Thursday, April 4, 2013

News::If This Really Is Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon's Soundtrack, Then Oh My God

News::Guns of Icarus Online - GameGrin Interview with Eric Chung (Lead Designer) and Howard Tseo (CEO)

Kickstarter has been a foothold for many great projects in the past year and one of these was Guns of Icarus Online (Skirmish Mode). This game allowed players to grab some friends and take to the skies in an airship, all with different responsibilities on said ship. Well, the guys and girls over at Muse Games are back on Kickstarter with their next project, Guns of Icarus Online (Adventure Mode). GameGrin managed to get an interview with Eric Chung (Lead Designer) and Howard Tseo (CEO).



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News::Thief Interview: 'It's Easy To Fall Into The Trap Of Trying To Please Everyone'

Matthew Pellett: ''Haven't read our first impressions of the rebooted Thief? You need a quick catch-up session. Done? Then it's time to sit down with Eidos Montreal's Stephane Roy and Daniel Windfeld Schmidt as we quiz them about bringing Thief back to the masses...''



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News::How Fast Can You Die In... BioShock Infinite?

GamesRadar - Last week's Gears of War: Judgment video was a real winner, shooting straight to the top of our HFCYDI leaderboard. But that also meant there wasn't much time for the patented Towell Joke Factory to leave its mark on the proceedings. Well, suffice to say there's plenty of time for the usual nonsense and silliness in BioShock Infinite's attempt at the record. Could it be the slowest death since our leaderboard began?



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News::Thief - 11 things you need to know

GamesRadar - Good news: Thief is back. Better news: it's no longer called Thi4f. The storied stealth franchise is coming to next-gen consoles in 2014, and we've talked to the developers about the beloved series.



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News::10 Commandments Most FPS Gamers Break Religiously

Tony from Video Games Made Me Do It talks about ten Commandments that every FPS players seems to break religiously.



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News::Evoland Review | GameGrin

Beginning life as a Ludum Dare competition winner, a contest amongst games designers to create a game from scratch in just 48 hours, Evoland has since been fleshed out and has now become a full-blown release on PC. In essence, it's an RPG about RPGs.



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News::Tomb Raider Pixel Judge review

For many gamers, the Tomb Raider series holds a special place in their hearts. One of the first games to feature a strong female lead (despite the over-sexualisation that was present), Lara Croft is one of the defining video game characters of the era. Now, in 2013, Tomb Raider is getting the reboot it needs.



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News::Bioshock: Infinite Review | AristoGamer

Bioshock: Infinite will easily be defined as a classic game years later.



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News::Bioshock Infinite Review | Tech Fixation

TTF writes: I strongly recommend that everyone buys it and experiences one of the best videogame stories I think youll ever play.



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News::Let's Talk About the Twists and Turns in Bioshock Infinite

Kotaku - Bioshock Infinite is one of those rare games that you absolutely need to talk about the second you finish it. Whether you liked the way the game ended or loathed it, you're going to have a distinct opinion about it once you've finished with it and you're going to need to talk to someone about it.



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News::Save on some retro-themed games with a Groupee bundle


Here is another bundle deal from the folks over at Groupee; this time it's a bunch of retro-themed PC indie games on offer. For the price of just $1, you can get six game: Dead Pixels, Smooth Operators, Forceline, Hit and Run, Sylia, and Love+.


If you pay a minimum of $3 you'll also get 8-bit Commando, Anodyne and Bleed. It looks like the bundle will reach its fifth stretch goal of 5,000 bundles sold, so if you hold off for a bit, you'll be able to get the soundtrack to Anodyne as well. It's rare to see a bundle where I don't actually own any of the games; this is looking mighty tempting.


Save on some retro-themed games with a Groupee bundle screenshot






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News::The Horrible Show Live #406 - And Now Back to PC

Horrible Night: "Justin welcomes back Cole to his first podcast from Las Vegas and back to PC gaming. The amateur PC builders discuss picking parts, working with giant hands, reading instructions, and which games they used to break in their new system."



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News::The Trouble With Triple-A Titles

GR - "Ideas have great cost in modern videogames. Market drives tech advancement. Tech drives detail and fidelity in graphics. Graphics and fidelity drive operating costs. Operating costs drive out creativity and risk-taking. How can this change?"



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News::Web Exclusive: Game Guys at GDC'13

In this special web exclusive Game Guys video, Game Guy Barry White shows you the smallest home video game console yet (due out this Summer), a Capcom re-imagning of a classic NES game from 1989, and chats with 'Police Academy' actor Michael Winslow as he checks out the 2013 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. The shift towards mobile and tablet-based gaming is also looked at in a special conversation with DC Universe Online creative director Jens Anderson.



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News::Are you a game collector or hoarder?

We all like to find great deals on video games. We all love to to play the latest and greatest video games. But when is taking advantage of great deals going too far?



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News::Amazon: Dead Island GoTY PC download for $5, other deals

Latest deals from Amazon include Dead Island for $5, Kingdoms of Amamlur on consoles, and more.



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News::The Phantoms of Kojima Productions

Over the past week, we here at Real Gamer Newz have been having some interesting discussions about the upcoming cloven Metal Gear Solid V. Speculations have mostly been about what consoles both parts will be featured on, and while both parts have been confirmed for PS3 and XBOX 360, with no release dates yet offered by Kojima or Konami, its fairly safe to assume that there will be at least versions of them on next gen consoles. The Fox engine just seems too powerful for them to limit themselves on their flagship game in their marquis series to current gen gaming devices. All the footage that weve seen so far, from last years announcement of Ground Zeroes to last weeks reveal of the full Phantom Pain trailer has been running on a PC construct, so its certainly possible that theyll release PC versions as well.



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News::Eternal Fandango: A LucasArts Memory

As LucasArts shuts its doors, IncGamers' Peter Parrish reflects on how Grim Fandango has ended up as a persistent presence in his life.



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News::Three Bloody Hours in Dead Island: Riptide - Dusty Cartridge

Marty from DC writes: Techland has a knack for stirring intense emotion from audiences in the space of three minutes. Ill admit I shed a tear for the first games heartfelt trailer and now with Riptide Ive shed another too. But those tears come at the cost of deceit. You see Dead Island the video game was anything but an emotional zombie apocalypto, in fact necrophilia would be a more moving experience with the undead.



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News::OXCGNs BioShock Infinite Review- Best game youll play this year

OXCGN: "Many moons later, we have the next game from Irrational Games, the people behind the original title, this time taking place in the air and called BioShock Infinite. In short, this game is the best game youll play this year."



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News::Bioshock Infinite Review | IndianVideoGamer

The truly spectacular story all the way to its astonishing conclusion, coupled with frantic and highly enjoyable gunplay raises Bioshock Infinite high above its predecessors. It tells an ambitious story, one that finds its core in great ideas and succeeds so well at it that it could leave you reeling.



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News::A Dramatic Reading Of Horrible YouTube Comments On The Donkey Kong Pauline Hack

News::Fans of classic Star Wars game Jedi Outcast should know that Raven's Mike Gummelt popped into our co

News::Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Screenshots Show, Yup, This Expansion Is 80's Crazy

News::First Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon screens have surfaced

NeoGAF discovered the first few handful of screenshots and concept art for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. A couple of the screens lineup with the little bits of gameplay we got to see in the teaser video, and overall the screens are definitely giving off that cheesy '80s movie vibe.


Between this, the soundtrack, and just how solid Far Cry 3 itself was, I am really looking forward to whatever Blood Dragon is.


First Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon screens have surfaced screenshot


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News::Don't Starve Preview [NoobFeed]

Alex from NoobFeed takes a look at Don't Starve. Don't Starve: a game with the potential to become the best in the survival genre. Dont Starve feels like a complete game and Klei Entertainment has succeeded in making a unique game, which is really surprising coming from a small studio that has never developed a survival game before.



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News::Bioshock Infinite review | Expert Reviews

Infinite is an incredible feat of storytelling, which keeps you guessing right until the end.



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News::Pulse Preview Painting Darkness With Beauty | GameInformer

GameInformer: "Exploring GDC last week, I discovered a small booth with a single screen covered in darkness. Small flashes brought vibrant colors, almost like a flashlight teasing the brilliance of a Jackson Pollock painting. I kept inching closer trying to figure out the mystery behind the display. But what struck me most was how darkness would transform into something beautiful...a special magic potentially foreshadowing something deeper. Questions abounding, I finally approached the demo station. The answers I got were just as intriguing as the initial glimpse."



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News::Are We Seeing The End of The Triple-A?

4Player-"The Tomb Raider reboot is a gripping experience complete with vibrant, engaging, spectacular hair physics, and the general consensus is that the game is the fresh start the series truly needed. It is also a fiscal liability for a company which could be asking for far more sales than the market is currently able to provide."



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News::Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Review (Maximum PC)

Maximum PC: Absence makes the heart grow fonder. That, or tentacles because its certainly not Sarah Kerrigans disposition that keeps cowboy-turned-space-marine Jim Raynor chasing after his queen in Blizzards Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.



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News::Is Disney about to destroy the Star Wars Expanded Universe Altogether?

News::Listen to these badass Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon songs


We really, really, really want Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon to be a real thing. Everything we've seen so far screams amazing. Well whatever Blood Dragon is supposed to be, the mystery continues as these three retro '80s tracks were released by Melbourne electronica band, Power Glove (no, not that Powerglove band.)


The three tracks -- Power Core, Sloan's Assault, and Warzone -- have all been embedded here for your listening enjoyment. The music is amazing and makes me want Blood Dragon even more.


Actually, you should go check out all of Power Glove's music on their SoundCloud page. It's all pretty awesome.


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News::The first two days of Defiance

Defiance , Trion Worlds's post-apocalyptic MMO shooter, came out a couple of days ago, and I've been courting it. We've gone on a few dates, but we're still getting to know each other, so it will likely be a couple of weeks until I'm ready to give my full impressions. The Syfy TV show based on the game airs on April 15, and the game will apparently have an effect on the series, so I'd at least like to watch an episode of that first.


In the mean time, allow me to share with you my first foray into this ravaged future Earth, where aliens and humans live side-by-side, but don't exactly co-exist. There's still a lot of junk I probably don't know or haven't figured out yet, so bear with me.


The first two days of Defiance screenshot


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News::BlizzCon tickets go on sale April 24 and April 27

The only thing that sells out faster than San Diego Comic-Con tickets are BlizzCon tickets. You'll have two days this month to try and snag tickets, with the first set of going on sale April 24 at 7PM Pacific, and the other on April 27 at 10AM Pacific. Tickets will cost $175, and you'll want to be F5ing the official BlizzCon website to try and get your pass.


There will be 200 tickets going on sale for a pre-BlizzCon dinner as well, set to take place on November 7 with proceeds going to the Children's Hospital of Orange County. These tickets will run $500 and go on sale on May 1 at 7PM.


BlizzCon takes place November 8 - 9 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.


BlizzCon tickets go on sale April 24 and April 27 screenshot






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News::Furry Shooter 'Gundog' Launches Beta

Hardcore Gamer: Gundog, a free-to-play World War-era third person shooter with anthropomorphic dogs has just entered beta.



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News::Buy Thomas Was Alone or Project Zomboid and Help Save a Life

Hardcore Gamer: Chloe Sagal is an indie developer who created the freeware game Homesick and needs life-saving surgery after complications from a car accident - details on all of that can be found on her IndieGogo page. Her goal is to get $36,000 in about a month, and the indie gaming community is doing quite a bit to help her reach that goal.



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News::Adelantado Trilogy: Book Two Review | Casual Game Guides

Explore the new world in Adelantado Trilogy: Book Two and pick back up with Don Diego as he continues on his journey of conquest and glory in the name of Mother Spain. Like picking up the next book in a beloved series, this sequel to the first Adelantado does not disappoint.



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News::Shovel Knight Kickstarter Promises Love Letter to 8 Bits

Daniel of PopCults.com recently interviewed the team behind Shovel Knight about the game, what gamers can expect from the game and other items related to their successful Kickstarter campaign.



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News::LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Preview | PlayStation LifeStyle

Manhattan Island is under attack and is in need of some serious intervention. Super villains Abomination and the Sandman are doing their best to destroy the city and LEGOs are flying everywhere. Who can intervene and save the island from total destruction? Who is ready to step up to the challenge?



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News::BioShock Infinite ending explained

Eurogamer: "Like a ride on one of its soaring skylines, the latter half of BioShock Infinite's narrative is a twisted and breath-taking race through the city of Columbia and beyond, moving on to expand the series' scope to a dizzying scale."



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News::Leviathyn's Drunken. Robot. Pornography. Preview: A Crazy Shooter with a Crazy Name

Drunken. Robot. Pornography. is a fast-paced shooter coming to PC from Dejobaan Games. Learn all about this crazy title in this PAX preview.



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News::Gardens Inc.: From Rakes to Riches Walkthrough

CGG- "Our Gardens Inc. From Rakes to Riches Walkthrough is ready to help whenever you need a hand achieving expert times. Our detailed video solutions will guide you through all 50 intense levels as you race against time to win the gardening contest and save your grandparents' family home from the greedy Mr. Gold."



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News::First look at Thief: Teaching an old dog new (and incredibly cool) tricks | Digital Trends

Digital Trends: "Eidos Montreals Thief is going to have a tough time if it wants avoid being thought of as a spiritual companion to Arkane Studios, Dishonored. Of course, the late 2012 hit was itself inspired by the Thief games of old, so it is pretty much the same thing as saying that the spirit of the classic series lives on in this latest iteration. Go figure."



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News::M.U.L.T.I.P.L.A.Y.E.R: Survarium is Now Taking Alpha Testers

Vostok Games new massively multiplayer online first-person shooter Survarium is finally hitting alpha.



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News::Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisolova Review | Casual Game Guides

In Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova, the townspeople fear the Black Death is reemerging when nine people die under mysterious circumstances within a weeks time. Travel with a fellow inspector on orders of His Excellency of the Imperial Court of Vienna to investigate who or what is threatening the village of Kisilova.



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News::Slender: The Arrival Review | CraveOnline

CraveOnline: "Slender: The Arrival delivers where it matters the scares. For those who want their survival-horror without copious amounts of ammunition and kickboxing, there are few games that deliver as expertly in this department. You'll struggle to open doors as you hear the ominous sound of footsteps looming ever closer, you'll begin to panic as you find yourself trapped in a narrow corridor and you'll likely quit to your desktop when your flashlight runs out of battery, submitting yourself to the will of Slender's lanky tentacle arms. While I hope that future iterations in the series will introduce some new gameplay elements, for the time being I'm still enamoured with the core concept of Slender, and I'm therefore more than satisfied with what Hadley & co. have delivered. A must-play for fans of the survival-horror genre."



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News::Editorial: Welcome to World War 2.1

In this weeks Split Screen, Sean Knight and Richard Hayden look at World War 2 video games and wonder what the next wave of titles has in store



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News::Toki Tori 2 Review | Destructoid

Destructoid: "With a bit more pizazz Toki Tori 2 would have been one of the best games on the Wii U eShop, but as it stands, just know you should go in with an open mind."



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News::Enchantia: Wrath of the Phoenix Queen Walkthrough

CGG - "Our Enchantia: Wrath of the Phoenix Queen Walkthrough will be a great asset to you as you race against the clock in an attempt to quell the Phoenix Queen's madness. Our custom screenshots, detailed instructions, and puzzle solutions will help you locate the magical songbirds and put an end to her reign of terror."



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