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Infinity Ward Saga Part Eleventy Billion: A Real Interview
I guess things have progressed well enough for the legal team of Vince Zampanella and Jason West (the two core creative minds behind a little thing called call of Duty), after all the Activision firing, EA deal, and major lawsuits back and forth - because they've actually done an interview with GameInformer about what happened.
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Steam: Your Home for Movies?
Well, video game movies, maybe, but Steam has announced that Indie Game: The Movie, which is a documentary tracking the development of three of the most successful indie games in recent years (Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Braid), is up for preorder to watch directly on Steam itself. The price for this documentary doesn't exactly make it a massive bargain - it's $9 after discount - but I like the idea of Steam being a place to get stuff like this in the future.
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Mounted Combat in Skyrim 1.6
Continuing their very welcome new tradition of not just patching their games in anticipation of upcoming DLC, Bethesda has announced that the next patch for Skyrim will include enhancements, bug fixes, optimizations... and mounted combat. Yep, this is one of those things that people have been requesting for a decade from Bethesda, and here it is in just another patch for the game. Pretty solid work, Bethesda, assuming that it works well in-game!
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38 Studios is Officially Gone
38 Studios, the creators of the recent almost-successful action RPG Kingdoms of Amalur, got into some financial trouble recently after lukewarm sales of their big, expensive AAA game. Unfortunately, after company leadership made a big payment to the Rhode Island government (who used a loan initiative to help 38 Studios get off their feet and make Kingdoms), they've now been forced to fire the entire staff at the company. Best wishes out to all ex-38 employees and we hope they can land on their feet at another studio.
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This is How you Release Video Card Drivers
GeForce.com has another article up alongside the launch of some new video card drivers, this time the 301.42 WHQL release. It's packed with comparisons, charts, benchmarks, how-tos, and more, all designed to help power users get the most out of their nVidia cards. Considering that AMD is having constant issues with their latest drivers alongside new game releases - the latest being Diablo III and the recommendation to install drivers from three releases back to play it properly - I think that this is AMD's biggest problem on the video card front right now. They make great hardware, but they just can't keep up with nVidia's software.
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Aliens: Colonial Marines on February 12th, 2013
Gearboxity has word that Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines now has a release date: February 12, 2013. There are few companies I'd feel comfortable having the Aliens license for a first person shooter, but Gearbox is most definitely one of them in my mind.
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Games On Sale This Weekend
Nearly every digital distributor is putting games on deep discount this weekend. Shacknews has a solid rundown of all the deals, many of which activate on Steam even if they aren't sold directly on it.
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Hate Diablo 3? Try Torchlight 2 This Weekend
Hell, even if you don't hate Diablo 3, you might give this game a shot while it's playable. This post on the official Torchlight 2 site has word that many beta codes will be going out for a beta running this weekend, so make an account and see if you get in. The biggest three features that TL2 is offering over D3 is the $20 price tag, offline single player and LAN play, and support for modding. If you're interested, then get in there!
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1 Million Copies of Minecraft 360
This has got to be the fastest-selling XBLA game ever: Mojang has announced that a million copies of Minecraft on Xbox 360 have been sold, for a cool twenty bucks each. You can read our review in which I praise the game but have issues with multiplayer and the year-old build of the PC version that was ported over, but either way, it's an amazing game that catches people's imaginations no matter what system they're playing on.
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Tomb Raider Delayed to 2013
The Tomb Raider reboot by the original game's team has been unfortunately delayed into 2013, Square Enix announced today. Usually, I'm all for games getting delayed if it means we get a better end result, but this is adding up to a LOT of games that are missing the holiday season this year.
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Sony Stock Price at 31-Year Low
It's hard to imagine that one of the major players in the video game industry could eventually go belly-up, but today's news of Sony stock hitting a 31-year low sure makes that seem like a possibility, doesn't it? Of course, Sony is currently spending boatloads of money on making a successor to the PS3, but it turns out that they're hemorrhaging most of their money in the consumer electronics business, where we've heard of Sony engineers refusing to share information with each other due to stiff competition (yes, inside the company) and so many products coming out with too-high prices and lackluster performance. The company has already pledged to turn it around by cutting a big chunk of its electronics-making workforce and dumping a lot of its bad products, but that's no guarantee Sony will still be afloat in five years. Or three, for that matter.
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Browse the Web on the 360... Finally
Hey, only six years too late! The Verge has word that Microsoft is finally bringing a web browser to the 360, with Kinect controls and a supposedly full Internet Explorer experience. I still doubt that full experience will include Adobe Flash support, but I'd be happy to be wrong.
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Want Midnight Club 2 PC for Free?
Rockstar is giving away copies of the surprisingly fun racing game Midnight Club 2 (which, admittedly, is over nine years old now) to those who join Rockstar's Steam community group. The rules are that you have to have bought *something* on the account at some point, and if you already own the game, you don't get another. In fact, you can't gift the game at all.
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Dishonored Set for October 9th
Bethesda has announced that Arkane Studios' cyber-Victorian, first person action-RPG Dishonored is set for release in North America on October 9th, with the Euro release following that Friday. A lot of people are skeptical about this game, not realizing that Harvey Smith, one of the fathers of the first person action-RPG (games like System Shock and Deus Ex), is leading this team. Having seen a live demo of the game at last year's QuakeCon, I can tell you that this game is very promising, and that we'll almost certainly have coverage on this game when it shows up at E3 early next month.
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Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Next Week
If you played a bit of Guild Wars 2 during the recent beta weekend for pre-purchasers and want more, well you'll get it, if only a little bit. ArenaNet has announced that servers will be up on Monday the 14th from 11AM to 6PM PDT. Yep, just seven hours, so give it a go if you just couldn't get enough. If you still have the client installed, it should patch to the latest build of the game, but if not, instructions are in the post for reinstalling.
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BioShock Infinite Delayed to February 2013
Irrational Games has announced a new release date for BioShock Infinite, which unfortunately includes a six-month delay. It's now set for release on February 26th, 2013. I'm sure you've seen the quote from Shigeru Miyamoto floating around: "A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." I'm confident that the game will be worth the wait.
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Company of Heroes 2 Officially Announced
THQ has now officially announced Company of Heroes 2. It was revealed last week after a magazine cover scan got out early. As we mentioned last week, it's set on the Eastern European front of World War II, it'll be made by CoH veterans Relic Entertainment of course, it's a PC exclusive, and it's set for release in early 2013.
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Company of Heroes 2 Exists!
This thread on NeoGAF has confirmation from the cover of the next issue of PC Gamer UK that Company of Heroes 2 is in development at Relic and is set for a 2013 release. The game's campaign will take place on the eastern European front of World War II, and the effects of snow (slowing movement, providing concealment) will play a part in this real-time strategy sequel.
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Bethesda is Finally Bringing The Elder Scrolls Online
Zenimax Online Studios, a sister company of Bethesda Game Studios, has announced that they're working on The Elder Scrolls Online. The project is directed by Matt Firor, the lead on Dark Age of Camelot, the successful and exciting MMO from yesteryear before EA bought them and turned them into... whatever they currently are now. The only issue is that this is yet another single player-focused company trying to build an MMO, and these first efforts don't often go well - even in the direction hands of talented, experienced, and capable developers like Firor. Let's hope that the team he built can buck the trend.
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Consoles, Contract-Style
Would you buy a game console in the way cell phones in the US are now sold? You will have that exact opportunity soon, as The Verge has word that Microsoft is planning on launching a program next week to sell an Xbox 360 with Kinect sensor for $99. What's the catch? A two-year contract, of course! The subscription will be $15 a month for the full two years, and Xbox Live Gold will come with the subscription, possibly alongside some kind of extra premium TV service delivered directly over Xbox Live. That totals out to $460, whereas the normal retail Kinect bundle ($299) plus two years of Live ($50-60 per year) would cost a little bit less overall.
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