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Ten Things You Should Know About PlayStation Now
Announcedearlier this week, Sony’s PlayStation Now service will stream cloud-based games to Sony consoles, handhelds, TVs and more. PlayStation Access put together this lovely little primer covering the how, what and whens of PlayStation Now. It’s basically Onlive for PlayStation Games. Games are run on remote servers, accept remote input from the player’s Dualshock controller.…
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Six Things You Should Know About Alien: Isolation
Alien: Isolation officially made itself known yesterday. If you caught a dated-looking vibe in the game’s visuals, that’s deliberate; Creative Assembly wanted to render the Alien universe as looked in the original 1979 film. You can get a better view of it in this video—but you won’t see any of this on the Wii U.…
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Skylanders: Swap Force Finally Gets The Toys Needed To Finish The Game
This morning Toys’R’Us locations across the U.S. start selling Rubble Rouser and Stink Bomb, the two Skylanders toys needed to 100% complete levels in a game released three months ago. What? First, a little background for those who’ve not played Skylanders: Swap Force, the latest entry in Activision’s incredibly lucrative marriage of toys and video…
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Making weapon replicas, or building armor sets from Skyrim, or any other Elder Scrolls game is one thing, but creating a whole shelf of Elder Scrolls potions, scrolls and books is some next level stuff. Here’s Faasnu’s shelf, featuring tons of potions and even the Mysterium Xarxes from TES IV: Oblivion Below is the full…
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Sony’s CEO Said “Wow” 26 Times During His CES Keynote. Wow.
During today’s Sony keynote at CES, Sony’s Kazuo Hirai went through a very detailed speech about what he thinks is unique about Sony, emphasizing a certain sense of “wow” as he put it. He spent a lot of time discussing the successes of their past as well as the creativity in their present, bringing up…
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Sony’s Cloud-Based Video Service Will Stream Live TV Everywhere
Not content to just stream its games all over the place, Sony also plans to expand its Sony Entertainment Network streaming video service to deliver live television and DVR functions across multiple devices later this year. Who needs an HDMI pass-through? According to Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House, who took the stage during the…
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Here’s The New Game From The Left 4 Dead Creators
Evolve survived the destruction of THQ one year ago and now the game is ready for a closeup. Game Informer’s cover subject is the co-operative/competitive shooter, which sounds kinda like, yep, something from Left 4 Dead, for which Turtle Rock Studios is best known. The game will release this fall for PC, Xbox One and…
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The Biggest Alien in an Alien Game Stalks You in Isolation
The largest alien in an Alien video game is in Alien: Isolation, and it’s the only one you’ll face in the upcoming survival horror game from Creative Assembly. This looks like one of those games that will kill me about eleventy-billion times during the course of finishing it. So, get used to seeing a lot…
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The Bear Hat Makes This Skyrim Cosplay Flawless
A redguard adventurer in nord carved armor from Skyrim, as described by its maker, fevereon. You can tell how incredibly well-made the whole set is by just looking at the bear helmet. Here are more photos showing off the gauntlets and the bow that are also 100% scretchbuild: The photos were taken during MomoCon, and…
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Culture
The Week in Games: 2014’s First Cut
Video gaming new releases are still deep in hibernation but there are a couple of notable titles coming this week. Let’s also look ahead through the next couple of months to see what else is on the way. Here’s the—uh, well, it’s a span of time, in games. Tuesday, Jan. 7 Don’t Starve (PS4) Thursday,…
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How The Number Of Cosmetics Items In Team Fortress 2 Doubled In 2013
Team Fortress 2 is primarly a hat simulator with FPS elements, and not the other way round. If you ever wondered how frequently new cosmetic items—anything that has no effect on gameplay—were added to the game, we have just the source. -Josh, a curious user on the game’s subreddit, complied a detailed graph of all…
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Sony Patent Aims To Add New Challenges To Emulated Classics
Streaming emulated classics to a video game console from the cloud is neat. Adding new challenges not present in those streaming classics? That’s awesome. It’s also the idea behind a recently revealed patent filed by Sony. Originally filed in late June of 2012, just as Sony was purchasing streaming game technology company Gaikai, the “Suspending…
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Activision’s Marvel Games Pull A Digital Disappearing Act
You laughed at Deadpool, X-Men Destiny, Spider-Man: Edge of Time and Activision’s other sloppy Marvel games. Bet you feel bad now that they’ve all been pulled from Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. Or not. Either way, they’re gone. Nothing lasts forever, especially Activision contracts for Marvel games, as evidenced by 2010’s disappearance of Marvel…
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A taste of the new Carmageddon‘s car physics According to Stephen Rushbrook of Stainless Games, the suspension is “entirely physics-driven—you can rip off the tires, the wheels, hub, drive shafts, wishbones independently, and what’s left will still work. Ripped-off parts will spin, hinge and flex as you’d expect”
By András Neltz
