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Spy Hunter Reboot Bringing Super Spy Racing to Handhelds This Fall
Spy Hunter is getting another fresh face this fall, with a new game for handheld systems. The premise of the game is more or less what it sounds like: you’re a spy and a hunter. As the Agent, your mission is to stop bad guys and protect civilians. Your method of doing so is a…
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The Divinity Series Isn’t Always Divine, But I Still Love It Anyway
When Larian announced their new Divinity game yesterday, I felt an emotion for which I know no word. It was the sensation that combines unhinged fannish glee with abject terror and worry. In July, 2003, a friend gave me the gift of a new game for my new gaming PC. On seeing the box, I…
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This Giant Robot Sculpture? It’s a Gaming PC.
It’s not often that I wonder if a PC might arise and, say, try to kill me. This one, though… this one makes that particular concern come to mind. Yes, this giant scrap robot is a computer, and a fairly powerful one at that. The creator of this immense work is a man of very…
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Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault Landing on PSN Later This Year
Ratchet & Clank has a 10-year anniversary coming up, and in addition to remastering and re-releasing existing games, Insomniac has announced an all-new game: Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault The developers promise a return “to the series’ classic feel, camera, controls and weapons,” while also adding as yet unspecified “online features” to the game.…
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DoTA-style Lord of the Rings Game Coming this Fall
Guardians of Middle-Earth, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, is going to Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network this fall. The game’s release is timed to tie in with the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, coming out in theaters this December. Guardians of Middle-earth promises to use Tolkien’s iconic high fantasy setting and…
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The Divinity Series Returns to Original Sin Early Next Year
European developer Larian Studios has announced the fourth game in their Divinity franchise, Divinity: Original Sin Their most recent outing, Divinity II, came out right at the beginning of 2010 and was a direct “many years later” sequel to their first game, Divine Divinity Divinity: Original Sin is being cast as a prequel, in the…
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Take a Snapshot of This Puzzling Platformer
Snapshot looks like a very cute game indeed. The puzzle-platformer works on the premise that the player character has a camera that basically works like a global cut-and-paste tool. He takes a picture of something in the world, then pastes that picture somewhere else. Ta-da! Obstacle moved, path smoothed. Like certain other puzzle games, objects…
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One Year Later, Did Sony Keep Their E3 2011 Promises?
For the fourth year in a row, we’re comparing E3 hype to gaming reality. Sony was our first victim. We’ll check Nintendo and Microsoft’s E3 2011 promises on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, at 1pm ET each day. The E3 press conference is a chance for the biggest names in gaming to show off their hottest,…
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Is “All This Violence” Really What Video Games Are Made Of?
Last week, in the chaos around the total meltdown of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios, one line stood out. Commenters on this site as well as on every other site that covered the story all zoomed in immediately on one specific statement from Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee. Twitter absolutely lit up with…
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My PC Dropped Dead, but at Least I Rescued My Mass Effect Saves
I love my desktop PC. I’m a PC gamer through and through, and my current computer, which is the machine I also use every day for work, is one I built for myself in 2010. I dust it out regularly, am careful with my file management, and have mastered the art of putting the mouse…
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Plant Fruits, Vegetables, and Rows of the Undead on Your Zombie Farm
By sheer chance, one of my best friends and I were booked for the same flight from DC to Boston just before PAX East. We met up in the airport and had a while to relax over coffee before boarding. She couldn’t stop playing with her iPad. “What are you doing?” I finally asked. Her…
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You, Too, Can See Yourself in Hogwarts in Harry Potter for Kinect
Let’s be honest: it’s fun to track Harry, Hermione, and Ron’s adventures through Hogwarts and the magical realm, but part of each of us always wants to be there ourselves. Well, the new Harry Potter game for Kinect wants to put you in Hogwarts, too. Or at least a scan of your face. Which is…
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One Man’s Quest to Draw Something Becomes Draw Everything
Unlike me, Bora can actually draw. And also unlike me, and unlike several million other players, Bora has stuck with Draw Something He’s on a mission to draw every single word in the Draw Something dictionary, a quest that can end only in madness. Words repeat, and many can be quite dull. Still, as his…
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Scammers Behind Fake Version of Angry Birds Ordered to Refund Customers
There is a legitimate, free version of Angry Birds for Android. But one app that appeared on the Android Market (now Google Play) last fall wasn’t it. It was a fake, a piece of malware explicitly designed to part phone owners from their cash. Now, the scammers that took the money have been ordered to…
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Need to Go Nuts Building an Online Shooter? ShootMania Might Be For You.
The first official trailer for Ubisoft first-person shooter Shootmania has arrived. ShootMania: Storm comes from French team Nadeo, who were behind the TrackMania games. They share a premise of heavy player modification, letting players design levels and maps. The heavily customizable, multiplayer online shooter is a PC exclusive scheduled for a release later this year.…
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Activision-Bungie Contract Has Rules About Everything, Even Easter Eggs
The ongoing legal saga between Activision and former Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vincent Zampella continues to bring all sorts of once-secret documents to light. We already learned that Bungie’s 2010 contract with Activision guarantees the delivery of four “sci-fantasy” shooter games, called Destiny. But what other details are hiding in that 27-page contract?…
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This TARDIS Case is Not Actually Bigger on the Inside
Sadly, this TARDIS has to obey the laws of physics as we humans know them. It only travels one direction in time: forward, at a rate of one day per day. Its volume on the inside is exactly as indicated by its dimensions on the outside. And there’s no Time Lord pouncing about all of…
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Journey Down to a Comic Adventure Romp in the Caribbean
I’m a sucker for a classic point-and-click adventure game. The LucasArts adventures of the early 1990s are how I fell in love with gaming, and to this day remain the biggest influence on my taste in digital worlds. So whenever I see a new entry in the genre appear, I have to jump on it.…
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