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Aliens: Colonial Marines on February 12th, 2013
Gearboxity has word that Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines now has a release date: February 12, 2013. There are few companies I'd feel comfortable having the Aliens license for a first person shooter, but Gearbox is most definitely one of them in my mind.
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Games On Sale This Weekend
Nearly every digital distributor is putting games on deep discount this weekend. Shacknews has a solid rundown of all the deals, many of which activate on Steam even if they aren't sold directly on it.
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Hate Diablo 3? Try Torchlight 2 This Weekend
Hell, even if you don't hate Diablo 3, you might give this game a shot while it's playable. This post on the official Torchlight 2 site has word that many beta codes will be going out for a beta running this weekend, so make an account and see if you get in. The biggest three features that TL2 is offering over D3 is the $20 price tag, offline single player and LAN play, and support for modding. If you're interested, then get in there!
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1 Million Copies of Minecraft 360
This has got to be the fastest-selling XBLA game ever: Mojang has announced that a million copies of Minecraft on Xbox 360 have been sold, for a cool twenty bucks each. You can read our review in which I praise the game but have issues with multiplayer and the year-old build of the PC version that was ported over, but either way, it's an amazing game that catches people's imaginations no matter what system they're playing on.
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Tomb Raider Delayed to 2013
The Tomb Raider reboot by the original game's team has been unfortunately delayed into 2013, Square Enix announced today. Usually, I'm all for games getting delayed if it means we get a better end result, but this is adding up to a LOT of games that are missing the holiday season this year.
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Sony Stock Price at 31-Year Low
It's hard to imagine that one of the major players in the video game industry could eventually go belly-up, but today's news of Sony stock hitting a 31-year low sure makes that seem like a possibility, doesn't it? Of course, Sony is currently spending boatloads of money on making a successor to the PS3, but it turns out that they're hemorrhaging most of their money in the consumer electronics business, where we've heard of Sony engineers refusing to share information with each other due to stiff competition (yes, inside the company) and so many products coming out with too-high prices and lackluster performance. The company has already pledged to turn it around by cutting a big chunk of its electronics-making workforce and dumping a lot of its bad products, but that's no guarantee Sony will still be afloat in five years. Or three, for that matter.
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Browse the Web on the 360... Finally
Hey, only six years too late! The Verge has word that Microsoft is finally bringing a web browser to the 360, with Kinect controls and a supposedly full Internet Explorer experience. I still doubt that full experience will include Adobe Flash support, but I'd be happy to be wrong.
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Want Midnight Club 2 PC for Free?
Rockstar is giving away copies of the surprisingly fun racing game Midnight Club 2 (which, admittedly, is over nine years old now) to those who join Rockstar's Steam community group. The rules are that you have to have bought *something* on the account at some point, and if you already own the game, you don't get another. In fact, you can't gift the game at all.
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Dishonored Set for October 9th
Bethesda has announced that Arkane Studios' cyber-Victorian, first person action-RPG Dishonored is set for release in North America on October 9th, with the Euro release following that Friday. A lot of people are skeptical about this game, not realizing that Harvey Smith, one of the fathers of the first person action-RPG (games like System Shock and Deus Ex), is leading this team. Having seen a live demo of the game at last year's QuakeCon, I can tell you that this game is very promising, and that we'll almost certainly have coverage on this game when it shows up at E3 early next month.
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Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Next Week
If you played a bit of Guild Wars 2 during the recent beta weekend for pre-purchasers and want more, well you'll get it, if only a little bit. ArenaNet has announced that servers will be up on Monday the 14th from 11AM to 6PM PDT. Yep, just seven hours, so give it a go if you just couldn't get enough. If you still have the client installed, it should patch to the latest build of the game, but if not, instructions are in the post for reinstalling.
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BioShock Infinite Delayed to February 2013
Irrational Games has announced a new release date for BioShock Infinite, which unfortunately includes a six-month delay. It's now set for release on February 26th, 2013. I'm sure you've seen the quote from Shigeru Miyamoto floating around: "A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time." I'm confident that the game will be worth the wait.
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Company of Heroes 2 Officially Announced
THQ has now officially announced Company of Heroes 2. It was revealed last week after a magazine cover scan got out early. As we mentioned last week, it's set on the Eastern European front of World War II, it'll be made by CoH veterans Relic Entertainment of course, it's a PC exclusive, and it's set for release in early 2013.
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Company of Heroes 2 Exists!
This thread on NeoGAF has confirmation from the cover of the next issue of PC Gamer UK that Company of Heroes 2 is in development at Relic and is set for a 2013 release. The game's campaign will take place on the eastern European front of World War II, and the effects of snow (slowing movement, providing concealment) will play a part in this real-time strategy sequel.
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Bethesda is Finally Bringing The Elder Scrolls Online
Zenimax Online Studios, a sister company of Bethesda Game Studios, has announced that they're working on The Elder Scrolls Online. The project is directed by Matt Firor, the lead on Dark Age of Camelot, the successful and exciting MMO from yesteryear before EA bought them and turned them into... whatever they currently are now. The only issue is that this is yet another single player-focused company trying to build an MMO, and these first efforts don't often go well - even in the direction hands of talented, experienced, and capable developers like Firor. Let's hope that the team he built can buck the trend.
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Consoles, Contract-Style
Would you buy a game console in the way cell phones in the US are now sold? You will have that exact opportunity soon, as The Verge has word that Microsoft is planning on launching a program next week to sell an Xbox 360 with Kinect sensor for $99. What's the catch? A two-year contract, of course! The subscription will be $15 a month for the full two years, and Xbox Live Gold will come with the subscription, possibly alongside some kind of extra premium TV service delivered directly over Xbox Live. That totals out to $460, whereas the normal retail Kinect bundle ($299) plus two years of Live ($50-60 per year) would cost a little bit less overall.
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Call of Duty: Horse Ops Trailer
Yep, the expected shooter sequel from Activision and Treyarch, Call of Duty: Horse Ops, now has a trailer. Just watch the trailer to see what I mean.
Screw your snowmobile ravine jumps. We now have horses. Oh, and unmanned aerial drones and futuristic stuff, too.
Edit: Dan Amrich, Activision's own ex-journalist and still sometimes current-journalist has put together an article (at least, it certainly reads like one of his old previews) with plenty of new info on Horse Ops.
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Skyrim Kinect Voice Support Live on 360
Bethesda has announced that their update for Skyrim on 360 to include Kinect voice integration has gone live. It includes the ability to use your voice to shout out specific dragon shouts (all three varieties of each), give followers commands, or even quick save.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Confirmed
This picture of some pre-order cards from Target confirms that yes, the next Call of Duty will be Black Ops 2. It's not a big surprise, considering that this year's developer is Treyarch, and the first Call of Duty: Black Ops, released in 2010, was by far Treyarch's most successful game in the franchise yet. Following it up was a complete no-brainer. (Activision hasn't actually confirmed that this game exists, but we don't really need them to in this case.)
Oh, and the release date is confirmed for November 13th, one week after Halo 4.
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Guild Wars 2 Videos!
Along with our very long preview earlier in the week, we also managed to capture some footage from ArenaNet's MMORPG Guild Wars 2 at the studio with Fraps. The computers weren't incredibly fast and there were a few technical issues leading to the recorded footage not being amazingly smooth or high-res, but it's certainly passable. The two good chunks of footage I got are the Charr newbie experience, embedded just below, and about 45 minutes of the World PvP mode, split into two parts. Enjoy!
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Portal 2's New Level Creation DLC on May 8th
Valve has announced that their new DLC for Portal 2, Perpetual Testing Initiative, goes live on May 8th. It includes a fully in-game level editor, and finished levels can be put up on the Steam Workshop (just like Skyrim mods) and subscribed to and synced over Steam. No word on whether it has any actual content of its own, but who cares? Hundreds of levels will likely become available in the month following anyway, and the Steam Workshop's rating system means you have the choice to only pick the best ones if you want.
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