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GT Academy 2015 Begins at Midnight Tonight

Gran Turismo fans, start your engines and get ready for the fifth season of GT Academy! The 2015 competition officially starts April 21st and will be open to all entrants* through June 16th. Beginning at midnight tonight, the next gamer-to-professional-racer prospect can enter the GT Academy qualifying rounds accessible via a special Gran Turismo 6…

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MechWarrior 5’s beefy story expansion is out, and it has the most videogame title I’ve ever had the pleasure to read

I love a clunky-ass videogame title. Some may argue that videogame names should be kept simple and punchy, like Doom or Quake or BioShock. I would counter that your videogame isn’t truly a videogame unless the name has at least two punctuation marks in it. I’m talking Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines, or my personal favourite, The…

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To celebrate Silent Hill: Townfall’s release I ranked all my coworkers based on whether I think they could actually survive the horrors of St Amelia

I’ve played enough horror games at this point to wonder whether I’d be any good at actually surviving one. While some games are simply out of the question after finishing Silent Hill: Townfall recently I came to the conclusion that yes, given the right circumstances I’d probably make it to the end. But what about…

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Suda51 says his new game isn’t a No More Heroes sequel because series star Travis Touchdown needed a break: ‘I could write Travis all day, but dude is exhausted’

Romeo Is a Dead Man, which launches this week, is a dizzying mismash of styles: 3D graphics, 2D animation, comic book cutscenes, 8- and 16-bit minigames, and more, intentionally jarring as it swaps from one to the next. Romeo’s hack-and-slash action is a lot more familiar. It’s similar enough to producer Suda51’s No More Heroes…

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Only in Arc Raiders could you find players kind enough to reverse extraction camp: ‘Any violence brought to my extraction point will be met with severe force’

Nothing feels worse than dying right by the extraction in Arc Raiders. A hair’s breadth away from getting home to Speranza with all your good loot, just to die in some ditch, taken out by a loser who sat next to the exit all game. But sadly, extraction camping is part and parcel of extraction…

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