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Nintendo considers new business models following a very bad 2013

Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata declares that the company is looking into "a new business structure" following a heavily slashed forecasts that point to a dismal fiscal performance in 2013.
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Valve’s Gabe Newell will answer Reddit’s questions if charity raises $500K

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell pledges to submit to a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' session if his The Heart of Racing charity manages to hit its $500,000 target.
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Create your own guns on January 31, thanks to the game Loadout

Edge of Reality is set to launch its free-to-play, build-your-own-gun-and-shoot-things-with-it third-person shooter Loadout on January 31, 2014.
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2014 DICE Awards battle royale has The Last of Us leading the numbers game

Naughty Dog's The Last of Us grabs the most nominations at the 2014 DICE Awards by a wide margin, with 13 nods in 12 categories.
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Why we’re breaking the Broken Age embargo [updated]

Double Fine Productions' Broken Age arrives in backers' hands this week with an unusual stipulation. Here's an explanation for why we're ignoring that stipulation to bring you a review this week.
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Unity adds PlayStation Vita support in latest update

Unity Technologies releases the version 4.3 update for its Unity game engine, officially bringing support for the popular and flexible development tools to Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld.
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Hello Games rebuilds following devastating floods, promises no delay on No Man’s Sky

Hello Games' Sean Murray writes a lengthy post to update fans on the studio's status following the flooding of its offices in Guildford, UK.
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Maxis explains why it took so long for SimCity to be playable offline

Maxis lead engineer Simon Fox offers more details on the realities of re-developing SimCity to ditch its always-online requirement for the forthcoming Single Player Mode.

Ghost Recon Online coming soon to Steam Early Access

Ubisoft's free-to-play third-person shooter Ghost Recon Online is bound for an Early Access release on Steam. The game is out now in Canada, with the rest of the world to follow "this spring."

Telltale Games to release Episode 2 of ‘The Wolf Among Us’ in February

Telltale Games confirms plans to launch the second episode of The Wolf Among Us in the first week of February 2014.

Outlast brings free first-person horror to PlayStation 4 in February, via PS Plus

Red Barrels Games' 2013 first-person survival horror game, Outlast, will be available as a free PlayStation Plus download when it comes to the PlayStation 4 on February 5.

Valve offers new VR beta mode in preparation for Steam Dev Days

Valve launches the SteamVR beta, allowing those that own a VR headset like the Oculus Rift to explore the Steam Big Picture Mode user interface in virtual reality.
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Tomb Raider console comparison pits PlayStation 3 against PlayStation 4

A new comparison video shows off the differences between 2013's Tomb Raider on PlayStation 3 and Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition on PlayStation 4. The re-release comes to PS4 and Xbox One on January 28.

Nyko’s CES 2014 lineup feels familiar, and that’s what you want

We check out Nyko's 2014 lineup of gaming and non-gaming products at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Call of Duty: Ghosts to receive ‘Onslaught’ DLC on January 28

Infinity Ward confirms a January 28 release for Onslaught, the first downloadable content pack coming to Call of Duty: Ghosts.
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SimCity to get an offline play mode in free update

SimCity will finally get an offline play mode, nearly a year after the game's March 2013 launch, in the forthcoming Update 10, a free add-on.
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Papo & Yo dev responds publicly to a letter from an anonymous troubled fan

Minority Media, the developer of Papo & Yo and the upcoming Silent Enemy, shares an open reply to an anonymous letter received from a fan.
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Double Fine’s Kickstarter hit Broken Age surfaces on January 14

Double Fine Productions founder Tim Schafer confirms that Kickstarter backers will get to start playing part one of Broken Age - formerly known as Double Fine Adventure - on January 14.
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Oculus Rift inventor, Resident Evil creator, and others join D.I.C.E. speakers

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences confirms a new round of D.I.C.E. 2014 speakers, including Palmer Lucky, Brendan Iribe, Keiji Inafune, Hilmar Veigar Petursson, and Rami Ismail.

Oculus VR’s John Carmack to develop content for the Rift headset

Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe hints at the possibility that company CTO John Carmack will get into game development for the Rift headset as software becomes more of a focus there.
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Still don’t understand Valve’s Steam Machines? Don’t worry, neither does Valve

Valve reveals its Steam Machine plans and partners at CES 2014, but it's clear the company's got a long way to go before the tech is ready.
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Independent Games Festival awards nominees revealed, includes some familiar favorites

The final list of Main Competition nominees have been announced for the 16th annual Independent Games Festival awards, and you'll see some familiar titles in there, including The Stanley Parable and Device 6.
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Valve’s third-party Steam Machines lineup, in pictures

Get your first up close look at some of the third-party Steam Machines that will be coming to market over the course of 2014.
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Sony finally puts its Gaikai tech to use in PlayStation Now game streaming

At long last, Sony reveals its plan for using Gaikai's streaming technology, in the form of PlayStation Now. The upcoming rental and subscription service provides access to PS3 games across a variety of platforms.
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Valve releases its Steam Machine specs

Valve confirms a variable set of hardware specs for the 300 beta Steam Machines that will start being pushed out soon to the chosen few users selected to participate in the beta program.
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CyberPowerPC reveals two Steam Machines for the latter half of 2014

CyberPowerPC reveals the hardware specifications for a pair of Steam Machines, priced at $499 and $699, that are due for release in the second half of 2014.

iBuyPower Steam Machines revive Gordon Freeman, sans ‘Half-Life 3’

The first third-party Steam Machine is revealed, one of two models that iBuyPower is developing for a 2014 release.
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Alienware, Origin among more than a dozen third-party Steam Machines vendors

CES 2014: Alienware and Origin are among a dozen third-party manufactures partnered to create Valve's Steam Machine gaming PCs in 2014.
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Fast and Furious 7 to use Paul Walker’s scenes, character will be retired

Universal Studios and the Fast and Furious 7 filmmakers have decided to move forward with using the scenes filmed by late star Paul Walker, tweaking the script so that his Brian O'Connor character can be retired.
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Xbox One disc drive still necessary thanks to ‘bandwidth and game size’

Microsoft Studios head Phil Spencer reveals that, at one point, Microsoft entertained the possibility of delivering the Xbox One as a disc-less console. Ultimately, concerns over game size and bandwidth led to the inclusion of a Blu-ray disc drive.

DayZ alpha surpasses 400,000 sales in week one

The Steam Early Access version of DayZ, Bohemia Interactive's persistent online open world zombie game adapted from a popular ArmA 2 mod, rises past 400,000 sales during its first week of release.
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Blizzard warns of new malware that can steal World of Warcraft account info

Blizzard Entertainment is warning Windows-using World of Warcraft players to watch for a malware that threatens to steal user account info and Battle.net Authenticator data when signing into the game.
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Battlefield 4’s postponed double XP event is finally live

The Premium members-only double XP event for Battlefield 4 that was originally scheduled to happen during the New Year break is now live through Sunday, January 5. The original event was postponed due to lingering issues with the game.
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‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ swings into Times Square on New Year’s Eve

A new clip montage for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 premieres during the final hours of 2013, with footage that highlights the movies big showdown between Spidey and Electro in New York City's Times Square.
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‘Batman: Arkham Origins’ story DLC teased in chilling new image

A newly released image from Warner Bros. Games Montreal hints at the identity of the villain and possible story direction for the studio's upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins campaign DLC.

‘Devil’s Third’ team making progress, release due in 2014

Valhalla Game Studios founder Tomonobu Itagaki confirms that third-person action game 'Devil's Third,' once set to be published by the now-defunct THQ, is 80 percent complete and due for release in 2014.
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‘Fez’ due for three more ports in 2014

A new post on Polytron Corporation's website confirms that Fez is due for three new ports in 2014. Is this a reference to the PlayStation Network release with support for PS3, PS4, and PS Vita or a hint of something more?

‘Warframe’ on Xbox One may be heading to Europe following a PEGI rating [updated]

Digital Extremes' free-to-play third-person shooter Warframe, available now on PC and PlayStation 4, may be coming soon to Xbox One in Europe, assuming a newly discovered PEGI rating is accurate.