ioShock Infinite puts players in the shoes of U.S. Cavalry veteran turned hired gun, Booker DeWitt. Indebted to the wrong people and with his life on the line, DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean.

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There’s dedication & there’s dedication. The second, slantier version means there’s been a bit more effort being put in. Let’s use Quake as an example: it’s the difference between someone still making Quake levels all these years later & someone who has built a Quake editor for modern sensibilities, making it all wizzy. Read the rest of this entry »

A sequel to the 2011 PSN title Payday: The Heist, Payday 2, is in development at Starbreeze Studios, with 505 Games handling publishing duties, and you can expect it to release this summer. The four characters in the original game – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains – all return for this outing, which finds them in Washington, D.C. to start an “epic crime spree.”

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If you haven’t finished Dead Space 3, plan to, and care about the story as well as the severance, beware. Somewhere in the back of my space-scarred and delirious mind, I knew that there was some DLC for Dead Space 3 in the pipeline.

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Lost Planet 3 has players return to the extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series. Players take on the role of Utility Rig pilot Jim Peyton who leaves Earth to take on a hazardous but lucrative contract on E.D.N. III.

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One of my first experiences inside Castle Shotgun ended with a heartfelt lament. The Call of Juarez sounded bitterly in my ears. I haven’t played Gunslinger yet and while it doesn’t quite look like a return to form, it does seem potentially entertaining, with its arcade, score-based take on rooting, tooting and indeed shooting.

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Here’s a clever idea: instead of paying £30 for a game, or getting it for free then buying lots of little extra bits, or helping to fund it pre-release, what about paying what you want for it? For instance, as part of a bundle of other games? Next big thing, you mark my words.

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Assassin’s Creed IV has pirates, a subtitle, a release date and a trailer. The pirates caught me unawares when the internet accidentally started yo-ho-hoing about them last week and the subtitle was unexpected too, but the release date of October 29th should surprise nobody.

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Three years ago, shortly after the massive worldwide success of the re-imagined film version of Star Trek, the creators of the upcoming STAR TREK The Video Game began their journey to bring an entirely new adventure to gamers.

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The hardest murder to solve is your own. A mysterious new title from Square Enix makes its debut. The company says it expects the game to hit early next year, and it asks players to solve their own murder. 2014 – That’s a long time to have your killer out on the loose.

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