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August 23, 2012

Rumor: Square Enix tells retailers to destroy Final Fantasy 14

Square Enix won’t acknowledge a retail “field destroy” has been ordered for Final Fantasy XIV. Yesterday, a NeoGaf user posted a document…

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Tiny Troopers coming from mobile to PC and Mac on Friday

Tiny Troopers came out on mobile platforms (including iOS) a little while back, but the pint-sized real-time strategy RPG is now headed…

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Back In: Black Isle Being Resurrected By Interplay

Hmm. Well, this came out of nowhere. OK, not entirely nowhere – we are living in the age of Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition,…

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Under Defeat HD: Deluxe Edition marches to PS3 and PSN this fall

Under Defeat is the latest game to get the HD treatment, re-launching courtesy of Rising Star Games, both as a retail PS3…

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Criterion presenting Need for Speed dev session at Eurogamer Expo

Yeeeeesssss! The ducks are in a row! People are signing things off! I can start telling you about all the bloody developer…

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Seen@Gamescom: Gran Turismo 5’s Audi R8 controller

The city of Cologne, Germany, home to the country’s annual Gamescom convention, is full of beautiful cars (proof!). During our week-long stay,…

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Halo 4 Achievements list released

Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has outed the game’s list of Achievements, which offer up a meagre few clues as to the…

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A conversation with EA’s Peter Moore on the thorny issues of DLC, Online Passes and all the rest of it

I hate DLC. I hate online passes. I hate EA. Peter Moore, EA’s COO, has read it all before. And he’s read…

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The next Tribes update adds ‘Blitz’ mode, re-energizes Tech class

This month’s update to Tribes: Ascend lavishes the Tech class with a new weapon, a new (super neat) belt item, an additional…

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Diablo 3 designer issues impassioned apology after hitting out at Diablo creator

Diablo 3 development chief Jay Wilson has issued an impassioned apology to Diablo 1 and 2 co-creator and Blizzard North co-founder David…

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How to get a job as an animator in games

In this reprinted #altdevblogaday piece, IO Interactive lead animator Simon Unger runs down what you need to know about getting a job…

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NBA Live 13 footage leaks, shows basketballs are still full of air

Some leaked footage of NBA Live 13, claimed to be from a pre-alpha build, has appeared just as we started to doubt…

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Mass Effect 3 takes on Operation: Alloy this weekend

Listen up, N7 troops. You’ll be fighting in “Operation: Alloy” in Mass Effect 3 this weekend. IT’s an all-important mission to melt…

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Sky Now TV app descends upon UK Xboxes

Sky Now TV – a streaming video service in the UK that launched on iOS, Android, PC and Mac last month –…

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Super Mario Bros. demade in Atari 2600 style

An ambitious forum user at AtariAge has uploaded a playable Atari 2600 demake of World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros….

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TA Plays: ‘Mikey Shorts’ – A Platformer with Mass Appeal

Today I sit down and give Bradley a first-hand demonstration of my epic platforming skills in the new game Mikey Shorts [$0.99]…

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IndieCade 2012 finalists line up for judgement, awards on Oct. 4

IndieCade 2012 kicks off on October 4 in downtown Culver City, California, celebrating indie games and developers for four days across multiple…

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Thirty Flights of Loving tells its story on Steam

Previously exclusive to a certain tier of backers for the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter drive, Blendo Games’ Thirty Flights of Loving is available…

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