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Drain A Fictional Phone’s Battery In The Scary-Looking Daylight
This is the first footage from Zombie Studios’ latest, a survival horrory-looking game called Daylight. There’s not yet much to know about it, besides that it’s powered by Unreal Engine 4 and its world is entirely randomly generated. I posted a while ago about the Kickstarter-funded Delver’s Drop, another procedurally generated indie title, and several…
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Here’s The First Official Trailer For The Final Fantasy X HD Remaster
We only just got confirmation that the HD remasters of Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 are coming to North America, and already the first official trailer has surfaced. So what if it’s partly in German? As far as we know, this trailer was supposed to come out tomorrow. We’ve reached out to Square…
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The Cosplay of PAX East, Day Two
Day two of PAX East gave birth to new DuckTales: Remastered details, the announcement of Dust: An Elysian Tail on Steam, a whole slew of XCOM and Civilization news, and more Mass Effect 3 stats than you could ever want to know. It also played host to some of the most imaginative cosplayers this side…
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A Minecraft Player Just Created What Could Be The Beginnings of Artificial Intelligence, Sort Of
My biggest accomplishments in Minecraft so far have been building my dream home (complete with fireplace, library, greenhouse, and swimming pool) and a five-way track switcher that I definitely did not copy off a Youtube video. Redditor AllUpInHyuh, on the other hand, created what he or she is calling “a working neuron.” An Imgur gallery…
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Now Homeless, the Retro Games Podcast Retronauts Wants Your Kickstarter Money
After the tragic shuttering of 1UP alongside a few other publications last month, the retro games podcast Retronauts found itself without a home. Naturally its hosts, former and slightly-less-recently-former, have turned to Kickstarter to fund its revival. Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt and Jeremy Parish are asking for $12,000 for equipment and recording space, and in…
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If You’re Still Mad About SimCity, At Least You Can Sign This Petition
Their message is clear: What happened with SimCity is not okay. Their demands are simple: Remove the always-online requirement from SimCity and future games. And they are legion. Their change.org petition has almost 75,000 signatures. Who knows if it will have any real-world effects, but at least it’s keeping the dialogue up. That’s what we’re…
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Dust: An Elysian Tail is Headed to Steam, Possibly as Early as April [UPDATE: Now With More Info]
Dust: An Elysian Tail developers Dean “Noogy” Dodrill and Alex Kain announced during their PAX East panel today that the indie platformer, previously exclusive to Xbox Live Arcade, is on its way to Steam, with a release date possibly as soon as April. The duo also teased Dust 2, though they offered nothing concrete. Dodrill…
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This Keeps Getting Better: DuckTales: Remastered Has All the Voice Actors from the Show
As if the news that Capcom is bringing DuckTales back in remastered form wasn’t enough by itself, the publisher revealed on Friday that the entire cast of voice actors from the original show will lend their talent to the new version of the classic platformer. Reads a post by Christian Svensson, Capcom corporate officer and…
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Canned Food Super Mario Looks Better in 3D
Forgive me for another Super Mario 64 post, but I just had to point out how the career path of Canned Food Super Mario has so closely mirrored that of the real thing. After a couple iterations with minimal graphical improvements, Canned Food Super Mario has finally made the leap to 3D. I think he…
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Highlights From PAX East, Including More Super Mario 64 Speed Runs, Are Streaming Live This Weekend
Day one of PAX East is behind us, but don’t fret—there’s still Saturday and Sunday remaining. And even if you’re not in Boston you can watch some of the highlights thanks to Twitch.tv’s two simultaneous streams. In one corner, they’ve got panels, starting with Penny Arcade “Make a Strip” right now. In the other is…
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Blurring The Lines Between Single Player And Multiplayer Is A Good Thing
In the future, there may not be any more single-player games—but that doesn’t mean what we seem to think it does every time some big publisher opens its big mouth and tells us that single-player games are dead. Epic, story-driven campaigns aren’t going away; it’s just that new forms of multiplayer are evolving in tandem…
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SNL Proves That Racism Won’t Die, Even After The Undead Apocalypse
Poor Kevin Hart. All he wanted to do when he hosted SNL this weekend was eat “white people brains” and do the dance from “Thriller.” Instead he got shot. It’s a messed up world we live in, especially once the dead start walking. (Apologies to anyone outside the U.S. who can’t watch this—blame Hulu. I’m…
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Super Smash Kittens Should Probably Be Nintendo’s Next WiiWare Game
I would like to wholeheartedly thank Youtuber TyVerteLive for creating this masterful work of parody, which will surely be hailed by future generations as the perfect example of how to combine cats and video games. And there are plenty of those Now someone please run with this idea—I want it on Nintendo’s eShop by the…
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Fox News Still Hasn’t Fixed The Basic Errors In Its Latest Assassin’s Creed Story [UPDATE]
Mainstream news outlets often get games wrong. This has been discussed. And discussed. And discussed, again, this week The Assassin’s Creed 3 article that Fox News published earlier this week is atrocious for so many reasons. Yes, it’s xenophobic, somehow making the phrase “French company” sound like dirty words. Yes, Fox clearly tried to twist…
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Arma 3 Has Some Stunningly Realistic-Looking Signage
This set of new screenshots from within Bohemia Interactive’s Arma 3 paints a very pretty picture, one filled with detailed sign textures and sexy lighting. The images were unearthed by the community as part of an ongoing augmented reality game, according to the fan site ArmaHolic They’ve got more over there, and I’ve got to…
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