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Portal and Half-Life Movies In Development

Nerds far and wide should rejoice to the news that renowned director J.J. Abrams, and Valve CEO Gabe Newell are in the process of creating Portal and Half-Life films. It was confirmed in keynote at the D.I.C.E Summit, a gathering of video game executives, that the two had exchanged ideas and are anticipating working together in the future. This excites me to no end knowing that this has potential to actually happen, seeing as so many video game movies in the past have...

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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream Coming to PSN This Spring

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream is a retro-style platformer that is being developed at the German studio Black Forest Games. The title features us the player as we accompany 2 eerily different sisters throughout a  beautiful looking world. The sisters each have their own special abilities that will allow them to assist us both in solving the worlds puzzles and taking down the fearsome bosses that await the end of each level. As the sisters transform and utilize their powers...

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Halo 4 is Down

As of  5:44 EST, Halo 4’s servers are down. All players are being shown as a level 1 SR and all players are being pushed to a “Fallback” hopper of the default playlists. Looks like 343 is well aware of the problem, stating they have no estimate on when they’ll be back up. @sangheili1085 No estimate yet, but we are investigating as quickly as possible. Watch this thread for more info: forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2254… — Halo Waypoint...

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Ex People Can Fly Devs Bring You The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Some of the talent from People Can Fly, the studio that brought us Painkiller and Bulletstorm, have gone and started a new studio, The Astronauts. They are currently working on The Vanishing of Ethan Carter. The story so far is, you’ll be playing a detective with a psychic ability to to see what events took place at the scene of a crime after the deed has been done. You’re now on the case of Ethan Carter, a young boy who has been recently kidnapped. Following the...

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CD Projekt RED Brings Us The Witcher 3

CD Projekt RED has announced that they will be releasing the final game in their fan-favorite Witcher series. The game is stripping away some of the things their fans have complained about in the past and focusing solely on the true RPG elements that they do best. The team is claiming that this will be the largest open-world game that has been developed to this point. The captivating and non-linear story of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt takes place in a rich, truly open-world...

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THQ Games Delisted from XBLA – Nexuiz is Here to Stay

It’s been a sad couple of weeks for THQ lately. After going bankrupt, selling most of their properties, and getting beat up worse then their last WWE game, THQ’s games are now starting to disappear from the Xbox Live Arcade listings. Five of THQ’s published arcade games have been taken down thus far; Apples to Apples, Screwjumper!, SpongeBob UnderPants, Voltron, and WWE Wrestlefest have all seen the same sad fate as the publisher. While XBLA still has...

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Gears of War Judgment Has Gone Gold

Chris Wynn, Senior Producer on Epic Games’ team for Gears of War has just announced the upcoming blockbuster Gears of War Judgment – my most anticipated game of 2013 – has officially gone gold and is on it’s way to fans everywhere. “Going Gold” is the term in the games industry for when a video game is completely finished and sent to the big video game disc printer in the sky. From there it’s printed on millions of discs and sent to...

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Catch Up on Zombie Studios’ “Special Forces: Team X” With Their Video Update

Zombie Studios’ and Micropose studios, creator of the Blacklight games, have released a new video update showing off the latest on their upcoming Third-Person Shooter “Special Forces: Team X“. Special Forces: Team X is a stylized sandbox-shooter based solely around multiplayer gameplay. It also brings forward a new way to create multiplayer maps using a tiled grid, which already generates completely at random, giving you 49 different maps in the...

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Cthulhu Meets Portal in Magrunner – New Screens Available

As Frogwares and 3AM, developers of Magrunner, edge closer and closer to the eventual release of their madness inducing first-person physics puzzler, they leave little tidbits for us to follow. Being good little Hansels and Gretels, we pick these sweets off the forest floor until the developers are ready to drop horror into our laps. The treats dropped from the developer’s treetops today are new screen for us to salivate over, and they are simply beautiful. Stay sane...

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This Dead Space 3 Watch is a Work of Beauty

I’m not that much of a Dead Space fan, but man do I have a thing for watches. This watch, created by Meister Watches, is a limited run replica of the watch worn by Isaac Clark in Dead Space. It’s features include… Copper Stainless Steel Bezel —resistant to corrosion and staining—and composed of 316L NASA grade steel Black Rubber Strap with Stainless Steel Buckle Carbon Fiber (Dual Layer) Dial Stainless Crown and Functional Protector Each Laser-Etched...