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No New Final Fantasy XIV Trailer At E3

Final Fantasy XIV, remember that? Remember how Square Enix was supposed to make it all better? Well, according to Square Enix, the game’s latest trailer will “skip” E3. [Square Enix]


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Online Game Lays Down The Law With 30-Year Bans

For many online games, the selling of in-game items, in-game gold and personal information is a problem. It sounds like it’s a problem in free-to-play online title Cocoloa, because the game is now trying to combat that with bans that last three decades.


May 28, 2012
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Excuse Me, I’m Going To Go Lie Down On This Beautiful Video Game Grass

Time to check in again with the Outerra project, an engine that’s currently being developed that threatens to make video games more awesome. How dare it.


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The Essence Of DayZ, Captured In A 3-Minute Video

So much of what makes DayZ so enjoyable to play is in the intangibles. You can’t sum it up in bullet-points, or just say “it’s fun”, you need to experience a night in the dark with no food or water, on the run from both the living and the dead, to really get a handle on things.


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Chinese Anti-gaming Expert Turns Out To Be (Surprise!) A Hypocrite

A famous Chinese anti-gaming expert has his foot in his mouth after appearing at a “game tasting” event in Shenzhen last week.


May 27, 2012
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Techland’s Trailer For Its Latest Game Is Better Than The One It Did For Dead Island

As far as claims go, yes, I’m being bold and melodramatic. But then, so was Techland’s original Dead Island trailer, which I think set expectations for the co-op zombie shooter to unreachable levels and ultimately came back to haunt it. This time though, the situation is different. No zombies, dead kids or shattered families. Just ATVs. And funny. And trees.


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New Metro: Last Light Interview And Gameplay Footage Finds Its Way Online

Kotaku AU

Apparently this Metro: Last Light video appeared for a brief time on GameTrailers, but was quickly taken down. I’m not sure why it was removed, but whatever the reason it did little to stop one enterprising user from grabbing the clip and uploading it to YouTube. Inside we find almost four minutes for gameplay footage, along with a surprisingly solid interview with the developers.


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This Is What A ‘Supernatural Assassin’ Does In Bethesda’s Dishonored

If you’re not up to speed on what Bethesda’s Dishonored is all about, two things should fill you in nicely. One is Stephen Totilo’s “18 Things You Should Know About Dishonored”. And the other is that image at right, of a guy leaping off a rooftop and stabbing a dude in the neck.


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Choose Your Own (Goofy) Max Payne Video Adventure

Max Payne 3 does a lot of things right — from the relentless, blood-soaked gunplay to HEALTH’s astonishing soundtrack.


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Rant: Even If No One Listens, Let The Diablo III Review Bombs Fall

It’s easy to sit back and scoff at “review bombing”, as we saw last week when Blizzard released a broken Diablo III. Flooding Amazon to give zero stars to something others have called 10/10, sure, that’s not a legitimate review. And people staging a sit-in aren’t there to legitimately patronize a public accommodation, either. But a sit-in is a legitimate form of protest. And I think a review bomb is, too.