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January 28, 2013
Gamestop Early Access Gears
Gamestop Rewards Members who pre-ordered Gears of War: Judgement from the retailer will have early access to the demo, according to Microsoft.
The demo will start March 16 for these members while the demo will begin for everyone on March 19, when the game launches.
The players will also be able to play in the new Overrun mode. This mode pits five humans against five Locust players. This game mode will have the humans defending an objective while the Locust trying to destroy it. The players will also be able to choose classes within their race to further diversify Overrun.
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January 26, 2013
Dead Island Causes a Stir
Recently the video game industry has received quite a bashing for various reasons: rise in anti-social behavior, gun crimes, mass shootings, and a lot of analysts are looking at violent video games as the main cause.
It is true that video games have become increasingly violent over the years, but it becomes a touchy subject when you put a video game as the cause of a mass murder instead of something like lack of social support and medical attention for the culprit.
But anyway, let's not get into the politics of it too deeply, enough websites have had their say on the topic as it is. What is interesting though, is that Dead Island's new collector's
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January 22, 2013
Microsoft Rewards for GTA 5
Grand Theft Auto 5 is going to be very successful. And when you look at the release of the previous game, you'll understand as well as I that there is no doubt about its upcoming success.
However, with a title as big as this, the two big console manufacturers, Microsoft and Sony, are bound to offer incentives to rope people into buying on their console instead of the other, and with the next-gen approaching, both manufacturers are probably going to try and squeeze as many pennies as possible out of the pockets of loyal gamers.
But what if you have both an Xbox 360 and PS3? If you look past the social aspects that both platforms have to offer,
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January 20, 2013
Sir Hammerlock's released
Following weeks of rumors and waiting around, Gearbox and 2K Games have finally pushed out the new DLC content for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
The third DLC pack takes players into Aregus, a dense unchartered area in the swamps of Pandora. Players will be given tasks by Sir Hammerlock and Claptrap in the new areas, and will also meet some new characters along the way, such as a Hyperion scientist by the name of Professor Nakayama.
There'll be a whole host of new enemies and bosses, as well as more chance for some super rare loot, and players will find themselves battling Two-Legged Drifters, Flying Slagged Spores and Insane Witch Doctors to
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January 18, 2013
Fallout 4 Confirmed
Although we've all been expecting it for a while now, there was no evidence that a fourth installment to the Fallout series would ever make the light of day. However, a tweet by Erik Todd Dellums, better known for the character name in Fallout 3 that he voice acts for, Radio DJ ThreeDog, gave gamers a glimmer of hope towards a new Fallout release.
The tweet read "To all my Fallout3 and ThreeDog fans: There may be more of the Dog coming! Fingers Crossed!"
Conversation began to explode on twitter about this tweet, with many confused as to how certain we could be that Fallout 4 was coming. Erik safely wrapped up the twitter rumblings by sending out another tweet
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January 15, 2013
Hitman HD Trilogy
Trilogy releases are usually only seen when a game series reaches an unprecedented level of success, or fans beg and plead for it to be released, so an HD trilogy for the Hitman series is a little unexpected. However, the trilogy will allow new players of the series to understand the story of Hitman and its origins, and old and new players alike can grab themselves a decently packaged copy of the three games.
The three games will be included in one package that will also come with an art book including 22 pieces of artwork representing the game. On top of this, players can submit their own art on a new website at www.whois47.com, recently announced by
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January 10, 2013
Dead or Alive Streaming
Earlier this year, Treyarch showed the world a new innovative feature for Black Ops 2, a video recording tool built in-game that could upload video content straight to YouTube via your console. It seems Koei Tecmo has taken a hint and have now released details on their new video uploader tool to be released with Dead or Alive's version 1.03 patch.
A preview by game director Yohei Shimbori was uploaded to Tecmo's official YouTube channel, showing the new feature in action. The video quality was not the best, but for a feature that uploads a decently sized video for free to your account, it's not surprising.
Another thing to note is that the new feature only allows YouTube uploading via the PS3, however both the PS3 and Xbox 360 can make use of the uploaded via Facebook.
For professional and hobbyist gamers who like to record their gameplay and upload to the internet, this new tool is nothing special, especially due to resolution
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January 09, 2013
Ghost Recon Movie
We all know that Ubisoft has become one of the biggest and most multi-talented successful developers and publisher of this generation, bringing us games like Splinter Cell, Assassins' Creed, and of course Ghost Recon.
The big games company is now planning to move their assets into Hollywood, with plans of producing a Ghost Recon movie. This follows on from the news of a Splinter Cell and Assassins' Creed movie release as well.
LA Times had recently reported that Jean-Julien Baronnet has been creating a pitch for Ghost Recon, hoping to get some attention within the media industry, and pull in a reputable Hollywood production company to help promote the title.
There aren't any details on how real the Ghost Recon movie is, or what the actual plotline for it could be, but judging by the video game franchise, it'll include a lot of action scenes and a lot of highly geared up future soldiers.
Video game movies have never really
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January 08, 2013
New Doom
It happened before with the current generation: a classic arcade shooter was remade and redefined for the Xbox, and it could happen again. Doom 3 didn't gain as much success as expected though, particularly for the reason that the arcade shooter style of the game has now become a rather 'niche' genre. However, that hasn't stopped many getting excited for what could possibly turn out to be the next in the series.
There's two causes for the rumors to spread about Doom 4, one of which was located on Lead Programmer of ID Software, Brian Hill's LinkedIn profile stated that he was 'the lead behind Doom 4,' giving fans a huge hint that the fourth installment is coming, however it was unknown for what platform, and when.
Recently, Brian Hill took to his Twitter to send out a tweet that Doom fans had also picked apart as something regarding development for the fourth Doom game.
"Currently home taking care of a new baby girl. When I get back, I'll
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January 06, 2013
MMO Shooter
MMOs are slowly inching their way towards the console market, and although games such as Dust 514 are far from traditional MMOs like World of Warcraft, it shows that the social aspects and chilled competitive nature behind the genre appeal to a large audience.
Like Dust 514, Defiance is a FPS shooter with RPG elements thrown into a huge world where players can play with and against each other.
Players can sign up to the first Beta event over at the developers' website, although positions are limited so it's more than possible that many players will miss out this time round.
Also, the first Beta event is only available to PC players, however the game is making its way to PS3 and Xbox 360 as well, but