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On Late-Night TV, Watch Dogs Is All About Chase Scenes and a Sex Doll
Ubisoft appeared earlier tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to show off their upcoming free-roam hacking sandbox, Watch Dogs After a brief spying session starring a creepy guy and his plastic love doll, we get to a busy intersection where the main character, Aiden, starts tailing a woman whom the game’s HUD labels a…
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A First-Person Puzzler That Blends Sci-Fi and Lovecraftian Horror
Frogwares, known mostly for their Sherlock Holmes brand of adventure games, brings us Magrunner: Dark Pulse, a first-person action-physics puzzler-platformer hybrid with the tagline “Technology Meets Cthulhu.” Huh. Magrunner takes place in 2050, where you, a space explorer hopeful named Dax, start out in a training facility meant to teach you how to use the…
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There’s a New Sonic Out on PC. It’s a Fangame and It Looks Amazing.
Don’t let the ‘fangame’ moniker fool you. This is the real deal. The game, called Sonic After the Sequel, is actually a sequel to an earlier game done by the same guy, Sonic Before the Sequel. Both are full-fledged Sonic games with their own storylines and stages, taking place between the official games: Before the…
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It’s A Global Archeological Adventure. It’s Also an FPS.
Nordic Games brings us what appears to be an Indiana Jones-esque first-person globe-trotting experience called Deadfall Adventures. Also involved: shooting and explosions aplenty. In Deadfall, you play as Quatermain, an adventurer from 1938, whose job is to escort and guard Jennifer Goodwin, a US secret agent in search of an ancient artifact, The Heart of…
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Hotline Miami 2 Turns the Violence Up a Notch in This Creepy Teaser
Devolver Digital has officially announced the sequel to last year’s bloody and surreal top-down action game, Hotline Miami The game, subtitled Wrong Number, will let you take control of several different characters with their own, distinct storylines as you slaughter your way through the new levels. And, of course, there will be new weapons. Check…
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This Musical Tribute to WoW Is Equal Parts Funny and Heartwarming
A “We Are The World”-inspired music video about World of Warcraft featuring Jimmy Fallon, Felicia Day, Chris Hardwick, and Leeroy Jenkins. Need I say more? The crew of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon created the video as a tribute to “one of the greatest games of all time.” It, of course, automatically becomes a tribute…
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Capcom’s Two Classic Arcade Titles, Reborn on Modern Consoles
The sleek side-scrolling action-RPG you can see above is Capcom’s Chronicles of Mystara, an updated re-release and bundle of two of their older arcade games, Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystara In addition to reworking the graphics, Capcom also included a bevy of new features, including drop-in/drop-out co-op for four players, a House Rules…
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Knack is as Charming as Ever on Late-Night TV
Upcoming PS4-exclusive family-oriented action game Knack was the focus of the PS4’s (and Mark Cerny’s) appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier tonight. There was much rejoicing. A good experience, overall: Fallon and the audience had a great time, and we also got to know that Knack is actually an homage to the Stay…
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So, The Games of E3 2013. When Are They Coming Out Again?
This year, E3 had so many games. So many. But watching demos and reading impressions is one thing; we want to play these games. Sadly, a lot of them won’t be coming out just yet. Lots of E3 games will land this year, no doubt. In fact, one of them is already here—Naughty Dog’s The…
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Can You Name All The Games In Late Night’s Video Games Week Intro?
For their Video Games Week, the crew of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon created a custom game reference-packed intro for the show. They managed to fit in quite a lot, for a thirty-three second clip—including the obligatory chiptune soundtrack. Neat! Check it out above.
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Jimmy Fallon Doesn’t Want You To Play These Games. With Good Reason.
Courtesy of Late Night’s Video Game Week, here we have a list of games Jimmy Fallon wants us to avoid. Personally, I’m convinced. Then again, it’s true you wouldn’t expect stellar quality from a Hooters game, and E.T. is pretty much a no-brainer, but I think something like Captain Novolin could have worked had they…
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown to Hit iOS This Week
Firaxis, developers of Enemy Unknown, the latest installment in the long-standing XCOM series of tactical RPG/strategy games, recently announced that the game’s iOS port will be arriving in just three days’ time, on Thursday. Enemy Unknown for iOS will be a universal app featuring GameCenter and iCloud support; “the complete XCOM experience of the console…
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Gaming industry analytics firm DFC, in their recent forecast of the Xbox One’s market performance, have noted that Microsoft’s “overall strategy for entertainment devices is deeply flawed,” adding that due to their strategy, “the entire future of Microsoft’s consumer entertainment business is in question.” [via MCV]
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Here’s The Most Laid-Back Trailer You’ll See Today
Well, if you ignore the shark, anyway. Above is footage of the prototype version of World of Diving, a mellow Oculus Rift-enabled multiplayer diving simulator currently looking for funds on Indiegogo. Underwater fish photography never looked so appealing.
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Explore, Survive, Role-Play: Here’s The Latest Of Steam’s Greenlight
The city building game built by fighting game veterans and the “rogue-lite” with the awesome soundtrack are just two of the ten games that nabbed community-assured distribution rights on Steam this month. Let’s have a look at who and what they are. The first group, consisting of six games, was revealed yesterday: Assetto Corsa An…
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Delightful? Yes. Creepy? Yes. This Is Capybara Games’ Below.
Dodging shadowy tentacle monsters left and right is probably really, really hard when you’re busy staring wide-eyed at the absolutely sublime world around you. Wow. Capy’s Below, a game in which you Explore, Survive, and Discover, is set to come out for the Xbox One
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Here’s What The New Handheld Zelda Looks Like In Action
At E3, our very own Jason Schreier had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with the new handheld Legend of Zelda game, A Link Between Worlds. There’s a little bit of everything: exploration, combat, and Jason even demonstrates the new Merge feature for us, which lets Link become a wall painting to sneak by…
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Retro Studios Wants To Expand The Metroid Prime Universe
Retro Studios, makers of the legendary Metroid Prime series, is currently busy creating the next generation of Donkey Kong Country, much to the chagrin of a lot of Metroid fans. That doesn’t mean, however, that they abandoned Metroid. On the contrary, Samus’ world might be getting bigger in the future. IGN spoke to Nintendo’s Kensuke…
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