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March 13, 2013

Maxis looking into fixing SimCity traffic problems as complaints grow about pathfinding

Maxis is looking into improving SimCity’s widely-discussed traffic and pathfinding problems.In a blog update discussing how public transport works under the hood…

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Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall DLC hits April 16

Take up Daud's sword and creepy magic in Dishonored's first campaign pack……

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Er, OK: Xi3 Claims Valve Asked Them To Make Piston

The strange and sordid saga of Xi3′s Steambox/apparently not a Steambox/grapefruit of the fuuuuuuuuture slogs on. You’ll remember that Valve publicly denounced…

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Xi3 Piston maker counters Valve claim over unofficial Steam Box, issues stark message to Gabe Newell

Yesterday Valve said it wasn’t involved with the Xi3 Piston, dubbed the unofficial Steambox, in any way.Now, amid growing confusion, the people…

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Crimson Dragon still lives – and is not far from completion

Crimson Dragon, the Kinect-powered on-rails shooter from Panzer Dragoon creator Yukio Futatsugi, is still in development, and is still coming out despite…

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Nintendo’s new Wii U Pok

Nintendo will include Skylanders-style toy technology in its new Wii U Pok…

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"Why should we ask how long a game is?"

Josef Fares, the Swedish filmmaker who’s teamed up with Starbreeze to make forthcoming downloadable adventure Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, has…

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Kenji Eno: A voice of dissent, a champion for creative integrity

Game Developer magazine’s Brandon Sheffield reflects on the life of creative mastermind Kenji Eno, who sadly passed away last month. (This article…

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Potatoman Seeks the Troof, Pixeljam Octology finds its way to Linux

All of the games in Pixeljam’s Octology – Potatoman Seeks the Troof, Bitku Beta, Dino Run SE, Marathon of Doom and Snowball…

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Microsoft releases 22 Kinect for Windows open source samplers

PC developers looking to fiddle around with Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral just got a big gimme. Microsoft has released 22 different samples of…

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Resident Evil series on sale on European PS Store this week

Starting with today’s PSN content dump in Europe and running until March 27, select entries in the Resident Evil series will be…

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GOG.com sale: Pick 5 select games, get 80% off

Digital distribution chain GOG is making a push to crowd your hard drive this week. If you choose any five from this…

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AC3’s Tyranny of King Washington unleashes cloaked wolves

Assassin’s Creed 3’s “The Tyranny of King Washington” is weird y’all. Not only does it propose Native Americans as a hyperthermic people,…

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Skyrim Dragonborn statue available for pre-order

The Dragonborn – or simply “Dovahkiin” to his pals – is available now for pre-order as a 16-inch statue from GamingHeads.com. Inspired…

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Jason Rohrer’s The Castle Doctrine burgles with friends, out now

The Castle Doctrine is a massively multiplayer indie game about home defense, burglary and the lengths a desperate man will travel to…

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Sleeping Dogs ‘Year of the Snake’ DLC cops out today

Sleeping Dogs’ Year of the Snake DLC is out today, complete with a brand new trailer to replace the one that leaked…

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Ouya won’t ship with online chat, friends lists, achievements

When the Ouya is deployed to Kickstarter backers on March 28, it will be short a few online features: online chat, friends…

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PSN Tuesday: Darkstalkers, Ubisoft sale

The Scott Pilgrim DLC really exists. We know it came out yesterday but seeing it on the PSN Store update list makes…

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