How Board Games Got Literary

The notion of turning fictional settings into games isn’t a new one, but it’s one that has become more and more prevalent. Whether you’re purchasing games at a large store or one of the many specialty shops dedicated to them, you’ll find a number of games whose inspiration comes from literature. Some take on entire fictional settings; others nod in the direction of the plot of a specific work.
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Star Wars Battlefront Angry Review

AngryJoe, OtherJoe and the Rebel Alliance work to recover whats left of Battlefront from the forces of the Imperial EA! How does this game live up to its license & franchise? Find out!
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Endless Sky

A [free, cross-platform, open source] space exploration and combat game similar to Escape Velocity.
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► WTF Is... - Star Wars: Battlefront ?

TotalBiscuit takes a look at the recently released first/third person shooter from EA/DICE.
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BEYOND: Two Souls - Launch Trailer

A singularly unique psychological action thriller delivered by A-list Hollywood performances, Beyond: Two Souls™ takes you on a thrilling journey across the globe as you play out the remarkable life of Jodie Holmes. Born with a connection to a mysterious entity with incredible powers, Jodie was different. In an adventure spanning 15 years of her life, your actions will determine Jodie's fate as she faces extraordinary challenges, danger, and...
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[Fallout 4] Idiot Savant is OP (possible spoilers)

Last night Idiot Savant proc'd on the experience reward from the final mission. I was very happy with the result.
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Do Not Pass “Bo”: Archaeologists Unearth 2,300-Year-Old Board Game in China

It includes a 14-face die carved from an animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces featuring painted numbers, and a broken tile that once made up part of the game board.
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Horror Games: Playing Alone VS With Friends

It's always better to have moral support... unless they're all whimps.
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Halo 5, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate & Star Wars Battlefront all sold below expectations

Halo 5: Guardians, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Star Wars Battlefront all fell short of sales expectations, according to US retail giant GameStop, leading to a "challenging" quarter for the chain. Speaking during the firm's Q3 2015 earnings call last night (via Seeking Alpha), CEO Julian Raines explained that "the quarter was challenging due to underperformance of Halo and Assassin's Creed late in the quarter and...
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Free To Play Weekly – Blade & Soul Release Date Announced! Ep 197

Paladins enters closed beta, Blade & Soul announces its official release date, all that and more, this… is Free To Play Weekly! Free to Play Weekly with Zach Sharpes is your weekly web show about free to play multiplayer online games from MMOBomb.com.
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Tree of Savior (ENGLISH) - First Look Gameplay

Get ready for some grinding and some serious meta game as we take our First Look at IMCGames' Tree of Savior currently in English Closed Beta.
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My thoughts on Overwatch (Beta)

TotalBiscuit brings you an overview of the new multiplayer shooter from Blizzard Entertainment.
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Digital Foundry: Hands-on with PS4's PlayStation 2 emulation

It's been a long time since we first reported that classic PS1 and PS2 titles were heading to PlayStation 4, running under emulation. It's been so long in fact, that we began to wonder whether Sony had shelved the project. The company originally informed developers of the existence of the emulator at the same time it briefed them on the planned rollout for the PlayStation Now cloud service, way back in January 2014. Since then, the only hints at its...
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UNEARTHED RAPTOR WILL CRASH HEARTHSTONE?!

Emergency Hotfix is already on that way! So crash your own clients while you still can!
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[Hearthstone] How Good Is Summoning Stone?

Review & gameplay of one of the weirdest cards released from the League of Explorers expansion.
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Fallout 4 Angry Review

AngryJoe emerges from Vault 117 to Play and Review Fallout 4! How does the game stack up? Could it be Game of the Year? Find out Now!
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Funny and Lucky Moments - Hearthstone - Ep. 138

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Modern Warfare 3 (The Jimquisition)

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[Hearthstone] Discovering Discover Mechanics

Review of the discover mechanic, and its implication on the new League of Explorers cards.
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My Watercolour Lickatongue

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How the Baseless 'Terrorists Communicating Over Playstation 4' Rumor Got Started

On Friday evening, a group of terrorists launched a string of simultaneous attacks in Paris, killing at least 129 people, according to media reports. Very little information is known about how the terrorists, who allegedly had links to ISIS, planned the attacks. Yet, that hasn’t stopped commentators and the media from speculating the group likely avoided surveillance by using messaging apps that use encryption, and even by communicating over PlayStation 4.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Daily Fantasy Sports

Daily fantasy sports sites claim they are not gambling enterprises, but they seem awfully…gamblish. If only their ads were more truthful.
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[Hearthstone] Reno Jackson Is A Superhero!

Review & gameplay of the coolest card to come out of the League of Explorers expansion so far!
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How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From The Dead

"Stephen! This is Harlan Ellison!" With a gruff tone, Stephen Kick is describing an unexpected phone call from one of his sci-fi heroes. Kick had been trying to license the rights for I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—not Ellison’s famous short story from 1967, but the largely overlooked PC game from 1995. After speaking with Ellison’s agents, and hearing stories about how he’d been burned financially by the game’s original publishers, Kick was certain he’d invoked the author’s wrath.
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Wanderment

Wanderment = Wonderment + Wander. Enjoy the adventures of a playful blind kitten journeying across town to find its friend. Particle-based 3D platformer. Sense your surroundings by splashing and walking. Take your time, savor and enjoy the experience.
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PornHub reports a 10% traffic drop the day ‘Fallout 4’ came out

Causation does not equal correlation, except when it does.
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Linux gaming ​Steam Machines finally ship

More than two years ago, Valve announced that Linux-powered Steam Machines would be the future of gaming. After far too many delays, two gaming consoles are finally shipping with a third one coming soon.
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What Valve got right and wrong with the Steam Machine

Valve Software's Steam platform has become the go-to source for gamers focused on the PC. With a huge catalog, constant sales and a consumer-first attitude, the digital store for games has exploded. As of the beginning of 2014, it had topped 75 million users. But can that success translate into the living room and hardware, two arenas Valve has yet to conquer?
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Virtual reality just got real: New tech lets users feel VR

Virtual reality has been a long time coming, but the most notable strides have come in the past few years. Oculus has led a revitalization in VR tech, the development of which had slowed significantly over the preceding decade. Now, a resurgence in consumer VR products has resulted in great strides, and affordable virtual reality kits like the Samsung Gear VR make virtual reality accessible to nearly anyone.
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JJ Abrams is making an espionage RPG video game

JJ Abrams plans on returning to the spy genre in a completely different medium. His Bad Robot squad will join forces with ChAIR to make a game called Spyjinx. The Unreal Engine 4-powered experience is described on the official site as “a unique mix of action strategy gameplay, dynamic world building and RPG character development – all set in a thrilling, treacherous world of espionage.” If you’re curious about this content, you can sign up for the beta right now on the website.
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Blizzard Sues Bot Maker For Copyright Infringement

Blizzard Entertainment is taking a stand against popular cheating bots for World of Warcraft, Diablo 3 and Heroes of the Storm. The game company is suing the creators behind a series of popular bots for copyright infringement and accuses them of ruining the gaming experience for legitimate players.
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[Steam Midweek Madness] Steam Machine Launch Sale

To honor the release the Steam Machines, Steam is offering a bunch of pretty dank deals on a plethora of SteamOS (Linux), Mac, and PC titles!
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Free To Play Weekly – Overwatch Confirms Payment Model… Is It F2P?! Ep 195

Tera reveals a new class, Overwatch confirms its monetization model… is it free-to-play? Find out that and more, this… is Free To Play Weekly! Free to Play Weekly with Zach Sharpes is your weekly web show about free to play multiplayer online games from MMOBomb.com.
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StarCraft: The past, present and future

Back in the ‘90s, Chris Metzen had an idea for a new game. For the still-blooming Blizzard Entertainment, these were formative years. There was Warcraft as of 1994, but there was no World of Warcraft. There was talk about doing more real-time strategy, as the company was arguably getting good at it, and a keen interest in heading into space.
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2000s gaming speculated from 80s

How people in the 80's imagined gaming in the year 2000. They got a lot of it right!
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Fallout 4: Giant Bomb Quick Look [Extended HD Gameplay]

We return to the wasteland to disassemble everything we can find and just feel alright, man.
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Performance Analysis: Fallout 4

Four years on from its predecessor, Bethesda emerges from the vault with the hugely anticipated Fallout 4 - adding new technologies to its Creation Engine on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Equipped with an improved physically-based lighting model, it's confirmed the game's development process began with the team porting its earlier work to Xbox One first. However, optimising for both platforms has evidently proven tricky since, and on analysing the reality of each console's frame-rate at launch
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FreeMMOStation.com - Top 10 Best Free to Play MMORPG Games 2015~2016

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The Story of Nat Pagle [Hearthstone Lore]

Nat Pagle can wait and fish all day, but what else has he done in the story?
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MASS EFFECT - Official Video

You are an explorer. Know that wherever you go, we will be with you. Never forget where you came from. Happy N7 Day!
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We turned on the Nintendo PlayStation: It's real and it works

When a mysterious "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype with both an SNES cartridge slot and a CD drive made the rounds back in July, many remained skeptical. Not even Sony PlayStation's head of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, wanted to confirm its authenticity. Or perhaps he just didn't want to bring up the bad blood between his company and Nintendo over this failed collaboration.
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[Hearthstone] League of Explorers Expansion

The League of Explorers expansion has been announced at BlizzCon 2015! Time to take a look at all the goods!
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Free To Play Weekly – Story VS Elder Game? Ep. 194

Blade has been added to Marvel Heroes, Knights of the Fallen Empire is finally released, all that and more, this… is Free To Play Weekly! Free to Play Weekly with Zach Sharpes is your weekly web show about free to play multiplayer online games from MMOBomb.com.
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At A First Glance, Dragon Quest Heroes Could Pass For A Full Fledged RPG

Dragon Quest Heroes gets a lot right in blending the two series. On top of the basics, Dragon Quest Heroes has a surprisingly large story complete with its own lore and world-building.
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Videogames and '80s Hollywood Masculinity: A Love Story

That culture influences film is no big secret. Filmmakers often intentionally create films that reflect and affirm the beliefs of a given population, making it into a rallying point under which supporters of that film's apparent beliefs flock. This is why Easy Rider is so embraced by anarchistic culture; why the hopeless romantic idolizes John Cusack in Say Anything (and later High Fidelity). Slackers love Kevin Smith and metaphysical thinkers dig Richard Linklater.
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Devilian Online (Free MMORPG): Watcha Playin' Gameplay First Look

Devilian Online is a Diablo-like online action RPG with a mature setting and classes that are half-devil and can turn into their unique Devil Form for a short period of time, with devastating results. Fans of hack and slash with plenty of loot will definitely enjoy this game. Watcha Playin'? is a FreeMMOStation show where we give you a first look with commentary on the most popular free-to-play MMO games available.
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Videogame Sequels: How You Should React vs. How You DO React

Hype...hype never changes.
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Fallout 4 - Launch Trailer

Watch the official gameplay launch trailer for Fallout 4, available worldwide on Tuesday, November 10th. Welcome Home.
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How Good Is MavenFall?

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Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash: Giant Bomb Quick Look [Extended HD Gameplay]

I mean, sure, it's a first-party game for a Nintendo handheld, but LOOK AT THE MONKEY.
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