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Sector 17 Is Lonely, Sad, Hectic and Fun, Judging by the Trailer
Last Jungle In Sector 17 is a top-down shooter with RPG and tower defense elements currently in development. It stars spacecraft pilot Ryder and his AI buddy Johnny trying to survive against an overwhelming enemy on a deserted space station. Depressing! Gameplay looks fun, though. A prototype is coming “soon.”
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The Theater 2013 Might Be Simple, But It’s Still Terrifying
The Theater 2013 packs quite a punch for a free one-man horror game—especially considering that it was made in 24 hours, and consists of walking through a corridor for five minutes. It really shows how important a good atmosphere is to the experience. It can be grabbed here, or you can watch a full playthrough…
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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Trailer Sings Us the Story of Silas Greaves
As we know, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger wants to return Techland’s first-person shooter series to its roots. This trailer shows just that. We get to see Silas Greaves, the bounty hunter serving as this chapter’s protagonist, shoot his way through the Wild West. Cue guitar ballad. Gunslinger is coming out on May 21.
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Kotaku EastGorgeous CG Trailer Showcases The Majesty of Monster Hunter Online
China’s online-ified, CryEngine 3-powered version of Monster Hunter, fittingly dubbed Monster Hunter Online, got a fancy CG trailer last month. Recently, it has made its way to the Internet for our viewing pleasure. No gameplay, but plenty of epic moments. [Thanks, tipster Matthew Weathers!]
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Ubisoft has published a trailer of what seems to be an Assassin’s Creed-themed, community-focused website featuring puzzle games with leaderboards. The catch? It’s exclusive to those who pre-ordered Black Flag, much like how access to Industrial Revolution was tied to a pre-order of BioShock Infinite
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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen Is A Definite Improvement, Six Critics Say
Eleven months after its release, Capcom’s action-RPG Dragon’s Dogma received an updated re-release in the form of Dark Arisen. In addition to giving a technical facelift to the original game, Dark Arisen boasts a brand new landmass to explore: Bitterblack Island. Reviewers seem to be mostly happy with these changes. Complaints have been raised about…
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Valve has announced that it is rolling out a new system for subscription-based games on Steam. The service offers a simple way to manage payments on games with paid subscriptions. The first title to take advantage of this is Darkfall Unholy Wars, Aventurine’s PVP sandbox MMORPG from way, way back
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Done With SimCity? Check Out This Very Different Alternative.
Shining Rock Software is a one-man studio currently working on a game called Banished—a city-building strategy title that promises to show us the wild, rough world of frontier colonization. In Banished, your objective is to help a group of exiled travelers establish a sustainable colony. What sustainable means here is that basically every action is…
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Famitsu reports that Etrian Odyssey: Millenium Maiden, the new, story-focused dungeon crawler coming out in Japan on June 27, will have cutscenes and an animated opening. Cutscenes and an animated opening done by Madhouse, of Trigun, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Paprika fame, no less.
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“The XCOM universe is expanding,” boasts a recently added post on 2K Games’ official blog. It seems we can expect more information on the continually delayed XCOM shooter soon—a welcome change after the complete silence following the sudden disappearance of the game earlier this month.
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Kotaku East
Satoru Iwata is taking over control of Nintendo of America. Its current CEO, Tatsumi Kimishima, will be moving to Kyoto to work as a managing director for Nintendo Japan, while Iwata will assume the role of Global President. So… a global president, direct to you! (Sorry.)
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The New Link to the Past Took Its Sweet Time… But So Did These Games
After twenty-one years, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is getting a direct sequel. That’s quite the gap, twenty-one years. But it’s far from being the only big gap. Game development takes a long time, and during that time, a great number of things can go wrong. Licensing issues get in the…
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This is Alcapa Games’ upcoming top-down survival horror title, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. As the captain of a ship named Cradle, your task is to “restore the ship AI and exterminate the vindictive, and now homeless mecha-dinosaurs.” Why aren’t there more games with vindictive mecha-dinosaurs? [Thanks, RPS.]
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