The Autobot Optimus Prime has been revealed, he'll be feature in the upcoming game that will tie in with the next Transformers movie.



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A video which takes a look at the opening Yaiba Ninja Gaiden Z mission in its entirety, which is perhaps enough to peak your interest or not.



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Planet Arkadia is breaking new frontiers in online gaming. Arkadia Underground gives all players a unique opportunity to participate in land investment within Entropia Universe allowing players to share in the revenues of Arkadia Underground and receive dividends on a daily basis



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Palmer Sturman: Mechanic Escape is an intriguing upcoming indie title by French developer Slak Games. Its an uncompromising two-dimensional platformer that borrows elements from some of modern platformings more well-known sweethearts, and incorporates its own distinct style offering up a genuinely good gaming experience that, while not groundbreaking, was just different enough to keep me intrigued. I spent about 40 minutes blazing through the games 10 demo levels, collecting all the pickups, and going back to attempt my own speed runs. The featured levels were divided to show off four of the games world types, each with its own distinct atmosphere and design. The game looks fantastic, with smooth animations and wonderfully presented color palates that contribute to a delightfully executed aesthetic that was pleasing overall. The one serious qualm I had during my entire experience was an issue of control. The game occasionally suffered from hiccups in that department due to float...



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Dragon Age Inquisition will count with another old character from the previous games, Alistair, the famous king of Ferelden. BioWare published today several images of Steve Valentine, Alistairs voice actor, recording at Edmontons studios.



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One of the Outside Xbox employees - Mike Channell - has managed to get an interview with the Brand Marketing Producer at Rocksteady Studios - Dax Ginn - during which the latter one has told a lot of interesting information about Gotham City, Batmobile and Joker. Also in the article you will find fresh screenshots and new info about Batman: Arkham Origins DLC.



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CCC Says: "When Irrational Games was originally teasing episode 1 of BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea, they promised us that we would be in for a unique take on the BioShock experience, focusing on stealth and story outside of gunplay. What we got, was a couple hours of BioShock Infinite slathered over with a rapture coat of paint. It was fun enough, but it was really just more of the same, and so thats all we expected going into BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea Episode 2. Imagine our surprise when it turned out that Irrational would make good on all of the promises after all."



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VRFocus - Developer Gaijin Entertainment has announced that it will be bringing War Thunder to this weeks EGX Rezzed event in Birmingham. The developer will be specifically showing off the Ground Forces expansion for the free-to-play title, which supports virtual reality (VR) with the Oculus Rift. The closed beta for the expansion will be on display for both the press and public to try out.



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Matthew Ahern, GIZORAMA - "Betrayer is a title in which challenge does not come from combat, or intricate mechanics, but from cryptic tasks, and a mystery-based story. I am not sure if I love Betrayer, or hate it, but it keeps my interest all the way through. Actual gameplay is a little light. While I cannot say there was anything wrong with it, the shooting mechanics were very simple. Bow combat, and gunplay were easy enough to master, but that is not this games purpose. Piecing together the story behind the abandoned colony of Roanoke is the real meat of the game, and its most enjoyable."



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Windforge brings a lot of new ideas to the crafting/platformer table, which is refreshing with the amount of stale clones on the market. If you want to be a steampunk Captain Ahab, chasing the white sky whale through the seven skies, then this is the game for you.



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NaissanceE is an indie adventure game full of... well, not much, actually. But that doesn't mean it's not worth your time.



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Forget the clones- Vlambeer brings the real deal. Defend your nation, patriots!



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BioShock Infinites DLC, BioShock Infinite and BioShock 1 concludes with this second, longer, stealthier half of last Novembers return to Rapture. Its out now.



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SteamFirst: Race the Sun is an arcade racer available on Steam. You travel at high speeds dodging obstacles while trying to keep up with the sun. Does it soar past expectations, or does it crash and burn?



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Blaine Smith of XMMORPG writes: It's no secret that I had a massively positive experience during my time in the SMITE closed and open beta's but now the game has officially launched I ask one simple question. Does SMITE have what it takes to compete with the MOBA legends?



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Guide4GameS: BioShock Infinite has received its final episode of Burial at Sea. See the world through the eyes of Elizabeth, as she continues her journey through Rapture in a film noir-style story that provides players with a different perspective on the BioShock universe.



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Shane at GameCloud writes: "Corporate Lifestyle Simulator is an enjoyable and ultra-violence romp that would easily please those who loathe their desk job. The Office Space meets Shaun of the Dead undertone of the game wasnt trying to accomplish anything new, but rather, create an amusing experience of mindless shooting fun. At $4.99, its great value for a shoot em up thats filled with plenty of laughs, which can also facilitate all of your wildest destructive urges."



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From Strategyinformer.com: "Im in the fortunate position to have never suffered from dementia, nor have I ever been close to anyone who has suffered from it. Those who have may find Ether One, White Paper Games debut exploratory adventure game, a poignant experience. It may not educate or inform those completely unaware of the degenerative cognitive illness, but it does facilitate a very interesting interactive platform to depict a very real and very relatable story involving the disease, nonetheless."



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Hardcore Gamer: This gives you a new mode, a new map, new weapons and parts, plus new achievements to boot.



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AMD has announced their latest FirePro series which includes the flagship FirePro W9100 series graphics card based on the Hawaii GPU architecture. The Hawaii GPU leverages performance of the FirePro graphics cards versus the previous generation which utilized the Tahiti GPU architecture.



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Jimquisition tackles the whirlwind of confusion surrounding Oculus' purchase by Facebook, and suggests that, even IF it means bad things, it could have been WAY worse.



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Thanks to user Jaldaris93 from the BioWare forums, lots of information regarding Dragon Age: Inquisition has surfaced from a recent article in OXM.



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Some games have a point. An intriguing narrative, a noteworthy social commentary, an innovative mechanic perhaps. Door Kickers' seems to be waging war on doors.



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Scientists and consumers could collaborate on NASA research projects with the advent of consumer-grade virtual reality headsets like Project Morpheus, says SCEA’s Anton Mikhailov.

Sony introduced its VR headset, codenamed Project Morpheus, at GDC last week, also announcing its partnership with NASA during the reveal event. The two parties have been sharing knowledge around virtual reality tech for some time, Sony learning from NASA’s military-grade simulations and NASA taking advantage of Sony’s cheaper, consumer-grade tech to offer its scientists and academics access to virtual reality at a fraction of the previous cost.

And Sony’s bid to popularise virtual reality by bringing it to the masses could yet feed back into NASA’s own research, says SCEA senior software engineer Anton Mikhailov. “They’re excited about regular people following along with the NASA scientists, using similar hardware to explore the same thing scientists are exploring,” he told us at GDC last week. “Who knows, it could even crowdsource some of this stuff. Imagine if they collected photo satellite data from all around Mars – it’d take a lot of time for them to sift through all of that, so what if you could get the masses of gamers on PlayStation to help you out.

“Gamers are good at finding stuff – you give someone a VR headset and you say – ‘find water on Mars – go’. They get a ton of data and we help out science. That’s personally what gets me excited about collaborating with someone like NASA, and obviously there are other collaborations – virtual tourism, museums, all of that stuff. There are some very exciting possibilities.”

As Facebook’s $2 billion swoop for Oculus Rift has proven this week, using virtual reality to play videogames is just the start for the medium. As Mikhailov suggests, its wider applications are, in many ways, the more exciting part of the technology – and secretly, perhaps Sony knows that selling and licensing Project Morpheus out to businesses and institutions will be a more lucrative use of the tech.

It’s still a rather distant prospect for players, but Sony has already set about exploring the multitude of other ways in which its tech can be utilised, starting with its NASA partnership. “A lot of people have wanted VR to happen, not just gamers,” said Mikhailov. “NASA is an exciting partner because they’ve been doing virtual reality internally forever, basically. They’ve always researched how they can use it for science, astronaut training, pilot training and so on. The thing about working with them is that they have a lab full of this stuff – they’ve done a lot of it already and what’s encouraging is that they’re quite impressed with what we’ve done so far.”

So what are the differences between Sony’s Morpheus tech and NASA’s own? “Well, it’s not a million dollars, so that’s kind of the difference,” said Mikhailov. “It’s interesting because a lot of the old virtual reality stuff was quite bulky, extremely expensive, all military-grade. Now in the last few years because a lot of things have driven down the price of displays and computation down, we’re able to do things that we just weren’t able to pull off in the eighties and nineties unless they were in a military institution. It’s different technology but it’s delivering an experience that’s very similar to a proper simulator.”

Making virtual reality cheaper and more accessible to a far larger number of NASA staff has allowed its scientists to experiment with simulation a lot more, says Mikhailov, though NASA’s own high-end military grade VR will still be used for training pilots, astronauts, medics and the like. “For that kind of experience you need something that has to be completely bulletproof,” he said. “You don’t want anybody to get hurt…in games when you mess up or the tracking goes wrong it’s fine but, for example, in the medical world the tolerances are different, so on that level the technology is different – there’s a gap.

“What they’re excited about is for their institutions. If they want a scientist to use their VR system, it’s a million dollar system – they have one of them, and one of the scientists has to get a time share on that system, they have to sign up, get a grant, whatever. With consumer VR hardware they can get one for every one of their scientists and now, yes, they’re not having the ‘NASA experience’ but they’re having something close, and they’re having it on a wider scale. It’s a depth versus breadth approach.”

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Do you like jet cars? Do you like stunts? How about obnoxious voice-overs? Then the new Jet Car Stunts trailer is the video for you. Originally released as a pretty addictive mobile game, Jet Car Stunts is a stunt driving title with a hint of Trials about it, in which you zoom around a track smashing yourself to pieces on bits of scenery while trying to make a series of ridiculous jumps.



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Sophie Halliday writes: The first thing that struck me when firing up Luftrausers for the first time was the way in which the game embodies that classic arcade-style feeling. I only intended to play for a few minutes; to take the game out for a test drive before returning to it later when I had the time for a more in-depth exploration of what it has to offer. Yet straight away, I was sucked in by the intensity of the air battles, the immediately addictive game play, the instant compulsion to better my last high score and to have one last go at completing that one challenge which seemed tantalisingly within my reach. If theres one thing in particular that Luftrausers game play manifests, its that infamous just one more go syndrome.



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Former Epic Games dev writes lengthy blog post discussing the recent Oculus/Facebook sale, says Notch's decision to cancel Minecraft VR is a "bratty and petty move."



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VRFocus - Two days after the announcement that Facebook is to acquire Oculus VR and its still the videogames industrys hottest topic. Oculus VR are well aware of the position they had put themselves in at the forefront of modern virtual reality (VR) technology and are keen to ensure that their audience reacts to the significant change in position appropriately, suggesting that it opens doors to new opportunities and partnerships.



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Rely on Horror: "It has come to an end. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2s Revelations DLC is the final Castlevania offering from MercurySteam, before they move on to tackle another series in Konamis portfolio (Contra?!). Revelations stars none other than Alucard himself. Fans are ecstatic to control the son of Dracula once more, especially this version, which I find to be better than the original timelines. So the question is: Is this a symphony worth spending your night experiencing?"



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GR-UK writes: "The leap from Arkham City to Knight doesn't appear to be as big as it was from Arkham Asylum to City. It feels more like the logical next step and the evolution of the concepts we already know, with the exception of the Batmobile, naturally. For these reasons we're not completely overwhelmed after having witnessed Arkham Knight first hand, as it's mostly a case of bigger and better. Then again, that's compared to one of the absolute best games of the last generation, so it's not like we need any sort of revolution. Rocksteady looks to finish off their trilogy in style."



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GR-UK writes: "Reaper of Souls feels in many ways like Diablo III has finally realised the enormous potential the game has always had. It is the game Diablo III should have been from the start, and an absolute must for anyone who likes Diablo. With the massive injection of new content and total renovation of several core systems, Reaper of Souls in many ways feels fresher than Diablo III did two years ago."



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Daav from NoobFeed takes on Betrayer. Isolation is strengthened by frustrating, esoteric design. Removing color takes away what little solace it could bring. Nothing is safe. Anything is dangerous and the chance for survival is slim. Olden days were tough.



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Metal Arcade: Phil McGrew writes: About a year ago, excited rumors and rampant speculation began circling around the web when Eidos, one of the development teams behind the successful Deus Ex franchise, teased a new title in the series, called Human Defiance. However, the hype was short lived, as the Canadian game studio soon revealed that the whole thing had been an April Fools joke, centered around a tongue-in-cheek 8-bit rendition of the Deus Ex universe. Fast-forward a few months, and the same studio, in collaboration with the Square Enix mobile development team, announced a portable entry in the series Deus Ex: The Fall (this time in all seriousness). After playing the recently released PC port of said mobile game, Im sure that some people are currently wishing that this, too, is all just some kind of bad joke.



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GameKeysNow takes a look at some of the games wed like to see made into massively multiplayer online games



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"Titanfall is the recently released First Person Shooter game from Respawn Entertainment and published by EA. Its a multiplayer shooter that has players controlling Pilots of giant mechatronic robotic machines, called Titans, as they battle each other across multiple maps and worlds. Titanfall has been pushed for its online multiplayer campaign and classic modes, while offering a fast-paced competitive backdrop with unique movement options and even more unique gameplay through the use of Titans. Sounds like fun, doesnt it?" - Attack On Gaming



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