Fans of retro; rejoice! The kickstarter project for a modern day Dungeon Keeper clone has just received enough funding to hire Richard Ridings, the cheerfully malevolent narrator of the original.

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Over the weekend, Rockstar collected every piece of promotional art so far made available for Grand Theft Auto V, cleaned them up, made sure each had a nice big background behind them then then scaled them to wallpaper size.

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Boom.

Boom.

What’s that sound? The coffee on my desk is shaking.

Boom.

Boom.
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A patent application published today resurrects the rumor that Sony’s next gaming console will suppress the playing of used games, and outlines how such a scheme would be accomplished without the use of an always-on Internet connection for verification. In short, an RFID ID stamped onto the new discs would track their usage history and restrict them to one console.

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With Gearbox’s long developed, and highly anticipated, survival horror shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines finally nearing release, Sega and Gearbox have decided its time to start giving you some story details to enjoy. We already know that all this chaos takes place aboard the USS Sulaco and happens after the events of James Cameron’s Aliens film.

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Crysis 3 has taken on a strange, amorphous shape in my head. I’m rather excited. I realise I am in a (handsome, intelligent and perceptive) minority in having had a great time in Crysis 2, but I can’t help feeling that Crytek’s mission is laudable. They really do want to make the shooter that covers everything, and is all things to all shooter-fans. Yerli’s quotes in that interview suggest he’s lost none of his ambition, and it’s clear that all kinds of concessions have to be made in projects of this magnitude. And the very least they are aiming high. This new footage, below, contains some spectacular moments. Go take a look.

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It took Gavin and Geoff of Achievement Hunter about four hours to build Super Mario Bros.’ 1-1 level almost block-for-block in Minecraft.
It’s not perfect, but the guys from Achievement Hunter could make a video about paint drying and still somehow make it fun to watch. After running through the level in one take they show the scene from different angles and explain how it all worked.

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Latest batch of screenshots for Rockstar Games’ upcoming open-world title show shark, submarine, planes, and blimp. Rockstar Games has provided a holiday gifts to gamers: new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots. In a post to the company’s blog titled Happy Holidays – Enjoy”, Rockstar released five new screens from the hotly hyped open-world action game.

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There probably aren’t enough capital letters in that headline. Gaijin Games’ rhythm action releases do insist on themselves. It’s all ‘BIT.TRIP this’ and ‘BIT.TRIP that’ in the titles, which is odd because the games themselves are much more careful about making a racket. Void was the third entry in the series over in Nintendo land and it’s the third released on PC as well, although the fourth was released as the second. Forget all that though because there’s sod all continuity between entries and little plot to speak of, as the video below demonstrates.

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While Team Meat are still stubbornly refusing to share quite what manner of game this is, they have been sharing tiny kibbles of tease and hint over the past few weeks. The most obvious, and delightful, place to start is with the theme music, as written and composed by Matthias Bossi and Jon Evans. (The former also voiced the narrator in The Binding Of Isaac).

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