Black Ops 3 - A terrifying vision of the future

If real life imitates art, we’re doomed. This teaser video for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 video game paints a very plausible vision of the future, so much so that watching it totally feels like channel surfing while fast forwarding through time. The concept and video was created by 72 & Sunny, with post-production help from design studio Elastic
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Hands Omni haptic glove lets gamers feel virtual objects

A team of engineering students at Rice University is developing a haptic glove that allows gamers to touch and grip virtual objects as though they are real.
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Just Cause 3 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer

Wingsuit, Grapple Hook, Massive Explosions: The first Just Cause 3 Gameplay trailer takes you straight into the intense action. Watch Rico Rodriguez cause chaos to the regime of the ruthless dictator General Di Ravello, and stopping at nothing to liberate Medici, his home.
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Removing Payment Feature From Skyrim Workshop

We're going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop. For anyone who spent money on a mod, we'll be refunding you the complete amount. We talked to the team at Bethesda and they agree.
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Video Games on ESPN? It's Time to Stop Pretending eSports Are 'Real' Sports.

Yesterday, ESPN 2 aired a live broadcast of a video game. A bunch of people on the Internet did not like what they saw. That alone is not news. A similar thing happened last year when the channel promoted the championship of a different video game, DOTA 2, which — like the game that was broadcast this weekend, Heroes of the Storm — is near-unwatchable unless you’ve played it, or games like it. For most channel-surfing viewers, it’s an easy invitation to yell, “Nerds!” and then keep clicking.
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Batman Arkham Knight - "All Who Follow You" - Official Trailer [HD]

Who will Batman turn to when he’s up against Scarecrow's army?
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Sorry grandma! That $42 million slot machine jackpot was a computer glitch

"The reels have rolled your way! Bonus Award - $41797550.16." That's what the Miss Kitty penny slot machine told 87-year-old Illinois grandmother Pauline McKee who was in Iowa during a family reunion in 2011. McKee and daughter thought they hit the big time—a $41.8 million payday. The two quickly demanded the mega payout from the Isle Hotel Casino in Waterloo.
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Telltale is making some kind of Marvel game

Telltale Games has already applied its patently successful—if a bit touchy—modernized adventure game style to The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Fables, and (soon) Minecraft. For one of its next projects, it’ll be following in the footsteps of literally everything else in the world right now
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Valve now enables mod makers to sell their creations on Steam

Valve has implemented a major change to the Steam Workshop that gives modders the option to sell their creations directly to gamers in an open, unregulated market. "We think this is a great opportunity to help support the incredible creative work being done by mod makers in the Steam Workshop," said Valve's Tom Bui in a statement.
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How Every Awful Video Game Thing Was Born

A Dorkly original.
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BBC’s Grand Theft Auto TV show to star Bill Paxton and Daniel Radcliffe

Hollywood actor Bill Paxton, who has played leading roles in blockbuster films such as Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, is to star alongside Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe in an upcoming factual BBC drama about the development of controversial video game series Grand Theft Auto. Black Mirror and Misfits director Owen Harris is set to direct.
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Windows 10 just revived everyone's favorite PC game

Hours of fun ... alone.
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Official Mad Max gameplay overview trailer

Enter The Wasteland, and get your first extended look at the car customization, metal grinding vehicular combat, brutal melee combat, and much more that awaits you in Mad Max, available September 1, 2015 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
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Introducing the Alan Wake 2 you will never play

Alan Wake 2: For a passionate, perhaps not big enough, fanbase, just hearing the name of that title can't help but kickstart a jolt of excitement. In 2010, the original Alan Wake, published by Microsoft, hit the Xbox 360. It showed that episodic gaming could be compelling when released as a package, that narrative was important in games, and that violence and gore aren't the only way to scare in an interactive experience.
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Game Changer: Daniel Radcliffe stars in Grand Theft Auto show

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe is to star in a new drama about hit computer game Grand Theft Auto.
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GameStop to Start Buying, Selling Retro Consoles and Games

Retailer to launch pilot program where it will buy old consoles like the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and more in select markets.

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Blood on the living-room table: why I still love the Game of Thrones board game

Everyone’s favourite fantasy drama is back on screen – but there’s even more backstabbing, plotting and fantasy to be had with the game first released in 2003.

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Chess grandmaster cheats ... from the bathroom

Sometimes the best ideas come from the bathroom. But Gaioz Nigalidze's ideas from the loo were a little too good. The Georgian chess grandmaster has been banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after officials discovered he was darting to the toilet to consult his smartphone, which was logged onto a chess analysis app, the Dubai Chess and Culture Club said. Nigalidze's opponent, Tigran Petrosian of Armenia, grew suspicious when Nigalidze kept bolting to the restroom.

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Good Game: Why eSports Is The Next Major League Sport

The debate about the validity of eSports as sports misses the point. Like it or not, eSports have millions of passionate viewers and their momentum can no longer be ignored. Given its unique economics, a network looking to build a sports empire need look no further.

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Half-Life: More Interesting Than Entertaining

Half-Life remains an incredibly prolific title in both storytelling and pacing, and few would deny its influence on gaming today. But does it stand the test of time—and not just in a retro fashion? Shehzaan Abdulla takes on the classic tale to see if there is still something worth experiencing firsthand.

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Mark Pincus, Zynga’s Founder, Returns as C.E.O.

When Mark Pincus hired a new executive to run Zynga, the online game company he founded, he wrote on Twitter, calling the executive, Don Mattrick, an “Internet treasure.” Now, less than two years later, Zynga’s Internet treasure has left the company, and Mr. Pincus has returned as chief executive. The departure of Mr. Mattrick was not altogether surprising to many in the industry, since a long-running turnaround plan that he set in motion at Zynga had yet to take flight.

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The Full History Of Board Games

Within the past few years board games have gone through an explosion of growth. In 2012 The Guardian went as far as dubbing it “A Golden Age for Board Games”, stating board games have seen a growth rate as high as 40% year over year. That’s higher than Google, which sees about 20% growth year over year. The budding interest has also inspired Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day to start a popular Youtube series, called Table Top.

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Elite: Dangerous Launches Mac Beta - VRFocus

VRFocus reports on the launch of the Mac Beta for virtual reality (VR) compatible space simulation videogame, Elite: Dangerous.

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The Witcher 3 developer: 'Don't buy' the expansions for our unreleased game 'if you have any doubts'

Games are expensive to make, and the people paying those bills aren’t afraid to squeeze excited gamers for a few extra bucks. That’s what is happening with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, a mammoth role-playing game that launches May 19 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Developer CD Projekt Red just announced that it’s working on two expansions for the game that will offer around 30 extra hours of content. You can, of course, wait until they launch before you buy the add-ons.

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Agent 47

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Now this is a game! Pacapong by LingPenguin

Pacman + Pong + Space Invaders!

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Review: Elite: Dangerous is the best damn spaceship game I’ve ever played

But it’s also an incomplete game, caught in transition, with a lot of problems.

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Meeting Mario: An insider's perspective on working at Nintendo

A Quora user and former Nintendo employee gives insight into his experience.

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The Evolutionary history of video games: Impact on America

An industry that has grossed roughly $20 billion on a yearly basis for almost the entirety of the last decade[1], but for as far as the video game industry has come over its sixty year long lifespan the impact it has on Western culture is still growing rapidly today. After having to hurdle obstacles and other impediments, the progression video games, and the value of the medium as an art, has begun a steady incline after the leveling of a helter-skelter history where...

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GTAV PC Trailer

Gorgeous, hope it isn't delayed again...

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Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell becomes a video game character

We thought that Valve Software would be the first to turn the company's beloved co-founder Gabe Newell into a playable video game character, but that honor has instead been snatched by the Australian design team behind co-op dungeon battler Crawl. As reported at Eurogamer, designer Barney Cumming took to the game's development blog on Thursday to post a brief yet tantalizing GIF of his latest in-game creation, and it appeared to portray Newell as a playable "boss" in the game.

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OnLive shuts down streaming games service, sells patents to Sony

The industry's first experiment in server-streamed gaming comes to an end.

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The making of the biggest Skyrim mod ever

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'Dungeons and Drafts' bar will be a geek's boozy paradise

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Poor behavior linked to time spent playing video games, not the games played

Children who play video games for more than three hours a day are more likely to be hyperactive, get involved in fights and not be interested in school, says a new study. It examined the effects of different types of games and time spent playing on children's social and academic behavior.

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Steam Box

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