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You may remember that almost two years ago Moe Charif started work on a Deus Ex fan film. Well, now it’s complete. Weighing in at more than 12 minutes it does a pretty good job of capturing the Deus Ex look and will go some way to sate your thirst for more Deus Ex.
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I’m not sure about the legality of linking to The Pirate Bay or promotion of The Pirate Bay. Rather than consult our site lawyer (they’ve had a busy week after Jeremy [Lawyer: REDACTED] the Queen again) I thought I’d go ahead and see what happened. I live on the edge.
Curator Moshboy’s spent the past few months collecting together 101 free games in one place and watching through the trailer they look pretty darn good.
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Hero Generations is a 4x RPG. I’m not sure if that was a thing before but it is now because Hero Generations is definitely it. As you move about the procedurally generated world - fighting monsters, building towns, bedding lords and ladies - you age. Your hero will die. They might live to 125 years old, maybe only 50. Whatever the case they will die. It’s at that point you take over control of their child and that child hero has to live in the world established by their mother, and her father before her, and his father before him.
Looking at it another way, it's a game where you don't just control a badass: you create a family of badasses that rule for 2,000 years.
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It’s barely a week since we had Maxis’ latest SimCity updated with an offline mode, something we’ve been asking for since it launched, and another always-online SimCity has popped up. This one’s a little more understandable, though. It’s a remake of the original 1989 SimCity that you can now play in your browser.
I’ve been playing it all afternoon and I’m a rubbish mayor.
31 March 2014 • 18 hours 4 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Riot let slip Team Builder mode last week. Players are now able to choose a role, champion and position pre-game, and the extra time in team composition has already helped uncover the “inherent” good in League of Legends players.
But there’s a problem. A plethora of would-be captains are floating about in the ether, looking in vain for subordinates to order about. As such, Riot have implemented an “experiment” to see if they can reduce the number of single captains in your area.
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31 March 2014 • 17 hours 4 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Despite his capacity as Oculus’ Chief Technology Officer, John Carmack wasn’t “personally involved” in the negotiations that ended with the VR company’s proposed acquisition by Facebook.
“I spent an afternoon talking technology with Mark Zuckerberg, and the next week I find out that he bought Oculus,” he said.
Nevertheless, he believes Facebook are a “powerful force” willing to propel Oculus in the right direction.
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31 March 2014 • 15 hours 48 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Tanki Online’s promise is twofold: a plug-in free browser format that means physics-enabled, tracked vehicular biffing is less than 30 seconds away - and fast-paced, tactical matches designed to keep you occupied for far longer.
After a Russian release in 2009, the game has rolled out to 41 million players worldwide in a manner you’ve got to be really careful about metaphoring, given the current European climate. And now it’s reached UK shores.
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31 March 2014 • 15 hours 23 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Did you know that Origin did boxed games? Probably not. Well, good news for the purpose of keeping your brain free of extraneous information: it no longer does.
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Roll up! It’s Transformers Universe, the game about transforming robots who just cannot stop fighting. On one side you’ve got the friendly Autobots, while on the other you’ve got the despicable Decepticons. You can tell they’re evil because they’ve got the sinister sounding synonyms “deception” and “con” in their name.
Sure, when the Autobots transform we’re all “haha, look at this cool Autobot, he’s a truck now, brilliant”, but show us a Decepticon in vehicle form and we’re all “I can’t believe this cheeky Decepticon, trying to pull the wool over our eyes. We know you’re not a jet plane so just stop it, okay? Stop it.”
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31 March 2014 • 12 hours 9 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Cloudbuilt is a game about momentum and optimism, which when you think about it are pretty much drawn from the same place. It’s about speedrunning your way through a series of abstract environments populated by walls (for running on), robots (for dodging) and infinite drops (for hopping over). It is validation for those of us who spent far too many years jumping about Quake. It is the fever dream pilots have after long Titanfall parkour sessions.
It looks like this.
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31 March 2014 • 11 hours 27 min ago •
Story by Jeremy Peel
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Battlefield 4’s Naval Strike DLC turned out to be more of a navel strike when, on the eve of its intended release, DICE looked inwards to attend to some serious PC performance issues. Those apparently resolved, we’re now rattling through the normal map pack release procedure - which begins with a brief early access period for Battlefield 4 premium players.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts' latest DLC offering, Devastation is due out soon, with it appearing, lamentably, on Xbox Live first on April 3rd and on PC following that. It brings four new multiplayer maps to the table, including the reimagined Dome map from Modern Warfare 3, now called Unearthed.
Alien shenanigans also continue with the second episode of Extinction, which finds players exploring an abandoned research vessel and fighting a kraken. But that’s not the limit of Devastation’s extra terrestrial tomfoolery. Activision has made a crossover deal, bringing a Predator to Call of Duty. Cover yourself in mud, everybody.
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Shelter, the badger survival game from last year (and one of our favourite titles of 2013) is getting a sequel, announced developer Might and Delight. It’s due out in autumn of this year, and will be a change in pace from the slow journey of the family of badgers.
"The essence of Shelter as a concept is keeping your family alive," Might and Delight’s Anders Westin said. "But we have decided to let the animal itself set the pace and character of the gameplay. The badger translated into a slow and linear journey - with the lynx however, Shelter 2 will become a much more forceful experience, where improving your techniques for hunting prey takes a much bigger role."
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It’s nearly impossible to put on a big event where gaming plays a role without paying some attention to independent developers. They’re getting BAFTAs, are all over E3 and fill up huge areas at the likes of PAX and other expos.
With that in mind, the annual Gadget Show Live - taking place in Birmingham between April 9th and 13th - is hosting its first Indie Game Zone, showcasing the work of eight UK developers. They’ll exhibit their games and attendees will have access to exclusive content, the organiser says.
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31 March 2014 • 4 hours 30 min ago •
Story by Rob Zacny
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It’s easy to fall into the habit of treating the Oculus Rift as a gaming device, but it might be the company’s broader vision that attracted Facebook. The Oculus is aiming to change other media as well, and one of their major areas of interest is in film, according to Oculus VR’s Film and Media Director Eugene Chung, a former venture capitalist and Pixar producer who now heads up Oculus’s VR film initiative.
Chung promised that the project has already caught the interest of a number of studios and directors. “Hollywood, as of a few months ago, has started to realize the power that VR has for cinema,” he said.
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With leaked images of a Metro title for PC and next-gen consoles, Metro Redux, doing the rounds, Deep Silver has decided to eschew the “no comment” malarky and actually say something about it. Not much, though.
Deep Silver confirms that Metro Redux is a thing, but that it’s not ready to give out more information. The leaked images are, it states, placeholders and out of date. Direct your squishy eyes below for the statement.
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Gosh, Draugen looks a bit shiver-inducing. Red Thread Games’ first-person survival horror title was announced last year, but we’re only now getting a taste of it in the form of a teaser trailer revealed at Rezzed over the weekend.
Studio founder Ragnar Tørnquist describes it as “Gone Home meets Amnesia,” and there’s more than a dash of Lovecraft, Dostoyevsky and Norwegian fairy tales. Take a gander below and then find a warm blanket and a well-lit room.
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