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  UK chart: Metro: Last Light turns up top

  But can't beat Metro: 2033's first-week fifth-place tally. 5

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  Avant garde stealth game Tangiers looks like a surreal noir nightmare

  Inspired by Burroughs, Ballard, and Dadaist art. 26

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  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. 36

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  Metal Gear Rising Revengeance confirmed for PC

  Platinum makes debut on PC. 72

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  Six new games accepted on Steam Greenlight

  Game Dev Tycoon and Riot are among them. 24

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  Elder Scrolls Online: "You can compete with your friends to catch the biggest fish"

  It's got a better-looking lockpicking mini-game than Skyrim. 54

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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. 136

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

  Inspired by The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust. 60

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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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  BioShock Infinite sells "significantly" more than series predecessors

  But 2K quiet about XCOM: Enemy Unknown. 98

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

  With a suspiciously later deadline. 42

• 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

• Retro shmup/metroidvania A.N.N.E. hits its Kickstarter goal

  Has eight days left to achieve its Vita and Wii U stretch goals. 19

• 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. 55

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

  Dubstep gun, mechs, aliens and super powers. 56

• 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. 60

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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. 58

• 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

• 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

Monday, 6 May 2013

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  The Sims 4 officially announced

  Due next year on PC and Mac. 53

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  Grand Theft Auto 5 for PC spotted on German retail sites - rumour

  Special Edition outed, too. 52

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  EA acquires Star Wars video game license

  Visceral, DICE and BioWare all making Star Wars titles. 145

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  "It was just there: dolphin, dolphin, dolphin"

  He convinced Sega about Ecco, now Ed Annunziata wants to convince you about The Big Blue. 34

• Eternal Darkness "spiritual successor" Shadow of the Eternals announced

  UPDATE: The crowdfunding page is up along with nine minutes of gameplay 84

• Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time due this July

  The sunflower is in your hand! 18

Saturday, 4 May 2013

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  Candy Box is the stupidest, most addictive thing since Cow Clicker

  Social game parody somehow a great social game. 50

• Road Redemption adds Oculus Rift and XBLA stretch goals

  But will it be funded in time? 11

Friday, 3 May 2013

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  Rambo game finally shows off Rambo

  He's apparently wearing some sort of dress. 57

• Obsidian's next-gen game "already looking great" says Feargus Urquhart

  South Park: The Stick of Truth out this year. 34

• Dishonored: Void Walker's Arsenal DLC available 14th May

  Four packs of pre-order bonuses in one handy bundle. 17

• Epic's Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel now exists in your browser

  Optimised for Firefox Nightly. 13

• Portal meets Cthulhu in sci-fi puzzler Magrunner: Dark Pulse

  Downloadable oddity headed to PC, PSN, XBLA. 14

• A Camelot Unchained recap: what's been funded, at an average of $150 a head

  And some things you might have missed along the way. 9

• Pinball FX2 is coming to Steam next week

  $9.99 for each set of tables. 22