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The Monsters From Doom, Reimagined
Digital artist Eric Ridgeway has added a few more pixels to the classic monsters from Doom and Doom II, making them all the more horrifying. Here’s the Cacodemon, Pinky, The Cyberdemon and The Mancubus below. What a nice little party. Head over to Mr. Ridgeway’s site to see the missing monsters (well, except John Romero’s…
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Crowd Control Is A Real MMO Problem. WildStar Has The Solution.
Maybe there is something to this whole WildStar being subscription-based MMO thing. Every time I turn around, the folks at Carbine Studios are rolling out some incredibly fresh idea, like a “Disarm” skill that makes you have to run after your weapon. It’s sorcery! Let’s see how the game handles other annoying forms of crowd…
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Rain has a release date: IGN reports that Sony’s PS3-exclusive downloadable adventure arrives on the first of October in the US, the second in Europe, and the third in Japan Rain will cost $15, and comes with an extra music montage, an avatar pack, and a dynamic theme for those who preorder.
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Combining Precision Platforming, Cubes, and Gratuitous Cleavage
That’s gratuitous cleavage or kittens. Take your pick. On Steam’s Greenlight, currently trying to collect votes is Team Shuriken’s Xbox 360-exclusive Uncraft Me!, a Super Meat Boy-esque platformer with visuals (and a name) seemingly inspired by Minecraft. Also, there’s backgrounds featuring large-breasted anime women. But have no fear! Should you be too distracted by the…
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Diablo III Gets Its First Expansion Pack
Reaper of Souls is the first expansion for Diablo III. Blizzard revealed a whole new act, a new hero called The Crusader and the act boss: Malthael. What has been revealed so far, behind closed doors [Updated]: The expansion is called Reaper of Souls The new, playable, mid-range melee class is The Crusader. Focuses on…
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You’ll Pay A Monthly Fee To Play The Elder Scrolls Online
Putting an end to speculation that the massively multiplayer entry in Bethesda’s award-winning role-playing franchise would be free-to-play, Zenimax Online’s Matt Firor has confirmed The Elder Scrolls Online will follow a subscription-based business model. The general manager of Zenimax online confirmed monthly subscriptions for the eagerly-anticipated game during a pre-Gamescom interview with German site Gamestar.…
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Not All New Skylanders Split In Half. Some Are Sabertooth Turtles.
More of a sabertooth turtle dinosaur, I suppose. This is Slobber Tooth, and he’s one of the latest non-splitting Skylanders champions, joining the fray when Swap Force hits October 13. The whole Swap Force mechanic is nice and all, but I’m a sucker for a well-designed one piece with a focus on function. I had…
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EVE Online‘s Stunning Oculus Rift Demo Becomes A Real Game
Members of the press at E3 2013 and fans at this year’s CCP Fanfest wouldn’t shut up about how cool the Oculus Rift-powered EVE VR demo was, so CCP is making EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer space dogfighting game set in the EVE universe. I hope you’re all happy. I know I am. There can never…
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Dungeon Keeper Returns… As A Mobile Game
The original dungeon defense game returns, but not to the PC from whence it came. EA is bringing back Dungeon Keeper as an iOS and Android mobile game this winter. I know you’re upset, PC folks. Bullfrog’s classic was the sort of game you could only find on PC back in the late 90s, a…
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Defiance ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ Adds Playable Creepy White People
Nothing plays on the TV screen quite as well as an alien race whose defining feature is cake makeup and contact lenses. Defiance‘s dorkiest extraterrestrials look much better as playable characters in today’s ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ release. The ‘Castithan Charge Pack’ is a two-pronged bit of downloadable content for the video game portion of trion…
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The Fix For Disney Infinity PlayStation 3 Problems Is In
After two days of PlayStation 3 players being unable to play Disney Infinity properly without the game locking up and save game corruption, patch 1.03 has arrived to make things all better, mostly. The previous patch, 1.01, caused the game to lock up shortly after launching, as well as corrupting game saves. A workaround for…
By Mike Fahey
