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5610Dawngate: Is EA making their own League of Legends?
A website for a new MOBA game called Dawngate went live a short while ago. The site is collecting beta applicants, and is promising a “whole new way to experience MOBA gameplay.” The website lists Waystone Games as the developer of the new title, and ...
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7284Valve introduces Steam Early Access program
Valve has just launched its Steam “Early Access” platform. The new initiative allows Steam users to purchase games that are currently in development, giving these early adopters the opportunity to give the game creators feedback about their work. Following the success of games like Minecraft, ...
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2290Steam Box prototypes due in next three to four months
Valve’s Steam Box is on the immediate horizon. Speaking at Bafta, Valve’s Gabe Newell revealed that the Steam Box will be in “customer” hands as a prototype within the next three to four months. Newell gave some insight in the designing of the new platform ...
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3092Diablo III team still focused on how to make finding rare loot better
The central gameplay mechanic of Diablo III is the hunt for rare items throughout the game. Whether you’re grinding through the first act on normal, or battling the legions of hell on inferno difficulty, you’re eyes are always peeled for loot that will improve your ...
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3521Minecraft 1.5 coming in early March
Minecraft update 1.5 will arrive in roughly two weeks time, according to Jens Bergensten of Mojang. The Minecraft developer announced the good news via Twitter, so those waiting on the “Redstone Update” don’t have much longer to go. Update 1.5 will feature enhancements to Redstone, ...
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6795Blizzard looking to turn Diablo III players away from Auction House Gear
The Diablo 3 auction house was a pretty good idea from Blizzard. It allows players that are looking to outfit their characters with weapons and gear by paying a price in either real world currency, or currency from the game. It can provide for a ...
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830Blizzard renames Diablo 3 Dueling to Brawling
Blizzard will be introducing the long awaited PvP component into Diablo III with the Dueling features of upcoming patch 1.0.7. After receiving feedback from the community, the developers have decided to rename the new mode “Brawling” instead. “While the system we designed was developed in ...
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1000SimCity will have second beta in February
Maxis is conducting a second beta period for SimCity later this month, EA has recently announced. The SimCity beta will once again be a weekend long experience from Saturday February 16th to Sunday the 17th, and features an enhanced version of the hour long segment ...
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1640Blizzard’s StarCraft II Project Blackstone Teaser Site Cracked
Blizzard recently launched what appears to be a teaser for Project Blackstone, which likely has something to do with the impending release of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. You’ll be greeted with a svelte web page when going to the Blackstone site, but to ...
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4005CD Projekt RED Confirms The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for PC and Next Gen
CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. While this may come as no surprise to those following along closely, the announcement of the RPG confirms that the third installment in The Witcher franchise will be a “Next Generation RPG” that will be ...
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3804Splinter Cell: Blacklist to arrive on PC same days as consoles
Ubisoft will be launching Splinter Cell: Blacklist on the same day as its consoles versions of the game, according to a report from RPS. Splinter Cell: Blacklist was recently announced to be delayed until August 20th, when it’ll arrive on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and ...
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1540Here’s how StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm begins
Blizzard has been known to include some of the best-looking cinematics in gaming today. StarCraft II, Diablo III, World of Warcraft, these games all feature movie quality sequences that break up the gameplay action, and today, Blizzard has revealed the opening cinematic for StarCraft II: ...
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1961Elder Scrolls Online Beta Sign-ups Begin
Bethesda has just announced that beta sign-ups for their Elder Scrolls Online MMO have begun. Those interested in participating in the beta can register at the game’s TESO beta sign-up portal. The process is fairly standard, fill out your personal info, relay what type of ...
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5887GTA V likely to arrive on PC, but when?
It appears that retailers have already begun listing Rockstar’s GTA V for PC. The world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, recently listed the open world game for PC and has begun taking pre-orders for the title. Retailers do traditionally get information ahead of anyone else in ...
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1050Blizzard takes full responsibility for Diablo III failures
Last week, Blizzard’s Jay Wilson departed the Diablo III team following nearly a year of non-stop criticism from fans of the game. The Blizzard Forums were awash with vitriolic hatred towards the developer, for “killing the franchise”. Early today, Blizzard’s Rob Pardo took to the ...
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116116Left 4 Dead 2 gets Steam Workshop Support
Valve has finally given Left 4 Dead 2 Steam Workshop Support, making it easier to discover new mods and community generated content for the zombie survival game. Left 4 Dead 2 is one of the more popular titles on Valve’s digital download service, but ...
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2072Diablo III director moving on to other things
Jay Wilson of Blizzard recently announced that he will be moving off of the Diablo 3 team at Blizzard, and into another role at the company. Wilson announced the news via the Diablo 3 blog on Battle Net. “I wanted all of you to be ...
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840Diablo III Dueling Features detailed for patch 1.0.7
The next major patch for Diablo III will feature dueling, according to a recent post on BattleNet. When the new patch goes live, players will be able to access the PvP mode in New Tristram by speaking with an NPC named Nek the Brawler. The ...
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2151PC Gaming discussion pushes Minecraft creator to change
A recent article by PC Gamer which discusses the pros and cons of a method of game development that sells unfinished products to consumers, recently drew the attention of Minecraft creator, Markus “Notch” Persson. In the article, two editors from the popular PC magazine sat ...
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2442Valve working with Xi3 for Steam Console dubbed “Piston”
Valve is apparently meeting with numerous hardware and content developers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to further its console ambitions. Recently, the Seattle software company made headlines when news arrived that it had intentions of entering the home console market with a ...
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1851XCOM: Enemy Unknown getting free DLC, arrives on Games on Demand
Firaxis Games will be pushing a free update to XCOM: Enemy Unknown players on January 8th through a title update on all platforms. This second wave of content is intended to increase the replayability of the game, according to Jake Solomon of the developer, who ...
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5867GTA V, Bioshock Infinite and others could boost games industry in 2013
Video games software and hardware sales have been dropping for months, according to NPD reports. With December’s numbers due out later this week, Michael Pachter has issued his preview for the data, and it’s going to be another year-over-year decline. The major culprits: Black Ops ...
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3893Devil May Cry gets intense CG Trailer heading into release
Set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC will depict a duplicitous world where nothing is ever as it seems and the line between good and evil is constantly blurred. Spurred into action by the promises of a trusted relation, Dante bursts into this world intent on ...
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3925Tomb Raider Multiplayer Modes Revealed
Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot was revealed a few weeks back to include multplayer for the first time in the series. In the February issue of OXM, details have arisen on two multiplayer modes and the general idea of what the developers had in mind for the ...
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1740Is World of Warcraft getting MOBA style gameplay
According to numerous reports, World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria may be seeing an update that includes a new game mode called “Defense of the Alehouse”, set to arrive in patch 5.2. Footage of the new map can be found above of the new battleground ...
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2332Kickstarter launching another new game console called “Gamestick”
Hoping to join the recent success of community funded projects, PlayJam has announced a new console titled “Gamestick”. The console is a controller that just needs to plug into the HDMI ports of a TV or monitor. PlayJam has announced that the operating system would be ...
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2452Metro Last Light is beautiful, here are the screens that prove it
Metro Last Light is the sequel to one of 2010′s best looking shooters, from the upstart developers at 4A Games. Utilizing a proprietary engine dubbed the 4A Engine, they’ve proved with Metro 2033 they can make a damn good looking game. It looks like Metro ...
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2791Fez probably heading to PS3 and PC in 2013
2012 might have been the year of the indie game, and one of the games that led that charge was Polytron’s Fez, an XBLA exclusive. The highly documented independent developer has confirmed that it will finally be porting Fez to other platforms in 2013. Phil ...
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4404First Black Ops II “Revolution” Map Pack Details Leak
The first details for a downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops II may have leaked ahead of schedule. A retail poster lists the first map pack as Black Ops II: Revolution, and will feature four multiplayer maps, one zombies map, and a ...
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5065Challenging the Artistic Choices of the Walking Dead Game
One thing that always bugged me about the Walking Dead Game, you don’t really get any choice whether or not to give and train Clementine on how to use a gun. With the recent mass shooting in Connecticut just before Christmas and the American gun ...
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130918DLC: A year that went from bad to worst
The novelty of DLC is wearing thin. Never mind the fact that it takes forever to be released, some games are now supported by DLC more than a year after their release!, but the question of quality and necessity for that supplemental content is really ...
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3403Aliens: Colonial Marines Story Video Preview
Aliens: Colonial Marines is a First-Person Shooter set in the Alien movie franchise universe in which the player takes on the role of a member of a squad of colonial marines sent to the planet LV-426. The game is designed as a true sequel to ...
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7123The Essential Video Games of 2012
If you’ve been following Attack of the Fanboy over the years, you know that we usually do a reader’s choice for our Game of the Year. This year, we’ve decided to do things somewhat differently. We’ve decided to lock ourselves in a room and conduct ...
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1411Blizzard goes back to the drawing board with Diablo III PvP
It appears Blizzard is still hashing out what they want to do with PvP mode in Diablo III, according to a recent update from the company. While Blizzard explains that their goal was to add formal support for the dueling community of Diablo II, Diablo ...
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5624Will Battlefield 4 be an Xbox 720 and 360 release?
2013 is shaping up to a big year for the gaming industry. Not only are some of the biggest franchises getting blockbuster sequels added to their ranks, but many believe that the next-generation of game consoles from Microsoft and or Sony will arrive as well. ...
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4274Black Ops 2 delivers the top two trailers of 2012
Youtube has increasingly become the go-to place for trailers of all kinds. Television, Movies, and Video Games all use the video site to reach massive audiences and advertise their media releases. In 2012, Call of Duty: Black Ops II held the top two spots on ...
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3714Research shows that GTA V will not make you kill people IRL
GTA V made headlines in the wake of a violent massacre in Connecticut earlier this month. With someone or something needed to blame for the violent attack, gun control lobbyists and politicians pointed to video games as the reason behind this inexplicable behavior. With Rockstar’s ...
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2783Catch up on the story of Dead Space 3
Issac Clarke has seen his fair share of events unfold in the Dead Space universe. But how did this unlikely hero end up becoming responsible for cleaning up the Necromorphs? This latest trailer will catch you up on the events leading up to Dead Space ...
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5013Irrational reveals the two sides of Bioshock Infinite
Well it looks like Irrational Games is going to be offering two versions of the Bioshock Infinite Box Art in one neat little reversible package. Can’t stand the brooding protagonist with shotgun in tote? Flip it around and you’ll get some interesting art featuring the ...
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0The Essential Video Games of 2012
If you’ve been following Attack of the Fanboy over the years, you know that we usually do a reader’s choice for our Game of the Year. This year, we’ve decided to do things somewhat differently. We’ve decided to lock ourselves in a room and conduct ...
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6327Is the Walking Dead Game really a video game?
There’s a lot of controversy over one little downloadable, independent game based on a popular TV and comic series. I think the controversy has little to do with the quality of the ‘game’ or that an independent project won VGA’s best game award over popular ...
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5566Six minutes of Crysis 3 Train Yard gameplay
In this Crysis 3 gameplay preview, Prophet and Psycho will need to make an explosive entrance to escape the overgrown NYC train yard. Whether you decide to create your own path with explosive arrows, sneak past the CEPH Stalkers with the stealth functionality of the ...
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103111DICE reveals new Battlefield 3 End Game details, Capture the Flag incoming
DICE has revealed new details about their upcoming expansion content for Battlefield 3, called End Game. The developers have called the new content “some of the most high-speed warfare to date”. “Battlefield 3: End Game delivers some of the most high-speed warfare to date across ...
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3954God Mode is a new shooter from Atlus
The publishers behind Catherine and the Persona series have revealed “God Mode”, a new cooperative third person shooter from Atlas. Developed by Old School Games, God Mode is described as an “arcade-style four-player co-op shooter” that will feature customizable characters, upgradeable weapons, and special abilities. ...
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4972Dark Souls 2 to protect core experience of previous games
As Dark Souls becomes a bigger franchise, From Software has said that changes will be made to Dark Souls 2 in order for it to be accessible by more players. These comments got fans somewhat worried that the game may be dumbed down or easier, ...
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2733Blizzard takes hardline on bots in Diablo III
Blizzard has recently banned “thousands” of Diablo III players that have been using bots on their way to auction house riches. The developers cite an “undermining of the spirit of fair play and technical problems” as the reasons for the rash of bans. “We’ve recently ...
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2332Bioshock Infinite first five minutes of gameplay
The Video Above contains massive spoilers! Irrational Games has released a new video that shows the first five minutes of Bioshock Infinite. The video starts off similarly to the original Bioshock as Booker Dewitt investigates a strange lighthouse. Instead of descending into the depths of ...
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2582End Game on deck for Battlefield 3 beyond Aftermath
After a brief exclusivity window for Battlefield 3 Premium subscribers, the Aftermath Expansion is now available on all platforms. The quake themed DLC is not the last stop for Battlefield 3 fans however. DICE does have at least one more trick up their sleeve when ...
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1631Irrational Games talks up Bioshock Infinite ending
As the impending release of Bioshock Infinite nears, we’re getting more and more detail about the highly anticipated title from Irrational Games. Ken Levine has been vocal about the game as of late, and this most recent quote should be somewhat reassuring to fans of the original. ...
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5317Treyarch asks Black Ops II Vets to take it easy on Christmas Noobs
Usually the buffer screen that launches when players log into Black Ops II online is filled with messages for the game which have consisted of playlist updates and advertisements to try out new features and purchase content. Today it has been updated to wish Call ...