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Sundays for waking up in Luton. Luton? Really? Yes. Luton is actually nicer than you remember. At least 67% nicer. I mean it. Anyway, Lutons aside, it’s time for some words on videogames and things.

• PopSci on Sniper Elite V2′s gory killcam: “And that’s part of the what makes Sniper Elite V2 so interesting. It is easily the most graphic, violent video game I’ve ever seen, but the violence is relatively realistic, not cartoony. The game has the dubious honor of humanizing Nazis more than any of the scores of WWII-era games, films, and books that came before it: these are not anonymous targets, dispatched from far away with the tug of the R-trigger: once you see testicles exploded, fingers severed, an artery slashed open by the force of your bullet, that you shot, from your own gun, you feel the effects of your actions in a way I didn’t expect. The original idea might well have been to create the most extreme, violent period shooter ever made. Blood! Guts! X-rays! But the effect is the complete opposite. You’re not yanking a cartoon ninja’s spine out of his body with your bare hands, or stabbing a shrieking purple alien with a glowing light-sword. You’re killing people. And that’s a messy business.”

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Wii U branding also added.
A QA tester for Traveller's Tales, the developers of Lego Star Wars, Lego Batman and - if the rumours are true - Lego Lord of the Rings, has leaked an image of a revised version of the Wii U controller.



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Tower defense, man purses, and the mother of all easter egg hunts are the name of the game on this week's show.

 

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"Top Five Skyrim Mods of the Week - May 19" was posted by Shaun McInnis on Sat, 19 May 2012 08:59:51 -0700

Tower defense, man purses, and the mother of all easter egg hunts are the name of the game on this week's show.

 

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"Top Five Skyrim Mods of the Week - May 19" was posted by Shaun McInnis on Sat, 19 May 2012 08:59:51 -0700

This makes sense as a thing to do. With so many gaming Kickstarters running, for games we’re genuinely interested to play, let’s have a look to see where they all are this weekend. The headline news is that Grim Dawn has finished its run, with just shy of double its target reached. Below you can catch up on Moebius, Xenonauts, Tex Murphy, and many more. And you can also note that almost all of them aren’t pledging to Kick It Forward, which completely sucks, so you should get in touch with them all and yell at them.

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This weekend, as every other, I’ve had a poke around the internet to find you the best deals on PC game downloads. Read on to investigate my findings. There’s all sorts of things on sale right now, including some of my absolute all time favourite games. For notification of gaming bargains across all platforms throughout the week, hit up SavyGamer.co.uk. (more…)

Remember when we had to wait, really wait, for a new game in a beloved series to come out? I barely do. These days, while we're happy (and, if you ask me, correct) to moan at the annual overexposure that progressively washes the fun out of hits like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty, we also start looking pointedly at our watches when three years pass between BioShock games. It's become routine to assume that we'll get through three episodes of an Uncharted or a Gears of War in one hardware generation.

We're being spoiled, frankly, and so are the games. So it's been fun, this week, to reacquaint ourselves with a few older friends. But also a little troubling.

The youngest of the three is contract killer Agent 47, who makes a pre-emptive return after six years away in a micro-game called Hitman: Sniper Challenge. It's being doled out free with pre-orders for Hitman Absolution - but since you can cancel your pre-order at no cost and keep the game, it's more like a particularly imaginative demo that twists a single assassination mission into a toothsome and addictive score-attack game.

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I think I’ll annoy some Arma fans when I say that Day Z is a better showcase for that tech than the original game’s campaign or multiplayer missions. But I have my reasons, and I’ll explain some of them below. I’ll also continue the story which we began the other day, which will serve to illustrate a bit more about why both Arma 2 and this modification are something singular and brilliant in the landscape of gaming.

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Game director discusses tackling the issues of MMO development.
MMO gaming comes with its fair share of technical hurdles, but the developers of the recently-announced Elder Scrolls Online MMO have a vision for a modern MMO that tackles them.

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And destructible 'physics objects' to enhance strategy.
Worms Revolution is taking its title very literally. It looks familiar but is bringing new and more sophisticated physics to the game, and Team17 has released new info and screens to demonstrate.



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Some the biggest retro titles in Sega history on their way.
If you want more classic Sega games, you're certainly going to get them.



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Coincidence or not, it was a warning to console makers of things to come. While the old games industry gathered in LA for its annual E3 pissing contest, a loud message was sounding 350 miles to the north.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, which just happened to overlap with the biggest week in the games industry's calendar, also just happened to feature a games-heavy keynote.

Nine months earlier, Steve Jobs had unleashed both barrels against handheld rivals, declaring iPod Touch, with a sneaky fudge, "the number one portable games player in the world", boasting that it "outsells Nintendo and Sony handhelds combined".

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All of the evening's US gaming headlines in one place...
Everyone's favourite fictional Sony VP Kevin Butler is usually a man of harsh words, but he might finally let his fists do the talking in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

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We return from the depths of Hell long enough to bestow some Diablo III wisdom in 140 characters or less.

 

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"10 Tweetable Tips for Diablo III" was posted by Staff on Fri, 18 May 2012 18:13:13 -0700

We return from the depths of Hell long enough to bestow some Diablo III wisdom in 140 characters or less.

 

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"Ten Tweetable Tips for Diablo III" was posted by Staff on Fri, 18 May 2012 18:13:13 -0700

We return from the depths of Hell long enough to bestow some Diablo III wisdom in 140 characters or less.

 

Get the full article at GameSpot

"Ten Tweetable Tips for Diablo III" was posted by Staff on Fri, 18 May 2012 18:13:13 -0700

Some new monsters as well monsters you already love to hate are introduced in this video for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.

 

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"The Monsters - Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Video" was posted by MikeTao on Fri, 18 May 2012 16:57:10 -0700

Some new monsters as well monsters you already love to hate are introduced in this video for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.

 

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"The Monsters - Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Video" was posted by MikeTao on Fri, 18 May 2012 16:57:10 -0700

Some new monsters as well monsters you already love to hate are introduced in this video for Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock.

 

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"The Monsters - Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock Video" was posted by MikeTao on Fri, 18 May 2012 16:57:10 -0700

Our weekly video game news discussion show with John Davison, Brendan Sinclair and Tom Mc Shea. Topics: Diablo's rocky launch, Activision spies, and can Itagaki still deliver? Find out this week's on Quoted for Truth.

 

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"Quoted for Truth: Episode 2" was posted by Homer on Fri, 18 May 2012 16:36:55 -0700