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The Secret World Unveils an Ambitious Plan to Beautify New York City
Though The Secret World has gotten off to a stumbling start, Funcom continues to aggressively roll out fresh new content, like the August 28 release of Issue 2: Digging Deeper and the promised New York City raid, which in the next few months will give the city a real reason to never sleep. I’d say…
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Check Out Black Ops 2‘s CODcasting in Action
In a live demonstration streamed direct from Gamescom in Germany earlier today, Activision and Treyarch showed off Call of Duty: Black Ops 2‘s exciting new multiplayer broadcasting tools. Finally a way for an unskilled loudmouth like me to enjoy Call of Duty! I can imagine my first broadcast bout already. I’ll pick an overlay, set…
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My Favorite New Skylander is the Most Human. Also, She Throws Narwhals.
Once the sworn protector of the SnowQueen, Chill lost her charge to the Cyclopean forces and has been attempting to atone for her failure ever since. She is a pink-skinned humanoid awash in a world of colorful creatures and towering giants. I identify with her. Her fragility. Her humanity. Her ability to toss horned arctic…
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Challenge Your Friends to Kill with Hitman‘s Contracts Mode
Unveiled this week at Gamescom in Germany, Hitman: Absolution‘s Contracts Mode gives players the power to create their own kill scenarios, challenging the world to be the best murder-for-hire technician they can be. It’s Play-Create-Kill! Contracts Mode adds user-generated content to the Hitman franchise, ensuring that players will have plenty to do long after the…
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Surely There’s Some Sort of Controversy Lurking in These New Tomb Raider Screens
There is absolutely nothing sexist, misogynistic or otherwise controversial about these Gamescom screens for Tomb Raider, so we’re going to have to make up our own. Oh my god, Lara Croft is helping that hardened killer execute that woman! Doesn’t work? Okay, let’s see if there’s anything else we can use here. Oh my god,…
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Be Impressed By Her Amazing Ninja Gaiden Skills
A reader named Tim sent in a video of YouTube user Squidlocks playing through the original Ninja Gaiden for the NES, a game that kicked the ass of a much younger me many, many times. And here she is, playing through the first three levels without getting hit once. Not even the damn birds can…
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The True Crime of Sleeping Dogs is These Solid Review Scores
Remember back when Activision canned United Front Studios’ True Crime Hong Kong and then Square Enix picked it up and released a game that’s currently got an 83 average on Metacritic. Man, those were crazy times. When I think about all the cash Activision sunk into that True Crime title. All that E3 promotion money,…
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An Invisible Little Boy Finds Himself in Sony’s Stunning Rain
The hero of Sony Japan Studio’s upcoming adventurer platformer is a little boy seeking a little girl in a dreary world defined by water falling from the sky. It’s a fortunate setting — Rain‘s protagonist is completely invisible. The trailer, accompanyed by melancholy piano music, highlights Rain‘s unique liquid-based gameplay mechanic. As is the world,…
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You’re the God of a Paper World in Media Molecule’s Tearaway
Paper hero Iota has a message for the real world, and only you can aid him in his heroic effort to escape the paper world inside your PS Vita in Tearaway, the next game from LittleBigPlanet creators Media Molecule. Iota is a tiny paper messenger tasked with breaking out of his wood pulp world with…
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Free Vita Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time with Cross-Buy
Sony’s new Cross-Buy feature augments Cross-Play between PlayStation 3 and PS Vita by offering copies for both systems in one package. Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time join PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale as games that give you both platforms for the price of one. Ratchet is a new download-only…
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You Don’t Want a Boyfriend, What You Want is Mr. Spock
Fresh from Gamescom in Germany we have a new trailer and screens from the upcoming Star Trek game, showing off how well Kirk and Spock work together and the vicious new look for everybody’s favorite alien lizard men, the Gorn. Thanks for the headline, Nerfherder
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Only Assassin’s Creed Could Make Naval Warfare This Exciting
Having showcased Assassin’s Creed III‘s naval warfare elements at E3 2012 and again at the San Diego Comic-Con last month, it’s obvious Ubisoft is proud of this aspect of Connor Kenway’s adventure. As well they should be — this is the first time naval warfare in a video game hasn’t made me want to take…
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Battlefield 3 Premium Edition Gives You Everything for $69.99
Due out September 11 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, the Battlefield 3 Premium Edition combines the original game, all expansion packs and a multiplayer head-start kit into one $69.99 package. Want to play Battlefield 3 but worried everyone else is too far ahead? Well they are, and there’s nothing 15 different weapons,…
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A Proper Origin Client Coming to the Mac, Origin Improvements Outlined
Following up on this morning’s news of SimCity coming to Origin for the Mac in February, the Origin client proper is coming to the Mac as well, giving Apple gamers a taste of the fresh new features coming to EA’s online service. EA’s Peter Moore took the stage at the company’s Gamescom press conference in…
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SimCity Returns to the Mac in 2013
SimCity returns to the Mac in February 2013, when EA releases the city builder as a digital download via Origin. Seeing as many of us first played Maxis’ storied franchise on an Apple system, this is grand news. “Whether you owned a Macintosh or a DOS PC, we all have memories of laying down zones…
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Mad Catz Releases a Gaming Keyboard from the Future
It’s completely modular. It’s got an LCD touch panel with program controls and integrated TeamSpeak. It’s made of freaking metal. The S.T.R.I.K.E. 7 gaming keyboard is a technological marvel, and it can be yours for only *checks price* $300, dammit. I’ve spent a great deal of money attempting to find the perfect gaming keyboard over…
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