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State of Play 2013: Xbox One-eighty, Adam Orth and online tyranny

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DayZ’s alpha is a brutal survivalist’s paradise, if you can look past the bugs

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State of Play 2013: The return of virtual reality

State Of Play 2013: Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail on the indie scene, new consoles, diversity and more

Rami Ismail at 12:00pm December 25 2013

For me personally, this was a year spent mostly on the indie scene itself, rather than Vlambeer. After focusing all of my emotional energy into Ridiculous Fishing for so long, I decided to channel the newfound freedom that release brought into helping emerging territories establish themselves. I traveled to universities around the world to speak…

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State of Play 2013: Sony and Microsoft do battle in a console war for the ages

Neil Long at 01:13pm December 24 2013

Has there ever been a more dramatic twelve months in the games business? Yes, we’ve watched as microtransactions invaded console games, Nintendo’s problems mounted, VR returned, alt consoles emerged to challenge the status quo and online communities became ever more powerful, but it is the battle between Sony and Microsoft that was the most thrilling…

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State of Play 2013: Ouya falls flat, so where next for alt consoles? Valve could have the answer

Richard Wordsworth at 02:00pm December 23 2013

Only a cynic could look at something like Ouya and not be impressed by its pluck. There it was, lacing up its tiny gloves and boots and throwing itself into the ring just as Sony and Microsoft’s heavyweight prizefighters were about to start knocking bells out of each other. The Ouya was the little console…

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Republique, Episode 1: Exordium review

Edge Staff at 12:08pm December 23 2013

“Where are the triple-A games designed specifically for touch-based devices?” asks Republique’s Kickstarter campaign. Exordium is the first part of an attempt by developer Camouflaj – a team of industry veterans who’ve worked on the likes of Halo, Metal Gear Solid and FEAR – to answer that question. It’s successful in the sense that here…

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State of Play 2013: microtransactions invade the mainstream, whether players like it or not

Richard Wordsworth at 10:45am December 23 2013

When game historians of the far future look back on 2013, they will recall the grand reveals of the then-cutting edge next-gen consoles, now used exclusively as doorstops, conversation pieces in neo-hipster living rooms or as paperweights (if future historians use paper, which they won’t). They’ll read about the repeated 180-degree turns by Microsoft over…

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Get Into Games: lifting the fog on game technology

Lee Hall at 01:00pm December 22 2013

In the bowels of the University of Sunderland’s Media Centre, tucked behind banks of screens and empty boxes of kit, sits Mike Pinchin, senior lecturer in video and new media. He’s a man with a passion – scratch that – an obsession with new tech and the power of games to enhance learning and reconnect…

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State of Play 2013: Xbox One-eighty, Adam Orth and online tyranny

Rob Crossley at 05:00pm December 20 2013

Not so long ago, arguing with someone online was as good a use of one’s time as phoning up a random stranger and shouting at them. Unfortunately, that’s not quite true anymore. The web may sometimes be an obnoxious voice-colony overrun by ear-piercing extremists, life-sucking idiots and attention seeking opinionheads, but it nevertheless carries a…

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Money for more rope: ZeptoLab’s Misha Lyalin on Cut the Rope’s success and mobile gaming’s future

Richard Wordsworth at 04:00pm December 20 2013

When Cut the Rope first launched back in 2010, the mobile gaming stars aligned. While Angry Birds was already ruling the roost on the iPhone, by the end of 2010 early adopters of Apple’s first iPad were looking for apps that could show off their device’s as-yet unproven capabilities. With its easy finger-swiping gameplay, increasingly…

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DayZ’s alpha is a brutal survivalist’s paradise, if you can look past the bugs

Andy Kelly at 12:00pm December 20 2013

Just seconds into the current build of DayZ it’s clear we’re playing an alpha. When you launch the game a message flashes up warning you of its incomplete state and the ‘I understand’ button is buggy, obscuring the line explaining that the game is unfinished. But comical corruptions aside – and there are a lot…

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Doki-Doki Universe review

Edge Staff at 10:00am December 20 2013

Poor QT3. Our robot protagonist was deposited on a planet by his human employers, and he’s been waiting there for 32 years. One day Jeff, a three-eyed alien, turns up and advises QT3 that he and his kind are to be discontinued, because these days robots are a little more human. So unless QT3 can…

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