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March 6, 2013

Sale spotlight: God of War series, Mass Effect 2 on EU PSN this week

For the next week, PSN users across the pond can snag a slew of God of War stuff on the cheap, with…

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Microsoft cancels Gore Verbinski’s ‘Matter’ for Kinect

Matter, a Kinect game expected to launch on Xbox Live Arcade in 2013, has been cancelled by Microsoft. It was to be…

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Plane Sailing: Torment 2 Funded Already

Seven hours. That’s what can change the nature of a roleplaying sequel. While it always seemed relatively likely that inXile’s Torment: Tides…

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The Walking Dead season two peers through a fall 2014 release window [Update: It was fogged, coming 2013]

Update: Telltale Games amended CEO Dan Connors’ launch window, saying, “The current estimated release window for season two of The Walking Dead…

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Tomb Raider gets ‘Caves and Cliffs’ multiplayer maps on March 19, on Xbox first

Tomb Raider is getting its first batch of DLC later this month. Alas, rather than giving Lara some new puzzles to solve,…

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The Torment: Tides of Numenera Kickstarter begins

Update 2: The Torment: Tides of Numenera has already achieved its $900,000 Kickstarter goal in about six hours. That’s got to be…

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Crystal Dynamics won’t continue the Guardian of Light series

Tomb Raider was always a series about being alone, solving puzzles in a 3D space, but somehow Crystal Dynamics proved that Lara’s…

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5 things to know about ‘core’ game players in the United States

Analysts at the NPD Group recently surved over 6,000 people in the United States to find out what the “core gamer” demographic…

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The future of games as services

Have you hit the ground running in this new reality? This insightful post shares examples of best practices culled from some of…

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‘Dungelot 2’ is In the Works, Here’s a Couple of Screenshots

This past January we were pleasantly surprised with the quirky and fun Dungelot [$1.99 / Free], a casual dungeon crawler with some…

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‘1001 Attempts’ Review – A Flashing, Frantic, Four-Quarter Trip to the Arcade

Use gravity to your advantage to evade spikes, missiles, buzz-saws and more in an inescapable chiptune thunderdome. Your only goals? Stay alive,…

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TA Plays: ‘Sonic Dash’ – Another Behind-the-Back Endless Runner

Well, we gave it a spin this afternoon and now we know for sure. Sonic Dash is a behind-the-back endless runner, similar…

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‘Torment: Tides of Numenera’ meets Kickstarter goal, raises over $900K

Well, that was fast. After its launch this morning, the Kickstarter campaign to finance Inxile’s latest endeavor Torment: Tides of Numenera has…

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How indie creature feature Incredipede stumbled onto Steam

In October, Incredipede developer Colin Northway introduced us to the Offspring Fling process of submitting an indie game to Steam: “Apply to…

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Editorial: SimCity, Diablo 3 and a review of customer service

I don’t like writing game reviews. I’m a news guy, comfortable moving within and reporting on the binary conclusions of business in…

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Iron Man 3: New Poster With A Dash Of Pepper

Yet another new poster for Iron Man 3 has been released. Just after the debut of a spectacular, redefining new trailer, it’s safe…

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Capcom Arcade Cabinet adds Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Gun.Smoke, Section Z

You can now stock your Capcom Arcade Cabinet with three more games. The 1985-I pack launched yesterday on PSN and XBLA in…

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‘Pitch Fork Parker’ winner Dungeon Hearts out March 28

Dungeon Hearts, the game Devolver Digital found in the back of a bus last year, is coming to PC, Mac and iPad…

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