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Cube World was partly inspired by Zelda, so it totally makes sense to mod the boat from Wind Waker into the game. Now all we need is a bit of music. And maybe a few treasure charts. Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots and…
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Doom With Iron Sights Feels Really, Really Weird
This is a full playthrough of the beta version of Doom:One, an upcoming fan reconstruction of the first episode from id Software’s Doom with updated visuals, continuous levels, new secrets and, well, iron sights. If you wanna give the mod a try yourself, you can grab a demo at its official ModDB page Doom: One…
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A Free, Improved Co-op Version of Half-Life? Where Do I Sign Up?
The developers of Sven Co-op, a nearly fifteen-years-old but still regularly updated mod that lets you play Valve’s original Half-Life cooperatively with friends online, announced that their creation is heading to Steam as a free stand-alone game. With huge improvements. In a post published on the mod’s official website, the team revealed that Valve not…
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Responding to Polygon, SCEA senior producer Tsubasa Inaba said that there’s a chance The Playroom, Sony’s tech-demo-slash-sandbox which was used to demonstrate the new PlayStation Camera at E3, would be available on the console at launch. “We hope to have a more definitive answer in the next month or two,” he added.
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American McGee Starts New Kickstarter Campaign to Fund The Alice Film
In order to develop a series of animated shorts based on his Alice universe, series creator American McGee, following the cancellation of his most recent Kickstartercampaign, has now launched a new Kickstarter campaign Asking for $200,000, McGee seeks to create “animated short films inspired by the ‘Alice: Otherlands’ concept,” with the ultimate goal of “[developing…
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Steve Hogarty of PCGamesN goes to Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist preview event for a hands-on. It doesn’t work out. “I left the event early to go home to bed, where I slept for 16 hours before slithering off to a hospital. Perhaps I’m part of a Splinter Cell ARG and I’ve been shot with a…
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Soon, Legate Lanius Will Take Center Stage in This Fallout Fan Film
Fallout: Lanius, the fan-film starring New Vegas antagonist Legate Lanius, AKA the Monster of the East, will be screened in just a few days at PAX Australia, on July 20. The creators shared a short one-minute teaser to mark the occasion.
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Hold on to Your Locomotives; Transport Tycoon Is Going Mobile
Chris Sawyer’s classic 1994 transport management simulator is getting an updated re-release on Android and iOS. The new, “definitive” Transport Tycoon was announced on its brand new official website, accompanied by the short 30-second teaser above. Expect it to land sometimes this year.
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Zelda, Metroid, and Dizzy Combine to Form… Spud’s Quest!
This is Spud’s Quest, a neat little six-hour (that’s playtime, not development time) puzzle-adventure with a Metroid-inspired upgrade system, temples based on Zelda’s, and gameplay inspired by classic European platformer series Dizzy. It is set to hit PC this summer, and can be pre-ordered via its official website.
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What Sets Apart Wildstar’s Combat? Aiming. And Exploding Space Goats.
Carbine Studios’ latest DevSpeak details what combat will look like in their upcoming animated movie-esque MMORPG, Wildstar—specifically, how its Free Form Targeting system works, which lets you take precise control of all attacks, ranged or otherwise. Also included: the fiery death of dozens of innocent animals.
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11 Minutes of Lord British’s New RPG, Narrated by the Man Himself
Shroud of the Avatar, Richard Garriott’s recently Kickstarted spiritual sequel to his Ultima RPG series, looks pretty damn good considering it’s currently just an early prototype. Here, Garriott narrates a short 11-minute walkthrough of some of the game’s features they’ve been working on in the past few months.
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This Teaser Goes From Beautiful to Terrifying In The Space Of Seconds
When they posted it, Random Seed, creators of upcoming Mars-based survival-exploration title Lacuna Passage, called this video a “soundtrack spotlight.” And that’s what it is: a demonstration of the game’s somber and beautiful soundtrack—accompanied by a deeply unsettling sneak-peek at… something
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Ever Wanted to Play A Crew of Alien Chickens Out To Destroy Humanity?
Well, now you can. Yay! This is Humans Must Answer, a PC horizontal shoot-em-up by Sumom Games, a small indie studio home to some of the people who worked on the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The game, which was actually just Kickstarted this Spring, takes your crew of savage intergalactic chickens and their ship, the Golden Eagle,…
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Miss The Dreamcast? Why Not Play A Little Crazy Taxi On Your Phone?
Following the release of the iOS port last October, Sega has made available the Dreamcast version of their acclaimed taxi-slash-reckless-driving simulator, Crazy Taxi, on Android as well. The mobile version sports “remastered” visuals and touch-screen adapted controls, but is otherwise a faithful port, retaining both the gameplay and the soundtrack of the original game from…
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This Platformer Is Like Dust, Only with Guns, Snipers and Artillery
A side-scrolling, cartoon-like 2D action-platformer that takes place in a world populated by animals. That’s where the similarities to Dust: An Elysian Tail end—here, the world is like the Wild West, the story is about revenge, and there’s guns. Lots of guns. Dusty Revenge follows Dusty, an anthropomorphized rabbit, on his quest to take revenge…
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