Eric from We Got This Covered wrote: Fans of traditional stealth-based games have had a rough go of it over the past few years. Genre stalwarts such as Splinter Cell and Hitman have embraced more action-oriented gameplay, while former critical darling Thief returned with a flop earlier this year. This has left developers such as Arkane Studios (Dishonored) and The Creative Assembly (Alien: Isolation) with the opportunity to pick up the slack. Another developer, Cyanide Studios, is now looking to make a name for themselves in the genre with their latest effort, Styx: Master of Shadows.



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Track: Monochro ∞ Blue Sky | Artist: Hatsune Miku | Album: EX:P2 ～Ex:Producers2～

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It's that time of year again, when the specialty shops are packed with "sexy" Halloween costumes aimed at titillating the gaming set. There's sexy plumbers, sexy elves and sexy assassins all over the place, but they're generally crap. Let's show them how it's done.

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Kicked is your weekly journey through the world of gaming on Kickstarter. Host Amy Elyse Brighter walks you through the games she thinks you should be looking at. This week: Darkfield Highlands Battle Chef Brigade



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The visualisation shows data taken from 10,000 games of League of Legends. The movements of all ten players in each match (thats 100,000 for those of you without an abacus) have been transposed over one anther to produce this hypnotic visual.



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Richard Bailey Jr. of The Koalition writes: When Robert Kirkman took on the task of creating an intriguing black-and-white comic book series centered on the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, he effectively succeeded in making an emotionally gripping storyline about humanity filled with drama, unforgiving violence and suspense. Amazingly enough, what started out as strictly a comic series eventually blossomed into several video game and TV show adaptations.



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It's refreshing to know that in these days of intense video game scrutiny, a major publisher like Activision can still find time to lift a cheek and let one slip out while no one is looking.

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Rat King Entertainments beautiful first-person exploration platformer TRI comes out on October 9th and so a release trailer is now ready for your viewing pleasure.



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TGG: In The Evil Within you play as Detective Sebastian Castellanos who, along with other detectives, was investigating a murder. During the investigation it becomes clear that this is not any old murder case, and that something very wrong was happening. This leads to Sebastian being knocked out, and wakes up dangling upside down next to dead bodies. Then a few moments later, I got my head cut off after being caught by some big monster type enemy. Little did I know, that would end up being one of many, many times I would die in this brutally challenging game.



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Did you know Donkey Kong Country was instrumental in the development of Rare fighting game Killer Instinct, or that female fighter Orchid was once simply called "Wanda"? You do now, and there's more where that came from.

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Many fans are eagerly waiting for the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, coming in february 2015. GamePlane received very interesting answers in an interview with Miles Tost, Level Designer at CD PROJEKT RED. The interview is all about the challenges concerning the development, favorite characters and of course the problems occuring during the progress. Triss will be there somewhere too.



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Assassins Creed Unity is Assassins Creed embracing the new generation of consoles, and from what weve been shown, it could be exactly the shot in the arm the generation needs.



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Alien Isolation is the greatest Alien game released - better than even the C64, US version of Aliens! But its flaws punch a hole right through its heart.



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A vast, methodical, nerve-rattling, and above all faithful video game rendition of a cinema classic... for better and, occasionally, for worse.



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Alien Isolation is a masterpiece. Visually, it is every bit as intoxicating as Ridley Scott's original motion picture. A more worthy successor to the film than anything Hollywood has concocted since.



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Say what you will about its faults, Alien Isolation is scary, and that counts for an awful lot.



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Alien: Isolation is superb at doing what it does best and so does it repeatedly, just make sure to take those tea breaks, because it's a long haul.



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Alien: Isolation is a rarity in video games. Not because its based on the long-running Alien franchise there have been many Alien games over the years, a lot of them quite crappy but because of how faithfully it tries to respect and replicate what made the original Alien film so special. Unfortunately, the patience required to extract that essence might be too much for some players to bear.



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Early 1920s Florida. To be precise, Coral Gables, Florida. Back then, it was an up-and-coming housing town with people buying real estate left and right, creating the real estate boom that would last until October of 1929, when the stock market crashed. If you worked in real estate, chances are you made a lot of money. This is essentially the premise of A Golden Wake, a point and click game that puts you in the shoes of a real estate salesman during that time and place. While that does seem interesting, the game isnt interesting.



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Analog Addiction writes, "Some three years after the release of F.E.A.R. 3 (2011), Korean based studio Inplay Interactive and publisher Aeria Games are bringing the series back. However, rather than being a paid console and PC title, their game, F.E.A.R. Online, will be a free-to-play PC only title. The game runs on an updated version of the Lithtech Jupiter EX engine, last seen in Gotham City Imposters, and utilises the source code from F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Analog Addiction was given a chance to try the game before its Open Beta launched on October 8. Here are our thoughts."



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Avoiderdragon: When Aliens: Colonial Marines was released, it made for some really tough times for Sega and Gearbox Software, the latter of which wasnt doing too badly anyway since they have their Borderlands franchise to fall back on. As one of the worst games of 2013, it was a game with so much hype and promise that proceeded to crash and burn. What a lot of people didnt know until much later is that there was another Alien game in the works, and it has now been released.



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Readers Gambit takes a deep breath and sinks its teeth in to Shinji Mikami's "The Evil Within".



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Watch out DriveClub and Forza Horizon 2, Project Cars dynamic weather showcase is absolutely stunning. The graphics in this game is the best we have ever seen in a racing game. check out the video below. Project Cars is scheduled to launch November 18th. for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One Consoles.



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Gary Swaby of The Koalition writes: Controversy has struck again in the gaming industry, and it has lead to many gamers showing their ignorance for resolution and performance. Earlier in the week it came out that Ubisoft has capped the resolution of Assassins Creed: Unity to 900p/30fps on both the Xbox One and Playstation 4. It was also hinted that this was done to be fair to gamers on both platform, so one version doesnt run better than the other. Ubisoft has since done damage control, stating that 30fps is more cinematic. Whatever their intention was, should Ubisoft have just not said a word? Will they do the same with Far Cry 4? We discuss it on the show.



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While I wouldn't go as far as calling Destiny and Phantasy Star Online the same game, this lovely chart from Redditor KytorIndustries makes a compelling argument that they pretty much are.

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It doesn't get much better than a cat in a Mega Man costume.

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Clockwork Empires is still very much in its infancy, but has laid some impressive groundwork and built up a lot of promise in a very short amount of time -Writes Sean Carr



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In this week's episode we discuss: - What we've been playing - The Crew being pushed back - Video Game immersion - DriveClub failure - A new Nintendo console! - The Christmas line up! ...Plus we answer your questions, and much more!



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Gamereactor spoke to Elite creator David Braben, who explained that freedom to explore in Dangerous doesn't come at the detriment of narrative. "We're bringing in a story that embraces all the players. People have said that Elite doesn't have a story. It does have a story, it just not a rescue the princess style single-player threaded story."



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4gency founder Charles Cox talks development of orbital strategy game.



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Its another heavy release week in terms of new video games to play, so lets get to breaking down what new titles you should think about picking up with your hard earned scratch. The heavy hitters this week included The Evil Within, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The Walking Dead Season 1 (PS4/Xbox One), The Walking Dead Season 2 retail edition (PS3/360), and Peggle 2 (PS4).



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"Assassin's Creed: Unity is just around the corner and despite all the negativity due to the console-parity, we're still rather looking forward to donning the Assassin robes again and taking the fight to the streets of a beautifully re-created Paris. One feature that has me personally excited is the co-op feature which allows your friends to drop in and out of your game to complete set missions together."



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Ritchi from GamerCrowd has been playing through Alien Isolation, and here's what he has to say about it.



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On the face of it, "Mummy on the Orient Express" is a more traditional Doctor Who story than anything we've seen lately. There's a classic monster (very classic, in fact), a confined space, and a mystery to be solved — but this story manages to turn those ingredients into something totally new. Spoilers ahead...

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VideoGamer: "A Mikami megamix of sorts that doesn't hit the heights of the director's previous work, but is enjoyable all the same."



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A new video has been released for the Korean promotion of TERA. The video features cute idol Luna, who is one of the spokesmodels for the game, encouraging Korean gamers to play.



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At the end of it all, Alien Isolation is bar-none the best Alien video game. It takes what made the first film so damn creepy and terrifying and encapsulates you in that world from start to finish.



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Rogan Feltmate writes : NEO Scavenger is a turn-based roguelike survival game that can be purchased on Steam or Desura for 10.00$ USD, and has a generous, free demo available. Here are my impressions of that demo.



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Since 2000, EAs yearly juggernaut has won the sales war against Konami. In the wake of the rivals launch this year, we thought wed level the playing field and ask the developers behind both games the same questions



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Chris writes: "I only had a couple of hours to spend at IndieCade today, and only a couple more that I can spare over the weekend, so Im reduced to brief experiences with many of the festivals offerings. One of the most memorable to come out of today was a game called Close Castles, from the maker of Threes. It was quick, smooth, and incredibly fun."



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At EGX 2014, Dom was able to sit down with Lead Games Designer Maciej Binkowski to discuss Dying Light. They talk about freedom of movement, multiplayer, weapon customization and more



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A couple eagerly awaited features will make it into the next couple updates for Assetto Corsa.The Release Candidate build will bring damage, both in visual and mechanical forms, to the sim. The tires will feature an even more advanced deterioration engine, featuring graining, blistering, and even blowouts! With these elements being incorporated into the sim, Kunos has expedited the pit stops feature. While it seems it wont make it to the Release Candidate build, we can expect to see pitstops in the 1.0 build. It will only be restricted to online events to begin, but they will work it into single player races in a future update.



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Angry Joe and Other Joe take turns battling the Xenomorph as Amanda Ripley.



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