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Epic Games’ MOBA, Paragon, is launching in Early Access on March 18, via Founder’s Packs available starting at $20. The packs, according to the Reddit announcement, each grant access to the game and include cash shop items like skins and boosts. Nathan’s got a few hours’ worth of impressions from the game’s alpha.
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In The Shadow of the Minecraft Colossus
Colossi: giant statues in the real world, gargantuan creatures in fiction. They terrify and inspire awe, even (especially) when they’re painstakingly built by hand in Minecraft. This particular colossus was built by PlanetMinecraft’s Divici, who’s otherwise known for his anime- and LOTR-related builds, over a two-week period. He actually made two versions of the colossus,…
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Our Favorite Games from February
February’s the shortest month of the year. Does that affect our recommendations for February? Not sure but, as a matter of fact, we are down to 18 games this month. Those 18 are pretty good, though. Take a look: Adventures of Mana A great (if pricy) mobile remake of 1991’s Final Fantasy Adventure for the…
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Minecraft’s Combat Update Changes the Game in a Big Way
Minecraft’s 1.9 patch—known as the Combat Update—has been in development at Mojang for well over year, and it’s arriving on PC today. So what exactly does it bring to the table? Let’s take a look. Once you start playing, the first new thing you’ll notice will likely be the off-hand slot. This is a new…
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The Original Starter Pokémon, Re-Imagined
“What would the first Pokémon generation look like if they were introduced today?” To answer that question, Pokéfans infinipede and ShedSimas embarked on a project to redesign the original 151 Pokémon, with their first targets being, of course, the original starters. As the introductory post on the New 151 Tumblr blog states, the pair of…
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Superb Gaming Animations
Fanart is a high form of flattery. Turning scenes from your favorite games into animated clips, each taking hours to days to weeks to finish, has to be the highest form. These amazing short animations all come from the US-based, 17-year-old artist AmazingArtistYellow. The one on the top is their latest, called “Come back here…
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Unreal Engine 4 Makes Doom Very, Uh, Angular
Late last week, captain_slow48 posted an Unreal Engine 4 recreation of Doom’s first level online. “I built this to familiarize myself with the engine,” he said, adding that he tried to be “as faithful to the original aesthetic as possible.” Which is exactly what happened. In the relevant thread on the Unreal Engine forums, another…
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After Six Years in Development, This Action RPG is Finally Coming Out
Crate Entertainment first announced Grim Dawn, a Diablo-like RPG using Titan Quest’s engine, in January 2010. Two years later, they collected over half a million dollars with a successful Kickstarter campaign, and later put the game on Early Access in 2013. Now, after half a dozen years, Grim Dawn is getting released. Mechanics-wise, Grim Dawn…
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Duriel, Scariest of the Lesser Evils
Duriel, with his tiny-ass lair, slow-down aura and incredibly dangerous attacks, is an annoying Diablo II boss to fight. Now, thanks to this piece of fanart, he’s also terrifying to look at. Yay! The one responsible for Duriel’s HD-ification is one Svein Yngve Sandvik Antonsen, who works as a character artist at Interceptor Entertainment (the…
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“Is E.T. really the worst game of all time? Probably not. But the story of the fall of the video game industry needed a face and that was E.T.” Howard Scott Warshaw, the designer behind 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, talks about the game, his career, and his life in an interview…
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Fallout 4 is DICE’s Game of the Year
DICE’s all-peer-based voting panel must have had a great time hacking supermutants apart to Skeeter Davis’s End of the World, ‘cause Fallout 4 took three awards home, including Game of the Year. But of course, Fallout 4 wasn’t the only big winner at the 19th DICE Awards In total, five games had wins in more…
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Hitman GO, the mobile, Hitman-themed strategy game, is coming to PC, PS4, and PS Vita next Tuesday. Launching as the “Definitive Edition,” it’ll feature full Steamworks integration on PC and cross-buy/cross-save on PS4 and Vita, with upgraded visuals and all updates from the mobile version intact.
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A Minecraft X-Wing, On Its Way to Blow Up the Death Star
Held together by Slime Blocks and Redstone, the Minecraft X-Wing blazes through the trench, heading towards the Death Star’s thermal exhaust port. This is the video the GIF’s from: As you can see, in real-time, the X-Wing actually moves a lot more slowly. The video showcases a Command Block-based X-Wing made by MythicalSnowman, on Adrian…
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An Iconic Dark Souls Location, in Minecraft
Dark Souls’ Anor Londo is known for its terrific atmosphere, and its infuriating archers. This Minecraft build has one of those things. Well, two, if you spawn some skeletons. It’s a large build: According to the sole creator, LNeoX from PlanetMinecraft, it’s on a 1200 by 1200 block map. With some good-looking terrain, I might…
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