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Watch This Wednesday – Tales from Dunwall

This week on Watch This Wednesday we have the first part of a three part series giving us some backstory on the all new Knife of Dunwall. The first section gives us background on the outsider and the city of Dunwall’s rise and ultimate fall. While we will have a full review coming in the coming weeks, I’ll tell your right now that the add-on is certainly worth it for getting back in to Dunwall Oh, and hey, I’m back! I got captured by space aliens or...

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Saints Row 4 Commander in Chief Preorder Bonuses Announced

Thought Saints Row 4 could not get any more ridiculous? Think again! In their pledge to allegiance, Deep Silver and Volition have announced the Commander in Chief pack for Saints Row 4. This fiscal stimulant, which you receive by preordering the game, includes three digital items- The Screaming Eagle Jet – A true symbol of American freedom and Democracy. Look out terrorists, this eagle has its eye on you! The Uncle Sam Outfit – My campaign manager has advised me...

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Poker Night 2 Coming to PC, PSN, XBLA Tomorrow

It’s been a long time since we had a good poker game on the marketplace, but it looks like Telltale Games is going to fix that with the release of Poker Night 2, coming tomorrow. The game looks amazing, featuring a star-studded cast including Claptrap, GLaDoS, and others. If anyone can make such a hilarious concept work, it’s Telltale. Below are the two trailers we’ve seen for the game already, one featuring some gameplay and the other showing off the metric poop-ton...

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Tips to Surviving Dead Island Riptide

We are giving away a copy of this game – here. Many of you will be trouncing around the island of Palanai soon, and quite possibly being devoured by zombies. To keep this chomping to a minimum, we have made a list of some essential tips to surviving Dead Island Riptide. Not that you need to be told how to survive a zombie apocalypse or anything, we are sure you are well prepared for that already. But still, these may help you in your endeavor to become the ultimate...

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Konami Announces Metal Gear Solid: Legacy Collection

As Ice Cube once said, it was a damn good day. Especially for those of us who are somewhat massive Metal Gear Solid fans. In honor of the 25 years MGS has been entertaining fans, Konami announced that coming this June, Metal Gear Solid Legacy will be the collection that MGS fans’ wet dreams are made of. It will contain every single mainline title from the MGS franchise. And no, Ac!d and Ac!d 2 do not count! And Portable Ops isn’t represented either. Which is a...

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Nordic Games Purchases Darksiders, Red Faction, Other THQ Properties

Nordic Games, publisher of such esteemed titles as Painkiller HD, Singstar, and the upcoming games The Raven and Deadfall Adventures today announced that they’ve successfully purchased over 150 properties from THQ dying corpse. Included in the purchase are great titles like Darksiders, Red Faction, and Destroy All Humans (what a great game!). While it’s sad to see them go, it’s good to know that these games have hopeful futures. The team at Nordic Games has...

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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – Ninja vs Zombies

Tecmo Koei has announced that it has an licensing agreement with Epic Games in order to develop Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z using Unreal Engine 3. Team NINJA is working with Keiji Inafune on Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z or Zombie Gaiden, as I will call it for now on. Inafune says, “We couldn’t be happier to develop ‘YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z’ on Unreal Engine 3. In the past I have been involved with numerous projects built upon Unreal Engine 3, so I understand its benefits and...

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7.5Dead Island Riptide Review: A Zom-B-Game At Its Finest

It is impossible to explain what Dead Island: Riptide is, without first explaining what the original Dead Island was, and how Riptide has improved upon it. Dead Island was a game with quite a reputation. The original trailer released had gamers pumped for something the Dead Island simply was not. The game was filled with glitches, fetch quests, and a story that made Land of the Dead feel like the next great American novel What Dead Island did have going for it was combat and...

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Exclusive Interview with Edge of Space Lead Developer Jacob Crane

I sat down recently with one of the Lead Developers on Edge of Space, Jacob Crane. I had a chance to ask some of the more important questions that I had and also got some in-depth exposure to the game itself. A full preview will be coming soon. Edge of Space in a sandbox title similar to Terraria and Minecraft. Jacob was nice enough to show me a lot of what the beta had to offer and really explain their in-depth and interesting multi-tiered crafting system. All of this and...