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Russian Government To Fund "Patriotic" Video Games
The Russian government plans to oversee the production of several "patriotic" video games, the first of which will release in 2014, according to the Russian cultural ministry. Arseny Mironov, aide to Russia's cultural minister Vladimir...
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Square Enix Announces Crowdfunding System
Square Enix, the company behind the Final Fantasy series, has just announced a new crowdfunding platform called Collective. The system comes courtesy of a newly found partnership between Indiegogo and the video game publishing company. The...
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Foxconn Reportedly Forcing Students to Assemble PS4's
According to a report out of China, Foxconn, the Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company, is forcing interns from the Xi’an Institute of Technology to assemble PlayStation 4's. Students were reportedly told that...
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It's Suing Season Folks
THQ might be a shell of its former publishing glory, but the corporation still exists. Its sole purpose is to see its remaining assets divested and as many creditors repaid as possible through the remainder of the bankruptcy. That entity has...
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StarCraft Champ “BoxeR” Retires as Coach
Lim Yo-Hwan, more commonly known for his pseudonym "BoxeR," is allegedly leaving e-Sports. One of the highest-paid competitive gamers to date, Lim Yo Hwan is officially stepping down as the coach of perennial runner-up SK Telecom T1. Many...
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To The Stars!
And to think, people said space combat simulations were dead. Wing Commander creator, Chris Roberts, continues to defy expectations with his return to the genre with Star Citizen. The money keeps pouring in for this crowd-funded project, which...
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Telltale's New Game "The Wolf Among Us" Comes Out October 11
While we've known for a while that Telltale has been working on a new series in the same vein as their critically acclaimed Walking Dead games, there's been no mention of a release date. That changed today as apparently The Wolf Among Us,...
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Beyond: Two Souls - textbook example why you shouldn't judge a game by its score
If you're like me, you scroll to the bottom of the page to view the score before ever reading a word explaining why that score was given. In the past, you may have been able to justify this, but with the complexity of games today you're doing...
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