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Riot Games' League of Legends is built on a relatively simple premise: you and four other players each pick a character, assign yourselves a role (tank, support, etc) and use your unique abilities to destroy the enemy team and their base. But what happens when you and someone else on the team want the same role during a match? Human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together; mass hysteria, that's ...read more
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UK-based developer Rebellion announced that its Sniper Elite V2 spin-off Nazi Zombie Army are coming to consoles after a successful debut last year on PC platforms.
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The livestreamed crowd-play event Twitch Plays Pokemon has ended, as thousands of players pooled their efforts to defeat the Elite Four in Pokemon Red. The game was completed after 16 days of consecutive play and saw over 35 million viewers during that time. Twitch Plays Pokemon is a Pokemon Red mod that allowed Twitch viewers to control the game's main character Red by entering commands in ...read more
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Valve has confirmed that it has unlocked Steam 'Family Sharing' for all account holders. Family Sharing essentially allows users to share their library of Steam games with other account holders by authorizing a PC as a shared device. The feature was previously launched in beta form in September last year. With the new functionality, a user can authorize up to ten devices for game sharing, ...read more
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Bandai Namco Games is set to launch Dark Souls 2 for PC via Steam on April 25th with the console ports lagging behind one month.
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It has came to light that developers can now enable sales for their games on the Steam platform without consulting Valve itself as was required in the past.
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Mojang founder Markus "Notch" Persson has announced that the PC version of Minecraft has racked up 100 million registered users. That is the number of people who have created free Minecraft accounts - a required step in downloading the Minecraft demo from the official Mojang site. Persson has also announced that the game has achieved a "14.3% conversion rate to paid accounts", meaning ...read more
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DayZ creator and project lead on the standalone edition, Dean Hall, will leave developer Bohemia Interactive by year's end. Hall tells Eurogamer that he plans to start his own studio in New Zealand. "I have a specific use. I'm really good at risk-taking and making other people take risks, I've always been good at that in my life," said Hall. "But eventually, that's the bad person to have. ...read more
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TPP, Twitch Plays Pokemon , and it's overwhelmingly active chat has caused Twitch to move the interactive "game stream" to a different event chat server.
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Yoshinori Kitase, series producer, told a leading gaming news venue that his company was "more than willing" to open up their Final Fantasy series to the PC. He went on to explain that while they had created previous games on PCs, they had simply not mastered any final PC versions of them due to unfavorable market trends and possible security concerns.
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