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Your First 30 Minutes in No Man’s Sky (PS4)

August 24, 2016

As an avid sci-fi nerd and space enthusiast, it’s easy to see a game like No Man’s Sky and get tremendously excited. There aren’t too many games out there that allow free exploration of the cosmos – well, not recently, since I feel as though the 80’s and 90’s had many DOS games that filled the void rather well. No Man’s Sky is one of those game-changer type games, and while some may say it did not live up to the expectations (one guy wanted a refund ...

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Vans x Nintendo Gamer Sneakers

August 20, 2016

Too cool to pass up, Vans had released a Nintendo branded sneaker that talks directly to people that grew up to retro video games. The Vans and Nintendo collaboration features an extensive collection of footwear, apparel and accessories celebrating the early days of video games. Loaded with unique graphic prints that include throwback characters from Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Donkey Kong and Legend of Zelda, the super fun and poppy colours, mixed with a healthy dose of nostalgia, is ...

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Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End PS4 Single Player Story Review

May 27, 2016

I had the pleasure of playing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End for a few weeks now, and damn – it’s one exceptional experience. As a casual player of the previous three installments of the Uncharted series, A Thief’s End ups the ante with new features that elevate the power of PS4. As my last review on the Uncharted trilogy stated: the previous upgrades look good on paper, but don’t actually make full use out of the PS4’s mechanics and its potential wow-factor. ...

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Fallout 4’s second add-on changes up settlement life next week

April 5, 2016

Prepare to enter the Wasteland Workshop The next expansion for Fallout 4, "Wasteland Workshop," launches on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One April 12. Bethesda Game Studios debuted the add-on’s first trailer, viewable above, alongside the release date announcement. As previously detailed, "Wasteland Workshop" will cost $4.99; it’s also part of the larger Season Pass, which is now available for $49.99. The second of three planned content additions to ...

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Perception is a sound-based game of hide-and-seek

March 26, 2016

The stakes are a little higher than your average schoolyard game In Perception, sound is both your lifeline and your downfall. Perception is a Kickstarter-funded, first-person horror game from The Deep End Games, a studio made up of developers who worked on BioShock and Dead Space. The game follows a blind woman named Cassie as she explores a house with a confusing relationship to time and space; throughout the game’s story, Cassie will find herself in different time periods and ...

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Mysterious and beautiful indie game Below is coming out this summer

March 17, 2016

Below, a stunning-looking indie title from Toronto-based studio Capybara Games, is set to release on Xbox One and PC this summer. Capybara has said in the past the game would make its way out some time in 2016, but today announced the more narrowed release window at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Not much is known about Below save what it looks like on the surface. Capybara has made a name for itself constructing indie mega-hits like Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ...

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PlayStation VR Launches October 2016 At $549.99 CAD

March 15, 2016

More than 230 Developers and Publishers on Board And Over 160 Diverse Titles in Development for PS VR Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that PlayStation®VR (PS VR), a virtual reality system that takes the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) system to the next level of immersion, will launch from October 2016 in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia, at manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $549.99 CAD, 44,980 yen, $399 USD, €399 and £349*1. “Ever since we unveiled PS ...

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Virtual reality’s future is being charted this week in San Francisco

March 14, 2016

The Game Developers Conference doesn’t have the marketing of flashy video game conferences like E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show, but it’s no less important. For 27 years, the event has been a place for people and the games industry and the press to meet, mingle, and learn from one another. As it’s grown, GDC has also become a popular place for large game creators to show the cutting edge and avant garde creations of the medium. This year, the event is practically buried beneath the ...

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The new Hitman game turns assassination into art

March 11, 2016

About a quarter of a million people are injured in US bathrooms every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but as I’m drowning a man in an ornate Parisian toilet I’m thinking I might have a tough time playing this off as an accident. Even trickier to explain will be how the fully grown man managed not only to trip and fall face-first into the bowl, but —” after his watery and unhygienic death —€” how he was also able to extract his own head from his ...

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The Division breaks multiple Ubisoft sales records in its first 24 hours

March 9, 2016

A big day for The Division The debut of Tom Clancy’s The Division yesterday was a record-breaking launch for publisher Ubisoft, with the game selling impressively across retail stores and digital marketplaces, the company announced today. Ubisoft did not provide any sales numbers except to refer in a press release to "millions of players’ enduring engagement in The Division‘s game world," which suggests that the publisher sold more than 1 million copies of the ...