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9 Minutes of Dying Light to Get Your Heart Racing
Even though I’ve already played through this level of Dying Light at PAX Prime, I’m still shifting in my chair, on edge while watching and waiting to see if the protagonist lives or dies in these 9 minutes of footage. I mean, of course he’s going to live. But as skilled as whoever’s behind the…
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How To Prepare For The Walking Dead Season Two
One of my favorite games of last year is returning for its second season this week. With the adorable-yet-tough Clementine from the last season returning as the protagonist, it’s sure to out-depress the fantastic (and very depressing) last season that featured father-figure Lee. If you’re preparing for Season Two as it rolls out on its…
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Here’s our first look at the colorful plastic world of LEGO The Hobbit. Announced officially late last month, the 2014 TT Games developed adventure will span the first two movie in the trilogy, paving the way for the inevitable complete version once the third film is out, followed by a bundle of both it and…
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Minecraft Comes To The PlayStation 3 Tomorrow
According to a post on the PlayStation Blog, Mojang’s block-building sensation will be available for PlayStation 3 starting tomorrow, December 17. Minecraft: PlayStation Edition will include all the features present in other console editions of the game, barring platform-exclusive content packs. Mojang’s Owen Hill said downloadable texture packs and skins will be available soon after…
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Final Fantasy X And X-2 HD Won’t Be Sold Separately On Vita
If you were thinking you could just purchase Final Fantasy X-2 HD Remaster on Vita and forego the game that opens with a stunning musical number, think again. In a post on the PlayStation Blog today which also detailed the PlayStation 3 Collector’s Edition, Square Enix confirmed the Vita version of the remakes are separate…
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PlayStation U.S. Boss Says He Gave Up His PS4 So Someone Could Buy One
When PlayStation’s U.S. chief says Sony isn’t rigging an artificial PS4 shortage, I give him the benefit of the doubt. When he says 12,000 PS4s sold out in half an hour on Amazon, that’s not an incredible thing to say. When he says he has no PS4 yet, telling the company to sell it instead,…
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Four Have Reached Level 100 on PlayStation Network
Hakoom, one of the more prolific and visible trophy hunters in the PlayStation Network, just broke through to level 100—a rank that requires a user to win some 30,000 trophies. Three others have also breached the 99 barrier, thought to be the limit when PSN instituted trophy support back in mid-2008. Hakoom gets the publicity…
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Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 are being removed from Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network stores—both their digital versions and their DLC. Tuesday is the last day PSN subscribers in North America can get DLC for the game; Thursday is the last day in Europe. Dec. 26 is the deadline,…
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Culture
The Week in Games: The Walking Dead Begins a New Season
Retail console releases may be done for this year but there still are marquee names waiting for their closeup as we finish off 2013. Chief among them is the next season of The Walking Dead, which arrives Tuesday along with Terraria on the PS Vita. Here’s the week in games. Tuesday, Dec. 17 The Walking…
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Ultra Street Fighter IV Makes a Dramatic Comeback with New Features
Ultra Street Fighter IV will get new characters and new stages when it releases next year, but it’ll also pack in a bunch of gameplay changes. This three minute trailer shows off what you can expect. Is it me, or does this Red Focus Attack thing look like a made-to-order Daigo full-parry comeback? Probably not…
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EA Sports UFC Offers the First Glimpses Inside the Game
Fight Night: Round Three was a no-doubt-about-it success when it arrived a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360. With the’ Fight Night team in charge, many are looking to EA Sports UFC to deliver the same impact for the new console generation this spring. The studio released the first two in-game screenshots…
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Battlefield 4 Stunts Are Becoming More And More Hardcore
Locate target. Eject. Deploy package. Return to your vehicle. Sounds easy, but if your vehicle is a moving jet, and the target is a chopper high above you, things get hard. Even if it’s in Battlefield 4. Here’s YouTuber ponylion pulling off this pretty cool maneuver like it’s the easiest thing out there. That’s a…
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Adult Swim Shows Us What To Do With The PS4’s Share Button
No one wants to look bad in front of Kratos. According to this Robot Chicken animated spot for Killzone: Shadow Fall, God of War‘s heroic brute is very active on Facebook, so think before you hit that share button. This 60-second spot, airing Monday night on Adult Swim before the Robot Chicken Born Again Virgin…
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Intense Police Chase Shows Off How Cool GTA Online‘s Content Creator Is
While Grand Theft Auto Online‘s creator tools are still fresh out of the package, players like rechyyy—the YouTuber behind one of the best GTA V chase videos—are already filling up their custom maps with ramps, police vehicles and rockets. Not a bad start, and we’ll probably see a flood of awesome things made by this…
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It’s Like Amnesia And Aliens Had A Hideous Baby
Come wander the dark, flickering hallways of Upsilon, the first environment video from Soma, the sci-fi horror game from the makers of Amnesia For my money, creepy wanderings in space beat out creepy wanderings anywhere else. It’s a matter of expectations— if I am in a creepy old house, I expect monsters and ghosts and…
By Mike Fahey
