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Nothing Stops The GTA V Train. Not Even 10 Dump Trucks.
What better way to demonstrate the brute power of GTA V’s unstoppable train than to line up 10 of the largest dump trucks in a row and see what happens? YouTuber omenz321‘s video shows that it’s not easy to carry out such a thing, but at least the devastation scenery completely makes up for the…
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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Will Launch March 18
Konami this morning set a March 18 launch date for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Additionally, the Xbox One and Xbox 360 will get an exclusive mission—staring Raiden in his Metal Gear Rising incarnation. Xbox Wire also posted an interview with series creator Hideo Kojima, including that video above. They also posted the video…
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Skullgirls Makers Say Konami Asked PSN, Xbox Live to Remove the Game
Lab Zero, the makers of the fighting game Skullgirls, says Konami, which published the game to Xbox Live and PlayStation Network in 2012, has asked Microsoft and Sony to take the game off the services. The administrator of the official forums for Skullgirls updated the community on the news, saying that Lab Zero found out…
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Culture
The Week in Games: Peggle For Your Thoughts
The year still has a few delights in store for us, beginning tomorrow with Peggle 2 on Xbox One. Doki-Doki Universe lands on Tuesday for all PlayStation platforms that access PlayStation Network. Angry Birds, inevitably, gets its kart racer on Wednesday. Here’s the week in games. Monday, Dec. 9 Peggle 2 (Xbox One) Tuesday, Dec.…
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A Retired NFL Pro Skips the Autograph Line for a Call of Duty Lobby
Seven years ago, Hunter Hillenmeyer was signing autographs in a Jewel-Osco supermarket up in Fox Lake, Ill., the kind of ham-and-egg gig that any Chicago Bear could expect at some point in his career if he was any good. It wasn’t anyone’s idea of stressful work. Smile, pretend to be famous, collect your couple-three thousand…
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Ubisoft Shows Off The Division‘s Next-Gen Engine
This is the “Snowdrop Engine” powering The Division, which spent about three minutes at the Spike VGX boasting of the detail it will deliver to “a chaotic and decayed New York City.” Not much in the way of gameplay, but If volumetric lighting, dynamic particle system and dynamic material shaders make you drool, then you’ll…
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Bungie’s Destiny Gets Another Gorgeous Trailer
Fresh off its big cover in Game Informer this week, Bungie’s next space opera, Destiny, got this closeup premiere video at tonight’s Spike VGX. The game arrives Sept. 9, 2014. Go here to see much more about the 2013 Spike VGX, including all the award categories and their nominees.
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Tomb Raider Gets A Next-Gen Facelift
Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will come to PS4 and Xbox One by the end of January, updating this year’s Tomb Raider reboot for the next-gen platforms. A specific date was not announced. [Update: Here’s the trailer!] Camilla Luddington, the voice of Lara Croft and Scott Amos of developer Crystal Dynamics introduced the game at the…
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NBA 2K14 Keeps Crashing, but 2K Sports Says It Knows What’s Wrong
A recently released patch for the Xbox One version of NBA 2K14 appears to have done little to solve the repeated crashes occurring in the game’s MyCareer mode. While 2K Sports says it knows what the problem is, it has no timetable on when a solution may arrive. Server problems have bothered NBA 2K14 players…
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Bigby who? Is he the guy next to Jack? The second episode of Fables, Smoke & Mirrors, is almost ready for prime time, so Telltale Games decided to call in a little star power to finish the job. That handsome blond fellow? He’s Jack, aka Jack Frost, aka Jack the Giant Killer, aka not really…
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Not Sure if Dance Moves or Assassin’s Creed IV Glitch
Weird things can happen during Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s fights, and while the game is about pirates, which means barrels full of rum, these moves might be too much even for Edward Kenway. Here’s the full clip by YouTuber BenBuja. I wouldn’t bat an eye this happened in a Devil May Cry game. Edward’s…
By Gergo Vas