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Dark Souls II Debuts at the 2012 Video Game Awards
Dark Souls II just got a world premiere trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards. It’s coming for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. See for yourself. Looks… tough, and unforgiving. As usual. UPDATE: The game will star a new hero in a new world and will have a new director, as the series’ creator,…
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South Park: The Stick of Truth Gets a Hilarious Trailer, but No Release Date
As irreverent and ribald as you expect South Park to be, here is the trailer for South Park: The Stick of Truth, which premiered at tonight’s Video Game Awards. It gives you a look at the game’s playable classes, plus all sorts of cameos from the show’s long run, and elsewhere. No release date, though…
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Whatever It Is, The Phantom Pain Looks Very Intense
The first all-new game given a trailer at the 2012 Video Game Awards is The Phantom Pain, and it seems almost deliberately confusing and vague. That’s fitting given its premise, in which a veteran awakens in a hospital after a long coma, with his left hand amputated. In come the troops hellbent on exterminating the…
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Watch The 2012 Video Game Awards Live Right Here!
Alright, folks. The 2012 Video Game Awards on Spike TV ain’t just Sam Jackson handing out a bunch of monkeyfighting awards to some Monday-to-Friday games. In fact, one could argue that is the least interesting purpose of what is essentially an E3 keynote in December. Gears of War: Judgment will premiere a trailer showing us…
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We’ve Hit a New Low In the ‘Angry Gaming Parent Kills Baby’ Story
Looking through our lamentable catalogue of stories in which a baby is killed when a parent or other caregiver has flown into a game-induced rage, most of them involve shaking. Two involved a strike to the body. In one, an infant was dropped on her head. Well, we have a new low in the realm…
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The All-New, All-Different Week in Gaming Apps
Traditionally the Week in Gaming Apps has been a weekly round-up of our daily Gaming App of the Day feature, punctuating those Android, iOS and Windows Phone games we’ve deemed worthy of special attention. Now that my entire attention is on the mobile gaming market, I play too many games each week to let them…
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Square Enix Sale Drops Mobile Final Fantasy Prices to Near Reasonable Levels
In celebration of the holidays and the impending release of the 3D Nintendo DS Final Fantasy IV remake on iOS. Square Enix has lined up a slew of iOS game sales, starting with slashed prices on those excellent-but-pricey mobile FF games. It’s hard to resist a mobile Final Fantasy game, but those that managed to…
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Gorgeous Games of 2012: Journey
2012 was a good year to be moved by visuals in games. I’m not talking graphic fidelity, but rather aesthetics. So many games this year were visually inspired and pleasing to the eye. To commemorate this, I’m creating a series of cinemagraphs (partially animated GIFs) devoted to some the most aesthetically beautiful moments in gaming…
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Let’s Take A Tour Through Far Cry 3‘s Rook Islands In 35 Gorgeous Shots
Just cause Jason Brody’s vacation didn’t go exactly according to plan doesn’t mean he’s not going to take advantage of the opportunity to take some quality photographs of his travels. Excluding the bloodier events, let’s sit back and take a virtual tour of Rook Islands, as photographed by Jason Brody himself. Or, more accurately, Redditor…
By Tina Amini
