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  FIFA 14 on PS4 and Xbox One uses the fancy new Ignite Engine - but the PC version doesn't

  Balls. 77

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  Battlefield 4 release date, Xbox One version announced

  UPDATE: UK release date confirmed. 57

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  Kevin Conroy Batman confusion continues with deleted “new Arkham game” tweet

  Whoops. 37

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  40 minutes of Fast & Furious: Showdown you'll never get back

  "It kinda looks like an iOS, iPhone game." 81

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  Total War: Rome 2 and Company of Heroes 2 playable at Rezzed next month

  Here come the games. 10

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  EA's MOBA Dawngate is trying to do a couple of things differently

  Judging by a new video and preview, that is. 30

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  Former THQ president reveals Metro dev's terrible work conditions

  UPDATE: 4A creative director wades in. 114

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  Hawken art prank changes CEO's mind about scantily clad women

  The story of Ruby Underboob and Bro-sie the Riveter. 137

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  First-person open-world survival horror game The Forest looks brilliant

  Inspired by The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust. 63

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  ShopTo refuses to sell upcoming Activision games in row over Call of Duty: Ghosts

  A tale of broken street dates and contracts. 159

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  Another hour of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage leaks

  Take a Lucas at what might have been. 31

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  Acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod Minerva polished up and released on Steam

  The mod that bagged Adam Foster a job at Valve. 56

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  EA to discontinue Online Passes

  “We've listened to the feedback and decided to do away with it moving forward.” 184

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  Ubisoft suspends development on Patrice Désilets' 1666 "for an undisclosed time"

  Just days after dev shown the door. 49

• Ubisoft forecasts lower Assassin's Creed 4 sales than AC3 managed this past financial year

  Thinks Watch Dogs can match or better AC1's first-year tally of ~6 million. 37

• Avalanche Studios' mysterious steampunk sandbox game has been put on hold

  But it is working on next and current-gen titles. 8

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

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  Hawken art prank changes CEO's mind about scantily clad women

  The story of Ruby Underboob and Bro-sie the Riveter. 137

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  EA announces Star Wars-focused DICE Los Angeles studio

  A new hope for the Battlefront series? 70

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  Pretty Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag trailer has ships, sharks and lots of stabbing

  Naval gazing. 28

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  Dream is a video conceptualising how visually sumptuous next-gen games could be

  Made part-time by a team of CG artists over six months. 38

• Steam introduces virtual trading card system

  Earn cards by playing games to receive coupons, badges, emoticons and more. 22

• Action RPG roguelike Chasm successfully funded on Kickstarter

  Still accepting pre-orders to hit its stretch goals. 15

• Scribblenauts Unmasked confirmed, stars DC Comics superheroes

  Due this autumn for 3DS, PC and Wii U. 14

• Shadow of the Eternals developer Precursor Games on its origins

  Ex-Silicon Knights dev explains that the new studio isn't a front. 24

• Among the Sleep to get a public alpha tomorrow

  UPDATE: Kickstarter goal met. Still working towards Oculus Rift support. 16

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

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  PlayStation 4 military MMO War Thunder gives you planes, warships, tanks

  Sony's machine is "the leading next-generation platform", dev says. 79

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  BioShock Infinite sells "significantly" more than series predecessors

  But 2K quiet about XCOM: Enemy Unknown. 98

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  Pretty new Wolfenstein: The New Order screenshots stamp in

  Heil be damned. 39

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  Shadow of the Eternals launches an actual Kickstarter "due to overwhelming popular demand"

  With a suspiciously later deadline. 42

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  Rift finally capitulates and turns free-to-play as well

  Launching alongside patch 2.3 in June. 35

• The Novelist is what happens when Ghost Trick and Majora's Mask have a baby

  Think The Shining with less murder. 11

• Google celebrates Atari Breakout's 37th birthday

  What an image nation. 17

Monday, 13 May 2013

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  UK's first eSports bar to open in London

  Watch professional gaming tournaments, drink cocktails. 120

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  The Witcher 2 development tools released for free

  Create your own Witcher mods or entirely new RPGs. 61

• Several Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 details emerge

  Full camera control, turn into mist, set over two timelines. 22

• UK chart: Dead Island: Riptide top for third week

  Telltale's The Walking Dead shuffles into the top 10. 44

• The Incredible Machine gets spiritual successor Contraption Maker

  Made by the creators of the original Rube Goldberg-device building game. 20

Saturday, 11 May 2013

• GeoGuessr is a brilliant, educational Google Maps-based game

  Think Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego where you're Carmen Sandiego. 48

• Half-Life 2 gets official Oculus Rift support

  See video of it and Dishonored played with the headset. 26

Friday, 10 May 2013

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  Aliens: Colonial Marines managed 1.31 million sales

  That about merits a sequel doesn't it? What? 116

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  Chinese World of Tanks clone so similar it allegedly copies even historical inaccuracies and fictional tanks

  Wargaming rumbles into court. 54

• EA registers domains for Battlefields 13-20

  But doesn't own Battlefields 10-12. 52

• Aliens: Colonial Marines co-developer TimeGate Studios has been shuttered - report

  Game over, man. 44

• Damned looks like a randomised, asymmetrical multiplayer take on Slender

  One player is a ghost and hops between invisible and physical forms. 10

Thursday, 9 May 2013

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  World of Warcraft subscriptions drop 1.3 million in three months

  Skylanders: Giants is the best-selling game in the west... if you count the figurines. 56

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  Saint's Row 4 dev walkthrough shows off six minutes of gameplay

  Dubstep gun, mechs, aliens and super powers. 56

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  Total War: Rome 2 release date is Tuesday, 3rd September worldwide

  The £110 Collector's Edition has a replica catapult for god's sake! 30

• Capcom expects Lost Planet 3 and Resi Revelations to sell 1.2 million

  Mentions PS4 game Deep Down too, briefly. 40

• John Carpenter wants to make a Dead Space movie

  Halloween and The Thing director also a fan of Dishonored and Assassin's Creed 3. 65

• Shadow Warrior revival by the Hard Reset dev announced

  3D Realms' follow-up to Duke Nukem 3D gets another shot. 30

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

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  First-person open-world survival horror game The Forest looks brilliant

  Inspired by The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust. 63

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  EA refuses to licence guns and war paraphernalia in its action games this year

  "A book doesn't pay for saying the word Colt." 172

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  Diablo 3 gold duping bug found, fixed, but servers not rolled back

  That would "impact the community in an even greater way". 54

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  EA extends FIFA licensing agreement until happily ever after

  Well, 2022, where there be spaceships and lasers. 59

• Wolfenstein: The New Order won't have multiplayer

  Unlike all the other non-mobile Wolfensteins from the last 20 years. 54

• Mike Diva's Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie trailer is perfect

  "It's a far cry from being over... three." 26

• Capcom's annual results are in, "focusing on the overhaul of overseas development companies"

  "Capcom will restructure its development organisations." 36

• Will Wright's next game to be "built around the player's life"

  Sims creator says his heroes are Miyamoto and Molyneux. 28

• New pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle has Double Fine games Costume Quest, Psychonauts, Stacking

  And Brutal Legend and Broken Age if you pay more. 14

• American McGee working on Kickstarters to revive Alice and make and Oz game

  But which will get made? 30

• Spooky survival horror roguelike Darkwood launches its Indiegogo campaign

  Inspired by Project Zomboid, Don't Starve, Teleglitch and Twin Peaks. 9

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

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  ShopTo refuses to sell upcoming Activision games in row over Call of Duty: Ghosts

  A tale of broken street dates and contracts. 159

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  Another hour of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage leaks

  Take a Lucas at what might have been. 31

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  Teaser images point to new Wolfenstein game by some of the people behind The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick

  UPDATE: Bethesda makes it official. Out later this year. 51

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  GAME plans to open 18 new shops by July

  In preparation of success rather than as a declaration of it. 71

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  As Will Wright, creator of the SimCity series, labels the launch of the new SimCity "inexcusable", Maxis details update 3 - but still no offline mode

  "I can understand the outrage." 28

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  Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sequel possible, says Michael Biehn

  Voice actor also weighs in on Aliens: Colonial Marines role. 44

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  Microsoft cautious on Windows 8 success: "we realise that change takes time"

  100 million licenses sold, 250 million Windows Store downloads. 103

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  Borderlands 2's Krieg the Psycho DLC due next week

  Don't touch me I'm a real live wire. 26

• Oh the things Oculus Rift can do: Today, Guillotine simulation

  What sever next? 19

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  Techland's Hellraid looks like Dead Island meets Oblivion - here's your first (brief) look

  Dead Island dev's latest evokes fantasy gaming's '90s heyday. 33

• Free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG Ascend: New Gods re-named

  Behold, Ascend: Hand of Kul. 14

• Valve has been measuring people's sweat while they play games

  Ooze weird now? 30

• Wii U's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai

  And right now there are no further platforms to announce. 14

• Mile-high robots fight Lovecraft-esque monsters in Pacific Rim: The Video Game

  WWE dev re-imagines Guillermo del Toro's upcoming epic. 12

• UK charts: Dead Island: Riptide remains in top spot

  Vita horror Soul Sacrifice debuts in 26th. 29

• Monaco creator working on fix to secure XBLA release

  UPDATE: It will be out this week on XBLA. 13

• SimCity has sold over 1.6 million units

  Battlefield 3 Premium has over 3.5 million subscribers. 43

• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing release date revealed

  And a new trailer to Stoker your interest. 9

• Add money to the $1.6m Dota 2 International prize pool by buying a "living" virtual book

  Valve to donate 25% of money made through sales of The International Interactive Compendium to players. 11

• Ben There, Dan That dev announces Gun Monkeys

  A procedurally-generated deathmatch game. 4