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February 10, 2012

Planescape Dev Gets ‘Kickstarter Fever’

Eek. We might be about to find out if Tim Schafer’s crowd-funding of a game is one-off lightning in a bottle, or…

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Doh-ta: Blizzard Lawyers Up Vs Valve

I was thinking the Blizzard/Valve cold war over DOTA had gone tellingly quiet of late. Here’s why – because it’s gone to…

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RIP Skyrim/Fallout 3 Artist Adam Adamowicz

You may not know Adam Adamowicz’s name, but if you’ve played either Fallout 3 or Skyrim, you’ll have seen masses of his…

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Next Xbox has tablet-like touch-screen controller – rumour

The next Xbox may have a controller with a touch-screen area on. It’s a Wii U controller? No; Xbox World Magazine (via…

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Valve Drops Mad Beats Into TF2, Adds A Boombox

Uh-uh they did-uhnt. Valve did not just add a boombox to Team Fortress 2 that plays sounds whenever a Scout taunts… I…

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Skyrim patch 1.4 performance tip: make a new manual save

There’s a knack to getting good PS3 performance gains from new Skyrim patch 1.4, Bethesda has revealed. Shared Bethesda community manager Nick…

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Ghost Recon Online closed beta starts March 5, check out the classes now

You might think that Ghost Recon Online’s three classes are Ghost, Recon, and Online, but you’d be wrong! They’re actually the more…

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Five new Mass Effect 3 gameplay trailers

BioWare has blasted out five fresh Mass Effect 3 videos, showing off the game’s story choices and in-game customisation, enemies, action sections…

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Rocksteady’s Sefton Hill shares Arkham recipe

Rocksteady Studios co-founder and game director Sefton Hill shared his recipe for making Arkham games at DICE 2012. Beyond the basic ingredients…

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GamesRadar and IPLAYWINNER team up for Street Fighter X Tekken livestream – watch the archive now.

You might have noticed a number of livestreams this week. You might have also noticed a large number of Street Fighter X…

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Indie Game Music Bundle 2 now available, with Aquaria, Sworcery, more

You could spend the rest of the day accompanied by the sounds of indie games, for a relative pittance. The second iteration…

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Shiny Mass Effect 3 website launches 5 feature videos

We expect Mass Effect 3 to have action, a rich story, customizable weapons, co-op mode and intelligent enemies — but that doesn’t…

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Itagaki’s depression-fueled Armageddon/Aerosmith bender

Did you think it was weird that Dead or Alive games often featured totally out-of-place Aerosmith songs? We always did, but that…

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Sit down, relax and release some Rage tonight for $15 on Steam

It’s the end of the day, you’ve set aside work for the night and just enjoyed a delicious dinner of something breaded,…

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Activision revenues up in 2011, claims #1 publishing spot

The world hasn’t converted entirely to a Kickstarter-based economy yet — Activision’s fiscal 2011 earnings are up again, with net revenues at…

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EA CFO Eric Brown resigns to head up telecommunications company

Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Eric Brown has unexpectedly left the company to join Polycom. Brown will take the role of both…

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February 9, 2012

Double Fine Kickstarter passes $1 million in under 24 hours, breaking yet another record

Double Fine will be able to fund at least two and a half adventure games and/or put an awful lot of money…

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Alan Wake PC editions illuminated, not scary anymore

Nordic Games has revealed the contents of its Alan Wake PC editions — collector’s and standard — which are set to hit…

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