Twitch Bans 'Adults Only' Game Streaming Days Before 'Hatred' Release

Twitch has clarified their stance on the streaming of “adult” themed games, days before a hugely controversial title is about to be released. Previously, Twitch has gone through on a case by case basis to ban overly “mature” games from being streamed, but now ahead of the launch of Hatred, they’ve updated [...]
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Fifa 16 to add women's teams for the first time

In what is likely to be the only piece of positive PR that the world football governing body will receive this week, publisher Electronic Arts has announced it will be introducing female footballers into its Fifa video game series, beginning with the forthcoming Fifa 16 edition. The game features 12 international all-female teams, 11 of whom will appear at next month’s World Cup finals, including hosts Canada as well as England, Brazil, Germany and Spain.
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Perception Trailer

Announcement trailer for The Deep End Games' upcoming title. Check us out at http://kck.st/1ArmLCu
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How Sega brought the Mega Drive into the mainstream

In an extract from Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Keith Stuart documents the bombastic arrival of Sega's console in the US market, and the beginnings of Sonic the Hedgehog.
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The Galaxy-Sized Video Game

No Man’s Sky lets virtual travellers explore eighteen quintillion unique planets.
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Mad Max Story Trailer (PS4/Xbox One/PC)

Mad Max Story Trailer (PS4/Xbox One/PC).
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China cracks down on cleavage at cosplay convention

Organizers of Asia's largest digital entertainment expo -- where scantily clad models usually dress up as characters from comic books, movies and video games -- say they will levy a fine of $800 on women who reveal "more than two centimeters of cleavage." Men are not exempt from the crackdown on exposed flesh. They will face the same penalty if they wear low-hanging pants or expose their underwear. If models are caught dancing in cages or around a pole they will be...
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Why Early-'80s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials

Anyone born in the late '70s or early '80s probably has memories of huddling around a bulky desktop with five (or more) friends to play Oregon Trail.
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We Stepped Into The Void

VRScout goes inside The Void VR research facility to interview the founding partners and experience virtual reality in a physical environment. Like most people keeping an eye on virtual reality, I watched the sizzler video released by The Void and thought a few things in succession. Number one: That would be badass. Number two: Who the hell are these guys? And finally: I wonder if they’ve actually built any of this.
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No, There Is No Evidence for a Link between Video Games and Alzheimer’s Disease

Another day, another ridiculous headline about the apparently disastrous consequences of playing video games on the brain
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Batman Arkham Knight - be the Batman trailer (Live Action)

Batman Arkham Knight trailer shows Be the Batman footage.
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Sega Saturn: how one decision destroyed PlayStation's greatest rival

After the huge success of the Mega Drive, Sega was filled with confidence about its future. But then Sony announced PlayStation and everything fell apart.
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Guillermo Del Toro Laments What Silent Hills Could Have Been

Del Toro describes what he and Kojima wanted to achieve with their entry in the Silent Hill series and why he's devastated it's no longer happening.
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Blizzard bans more than 100,000 World of Warcraft accounts

Blizzard has dropped the banhammer on a "large number" of World of Warcraft players found to be using bots to automate their gameplay. According to a screen capture of a GM chat posted to Imgur, the suspensions will last for six months and affect more than 100,000 accounts. "We’ve recently taken action against a large number of World of Warcraft accounts that were found to be using third-party programs that automate gameplay, known as 'bots'," Blizzard wrote in the announcement of the bans.
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The Life of Every RPG NPC Ever

Skyrim NPCs need some help.
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Sony told its 20th Annivesary PS4 competition wasn't fair

To celebrate 20 years of PlayStation, Sony created 12,300 limited edition PS4 consoles and offered them to gamers all over the world.
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Eve Online: how a virtual world went to the edge of apocalypse and back

The video game Eve Online is one of Iceland’s biggest exports and has become the world’s largest living work of science fiction. While rival games have come and gone, it has survived – thanks to a unique experiment in democracy. By Simon Parkin.
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ARK: Survival Evolved Announcement Trailer

Get ready for a new breed of open-world dinosaur survival game, coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam Windows/Mac/Linux! As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK,use your skill and cunning to kill or tame & ride the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land.
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For an Aging Brain, Looking for Ways to Keep Memory Sharp

Herbal supplements, brain-training games and puzzles are being tossed out as ways to fight cognitive decline, without much evidence that they work.
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Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Debut Trailer [US]

The Assassin’s Creed Syndicate story throws you into the dawn of the modern era during the Industrial Revolution.
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No Nintendo Smartphone Games at E3 2015

Nintendo recently announced that they are hoping to release five games on smartphone platforms by the end of the next fiscal year (that’s March 2017), with the first of which due to release at some point this year. This year. That’s pretty blinkin’ soon. This year’s E3 is scarily approaching us at a seemingly exponential rate – it’s less than six weeks away at this point (yikes!).
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How porn addiction is leading to a 'masculinity crisis'

A leading psychologist has warned that young men are facing a crisis of masculinity due to excessive use of video games and pornography. Psychologist and professor emeritus at Stanford University Phillip Zimbardo has made the warnings, which form a major part of his latest book, Man (Dis)Connected. In an interview on the BBC World Service's Weekend programme, Zimbardo spoke about the results of his study, an in-depth look into the lives of...
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I Fucking Love PC - GTA V

Monkey Mayhem. (It's a chimp but I don't care)
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Your cyberpunk games are dangerous

On January 17, 1980, FBI agents descended on a small business in Wisconsin to investigate a plot against the life of an American business executive in Beirut, Lebanon, named William Weatherby. The tip came to local law enforcement from a concerned citizen who had chanced on a written description of the conspiracy, which the police duly handed over to the FBI.
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Super Mario-themed Airbnb in Tokyo is retro gaming paradise

If you were wanting to stay a few nights in a Super Mario-themed hotel or apartment, there's few places you would think to look first than Tokyo, Japan.
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Hacker given in-game death sentence

A character controlled by a hacker who used exploits to dominate online game Guild Wars 2 has been put to death in the virtual world. The character, called DarkSide, was stripped then forced to leap to their death from a high bridge. The death sentence was carried out after players gathered evidence about the trouble the hacker had caused. This helped the game's security staff find the player, take over their account and kill them off.
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The Mystical Universe of Magic: The Gathering

Wizards, demons and goblins collide in the world’s first trading card game Magic: The Gathering, affectionately dubbed “cardboard crack” by its 10+ million diehard obsessives. From dank, wood-paneled basements to international big money pro tournaments, Magic continues to flourish since its phenomenal debut in 1993. VICE follows a professional Magic player who dropped out of college for a shot to be number one on the pro circuit, while two brothers wax nostalgic about the spells of old.
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Grand Theft Auto 5 PC Mods Get Seal of Approval From Rockstar Games

Word that using single-player mods in Grand Theft Auto 5 could get you banned from GTA Online caused a storm in the PC modding community last week. Now, Rockstar has come out with an official statement, asserting their support for single-player Grand Theft Auto 5 mods.
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THE VOID - The future of Paintball and Laser Tag

At THE VOID you will walk into new dimensions and experience worlds without limits. From fighting intergalactic wars on alien planets, to casting spells in the darkest of dungeons, THE VOID presents the future of entertainment. Only limited by imagination, our advanced Virtual-Reality technologies allow you to see, move, and feel our digital worlds in a completely immersive and realistic way.
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Official Batman: Arkham Knight - The Voices of Arkham

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment are proud to reveal the voice talent behind some of the most notable characters in Batman™: Arkham Knight.
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The Witcher 3 Gets its Best Trailer yet with RAGE & STEEL

The Witcher 3 Gets its Best Trailer yet with RAGE & STEEL
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Engineers of addiction

Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks.
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Human vs machine as top poker pros take on AI

It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over two weeks, duking it out by playing a total of 80,000 hands of poker for a $100,000 cash prize. This may turn out to be the latest instalment in a grand tradition of computers beating us at our own games. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer famously beat chess great Garry Kasparov. Four years ago, IBM's Watson took part in the TV quiz show.
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Why Silent Hill mattered

On the end of a great, mad era for video games
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The Kickstarter-Funded Broken Age Was Supposed to Herald a New Era of Gaming. It Didn’t.

To paraphrase a bit of Internet wisdom, experts agree that pop culture was at its peak when you—yes you—were 12 years old. Most of us never escape the spell of the things we loved when we were young ...
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Spiritual Successor to Banjo-Kazooie Reveals Its Lead Characters

Meet Yooka and Laylee, the lead characters in Yooka-Laylee, the new 3D platformer from the creative team behind Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country. Yooka is the chameleon and Laylee, the bat, and if the dynamic and style seems familiar it’s because they were created by Steve Mayles, the same character artist who designed platforming icons Banjo and Kazooie and the modern Kong family during his time at Rare.
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The Era of Japan's All-Powerful Videogame Designers Is Over

Hideo Kojima's exit from Konami isn't just the end of Metal Gear as we know it. It's the end of the era of big-name directors running the show in Japan.
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