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    The Vanquish PC Port is Real and Releasing Later this Month

    The people complaining about the length didn't understand the game - like people complaining about Bulletstorm. Yes you can play through it once in 4-6 hours, but it's not a standard FPS. It's all about perfecting your kickass moves till you're a killing machine racking up combos like mad...
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    Nintendo Exec: Two Reasons Why Switch Won't Fail Like Wii U

    3) You launched the Wii U unfinished - anyone who bought the thing early had to put up with astoundingly slow menus and gigantic updates that sometimes took days to download - and might fail anyhow because you shipped it with a pathetic 8GB of storage because you're such cheapasses. Switch has...
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    Starbound's 1.2 "Vault" Update Adds a Bunch of New Content

    Unless you're excited about the planet bosses in Terraria (I always found them to be a nuisance getting in the way of my mining and building), Starbound has much more to do, the combat is better, some of the bosses are pretty creative, and it's under active development. I've been in with...
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    Konami Announces Metal Gear Survive

    Soooo, it's Metal Gear without anyone we know, and now it's Resident Evil when zombies were overdone at least three years ago. Wheeee?
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    8 Classic Webcomics You Should be Reading

    I've still got Penny Arcade on my RSS just because it's cheap to do so, but they're tired old men doing tired old man comics now, especially once they had kids (the kiss of death for creativity) and have even said so. They shouldn't be on anyone's Must list except for nostalgia. It's far...
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    Why I'm Cynical About System Shock 3

    It's always good to be cynical about it, because chances are it'll disappoint. That's just the odds. Then if it turns out to be a pleasant surprise like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, well, it'll be a pleasant surprise!
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    Concussion - Watching NFL? Remember, Football Causes Brain Damage!

    About all you can ask for with these indignant biopics is that they don't cram in a complete lie of a happy ending like Erin Brockovich did. It's not going to make them any better to watch but a least they don't poison their didactism by actually deceiving. The truth is bad enough.
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    8 Games Worth Playing on Your Wii U

    Xenoblade Chronicles X. This is the most epic game on the system, and even looks better than most stuff on PS4. It's a gorgeous, absurdly large single player MMO.
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    Why Is Every AAA Game Hero Suddenly Your Dad?

    Isn't it just the medium growing up (literally if you include the devs and players). You can go ask the way back to the early 90s explosion of RAD XTR3M3 TUDE YO and call those the terrible preteens and it all falls out from there. That's a bit awkward for 20 years from now though.
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    Konami is Hiring For a "New Metal Gear"

    Must have some lucrative ideas how to turn MGS into mobile F2P garbage. Though MGS Online is off to a good start already.
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    8 of the Most Disappointing Games from 2015

    Dornedas is correct. Afro Samurai 2 had also been recalled. With full refund for anyone who bought it. Which is a much better response than WB cynically re-releasing Arkham Knight as a 'new' release on Steam three (?) times now with a still broken game.
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    8 Things You Might Not Know You Can Do in Fallout 4

    You can scrap weapons right out of your inventory as well. Just check the buttons, one of them does it. BUT FIRST before you scrap anything but a generic '10mm Pistol', remove all the mods from it at a weapons crafting bench! You can get tons of stuff that's really expensive to make this way...
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    AAA Games Have Stopped Innovating

    They realized people don't actually want innovation. Oh they say they do, but they'll still preferentially buy the same old shit with a higher number and more explosions. It's just too risky to innovate in AAA given the budgets. That's why I play mostly indie games, where they can and do, then...
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    The Peanuts Movie - It's a Swing and a Miss, Charlie Brown

    There was zero chance this complete whoredom of Peanuts (now that Sparky is safely dead) would be any good. Yeah, it'll be completely bland and inoffensive and marketable and saccharine sweet, so people with kids will go see it for the same reasons they went to see terrible movies like...
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    8 Disappointing Videogame Endings

    No coincidence that most of these endings suck because they're just setups for sequels and DLC. You can leave it open for those and still do a fantastic job wrapping up the current game in a satisfactory way(Mass Effect 2), so there's just no excuse here. If you you're not going to let the...