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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's final add-on hits Aug. 4

The fourth and final downloadable add-on for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Reckoning, will come to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of the game on Aug. 4, publisher Activision announced today. ...

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GTA 5 mod lets you explore the secret guts of the game's locked buildings

There's a new mod in town that allows PC gamers to explore some of the hidden depths of Grand Theft Auto 5's many previously locked off buildings. Youtuber Newtheft recently posted a video showing...

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Cities: Skylines hits million sales mark

Finnish urban planning game Cities: Skylines has sold a million copies since launch, according to publisher Paradox. The company announced the landmark today, adding that the game attracts an...

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Overwatch: How Blizzard turned its biggest failure into its next great hope

Blizzard finally seems to understand that the company exists in a post-World of Warcraft era, and there is no clearer sign of that than the game maker's investment in upcoming squad-shooter O...

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One person has played more than 10,000 hours of Crusader Kings 2

Someone — a single user — has played 10,500 hours of the historical strategy hit Crusader Kings 2, says developer Paradox Interactive. To put that in perspective, that's 437.5 days — or 40 percent...

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Playing Elite on the day NASA detailed its mission to Mars

It was an interesting day to try my hand at virtual reality space flight and fight. Sitting in a lounge chair in a downtown New York hotel room, with an Oculus Rift headset strapped to my face and...

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Apple names Threes!, Monument Valley games of the year

Apple this morning released its Best of 2014 list on iTunes, naming Threes! the iPhone game of the year and Monument Valley the iPad game of the year. "Thank you to Apple for this tremendous...

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Here's a taste of the stuff of nightmares: Lost in the ocean's depths in a walking coffin

I had a chance to drop into the claustrophobic, Oculus Rift-empowered world of Narcosis during GDC earlier this year. It was a memorable experience delivered by a young team of indie devs hoping...

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Depth is a clever, terrifying game of Sharks vs. Divers

Depth is a new asymmetrical shooter/chomper on Steam, in which four players control a team of treasure-hunting divers, and two players control a pair of diver-hunting sharks. That core design opens...