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The samovars have gone cold. The cigarette-smoke butterflies have dispersed. The commissar is starting to scribble names in his little red notebook… it’s time my intrepid but incompetently led Combat Mission: Red Thunder Soviets roused themselves and got on with the second part of the Battle of Baronovichi. … [visit site to read more]

It’s not that I feel like SOMA is poorly made. On the contrary: for a demo of a game that’s at least a year out, the Amnesia spiritual successor practically sparkles beneath its grimy, moss-encrusted shell. I just feel like, despite a very unexpected setting, I’ve been here before. Crept through these halls, turned these nobs, let these tidal waves of otherworldly sound crash into me as I press ever onward, slightly on-edge but no worse for the wear.

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Not much in games makes me unhappy, but the story of co-op blow-em-up Scourge: Outbreak is an odd, slightly worrying one. It started life as The Scourge Project, a now hastily carpet-shoved episodic third person shooter that hit Steam in early 2010 to basically zero fanfare or reaction. That slippery Quinns gave some rather brutal quickfire thoughts back then and everybody moved on with their lives. The developers, in fact, moved on to putting it on console – which they describe rather well here, as well as admitting the failures of the first game. The next step? Take the console version (which reviewed poorly), which was stripped down to fit space requirements, and re-re-port it to PC. Still with me? Now we’re here, with a trailer and a demo, which you can read my thoughts on below.

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Warside, as a name, doesn’t have the immediate appeal of Warface. Based on the trailer for the multiplayer shooter, the ‘side’ refers to the fact that it’s a side-scrolling game in the style of Abuse and is therefore, quite literally, a different side of war. There’s none of your first-person battling here, just lots of tiny men with jetpacks and energy shields firing many bullets at one another. Currently seeking votes on Steam Greenlight, it’s clear to me that the game would have a gazillion more votes if it were called Warflank. I also await the announcement of Warrump, which is both a game about tight uniform trousers and the sound that an English colonel makes when he tastes inferior brandy.

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Join us for a #SmashBros. Direct at 00:00 on 9/4 (11pm on 8/4 in the UK) with news on the #WiiU & #3DS games pic.twitter.com/87VDH4fzyV

— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) 4 april 2014

[岩田]こんにちは、任天堂の岩田です。4月9日午前7時より「大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ Direct 2014.4.9」を録画放送します。#NintendoDirectJP http://t.co/1SzOiB9rNT

— 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) 4 april 2014

[岩田]前回に引き続き、今回も朝に放送させていただくことにいたしました。中継をご覧いただけない方には、ご不便をお掛けして申し訳ございませんが、何とぞご了承ください。#NintendoDirectJP

— 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) 4 april 2014

[岩田]先ほど「大乱闘スマッシュブラザーズ」の公式Twitter @SmashBrosJPを開設いたしました。今後はこちらから「スマブラ」の情報をお届けしていきます。ご興味のある方はフォローをお願いします。#NintendoDirectJP

— 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) 4 april 2014

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This Smash Bros. direct will air on Tuesday, April 8th at 6 PM East Coast time.

Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the beta of an expansion! Honking great giant beasts are now stomping merrily around Don’t Starve as its expansion Reign of the Giants is out in beta on Steam Early Access. No, I hadn’t realised DLC could be released that way either.

As one would expect and fear from an endless nightmare where the only release is sweet merciful death, Reign of the Giants adds a few more survival tools but mostly new ways to die horribly.

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Here’s a tricky spot. A group called NotGames have created a GTA spoof, called Not GTAV, with all of the proceeds going toward trying to save a charity. The charity is Peer Productions, a youth arts project, that brought the people who made the game together. And they’re doing great things in the South East of England, working with young people, teaching them acting, arts projects, and peer education. Due to a lack of funding, the charity will have to close its doors this Summer, unless they can raise a big pile of cash beforehand. The issue? The spoof game is not very good. The charity, however, is.

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