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Occulus Rift Engineer Killed Thursday
On Thursday, May 30, Andrew Scott Reisse, a talented computer graphics engineer and the co-founder of Oculus VR, the company that is behind the production of the Oculus Rift VR Headset, was killed in Santa Ana, California when he was struck by a car carrying suspects that were fleeing from the police as he crossed a crosswalk.
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Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World get PS3 Bundle in 2014
Even though just days ago this idea was regarded as merely a rumor, Hideo Baba, producer for the Tales series announced an HD remake of the GameCube game Tales of Symphonia and the Wii sequel Dawn of the New World at the Tales of Festival in Japan.
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See the Outskirts Demo Level for The Last of Us
When God of War: Ascension was released, it came with it early access to the first level of The Last of Us in demo format. But if you didn’t get your hands on a copy of God of War, you will just have to wait until the game is released on June 14. Unless that is you have a YouTube account and a willingness to spend around fifteen minutes watching a video.
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Microsoft Registers Several "Halo Spartan Assault" Domain Names
News came out of Fusible that the private domain registrar service, MarkMonitor, a service frequently used by Microsoft rot register domains, has seen fit to register several new domains pertaining to the Halo universe. The addresses are variants of HaloSpartanAssault.com, like Halo-SpartanAssault.net, and so on.
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Pre-Order Madden NFL 25 at Gamestop, Get Exclusive Players
In an effort to entice potential purchasers to part with their hard earned cash at their local Gamestop, the chain is offering a nice little pre-order bonus for those who are trusting enough to part with some of their money early. You can receive three exclusive players for both the Madden Ultimate Team and Connected Franchise modes.
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Teaser Video for PS4 Console Release, Eyes Will Be Squinted
Today Sony released a teaser video to give us a “look” at their upcoming PS4 console. And I use quotations here to emphasize how ridiculous it is to try and and decipher the blurred images and quick cuts of black plastic into something that might be called a console.
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Dawngate, New MOBA from EA, Gets Video
Ever since Warcraft started to become popular, the MOBA genre has been growing, hitting a massive explosion in recent years with the advent of the “free-to-play” era of games. From the megahits like League of Legends and DOTA, all the way down to games like this, Dawngate, an upcoming MOBA being published by EA, possibly just to capitalize on the current trends in the industry.
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Ea Wins Second 'Worst Company in America Poll'
This is the first time in the 8 year running of the poll that a contender has managed to rack up two “Golden Poos”, let alone consecutively.
And while the business practices of EA might not be totally agreeable, saying that they are the worst company in America because of micro transactions, or bad DLC practices cries of entitlement and is tinted with ridiculousness, especially when pitted against entities like Bank of America.
Splinter Cell Blacklist Will Come to Wii U
This does not come as too much of a surprise, as the game has been rumored to be in development for the Wii U after it appeared on multiple developer CVs and retailer websites, but this is the first official confirmation.
Nintendo said, “Showcasing enhanced game-play features using the Wii U GamePad controller, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist allows players to operate innovative gadgets, take out enemies and move through the environment, and intuitively switch between weapons, among other features. The GamePad touch screen, along with motion-based inputs, are sure to immerse fans and gamers alike in this thrilling modern-day adventure.”
There Will Be No Paid Power-Ups In iOS XCOM
Speaking to IGN, he said “Oh God, please… no. I’m not sure I would be able to sleep at night. My food would taste like ashes in my mouth.” So it sounds like there will not be these kinds of micro transactions within the game.
The game is a port of the full console and PC versions, just optimized for smaller mobile devices. It comes pack with some nifty motion controls, and they look to be able to do some pretty interesting things for another play through.
There has not yet been any word either on pricing for the game or if the game would ever make the jump over to the Android platform, but we are sure that sometime within the next couple of months more details will be revealed.
Papo & Yo is Available for PC Pre-Order
Even though Papo & Yo has been talked about for several months, and it aims at a goal a little more lofty than simple fun gameplay, you now have an incentive to pre-order the game. You can pre-order the PC version of the game on one of several different download stores, like Desura, Amazon, Steam, or more, with a 10% discount to $13.50 through April 17.
And if you take the leap and purchase the game through any of these places before it is released on April 18, you will also get a free copy of the soundtrack, a $5.99 value when it is available for purchase.
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Microsoft Files for Trademark on 'Glacier Blast'
Microsoft recently filed for a trademark for the name “Glacier Blast” with the US Patent and Trademark Office under the classification of game software. This goes hand in hand with the fact that Microsoft registered the domain glacierblastgame.com in late March, although that URL currently directs the user to a Bing search.
With that evidence, it doesn’t take much thought to guess that this will be an upcoming game for either the Xbox 360, or more likely, the next Xbox, possibly even a launch title for the system. We will just have to wait until E3 to find out what it means.
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D To Include Lower Difficulty and New Content
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, the upcoming 3DS remake will have several new features that will hopefully make the game more attractive to its new target audience. Included with that is local co-op and an easier mode that will give your characters three hearts instead of the normal two, although Nintendo has not yet elaborated on the specifications of the multiplayer.
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Mega Man 1 Soundtrack Now Available for Purchase
If you have been aching to own the digital version of the OST for the original NES Mega Man for the last 25 years, then you have to wait no longer for Capcom has taken the first step in an effort to make all of the original NES Mega Man soundtracks “legitimately available in the West.”
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Lego Batman 2 Wii U Given Launch Date
Before now, we knew roughly what time Lego Batman 2 would hit store shelves for the Nintendo Wii U. It was coming this spring, we just din’t know the date. But thanks to some new listings on Amazon, Gamestop, and Best Buy, the game will be out for the Wii U on May 21.
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Shroud of the Avatar Grabs Over $1.9 Million on Kickstarter
This morning, the new fantasy RPG game that Richard Garriott, Lord British of Ultima fame, is planning on making ended its run on Kickstarter. Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues pulled in $1,919,275 in funding from 22, 322 different backers, making it another in a long line of successfully funded video games on the site.
The game aims to be another project like his very famous Ultima series and the Kickstarter page claims “to tell a story even more compelling than Ultimas IV-VII, create a virtual world more interactive than Ultima VII, develop deep rich multi-player capabilities beyond combat akin to Ultima Online, and offer a bold new approach to integrate them with ‘Selective Multi-Player’ ”.
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Best Buy Has Arkham City Wii U, Far Cry 3, AC 3, and Black Ops 2 on Sale
This week at Best Buy, if you somehow already haven’t got your hands on this game, you can pick up a copy of Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition for the WIi U for a measly $20. And if that somehow doesn’t satisfy you, you can also get the phenomenal Far Cry 3 for PS 3 or Xbox 360 for $30, and Assassin’s Creed 3 at the same price. Or if you are one of the few people that doesn’t yet own Black Ops 2, you can get a copy of that for PC, PS 3, or Xbox 360 for $40.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines Wii U Port Canceled
In a move that should surprise no one after the dismal response to the recent release of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Sega has told Gamespot that they have canceled their work on the Wii U version of the game.
The developer said, "Sega can confirm that the Wii U sku of Aliens: Colonial Marines is no longer in development," Considering that the multi platform version of the game is sitting at around a 45 on Metacritic, and the Wii U version of the game was slated to come out in march, Sega’s cancellation of the project comes as no surprise.
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New America's Army Will Launch this Year, Now Drafting Beta Testers
The next game in the America’s Army series will be launching this year, as the United States Army has announced on its Facebook page. And if you are interested in being able to play the game before it comes out, the developers are taking applications to become a beta tester.
The game will be titled America’s Army: Proving Grounds, and it is just another iteration in the series that first launched in July of 2002 as a free PC only FPS/Recruiting tool, with the most recent update, America’s Army 3 coming out in the summer of 2009.
Sega Studios Australia to be Shut Down Later This Year
As part of the continuing process of restructuring that is going on within Sega, later this year, Sega Studios Australia will be shut down. And while the name might not be recognizable at first, they are the studio responsible for several Total War games and London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games.
This news was told to Kotaku via a representative of Sega, and also says that the studio used to be known as Creative Assembly Australia, which might account for some of the difficulty in recognizing it.
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Metal Gear Solid V Officially Revealed
After a very complex run off partial announcements, fake studios, and wispy half ideas for games, Hideo Kojima has decided to finally enlighten us on his master plan and tell us about Metal Gear Solid V. We all remember Ground Zeroes, and the ensuing mess surrounding Moby Dick Studios and The Phantom Pain, which was under control of “Joakim Mogren”. Needless to say, for the last few months, the internet has been in an uproar to try to find out what has been going on.
Joakim could be rearranged to spell Kojima, several members of the Moby Dick team were seen sitting inside of an VIP area intended for Konami staff, the Moby Dick domain name had only been registered two weeks before the announcement, and the title “Metal Gear Solid V” could fit inside of the space above Phantom Pain.
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New Unreal Engine 4 Tech Demo Sneaks In
While at GDC this week, Epic decided to capitalize upon their opportunity and show off a little bit of the muscle behind their new Unreal Engine 4 with the spectacular Infiltrator demo. And apparently this high tech showing is running in real time off of a single off-the-shelf Nvidia GTX 680. And while that may be a bit much for most people, the level of graphical fidelity they manage to squeeze out of it is simply phenomenal.
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Unreal Engine 4 Will Not Support Wii U
Ever since the fourth iteration of the Unreal Engine was announced, there has been speculation to whether or not it will be able to run on the Nintendo Wii U console, but unfortunately for hopeful fans, Epic Games Vice President and Co-Founder, Mike Rein, has said that the latest engine from the company will not support the Wii U. This information was revealed at a recent GDC panel and reported by Kotaku.
He was quoted as saying, “We have Unreal Engine 3 for the Wii U. And Unreal Engine 3 is powering all kinds of amazing games, still lots of games are being made with Unreal Engine 3. We announced today about a new Unreal Engine 3 license. Unreal Engine 3 doesn’t disappear because of Unreal Engine 4.”
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Battlefield 4 is Not Looking At Wii U
According to the General Manager of DICE, Karl-Magnus Troedsson, Battlefield 4 will “release on the platforms that we feel are suitable for the gaming experience that we have.” From this, we can extrapolate that he means those powerhouses of the next generation, the Playstation 4 and Xbox “720”, along with the old standby of the PC. But what does that really mean about the Nintendo Wii U.
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Mario and Luigi: Dream Team Slated for Summer 3DS Release
Nintendo's highly beloved RPGS set in the Mario universe, Mario & Luigi, is set to return this year with the first installment to be made for the 3DS. Entitled Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, the game is set within the mind of a sleeping Luigi, in a word where the brother most oft-relegated to the sidelines is the hero.
And it looks to be making some pretty promising gameplay steps with the lower screen. You can manipulate and move the sleeping body of Luigi to directly affect his dreamworld in a myriad of ways that are not yet fully revealed.
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