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Watch Dogs

Watch Dogs (stylized as WATCH_DOGS) is a 2014 open world action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It was released on 27 May 2014 for Microsoft Windows, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, with a Wii U version planned for release in the fourth quarter of 2014. Set within a fictionalized version of Chicago, Illinois, the single-player story follows a hacker and…

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South Park The Stick Of Truth!

South Park The Stick of Truth OFFICIAL TRAILER SouthPark: The Stick of Truth is a 20!14 roll-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, and released by Ubisoft for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 video game consoles and Microsoft Windows. Based on the American adult animated television series SouthPark, The Stick of Truth follows The New Kid, who has moved to the eponymous town,…

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PAX East Day 1&2 Recap

It’s edging close to the end of day two here at PAX, and boy, has it been nuts. Let me start by saying that this year is the 10th anniversary of PAX, so that’s cool, and the fourth PAX East, which is also really cool. With this being only the fourth PAX East, the attendance is obscene for a convention that young. This year, the number of attendees is inches…

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GearPop at PAX!

For those who don’t know, I am going to PAX East for GearPop this weekend, and my schedule is super full. My Friday is fully booked, and Saturday and Sunday, are about to fill up, once I respond to some emails. I’m super excited for this weekend, and wanted to remind you all that I’ll be there. I’m planning on making a montage video of the entire event, so if…

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Infamous: London Event

Infamous: Second Son – London Preview

Last week I had the privilege of going to London to play an exclusive demo of Infamous: Second Son on the PlayStation 4.  Attendees were also treated to a free bar, snacks, and access to the stage where the developers from Sucker Punch and actor Troy Baker were answering questions to a live stream. Your character, Deslin Rowe, replaces Cole MacGrath from the previous instalments in the franchise.  Like Cole,…

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Batman Arkham Knight Announced

Big news in the video game industry as Rocksteady Games announced their next Batman game with Batman Arkham Knight.  The game was leaked this morning and then Rocksteady went ahead and released the first trailer for the game along with some screen shots from the game.  The big news coming from the game is that it will only be coming for next gen and PC.  So Xbox 360 and PS3…

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Twitch Streaming Coming to Xbox One

People looking forward to Titan Fall, or may not, have some exciting news as Twitch Streaming will be coming at the same time.  Xbox One users will be able to stream Titan Fall matches over Xbox One with the launch of Twitch Streaming.  It will bring with it a bunch of new and old features people from PS4 streaming may know.  Of course the Kinect will provide picture in picture…

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Xbox One Deals Already Here

With the PS4 outselling the Xbox One in January 2-1, Xbox has finally responded.  Last week Target was giving away $50 gift cards with all Xbox One purchases.  Yesterday Microsoft announced that a new Titan Fall Xbox One bundle would be available at launch, which would include everything that comes with an Xbox one, Titan Fall, and one month of Xbox Live for the same $499 price.  Soon after Amazon…

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Review: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

The PS4 and Xbox One edition of Tomb Raider was released just a few weeks ago and I finally had time to sit down and enjoy the game.  Now for the sake of the review I must say I never played the game when it was released last year and that this is my first experience playing it.  I cannot give a lot of answers as to the differences between…

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Titanfall

Review – Titanfall Beta

Reviewing a beta of a video game might ordinarily seem quite premature, however the Titanfall beta is definitely an exception to this generalisation, many citing it as more of a game demo than beta. The main incentive for developers Respawn Entertainment for releasing this beta was to test the network strain on the servers that accommodate this ambitious multiplayer first-person-shooter.  That in itself is the most surprising outcome of this…

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