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Pride And Falls: Neptune’s Pride Diary Part 4

RPS — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:27:03 +0000

Who will rule space? No Sponge, that’s for sure. But who else might take the crown? Could it be Graham’s exploding Empire? Or Jim’s embattled corner of space? Or the vast Empire of Quinns? Place your bets for part four… And maybe go sign up to Neptune’s Pride yourself. (PCG are also running a version of this diary, over yonder.)
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Nine Minutes Of APB

Jim Rossignol — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:23:10 +0000

Filmed off a screen at GDC, sadly, but it’s accompanied by game director Dave Jones talking through the various features. He talks about the way the two factions have different abilities and aims, the way characters weapons and cars can be upgraded, how players can become “famous” within the game world, and how the ranking and matchmaking work within the game world. All interesting stuff, although it’s tough to gauge if there will be any long-term appeal in all this. Also, whoever is driving the car in this video needs more practice… The video is via GameSpot’s archive of GDC stuff, and Pat gave us the tip off, because he is news.
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Medal Of Honour: “Tier 1″

Jim Rossignol — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:00:40 +0000

Yes, honour. We will rebrand the games industry with our Old World spellings! Anyway, EA’s cavernous developmental innards have spawned a trailer for Medal Of Honour. It’s one of those trailers were a dude talks huskily about war and how badass his shooty comrades are, while dudes get shot and stuff explodes on screen. There’s talk about sledgehammers and scalpels, but it seems more like you’re going to be using rifles and air-strikes.
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Family Chat: 2k Czech’s Alex Cox On Mafia 2

Alec Meer — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:43:15 +0000

Last week, I finally got to spend a little quality time with the rarely-seen, much-delayed Mafia 2. While I was there, I made Alex Cox, one of the game’s producers, an offer he couldn’t refuse. He refused it anyway. So I decided to ask him about the game instead. Read on for the chatty chap’s thoughts on the game’s excellent music, open world versus linear and whether ‘dickcheese’ is an authentic 1950s swear word or not.
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I Spy A Brink Trailer

Jim Rossignol — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:29:38 +0000

The new cinematic trailer for Brink (via VG247) is pretty damned good. Lots of running and jumping and sliding all tries to get across the movement system that is one of the game’s core features. The character and environmental design is absolutely fantastic, too, as it should be given the studio’s astonishing pedigree. Quake Wars might not have been everyone’s cup of tea, but they’ve pretty much put together a supergroup to make Brink, and I think it’s going to pay off. (Although, is it just me, or is that the TF2 spy at the end there?)
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IGF Winners! Monaco’s Gamble Pays Off

Kieron Gillen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:14:28 +0000

And the IGF winners have been announced and Monaco is the belle of this particular gaming ball, picking up two awards, including the Grand Prize. The incredibly atmospheric Limbo also picked up two awards, for Visual lookitude and technical prettiosity. The Grand Prize winner takes home $20,000 (Count ‘em) dollars, with all of the other categories bringing home $2,500. Except for the D2D one, which is 10K. A run down of all the winners follows. Well done all. And lend us a fiver.
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GDC CryEngine 3 Demo

Jim Rossignol — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:40:32 +0000

If the internet is a space marine, then GameTrailers is surely his large, red bionic eye, which sees all, and gives a +1 bonus to hit. This week the bionic eye has seen things at GDC, including a bunch of CryEngine 3 footage, some of which could be indicative of what to expect from Crysis 2. It’s filmed off a screen, but worth taking a look at: especially the bit where a dude shoots stuff with a gun. I like that bit best of all.
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Pride And Falls: Neptune’s Pride Diary Part 3

RPS — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:02 +0000

The slow space war of Neptune’s Pride continues with one more player knocked from his seat in the heavens. Who will it be? And can the others agree on a permanent alliance to win the game? (PC Gamer are also running this diary over here.)
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Renaissance Man: GDC Deus Ex 3 trailer

Quintin Smith — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:59:30 +0000

Looks like somebody left the keys in the ignition! And just as well, because even while none of the RPS crew are around you guys still need to know about the new Deus Ex 3: Human Revolution trailer that’s being shown at GDC. The 2 minute cinematic can be found after the jump, but be warned: There’s still no footage of the game proper just yet.

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Sam & Max To Enter The Devil’s Playhouse

John Walker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:00:45 +0000

Telltale has announced a third season of their popular Sam & Max episodic adventures. It’s called The Devil’s Playhouse, and from the trailer (below) appears to imbue the dog and rabbit heroes with psychic powers. Once again there’s to be five monthly episodes, the first due to appear on the 15th April.

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I Want To Live Forever: ImmorTall

John Walker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:00:18 +0000

Thanks to both Delirium and Andrew for tipping us off to ImmorTall by Evan Miller, a short, sad Flash game in which you (barely) control an invincible alien blob amidst one of humanity’s less impressive moments. There’s really not much more that can be said about this game in particular, since it’s barely two minutes long, and about experiencing it for yourself. Other than the really smart use of music. Discordant notes create all the sounds necessary in a simple and affecting way. You can play it here. It’s rather good.

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FYI: GameCamp 2 Tickets At Noon

Kieron Gillen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:01:22 +0000

Do you remember last year when I went to the Gamecamp “unconference”. Go read about it. It was a lot of fun. They’re doing another one this year on May 8th at Whittaker House (Ebay/PayPal/Gumtree.com’s headquarters) in Richmond, London, and the first bunch of (free) tickets for the event go live at Midday today. As in, noon. They’ll disappear pretty quickly, so consider this your advance warning. You’ll be able to get them from here.

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