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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate trailer introduces seven people who need to die
I've always believed that if you're going to assume the leadership of an organization—and especially one that's likely to find itself caught up in sticky situations—then you should never, ever shoot the messenger. After all, sooner or later the messengers will stop showing up, and the next thing you know you're reading about the Allied invasion of Normandy in the morning paper...
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Dawn of War gets surprise new map, series free on Steam this weekend
What are you up to this weekend? Uh-huh, oh really, great, that's really interesting. Wrong: you're actually playing all the Dawn of Wars. That's because they're free on Steam for this weekend, and cheap if you want to keep them beyond that...
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Dota's 6.85 patch arrives ahead of Frankfurt Majors
Valve has released patch 6.85 for Dota 2, ahead of the upcoming Fall Major tournament. After announcing the changes would be ‘minor balance tweaks’ until a bigger patch planned for after November’s Frankfurt showdown, it’s uncertain whether Dota's master of balance Icefrog is familiar with the word ‘minor’...
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New Fallout 4 video introduces the real-life inspiration for Dogmeat
We already knew that the furry Fallout 4 follower Dogmeat cannot be killed. But did you know that the in-game canine is based on a real dog? According the story as it's told on Bethesda.net, Dogmeat's real-life alter-ego is a German Shepard named River who belongs to Lead Level Designer Joel Burgess and is a regular visitor to the studio...
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Nvidia is putting desktop-caliber GTX 980 GPUs in laptopsWhen Nvidia launched the 980M last October, it claimed that the laptop GPU could hit 75-80% of the performance of the desktop card. That was impressive compared to the mobile GPUs of a generation or two back, but not as impressive as what Nvidia’s done now: fit the entire, uncompromised desktop 980 GPU into gaming laptops...
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Heroes of the Storm's upcoming heroes, skins and mount detailed
Blizzard has detailed the new heroes, skins and mounts coming soon to Heroes of the Storm, the MOBA mash-up built from its bulging multiverse...
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Metal Gear Solid 5's hidden karma system
It's never mentioned in the game, but Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has a hidden 'karma' system that, over time, alters Venom Snake's appearance...
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Team Fortress 2 Halloween event is all of them at once
Halloween has come to mean two things: rotting childrens' teeth with autumnal-coloured sweets, and Team Fortress 2. Every year for the past six years, Valve has pulled out all or most of the steps to throw a spooky shindig for its now free-to-play multiplayer shooter...
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SpyParty gets a fancier ballroom and fresh faces in new update
'Asymmetric multiplayer espionage' game SpyParty is getting a bit of love in the form of the Not-Strictly Ballroom update...
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Doom trailer shows off SnapMap level editor
There are few games more important to the history of modding than Doom. The original led to ZDoom, GZDoom, and now Gloome (and of course to celebrated mods like Brutal Doom). The Dark Mod was originally built on Doom 3, and the world would be a far poorer place without that endless repository of Thief missions...
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Riot dates League of Legends 2015 All-Star Event
Riot Games has announced that the year-ending 2015 League of Legends All-Star Event will take place from December 10-13 at the North American LCS Studio in Los Angeles...
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GOG put The Witcher series on sale
CD Projekt's distribution service is heavily discounting some the older games in CD Projekt's RPG series, and lopping 30% off The Witcher 3...
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Total War: Warhammer trailer reveals underground battles
It's time to get serious about Dwarfs. Not a single tankard of grog is chugged in the latest Total War: Warhammer trailer, which shows their brutal ongoing struggle with Orc and Goblin hordes. For the first time in Total War history these fights can spread to strongholds deep beneath the earth...
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Witcher 3 update will add more romance
Emotional fulfillment is coming to players who found one of The Witcher 3's romance options lacking in conversational intrigue. Kotaku report that extra dialogue options will be added to solve that relationship's uncomfortable silences, and perhaps relieve the lingering dread that you might have taken the wrong path in life by choosing someone poorly suited to your grim Witcher lifestyle...
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Killing Floor 2 is free to try this weekend
The free weekend is go! Just head into Steam to download the client. it expires on Sunday...
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