PC Gamer - There arent many games that can be described as beautiful, but Dyad is one of them. Spinning together a mesmerising blend of music and image with tight and ever-shifting game rules, its one of the most beguiling and uplifting games Ive experienced. And thats speaking as a Rez obsessive. To describe it risks stripping some of the magic away, so bear with me. A way to start understanding Dyad would be to think of Tempest, in the sense that youre a ship that runs around the inner wall of a tube, and you kind of shoot enemies as you speed towards them.



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MonsterVine: "Seeing that players aren't content with waiting for season 2 of the incredibly well received Walked Dead game, Telltale has put out a short add-on for season 1 that contains a whole new set of characters and stories."



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Do you ever feel like you never really get your love of the Zelda series across through your clothes, wallets, watches, mints, hats, action figures, replica weapons, posters, tattoos, or limited-edition game cartridges and systems? Well, have no fear fan who has far more expendable income than I, for here is a new item to shock and impress your friends with: Ocarina of Time Song Rings.

Peregrine Studios has created a collection of rings featuring the tunes from one of the most popular entries in the Zelda series. If you have your heart set on that Minuet of Forest ring, and happen to have $60 kicking around, than today is a good day to be a Zelda fan. Customers can also select six rings for $250, or snag the entire set for $450.

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In this new video series, Gamers Association editor Cameron Wasmund takes a peek back at games from his past to see if the happy memories hold up. This week, it's Receiver.



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8CN: Comic-Con is generally not known for having a huge focus on gaming (although that is changing year by year), but that isn't stopping Blizzard from pulling out all the stops. They'll be arriving with panels, events, and merchandise aplenty, read on to see their full Con schedule.



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Game Informer - The guild system in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion feels unreal. You can be the leader of the Fighters Guild, a protective organization for good, and a vile, high-ranking Dark Brotherhood assassin at the same time. Two morally opposed groups, headed by the same person. For a while, Oblivion lets you have your cake and eat it too.



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EDGE - Ben Griffin returns to Maxis citybuilder to see whats changed since its troubled launch.



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Dealspwn writes: Earlier this week LoveFilm sadly announced that they would not be letting new or existing customers sign up to any game rental packages on the site. However, it wasn't particularly clear what would be happening if a customer already had a games rental package. As many of our readers -and indeed our staff- enjoy LoveFilm's game rental services, we reached out for answers and received this reply:



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Rice Digital talks to the three-man team behind the 2D fighter currently taking the scene by storm



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Siliconera: "Yes, the rumours are trueSteins;Gate is coming to the West. JAST USA just announced that they will be publishing the visual novel in English, at their ongoing panel at Anime Expo."



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Welcome to This Week In Gaming from Twinfinite! Im Rick Aguilar and Ill be hosting this weird thing from now on. We understand that not everybody has the time to keep track of whats going on in the video game world, so we decided to bring you the latest and greatest news in a comprehensive less-than-seven-minutes video! This Week in Gaming will be releasing every Saturday.



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EDGE: "The next generation of consoles offers the expected raft of technical advancements, but to experience the only interstellar jump forwards in the melding of new gaming technology and software at this years E3 was to try CCPs Oculus Rift-powered space dogfighting game. EVR was built in four weeks by a small team of EVE Online staff in their spare time, and the game swaps out the space MMOGs vast strategic battles in favour of short bursts of fast-paced arcade-style action between two flight wings of six."



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The newest subgenre seems to be MMO Card Gaming - but will this catch on? Let's take a look at whether or not card games can really be MMOs.



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TrackMania 2 Stadium is the last title in the series Trackmania the game that revolutionized the eSports. Stadium is the closest game of TrackMania Nations, bringing the series back to the stadiums. If you read my review to TrackMania 2 can see I'm not the biggest fan of the series, but I recognize their strengths. It is a very addictive game, but is based much more on decorating a circuit than react to opponents for example. No contact or any kind of damage, but it is probably one of the biggest games with the notion of speed. Early on will see the similarities with Nations. The goal is always to reach the end as fast as possible and try to get one of three medals, bronze, silver or gold, all separated by mere thousandths of a second. Achieve a gold medal can be a real challenge, only the best will get but the challenge does not end there, because online you may need to make the circuit with zero errors to get to get close to the best times.



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Although there are some games on the war in the Pacific during World War II, the vast majority continue to explore the European war against the Nazis. The truth is that it is a more interesting topic, but there is still plenty to explore on stage Pacific. Rising Storm is not exactly a game Anonymous, is part of Red Orchestra 2, one of the games responsible for perpetuating the idea that the war was just in Europe, but with the Tripwire Rising Storm came to bring some of the atmosphere of forgotten Second World War . As Red Orchestra 2, there was a great attention to detail in Rising Storm, both in gameplay itself which is quite realistic as the whole story and environments. The game is much more complicated than simply point and shoot. You need to calculate eg the distance and weight of our bullets. It is not as simple as any CoD and a bad calculation ends with a shot and the enemy failed to deal to teach us how.



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Telltale Games critically acclaimed adventure series The Walking Dead is back with all-new downloadable content called 400 Days, an anthology of short stories that bridges the gap between Seasons One and Two.



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With 400 days Telltale games has shown that they can still create an entirely new cast and still capture the same intensity that made The Walking Dead: The Game such a great title. The Game great. These five stories, while short, are fantastic and definitely worth the $4.99 price tag.



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Yellowpen of The Gentleman Gamer writes: "For some of us, gaming transcends the status of a hobby"...Its possible none of us understand this better than Justin Carter, the 19 year-old League of Legends player from Texas who has been in jail since February of this year because of terroristic comments made over Facebook in reference to the game.



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Deadpool, the Merc with a Mouth, just put out his own video game with the help of High Moon Studios (Transformers: Fall of Cybertron) that perfectly captures the essence of this mentally unstable dick joke making Marvel superhero. Deadpool the game is a great introduction to the titular character and his unique brand of disturbed humor that ultimately is a parody of recent video game design tropes, and at times of itself. Its comedic value is high if youre into schizophrenic potty humor that resembles conversations heard in a boys middle school locker room, and boobs. Unfortunately, this game ends up becoming the type of experience that it tries to make fun of throughout its 8-hour campaign, and ends up being another button mashing affair to rid the world of generic enemy types and a few lesser known Marvel villains.



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Magic 2014: Duels of the Planewalkers is the third sequel of the game from publisher Wizards of the Coast and developer Stainless Games. Based on the popular Magic the Gathering card game, your main objective is to defeat fellow duelists via an array of monsters and spells before your life points are depleted. However, in this digital version, you can win also new cards and pre-constructed decks to reinforce the armies at your disposal; all of the cards in the game are up to current rules and library standards.



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SWTOR is getting something of a makeover in terms of colors. Most will agree that its an improvement but for those who have grown accustomed to seeing it in its darker fashion might not approve. Personally, I like it. I really think some zones were just a bit too dreary and drab with all the grey/brown. I like the improved colors and crispness of it all.



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Worth Playing - In the next installment of the open-world action game, the Third Street Saints' story continues as their head honcho has been elected to the Presidency of the United States, they are now the leaders of the free world.



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Legendary Pictures CEO Thomas Tull has said that taking on the huge task of a Warcraft movie is no easy feat.



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Gameranx takes a hard look at the ten most brutal, fighting combat games in existence, including titles for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.



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Many gamers that have been long time Call of Duty fans have played countless hours of multiplayer, stayed home from work or school, paid for multiple DLC packs only to be ignored by the developers on a constant basis. Black Ops 2 Vengance DLC pack launched earlier this week on Xbox LIVE and of course they give the "Core" crowd the proper playlist to enjoy the new maps that they just spent $15 bucks on. For the gamers who would rather play the Hardcore playlist they have to wait for the maps to show up in rotation to enjoy them...



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Kickstarter is a hell of place to find really great projects to not only get excited about but to also help fund. Recently, I came across a little game by developer DisasterCake called Soul Saga part 1. Designed to bring memories of the RPG renaissance of the late 90s its creator Mike Gale refers to it as his Love Letter to classic JRPGs.



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To compare The Night of the Rabbit to any of Daedalics previous games would be a disservice to the company as this is clearly a different game with a different message to put across to the player. This particular story tells the tale of every child who grew up with an imagination and a dream of one day doing something amazing with their lives. This story tells the tale of Jeremiah Hazelnut, the boy who dreamt of one day becoming a magician.



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After a nearly two year gap with the PC version, Capsized is finally out on the Xbox Live Arcade today, with a PS3 release to follow later this summer. It's launching at a standard 800 MSP ($9.99), which is the exact price it's going for on Steam.

This new port comes along with some enhanced features, including three exclusive levels and online multiplayer. The original launched to some pretty solid review scores, and since I can't get enough 2D platformers in my life, I'm looking to at least check out the free demo on Xbox Live. I can also easily see this as a free PlayStation Plus offering somewhere down the line.

Capsized [Xbox.com]

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Bioshock Infinite is a very ambitious game, and how could it not be, as it is the sequel to the second greatest first-person shooter of all-time, Bioshock. Sadly, with all the ambitious potential, the game fumbles quite a bit with trying to pack in all these wonderfully diverse ideas, and by the time its over, most of it doesnt really matter anyway. For what its worth, even with all of the squandered plot points, and interesting characters that go by fairly unused, whats done well, narrative-wise, is done exceptionally well, and is undeniably epic, with great atmosphere, though it never comes close to the atmospheric heights of the original.



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Storm is the newest puzzle platformer hybrid created by independent studio Neko Entertainment. They are well-known for their other puzzle platformer hybrid, Puddle, which has been ported to almost every system imaginable at this point. Storm is a game made in a similar vein, with a different concept. In stead of transporting a stream of water by tilting a scene, you transport a seed through the control of the elements.



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The Furious Fourcast returns after taking a one week break while Scott was on vacation to talk about what the heck is up with Xbox head guy Don Mattrick leaving for Zynga of all places. While $50 million may have had something to do with that he leaves behind some problems like Microsoft's insistence of shooting itself in the foot by talking about Xbox One and advertisements with Kinect. Nintendo isn't spared either as the Wii U is in a world of hurt according to Michael Pachter and Jen, Robert, Adam and Scott don't necessarily disagree but for slightly different reasons. They also talk about the word from Double Fine about Broken Age being split into two games because it became too big for the $4 million it got from Kickstarter as well as a laundry list of titles that are currently in their play queue. This include the upcoming Nintendo 3DS title, [Redacted]. As for the Burning Question of the Week, Scott asks, "What would it take to get you to see The Lone Ranger?



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NOTE: This article will touch on some of the details found within the stories of several games, and thus, will contain some spoilers. Among the games discussed will be some of the best that 2013 has offered so far, and they include the following: Ni no Kuni, Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite, Metro: Last Light, and The Last Of Us. If you havent finished these games yet, you may want to do so before reading further. So go. Finish them. Theyre all great games. Finished? Good. Then you may proceed. Remember, youve been warned, but in case you missed this- *********SPOILER WARNING! SPOILERS MAY APPEAR BELOW! AGAIN, SPOILER WARNING! ********** Now that thats out of the way.. Lets proceed.



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Considering the name of Cooking Mama developers Cooking Mama Limited, it was obvious another game would hit a Nintendo console at some point in the future. According to Siliconera, that game is Cooking Mama 5 for the Nintendo 3DS, which is preparing for a winter release in Japan.

Considering the high rate of localization, it's probably best to just assume an overseas release is also in the cards (same with the upcoming Gardening Mama). Will Mama 5 be better than the first four Mamas? We'll know later this year.

Cooking Mama 5 [Siliconera]

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BioWare confirmed today via their monthly Insider video that Treek, the new Ewok companion coming in Game Update 2.3 , will be released on the Cartel Market this August. With the official confirmation finally out, a lot of players, (especially veterans) are not pleased with the decision of BioWare putting the new companion on the Cartel Market.



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GamesRadar - Tim Schafer, the founder of Double Fine Productions, has announced that his Kickstarter-funded adventure game--Broken Age--needs to be split in half in order to avoid significant cuts. The game, which raised $3.3 million via crowd-funding, is apparently too large in scope to run on time and on budget. By splitting the game in half, and releasing the first part via Steam Early Access, Schafer and Double Fine hope to sell enough copies of the incomplete game to finance the rest of the story. The second half would then release as a free download for all backers and buyers. It's far from an ideal solution--but did Schafer and Double Fine really have a choice?



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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Makeb Mission introduces an explosive new conflict threatening the future of the galaxy. The Hutt Empire has risen from the underworld to challenge the Republic and Sith Empire for control of the galaxy, unleashing never-before-seen droids and monstrous battle stations to serve as powerful weapons of destruction. As a player, you will be forced to take a side in this sudden uprising by The Hutt Empire.



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You don't leave out the village boy when he wants to play. He gets angry, and he will have his way.

Today, we review The Walking Dead: 400 Days, State of Decay ditches its planned multiplayer mode, Steam and Twitch partner up to let you stream to your hearts contents, and EA kind of-sort of-maybe considers doing away with SimCity's always online DRM.

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Review: The Walking Dead: 400 Days

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