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Fez, Xbox creators judge next indie superstars in Ouya contest

The Ouya no longer stands alone as the only Android-based game console coming out in 2013, but it does benefit from unusually strong developer support already. Now the console's creators are holding a contest to encourage new indie developers to flock to the system.
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New Universe: CCP finally combines EVE Online MMO and Dust shooter

CCP Games MMO EVE Online celebrates its tenth year in operation by combining with multiplayer shooter Dust 514, a game that takes place in the same universe. Pilots playing the slow economic MMO and soldiers in the shooter will share servers starting Thursday.
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Drink Ovaltine: Microsoft is bringing more advertisements to Xbox Live

NUads, the Xbox Live ads that ask players to fill out a poll, have been a huge success for Microsoft after their fall 2012 debut. As a result, Microsoft plans to increase "investment" in the ads.
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Nintendo: No comment on Nintendo Wii U Virtual Console cross-platform play

Nintendo is slowly starting to discuss its plans to release retro games on Nintendo Wii U, but it hasn't confirmed whether players will have to pay again for games they've already downloaded on Wii or 3DS.
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Too Real: Apple bars educational game about Syrian Civil War from App Store

Auroch Digital's Game the News project hit a stumbling block on Tuesday when Apple blocked the release of Endgame Syria, a game about the ongoing Syrian Civil War, from release on the App Store.
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Embrace XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s Second Wave with its difficulty-raising DLC

Firaxis and 2K Games released The Second Wave, a new package of downloadable content for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, on Tuesday. The content alters much about the way the game is played while not adding much new campaign content, a sign of how the game will expand in the future.
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Nintendo drags Pokémon into the modern age with Pokémon X and Y

Pokémon X and Pokémon Y bring the monster catching series into the 3D age after seventeen years, abandoning the pixelized pocket monsters of old for polygonal models on the Nintendo 3DS.
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Assembly Required: Travelers’ Tales announces LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

Travelers' Tales, LEGO, and Disney have assembled the Avengers, as well as the X-Men, Spider-man, and a wealth of other Marvel Universe super heroes for their next game, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Will it be another creative benchmark or another sign of decline for the series?
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Would you like to pre-order disappointment? GameStop’s holiday sales sag

Video games are doing just fine in 2013. Opportunities for creative game designers to get their wares in front of players are increasing by the day. Wards of the old game business like retail chain GameStop, though, are facing hard truths as the market changes.
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Telltale Games: The Walking Dead Season 2 will use your Season 1 save file

One month after Telltale Games released the last episode of its video game of The Walking Dead, the company is starting to share details about the second season of the game. The good news: Your choices from Season 1 will still matter.
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Nintendo Wii U isn’t a console where Crysis 3 can do “business” says EA

Crytek's CEO says that Nintendo and Electronic Arts have agreed that there's not enough business for Crysis 3 on the Wii U console so the sequel will skip the system this spring.
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IGF 2013 gets Steam-y as Valve offers all finalists distribution deals

The organizers of the Independent Games Festival announced more than its IGF 2013 nominations on Monday. Valve has partnered with the festival, offering all finalists a distribution deal through Steam.
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Nintendo’s Iwata claims the Wii U sales “are not bad”

The Nintendo Wii U has ridden through its first holiday. How did the follow up to the record breaking Nintendo Wii perform? Sales are "steady" according to Nintendo's president, but they're not what the company was hoping for according to one analyst.
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RIP PlayStation 2: Sony halts production of the most successful game console in history

Sony said at the end of December that it would stop shipping PlayStation 2 consoles to Japan, but now the company has confirmed that production has stopped worldwide. After nearly thirteen years, the PlayStation 2 is dead.
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Jetsetter: Korea mixes a dash of Final Fantasy with its Mario Bros.

It's a whole new year for Jetsetter. In this debut for 2013, we take a look at some sweet Korean Game Boy Advance games that take Final Fantasy in a whole new direction before getting excoriated by a Japanese Winnie the Pooh game. Finally: Eidos' co-founder gets all the accolades.
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BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition released in time to capitalize on BioShock Infinite hype

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Return of the Pac: Namco plans to open a chain of arcade restaurants

Namco is one of the first names in arcade video games, responsible for foundational classics like Pac-man, Space Invaders, Soul Calibur and Point Blank. Arcades are nearly extinct in 2013, but the company is planning a new chain of restaurants to bring them back.
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Xbox International: Microsoft lets Live users migrate Gamertags between countries

Any Xbox Live users that moved between countries and wanted to move their Xbox Live accounts abroad with them use to be out of luck. Now Microsoft is testing a simple new way to aid expatriates keep gaming.
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Microsoft halts development on free-to-play Age of Empires Online

Microsoft and developer Gas Powered Games announced on Thursday that Age of Empires Online has exited the development phase and entered the support phase. Translation: No more new content and no more bug fixes for the free-to-play strategy game.
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Panzer Dragoon successor Crimson Dragon appears and disappears on XBLA

Two and a half years after Microsoft first announced Crimson Dragon, a spiritual follow up to the classic Sega series Panzer Dragoon, the game still isn't out. A demo appeared on XBLA this week, but was taken down almost immediately by the the company.
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Elite: Dangerous goes into development after 15 years of false starts

David Braben has been trying to make a sequel to his open world space sim Elite since 1998. Now thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, his studio will begin work on Elite: Dangerous.
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Smart TV game company takes on Ouya with tiny Android console GameStick

Ouya won't be the only Google Android based video game console vying for people's attention in 2013. Smart TV game company PlayJam has announced its own cheaper alternative, the GameStick.
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Microsoft’s Xbox strikes back at Nintendo TVii with R2 acquisition

Microsoft came out on top of a bidding war between itself, Apple, and Google for control of home automation technology company R2 Studios. The purchase says a great deal about the future of the Xbox.
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Alan Wake 2? Remedy hints it’s not done with the horror series

Alan Wake wasn't the hit that Microsoft thought it would be when the game came out in 2010, but from the sound of things, developer Remedy Entertainment is going to get a shot at making Alan Wake 2.
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Capcom: We’re focusing on new titles for Nintendo Wii U, not ports

The Nintendo Wii U is entering its first full year as a competitor in the video game industry and it needs exclusive games to capture people's attention. Capcom at least is planning to support it with new exclusives rather than ports of old games.
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Hackers crack the Nintendo 3DS opening its doors to pirated software

The Nintendo 3DS has been impressively secure since its release in 2011, protected from the piracy that plagued the Nintendo DS. Members of the Nintendo homebrew community now claim they've cracked the system, paving the way for bootleggers.
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Torchlight 2 goes platinum with 1 million copies sold

Skeptics thought Torchlight 2 might suffer thanks to its proximity to Diablo 3, but the Runic Games dungeon crawler has done quite well, selling 1 million copies in its first three months.
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EA shuts down Madden, FIFA, and The Sims servers in January

Electronic Arts' next round of server closures includes recent entries in the FIFA Soccer and Madden NFL series as well as the best-selling PC game of all time, The Sims 2.
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Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Andoulin gives Square’s first MMO new life

Square-Enix announced a Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Andoulin release date on the day after Christmas, promising an English edition of the expansion for this spring.
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Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn rolls out in beta this February

The Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn beta will begin in February as Square-Enix embarks on a four phase testing process to try and avoid a similarly catastrophic launch as when the original MMO was released in 2010.
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World of Tanks tops League of Legends with 45 million players

Don't think free-to-play gaming is huge? Take a look at World of Tanks. The free MMO about tanks shooting each other has racked up 45 million players, close to four times the peak membership of World of Warcraft.
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Human Head: Pester Bethesda if you want to play Prey 2

Bethesda finally published a hit outside The Elder Scrolls series this year when it released Dishonored. Now people are wondering what happened to its other promising original, Prey 2. Developer Human Head says to ask the publisher for news.
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Black Isle Studios announces Fallout-esque RPG but doesn’t name staff

The new Black Isle Studios ended three months of radio silence with a call for crowd-funding on its website. The new studio is looking to make a post-apocalyptic RPG called Project V13 but it doesn't reveal who will actually be making it.
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Atlus brings Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers 3DS to the US

Nintendo 3DS role-playing game fans rejoice: More than fifteen years after the game's original release on Sega Saturn, Atlus is bringing Shin Megami Tensei: Soul Hackers to the United States.
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