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Call of Duty: Ghosts 50GB PC specs not official, Activision says

Call of Duty: Ghosts might not require a whopping 50GB of your hard drive space after all, which would, let’s face it, be quite a relief.

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Bionic Dues, mech “roguelite” from Arcen Games, out now on Steam

Skyward Collapse and AI War developer Arcen games has a new release to share – Bionic Dues, a mech title described as a “roguelite” and on sale at 25% off during launch week.

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Dream Chamber inbound from Syberia developer

The latest adventure from Microïds, developer of the treasured Syberia series, is a 1930s mystery called Dream Chamber, headed to iOS, Mac and PC later this month.

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Airscape: The Fall of Gravity stars an octopus in a stack hat

An octopus in a crash helmet and “questionable physics”. Nobody tell PETA about Airscape: The Fall of Gravity.

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New Adventures In Hi-Fi: Some Screenshots

By Duncan Harris on October 8th, 2013 at 9:00 pm.


This is the latest in the series of articles about the art technology of games, in collaboration with the particularly handsome Dead End Thrills.

Games move pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss them. The pretties this week come courtesy not of a particular game, nor indeed me, but of the Dead End Thrills Flickr group, a caravan of some 500+ ‘players’ who spend more time stopping games and looking around than they do actually playing. The times we live in.

With some 11,000 images in there, I wasn’t sure how best to approach this. (Drunk, obviously, but how badly?) I’ve gone for the easy option: a round-up of games and/or users that stood out over the last few weeks. What you’ll often find is that wrangling games into ‘screenshot mode’ has knock-on benefits for any PC gamer, so let’s see if that holds true.
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