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Forums Abuzz About Possible Leaked Mass Effect Andromeda Footage
A video identified by NeoGAF user Taker34 as a demo reel from the website of a developer working on the next installment of BioWare’s space opera shows off special effects and new movement abilities that may or may not show up in next year’s Mass Effect Andromeda The 50 second video is a series of…
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Final Fantasy XV Gets A Five-Episode Anime Prequel [Update: Watch Episode One Here]
Announced at tonight’s Uncovered event, Brotherhood: Final Fantasy XV is a free five-episode anime prequel being released on YouTube, leading up to the game’s September 30 release. Check out the first episode below. According to a report from The Verge, the series is being produced by A-1 Pictures, the studio behind Sword Art Online and…
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LucidSound LS30 Wireless Gaming Headset Review: Oddly Elegant
Gaming headsets don’t generally do elegant. They do bright and flashy, looking either as loud as they sound or like something out of a science fiction movie. LucidSound’s LS30 wireless gaming headset does elegant with a little bit of innovative on the side. LucidSound is a new name in gaming audio, but the folks behind…
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We Had A Good Run Blade & Soul, But I’m Out
After my first month in NCsoft’s martial arts MMO Blade & Soul I hit a wall. I wasn’t annoyed or frustrated. In fact up to that point I’d been enjoying myself immensely. I was satisfied with what I had played, and felt no need to continue. That’s odd, right? The point of a massively multiplayer…
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Tree Of Savior Is Lucky It’s Pretty
Recently launched in Founder’s Access, Tree of Savior is an anime style massively multiplayer action role-playing game whose video capture hot key is the same as Steam’s screenshot key. The accidental video that resulted was too lovely to trash. Tree of Savior’s visual flair grabbed me while I was flipping through upcoming Steam releases a…
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Epistory Puts Your Combat Typing Skills To The T-E-S-T
I’ve never typed so hard in my life. When I last played Fishing Cactus’ beautiful typing adventure it hadjust been released via Steam early access. I wandered the striking paper fantasy countryside, spelling out words to make flowers bloom, crumble rotting logs, open treasure chests and defeat the odd encroaching enemy. It got a little…
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Wing Commander II Took Its Installation Guide Very Seriously
You know how these days you just download your PC games, maybe tweak a few settings? As Redditor FhjullForkedTongue points out, back in 1991 PC game installation was a bit more intense. DIRE WARNINGS FOLLOW. Back then buying a PC game was the beginning of an adventure fraught with danger. How many disks would have…
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Killer Instinct’s Season Three Saves The Most Exciting Addition For Later
New fighters, balance changes and the launch of the Windows 10 version of Killer Instinct are nice and all, but its the single-player Shadow Lords game mode coming later in the year that excites me most about Killer Instinct season three. Battletoad Rash, barbarian Tusk, former teen fighter Kim Wu and Halo’s Arbiter headline the…
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Black Desert‘s Getting An Expansion Less Than A Month After Launch
And I thought Blade & Soul was fast with the updates. Massively multiplayer role-playing game Black Desert Online officially launched in North America and Europe on March 3. Its first expansion arrives tomorrow. The Mediah Expansion, available tomorrow free for all players in North America and Europe, increases the size of Black Desert Online’s world…
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It Took Time To Get Over Paragon Not Being A Shooter
Paragon looks like a shooter. The characters, the map, the weapons, all designed by a company known for its shooters. But it’s not a shooter, and getting over that fact was my biggest hurdle in beginning to enjoy Epic Games’ latest. Somewhere between traditional MOBAs like League of Legends and the latest craze, character-based objective…
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LEGO Batman Is The Movie Hero We Deserve
Speaking of better Batman moments, I enjoyed this minute and a half teaser video for The LEGO Batman Movie more than anything I saw in Batman V. Superman. Not to be confused with last week’s teaser, this is a brand-new video featuring the best bad Batman, Will Arnett, caught in a tender moment with picture…
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Worms Armageddon Feels Like An Appropriate Way To Predict The U.S. Presidential Race
Assigning candidate names to AI-controller, combat-ready invertebrates and letting them wage war until only one stands? YouTube’s Many A True Nerd might be onto something. In order to simulate the U.S. presidential race, Jon from Many A True nerd created a custom battle in Team17’s 1999 multiplayer battle classic. Worms representing Ted Cruz, Hilary Clinton,…
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Streamer Transforms Super Mario World Into A Whole Other Game Just By Playing
Using an exploit allowing him to write processor instructions to Super Nintendo system memory, speedrunner and Minecraft builder extraordinaire Sethbling injected the code for mobile hit Flappy Bird into Super Mario World in under an hour. (Video below will autoplay, sorry.) This is not an emulator running code. The Super Nintendo was not modded. A…
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Original Snake Voice David Hayter Has No Love For Hideo Kojima
“I was kinda hoping that Konami would take me back now that he was gone.” In a special edition of the Game Informer podcast, actor and screenwriter David Hayter talked about his “humiliating” replacement as Metal Gear’s leading man and how he really feels about the series creator who wanted him gone. If you’re interested…
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