit longer?
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During their PAX East panel today, Respawn announced that they're working on new modes for Titanfall. These updates, in addition to other micro updates that they've already been working on, will be completely free to owners of the game.
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At the PAX East Titanfall panel today, Respawn Entertainment announced Titanfall Expedition, a paid, campaign-continuing map pack coming to the Xbox and PC shooter.
There's a Titanfall panel going on at PAX East, and it's being live streamed here.
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Nick Jensen, who made a Lego Titan, is back with another Titanfall creation—an EVA-8 Shotgun. See more photos below:
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Not all versions of Titanfall are made equal—at least, not when we're talking about the graphics.
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It's a general rule that most constantly-connnected competitive shooters will evolve and change a whole lot in their lifetimes. Titanfall's the newest king of the hill in FPSland and the hit game is no exception. There's a new patch inbound for the hit game and it's reconfiguring a lot of stuff. Among other things,…
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The Titanfall launch event in Hong Kong featured a Titanfall-decorated climbing wall and Titanfall pilot cosplayer. See the pilot scaling the Titan and more photographs below:
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By using your own custom-built Titanfall Eject Button. It's not just one of those big red buttons you can buy everywhere, but one that was created and programmed for one purpose only: To help you leave your Titan in the coolest way possible.
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I'll admit it: I assumed that the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall would be hot garbage, especially once we found out that Respawn—the studio behind the PC and Xbox One versions—hadn't actually made it.
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It's been two years since we last showcased the art of James Paick. In that time he's worked on projects like Titanfall, so it's time to take another look.
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If it exists, it'll get recreated in Minecraft—and Titanfall is no exception.
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Don't worry about the fuzzy screenshot there. It's just a still from a live Twitch stream of Titanfall on the Xbox 360 being played right now. Now with HD video.
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My original plan for today's Saturday Morning Stream was to play Hatsune Miku: Project Diva F on my PlayStation 3. Then my PlayStation 3 killed itself. Titanfall it is!
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Microsoft's talked about how their next-gen cloud infrastructure is going to change things for video games. Today, they finally showed what that looks like.
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threezero posted several new photographs of their upcoming Titanfall Atlas Titan:
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