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June 15, 2012

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs dev teases … um, a pig monster

The terror of Frictional’s first Amnesia game never involved the almost comical squeals of a pig wielding what sounds like an axe….

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Schadenfriday: Diabl-NOOOOOOOOO!

Why, hello there! Diablo here. What? No. No, Diablo 3. Diablo 2 was my father. Those miserable fleshlings at Rock Paper Shotgun…

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Valve recruits its own in-house economist

Valve has recruited an “economist-in-residence” to help it scale up its virtual economies and offer a better customer experience. The man in…

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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz Coming to PS Vita October 23rd

We’re pretty excited about the upcoming exclusive PS Vita release of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz on October 23 – the game…

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XBL Games On Demand sale puts 20 titles at $5 next week

According to Xbox Live's Major Nelson, a huge sale is about to commence on Xbox Live that will bring twenty games down…

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Valve hires economist to manage, experiment with its free-to-play games

Valve has hired Greek-Australian economist and economics theory professor Yanis Varoufakis to help the company analyze the virtual economies/currencies of its games….

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Heroes of Ruin launch trailer means it’s really coming soon

We don’t want to jinx it, but Heroes of Ruin may actually make it into stores this time. Its European release date…

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Seed If You Like It: Botanicula Demo

The power of the demo! It’s not that I didn’t notice John’s joyous effusions about Botanicula, heck, I had to fetch the…

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The Dark Knight Rises Open-World iOS/Android Game Revealed

Watch Larger Version of this Video If Marvel Studios’ The Avengers is going to see any summer 2012 competition, it’ll be from…

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Borderlands 2 Commando Gameplay Video — Axton Gets A Turret Upgrade

Check out this rad Borderlands 2 Commando gameplay video featuring everyone’s favorite solider, Axton. Axton’s main skill is to throw down a…

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BioWare ‘looking at free-to-play’ for Star Wars: The Old Republic

As subscriptions for BioWare’s major MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic begin to dip, the studio has admitted that it is considering…

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Warren Spector: ‘Ultraviolence’ in games going too far

Epic Mickey producer Warren Spector had only a limited view of E3 from within meeting rooms, but he still saw plenty of…

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BioShock ‘Ultimate Rapture Edition’ packing first two BioShocks and DLC into one box

BioShock Infinite may not arrive until 2013, but the underwater world of Rapture is getting a re-release, at least in the UK,…

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Rock Band Weekly: Angels & Airwaves, Owl City, Queens of the Stone Age

This week brought only a single song to Rock Band, Incubus’s “Drive.” Next week, Harmonix takes the opposite approach, with a random…

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The Real Texas Mashes Up Ultima, Zelda, And, Er, Texas

Adam first spotted The Real Texas last year, but – to be perfectly honest – I hadn’t heard of it until very,…

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Dead Space 3 changes are about "opening up to a larger audience"

New features in Dead Space 3 are designed to open the game up “to a larger audience”, EA has said. But the…

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Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition Update Is Now Live

The first major update for 4J Studios’ XBLA release, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, is now live. Some new features are added to…

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Humble Indie Bundle 5 Shatters Records With $5.1 Million In Sales

Let’s all give a big, hearty shoutout this morning to Humble Indie Bundle 5 which, thanks to your generous support, closed its…

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