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EA Announce EA Access Subscription Scheme For Xbox One
EA have announced a surprising new subscription scheme exclusively for Xbox One owners that will grant access to numerous titles for little cost. For $4.99 (about £3) a month or $29.99 (about £18) a year subscribers will get access to EA’s so-called Vault, from which you can then download any of the games included in…
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Yogventures And The Messy Kickstarter Of Madness
Note: This article was written while I had a hell of a cold, so I do apologise if it seems rough. Also, this is a long article, so prepare your body mentally and physically. You have been warned. P.S. This is an opinion piece, and strangely enough opinion pieces are entirely about a person’s…
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Halo 2: Anniversary Cinematic Trailer Is Drop-Dead Gorgeus
343 Industries have just released a trailer showing off a few choice snippets of the completely remastered cutscenes for Halo 2: Anniversary, and damn are they beautiful. Naturally these are completely CGI and don’t represent the actual gameplay, but the sheer effort going into remastering such an old game is easy to appreciate. Halo 2:…
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UPDATE: August Xbox One Update Adds Automatic Downloads For Digital Purchases
UPDATE: Major Nelson has released a post detailing everything we can expect in the August update for Xbox One: Activity feed updates: We’re adding new ways for you to interact with friends in the activity feed. The interface will change to a single column scrolling list that is longer and includes more content. We’ll add the…
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Random Loot: How to Train Your Dragon 2, Or How To Make A Sequel
Random Loot is a series in which I get to focus on one particular game, movie or even comic, be it relatively old or quite new, and then ramble about it, often going off-course in the process or using it to make a point about something else entirely. This series is far less critical than…
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Microsoft And Sony Considering Early Access Systems For Their Consoles
Both Microsoft and Sony are strongly considering implementing Early Access style systems into their consoles, having been asked by numerous developers to do so. Speaking to Gamesutra Sony’s Adam Boyes had this to say when asked how early the company would consider putting something in the development cycle into the hands of the public: “That’s…
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Did EA Just Say One Of The Dumbest Things Ever?
EA’s Dungeon Keeper remake for mobiles was involved in a shitstorm of criticism from journalists and gamers alike, its pathetic money-grabbing structure being one of the most insulting things to arrive in some time. It was so bad that Dungeon Keeper’s developer Mythic went under. Still, the collective memory of people is very short, no…
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Shovel Knight Review – Insert Some Terrible Pun About Digging It Here
Platforms: PC, WiiU, 3DS Reviewed On: PC Developer: Yacht Club Games Publisher: Yacht Club Games Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No This game was tested using an AMD Radeon HD 7790 graphics card kindly supplied by AMD. Click here for details on that, the Radeon HD 7790 and the test system used for all PC games. Whenever I stumble across a…
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Gearbox Announce Battleborn For Release In 2015
Gearbox have announced their brand new IP titled Battleborn, a first-person shooter for PS4, Xbox One and PC to be released sometime in 2015 The trailer above shows a game featuring a beautiful art-style and some great character designs, but is otherwise pretty boring with music that felt utterly at odds with the on-screen action. Battleborn…
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