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Dark Souls II PC date revealed

Namco Bandai has at last confirmed a release date for Dark Souls II on PC. Having previously said it hoped the delay would be a matter of weeks not months” it transpires that the PC SKU will arrive six weeks later than the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions on April …

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End of days for End of Nations?

Trion Worlds’ MOBA RTS End of Nations has been officially put on hold”. Concerns were raised after the game’s website was taken offline and all mention of the PC title was removed from Trion’s website. Its Facebook page has not been updated since August. "As we informed EON’s community last …

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Valve giving devs option to set own discounts on Steam

Steam developers can now set sales periods and discounts on their own, Valve has revealed. The news broke originally when an anonymous developer posted an image of the new tools on Reddit, with Valve subsequently confirming the leak. "As with the addition of a ‘Recently Updated’ section to Steam, this …

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Steam top ten sellers chart: February 16-22

DayZ has been temporarily knocked off the top spot of Steam’s top sellers chart, as city-builder Banished outsold it during the past week. Shining Rock’s strategy game released last Tuesday – fairly early in the sales tracking period – so next week we’ll see what kind of staying power it …

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Rovio: ‘We must do free-to-play ethically’

Angry Birds creators Rovio says it is crucial that parents are made aware of the costs in free-to-play games. The firm’s comments come after an OFT investigation, which found that developers and platform holders must ensure users – particularly parents and children – are made aware of in-game costs. Rovio …

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Nvidia’s GTX Titan Black looking to claim back graphics power crown

Having been surpassed by the Radeon R9 290X and GTX 780Ti, the Nvidia Titan is staging a big comeback. The new GTX Titan Black, like its predecessor, packs 6GB of onboard memory running at 7GHz with a peak frequency of 980 MHz and the full GK 110 die complete with …

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VIDEO: Minecraft introduces mini-games

Mojang is currently testing mini-games in Minecraft. As detailed in the video below, the current beta build for the subscription Minecraft Realms service offers mini-games as a selectable option from the main menu. The current offering includes Cake Defence 2, Blocks vs Zombies, The Walls, Autospleef and Dash of Doom. …

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Total War: Rome II fans upset over alleged cut content in premium DLC

Creative Assembly’s Total War: Rome II has again fallen under fan scrutiny, this time over paid DLC allegedly including cut content from the game’s pre-release version. Players claim that the Camel Cataphract units featured in the recently released Beasts of War pack were originally seen in a Let’s Play video …

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