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  Sony Xperia Z review

  Sony's mobile transformation is complete, but can its latest effort match the Galaxy S4? Digital Foundry investigates. 16

  Android

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  Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved retrospective

  Here's looking at Euclid. 32

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  Watch Gran Turismo 6 at 60FPS

  Polyphony's concept footage the way it was meant to be seen. 97

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  Face-Off: Metro: Last Light

  Going underground. 64

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  Saturday Soapbox: IP Freely?

  When there's no incentive for big name creators to do their best work for a publisher, we all suffer. 50

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  This week on Outside Xbox

  The next Xbox, the next XCOM and movie games that ruined the canon. 22

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  Metro: Last Light review

  Bleep... bleep... blops? 169

  PC 360 PS3

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  Samsung Galaxy S4 review

  A galaxy of difference? Digital Foundry investigates this year's biggest Android release. 133

  Android

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  Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets fired from Ubisoft

  "I intend to fight Ubisoft vigorously for my rights, for my team and for my game." 120

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  The quest for Shadow of the Colossus' last big secret

  Eight years after its release, there remains a group of secret seekers looking to unearth Team Ico's final mystery. 144

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  Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon review

  Derp to the future. 110

  360 PC PS3

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  Game Dev Tycoon forces those who pirate the game to unwittingly fail from piracy

  93.6 per cent of players currently running cracked copy. 269

Monday, 13 May 2013

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  Metro: Last Light review

  Bleep... bleep... blops? 169

  PC 360 PS3

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  XCOM's new perspective: how The Bureau stays true to the original's strategic heart

  2K Marin's shift from first to third person allows for a refocus on XCOM's core appeal. 34

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  Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move review

  A clockwork orangutan. 30

  3DS

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  Tales of Symphonia and sequel getting HD PS3 remake - report

  What a Genis idea. 50

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  UK's first eSports bar to open in London

  Watch professional gaming tournaments, drink cocktails. 120

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  The Witcher 2 development tools released for free

  Create your own Witcher mods or entirely new RPGs. 61

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  SNES classic Super Metroid just 30p on Wii U eShop

  Plus a Resi Revelations demo and Super Mario Bros. 2. 87

• Several Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 details emerge

  Full camera control, turn into mist, set over two timelines. 22

• UK chart: Dead Island: Riptide top for third week

  Telltale's The Walking Dead shuffles into the top 10. 44

• Retro shmup/metroidvania A.N.N.E. hits its Kickstarter goal

  Has eight days left to achieve its Vita and Wii U stretch goals. 19

• The Incredible Machine gets spiritual successor Contraption Maker

  Made by the creators of the original Rube Goldberg-device building game. 20

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  Wii U goes mobile

  Take your console on the road for under £20. Plus: Digital Foundry explores the possibilities of a fully battery powered console. 71

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  Gran Turismo 5 retrospective

  If you like it then you shoulda drove the 'ring in it. 103

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  Samsung Galaxy S4 review

  A galaxy of difference? Digital Foundry investigates this year's biggest Android release. 133

  Android

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  Saturday Soapbox: Force feeding fandom

  Why it's time to stop chasing the myth of the good Star Wars game. 101

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  This week on Outside Xbox

  GTA 5! Blacklist! Star Wars! 8

• GeoGuessr is a brilliant, educational Google Maps-based game

  Think Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego where you're Carmen Sandiego. 48

• Half-Life 2 gets official Oculus Rift support

  See video of it and Dishonored played with the headset. 26

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  Radeon HD 7790 review

  Next-gen Xbox graphics tech re-factored for the PC market? 279

  PC

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  Inside Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's new open world

  New details including next-gen wind, and how others players can infiltrate your single-player game. 89

  PlayStation 4 PC 360

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  Danny Bilson: inside the rise and fall of THQ

  The outspoken former chief of Saints Row, Homefront and Darksiders finally breaks his silence. 32

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  Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity review

  Tyrogue-like. 37

  3DS

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  Next Xbox to be called Xbox Infinity - report

  Microsoft is "uncertain" about its Xbox TV. 163

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  Aliens: Colonial Marines managed 1.31 million sales

  That about merits a sequel doesn't it? What? 116

• Chinese World of Tanks clone so similar it allegedly copies even historical inaccuracies and fictional tanks

  Wargaming rumbles into court. 54

• EA registers domains for Battlefields 13-20

  But doesn't own Battlefields 10-12. 52

• Aliens: Colonial Marines co-developer TimeGate Studios has been shuttered - report

  Game over, man. 44

• Silicon Knights is "very busy" and "definitely alive"

  Though declined to say how many people are left or where it's now located. 17

• QWOP creator makes a 16-player real-time rendition of chess

  Event game to make its EU debut in London this Saturday (on a f***ing boat). 12

• Road Redemption meets its Kickstarter goal with two days to go

  But will it make its XBLA and Oculus Rift stretch goals? 17

• Gears of War: Judgment's new Dreadnought map coming next week

  Free via sponsoring deal with Maxim. 11

• Damned looks like a randomised, asymmetrical multiplayer take on Slender

  One player is a ghost and hops between invisible and physical forms. 10

Thursday, 9 May 2013

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  Civilization 5 - Brave New World: Are culture players finally getting the endgame they deserve?

  Art attack. 33

  PC Mac

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  Sony: "Unlike PS3, we are not planning a major loss to be incurred with the launch of PS4"

  No need to Cell Cell Cell. 136

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  Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate: Dat G-Rank - Rockin' the Wroggi set

  Choosing the right threads is paramount in Capcom's savage world. 22

• Ouya launch delayed a few weeks as another $15 million is raised

  Someone's convinced. 91

• The Room rakes in over 2 million sales

  You're tearing the App Store apart! 33

• World of Warcraft subscriptions drop 1.3 million in three months

  Skylanders: Giants is the best-selling game in the west... if you count the figurines. 55

• Saint's Row 4 dev walkthrough shows off six minutes of gameplay

  Dubstep gun, mechs, aliens and super powers. 56

• Total War: Rome 2 release date is Tuesday, 3rd September worldwide

  The £110 Collector's Edition has a replica catapult for god's sake! 30

• Capcom expects Lost Planet 3 and Resi Revelations to sell 1.2 million

  Mentions PS4 game Deep Down too, briefly. 40

• Former THQ frontman Danny Bilson announces ambitious new game-and-film idea

  That's defiance for you. 11

• Level-5's horror adventure curio The Starship Damrey due next week on 3DS eShop

  Priced at £7.19. 15

• John Carpenter wants to make a Dead Space movie

  Halloween and The Thing director also a fan of Dishonored and Assassin's Creed 3. 65

• Jagex hopes to have RuneScape on tablets by the end of the year

  "Would easily be the most ambitious game ever put on tablet, right?" 13

• Shadow Warrior revival by the Hard Reset dev announced

  3D Realms' follow-up to Duke Nukem 3D gets another shot. 30

Wednesday, 8 May 2013

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  Zeno Clash 2 review

  Rocky. 51

  PC 360 PS3

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  First-person open-world survival horror game The Forest looks brilliant

  Inspired by The Descent and Cannibal Holocaust. 59

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  There's an RPG sale on PSN that includes Ni No Kuni for £20

  PS Plus free games in June are ICO & SOTC HD, and Demon's Souls. 92

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  Sony definitively rules out always-online for PS4

  "Did we consider it? No, we didn't consider it." 153

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  Eve Online: Into the second decade

  The future of the future, today. 29

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  EA refuses to licence guns and war paraphernalia in its action games this year

  "A book doesn't pay for saying the word Colt." 172

• Diablo 3 gold duping bug found, fixed, but servers not rolled back

  That would "impact the community in an even greater way". 54

• EA extends FIFA licensing agreement until happily ever after

  Well, 2022, where there be spaceships and lasers. 58

• Wolfenstein: The New Order won't have multiplayer

  Unlike all the other non-mobile Wolfensteins from the last 20 years. 54

• Sony drops its PlayStation Mobile publishing fees

  It used to cost £65 to sign up. 36

• Mike Diva's Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie trailer is perfect

  "It's a far cry from being over... three." 26

• Capcom's annual results are in, "focusing on the overhaul of overseas development companies"

  "Capcom will restructure its development organisations." 36

• Will Wright's next game to be "built around the player's life"

  Sims creator says his heroes are Miyamoto and Molyneux. 28

• New pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle has Double Fine games Costume Quest, Psychonauts, Stacking

  And Brutal Legend and Broken Age if you pay more. 14

• American McGee working on Kickstarters to revive Alice and make and Oz game

  But which will get made? 30

• Spooky survival horror roguelike Darkwood launches its Indiegogo campaign

  Inspired by Project Zomboid, Don't Starve, Teleglitch and Twin Peaks. 9

Tuesday, 7 May 2013

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  Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut review

  I'll be Zach. 55

  PS3

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  Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets fired from Ubisoft

  "I intend to fight Ubisoft vigorously for my rights, for my team and for my game." 120

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  ShopTo refuses to sell upcoming Activision games in row over Call of Duty: Ghosts

  A tale of broken street dates and contracts. 159

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  Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy review

  In space, no one can hear you scheme. 31

  Board Game

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  Splinter Cell: Blacklist preview: The king of multiplayer returns

  Spies vs. Mercs comes back fitter, meaner and quite possibly better than before. 19

  PC 360 PS3

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  Developers can disable PlayStation 4's Share button at certain parts of a game

  No spoiling the ending, you! 93

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  Another hour of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay footage leaks

  Take a Lucas at what might have been. 31

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  Teaser images point to new Wolfenstein game by some of the people behind The Darkness and Chronicles of Riddick

  UPDATE: Bethesda makes it official. Out later this year. 51

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  GAME plans to open 18 new shops by July

  In preparation of success rather than as a declaration of it. 71

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  As Will Wright, creator of the SimCity series, labels the launch of the new SimCity "inexcusable", Maxis details update 3 - but still no offline mode

  "I can understand the outrage." 28

• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon sequel possible, says Michael Biehn

  Voice actor also weighs in on Aliens: Colonial Marines role. 44

• Microsoft cautious on Windows 8 success: "we realise that change takes time"

  100 million licenses sold, 250 million Windows Store downloads. 103

• Sony launches indie game category on PlayStation Store

  Sony's indie initiative continues. 32

• Borderlands 2's Krieg the Psycho DLC due next week

  Don't touch me I'm a real live wire. 26

• Oh the things Oculus Rift can do: Today, Guillotine simulation

  What sever next? 19

• Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix gets UK release date

  Coming 13th September in both regular and special edition flavours. 36

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  Techland's Hellraid looks like Dead Island meets Oblivion - here's your first (brief) look

  Dead Island dev's latest evokes fantasy gaming's '90s heyday. 33

• Free-to-play Xbox 360 RPG Ascend: New Gods re-named

  Behold, Ascend: Hand of Kul. 14

• Valve has been measuring people's sweat while they play games

  Ooze weird now? 30

• Surreal 2D sandbox title Hohokum coming to PS4 and Vita

  Sony Santa Monica's next indie collaboration detailed. 11

• Wii U's Splinter Cell: Blacklist is being developed by Ubisoft Shanghai

  And right now there are no further platforms to announce. 14

• Mile-high robots fight Lovecraft-esque monsters in Pacific Rim: The Video Game

  WWE dev re-imagines Guillermo del Toro's upcoming epic. 12

• UK charts: Dead Island: Riptide remains in top spot

  Vita horror Soul Sacrifice debuts in 26th. 29

• Beyond: Two Souls special edition includes a 30-minute exclusive scene

  Extra playable content available to those who pre-order. 26

• SimCity has sold over 1.6 million units

  Battlefield 3 Premium has over 3.5 million subscribers. 43

• Soul Sacrifice to receive three free DLC packs

  Featuring a total of six new bosses and 24 missions. 17

• The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing release date revealed

  And a new trailer to Stoker your interest. 9

• Add money to the $1.6m Dota 2 International prize pool by buying a "living" virtual book

  Valve to donate 25% of money made through sales of The International Interactive Compendium to players. 11

• Ben There, Dan That dev announces Gun Monkeys

  A procedurally-generated deathmatch game. 4