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Posted by IGN Feb 19 2014 13:11 GMT in PlayStation News
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Konami has released a video comparing the graphics of the PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.

Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 13:00 GMT in Electronic Arts
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There are a lot of different ways to make videogame fights meaningful. Singleplayer games do it by couching your shotgun blasts and pistol whips in the context of a story. Multiplayer games do it by emphasising competition via scoreboards, and by layering XP bonuses and equipment progression on top as rewards for each kill. Titanfall aims to do it with a mixture of all of the above, and based on its limited beta, finds mixed success.

Titanfall is a sci-fi multiplayer shooter in which you play as a futuristic foot soldier able to regularly summon a mech from orbit. The robot crashes to earth and then you can jump inside, piloting it alongside fellow mechs and ground troops like so many anime characters, across team deathmatch (“Attrition”) and capture and hold (“Hardpoint”) modes. I’ve been playing it since the beta launched late last week. … [visit site to read more]


Posted by Joystiq Feb 19 2014 12:00 GMT in Mass Effect
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Eight more games are on sale for 24 hours in today's Xbox 360 Ultimate sale, including a few big names from a few years back. If you missed them back in the day, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Lost Planet 2, and Darksiders 2 are all on offer, as are Arcade offerings Hell Yeah! and Fruit Ninja Kinect.

In terms of more recent games, there's an eclectic mix to choose from. For starters, you can rake in a half-price Farming Simulator at $15/£15/20 euros, or if you'd prefer something a little faster, F1 2013 is two-thirds off at $16.49/£13.19/21.44 euros.

Finally, we saw Soulcalibur 2 HD Online go on sale over on PSN recently, and the Xbox Games Store follows suit with a whopping 75 percent discount. That means you can pick up the re-released fighter for just $5/£4/5 euros.

Don't forget, there's a bunch of games staying discounted throughout the week. The full list of them is here, but today we'll point your eyes towards the original Mass Effect. BioWare's sci-fi RPG started us on a path that's left us with hours upon hours plunged into deep space shooting, negotiating, and wooing, and if you've somehow avoided it over the last six years or so, it's a steal at $3.74/£3/3.74 euros. [Image: Focus Home Interactive]

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 11:00 GMT in Gaming News
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How about some Attack on Titan plum wine? If you drink enough, you too might run amok with your clothes off.Read more...

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 11:30 GMT in Gaming News
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Headaches aren't fun. Neither are toothaches and back pains. And menstrual cramps suck, too! But in South Korea, Advil has an odd way to illustrate that.Read more...

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Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 12:00 GMT in Grand Theft Auto V
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The fine YouTubers at GTA Series Videos created a highlight video on Trevor Philips' life in the style of Facebook's 10th anniversary "Look Back" compilation. Read more...

Posted by IGN Feb 19 2014 12:09 GMT in Xbox 360 News
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In a three-part series, the developers of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII reveal and analyse

Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 12:00 GMT in PC Gaming News
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From The Depths certainly looks ambitious. I’ll give it that. It’s a naval first-person mermaidurer where you build all of your own vehicles and then fly/sail/submarine/hot air balloon them into battle. Oh, and it’s voxel-based, naturally, so expect mighty capital ships that look like they were assembled by children who’ve yet to learn their capital letters. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it has kind of become The Style Of The Time. To be frank, I’m more worried about how all sorts of disparate elements – detailed physics, a random world, construction of every vehicle you use, and “dozens” of co-op and competitive modes – will come together. Freeform building tends make things a bit tough to balance, after all, and there are so many things here. But then, perhaps that’s the point.

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Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 10:30 GMT in Gaming News
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You might have been wondering whether or not 3D latte art has been finally perfected. I'm here to tell you that, yes, it has.Read more...

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 09:40 GMT in Gaming News
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In Japan, "hadaka matsuri" (裸祭り) literally means "naked festival." One of the most famous naked festivals was recently at Okayama, Japan. It looked like this!Read more...

Posted by Joystiq Feb 19 2014 11:00 GMT in Steam
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Long-revered shoot-em-up Ikaruga is available now on Windows PC for the first time, after Treasure brought it to Steam this week. The newly tweaked PC version is based on the 2008 Xbox Live Arcade port, so Xbox 360 controller support and screen rotating between vertical and horizontal play are included. The fee for entry to Treasure's bullet hell is $10 in North America, and £7/9 euros across the ocean.

The arcade classic, which debuted back in 2001, is centered around its polarity-shifting mechanic. Players use light and dark weapons to take down ships of the opposite color, but they can also absorb same-colored bullets to power homing lasers. Ikaruga is also famed for its difficulty, and as if to drive that home, the Steam version features a new Double Play mode that tasks you with beating the two-player game with just one controller.

Good luck with that. [Image: Treasure]

Posted by IGN Feb 19 2014 11:01 GMT in Xbox One
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Konami has released a new video comparing the PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of MGS: Ground Zeroes in action

Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 11:00 GMT in Guacamelee
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Another Humble Indie Bundle? What a strange turn of events. I thought for sure that Humble was going to suddenly and inexplicably shut down their massively successful enterprise this time around. I mean, they’re on Humble Indie Bundle 11 now. What a gross number. Ten – nay, X – was so svelte, so confident. It plucked the olive from life’s martini glass just so, and we all just wanted its gaze to fall on us for a single precious second. So seriously, what’s even the point of having more Humble Bundles? Oh, right: amazing games and charity and stuff. This time around, the star-studded lineup includes Guacamelee, Monaco, Antichamber, and my personal favorite puzzler of 2013, The Swapper.

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Posted by IGN Feb 19 2014 10:38 GMT in Gaming News
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UPDATE: Infinity Ward has confirmed the Captain Price DLC pack has been slightly delayed, along the other Personalisation Packs.

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 09:20 GMT in Gaming News
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You heard me. Japan has a Transformers themed hotel room. It's outfitted with toys and Transformers bed linen. What more could you need, really?Read more...

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 10:00 GMT in PC Gaming News
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It’s been only slightly over a week since we first laid eyes on DmC/Bayonetta-meets-roguelike brawler Heart&Slash, and it’s already grown from bright spot on an overcrowded Internet to shiny new Kickstarter hopeful. It looks as spiffy as ever (i.e. one week ago), but now it hearts both you and your wallet. And like most robots, it expresses its nascent emotions through really big weapons, so you should probably fork over a dime or two lest you end up getting hugged a little too hard, if you know what I mean. Video and new info below.

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Posted by IGN Feb 19 2014 09:36 GMT in Xbox 360 News
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Respawn have registered a "ton" of interest from the eSports community.

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 09:00 GMT in PC Gaming News
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But not on a version of the delightful mobile game Space Team. Sometimes my headlines get away from me, take on lives of their own, and begin pulling nefarious pranks on innocent passersby. I apologize. I blame the public schooling system. But anyway, the two members of Kickstarter’s Might As Well Be Triple-A contingent, Star Citizen and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, are joining forces to sensually swap technology and probably tell each other all kinds of deeply personal secrets. I hope Star Citizen gets space horses. (Which, when couched in the previous metaphor, sounds like some kind of infectious disease. Clarification: I do not hope that Star Citizen gets the fictitious disease Space Horses.)

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Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Feb 19 2014 08:00 GMT in PC Gaming News
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I’ve got some good news and some great news. If you want the great news first, read the rest of this paragraph right now. If you’d like the good news first, skip to the next paragraph but don’t forget to come back. OK, so the great news is that with the release of the fourth episode of point and click Edgar Allan Poe simulator, The Last Door, all of the previous chapters are now available for free. I’ve only played the first but I intend to experience the whole thing now that the season is complete.

The good news is that the pixelated peril has been successful enough to convince the creators to work on a second season, which should debut in Summer once design processes have been overhauled and funding has been raised. Hurrah.

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Posted by GoNintendo Feb 19 2014 07:02 GMT in Nintendo Stuff
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The self-detonating peppers are making mincemeat of these evil bunnies #blastembunnies https://t.co/OusNMDFwVS

— Nnooo (@_Nnooo) February 19, 2014

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 05:12 GMT in Gaming News
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Who cast John C. Reilly in this? Whoever it was, they did good work.Read more...

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 04:30 GMT in Team Fortress 2
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They'll never get their own LEGO set - they won't even get their own Mega Bloks set - but the cartoon destruction of Team Fortress 2 is still perfect for the plastic block treatment. Read more...

Posted by Kotaku Feb 19 2014 04:00 GMT in Xbox One
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Screenshots not doing it for you? Here, watch this video showing which of the four versions of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes looks better.Read more...

Posted by Joystiq Feb 19 2014 03:30 GMT in PC Gaming News
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Thanks to the Beasts of War DLC pack for historical strategy hit Total War: Rome 2, now you too can cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war - alongside the elephants of war, bees of war, camels of war, snakes of war and scorpions of war.