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Here’s A Huge Truck Driving Through Mud. But With Excellent Physics!
Oovee Game Studios took to Kickstarter to ask for help with creating Spintires, their off-road driving game which, while nowhere near done, already looks amazing. Oovee’ Spintires will feature missions taking place in eighties Russia where you, as a truck driver, are tasked with driving cargo from point A to point B. The better you…
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Six Critics Are Pleasantly Spooked By Metro: Last Light
Metro: Last Light is a survivor. Not only did it suffer multiple delays, but it also managed to get through its publisher’s unfortunate closure unscathed. The result is an excellent, albeit slightly troubled, first-person horror shooter. While some reviews note a few performance- and technical polish-related shortcomings, they agree that Last Light’s universe, story and…
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Krieg the Psycho Hacks, Slashes, and Burns His Way Into Borderlands 2
Hold on to to your hacksaws, folks; the most psychotic vault hunter yet has landed on Pandora. Krieg, the rampage-tastic psycho berserker is now available in the form of a separate character DLC for Gearbox’s shooter-RPG. He’s not included in the Season Pass, but by the looks of it, there’s enough exciting new content in…
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Modder Puts Mortal Kombat Inside Doom… Literally
Here’s two guys playing Mortal Kombat II. In a Doom multiplayer match. The mod that lets you do this is still under development, and it’s nowhere near as sophisticated as the one that lets you play Mario in Counter-Strike, but hey, it’s Doom. With Mortal Kombat. [Thanks, DSOGaming!]
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Recently Tweeted Photos Show The Venue of the Next Xbox’s Reveal
The next Xbox is having its big reveal soon, on the 21st May. Here’s where it will happen. These photos were tweeted by Microsoft’s Larry Hyrb (AKA Major Nelson) and Aaron Greenberg, and show the still under construction briefing space. [via VG247, CVG]
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GTA V’s Michael, Franklin and Trevor Get the HD Wallpaper Treatment
You can now get a closer look at the protagonists of GTA V. A really close look. Or, you could decorate your desktop with them. Rockstar has released wallpapers starring Michael, Franklin, and Trevor, which feature the artwork first revealed alongside the three characters’ trailers. Take a gander at them below.
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Out of Nowhere Comes Super Sanctum TD, A Neat Retro Tower Defense Game
Sanctum, Coffee Stain Studios’ first-person tower defense/shooter hybrid from 2010, is getting a sequel on May 15. As usual, pre-ordering nets you extra goodies, but in this case, you get something far better than an extra gun skin. Namely a whole spinoff game. Which looks quite spiffy. Super Sanctum TD, which can also be grabbed…
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First a human meat market, now this. MCV reports that Capcom has opened a swimming pool near the Olympic Stadium in London. The catch? It’s filled with blood, and has various body parts floating in it. This is to celebrate the HD re-release of Resident Evil Revelations, coming to Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U and…
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Batgirl (Almost) KOs the Joker in the Newest Injustice DLC Trailer
Last week, they promised to show us what Batgirl looks like in action as Injustice’s second DLC fighter (after Lobo). They delivered. Here’s the Batgirl, beating the living bejesus out of the Joker. The Batgirl DLC will be available sometime soon, at a price of $5, or free for season pass owners.
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Ouya, the $99 Android-based game console is getting delayed slightly, and is now set to launch on June 25. “In order to meet [our retail partners’] greater than expected demand, we decided to shift the launch date by a couple of weeks, which will allow us to create more units,” Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman told…
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Watch Bladewolf Rampage Through Metal Gear Rising’s Newest DLC
This video gives us a glimpse into Metal Gear Rising: Revengance’s latest DLC pack, which stars the cuddly and dangerous LQ-84i, aka Bladewolf. Okay, maybe not cuddly, but just look at him touching noses with that cat. I mean come on. The Blade Wolf DLC is coming to North America on May 14.
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The Thing and Halloween director John Carpenter wants to adapt the first Dead Space into a (live action) movie. “You have these people coming onto an abandoned, shut-down space ship and they have to start it up and something’s on board. It’s just great stuff,” he told Game Informer. [via VideoGamer]
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Six Reviewers Say Soul Sacrifice Is a Tense but Rewarding Experience
Megaman creator Keiji Inafune’s Soul Sacrifice is hardly a cheerful game, but it is certainly a joy to look at, if what these people are saying is anything to go by. The story, the world, the choices—all interesting setpieces of a grotesque, tragic world, held together by combat that, at times, can get repetitive, but…
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Cube World Keeps Getting Better and Better. This New Video Proves it.
A world without Cube World is a sad world. At least we have a new gameplay video to tide us over The five-minute video, in addition to giving us the usual procedurally generated cuboid RPG-goodness we’re used to, showcases a whole lot of stuff we didn’t get to see before. These are, in developer Wollay’s…
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Hellraid Doesn’t Look Half Bad for a Medieval Dead Island
Man… this trailer. Yes, Techland’s 2013 first-person slasher Hellraid has a silly name. And yes, the Dead Island games have never been perfect. But this game looks like they took the best part of Dead Island (the combat) and applied it to a setting that screams “Dark Messiah“. How can I say no to that?
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